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   Made in Tarrant: Comics store opens as safe space for marginalized individuals, gamers, artists

   Editor’s note: Made in Tarrant is an occasional Q&A series on small businesses started in Tarrant County. Submit your business here. Rey Medrano and Zachary Kersis-Warner recently opened Odyssey Comics. The shop is located in Alamo Heights at the previous site of The Welman Project. Medrano and Kers

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   James Thomas Childress – Jan. 28, 1937 – July 21, 2026

   James Thomas Childress, lovingly known as Tom, passed away on July 21, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on Jan. 28, 1937, in Handley, Texas, he was the son of James Wesley Childress and Muriel Lee Tate and was raised in Corsicana, Texas. At the age of eight, Tom faced and overcame the challenge of polio

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   ‘There was so much smoke’: Southlake police officer honored for heroic rescue from burning car

   As thick smoke filled a burning car, a police corporal took swift action to save a life. Cpl. Joshua Swisher, a 3 ½-year veteran of the Southlake Police Department, was honored by city and police officials with the Meritorious Conduct Award for rescuing a motorist while on evening patrol June 7. Swi

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