The Dallas Cowboys almost snatched up the Cowboys.com domain five years ago. They called in the winning bid at auction but backed out after realizing that the “275” the agreed to was $275,000, not just $275.00, according to a report at the time from Domain Name News. The name was…
Despite what you might think, the Texas government doesn’t just hand out food stamps to whoever holds out a hand. They’re actually debit cards, not stamps, and they come with very strict guidelines. You have to live in Texas, for one, and make less than $14,079 for a single-person household…
Note: The original post said the car was at Coppell High School. It was at Hebron High School in Carrollton. And yes, it was driven to school by a 15-year-old, per Jalopnik’s update, which you’ll find below. The car you see above is a Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale…
When Paul Hardin took over as president of SMU in 1972 after a stint at tiny Wofford College, his youth and frankness made him a favorite of the media. Not so with the school’s well-heeled supporters and alumni. A 1976 article in D Magazine gives an example: One influential SMU…
Suit alleges Dallas police officers and dispatchers failed to react as woman pleaded for her life during a 911 call.
Patriot Tower, the I.M. Pei & Associates-designed skyscraper at St. Paul and Bryan Street that opened in 1979, has not been well loved of late. The property changed hands several times before it was sold at a foreclosure auction last year. There are 30 stories of office space that are…
Back in May, Phillip Jones drove from his home in Frisco eight hours west to Bledsoe, Texas, a tiny town on the New Mexico border. Why? Because Johnson, an IT guy and amateur astrophotographer, wanted to capture the coming annular eclipse in all its glory. As you can see from…
You know the Liberty Institute as the group that has steered Plano’s infamous Candy Cane Case through the courts. More recently, it’s championed the cause of Angela Hildenbrand, the Texas high school student who wanted to pray during her valedictory speech. As part of its work, in 2004 the nonprofit…
Jesus Ventura first made headlines back in March when the then-firefighter walked into Fire Station No. 45 near West Commerce and Sylvan Avenue, removed his pistol from its holster, and began waving it around recklessly, pointing it at at lease one firefighter, according to a police report. The gun went…
The football team at Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders’ charter school, has been struggling to find opponents after a UIL committee barred it from competing against district opponents.That pretty much wiped out their schedule, save for a game against Parish Episcopal at which they endured a 50-6 shellacking and another…
Quick: What day is it today? If you answered Tuesday or September 18, you’re technically right but you’re actually very, tragically wrong, because it’s National Cheeseburger Day which a) exists and b) is a great opportunity to check out a new burger joint. It’s also, perhaps, time to reflect on…
Janet Parker, a 61-year-old waitress, was working the overnight shift at an Irving Denny’s on State Highway 183 this morning when her husband, Thomas Parker, walked in. Without warning, the 54-year-old took out a knife and stabbed his wife several times, according to a release from the Irving Police Department…
It was not the scene housekeepers expected to find when they entered the seventh-floor room of the upscale Whitehall Hotel in Chicago: the body of Brianna Gardner, a 22-year-old Dallas woman, fatally shot in the head. Police found a cell phone in the room and, shortly after, brought it’s owner…
Yesterday, still irrationally giddy from the beatdown their Seahawks delivered on Sunday ( I for one blame the replacement refs for Felix Jones’ fumble on the opening kickoff. And the subsequent blocked punt. And the Romo interception right after. And — oh screw it, the Cowboys blew.) , our colleagues…
On February 3, Clay Carpenter and two golfing buddies went to hit around at The Golf Club at the Resort in Fort Worth. They made it through the front nine okay, but ran into a group of four golfers on number 12. Carpenter’s group was fine with waiting behind the…
Judith Segura thought raising the $1 to $2 million in private donations needed to restore Dealey Plaza before the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination would be a cinch. It wasn’t. “It’s been a lot harder than I expected, frankly,” Segura said. “There was nobody who didn’t agree completely, 100…
Over the weekend, two pedestrians were struck and killed as they crossed Dallas streets. One was 71-year-old James Sadler, who apparently stepped into traffic on Illinois in Oak Cliff just before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Around the same time, Devora Lopez, 7, was walking across Northwest Highway near Bachman Lake…
At 70, Elaine Tettemer Marshall seems a bit old to be the daughter-in-law of someone who would have turned 46 this year. That that someone happened to be Anna Nicole Smith, the gold-digging Playboy playmate who married 86-year-old J. Howard Marshall in 1994, a year before he died, explains a…
In June, Bill and Barbara Harris opened Silver Spoon Bakery and Cafe in Southlake. “I’m 81 years old, my wife’s 78,” Harris said. “We’re not dead yet, and we’re just trying to stay active.” Silver Spoon is a lunch spot whose every detail, from the cutesy, pink-striped walls to the…
In April 2005, the city of Dallas began an experiment. What if, rather than spraying millions of gallons of fully treated, tap-quality water on the Cedar Crest Golf Course, it used partially treated wastewater. The grass doesn’t mind water that’s a little bit dirty and, so long as it’s piped…
Tomorrow, Ann Romney will visit the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush to raise money for a “women’s lunch” to raise money for her hubby’s campaign, and it won’t be the first time she’s been invited to a house occupied by the Bushes. In a taping for…
A 20-year-old junior at SMU has been indicted on charges that he raped a fellow student in a dorm room in February, Dallas County records show. The student, Donald Samuel Cuba, was booked into Dallas County Jail and is out on a $15,000 bond. The story — including details on…
