By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX –
Some lucky contest winner is going to get to blow up Texas Stadium.
The City of Irving and Kraft Foods provided details Thursday of their sponsorship deal for the building's implosion - including a national essay contest with the winner getting to pull the trigger that finishes off the iconic stadium.
The city council unanimously approved the sponsorship deal Thursday. Details on the essay contest, part of Kraft's "Cheddar Explosion" promotional campaign, will be announced next week.
The stadium, the home to the Cowboys from 1971 to 2008, will be taken down in March or April.
Man charged in family deaths back in Texas
A man accused of killing his pregnant wife, daughter and father-in-law and then setting fire to their Kennedale home is back in Texas.
John Hummel, 34, was returned Thursday. He faces capital murder charges in the deaths this month of 5-year-old Jody Hummel, Joy Hummel and 57-year-old Clyde "Eddie" Bedford. Joy Hummel was stabbed to death; her father and daughter died of head trauma.
Dallas television station WFAA reports investigators found evidence of multiple fires in the home. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, an arson dog sniffed out possible accelerants.
Authorities arrested John Hummel while he was attempting to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico. His attorney could not immediately be reached Thursday.
Attorney: Fort Hood suspect has more restrictions
The Fort Hood mass shooting suspect's attorney says his client is being treated more harshly than other soldiers suspected of a crime.
Attorney John Galligan says Maj. Nidal Hasan has excessive restrictions -- including a rule barring any visitors when his attorneys are in his hospital room. Galligan says he can't work on Hasan's case because he needs to meet with Hasan and one of his relatives at the same time.
Hasan is undergoing rehabilitation at a San Antonio military hospital, recovering from wounds that left him paralyzed.
Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shooting at the central Texas Army post. He was shot and wounded by Fort Hood police officers, authorities have said.