Adaptive Care Plans for Changing Needs of Residents In Assisted Living

Fort Worth Weekly 8/14 9:51A Fort Worth Weekly

Resident care rarely follows a straight line after move-in. Strength, appetite, continence, sleep, memory, and mood can shift after infection, medication changes, grief, or surgery. An adaptive care plan gives caregivers a current clinical...

TEA releases state accountability scores; 15% of Texas schools scored below ‘C'

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 8/14 7:50A Wayne Carter

What to Know Look up Texas public school scores on the website txschools.gov . Scores are released annually by the Texas Education Agency. The TEA said 24% of districts increased their score, while 89% either stayed the same or increased their...

Planning Retirement in North Texas? Five Smart Downsizing Tips for a Fresh Start

Fort Worth Weekly 8/13 7:02A Fort Worth Weekly

Retirement is more than leaving the workforce. It is an opportunity to reshape daily life around comfort, flexibility, and the priorities that often get pushed aside during busy working years. Across North Texas, many retirees are finding that...

Three juveniles involved in Denton crash; one killed

DFW Scanner 8/6 3:24A dfwscanner

At approximately 1:08 p.m., Denton Police and Fire responded to a single vehicle crash on FM 1173 going eastbound toward I-35 near Krum. A juvenile driver and two juvenile passengers were transported to the hospital. The juvenile female driver...

Keller player wins top honors on Texas 6A all-state baseball team

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 8/2 10:37A The Associated Press

The Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 6A all-state baseball team, distributed by The Associated Press: FIRST TEAM Pitchers — Blake Cox, Dripping Springs, sr.; Cole Koeninger, Keller, sr.; Cooper Webb, Lake Travis, sr. Relief pitcher...

Spider-Man: Red Recluse

Fort Worth Weekly 7/29 8:37P Kristian Lin

Near the end of Avengers: Endgame , Tony Stark says, “You mess with time, it tends to mess back.” Too bad Peter Parker (Tom Holland) had to learn that lesson the hard way in Spider-Man: No Way Home , when his attempt to make everyone forget his...

Becoming SuperFrog

Fort Worth Weekly 7/29 8:11A Rush Olson

A quality university education includes experiences beyond the classroom which help prepare a student for a productive career. With that in mind, many TCU undergrads do internships. Others study...

Cowgirl Culture

Fort Worth Weekly 7/29 8:02A Fort Worth Weekly

Kristyn Harris, award-winning Burleson singer, trick rider, and rancher, grew up giving concerts under the Texas sky to her family’s animals. The accolades from her music career form a long landscape...

Creature (Dis-)Comforts

Fort Worth Weekly 7/29 7:43A Fort Worth Weekly

As summer wanes and people start taking those last trips before school starts, it’s a good time to consider disease prevention. Earlier this spring, a massive outbreak of norovirus made the rounds,...

TWU sports camp helps blind, deaf youth build skills and confidence

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 7/23 2:16A Alanna Quillen

Young athletes from across North Texas spent the week learning new sports, building confidence and developing athletic skills at a specialized camp hosted by Texas Woman’s University. The weeklong...

Further Notes on The Odyssey

Fort Worth Weekly 7/22 10:01P Kristian Lin

This past weekend, The Odyssey ’s box office numbers exceeded even the wildest predictions of the people who prognosticate about such things, raking in more than $260 million worldwide. That proves, if any proof was needed, that Christopher Nolan...

Denton first responders training at the old Calhoun Middle School building

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 7/20 8:36A Charles Nichelson

Denton Police said they will be training at the Old Calhoun Middle School building the rest of July. It s part of Rescue Task Force Training. Police and the fire department will be training there, but said there will not be any emergency lights,...

‘Little Kid Heart’

Fort Worth Weekly 7/17 9:43A Fort Worth Weekly

It’s not often a new album makes me tear up a little, but by the time I got to “So Far from Alone,” the penultimate track of Tipps & Obermiller’s Little Kid Heart , I found myself deep enough in my feelings to blur my vision a little. I was...

2-alarm warehouse fire breaks out at business park in far North Fort Worth

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 7/16 10:49A NBCDFW Staff

Firefighters are battling a two-alarm warehouse fire near North Main Street and Egg Farm Road in far North Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon. Texas Sky Ranger was over the fire on the 5800 block of Egg Farm Road as crews worked to knock down the...