George Strait doesn’t have to do much to be the life of the party. Showing up is pretty much enough to convert men into slack-jawed idiots and women of nearly any generation into star-eyed groupies. The country music superstar doesn’t tour anymore, but he’s making the rounds on a cross-country…
News Highlights of the Week Activist Dominique Alexander, Now Free, Says He Befriended Aryan Brotherhood Members in PrisonWhat happens when you put a Black Lives Matter protest organizer in prison with a racist gang? According to recently released Dominique Alexander, they become uneasy chums. 6 Things We Learned From Reading…
Ah, the airport. It’s where national security, the transportation industry, human psychology, aeronautical physics and government personnel collide in an awkward dance. Add into this mix the police who respond to Transportation Security Administration drug-related discoveries, and a collection of travelers that for whatever reason caught their attention. The Dallas…
We know you’re busy, so here’s a roundup of the news of the week. Zika Could Open Up a New Frontier In Workplace Injury Litigation, Just Probably Not in Texas Can you sue your boss for a Zika infection you acquired while on the clock? Lawyers are already weighing in…
We know your week is busy, so here’s a quick fix for those news junkies who may have missed out. Ex-Con Tom Huntley Helped Put Away Hundreds of Dealers, but Don’t Call Him a Snitch Meet the Texan who went from a organized crime hoodlum to a celebrated confidential informant…
Last week, a woman waking her dog in the Ash Creek neighborhood of northeast Dallas noticed something amiss — all of the books were missing from the curbside Little Free Library box. The neighborhood quickly rallied. “She called another neighbor who drove around to check the other LFLs in our neighborhood,” says…
We know you’re busy. Here’s a Friday bundle to serve as your quick political fix. Susan Hawk Quits as Dallas County DA, Abbott to Pick ReplacementThe long-missing district attorney steps down. We have the consequences, reactions and the full text of her farewell letter. 7 Things We Found Digging…
We know you’re busy. So here’s a roundup for those news junkies who missed out and now need their Friday fix. When it Comes to Zika, Humans Are the Canaries in the Coal MineIf the mosquitoes in Dallas County are able to transmit the Zika virus, we won’t know it…
Dave Murry didn’t want to pick up the phone when it rang at 6 a.m. on Thursday. He was still catching up on sleep after working until 10:30 p.m., filling in as the chef at Fuel Bar and Grille, a biker bar and restaurant he owns in Fort Worth. …
We know you’re busy. So here’s a roundup for those news junkies who missed out and now need their Friday fix. Family and Friends Remember Kelli Cox, a Recently Discovered Serial Killer’s Victim In a house in Farmer’s Branch, friends, family and police gather to remember Kelli Cox, whose body…
We know you’re busy. So here’s a roundup for those news junkies who need their Friday fix. Is DPD Ready For the Psychological Damage of July’s Deadly Ambush? The mental health impact caused to police by last month’s deadly ambush may take a long time to reveal itself. The…
Dallas police are seeking a robbery suspect who bit a store clerk during a robbery late last week. On July 28 at about 1:05 a.m., a black man in a red T-shirt and sneakers entered the 7-Eleven store at 302 North Marsalis Avenue and made a purchase. “When the clerk…
On Thursday a federal court in Ohio unsealed the affidavit of an FBI agent that chronicles the chase of a homegrown, ISIS-supporting terrorist cell during the lead-up to an armed attack on a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland. The documents show that an FBI agent was in touch with one…
Dallas police today released a bulletin regarding two very similar robberies of Pokemon Go players near White Rock Lake. The first incident occurred on July 22, 2016 at about 1:05 a.m, when officers responded to a robbery call in the 600 block of E. Lawther. “The victim was robbed at…
For all the political ire and law enforcement angst over securing the land border with Mexico, surprisingly few people in public focus on securing the airspace. Up there, at altitude, there are opportunities for smugglers, outlaws and terrorists to move around at will. That brings us to the King Air…
In every fight, whether a gun battle or a boxing match, there’s something called initiative. It’s not easy to describe, but it exists. Loosely put, it means one side is reacting to the other and therefore can predict their opponent’s moves. Those who have the initiative, win. Those who…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown today told CNN his rationale when approving the use of a robot to deliver an explosive to kill police shooter Micah Johnson during Thursday’s rampage at a protest march. He says negotiations failed and that trying to get a sniper to shoot him would expose…
Last June, 35-year-old James Boulware planted pipe bombs and then shot up DPD headquarters. He was later killed by a police sniper. During an interview with the Dallas Observer, Dallas Police Chief David Brown spoke about the threat of violence his officers feel on the job. In the wake of…
Today’s fatal crash of a B525 helicopter is more than a tragic incident in aviation. It could be a blow to a local industry trying to create innovative aircraft designs. Federal officials are investigating the crash, in Chambers Creek, which killed two employees of Bell Helicopter. This investigation means very…
Would it excite you to hear DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown is playing at this year’s Oaktopia Music & Art Festival? What if we reminded you that’s the stage name for Erykah Badu? Oaktopia, which markets itself as “North Texas’ premiere independent music and entertainment event,” today released the second…
Defining counterculture used to be so easy. There were “us” and “them.” And if there were any doubts, the dictionary helped clear them up. Counterculture, to Merriam-Webster, is any culture “with values and mores that run counter to those of established society.” That worked in the early 1960s. That decade…
Which hurts more, being brained with a rock or being pestered by national media about it? This morning, Danny Fulgencio is choosing the press. “I got nailed in the head by a rock, bled like a motherfucker, became national news, went to bed, am now even bigger national news,” he says. …
