A bent stop sign with the pole still attached, cowboy hats, a sneaker, license plates, a rubber monkey, an empty Crown Royal bag, a longhorn skull with an image of KISS guitarist Ace Frehley tattooed on its forehead — reminders of a rock ‘n’ roll life surround Rita Haney in…
Nerves are raw across the nation in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Orlando, as the city of Denton found Wednesday morning when a screaming man carrying an armload of Qurans tried to gain entry to a courthouse. On Wednesday morning, Peshwaz Azad Waise walked into…
The case of the headless body discovered underneath a bridge near the Brazoria River has been solved. But the killer’s motive for decapitating 24-year-old Jubal Alexander, an East Texas native who’d been living out of his truck, remains unclear. On May 3 a fisherman discovered Alexander’s headless body sitting…
An effort by the Bureau of Land Management to lease mineral rights on 259 acres of BLM land near or under Lewisville Lake is off the table for now, thanks partly to protests from lakeside towns worried about what drilling for oil and gas might do to the reservoir’s dam…
Gabe Reed was supposed to be a ghost. The Dallas-based owner of Gabe Reed Productions brought together the Rock N’ Roll Allstars for a South American tour in 2012, but the promoter had disappeared on the third stop of the tour, hidden under sheets like a ghost, his former publicist…
Wahib Sadek Hamed claimed to be a terrorist. Shirtless, with tan pants, long beads and shaggy dark hair, the 22-year-old Hamed parked his car in the middle of a roadway in Arlington on May 26, then jumped out of his car and lunged at people who passed in their cars…
He attacked like a ninja from the shadows, wielding a 9-inch Rambo knife. The small brown-skinned Ecuadorian wasn’t built like Sly Stallone, but he was as quick as he was silent. Appearing as though from nowhere, and taking Jeff Smith, a Dallas music publicist, completely by surprise as he prepared…
Standing in a small Lake Dallas City Council room, Julie Mathews raised her right hand to take the oath of office as the newly elected mayor of the growing city on the shores of Lewisville Lake. It’s a familiar scene for the 40 residents gathered on this Thursday evening in…
Located off a county road in South Texas, what some believe is an ISIS terror compound known as “Mahmoudberg” doesn’t look like a place where terrorists would train. It looks more like a small community of rundown homes and older trailer houses. In other words, it looks like a lot…
Pantera’s “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott is to Arlington what Elvis Presley is to Memphis, Tennessee. Like the king of rock ‘n’ roll’s memorial in Graceland, the king of metal guitar’s memorial brings fans from across the country to the Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Arlington where they leave behind whisky, guitar…
Anarchists were active in Denton this election season, seeking to dethrone District 4 City Council member Joey Hawkins and place their own puppets on the council. At least that’s what the Citizens for Local Governance, a political action committee, warned on its website and in hundreds of mailers appearing in…
Local radio disc jockey Debbie Sexxton knows local music talent when she hears it. As the host of Loud and Local on 97.1 FM The Eagle, which hits radio waves at 11 p.m. on Fridays, she listens to dozens of submissions for local rock and metal bands, searching for the…
Headless, that’s how Jubal Alexander was found. Sitting in his blue Chevy pickup, parked underneath a bridge near a boat ramp in Brazoria County, he hadn’t been heard from since April 27, local news reported. Even though he worked overnights as a pipe cutter at a local chemical plant, the…
Executing more inmates than any other state, Texas has perfected the art of ultimate punishment. Under the watch of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the executioner has employed a number of tactics to punish the innocent and the guilty from a noose around their neck until 1924 to a…
Since the early ’70s, heavy metal has been dominating counterculture, spawning several genres from death metal to stone metal and inspiring generations of local metal bands. Yet with so many metal offerings, how does a young aspiring North Texas metal god determine which songs to include in his or her…
Ride for Dime President Rob Eichelberger announced on Monday evening that he’s stepping down from his position heading the nonprofit organization named for late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbot and dedicated to raising money for other music-related charitable organizations. “I, Rob Eichelberger, will be stepping down as President to make…
The Reverend Jeff Hood pushes against the yellow caution tape serving as a barrier to hold back the dozen protesters standing outside of the Huntsville prison where Pablo Vasquez, called a “satanist” and a “vampire” by the media, faces execution for a murder he committed nearly 20 years ago. Bald…
The local music community has banded together to host even more benefit shows for the 30-year-old Rustin Luther, a local musician who has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. Trees recently joined the rooster of several other Dallas and Fort Worth Clubs hosting benefit shows, hosting “Fight Rustin Fight” on Saturday,…
Tracy Murphree, Republican candidate for Denton County sheriff, announced he had said all he needed to say in regard to his Facebook post claiming he’d beat a transgender woman if he caught her in the bathroom with his daughter. “This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen.” he…
Tracy Murphree, GOP candidate for Denton County Sheriff, apologized for his Facebook post, claiming he’d beat a transgender woman for pissing in a restroom where his daughter was peeing. “It was a mistake for me to post that,” he told Channel 8 WFAA news in Dallas by phone. Murphree told…
Rustin Luther is dying. He’s only 30. But he didn’t want another “woe is me” kind of story. He’s not that kind of guy. When the bassist for Fort Worth metal band Urizen told his friend Boyd Konkle that he had an inoperable, incurable brain tumor, Luther, who was sitting…
Incoming Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphee posted on Facebook that he’d beat the hell out of a transgender man if he tried to piss in a bathroom where Murphree’s daughter was peeing. “This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen,” Murphree wrote in an April 22 Facebook post…
