The West Nile outbreak of 2012 isn’t officially over, at least not according to Dallas County health officials, but it may as well be. There hasn’t been a death reported in more than six weeks, the number of new cases is basically nil, and for most of us, the scenes…
You might have noticed that there was a marathon this weekend, and that two Cowboys were caught up in a deadly car accident before an emotional win on Sunday. You may also have heard that it snowed. There’s probably a reason you didn’t hear about the stuff below, culled from…
Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, the unions-killed-the-Twinkie trope is still very much alive. Never mind that Hostess completely failed to adapt to changing tastes or update its brand, that it went through seven CEOs in a decade, that it had already obtained deep concessions from workers while its top…
It’s impossible to understand what happens behind the scenes in the NFL. Sure, there are NFL films and Hard Knocks, but even those get filtered down and provide a minute glimpse into the heart of an NFL team. Knowing how a group of athletes handle the death of one teammate…
In May, the Texas Observer profiled Josh Gravens, a 25-year-old Plano man struggling to find a job and otherwise coping with life on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s sex offender registry. His crime? Molesting his 8-year-old sister — when he was 12. Gravens’s case illustrates a flaw in the…
In April, Jabin Bogan was transporting 268,000 rounds of ammunition from Tennessee to a gun shop in Arizona when he took a wrong turn. “He told me he was coming from the warehouse, missed a turn, and was stuck one-way going south,” Bogan’s manager at Demco Express, Dennis Mekenye, told…
The last time the City Council’s Public Safety Committee met, members squabbled over the details of a proposed measure aimed at protecting cyclists. The ordinance — we’ll call it the don’t-be-a-dick-to-cyclists rule — would require motorists to pass bikes at a safe distance and not make right turns into their…
Update at 4:59 p.m.: An initial investigation by Dallas Animal Services indicates the dog’s injuries likely came from a “non-human predator,” according to NBC 5. Original post:DFW Rescue Me is the organization that tried to save Justice, the four-month-old lab terrier found in Pleasant Grove, covered in third-degree burns. Justice…
This time a year ago, the Fort Worth Cats, the city’s minor league baseball team, was on death’s doorstep. Team owner Carl Bell had racked up considerable debt that come the economic downturn, he was unable to repay, prompting the American Association to boot the Cats from the league and…
Last we heard from Barrett Brown was the rambling, mournful letter he wrote from Mansfield Federal Detention Center, where he was taken after his dramatic arrest at his girlfriend’s apartment in Dallas. The feds are making doubly sure he stays there, having filed additional charges today against Brown, who might…
Last legislative session, your lawmakers in the Texas Legislature cut $73.6 million from the state’s family planning budget, a move which, impressively, has somehow resulted in far fewer patients being served, for more money per patient. Don’t ask us how they managed that one. As Emily Ramshaw writes this morning…
An independent review of the University of Texas study that famously declared fracking could not be tied to groundwater contamination has recommended that the school retract it. The well-publicized report released earlier this year by the Energy Institute, “Fact-based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development,” purported to bring…
In 2006, the city of Dallas picked the Dallas-based architecture of Brown Reynolds Watford to design the Texas Horse Park. At the time, plans still called for a massive, $30 million complex complete with a half-mile race track, grandstands, a therapeutic pool, an RV campground, and all sorts of other…
Back in April, Raymond Jackson and James Curtis Williams once again found themselves in a Dallas County courtroom, some 28 years after they were sentenced to life in prison the 1983 rape and assault of a 26-year-old Highland Park woman. This time, the mood was different. DNA evidence proved that…
Because the Tom Corea saga just wasn’t train-wrecky enough, we bring you another dispatch from Ellis County, where, if you’ll recall, Corea was recently indicted for attacking his wife and interfering with a 911 call. This incident occurred on October 28, 2011 and involves Corea’s wife, 41-year-old Jennifer Corea. According…
Last winter was a godsend. After surviving the driest year in Texas history, we got one of the wettest winters on record. Since April, though, North Texas has been racking up rain deficits, according to the National Weather Service’s winter outlook. October was drier than usual, and November saw virtually…
Mary Padian and Moe Prigoff are regular cast members on “Storage Wars: Texas,” the Lone Star spinoff of the A&E reality show chronicling the odd souls who bid on the contents of abandoned storage units. He’s an antiques dealer, she’s a free-spirited collector, and both run shops in the Design…
Back in September, using the format of a totally ridiculous board game, we recapped the fight over gas drilling on land owned by the city of Dallas. At that point, the drilling task force had long since wrapped up its work, and a vote from the City Council on new…
Michael Furrh is an Arlington golf pro who, according to his Facebook profile, splits his time between working in the pro shop at Rolling Hills Country Club, training caddies at Caddie Club Golf and swinging ridiculously long golf clubs. Last week was Furrh’s first, unofficial shot at the Guinness World…
In the summer of 2004 crews began filming Easy Rider: The Search Continues, a sequel the cult 1969 film that tracked Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as they made their long, drug-soaked motorcycle ride from L.A. to New Orleans. Never mind that Fonda and Hopper’s characters died at the end…
You can get a massage from SMU’s Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports, but it’s not free and it won’t be given by Edwin Kim. Kim, 24, was arrested by SMU police and charged with criminal trespass after he was found wandering the halls of the Morrison-McGinnis residence hall, posing as…
Mike. I’m talking to you. Your whole story now, your profile, is all about the Miles-high salaries. “DALLAS ISD SUPERINTENDENT DEFENDS HIGH SALARIES…” “DISD’S NEW COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF WILL MAKE $185,000…” Wrong. So wrong. One hundred and eighty degrees wrong. Think in terms of sack-cloth and begging bowls. That’s what you…
