It’s hard to put your finger on what makes Google Glass so vaguely creepy. Technologically speaking, aside from a few extra tricks like the one that transmits sound not by making noise but by sending subtle vibrations through the skull, its basically like having a smartphone strapped to your head…
We want to kill the mosquitoes, but we don’t want to kill the bees. Is it possible for Dallas health officials to process those two competing ideas in their heads at once? Let’s hope so. Last year, Dallas sprayed an insecticide that killed everything — the mosquitoes and the bees…
For a state that loves its earthbound, carbon-based fuels, Texas sure seems to be betting big on mammoth turbines that harness the howling prairie winds. In fact, last year we added more wind-power capacity than any other state. Texas remains the unequivocal king, with more than twice the installed wind…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. At some point, Buzz supposes, Cathie Adams, the former Texas Republican Party chair, fearless “Moozlum” hunter and popular voice of the state GOP’s batshit wing, will fade to…
Already this summer, we’ve been fed a steady diet of Johnny Manziel-related news and speculation. Was the Texas A&M phenom kicked out of the Manning Passing Academy because he was hungover, or was he just sleepy? Does he really have a Texas Longhorns tattoo? If so, did he think that…
Two days after 14-year-old Deston Bibbs was killed by a hit-and-run motorist as he crossed Sycamore School Road at 9:20 p.m. on the night of April 25, his mother went to the media with a heartfelt plea. “Just turn yourself in already,” DeShundria Parks told WFAA’s Carla Wade. “There’s no…
Arnold Troy Crayton has matured a lot in the past decade. Back then, he was “Lil’ Arnold,” a 21-year-old junior member of a Fort Worth-based crack distribution ring busted by the feds in 2002. Now, according to federal prosecutors, Crayton’s moved on to marijuana, apparently smuggled to him straight from…
Investigators aren’t sure what caused James Anthony Long, a 59-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee, and his 2012 Freightliner to veer off an I-30 overpass in Grand Prairie. “Witnesses indicated it just veered off, hit the embankment, and was unable to gain control,” police spokesman Lyle Gensler told WFAA. The video above,…
It’s been more than six months since our sister paper in Miami broke the news that Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz, who was listed in patient logs as “Mohamad,” was a customer of Biogenesis, a shady South Florida steroid clinic. Major League Baseball finally brought down the hammer today, suspending Cruz…
It was an unusually wet July this year, or so it seemed to North Texans accustomed to summers of monotonous, unbroken heat. In reality, the 2.05 inches of precipitation was right around the historical average, and it came in drizzles that evaporated almost as soon as the sun re-emerged. It…
U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson got a few things off of her chest last week during a recent House committee hearing. Last week, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, chaired by Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, issued a congressional subpoena for the first time in more than two…
When Mike Miles arrived at Dallas ISD, he brought his family with him. He and his wife bought a house in Northwest Dallas, and his son enrolled at Marsh Middle School. Now the family’s having second thoughts. The Morning News’ Matthew Haag broke the news this morning: Miles informed his…
When a half dozen bulls chase hordes of borderline-suicidal pedestrians through the cobblestone streets of Pamplona, Spain, every year, they do so as part of a cultural tradition dating back centuries. The bull run began as a way to goad the animals from corrals to the bull ring. The weeklong…
Over the weekend, Mark Cuban posted a long and extremely detailed open letter explaining what’s happened to the club over the past three seasons: how 2011’s championship squad came together; the reasons it was subsequently picked apart (basically, the the players were too old); why the Mavs have whiffed on…
To be fair, the man couldn’t have known Antonio Quintanilla was a cop. It was 3 a.m., and Quintanilla wasn’t in uniform. He was just some guy smoking a cigarette on the balcony of the apartment below at the Villas of Katy Trail early on Saturday morning. That said, Quintanilla’s…
The square jaw and impressively rectangular goatee should be proof enough of the incredible manliness of the Rangers’ newly acquired righty Matt Garza. So manly is he that it’s all but inevitable that the testosterone that courses through his veins will eventually boil over and spill out onto Twitter, which…
You heard it here first: The outrage that has been simmering on the right since President Obama’s election in 2008 is about to boil over. It will make the claims that he’s a crypto-Muslim communist bent on destroying America seem like trifling schoolyard taunts. It will make those early Tea…
The Dallas Zoo posted this clip to YouTube with the title “Lion Really Likes This Little Girl at Dallas Zoo.” But that’s pretty clearly not what’s happening here. The animal is also not trying “to play with a little girl getting her picture taken.” That lioness is starving, and she’s…
Dafe Kelly Sokoh wasn’t technically supposed to be patrolling the Burger King parking lot. El Rancho Supermarket in Oak Cliff hired him as a security guard to keep an eye on things there, but, when he spotted 26-year-old Roy Castillo leaving the grocery store at what he considered to be…
U.S. Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for five days when, on July 2, 2012, he accompanied them on a routine, Afghan-led patrol in Kandahar Province. Not long after they left the base, the soldiers were approached by three men on motorcycles. Lorance ordered his…
By the time firefighters showed up at the Newport Landing Apartments in Far Northeast Dallas on Tuesday, Lesley Williams’ had already escaped from her burning unit, running outside and calling for help until a neighbor was able to douse the flames that still covered her body. Her hands, back and…
In the past several weeks, Republicans have increased their steady barrage against the Affordable Care Act, but conservatives aren’t the only ones putting out propaganda. The liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund published a report on Thursday highlighting the benefits of Obamacare, particularly for poor people. The report, like…
