A 32-year-old mother of five kids faces a felony child endangerment charge for testing positive for marijuana use while breast-feeding. Erica Tucker says she was using cannabis to control her grand mal epileptic seizures after she could no longer afford her prescription drugs. If convicted she could face up to…
In Austin, a season of gun bills has begun in the 2017 legislative session. There are 28 gun bills introduced in the House and the 12 gun bills introduced in the Senate. They appear on the heels of 2015 victories for gun rights activists, with the passage both of open carry…
Bubba Hernandez stood before the congregation of a black gospel church in Little Rock, Arkansas, to thank them for their support of his former Brave Combo bandmate, Joe Cripps. It was Hernandez’s second trip to Little Rock to search for Cripps, a celebrated North Texas drummer who’d gone missing in…
Texans love their sports. Football is the second most cherished religion in Texas, according to Texas Monthly, with baseball and basketball following close behind. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on sports every year, building stadiums, buying team memorabilia and watching playoff games. But imagine if the National Football…
Navy veteran Kate Cochran-Morgan starts her day in her usual way, with a little lawbreaking and a cup of coffee. Morning, she says, is the best time to smoke marijuana. It’s just a small amount of a medical-grade cannabis of the sort available now or soon in Colorado and 27…
Denton true crime author Patricia Springer says she thought she had found the man who killed her friend’s daughter when she sat across from Ricky Lee Green on death row in the early 1990s. She had traveled a couple of hours from the Dallas area to reach the Polunsky Unit…
U.S. Army veteran Ernesto Rodriguez started walking on Veteran’s Day. He was recently medically discharged out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the home of the 101st Airborne, after four tours of duty including time served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’d moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, a border town a few miles away…
Clint Cummings was known as an award-winning tattoo artist who’d been slinging ink for nearly a decade in the Fort Worth area. His skill with a tattoo gun landed him a spot on the second season of Ink Master, a tattoo competition judged by Miami Ink cast member Chris Núñez…
David and Jenny Williams had just settled down for a long winter’s nap when they were awoken by Denton firefighters battling a blaze in their driveway at 3 a.m. on Dec. 12. Someone had set the engine of David Williams’ pickup ablaze and spray-painted “Nigger lovers” on their garage door,…
It’s become a Dallas tradition on the night before Christmas Eve to attend Trees’ annual Toys for Tots holiday concert with local favorites Drowning Pool. This year’s event marks the eighth year for North Texas music lovers to come together and donate unwrapped toys for local children who may not…
Early Tuesday morning’s fatal shooting at the Library Bar in the heart of Fry Street marks the end of a violent 2016 for the street, where locals and University of North Texas students could enjoy some drinks or a night out. Denton police caught the suspect less than 24 hours later
Early Tuesday morning’s fatal shooting at the Library Bar in the heart of Fry Street marks the end of a violent 2016 for the street, where locals and University of North Texas students could enjoy some drinks or a night out. Denton police haven’t released many details about early Tuesday…
Editor’s note: Over the past year, Christian McPhate has been collecting stories from Dallas rockers whose brushes with fame offer inside looks at the people who devote their lives to rock ‘n’ roll. Bob Haydon’s ears perked up when he overheard a fellow student, sitting behind him in study hall,…
Local transgender activist Amber Briggle and her family have been invited to the White House on Friday afternoon to watch Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Briggle is the mother of a transgender son and made national news earlier this year after Denton County Republican-elect Sheriff Tracy Murphree had threatened…
It looked like a scene from the 1983 classic film, The Outsiders: More than 50 teens fighting hand to hand in an IHOP parking lot in a West Texas town known as “Bomb City” in the late ’90s. It was jocks vs. punks. Spikes and chains, police batons and…
A white attorney sued the State Bar of Texas governing board on Monday for discrimination. Austin-based attorney Greg Gegenheimer brought action against several defendants representing the state bar because he claims they are violating the Equal Protection Clause by maintaining a “race- and sex-based quota scheme on its Board of…
A nameless black ’83 Thunderbird and a red ’98 Ford Mustang called the “Hater Hurter” shot down the drag strip like bullets fired from a gun. They roared to life surrounded by a crowd of street racers and spectators and, in seconds, flashed by the finish line moving at 120…
The plan seemed simple enough: open up a couple of shell companies to funnel millions in bribe and kickback payments in exchange for patient referrals. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Texas claims Forest Park Medical Center paid approximately $40 million in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for…
Jack Standokes was tired of the negative talk about the black community. He watched video clips of police brutality and read the hateful comments on social media. He heard the claims over and over again: His community doesn’t support one another; they only kill each other. Instead of grabbing a…
Dallas activist Dominique Alexander has been called many derogatory names since he began leading protests in Dallas in late 2014. He claims he’s been held partially responsible for five Dallas police officers’ deaths after one of his protests ended in gunfire in early July. But the hate mail and death…
State Rep. Joe Moody of El Paso introduced a bill in the Texas Legislature on Monday that would remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana and replace them with a civil citation and a fine. State law currently makes marijuana possession of 2 ounces or less a…
Dallas developer Mehrdad Moayedi has spent the last two years juggling several projects across Denton, Dallas and Collin counties. As the president and CEO of Centurion American Development Group, he has mastered the use of special purpose districts to help fund development in rural areas, birthed a Riverwalk town center…
