Buzz wants to give a big shout-out and thanks to The Washington Times, the super-conservative other paper in D.C., for clearing up a misconception many people have about Tea Partying Congressman Steve Stockman, who recently announced that he’ll challenge Senator John Cornyn in next year’s GOP primary. Turns out that…
The debate over who is most at fault for the Cowboys’ second-half collapse against the Packers will continue to simmer until Sunday, when fans and the media will presumably have a new debacle to grouse about. On YouTube, at least, the debate has been settled. Judging by the way the…
An affluent Keller teen who killed four people while driving drunk and stoned on Valium has become the latest object of outrage. Ethan Couch, 16 at the time of the crash, was handed 10 years of probation, which will include a stint at a pricey rehab paid for by his…
It took a Parker County jury all of five minutes on Thursday to convict 44-year-old Dana Brock of burglary. The evidence, after all, was pretty incontrovertible. Surveillance video showed her stealing a weedwacker and power washer from an Aledo garage last May. But that’s not what made Brock famous. Last…
Smokin Dragon Gifts, with its wide array of smokes and smoking accessories, including a delightful selection of novelty pipes (see: Mario, Angry Birds, the “Despicable Me” minions) and a presumably high percentage of cash transactions, might seem like an ideal target for the criminally inclined. Bad idea. Robbers and shoplifters…
Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg’s home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were “fixing to” cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked through the front door, rounded…
The debate about voting in Texas over the past several years has focused on the controversial voter ID law that passed in 2011 and finally took effect over the summer. It was a necessary step to prevent voter fraud, supporters said, while opponents countered that it erected illegal hurdles to…
LBJ’s TEXpress Lanes opened overnight Friday, and fears that their fluxuating toll rates would create some type of rift in the space-time continuum proved to be wildly overblown. The first vehicle — the guinea pig, if you will — entered the newly completed corridor, which stretches from Preston Road to…
With thousands of fans expected to flood Arlington in April for the NCAA Final Four, there couldn’t be a better time for you to finally open that ticket-scalping business you’ve always dreamed of, sell your famous canned chili dogs to random people on the sidewalk or try hosting an Occupy…
There are some murders that are so carefully planned that police spend months or years trying to piece together clues. There are others in which the suspected killers, through carelessness or lack of foresight, practically walk themselves into the jail cell. The slaying of 31-year-old Jose Orta-Sanchez is decidedly in…
Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston won the Heisman Trophy this weekend, just over a week after the Florida state attorney announced that state would not be pressing charges against him in connection with an alleged rape. On Friday, The Dallas Morning News’ Tim Cowlishaw penned a column about the…
Dallas Cowboys fans should know better by now. Whatever cheerful confidence is inspired by an impressive quarter or two of play is destined to be crushed, swiftly and without mercy. So, the team’s late-game collapse Sunday afternoon to an Aaron Rodgers-less Green Bay Packers squad was less shocking than it…
Five North Texas mayors walk into a room. After some glad-handing and small talk, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck launches into a soliloquy. “In the city of Arlington, we are constantly looking for new ways to encourage the community to sustain an active lifestyle,” he begins. Residents should be made aware…
It’s been a traumatic and deeply strange week for Crawford and Mary Clay Gupton. After last week’s ice storm, someone sawed the lock off the gate of their Fort Worth backyard and stole Heidi, their greater Swiss mountain dog. Then the thief, using the handle dogthedogsaver, took to Reddit to…
Three days later, the country continues to seethe over Tarrant County Judge Jean Boyd’s decision to let 16-year-old Ethan Couch off with probation for killing four people and injuring several others near Burleson during a drunken joy ride on Father’s Day weekend. It’s an absurdly light sentence given the amount…
The State Board of Education left us with a bit of a cliffhanger last month. Despite the concerted efforts of creationists, nearly all of the biology textbooks sailed through the adoption process. Two, however, became mired in completely unsurprising ideological objections from the appointed expert reviewers. Pearson’s Biology, one of…
In recent years, when conservative activists have tried to slip creationism into science textbooks adopted by Texas’ State Board of Education, they have dressed it up as “intelligent design,” or explained the need to teach the “weaknesses” of the theory of evolution. A Trojan horse, perhaps, and one that’s been…
It’s the moment Dallas drivers have been waiting for. After months of being teased by computer-generated flyovers and the prospect of traveling on corridors that came this close to being Davy Crockett Rocket Lanes, the new LBJ Express debuts on at midnight Saturday. Not the whole $2.7 billion project, mind…
It was around 4 a.m. on Wednesday that Chauncey Taylor, a 35-year-old Dallas man, began chatting with an individual on Quest Chat, a phone-chat line that bills itself as a place to “meet sexy local singles.” The paramour’s gender isn’t specified by the police report filed that morning, but Quest…
Every winter, Major League Baseball teams engage in what’s called the Rule 5 Draft, where they poach minor leaguers from their fellow competitors. It’s complicated, and typically doesn’t make much of a splash, which why it was especially confusing to read this morning that the Texas Rangers had selected Russell…
Other cities sitting on the Barnett Shale are popular among the natural gas industry for quickly handing over their land to be fracked. But Dallas has turned out to be a surprisingly tough conquest. On Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas City Council finally passed its long-awaited fracking ordinance, and the regulations…
20 Ron Nielson Ron Nielson wanted to do something extra scary for the kids on Halloween. He decided it would be totally spooky — not to mention hilarious — to burn a cross at his Palm Bay, Florida, home. Yet Nielson’s uproarious “prank” — his words — went awry when…
