When my 3-year-old’s first-ever soccer season wrapped up in October and we stopped making our biweekly trips to the fields at Harry Moss Park in Northeast Dallas, the southwest corner of Greenville Avenue and Meadow Road was empty. It was still empty in November, and at the beginning of December…
On the night of December 16, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi, India was walking home from watching Life of Pi with a male friend. They paid 36 cents to board one of the private buses that serves as public transportation in India’s capital. The crew and passengers, six in…
On November 9 at a downtown Dallas law office, some 153,000 Internet domain names hit the auction block. The winning bidder was an entity known as Trans, Ltd., which put down $5.2 million and scooped up the names over the objections of their previous owner, Ondova, LLC. That auction never…
Even after the Cowboys capped off another disappointingly mediocre season on Sunday, there were some things to be thankful for. The team stayed in the playoff chase and kept things entertaining until the very end with an impressive string of come-from-behind victories. Dez Bryant exorcised his demons and began to…
On New Year’s Eve, nine minutes before the ball dropped on Times Square, police arrived at the Adolphus Hotel, Room 1809, to find the body of 28-year-old Patric Turner. It’s not clear from the police report if there were other people in the room, or drugs or alcohol, just that…
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons knows well that money, particularly when doled out in large quantities to candidates and political action committees, is the grease that keeps our democracy running smoothly. So it was only natural that, when it came time for the Texas legislature to consider a measure that would…
The writing’s been on the wall, one supposes, since KKDA-AM, a.k.a. Soul 73, abruptly laid off Bobby Patterson and most of the rest of its on-air staff, but the terse announcement posted to the station’s website yesterday still comes as a shock: “Soul 730 KKDA is no longer broadcasting on…
An early-morning police standoff that brought out the SWAT team and shut down DART’s Westmoreland Station is now officially over: RT @keatonfoxnbc5: #BREAKING: Dallas Sheriff’s Office confirms suspect took his own life in this standoff in Oak Cliff.— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) January 2, 2013…
If you’re in Fort Worth and you head down Loop 820 until you’re just about in North Richland Hills, you’ll find a little place called Redneck Heaven. The name is a self-conscious, somewhat tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of a term often used to disparage white Southerners — on the bar’s website, you’ll…
In another blow to the unions-killed-the-Twinkie-thereby-depriving-future-generations-of-a-real-American-childhood storyline — if that wasn’t already enough of a laughable oversimplification — the Morning News is reporting that Hostess was actually preparing for liquidation more than a year before workers with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike…
Last month, in one of the more bizarre stories to emerge from the Dallas Police Department in recent years, it came to light that the officer in charge burglary and theft detectives in the southwest and northwest patrol units, Lt. Regina Smith was moonlighting as a rapper using the handle…
At the very beginning of her column today on Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins sets the scene, and she sets it well. The Dallas Cowboys’ home locker room after a game is suffused by a bright halo of light from a wall of TV cameras…
Back in May, Houston attorney Robert Painter got a panicked dispatch from the president of Mongolia: A 70 million-year-old Tyranosaurus bataar skeleton that had been illegally smuggled from the country was about to hit the auction block, and the sale must be stopped. Painter leaped into action. He rushed to…
George H.W. Bush, the country’s 41st president, has been in a Houston hospital for more than a month now, undergoing treatment for complications from a serious case of bronchitis. The 88-year-old was checked into intensive care on Wednesday “following a series of setbacks, including a persistent fever.” It was during…
In 2010, Gary Stouffer was on a resupply mission in Afghanistan when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device. The explosion left the 37-year-old Marine with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and anxiety disorders to go with the compression fractures in his…
Earlier this month, Michigan State University athletic director Mark Hollis floated the idea of playing four NCAA basketball games in Cowboys Stadium. At the same time. The idea may not have been as far-fetched as it sounds, Hollis having previously organized a game on the aircraft carrier that took Osama…
The state legislature won’t convene for another couple of weeks but, as we’ve noted previously, the biennial push to legalize gambling in Texas is already well underway. With that push comes the flood of money to grease the legislative machine. Already, gambling interests have poured in nearly $1 million in…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com. On Christmas Eve, a burglar broke into Billy MacLeod’s house on Akard Street in the Cedars, crept under his Christmas tree, and unwrapped and then stole Christmas gifts, specifically a pair of laptops and an iPhone 4s. A terrible, Grinch-y thing to do. It’s the…
Allen is football crazy. For proof, look no further than the high school’s new, $60 million football stadium. For further proof, there’s the Allen Hawks, which Texas Monthly labels “the best 12-year-old football team in Texas.” There’s no objective way to prove that, of course, no state tournament like there…
For now, the State Fair of Texas is sticking to its story that Big Tex wasn’t reduced to a scorched metal frame during this summer’s conflagration but instead is recuperating at an undisclosed Texas spa. Not only that, but he’s well enough to send a holiday greeting that the fair…
Right now, something like 100 U.S. cities have curbside composting programs. That is, residents put their food scraps, yard trimmings and other organic waste into special bins alongside their trash and recycling cans and the municipality hauls it not to the landfill but to an enormous compost heap, where it’s…
Earlier this month, state legislators met in Austin to learn what damage Texas might sustain if the country careens off the fiscal cliff, which is now frighteningly near. The short answer is, quite a bit. As the Austin American-Statesman reported, state agencies stand to lose as much as $1.1 billion…
