The Washington Redskins got their comeuppance Sunday afternoon thanks to a near-miraculous fourth-quarter drive by the Cowboys. This Redskins fan, clad in a classy “Dallas Sucks” sweatshirt, got his just desserts some time before that at the hands of a Washington security guard. Deadspin provides some context. The man and…
Erick Munoz wasn’t trying to set off a debate about abortion or end-of-life care. He just wanted to comply with the wishes of his wife, who is on life support at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth after suffering an apparent pulmonary embolism two days before Thanksgiving. But because his wife,…
James McAuley, Dallas native, ’12 Harvard grad, and current Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, is well on his way to a smashingly successful career in academics, journalism or whatever else he puts his mind to. Already, though, he seems to have settled on an avocation: trashing his birthplace in The…
In the this week’s cover story, we examined the case of Sonia Cacy, the Fort Stockton woman convicted in 1993 of setting her uncle ablaze with gasoline. In the years since, the evidence against her hasn’t withstood scrutiny. Cacy was paroled six years into a 99-year sentence based on expert…
On the bulletproof compound of the formidable College Sports Cartel, no one enjoys life quite like the football bowl executive, that shadowy Good Ol’ Boy who plans one football game a year in exchange for a mid-six-figure salary and fringe benefits fit for a Florida congressman. And in recent years,…
It’s the holiday season, which means it’s time for Nike to release slightly altered versions of old Air Jordan sneakers. This year the hot ticket is the $185-per-pair Air Jordan 11 Retro Gamma Blue, the model MJ wore during the 1995 playoffs. What are people so excited about? What sets…
On Thursday, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst became the latest Texas politician to insert himself into the debate over the sentence handed down to 16-year-old “affluenza” victim Ethan Couch, who killed four people during a drunken joy ride earlier this year. Days after gubernatorial candidates Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis chimed…
There’s a lot of stupid stuff floating around the Internet A&E’s decision to suspend Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson from the reality show for going public with his personal views on sin. “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there,” he told GQ. “Bestiality, sleeping around with this…
If you simply must have an authentic Hustle Gang T-shirt but can’t afford the $50 price tag, and if you aren’t put off by criminal activity, shoplifting isn’t a horrible option. If properly executed, a surprise grab-and-run operation, much like this 300-pound dude carried out at Mockingbird Station’s Victoria’s Secret…
The deregulation of the electricity market has been a mixed bag for Texans. On the bright side, we paid less for power last year than the national average. The architects of the energy-only market (primarily electricity generators) would call this a coup — proof that consumer choice and the free…
The decades-long alliance between the city’s best local news station and its only daily newspaper is over. NBC 5 reported yesterday that it has teamed up with The Dallas Morning News and that the two outlets “will join together on important content like weather, politics and breaking news” in print,…
Bath salts haven’t gone away. Just this week, a California smoke shop owner was arrested with half a ton of the stuff. But with a federal crackdown and heightened awareness of their face-eating side effects, their use (or at least the panicked reporting on it) is on the decline. Now…
Even after a wave of exonerations confirmed the fallibility of the criminal justice system, even after the state’s supply of lethal-injection drugs has been all but cut off by squeamish pharmaceutical companies, even as national support for capital punishment steadily declines, Texas remains enamored with the death penalty. In 2013,…
Smoke seeped from the eaves of the house and into the predawn darkness in a blue-collar Fort Stockton neighborhood in West Texas. The picture window looking out onto the street was aglow; the living room inside, a furnace, chugging smoke through a hole in the ceiling. It gathered in the…
[UPDATE, 3:44 p.m.: “I just got an email from Uber saying the charges are being reversed,” Kimberly Alexander wrote to us this afternoon, about two hours after we had gotten off the phone with Uber’s Leandre Johns, who had insisted that the damage was legit. We’ve left him messages and…
Megapublisher Pearson’s high-school textbook Biology ran into trouble this fall with State Board of Education-appointed reviewers. Citing supposed errors in passages focusing on evolution, Ide Trotter, a chemical engineer by training and a creationist, recommended rejection one of the most widely used texts in the country. In response, Pearson stood…
Should libtards keep giving government handouts to species that can’t acclimate to Texas’ business-friendly atmosphere? Take prairie chickens. They once roamed Texas’ prairies and are known for an awesome mating ritual that includes a funny little dance and a “strange, booming sound across a sea of grasses.” Those prairies are…
Senator Ted Cruz, the uncompromising Tea Party standard bearer, the bane of the establishment GOP, is the most influential man in the world (according to 11 percent of Americans, anyway). He almost singlehandedly led his entire party over the cliff during the government shutdown to defund Obamacare. His personal style…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comKelvion Walker says he didn’t know he was sitting in a stolen car on December 9. He’d just hopped in the passenger seat of the Chevrolet Malibu driven by 19-year-old Reginald Robertson, whom he describes as a close friend. It came as a surprise, then, when Robertson…
Earlier this week, Tarrant County prosecutors were busy lamenting that they are unable to appeal the sentence handed down to 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who got 10 years’ probation and a stint in rehab for drunkenly running over four people in June. Under state law, only the defendant in juvenile cases…
Breath easy, North Texas. Come out of your fallout shelters and panic rooms. Let your children play in the front yard. After four months on the run, federal authorities have captured documented menace-to-society Lonnie L. Jones and locked him up. His crime? Stealing burritos. Federal prosecutors prefer to describe it…
Jerry Jones talked to KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan this morning, making about as much sense as the Fake Jerry Jones who no doubt graced KTCK-FM 96.7 The Ticket’s airwaves sometime yesterday. Here he is on why — despite his team’s unflagging mediocrity, total draft-day ineptitude and other traits with the…
