Makeover turns Fort Worth buses into Molly the Trolley ahead of Super Bowl

Hospitals Preparing for Super Bowl Crowd
DALLAS - The Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium will arguably be the biggest event North Texas has ever had, bringing an estimated 93,000 people together at once. But emergency officials worry massive crowds could fall Victim to a large-scale disaster. It's one which could overwhelm Hospitals. FOX 4's Peter Daut reports on how hospitals are preparing....

Green Bay Packers, still in Super Bowl hunt, meet Eagles again Sunday
Green Bay Packers beat Philadelphia in the first week of the NFL season. Now, in one of this weekend's NFL Wild Card Playoff games, the Green Bay Packers face Michael Vick and the Eagles again. Who's got the edge?...

Video: The obligatory fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite clip
Note well: This isn’t an ad that Doritos is running in the Super Bowl, just one that they posted on their website (and refused to remove) after a fan submitted it for their contest with Pepsi. The bad news? Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free Speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh. They have every right, but aside from Richard Dawkins and maybe Hitch, whoR...

Sizing Up the Next Failed Head Coach in Cleveland
Cleveland Browns head coach Eric Mangini was fired today after going 5-11 for the second straight year, though he swears this 5-11 was way more impressive than the last 5-11 season. It was the 5-11 you can really build on, you know? The kind that can lead you to a really mind-blowing 5-11 season the third time out. If there’s any consolation to Cleveland fans as they cycle through yet another failed coaching hire, it’s that they can at least take comfort in the fact that they KNEW Ma...

A 2nd Chance For Bklyn Native With Golden Voice
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) - A Brooklyn native may soon be going from highway panhandler to radio superstar. Ted Williams is Homeless but not hopeless. The man with a golden radio voice now has a brighter future after being featured in a video that has turned him into an Internet sensation. Williams was panhandling on Interstate 71 in Ohio with a hand-written sign advertising his “God given gift” of a great voice when a reporter from the Columbus Dispatch interviewed and videotaped h...

Homeless Ohio mans radio voice makes him web star
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Job prospects are rolling in for a Homeless Ohio man with a golden radio voice who has quickly become an online sensation. The Columbus Dispatch reports video of Ted Williams posted this week on the newspaper’s website has commanded millions of views. In the clip, Williams stands near a Columbus highway ramp demonstrating his smooth, deep speaking voice. He holds a sign that asks motorists for help and says, “I’m an ex-radio announcer who has fallen ...

Source: Garrett will be Cowboys' choice
IRVING, Texas, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Interim Dallas Cowboys head Coach Jason Garrett will be promoted to the job on a permanent basis, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Sunday. The newspaper, citing "a high-ranking team source," said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has settled on Garrett to replace the fired Wade Phillips. Garrett replaced Phillips in November after the team stumbled to a 1-7 start and has since guided the Cowboys to a 4-3 mark. The Star-Telegram said the only thing preventing Jones fro...

St. John's Gets in on the New York Basketball Revival
Did they change the pipes running into Madison Square Garden this season? There's certainly something in the water. The Knicks are 19-14 after years of wandering in the desert and now St. John's is making noise in the Big East. They beat Georgetown in a 61-58 thriller Monday night when Justin Brownlee followed a Dwight Hardy miss for a putback with 10 seconds to play. It was a rare miss for Hardy, who finished with 20 points by employing the classic New York Point Guard skill of making the guy ...

TCU Team Welcomed Home after Big Win
FORT WORTH, Texas - One day after winning the Rose Bowl in California, everything is still looking rosy for the Horned Frogs. On Sunday, Texas Christian University fans welcomed the champion team home with cheers at the schools' Fort Worth campus. FOX 4's Peter Daut has the details....

Cops: Driver Tried to Ram Funeral Cop
ARLINGTON, Texas - A 67-year-old woman on Tuesday grew tired of waiting for a fallen Police Officer's Funeral procession in Arlington and tried to run over an officer directing traffic, Fort Worth police said. The incident happened near W. Division Street and NL Robinson Drive during the procession for Arlington Officer Jillian Smith, who was killed in the line of duty last week . Fort Worth officers were helping to direct traffic so Arlington officers could attend the service. According to Fort...

Ben Roethlisberger Engaged? Big Ben Won't Say
Pittsburgh — If Steelers Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is engaged, he isn't saying. Roethlisberger declined Tuesday to discuss rumors he became engaged over the holidays to a Pittsburgh-area woman. There have been numerous postings on Social Media sites, some even identifying the woman by name. At the Steelers' first practice of the week, Roethlisberger said he would not talk about his Personal Life. But he did not deny the rumors. "Oh, geez," Roethlisberger said. "Listen, there's alway...

Kurt Warner On Brett Favre: 'He Definitely Hurt His Legacy' (POLL)
Former NFL Quarterback Kurt Warner discussed Brett Favre and whether he hurt his legacy on the NFL Network on Monday. "I think he did [tarnish his legacy]," Warner said. "Not only this season, but the last few seasons, going back and forth [on Retirement] and bouncing to a few different teams. I think about it, and I have to really think hard to think back to when he was a Green Bay Packer and when he played his best football and was in Super Bowls and when he became the Brett Favre we all kno...

Home theater gear is a booming business
Stores are selling more big-screen TVs and projectors for movies and games, creating a boom in sales of Home Theater furniture, a surprising bright spot for the hard-hit furniture business. Revenue from sales of projectors for movies and games is expected to increase from $406 million last year to $421 million in 2011, says the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Berkline, which makes Home Theater recliners, saw double-digit growth last year after 15 years of making the $600-$1,100 chairs. A...

Two Down, the Pats To Go All the Way?
What else is there to say about Tablet Magazine’s New England Patriots? Playing arguably the toughest schedule, they went a League-best 14-2, securing homefield advantage until February. They extended their home Regular Season win streak to a record 27. They committed ten turnovers during the entire season, a record. Quarterback Tom Brady had, maybe, a career year: 36 touchdowns versus four interceptions, a genuinely absurd ratio of 9.0 that absolutely smashed the previous record of 6.25 (...

Outgoing GOP Senator Joins Lobbying Law Firm
Source: Huffington Post Outgoing GOP Senator Joins Lobbying Law Firm Posted: 01- 4-11 05:26 PM WASHINGTON -- Outgoing Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) is headed for a Pay Raise, announcing on Tuesday he'll be joining a high-profile law firm that lobbies on transportation issues. While in Congress, Bond served as ranking member on a subcommittee that doled out transportation funds. Now he is joining the St. Louis-based law firm Thompson Coburn as a partner. "I joined this firm to be a lawyer, not to be a ...

NYC MTA Touts Toll Program on on WNYC
Jim O’Grady — WNYC) The NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority is spending $13,000 to support  WNYC programming.    The language of the so-called underwriting credit tells listeners: “WNYC is supported by the M-T-A, this January the gates come off of E-ZPass lanes at the Henry Hudson Bridge.  Gateless tolling is the first step in an MTA pilot program to bring cashless, all-electronic toll collection to the bridge within a year.  More information at m-t-a do

Eagle Forum calls speaker vote crucial
The social conservative group Texas Eagle Forum today put House members on notice that their vote for speaker will account for half of the group's rating of them this session. "We at Texas Eagle Forum believe the vote for speaker of the Texas House is so important we will be weighing this one vote as 50 percent of the total score," Pat Carlson of Fort Worth, the group's president (above, staff photo), said in an email. "Please remember who elected you and why you were elected." Rep. Burt Solom...

Reagan Float - Rose Bowl Parade
Thanks to reader Jeanne from Fort Worth, TX, who traveled to root for TCU in the Rose Bowl, and who snapped this photo of the Reagan Float in the Rose Bowl Parade. I've seen other photos of the float, but I think this side shot is the best yet: -------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress! ...

Expedia Drops American Airlines Tickets
(NewsCore) - Expedia no longer offers tickets for American Airlines flights on its website, according to an airline statement Sunday, marking the latest development in a feud between American and travel websites. The removal of American flights from Expedia’s listings came after American pulled its listings from Expedia’s competitor Orbitz Worldwide on Dec. 21, citing an inability to "reach a mutually beneficial agreement." In its statement, American recommended travelers "visit othe...

Will Richard Branson's Virgin America fly?
On a sunny, windswept December morning, Virgin America kicked off a day of festivities along the otherwise unfestive runways of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Four longhorn cattle lolled in a pen while dignitaries such as Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert lunched on pulled pork and ribs. The main attraction was the host, 60-year-old Sir Richard Branson, Billionaire bon vivant and founder of the Virgin Group. While he was at the center of the celebration, he was also making an incursion into ...

NFL: Dallas 14, Philadelphia 13
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Stephen McGee found Jason Witten with a 4-yard scoring pass in the final minute Sunday and the Dallas Cowboys edged Philadelphia 14-13. McGee made his first career start in a game that had no Playoff implications for the NFC East champion Eagles and responded by going 11-of-27 through the air for 127 yards and a touchdown, providing a pleasing end to a disappointing season for the 6-10 Cowboys. After struggling to a 1-7 start that got head Coach Wade Phillips fired,...

South Texas and Eagle Ford Shale hottest area for new oil wells in 2011
Houston Chronicle: Though still facing uncertainty on many fronts as 2011 begins, the Oil and gas industry knows one thing: It likes what it sees in South Texas. That's the site of the Eagle Ford shale formation, a vast underground network of dense rock layers, discovered only recently and now thought to be one of the nation's biggest Oil and gas fields. To this point, the formation has existed in the shadow of other big domestic shale formations best known for their supplies of Natural Gas, in...

AA says it will survive ticket seller feud
On Dec. 21, AA severed ties with Orbitz, which would not adapt a program that gave the airline more control over Ticket Sales. Expedia, two days later, tucked AA ticket offerings in hard-to-find places on its Web site and soon after that stopped selling AA tickets altogether, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported Monday. The airline said its sales went up in December. General Sales Manager Derek DeCross said customers found other outlets after Expedia made AA flights harder to find. "It ...

Deer Hunter Charged in Man's Death
HENDERSON, Texas - A Fort Worth hunter who allegedly thought he bagged a deer faces a weapons charge over the fatal shooting of an Overton man. The Rusk County Sheriff's Office on Monday announced 54-year-old Rodney Connally has been arraigned on a Felony Charge of unlawful possession of a firearm. Bond was set at $50,000. Sgt. Viki Penny had no information on an attorney for Connally. She told The Associated Press it does not appear that Connally knew 41-year-old Louis Conner Jr. The shooting h...

TCU Fans Celebrate Undefeated Season
FORT WORTH, Texas - The horned frog faithful are ready to celebrate TCU's undefeated championship season. It's more than just the school. TCU wants it to be an event for the whole community....