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• Driver: Brakes failed on bus that wrecked near Dallas Zoo

  One person is hospitalized with fractures after the bus hit a building and went into an embankment.

• Texas Ballet Theater plans season without live music

  The Texas Ballet Theatre needs to raise $2 million or could be forced to fold.

• Jenny the elephant will stay in Dallas

  Unpack your trunk, Jenny

• Cowboys fans turn out in the rain for open practice, autographs

  Fans are drenched with rainwater and with anticipation of the 2008 season.

• Frito-Lay is among A-list companies possibly involved in bribery scheme

  A purchasing manager at Plano-based Frito-Lay is suspected of receiving bribes from a food broker.

• Woman abducted, raped, robbed in Dallas

  The robbers drove the woman to an ATM, where they threatened to kill her if she didn't withdraw money. Then, they raped her.

• Brinker is selling 80 percent ownership of Romano’s Macaroni Grill

  The Dallas-based restaurant operator had been trying to sell the unit for months.

• Brinker sells major stake in Romano's Macaroni Grill

  The Dallas-based restaurant management company announced Monday it was selling majority ownership of the casual-dining Italian-style restaurants to a San Francisco investment firm.

• Dallas lawyer in middle of Edwards' scandal a big player in Texas Democratic politics

  Dallas lawyer Fred Baron, the finance chief for John Edwards' presidential bids, has helped revive the state Democratic Party.

• Body of abducted store clerk is found

  Body of abducted store clerk is found

• Dallas police arrest man in Sam’s Club robbery

  DALLAS — Police have arrested a 27-year-old who they suspect was the masked man alleged to have held a police officer hostage during the robbery of a Sam’s Club on June 27.

• Texas Ballet Theater to launch 'Save the Ballet' campaign

  The Texas Ballet Theater's chairwoman does not give a goal for the campaign.

• Dallas Zoo's 43-year-old gorilla dies

  Hercules, the Dallas Zoo's 43-year-old silverback gorilla, died this week when his heart stopped during a medical procedure to relieve pain from degenerative spinal disease, zoo officials said.

• Reward offered in Frisco jewelry store robbery

  Police release surveillance video in attempt to identify the robbers.

• Dallas pedestrian killed by car 'spinning out of control'

  The elderly man was fatally struck as he tried to cross West Kiest Boulevard in south Dallas.

• Man shot to death outside southeast Dallas home

  The man had a gunshot wound to the chest, but he could not be saved, police said.

• Dallas Opera names new director

  George Steel, an impresario and conductor from New York City, will replace Karen Stone, who left Dallas Opera's general director post in fall 2007 after four years.

• Dallas officer accused of planning June robbery

  The officer first told officers that he was taken hostage, but then got into a shootout with the suspect. Investigators now believe he helped plan the heist.

• Jewel thieves hit Frisco store in brazen robbery

  Witnesses told police four men used mallets to smash display cases and get to the jewelry.

• Dallas police shoot, wound suspect after chase

  The man was a suspect in the shooting of another man early Tuesday when he reportedly pointed a gun at officers.