The top stories this afternoon from KERA News: Ethan Couch will stay in juvenile detention while he waits for a judge to rule on whether to move his case to adult court. Couch, the "affluenza teen," appeared at a hearing in Fort Worth this Friday morning. He returned to Texas yesterday after he was deported from Mexico.
Prosecutors wanted Couch moved to adult jail sooner. Tarrant County prosecutor Richard Alpert says he expects Couch will be transferred to adult custody.
Theatre Three has opened a world-premiere play about a wealthy Texas family coming apart during the oil recession of the late 1980s.
The play, called ‘Oil,’ has a feisty matriarch eager to drill some more, a gay nephew and a daughter pushing solar energy as the answer.
And, Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas hopes to become one of the first hospitals in the country to transplant a uterus from one woman to another.
Other stories this afternoon:
- American Airlines had a very good fourth quarter – and cheap fuel played a big role. On Friday, the Fort Worth-based airline reported record profits – it earned $3.28 billion. American more than offset a $530 million decline in revenue with savings of nearly $1.1 billion on jet fuel.
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