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At Least 85 Dead as Tornadoes Devastate South

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office. The death toll was staggering - at least 85 people killed in five...

Storms Could Spawn Tornadoes, Life-Threatening Flooding This Week

The final week of April will be similar to the first three, with dangerous thunderstorms over a large portion of the U.S. The forecast includes the potential for tornadoes, life-threatening flash flooding and large hail in highly populated regions from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic region from...

US Orders Sweeping Changes to Airline Fees, Tarmac Rules

DALLAS -- Federal officials are expanding a tarmac-delay rule to prohibit airlines from holding passengers on stranded international flights for longer than four hours. The change stems from a late-December debacle in which several planes loaded with international travelers were stuck for up to 10 hours on snowy New York...

Official: Size of Texas Wildfire May Have Doubled

DALLAS -- A Texas official says a wildfire burning less than 100 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth area could be twice as big as previous estimates. Texas Forest Service spokesman Marq Webb says the fire burning Tuesday near Possum Kingdom Lake may have grown to about 120,000 acres. It was previously estimated at 63,000...

Some Texans Return to Homes Charred by Wildfires

IVAN, Texas - With calmer winds giving firefighters a chance to get a handle on a few massive Texas wildfires Saturday, some residents returned to their homes - or what was left of them - in communities ravaged by the blazes. Gary Glasscock, who owns a 300-acre ranch near Possum Kingdom Lake, found his ranch house and...

Dallas News From the Web

05/17/12 Dallas stars roll back the years Source: Express.co.uk Larry Hagman, 80, Patrick Duffy, 63, and 71-year-old Linda Gray will be back on UK screens exclusively on Channel 5 this autumn.
05/08/12 55 Year Old Grandmother Cheers on JR Ewing, maybe Tony... Source: lalate.com A 55 year old grandmother is cheering on JR Ewing and maybe Tony Romo. Stunning 55 year old grandmother, Sharon Simmons, will appear in Dallas on TNT this summer.
05/05/12 Who hit JR? Sue Ellen's angry 85-year-old fan Source: Express.co.uk Hagman, 80, is preparing for die-hard fans of the original hit series to show their feelings when his character, greedy oil baron JR Ewing, gets up to his old Âscheming tricks.
04/27/12 St Johnstone: Steve Lomas wants his St Johnstone... Source: Sunday Mail (UK) STEVE LOMAS has revealed he'd be happy as Larry if his side lands a lucrative Euro spot.
04/25/12 "Dallas" Creator David Jacobs Says He's Been Excluded... Source: Forbes David Jacobs, creator of " Dallas " and " Knots Landing," tells me he's been excluded entirely from the coming reboot of the famous series on TNT.

Background on Dallas

Dallas () is the third-largest city in the state of Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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