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Kaycee Field rides a 89 during bareback broc riding. The final night of the 2012 Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo competition at Will Rogers Coliseum Saturday Feb. 4, 2012 in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Paul Moseley)

Payson cowboy wins Fort Worth bareback championship

FORT WORTH -- The 116th annual Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo came to a close Saturday night, Feb. 4, 2012, by crowning one repeat and eight new champions.

Kaycee Feild, from Payson, Utah won the bareback riding championship in Fort Worth in 2010 after finishing two points behind Bobby Mote from Culver, Ore., who was the 2009 champion. This year he qualified for the final round in seventh place and had some ground to make up.

Craigslist robbers lured victims with fake iPad ads

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Police have arrested two men who are suspected of robbing people at gunpoint after luring them to a restaurant parking lot with fake ads on Craigslist.

School district bans Santa

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Some parents say the Fort Worth school district is playing Grinch this holiday season.

"In their effort to be PC, they've achieved the absurd," parent Brandon Brewer wrote in an email to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Brewer is unhappy because he says the district is essentially making it impossible to celebrate Christmas -- and other holidays -- at school.

Davis County horses win show championships

FORT WORTH, Texas -- American Paint Horses, Undeniably Special and Raging On Whiskey, owned by Sandee Shock of Clinton, Utah, captured World Show Championship titles recently at the 2011 APHA World Championship Paint Horse Show. The show, held November 2-12 in Fort Worth, Texas, is one of the American Paint Horse Association's (APHA's) premier events.

 Undeniably Special, a 2009 gelding, captured the championship in Non-Pro 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure Slot and was shown by Sandee Shock of Clinton, Utah.

BYU formally accepts Armed Forces bowl bid

 

FORT WORTH, Texas -- BYU has formally accepted its invitation to play in the Armed Forces Bowl.

The Cougars, playing an independent schedule this year, had been granted a provisional invitation in April. BYU was 7-3 and already bowl eligible going into its home game Saturday night against New Mexico State.

BYU will play a Conference USA team in the Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl that will be played on the SMU campus.

It will be the Cougars' seventh consecutive bowl appearance under coach Bronco Mendenhall.

Forklift operator held after police chase of up 16 mph

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Fort Worth man remained in custody Tuesday on suspicion that led police on a brief chase on a forklift through a street and then a highway during the weekend before he stopped on Interstate 30.

Authorities believe the 43-year-old man stole the forklift from a construction site.

Police identified the man as Timothy Raines, who faces at least five charges -- driving while intoxicated, theft, aggravated assault, evading arrest and violation of a protective order.

Road to recovery 'harder' than face transplant patient expected

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Dallas Wiens' fingertips danced around his new face in search of feeling.

"The sensation came back in my left cheek first," said the 26-year-old Fort Worth man. "It's kind of amazing, since that was the side that was most injured in the accident."

Wiens, whose face was destroyed in a 2008 electrical accident, received the nation's first full-face transplant three months ago in Boston. Although he returned home in early May, he sat down only this week for a series of interviews with local reporters.

Sex offender tried to fake death - again

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The first time Michael A. Gilbert "died," he faked drowning while swimming off the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2002.

The Coast Guard searched the waters but soon determined that the "cousin" who had reported the drowning was, in fact, Gilbert, a registered sex offender who had been trying to avoid arrest on a parole violation warrant.

For his second "death," Fort Worth police say, Gilbert tried to make his demise more convincing by providing a body, this time in an attempt to skirt a new sexual molestation case.

Fort Worth police suspect that Gilbert targeted a homeless man who was roughly his same size and build, shot him in the head, placed his body in the trunk of Gilbert's car and set it ablaze, hoping investigators would believe that the body was Gilbert's.

Man accused of hate crime in fire at mosque

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man accused of setting fire to playground equipment and painting graffiti at an Arlington, Texas, mosque in July was charged Tuesday with a federal hate crime.

Is Michael Young history? Maybe, maybe not

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Michael Young? Gone?

Did Young's departure become imminent this past week due to a surprising trade?

So, hold it on the Super Bowl. News and views in that area just went backburner, at least locally.

Lee Harvey Oswald's brother sues funeral home over casket

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Lee Harvey Oswald's brother says he didn't know for three decades that a Fort Worth funeral operator kept the original coffin that held Oswald's body and is asking a state judge to recover the proceeds from an auction of the coffin and other items last month.

Robert Edward Lee Oswald, 76, of Wichita Falls, Texas, sued Baumgardner Funeral Home, Allen S. Baumgardner Sr. and Nate D. Sanders Inc. on Friday. He alleges breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, invasion of privacy, gross negligence and mental anguish.

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