The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in the United States. It is the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. without any link to the sea. The State Fair of Texas has been held at Fair Park in Dallas annually since 1886.

Population: 1300000
Local Newspapers: The Dallas Morning News Dallas Observer Dallas Voice
Local Sports Teams: Dallas Cowboys (NFL) Dallas Mavericks (NBA) Dallas Stars (NHL) Texas Rangers (MLB) FC Dallas (MLS)
Local Colleges: Dallas Baptist University Southern Methodist University University of North Texas at Dallas

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Update: This post was revised at 1:15 p.m. to reflect the council's vote on the Lee statue. The Dallas City Council picked its battles Wednesday, voting to delay a decision on whether to remove the downtown Confederate War Memorial.

A Dallas police officer is "fighting for his life" Wednesday morning, while another officer and a civilian remain in critical condition after they were wounded in shootings at a Home Depot in Lake Highlands. Police have identified the wounded officers as Crystal Almeida and Rogelio Santander, who were both three-year veterans of the Northeast Division.

The Latest on the shooting of two Dallas police officers and an employee of a home improvement store : Authorities say two Dallas police officers are in critical condition, with one described as "gravely ill," a day after they were shot while trying to remove a man from a home improvement store.

Lindsey Buckingham is out. Tom Petty's former guitarist Mike Campbell and Crowded House frontman Neil Finn are in.

As the recent recipient of Southern Methodist University's J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award, Bobby Lyle, has thought deeply about the nation's ethical state of mind. The popular Dallas entrepreneur, educator and a true north of our social moral compass believes we are in an ethical crisis where self-serving interests at the cost of integrity seem to be the standard of the day.

If there's one industry that seems particularly beholden to the whims of Pinterest-y trends, it's the world of cakes. From geode wedding cakes to "naked cakes," once the internet falls in love with a style of cake, you can bet that your local baker is going to get some requests.

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed - for the good or bad - over the years. It has been a steep and heavy climb for Chuck Cole.

The NFL Draft's in town, kind of, this weekend, with the days-long bonanza set at the Death Star in Arlington. Which is fine, because despite the realities of municipal boundaries and city hotel taxes, VisitDallas identifies Arlington as part of "Far West Dallas" on a neighborhood map on its website .

Update, 9:20 p.m.: Following an hourslong manhunt that ended in a high-speed car chase, police arrested the "person of interest" in the shooting of two Dallas police officers. The police pursuit of a pickup truck, which matched the one authorities spent much of the evening searching for, crossed through downtown Dallas before the driver stopped near Versailles and Lemmon avenues in Oak Lawn.

The Village Bend East apartment complex where a second health care worker who has tested positive for the Ebola virus resides on October 16, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.

Et Voila! Guests led by Ivanka and Jared arrive at the White House as Donald Trump and Melania fete the French president and first lady at their first ever state dinner Married Villanova University assistant VP is ambushed and killed in murder-suicide 'carried out by a jealous wife who believed the victim was having sex with her husband' Prince's final days: Singer said his 'soul left his body' during previous overdose and complained that life was 'boring,' telling his girlfriend after final concert that 'now he could go away' Doomsday AI will cause a nuclear war by 2040 that could DESTROY humanity, and there may be no way to prevent it Fears grow for massive rise in sex-selective abortions in China and India after scientists invent new test that can determine a baby's gender after just eight weeks 'He saved many lives': Waffle House hero James Shaw Jr is hailed by Tennessee lawmakers in ... (more)

An officer-involved shooting has been reported at a Home Depot located in the 11600 block of Forest Central Drive in Dallas. Police said that two officers have been shot and critically wounded.

Pacific Management Investment Co. has chosen Austin over Dallas and Denver for a new office as the firm seeks to recruit tech talent and broaden marketing in the U.S. The office will open later this year and is expected to expand to about 200 employees, mostly new hires, by 2019, according to a statement Tuesday.

Dallas police are investigating after a man was found shot to death at a central Oak Cliff motel early Tuesday. Officers were called to a reported shooting just after 4 a.m. at the Dallas Inn in the 3300 block of Marvin D. Love Freeway, near West Kiest Boulevard.

A woman in Dallas, Texas, died after the car she was driving collided with a vehicle driving in the wrong direction on April 22, according to local media . Officers at Dallas County Sheriff's Department were quoted as saying the crash occurred after a driver drove eastbound on a westbound lane on the I-20 in Duncanville, hitting another car which spun out of control.

In a 2003 D Home feature highlighting this very penthouse , the effect of the home's numerous mirrored panels, lacquered grids, pearlescent walls, and brilliant-white marble floors was described as akin to "standing inside a Faberge egg." Fifteen years later, it's still Faberge all the way.

For the profile of U. Renee Hall that she wrote for the May issue of D Magazine , Jamie Thompson first met the Dallas police chief in September. Jamie got to tag along with the chief and watch how she operated in the earliest weeks of her new job.

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