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11:21 am
Mon May 20, 2013

Study Up For 'Think:' In Romare Bearden's World, Color Is Song

Credit DC Moore Gallery, New York
Romare Bearden reimagined Homer's 'The Odyssey' with work like 'Siren's Song' (1977).

Where Fort Worth artist Sedrick Huckaby is an heir to painter Romare Bearden, Bearden owes his work to jazz. Huckaby joins Think host Krys Boyd at 1 p.m. to talk about this chain and Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey. The exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth marks the first time these works have been viewed outside New York City.

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10:57 am
Mon May 20, 2013

Dallas Firefighter Dies In Six-Alarm Condo Blaze

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Update: Dallas officials have confirmed 28-year firefighter Stanley Wilson died in a morning fire. He was trying to rescue residents in the burning condo complex. Firefighters stood in a salute as the flag-covered body of one of their own was removed from the wreckage of a condo fire at at 12363 Abrams Road this morning.
Update, 9:05 a.m.: The missing firefighter's body was recovered from the wreckage. The body was draped with an American flag as it was removed and loaded into an ambulance to be taken to the medical examiner's office. More details to come. [Editor's note: This item has been updated since ...
The High Five
10:01 am
Mon May 20, 2013

Yes, Dallas Struggles With Poverty – But More So, Suburban North Texas

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DART is expanding to serve more pockets of North Texas. But will it help assuage poverty?

Five stories that have North Texas talking: New findings about living poor in suburbia, the economy of new abortion laws, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and more.

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Vital Signs
1:00 am
Mon May 20, 2013

Sex Superbug: Concerns About Drug Resistant Gonorrhea

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Recent reports of a so-called "sex superbug" - a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea - reaching the U.S. turned out to be false. The H041 strain hasn’t been detected since a case in Japan several years ago. But even though gonorrhea can be cured with antibiotics, the health community remains concerned about the threat of drug-resistant strains of the sexually transmitted disease. Dr. Cedric Spak, with North Texas Infectious Diseases Consultants and Baylor Medical Center Dallas, explains why in this week’s edition of Vital Signs.


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Government
7:13 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

State Budget Deal Adds Money For Schools, Water-What About Roads?

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The two-year state budget deal that appears to be coming together in Austin would restore $3.93 billion of the $5.4 billion in public education money cut last session. 

It would also take $2 billion in Rainy Day savings money to create a loan fund to build water projects. 

It’s unclear whether another proposed loan fund of up to $2.7 billion to build new roads will be part of the new budget.  

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Texas News
5:44 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Child Dies After Being Left In Car At Dallas School

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The high temperature Friday was near 90 degrees.

Grief counselors will be on campus at Guzick Elementary in Pleasant Grove on Monday after a child was found left in a car in the school parking lot Friday afternoon.

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Texas News
5:30 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Residents of Rancho Brazos To Return To Tornado Ravaged Neighborhood Saturday

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An American flag flies from one of the trees in Rancho Brazos, the Granbury neighborhood decimated by a tornado Wednesday night. Winds of up to 200 mph also stripped trees of their leaves.

Residents of Rancho Brazos near Granbury will return to the neighborhood Saturday for the first time after Wednesday night’s devastating tornado.

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Education
2:05 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

DISD Students Walk Out Over New Principal Policy

Dozens of Madison High School students in South Dallas walked out of class today. 

They joined some parents in protesting the possible firing of their principal, Marian Willard.  

They’re concerned Willard is among Dallas principals who would lose her job under Superintendent Mile Miles’ new performance plan for campus administrators.

“We don’t want her to leave. She is a great principal. She came to this school and turned it around when no one else could,” said student Monicea Barnes as she waved a sign that said “save our principal”

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The High Five
10:30 am
Fri May 17, 2013

Habitat Homes Among Those Lost In Granbury

Credit Habitat For Humanity, Hood County
Volunteers for Hood County Habitat for Humanity work on a home in Granbury just two months ago.

Five stories that have North Texas talking: introducing the Dallas Maritime Museum (?), an ideal weekend in the Hill Country, word nerd paradise and more.

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Education
6:00 am
Fri May 17, 2013

Fort Worth Homeless Youth Find What They Need In The Care Closet

Among the challenges that many school districts face is the number of economically disadvantaged students and, in some cases, kids without a steady home.

One class in the Fort Worth Independent School District decided to tackle this problem, and they did it with style.

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