A local mayor organized a group of transgender people to position themselves in front of bathrooms at the state capitol on Thursday as the House of Representatives met to vote on the budget bill. The protesters said the budget bill is littered with amendments that they claim target the transgender community…
A local mayor has organized a group of transgender people to position themselves in front of bathrooms at the state capitol today as the House of Representatives meets to vote on a budget. The protesters say the budget bill is littered with amendments that they claim target the transgender community…
“We need your help,” Collin County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Mark Sanderson told the New Hope City Council on Tuesday night. “It’s an officer safety issue, but it’s starting to slow our response times. Like I said earlier, we’re in the double digits, and they’re going up.” Sanderson has been…
Yesterday the state representatives advanced a bill to the House Culture, Recreation and Tourism Committee seeking to establish a Texas State Music Museum and Texas Music Foundation, both to be based in Austin. The state Senate also has a companion bill. These bills are bad news for Thomas Kreason, who has…
Pulse Dallas celebrates a year paying street musicians to busk downtown at Pegasus Plaza. It’s a program they’re hoping to expand to several other locations.
More than a month has passed since Robert Fabian was arrested for trying to conceal his girlfriend Zuzu Verk’s skeletal remains in a shallow grave in Brewster County. Now a Brewster County Grand Jury has indicted him for Verk’s murder, setting a bond of $750,000. The announcement was made on…
The Dallas County Republican Party treated Donald Trump Jr. like a celebrity on Saturday night at their 2017 annual Reagan Day Dinner at the Omni Hotel. More than a thousand Republicans from all across Texas filled the third-floor ballroom, all dressed in their Sunday best, cheering and hollering as he…
Bruce Corbitt sits in his “Bat Cave” in the heart of Irving, discussing the cardiac calcium screening that may have prolonged his life. He’s spent most of his life on stage as the frontman for Texas thrash metal bands Rigor Mortis and Warbeast. But the 54-year-old metal singer no longer…
Joe Bain called Denton police to report a murder. He’d shot and killed his wife Ruth Bain on that early Saturday afternoon at their home in south Denton. He told the 911 operator what he’d done, said “goodbye” and hung up the phone. The 911 operator tried to call him back…
The SWAT team glide down a door-lined hallway in an abandoned juvenile center on the outskirts of Mansfield. Guns at the ready, they follow one another like soldiers on a sweep, sticking close to the walls, entering rooms two at a time. These are the guys police call when they…
At the New Hope City Council meeting this week, nineteen folding chairs set out for residents isn’t enough. Residents began to pour into the town hall that once served as a portable building for a local oil and gas company, using seats taken from a closet. This is the first…
Leroy Coleman and Joseph Sanders have a simple response to the recent, sweeping federal order dictating federal agencies be more aggressive in deporting undocumented immigrants: It’s about damn time. Coleman and Sanders are day laborers who see the effects of U.S. immigration policy first hand as they compete for low-wage temporary…
The beatings lasted for hours, but Danny Cannon couldn’t see who was doing them. The three masked men placed duct tape over his eyes as they rummaged through his house, searching for cash and seeking bank account information. They used a handgun to threaten and pistol whip him. Cannon, who’s…
As the wife of the late Dallas billionaire and philanthropist Charles Wyly, Caroline Dee Wyly witnessed her husband’s fortune contribute to reshaping the Dallas Arts District. The AT&T Performing Arts Center named a theater in their honor after the couple donated $20 million, and their generosity reached Republican politicians whom…
A Texas appeals court has reinstated a whistleblower lawsuit three campus police officers filed against Collin County College, claiming they suffered workplace retaliation for reporting crimes by district coworkers. Two years have passed since the officers filed their case in state district court against against Collin County College, alleging they…
Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson approached the shallow grave outside of Alpine knowing in his heart they had finally found 22-year-old Zuzu Verk, a former University of North Texas student who moved to the Alpine area to attend college. She’d been missing since the early morning of Oct. 12, and…
As Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s gender-based bathroom bill battles it way to become law, the Texas Association for Business finds itself under fire for a claim that such a law could cost Texas’ economy as much as $8.5 billion and 185,000 jobs. The bill requires people to use public facilities consistent…
Anthony Harrison Bell was a fugitive from law enforcement for 17 years before his capture. Known as “Pajaro,” or the “Bird,” the 58-year-old drug smuggler disappeared shortly after he pleaded guilty in 1995 to his role in the Jose Paz Garcia drug trafficking organization. He was convicted along with 26…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent found skeletal remains in a shallow grave not far from where Zuzu Verk, a 22-year-old North Texas woman, had gone missing nearly four months ago in the Sunny Glen area northwest of Alpine. Local news reports Verk is the only missing person’s case in the area…
Even Brutal Juice’s frontman has difficulty describing the band. But sitting out back at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton, Craig Welch tries anyway, calling it “an acid-fueled excuse to turn amps to 11 and play with feedback loops.” It’s a fairly close approximation. The band’s post-punk music was known to roar, thrash…
The killer slowly walks through the halls of the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian. The figure is wearing police tactical gear and is holding what appears to be some sort of hammer. It’s just after 4 a.m. and the church is empty, allowing the intruder to walk through the…
U2 fans are calling it a rip-off. Tickets to the Dallas stop of U2’s Joshua Tree stadium tour sold out in a matter of seconds after they became available at 9 a.m. Jan. 16. The same happened in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Seattle; tickets for all legs of…
