The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with over 400,000 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.
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A two-alarm fire at First Baptist Church Dallas on Friday night sent a plume of smoke in the air and drew downtown bystanders to the site of many baptisms, weddings, funerals and services. There was an unusual amount of foot traffic in downtown Dallas as crowds gathered behind crime scene tape on nearby street corners, their faces illuminated by a panoply of red, green and blue lights flashing from ambulances and fire trucks. Waves of heat could be felt from several blocks away as crews battled the worst of the...