When Kaitlyn Samuels was 4 months old, her parents, Mark and Jennifer, worried that she couldn’t reach for her toys. Doctors initially assured them that it was probably normal, but after two months brought little improvement they ordered a battery of neurological tests that revealed Kaitlyn had a very rare…
Thanks to Sandy, Deadspin is a shadow of its normal self right now, but it’s functioning well enough to direct our attention to a piece reported last week at TCU 360. It seems there is a controversy simmering at the school over a bronze statue unveiled earlier this month at…
Range Resources, a company that fracks shale formations across America, wants controversial former EPA regional chief Al Armendariz to shut up about what happened in Parker County. The company’s lawyer sent him a letter recently insisting that “(he) cease from making further false and disparaging comments against Range.” Armendariz spoke…
Republican state senator John Carona got himself into a bit of hot water with fellow conservatives last week, after he told Dallas Voice senior editor John Wright that he would support several LGBT rights bills during the upcoming legislative session. Those bills would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation…
Sunday night, a 25-year-old man fell to his death from a building on Main Street, the second such incident in just over a month. The Morning News posted a story online that, per Romenesko, just so happened to run next to the ad you see above, because, well, the wheel…
This morning, Dallas County joined the growing roster of local agencies (the city of Dallas, Parkland Hospital, the DFW Airport) to add domestic partner benefits, meaning same-sex partners of any of its roughly 6,500 employees are now eligible for health coverage and other benefits through the county. The measure squeaked…
The Cowboys were well into their first-quarter meltdown on Sunday when Dez Bryant, the team’s embattled wide receiver, set up to return a Giants punt. Before the ball was snapped, the radio team of Brad Sham and Babe Laufenberg calmly suggested that Bryant, known for his casual handling of the…
Last week, as a City Council discussion of the don’t-throw-stuff-at-cyclists ordinance degenerated into a litany of members’ pet peeves about cyclists (we’re looking at you, Sandy Greyson), Angela Hunt became visibly frustrated. Hunt, who rides a bike herself and has been the council’s most vocal critic of City Hall’s hesitant…
Steven Ray Milam’s long run as the “Handsome Guy Bandit” came to a sudden end on a rural Mississippi highway in January of this year, as the former casket salesman turned bank robber led local police on a chase along Interstate 10. Officers tried no less than three times to…
Ted and Shannon Skokos are heavy hitters on the Dallas philanthropy scene. Their names are engraved most prominently at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, into which they poured more than $2 million, but their largesse is wide-ranging, and they give grants that, per their foundation’s website, “positively impact society by,…
Danny Kirk, the founding pastor of Greater Sweethome Missionary Baptist Church in Forest Hill was inside the church this morning with his secretary and a janitor when car crashed through the side of the building. The precise details of what happened next are trickling out. A man exited the wrecked…
Two armed men held up the 7-Eleven on Zang and Colorado Sunday afternoon. As they made their getaway, Dallas Police were fanned out, searching for a vehicle matching the description given by witnesses. A police helicopter crisscrossed the area. It didn’t take long for officers to find them. What followed…
I did some hard time in Cleveland a few years back, and I covered quite a bit of basketball. My time there overlapped some with that of Delonte West, who revealed himself to be tough, funny, weird, one of the few seemingly authentic athletes you’ll come across in the locker…
Say you’re a Republican activist hoping to woo black voters, but you’re faced with the inconvenient truth that the opposing party elected the country’s first African American president. What do you do? You put the one African American figure who more iconic than Barack Obama on a billboard above his…
Yesterday, about an hour and a half before the Cowboys game kicked off, neighbors and passersby in the 1600 block of Kiest Boulevard in East Oak Cliff became alarmed when they saw a man walking down the sidewalk carrying a machete. Police arrived shortly thereafter to chat. The man didn’t…
Eleven years ago, the City Council set aside an enormous, 3,700-acre tract of land surrounding Fair Park and put in place detailed zoning restrictions stipulating what types of homes and businesses could go where. It was an attempt to promote positive development and fight the economic decay that has taken…
This year for Halloween, instead of playing on current trends like the Presidential race or zombies, the Cowboys decided to dress up like something tried and true: the Dallas Cowboys. In a game that bordered on parody, the Cowboys went to their old bag of fail and pulled out a…
Johnny Guerry and Gary Guion met five years ago, and after striking up a friendship, they became business partners of sorts, with Guion setting up shop at Clover Partners, the small hedge fund Guerry runs. Their relationship lasted until Guerry received a tip that his friend was embezzling money and…
Shirley Ison-Newsome is a survivor. The longtime DISD administrator, currently assistant superintendent, has managed to stay afloat at the district even as administration after boss after boss, administration after administration, have sunk to the watery depths. That she has managed emerge unharmed even as she has been caught up in…
It was back in July that transportation planners with the North Central Texas of Governments first floated the idea of upping the threshold for vehicles using HOV lanes from two occupants to three. The proposal was then taken to the driving public to see what they thought. They didn’t like…
If you were to put money on which Republican politician in Texas would publicly express support for gay rights, John Carona, the state senator from Dallas, would be a good bet. He’s always been about as pragmatic as Texas Republican come. But it was still a surprise when, earlier this…
A few weeks back we told you about Cody Wilson, the UT Austin law student who heads a group called Defense Distributed. Wilson and co. would like to make a printable gun, a process that was stymied after the company that was renting them the printer abruptly seized it earlier…
