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The Denton County Sheriff’s Office released these video stills showing a suspect sought in the killing of a taxi driver found in Justin on Thursday. The video footage was taken from security cameras at a nearby convenience store.

Denton County sheriff’s investigators are searching for two men wanted in connection with the robbery and murder of a taxi driver, whose body was found partially burned in a field in Justin on Thursday night. According to the taxicab company’s records, the driver picked up two men near a Dallas bus station Thursday and was taking them to Wichita Falls, said Tom Reedy, Denton County sheriff’s spokesman.

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Aaron Thomas, an employee at Alamo Discount Fireworks, stocks up for the business’s two busiest days of the year at the stand just outside of Sanger on Thursday.

SANGER — Aaron Thomas is stocking up for what may be an explosive holiday. The employee of a shack-like fireworks store located near the Sanger city limits is making sure items such as the Texas Sky Rocket and the Fire Exporative — which he says are likely to sell out — are ready for blastoff this Fourth of July weekend.

DRC/Al Key

The Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge takes shape as it nears completion last week in Denton County. The bridge is expected to open in August.

LAKE DALLAS — City officials already are seeing positive signs from the soon-to-open and long-awaited Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge. A defunct business just off Interstate 35E will reopen as a convenience store next month. That one change will net Lake Dallas significant sales tax increases, officials say.

The new neighbors don’t seem very friendly, but they sure have a lot of company. It happens in the best of neighborhoods. It can happen in any neighborhood. One day, residents notice something strange has happened to their cul de sac, or to the house on the next block. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but you know something is just not right.

DRC/Al Key

Denton’s new water tank rises out of the trees just south of Denia Park. City officials say it will be ready for use next summer.

Construction on a city water tank whose location in a wooded area south of Denia Park was hotly debated is now visible above the surrounding trees. The $5.17 million tank won’t be completed before next summer, as initially hoped, but should be ready for use by late June or early July 2010, before peak summer demand hits, city engineer Frank Payne said. The Denton City Council approved the construction contract with Fort Worth-based Landmark Structures in January.

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Elizabeth Looper, left, and Morgan Teague help build a house Saturday with Women Build, a division of Habitat for Humanity of Denton County. Volunteers are working on the house at 612 Wilson St. every Saturday.

A local group of volunteer women builders is helping families become homeowners. Women Build, a project of Habitat for Humanity of Denton County, recently started work on a house at 612 Wilson St. in Southeast Denton. Another home, on McDonald Street, was completed earlier this year. Elisa Carrasco, family services administrator with Habitat, said Women Build had been hampered by a lack of funding. The previous Women Build house was in Sanger in 2004.

DRC/Gary Payne

Michael Combs announces his plan to fly the plane to all 50 states.

When Michael Combs was a little boy, he dreamed of flying. And he always thought he would fly — one day. When the Lake Dallas man was 50 years old with heart problems, he nearly died twice and thought he had lost that dream forever. But he lived and started seeing the world with new eyes, said his daughter, Cyndi Combs.