In early hours last Saturday morning, police arrived at Club Extasis to find John Hargrove sprawled in the middle of the floor, unconscious. He had been badly beaten in a bar fight, struck with a chair and pool cues by several attackers. He was dead by the time his body…
Ricky Carr, the man who police say bilked Dallas’ elderly out of $100,000 by pretending to be a cop and asking to inspect their cash, remains in jail, leaving the title of most-shameless-exploitater-of-old-people up for grabs. We don’t yet know who they are, but a pair of new candidates are…
In July, reeling from state budget cuts, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department came up with a surefire way to make a bit of extra scratch: corporate sponsorships. The proposal didn’t include naming rights — no British Petroleum State Park at Galveston Island, for example — but companies who paid…
The board of Irving-based Boy Scouts of America won’t discuss a possible end to its longstanding ban on gays until next week, but the news that it’s up for discussion has been condemned as another step in the nation’s march toward moral ruin. The pronouncements, many of which have been…
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLellan didn’t mince words when he addressed reporters about the murder this morning of Mark Hasse, one of his prosecutors. “I hope that the people that did this are watching, because we’re very confident that we’re going to find you, we’re going to pull you…
It wasn’t long ago — July, in fact — that First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress was comparing homosexuality to bestiality and incest. This wasn’t particularly surprising. Matter of fact, it was in line with his past pronouncements on the subject of homosexuality, which are summed up most succinctly in the title…
Just before 9 a.m., as a Kaufman County prosecutor got out of his car in a parking lot outside the county courthouse, he was ambushed by two gunmen who shot him five times. That’s according to a report from Fox 4. The prosecutor’s name has yet to be publicly released…
On Tuesday, the city of Houston went live with a 311 app for smartphones. Downloadable free from the iTunes store, the allows residents to submit complaints and track their progress on the go. “Say you see a pothole on your street. Before you even leave for work you can walk…
At noon yesterday, Jay Bailey parked his 2011 Chevrolet SUV in the lot behind the Blue Goose Cantina on Greenville Avenue and went to lunch. When he returned an hour later, he found that the lot had been targeted by a vehicle burglar. The rear window of an SUV parked…
When employees of USA Beauty Supply arrived at work on the morning of December 26 after taking Christmas off, they were surprised to find that the Red Bird store was already open. The doors were still locked, but the gaping hole in the brick wall provided easy access inside. That’s…
When, in the lead-up to the final game of the Cowboys 2012 season, the rest of America unanimously threw its support behind the Washington Redskins, haters everywhere gleefully declared the death of “America’s Team.” That assessment seemed to be borne out on the field, where Tony Romo and the Cowboys…
In Austin yesterday, state lawmakers were joined by Texans whose family members were killed in texting-related car accidents for an emotional press conference in support of a texting-while-driving ban proposed by Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo. A nearly identical proposal easily passed last session, only to…
In 2003, Dr. Daniel Leong opened the South Dallas Community Medical Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a few blocks from Fair Park. It was something of a second chance for Leong, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1989 after he was caught writing prescriptions to supply his…
A couple years back when I was on the Preston Hollow beat, I accompanied Dallas police on what just might go down as the most boring ride-along in history. This wasn’t some Cops-style chronicle of the dangerous work of Dallas’ finest, but a plodding search for cars illegally parked in…
In case you missed it, the Dallas Police Department tweeted the following over the weekend: “@DallasPD: I just sliced 38 fruit in Classic Mode on Fruit Ninja for iPhone!” This was followed quickly by a retraction: “Our apologies for the fruit Ninja tweet sent earlier. One of our kids played…
Just in case you needed an extra incentive to stay out of prison, the Texas Tribune brings us the news that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is running out of deodorant and toothpaste. “For the roughly 151,000 inmates in the Texas prison system, there are 1,800 units of deodorant…
Just before noon yesterday, police responded to an animal cruelty call in Pleasant Grove. The 911 caller reported that five dogs were being kept in cramped cages in the garage of the house at 10741 Kendall Square. It was worse than that. To reach the dogs, officers had to wade…
Angel Dobbs and her niece, Ashley Dobbs, would rather forget what happened to them on July 13, 2012. That’s when a state trooper pulled them over as they traveled north down George Bush Turnpike in Irving, purportedly for throwing a cigarette butt out the window. What happened next was broadcast…
On Thursday night, 6-year-old John Raidy was walking a few paces ahead of his mother and younger sister as they returned home from buying candy. He stepped onto North Carrier Parkway about the same time a small black SUV was running a red light. “He got a few steps out…
Ona Marie Hendricks’ theory on urban sartorial choice is more developed than most. “There are two types of saggers,” she explained to Fox 4’s Steve Eagar a few months ago. “There is the ridiculous, nasty, disrespectful type where, like, everything is showing up under, where you can see everything, and…
It’s a business practice that’s as old as commerce: Pay some poor soul a few bucks to stand on a corner as a cartoonish chicken urging passersby to eat his crispy, fried brethren, a somber Statue of Liberty leading the masses to freedom, opportunity, and a great deal on a…
At 10:30 last night, a 17-year-old boy and two friends, a 15-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl, were playing some late-night football on a Pleasant Grove street when a neighbor, clearly drunk, emerged from a home nearby. “I’ve got a dog, too,” she shouted at the three teens, which was odd,…
