Latest Tarrant County, Texas Stories

ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hip-hop artist Flo Rida brings his "Good Feeling" to The University of Texas at Arlington when he performs a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 at College Park Center. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111213/DC22169LOGO) The tickets will be available to UT Arlington students, faculty and staff only beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6 only through the College Park Center website, www.utacollegepark.com....

DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Texas at Arlington and The Dallas Morning News are partnering in an innovative joint appointment of a School of Architecture faculty member who also will serve as architecture critic for the news organization. The initial appointment will be for three years, renewable and split evenly between the News and UT Arlington. At UT Arlington, the faculty member will serve as a research fellow of the Dillon Center and as a non-tenured...

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of President Obama's Fatherhood & Mentoring Initiative, the Justice Department will honor eight "Fatherhood Heroes" from Tarrant County, Texas, for their role in promoting responsible fatherhood in their families and communities. This is the fourth in a series of local "Fatherhood Heroes" events around the country and is hosted by the Fatherhood Coalition of Tarrant County. WHO: Eugene Schneeberg, Director of the...

GRAPEVINE, Texas, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grapevine, Texas has some new characters in town. The interesting thing is, you have to look upwards 75 feet toward Grapevine's Glockenspiel Clock Tower to see them. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56257-grapevine-glockenspiel-clock-tower-debuts-28th-annual-main-street-days (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120523/MM09870 ) Grapevine recently dedicated its...

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fort Worth Chamber and Dallas Regional Chamber - the two largest Chambers in the region - held full board meetings Thursday and Friday mornings, and the subject of American Airlines was discussed. Following those meetings, Fort Worth Chamber President and CEO Bill Thornton and Dallas Regional Chamber President and CEO Amb. James C. Oberwetter wish to speak as a single voice on the subject: We are greatly concerned by the...

EULESS, Texas, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The HotelPlanner.com Sizzlin' Summer Shoot Out promises to be twice the fun this year with teams coming from around the nation to enjoy great baseball and thousands of dollars in free prizes. The tournament will be a USSSA Qualifier at The Parks at Texas Star in Euless, Texas right outside of Dallas. As the title sponsor HotelPlanner.com has agreed to raffle prizes for participants on opening day and give away free hotel rooms to the...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Airlines Federal Credit Union Technology & Innovation team came up with a unique team-building event, "Putting with a Purpose," which culminated with the collection of more than 3,500 items for the Tarrant Area Food Bank. On Nov. 1, the 56-member department was divided into nine teams and challenged with collecting food and toiletry items during November. At the annual Year End Celebration on Dec. 2, teams selected...

NORTHRIDGE, Calif., Dec. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC, the world leader in providing crowd management services, is pleased to announce its three-year contract with The University of Texas at Arlington to provide event staffing at College Park Center, a new $78 million, 7,000-seat events venue. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090714/LA45941LOGO) CSC will provide event staffing with upward of 40 employees for various College Park Center events, including...

ARLINGTON, Texas, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Texas at Arlington has announced the appointment of Jim Baker, currently the UT Austin associate athletic director for events and operations, as the University's new director of intercollegiate athletics. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111213/DC22169LOGO) Baker, who joined the Texas Longhorn athletics program in 1991, will oversee UT Arlington's 14 Division I intercollegiate sports programs and...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This month, thousands of fans, players, coaches and scouts will flock to Fort Worth for one of the most anticipated events in high school basketball: the Whataburger Basketball Tournament, ranked by Sports Illustrated and USA Today as one of the nation's top five holiday high school tournaments. The 54th annual tournament to be held Wednesday, Dec. 28 through Friday, Dec. 30, features 48 top boys' and girls' high school basketball...