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  Can Raising Cattle Be Environmentally Friendly? These Texas Ranchers Say Yes.

  September 17 at 4 a.m.

  Thigh-high grasses and plant stalks thwack the sides of the all-terrain buggy as Meredith Ellis maneuvers it down a faint double track through a dense pasture. Grasshoppers launch out of the way, whirring past bright purple, thistle-like Leavenworth's eryngo that poke up alongside creamy milkweed flowers. Yellow and purple wildflowers...

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  Your Dog Is Not a Child. If You Died at Home, Would Your Child Eat You?

  August 7 at 4 a.m.

  If the people who walk their dogs off the leash in my neighborhood have children at home, I feel sorry for the children. How you train your dog is how you train your kid. So the way they must train their kids is, “Go ahead and play in traffic, little...

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  Dak Prescott's Dog Got Out and Bit Someone, Frisco Police Say

  February 26 at 4 a.m.

  Dak Prescott's dogs got a chance to break into the open field Monday morning and took it, Frisco police say. Residents of the suburb have more to fear than just coyotes, it seems. Around lunchtime Monday, one of the Cowboys quarterback's neighbors near Hilton Head Lane and Princess Caroline Court...

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  Coyotes Again Threatening to Return Frisco to Its Natural, Primitive State

  January 30 at 4 a.m.

  Maybe North Texas has already sprawled too far. Tuesday morning, Frisco police issued their latest alert about a coyote attack, continuing a wave that first struck the city last year. This time, cops got a call at about 7 a.m. that a jogger had been attacked about 20 minutes earlier...

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  This Just In: My Wife Does Not Eat Mealworms. After All.

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  I don’t know how many people know this, but my wife, Mariana Greene, was a pioneer of urban chicken-keeping during her days as a garden columnist for The Dallas Morning News, years before backyard chickens became chic. She helped make them chic. To this day she takes her chickens extremely...

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  Revenge of the Flies

  Friday, October 5, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas might be having a bit of a fly problem. Recently, residents of Dallas have been complaining online about the swarms of flies invading their homes, their lives and their minds. Even Jennifer Gracheck of MosquitoNix pest control in Dallas, said over the last month and a half they have received more...