Turns out, Michael John Yowell had nothing to worry about. A week after filing a federal lawsuit to delay his execution on the grounds that the state’s custom-made supply of pentobarbital, ordered hastily from a Houston-area compounding pharmacy last month, might cause an unconstitutional amount of suffering, the 43-year-old convicted…
At some point the Great Trinity Forest, that relatively untrammeled expanse of foliage in southern Dallas, will have reached capacity for grand, high-profile amusements. That hasn’t happened yet. In November, the Trinity Forest Aerial Adventure Park will make its debut on seven wooded acres off Dowdy Ferry Road just north…
Here’s the good news for customers of Dallas-based USP Labs. Its dietary supplements are no longer linked to fatal heart attacks. The FDA made sure of that this summer when it made the company destroy $8 million worth of product containing dimethlyamylamine, or DMAA, a compound that had been linked…
A couple of weeks ago, the Dallas Mavericks announced the signing of 6-8 forward Renaldo Balkman. Other than the name, which bears an uncanny resemblance to that of former Mavs star Rolando Blackman, news that the team had signed a guy who averaged 4 points a game over a handful…
In their new book Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis carefully chronicle the story of Dallas in the years leading up to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963. In this excerpt, they take us back to October 1961, when The Dallas Morning News’ combative publisher helped…
It’s happened. Ted Cruz, mere months after joining the U.S. Senate, has transcended grubby terrestrial politics and ascended into the realm of celebrity. Want proof? This puff piece by People magazine should provide all you need. In it, we learn that Cruz is a “self-described ‘movie buff,'” wears black, ostrich-skin…
Douglas Campbell has not been convicted of any crime. The allegations of sexual assault by a public servant, official oppression and theft, reported today by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Deanna Boyd, are exactly that — allegations. That said, we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that,…
The Delta Plaza apartment complex in South Dallas recently gave its tenants a little midweek surprise: On Thursday, they found out that they all had to move. Tenants say they got the news via a note on the door, apparently taped there by the property manager. “You have violated your…
Add comedian and Huell running mate Bill Burr to the list of people who aren’t blaming Tony Romo for Sunday’s loss to the Broncos. Related: Did anyone outside Theoretical Call-In Dumbasses actually blame Romo for the loss?…
From the start, something about Michelle Williams’ story just didn’t add up. She told police that a man, dressed in black and carrying a wrench, had broken into her Keller home one October morning and shot her husband, 40-year-old Gregory Williams, in the temple. But there was no sign of…
This afternoon in Fort Worth, a “parade of dignitaries” will mark the opening of the new West 7th Street, and good for them. It’s a fully competent work of civil engineering and a pleasant enough way to get to downtown Fort Worth, if get to downtown Fort Worth you must…
It tends to get overwhelmed by the reek of humiliating ineptitude that still wafts from Rick Perry’s disastrous 2012 presidential campaign, but there was a moment when he took a principled stand and defended a position that was wildly at odds with the Tea Partiers he was trying so desperately…
As insanely dangerous as the event sounds — it consists of flimsy-looking stunt planes weaving through a series of large pylons at 200-plus miles per hour — there has been only one crash in eight years of Red Bull Air Races. It happened in 2010 in Perth, Australia, during a…
We asked former Ticket board op and master nicknamer Michael “Grubes” Gruber to autopsy the Rangers so we can throw their cadaver into our winter fire and focus on football. Here’s his hot-but-not-tremendously-hot sports take: This was a weird season for your Texas Rangers. For all intents and purposes, they:…
The pendulum of public opinion on marijuana policy has been swinging rather dramatically in recent years away from prohibition and toward a more libertarian approach. Hence last year’s decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize the stuff and the corresponding announcement by the Justice Department that, so long…
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from Dallas-based Luminant seeking to topple Clean Air Act limits on emissions increases resulting from planned startups and shutdowns of its power plants. The state’s largest generator of electricity sought an exemption for these operations from fines levied by the EPA…
Death row inmate Michael Yowell’s last-minute, Hail Mary lawsuit, based on the claim that the state was going to experiment on him with untested execution drugs, failed to sway U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. In an order handed down Saturday, he dismissed that as “a guess piled on an assumption”…
It’s always a thankless task, manning the counter at a convenience store, but it was particularly unpleasant for those who happened to be working the graveyard shift at southern Dallas 7-Elevens last night. In the span of just over an hour and a half, four of the stores were robbed…
Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourself and grab a tissue. No, make that the whole box. We bring you a tale of technological woe, a David and Goliath story in which, alas, the Philistine wins, that will set even the stoniest heart ableed. Chase Giunta is a 25-year-old graphic designer in…
Patrick, the Dallas Zoo’s recently departed lowland gorilla, was never quite a social butterfly, but he wasn’t always quite so angry, either. Embittered by his best friend’s death at the hands of Dallas police in 2004, he retreated further into himself, lashing out at his fellow primates — especially the…
It’s not yet clear who will become Texas’ next lieutenant governor. David Dewhurst, though tarnished by his defeat at the hands of Wendy Davis and her “unruly mob,” could hang onto the seat. Or he could be out-flanked to the right in the Republican primary by a trio of challengers:…
In one very limited sense, the Dallas PD response to a pair of armed robberies in South Dallas on the night of February 2, 2012, was a success. After a brief chase, they arrested 29-year-old Donnell Charles Collins after finding him wedged between a toilet and a wall in an…
