Three Weeks After FBI Raid, Feds Indict Barrett Brown

Three weeks after the FBI raided the Dallas apartment of Barrett Brown, an affiliate of the hacker group Anonymous, the other shoe has finally dropped. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed an indictment today, charging Brown with Internet threats, conspiracy to make publicly available restricted personal information of a federal employee…

Firefighters Pull Naked Homeless Man From Turtle Creek

If you happened to pass near the intersection of Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs this morning, you may have wondered why there were a gajillion fire trucks idling around. The answer, to sum it up in three words, is: naked homeless guy. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said a passerby…

Someone Called in a Bomb Threat to NorthPark Yesterday

Yesterday, a bit after 3 o’clock, police were dispatched to NorthPark Center where employees reported receiving a threatening phone call. Threatening how, the police report didn’t say. One had to assume that some crafty 17-year-old had phoned to say he would be in the mall after the 6 p.m. curfew…

Widow Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Fatal UTD Crane Collapse

The weather on July 7 quickly turned windy, almost violently so. The sudden gusts, which reached 40 miles per hour, capsized a surfboarding 55-year-old into the waters of White Rock Lake, where he drowned. Even more dramatic was the scene a dozen miles to the north, when a construction crane…

Shocking: Study From Guys Who Build Roads Says Texas Must Build More Roads

Bitching about how terrible the roads are in Dallas is a time-honored tradition. It’s also easy. Quantifying just how terrible they are? That’s more difficult. Luckily for you, TRIP, a D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to transportation research, just released its annual “Future Mobility in Texas” report. First, the bad news. Bad…

How Did No One Notice the Landfill Hemorrhaging Cash? Budget Cuts.

Last month, a report from city auditor Craig Kinton’s office enumerated what it politely termed “deficiencies” in the operation of the city’s McCommas Bluff landfill. There were a lot of them, since the landfill didn’t really have much in the way of procedures to safeguard cash, prevent embezzlement or make…