The top local stories this morning:
After 20 years, Texas Christian University is finally headed back to the NCAA basketball tournament.
The Horned Frogs earned an at-large bid Sunday to compete for the first time since 1998. told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he was only two years old the last time the Frogs played in the tournament.
鈥淚t's amazing that it's been 20 years. That鈥檚 a long time,鈥� Robinson said. 鈥淲as it the longest drought? They should definitely put us on TV for that. That's a great accomplishment.鈥�
TCU earned a six seed and will open Friday in Detroit against the winner of Wednesday's match-up between No. 11 seed Arizona State or Syracuse.
It's the eighth time TCU has made it to the tournament. The Star-Telegram reports three TCU players weren't even alive the last time the Frogs played, while the others were just toddlers.
Other stories this morning:
- Two people were killed and several others injured when a band of severe weather swept through East Texas over the weekend. Winds exceeded 80 miles per hour 鈥� with hail the size of baseballs. The Marion County sheriff's office says 40-year-old Mary Pinney of Mont Belvieu was killed late Saturday when a tree fell on her family's tent at a campground in Jefferson. About 20 miles away in Longview, a 41-year-old man was killed early Sunday when a tree fell on a mobile home.
- The city of Fort Worth has chosen the South by Southwest interactive festival now underway in Austin as a launching point for an ambitious image rebuild. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the follows two sobering studies that suggested the city is falling behind its competitors. The exhibit "Fort Worth Now" begins Tuesday. It touts the city as a big-time player, and is offering programs designed to promote Fort Worth鈥檚 business, innovation, arts, music and film. Participating companies include the Firestone & Robertson Distilling Company, Lockheed Martin, Facebook and Hillwood Properties, the developers of the Alliance corridor in far north Fort Worth.
- Some blame a . There's some truth in that, but other factors play a role as well. In this week鈥檚 Vital Signs, 四虎影院鈥檚 Sam Baker talked about this with Dr. Luigi Meneghini, executive director of Parkland Hospital鈥檚 Global Diabetes Program and a professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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