Maybe the street was deserted and you decided to open up the throttle. Maybe a tree branch was blocking the flashing school zone sign, or you didn’t notice the cop as you rolled through the stop sign. Whatever the particulars of the situation, practically every driver knows the flush of…
This fall, as the growing stack of policy cancellations was giving the lie to Obama’s ill-considered “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” promise, newspaper editors across the country were simultaneously barking at reporters to dig up Obamacare horror stories, and fast. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s…
Roy Alvin Adams Jr. didn’t win much sympathy from a Tarrant County jury when his case went to trial in 2005. He had killed a cop, drunkenly running over veteran Grapevine police officer Darren Medlin as he performed a routine traffic stop along the State Highway 121, leaving Medlin’s two…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown engaged in a brief Twitter spat with DMN reporter Scott Goldstein Monday. It all stems from an incident outside of Brown’s office, when Tanya Eiserer, longtime crime reporter with The Dallas Morning News, dissatisfied with the fact that she would not get the exclusive she’d…
Let’s get one thing clear: First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress doesn’t actually think President Barack Obama is Satan, which would be ridiculous. However, he says, “Although President Obama is certainly not the Antichrist, his policies are paving the way for the Antichrist.” This isn’t something Jeffress thoughtlessly let slip when he…
A polar vortex has a good chunk of the United States in its grasp, which, in layman’s terms, means that it’s cold — absurdly, bone-chillingly cold. It’s the kind of weather that socks you in the gut and takes your breath away, that overwhelms Texas’ feeble electric grid. Already, the…
There hasn’t been a satisfying explanation as to why Michael Schmidt, a successful Dallas trial lawyer described by friends as a “good, good person,” barricaded himself in an Uptown apartment complex and opened fire on police while his 11-year-old daughter sat in his apartment. Probably, there never will be. But…
Just in case your resolve was slipping, or else that scene in The Wolf of Wall Street convinced you that crack is the gateway to fun and untold riches, we bring you the cautionary tale of Joel Flores. Flores, 36, and another man had were “kickin’ it” on Saturday night…
Freight trains are the little engine that could of the transportation industry — really janky-looking and slow, but resolutely refusing to die. In fact, the freight train industry is doing better than ever in states sitting on top of shale, enjoying a massive increase in business thanks to fracking. There…
Congratulations, Texas. You successfully averted a morning of rolling power blackouts. Less than an hour after ERCOT, the state’s power-grid manager, issued an emergency alert pleading with customers to conserve electricity, the declaration was rescinded after Texans rushed to lower their thermostats and turn off their gaudy LED lights…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown has started coming down hard on officers who are too quick to resort to deadly force. He fired senior corporal Amy Wilburn, who shot an unarmed carjacking suspect last month. Same with Carden Spencer, the cop who opened fire on a mentally ill man in…
On January 22, 2013, the day his case was set to go to trial, Dr. Glen Hurlston entered a plea of no contest to charges that he assaulted his wife at their Princeton, Texas, home on the previous New Year’s Day. It wasn’t an admission of guilt, just a suggestion…
The Barnett Shale set off a national renaissance in the production of oil and natural gas through fracking. But as we look back on 2013, it’s clear that the boom has left North Texas behind, for now anyway. Drilling and permitting activity in the area has fallen to a 10-year…
Cedar Springs Road wasn’t always the heart of Dallas gayborhood. Until Richard Longstaff, a British expat, opened Union Jack in 1971, there probably wasn’t a gay-owned business on the block, according to a 2011 Dallas Voice article. It was, the paper reported, surrounded by pool halls, grocery stores, a bookstore…
The Azle High auditorium was filled near to capacity Thursday evening with an occasionally raucous crowd that demanded answers state regulators couldn’t — or weren’t willing — to answer about why, over the last two months, earthquakes in a seismically silent area have grown in number and intensity. Peer-reviewed research…
Ruben Riguero’s friends and family have never gotten the justice they felt they deserve. Riguero, a 29-year-old Venezuelan father, bodybuilder, fitness instructor and stripper at LaBare, was gunned down in September 2012 after a fight at The Fare Room, Cabaret Royale’s after-hours club. His killer, identified by police as Branagan…
While its students enjoyed the waning days of 2013 as a reprieve from schoolwork, the University of Dallas was eyeing the new year with trepidation. On January 1, Obamacare’s contraception mandate was set to kick in, meaning the school would have to start offering free contraception under its insurance plans…
The lawsuit Patricia Lawson filed Tuesday against Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is a straightforward discrimination claim. Lawson, a 64-year-old surgical systems supervisor with two decades’ experience at the hospital, says Presby fired her in October 2012 for being too old and a woman. The hospital didn’t admit that,…
Greedy slumlords have a lot of leeway in Texas to stomp on renters as they please. But starting Wednesday, that will change — slightly. Under new legislation that went into effect yesterday, landlords are no longer allowed to hide your own lease from you or retaliate against you. Landlords, we…
Update at 12:45 p.m.Police have identified the gunman as Michael Edward Schmidt, whom The Dallas Morning News describes as a “prominent” lawyer. Schmidt works for his dad, C.L. Schmidt, at The Schmidt Firm, a group of trial lawyers whose specialties range from car accidents to oil and gas litigation. The…
At the December 16 meeting of the Flower Mound Town Council, Mayor Tom Hayden left his seat at the horseshoe, invited the two dozen or so church leaders in attendance to join him at the dais, and extended a middle finger to non-Christians everywhere. “I’m very fortunate to have had…
Dude Perfect, for those who are still unaware, is a quintet of A&M grads who found YouTube stardom after posting a clip of themselves hitting absurdly difficult basketball shots in a Texas backyard. Their few dozen encores have followed a similar pattern: make an elaborately conceived trick shot, celebrate it…
