Romana Harding told her story of attempted suicide to her fellow veterans gathered at the Texas Capitol Veterans Monument on Veterans Day in Austin. A survivor of sexual abuse while serving in the U.S. Navy, Harding said she was tired of the enduring shame she felt. The prescription pain pills…
Denton County Sheriff candidate Randy Butler decided to run for office for one reason: to challenge Sheriff Will Travis’ stance on marijuana. Butler’s inspiration was watching a 2015 video of Travis in Austin testifying against a change in marijuana policy. Travis, a former DEA agent, confused marijuana with hemp while…
A killer gets off with two years after shooting an Arlington teacher. Now the victim’s family lives in fear and anger.
Brad Simmons calls serving in the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s the highlight of his military career. He served as a fire support officer in an Army tank company and drove one of those “crappy M113s with a bunch of antennas.” “That was one of my tanks,” says…
John David Smith opened Rock ‘n’ Roll Vapes in the heyday of what many considered the Wild West in the vaping industry. Thousands of electronic cigarette shops like Smith’s in Arlington had been appearing across the country since vaping appeared on the scene in 2007. Mostly mom-and-pop vape shops in…
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It was supposed to be a simple date night in the small Texas town of Alpine. She drove more than six hours from her parents house in Keller to go to the movies with her on-again/off-again boyfriend Robert Fabian. With short blond hair and hazel eyes, Zuzu Verk is full…
Project Veritas unleashed a maelstrom on Hillary Clinton’s campaign last week when founder James O’Keefe’s two-part investigation “Rigging the Election” appeared to show two Democratic political operatives, Robert Creamer and Scott Foval, discussing political dirty tricks to win elections. O’Keefe has center stage, but it’s executive director Russell Verney who…
What might have driven 30-year-old murder suspect Charles Bryant to kill 21-year-old Texas Woman’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff, then partially dismember her body and set it aflame near the shores of Grapevine Lake in early morning hours of Sept. 14? It’s a question The Dallas Morning News reported a Tarrant County…
“I don’t want to talk about bad guy,” the 5-year-old told Cook Children’s Hospital psychologist Phillip Breedlove. Her adoptive parents, John and Georgiana Tufts of Denton, told one of her peer’s parents that she came from an abusive family in Poland. But in late August, police in Denton were interviewing her …
Fighting breast cancer should have been her only battle. Instead, Jacquelyne Froeber, the former editor of Celebrated Living, is now fighting her former employers. She recently filed a lawsuit against her employers, American Airlines and Ink Publishing Corp., for breach of contract. Then she followed it with a discrimination complaint…
The dam called “trouble” has been repaired. Well, almost repaired. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer announced Tuesday that the 160-foot surface slide affecting the Lewisville Lake Dam since spring 2015 has been finally repaired after rainstorm delays and funding issues. The final price tag is somewhere in the neighborhood…
The 30 Hispanic men local news reported were being held against their will at a rundown house in the 2400 block of Penn Street in Irving would meet for Alcoholic Anonymous meetings in a small blue building once used as a garage in the backyard. Its walls displayed unofficial AA…
The comments Chris Lanzi made when she walked into his Denton city office sounded as if he picked it up from a sexual harassment prevention training video: “Hey, it’s been a long time; we should make out.” “I am staring at your butt right now. You have got a nice…
Some people are left wondering what to do about the creepy clowns appearing in cities and towns across the country. One Denton police officer seems to be offering an answer. “Pop a cap in the first clown you see,” Officer Latrice Pettaway posted on Facebook on Monday evening. “Someone needs…
Since Vandagriff’s murder a few weeks after she started college, police investigators, the public and her friends and family are left to wonder what might have possessed a 30-year-old man who once posted “life is precious” on his Facebook page to murder, mutilate and burn a young woman whom friends and family remember as someone who loved to laugh and everyone loved.
Spending his days and nights in a tiny cell at the Walls Unit in Abilene and living among inmates affiliated with Aryan Brotherhood isn’t how local Black Lives Matter activist Dominique Alexander imagined he’d be spending his time in prison. Considered a high profile inmate because of his activist work…
Sitting in front of his computer in the back room of his gun shop in Hood County, my father holds a revolver in his hand. It’s a used gun like the .45 revolver in the glass case in the other room but smaller caliber at a .38. It looks like…
Timing can be everything for a band, as the members of Gammacide know all too well. They hit the North Texas metal scene in the late ’80s, when thrash metal peaked in popularity, and the band disappeared into legend shortly thereafter. The Arlington five-piece left behind a couple of demo cassette tapes and 1989’s Victims of…
Dallas residents have been haunted by the specter of a 65-foot-tall flood wave thundering down city streets ever since the deteriorating condition of the Lewisville Lake Dam became public knowledge last year. If the 60-year-old earthen dam gave way, Dallas would be under 50-feet of water. This nightmare scenario sent North Texans…
Thirty years ago, a band of four men — Bruce Corbitt, Casey Orr, Harden Harrison and Mike Scaccia — walked into Sound Logic, a small recording studio in Garland, to record their first demo. Ten hours later, the members of Rigor Mortis finished seven of the most brutal songs to…
Bryan “Infidelix” Rodecker considers himself a “busking ninja.” Berlin is his playground. It’s been his playground for a couple of years now, since the Denton artist arrived in Europe in 2014. Rodecker’s street music has inspired people to join him in song. Sometimes they’re wanting to promote their art. Other…
