It’s no secret that First Baptist Church of Dallas’ pastor, Robert Jeffress is a lightning rod for controversy because of his less-than-PC remarks on homosexuality. And Mormonism. And Islam. But it seems that Tim Tebow, who was scheduled to appear at the local megachurch as part of the grand opening…
Howard Hendricks has never been one of the marquee names of conservative Christianity. He was too naturally reserved for that, more comfortable in the classroom than behind the pulpit, though he delivered his fair share of high-profile sermons. But over more than five decades as a professor at Dallas Theological…
A week before Christmas, Cedric Dewayne Caddell, Jr. and a friend went to the Denny’s at Stemmons Freeway and Walnut Hill. Their goal: to score some weed. To that end, Caddell had gotten in touch with a dealer, later identified by police as 20-year-old Dangelo Dewayne Wilhite, who showed up…
It wasn’t a run on baked souffle that kept the phones ringing off the hook at two Panera Bread locations in Dallas yesterday morning. It was one guy — an especially creepy one — who apparently enjoys harassing female crew members at fast-casual bakery/cafe chains. According to two police reports,…
As it stands, anyone caught watering their lawns more than twice a week and/or during daytime hours and/or outside the official watering days ordained by City Hall faces a fine of between $250 and $2,000. As of last summer, the city had handed down slightly more than a handful. But…
On November 14, the New York Post broke news that FC Dallas CEO Doug Quinn had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a luxury hotel room in New York City, where he was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife, Elizabeth. As the Post described it, a “hulking” 6’5″,…
In the early morning hours of March 17, 2011, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was walking through the parking lot of Spearmint Rhino when she was struck and killed by a Ford F-250 with enormous wheels and a monster lift kit as it left a parking space. The driver, 27-year-old Eric Crutchfield,…
On January 16, President Obama, flanked by family members of some of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary the month before, laid out his plans to curb gun violence. These included 23 executive orders that tweak the system for background checks, lift a ban on federal funding for…
It was June, a few weeks after his long-shot run for Congress and his marriage both came to an end, and Jason Roberts couldn’t shake the nagging weariness that had dogged him through the campaign. He felt constantly as if he’d just racked himself on his bike frame. It was…
It’s been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and their families, with a…
At the end of January, state Senator Carlos Uresti, a San Antonio Democrat, quietly filed a bill that would lift the legal age to smoke or possess cigarettes, or any other tobacco product, from 18 to 21. “If we are serious about stemming the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases and the…
For 17 years, Tina Milton worked as a clerk at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Wynne Unit. Her job was to pore over inmate mail in search of coded gang messages, and she did it just fine until late 2006. That’s when she returned from a sinus surgery and…
Update at 4:02 p.m.:Heritage has issued a statement: “Yesterday the Augusta National Golf Club filed suit against Heritage Auctions over the Art Wall’s 1959 Green Master’s jacket being offered in an upcoming sale in New York City. Prior to their filling the lawsuit, Augusta National did not contact Heritage Auctions,…
On Valentine’s Day, the University of Texas System regents named University of Alabama-Huntsville Provost Vistasp M. Karbhari as the lone finalist to succeed James Spanioloas as president of the University of Texas at Arlington. Less than a week later, though, regents have decided their decision needs a bit more discussion…
Update at 3:19 p.m.: City spokesman Doug Adolph provides the disappointing news that the city has turned down SugarDaddie.com’s $4.6 million offer. “We decided to agree to disagree,” he says. “Sugar Land is not for sale.” Mayor Thompson did, however, provide a counter offer: If the dating site would relocate…
Texas’ 20-cent-per-gallon gas tax hasn’t changed since 1991. That’s despite the erosion of the tax’s purchasing power — the Wall Street Journal estimates that the gas tax buys half as much concrete, steel, and other materials as they did 20 years ago — and a glaring need — the state…
Deyfon Pipkins has spent a lot of time in the Dallas County jail over the past decade, having been arrested a half dozen times on theft charges since 2003. Police say he was back at it again at 4:15 p..m. on Monday afternoon, when he targeted a house in the…
Longtime Collin County Sheriff Terry Box made it clear in January that he would not be party to President Obama’s attempt to disarm the Real America and, presumably, pave the way for a permanent Marxist dictatorship through a handful of modest gun control proposals. Never mind that or that a…
In December Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a measure banning the adoption of Russian children to American families. The move was widely considered, and tacitly acknowledged as, a retaliation against a new U.S. law targeting accused Russian human rights abusers. Russian officials portrayed it somewhat differently, however, as a way…
Ron White spent nights during his eight-month tour in Afghanistan in 2007 holed up in his bunk with his laptop, poring over lists of words and numbers until they were committed to memory. It struck his Navy comrades as unusual, but memory is what White does. He founded a memory…
We tried not to hold it against Josh Hamilton for his occasional trip to Sherlock’s, his ridiculous energy drink addiction, his snooze-worthy line of Christian clothing, and last year’s collapse. And while that bungled fly ball — you know the one — was hard to forgive, that didn’t change the…
For the past three years or so, the city has been actively seeking a private developer to take the Farmers Market off its hands. It finally found one last summer, but details were kept tightly under wraps as a final deal was hashed out. Those details were released, very quietly,…
