It’s a wonderful time to be an Atmos Energy shareholder. The gas distributor’s profits — and dividends — keep going up. It’s much less wonderful to be an Atmos Energy customer, who is fueling those profits through increasingly large bills. Despite its profitability and despite getting six rate hikes out…
Keller, with its exurban tangle of big, fast streets, is not the most wonderful place to be a pedestrian. Not even in its subdivisions. Just ask the family of Robert Lariz-Trinidad, who was run over by a pickup on Thursday while pushing a wheelbarrow across a street so quiet it…
Eccentric British billionaire Richard Branson’s last visit to North Texas — in 2010, to launch Virgin America’s service from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — he brought along an absurd cowboy getup, barbecue, and a small herd of longhorn cattle. This time, God-willing, his arrival should be much more low-key. The…
By Saturday night, the members of New York’s Finest Baseball Club will be be back home in the Big Apple, a place where neighbors look out for one another and people respect respect private property. It’ll be a relief to escape from Dallas, where the team of New York City…
Yes. That was the entire period between icepocalypse and the fiery king of the heavens moving to within eight inches of the surface of Texas. Did you blink? Then I’m sorry, you missed the entire thing. All of that patio weather, gone. Every chance you had to go outside without…
Reason 5,312 why reporting for print is better than TV: There’s no video camera to catch your journalism fails. That time I knelt in a nice fresh pile of dog turds while I snapped a picture? The evidence was washed away with the next load of laundry. That time NBC…
It was a sad day — for reporters at least — when North Richland Hills’ Lady Theresa Thombs lost her bid for a seat on the State Board of Education. Between her outrageously padded resume (she claims to be an “international ambassador” and carrier of “diplomatic papers”), her seeming inability…
A year ago, Half Price Books made the rather unexpected announcement that it would be dipping its toe into real estate development. The decision, executive vice president Kathy Doyle Thomas told us at the time, was less about finding an alternative revenue stream than about boosting the decaying area surrounding…
Brick-and-mortar retailers in Dallas beware. Amazon has you in its sights. The e-commerce behemoth on Thursday announced that it has added Dallas to the list of a dozen cities eligible for same-day delivery. That means that if a customer orders any of the million-plus eligible products by 12:15 p.m., it’ll…
On Tuesday, the White House released a report — and a star-studded public service announcement — aimed at reducing the estimated one in five women who is sexually assaulted during her college career. “Colleges and universities can no longer turn a blind eye or pretend rape and sexual assault doesn’t…
Deion Sanders, amazing football player, atrocious charter school operator, dropped by K104’s “Dede in the Morning” show on Thursday to field some friendly questions and share his perspective on current events. At least we think that’s what he means: I’m on K104 in Dallas right now. I’m keeping it so…
When the Star-Telegram finally pried a comment from Fort Worth veterinarian Millard “Lou” Tierce on Wednesday, he dismissed allegations that he’d mistreated animals — specifically keeping a family’s supposedly euthanized dog alive for six months as a source for blood transfusions — as “all a bunch of hooey.” The state…
Last month, Collin County Judge Keith Self received what in normal times would be an unremarkable letter from the Bureau of Land Management. The agency’s Oklahoma office, the letter explains, is beginning an environmental impact study on about 40,000 acres in and around Lake Lavon. It’s part of a larger,…
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12, 2014: Dallas Jury Awards Woman Largest Amount So Far in Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit It felt like fishing line was scratching him: That’s how he knew something was wrong. His wife had been complaining for a while that sex hurt, but he thought maybe she just didn’t want…
Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs wasn’t pleased with the status update on the downtown-to-Oak Cliff streetcar line city staff delivered Monday. He wasn’t happy that planners had settled on a final color scheme (parallel bands of DART’s yellow, blue and white; picture here) without informing him. The Oak Cliff end…
Brent Herling has a confession to make. “I’m the one that put SpongeBob on the wall.” The sudden appearance of the cartoon sponge sparked a minor uproar in 2011 among purists who wanted to preserve W.T. White students’ 1976 mural, which covers a half mile of wall along Forest Lane,…
For 41 years, no Dallas police officer faced charges for an on-duty shooting. With Tuesday’s indictment of former officer Carden Spencer, there have been two in the past week. Spencer, if you’ll recall, shot a mentally ill man in a Rylie cul-de-sac in October. He and his partner said the…
Sir Young may have hated to say that he was a rapist, but he couldn’t deny it, either. “That’s rape,” he said in a recorded interview with a Dallas police detective, describing his encounter with a 14-year-old girl. Young was 18 at the time. They were both students at Booker…
Movoto, for those of you who don’t get their unsolicited press releases in your inbox, is an online real estate brokerage that specializes, best we can tell, in mass producing generic listicles. As a general rule, it’s best to ignore these things and hope they go away, but we had…
Yesterday, the nonprofit Children at Risk released its annual rankings of North Texas public and charter schools. Dallas ISD performed incredibly well, its magnets snatching seven of the top 10 slots in the high school rankings. Newly minted educator Deion Sanders fared considerably worse. The Fort Worth campus of Sanders’…
Update on April 30: The Star-Telegram spoke to veterinarian Lou Tierce, who called the allegations “all a bunch of hooey.” “The lady wanted me to euthanize their dog, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it,” he told the paper. He denies the allegations that he mistreated the animals…
Faithful America — think Change.org for progressive Christians — has spent the past several days promoting a petition on the site that calls on the United Methodist Church to go easy on the Reverend Bill McElvaney. McElvaney, 85, a retired pastor and professor emeritus at SMU, last month presided over…
