By Jim Fuquay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jul. 27--Nearly seven miles into the unexplored territory of Dallas County, Trinity East Drilling of Fort Worth has sunk a well that is testing the easternmost boundary of the Barnett Shale.

By Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jul. 25--An American Airlines pilot died Thursday after his single-engine plane crashed near a limestone quarry in northwest Ellis County. James J. Marshall of Grapevine was pronounced dead at the scene, said Senior Cpl.

By Jim Fuquay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Apr. 17--FORT WORTH -- Range Resources of Fort Worth said Monday that it has begun a well in far southwest Ellis County that may redefine the easternmost boundary of the prolific Barnett Shale natural gas field.

By Scott Goldstein, The Dallas Morning News Sep. 29--She was under sedation for her 2004 colonoscopy, but Sherri Simpson never doubted what her doctor did to her that morning. She knew the man sexually assaulted her.

By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Mar. 17--The long-running debate over how Ellis County's cement kilns affect regional air-quality is about to heat up again.