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It's described as "the world's highest-profile horror movie magazine," and it now belongs to Cinestate, the Dallas-based entertainment company owned by Dallas Sonnier, who grew up in the Park Cities and returned to Dallas in 2015.

In an interview Thursday morning, Sonnier said he "used to buy issues all the time at places like B. Dalton and Taylor Books as a kid in the 90's. Bringing this legendary brand to the city of Dallas is a tremendous point of pride for me, and my 13-year-old self would be the first in line to buy the new issues coming soon."

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George HW Bush voted for Hillary Clinton, he reveals in a new book

Both ex-president Bushes revealed they did not vote for President Donald Trump in a new book  with 41st President George H.W. Bush calling Trump a “blowhard” and saying he does not “like” him, Newsweek reported.

George H.W. Bush voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton, while George W. Bush told author Mark K. Updegrove he voted for “none of the above” in the upcoming book titled “The Last Republicans,” which is set to be published later this month.

The younger Bush also told the author during the 2016 presidential election, “I’m worried that I will be the last Republican president,” The New York Times reported.

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Execution date set for John Battaglia

An execution date has been set for a man who shot his two daughters at his Deep Ellum Loft in 2001 while their mother helplessly listened on the phone.

John Battaglia, 62, is scheduled to be executed Feb. 1 in Huntsville. He had sought to delay or stop his lethal injection by saying he was not mentally competent.

But after a hearing last November, state District Judge Robert Burns found he was competent and the Court of Criminal Appeals agreed.

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Murder of undercover cop sent ripples through Midlothian still felt 30 years later

The gunshots rang out as darkness fell that drizzly autumn night on a field where three Midlothian High School students had shared a joint.

Two of them headed back to the road to catch their pre-arranged ride. One was the son of a Dallas police officer. The other had a fascination with the occult and Satanism.

Left behind in the field was a classmate they'd just killed, an undercover police officer who'd been posing as a student since the start of that school year to root out drugs on campus. 

Thirty years have passed since 21-year-old George William Raffield Jr. was gunned down on the job on Oct. 23, 1987. His sister can't stop asking why.

"It's still very real," said Sheryl Raffield, 52, who is reminded about the crime each year when one of her brother's killers gets considered for parole.

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Hour after missing Richardson 3-year-old was sent out to alley, family's vehicle left, police say

About an hour after the father of a missing 3-year-old says he sent her into an alley as punishment for not drinking her milk, one of the Richardson family's vehicles left the home, police said Thursday.  

Sherin Mathews was reported missing Saturday morning, when her father, Wesley Mathews, told police he had last seen the girl about 3:15 a.m. Between 4 and 5 a.m. Saturday morning, the family's 2013 maroon Acura MDX SUV was absent from the home, officials said.

Police are asking neighbors and business owners to review and share video footage that could show the vehicle's whereabouts during that time frame, the morning the preschooler disappeared.

Wesley Mathews, 37, told police he put Sherin in an alley near their house in the 900 block of Sunningdale where coyotes previously had been spotted to punish her, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

He told the girl to stand next to a large tree about 3 a.m., the affidavit said. The tree was behind a fence, about 100 feet south of the family's home and across the alley.

The father told police Sherin was gone when he went to check on her 15 minutes later, the affidavit said.

After looking for her, he said he went inside to do laundry and decided to wait until it was light out to continue searching or for her to return on her own, police Sgt. Kevin Perlich said.

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Mom says Frisco ISD elementary school tried to shrug off assault in bathroom

A Frisco ISD parent said a fifth-grader grabbed her son's genitals through his clothes and pinned him against a bathroom wall by his throat, but school officials brushed the incident aside and she had to call police herself.

Courtney Brooks said the boy had a long history of bullying her 11-year-old son at Elliott Elementary School in McKinney. But she said school administrators did not contact her about the incident last month despite her son going to his teacher and a counselor for help.

Amanda McCune, a Frisco ISD spokeswoman, said both the district and the school declined to comment because of ongoing investigations by the district and McKinney police.

Brooks said her son told her that on Sept. 14, a boy slapped his rear end while the two were waiting to use the bathroom during gym class. Then, he said, the boy was peeking into the bathroom stall and shaking the walls while he was inside.

When Brooks' son came out of the stall, he said he asked the boy why he was doing that.

The boy grabbed him by the throat, pinned him up against the bathroom wall,  grabbed his penis through his clothes and said, "because I can," Brooks' son told her.

Brooks said when she called the school after her son told her what happened, the assistant principal told her the boy admitted to the incident.

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Police, FBI executing search warrant at home of missing Richardson girl

Authorities on Tuesday evening searched the Richardson home of a 3-year-old girl who has been missing since Saturday when her father reportedly sent her outside as punishment for not drinking her milk. 

Sherin Mathews, 3, was last seen about 3 a.m. outside her family's backyard on Sunningdale, off Centennial Boulevard near Audelia Road.

Richardson police along with an FBI evidence recovery team entered the house Tuesday night to execute a search warrant, police Sgt. Kevin Perlich said. 

The search was part of the "natural progression" of the investigation, he said.

Sherin's father, Wesley Mathews, 37, was arrested Saturday on a charge of abandoning or endangering a child. He was released from custody late Sunday after posting $250,000 bond.

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The father of a missing Richardson toddler sent the girl out to an alley where coyotes had been seen to punish her for not drinking her milk, police say.

Sherin Mathews, 3, is thought to be in grave and immediate danger. Officials issued an Amber Alert for the girl Saturday and continue to look for her Monday.

Sherin was last seen about 3 a.m. Saturday in the family's back yard in the 900 block of Sunningdale in Richardson.

Mathews told police he put Sherin outside and told her to stand next to a large tree about 3 a.m. Saturday, an arrest-warrant affidavit said. The tree was behind the fence, about 100 feet south of the family's home and across an alley. Mathews admitted to police that he knew coyotes had been seen in the alley where he left her, the affidavit said.

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Allons-y! Dallas Fan Days (the slightly-smaller offshoot of Fan Expo Dallas, nee Dallas Comic Con) has announced a pretty huge guest coming to the show: Doctor Who alum David Tennant.

Along with being a fan favorite Doctor (he was the 10th in a long line of them), he is currently the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney's rebooted Duck Tales, is currently filming an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens, starred in Broadchurch, appeared in a Harry Potter movie and has done many other things that make him beloved.

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