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A man was shot and killed by Dallas police after allegedly robbing two people in broad daylight. It happened at the Pleasant Grove Apartments located in the 9700 block of Lake June and St. Augustine. More >

Local and federal authorities offered to help secure Dallas-area bus and train stations Wednesday after a shootout left two people dead, the latest in a string of violent incidents on Dallas mass transit, an agency spokesman said.

Dallas police and the federal Transportation Security Administration reached out to Dallas Area Rapid Transit after Tuesday afternoon’s shooting on a platform in Richardson, which is north of the city, DART spokesman Mark Ball said.

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will welcome aviation industry leaders later this year for the 17th Annual Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit. The event is expected to draw aviation experts from countries throughout the world. It will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison from September 16 through 18.

A man who gained notoriety for claiming he could live in a $340,000 suburban Dallas house for $16 has vacated the home following a judge’s order.

Kenneth Robinson had filed an “affidavit of adverse possession” giving him the right to live in the empty foreclosed home in Flower Mound. He also became a kind of local celebrity, speaking to law school students and creating a website, http://16dollarhouse.com, about his experience.

But Denton County Justice of the Peace J.W. Hand ruled Monday that lienholder Bank of America can force the 51-year-old Robinson out. The bank foreclosed on the house last month.

Last week’s unprecedented 4-plus inches of winter rainfall floated Dallas-Fort Worth out of drought for the first time since July and there’s a good chance for up to an inch more of rain through tonight, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

A swatch of North Texas — just less than 5 percent of the state — is now drought-free, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday.

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices fell in November, along with prices in most of the nation’s largest metro areas, according to the latest Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released Tuesday.

The monthly report showed that area home prices dropped 0.8 percent from November 2010 and 1.3 percent from October.

Manufacturing activity and general business sentiment in the southwest smashed expectations, the Dallas Federal Reserve announced this morning. The general business index surged to 15.3, topping analyst forecasts for a 1.5 reading, and above December’s -0.3. More >

A little pilotless plane with a $75 frame has uncovered a spill of pigs’ blood into a Dallas creek, launching an intensive investigation. The Dallas County District Attorney’s office has confirmed it is investigating the spill from Columbia Packing Co. into the Cedar Creek, which feeds into the environmentally sensitive Trinity River.

An amateur pilot had sent up his autopilot-controlled craft with a camera attached over Dallas two months ago. It brought back pictures of the creek running red with what looked like blood.

The Dallas Regional Chamber’s Annual Meeting will review 2011 accomplishments, unveil a video montage interviewing national, local and global executives on why they moved to Dallas, and launch its new mobile website on Thursday, January 26 at the Fairmont Hotel (1717 N. Akard Street, Dallas). The event, held from noon–1 p.m. in the Regency Ballroom, will also announce new board members. More >

A white hearse used to transport President John F. Kennedy’s body following his assassination in Dallas has sold at auction for $160,000. The Cadillac carried the bronze casket containing JFK’s body on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Dallas Love Field Airport, from where the body was flown to Washington.

The Dallas Morning News (http://dallasne.ws/yFgyFz ) says Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline, accompanied the casket in the hearse wearing her blood-spattered pink Chanel suit.