{"id":253824,"date":"2026-04-17T05:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:45:13","slug":"todays-top-stories-from-the-fort-worth-star-telegram-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253824\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s top stories from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Here\u2019s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here are the top stories from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 16, 2026, covering local news from across North Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Fort Worth chef Jon Bonnell, who founded five restaurants including Bonnell\u2019s Fine Texas Cuisine, is now cancer-free after a four-month round of surgeries and radiation for Stage 3 head and neck cancer. He is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/restaurants\/eats-beat\/article315381635.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:urging the public to get vaccinated against HPV;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;urging the public to get vaccinated against HPV&quot;}\" class=\"link \">urging the public to get vaccinated against HPV<\/a>, the virus that causes most cervical cancers and many head and neck cancers in men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 A 19,000-square-foot Westover Hills home \u2014 one of only three private residences designed by world-famous architect I.M. Pei \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article315410610.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:listed for $22 million;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;listed for $22 million&quot;}\" class=\"link \">listed for $22 million<\/a>. Pei designed the home in 1969 for former Tandy Corp. CEO Charles Tandy and oil and ranching heiress Anne Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 A North Texas woman was arrested Tuesday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315419844.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:prostitution and racketeering scheme tied to former Godley Police Chief Matthew Cantrell.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;prostitution and racketeering scheme tied to former Godley Police Chief Matthew Cantrell.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">prostitution and racketeering scheme tied to former Godley Police Chief Matthew Cantrell.<\/a> Ashley Ketcherside faces a racketeering charge, while her husband, Michael Ketcherside, now faces an additional racketeering charge on top of his earlier arrest on a charge of continuous promotion of prostitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 A Grapevine elementary student was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/article315424117.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bitten by a snake during a class field trip;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;bitten by a snake during a class field trip&quot;}\" class=\"link \">bitten by a snake during a class field trip<\/a> to Parr Park on Tuesday. The fourth-grader from Glenhope Elementary School received medical treatment, and counseling staff are meeting with students who witnessed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the top stories from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 16, 2026, covering local news from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95836,116,118,117,3787,86401,353,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-253824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fine-texas-cuisine","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-star-telegram","13":"tag-head-and-neck-cancer","14":"tag-jon-bonnell","15":"tag-north-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}