On Tuesday Mike Byrd provided us with his high-speed, first-hand account of how, along a rural stretch of Mississippi highway, the sheriff there used his .40-cal Sig Sauer to shoot out the tire of a fleeing Steven Milam, the Tyler casket salesmen better known as the “Handsome Guy” Bandit who…
For 14 years now, Buzz has written a summary of the previous 12 months of news in Dallas. Not to brag, but that’s a pretty impressive stretch, taking into account that it means we’ve persuaded someone to pay us for more than 730 consecutive weeks. Pretty sly, huh? Countless more…
Ricky Dale Wyatt, wearing a sharp suit and yellow tie, walked out of the Frank Crowley Courts Building this afternoon after 31 years in prison — the longest stint served in Texas before having a conviction vacated, according to his lawyer. Previous record-holder Cornelius Dupree stood off to the side…
Seems like only three weeks ago Sam Hurd was just another former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys who was on his road to journeyman status, which, in his case, ran through Soldier Field. Then it was revealed: Even before his acquisition by the Chicago Bears, the San Antonio native…
For the last several months we’ve watched construction crews buzzing up and down the scaffolding erected in Webb Chapel Park, on Cromwell between Royal and Marsh. We knew what was coming: the latest “art” pavilion, one of many funded with ’03 and ’06 bond money (speaking of). Per the recently…
Last week was a bit embarrassing for Craig Watkins as his personal debt to Citibank became a public matter when The Dallas Morning News reported that he owed more than $15,000 in credit card bills, the latest in a history of financial whoopsies. The district attorney explained to Unfair Park…
City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, again and again, by way of introduction: Today’s presentation on the 2012 bond program is very, very, very, very preliminary. There will be many more meetings, including February confabs in every district. The numbers are rough, very rough — guesstimates of guesstimates. The…
Before the city council comes back from lunch-time recess for some Bond, 2012 Bond talk — a belated Christmas miracle! — allow me to direct you to City Hall’s annual post-holiday gift: the 2012 calendar, so I won’t be the only one who knows when Quality of Life Committee meetings…
Dallas backup wide receiver Kevin Ogletree was planning on stiffing his housesitter for more than $16,000 in expenses incurred while he was out of town during the lockout, according to a lawsuit filed in Dallas County on December 30 by the son of longtime Cowboys strength and conditioning coach Joe…
We ended the year by lamenting City Hall’s inability to implement the new Bike Plan due to two speed bumps — the need for public hearings and the lack of money. But we begin the new year with word that for at least one stretch of concrete, money has been…
Below we noted that after his dismal showing in Iowa last night, Governor Rick Perry went back to Austin to pray and fast — so sad. But minutes ago he tweeted this magnificent photo, accompanied by the note: “And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State…Here we…
Word began to spread late last night: Gale Hess, said friends, died two days ago. Cancer is to blame, say those who’ve been close in recent years. Gale was young — young enough to have been first violinist in the W.T. White Symphony Orchestra in 1973, at least. And she…
We were reminded just last week: First Presbyterian Church plans not only to install a recording studio inside 508 Park Avenue, a nod to the building’s storied history as one of only two spots where bluesman and myth Robert Johnson recorded the music that serves as rock-and-roll’s backbone, but to…
Teresa Hawthorne, the Dallas County judge who ruled that the state’s death penalty statute was unconstitutional, must recuse herself from a capital murder case, a judge ruled today. Hawthorne was presiding over the capital murder trial of Roderick Harris, who’s accused of killing brothers Alfredo and Carlos Gallardo during a…
We’re about four hours away from finding out who won those long, hard-fought caucuses in Iowa, which Rick Perry is trying like holy hell to win based on the newly minted video you’ll find on the other side. It’s quite the stars-and-stripes-and-church-cross spectacular — like something Jerry Bruckheimer might have…
Jonathan Bales is the founder of DallasCowboysTimes.com, a site dedicated to film study and statistical analysis of the Cowboys. As the seconds ticked away in the Cowboys’ prime-time loss to the Giants on Sunday, Cowboys fans were left with that familiar taste in their mouths. (You know the one –…
By now you’re probably aware that the so-called “Handsome Guy” Bandit wanted in connection with close to a dozen bank robberies in and around Dallas is actually one Steven Milam, according to authorities — a Tyler casket salesman, no less. And at this very moment, he’s in Jackson County, Mississippi,…
It was something we heard an awful lot from City Hall in 2011: We expect that to be funded in the 2012 bond program. City officials said it about the Elm Fork Soccer Complex, expanding the Cotton Bowl to keep Texas-OU in Dallas past 2015, implementing Complete Streets and addressing…
Reports out of Japan this morning had Yu Darvish visiting Arlington today — why, they do not say. ESPN Dallas’s Richard Durrett reports the pitcher and his pops and their peeps are here “to take a look at the area and get a better sense of the Texas Rangers organization.”…
I met Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson for breakfast this morning and traded him a bagel for a stack of his maps to the downtown tunnels; I got the far better deal. Way back in June, you may recall, we noted that Jeppson was attempting to kickstart efforts to…
Radioactive-waste-burying, Rick Perry-money-giving, Swift-Boating Harold Simmons begins his new year with a federal lawsuit brought by a shareholder in LBJ Freeway-HQ’d Titanium Metals Corporation, where Simmons serves as chairman of the board — the same board also named as defendants in the suit dropped off Friday at the Earle Cabell…
Football fans who came to Fair Park for the Houston-Penn State match-up at the Cotton Bowl couldn’t help but see the sideshow: As promised, the Westboro Baptist Church showed up at the TicketCity Bowl to remind sports fans that God hates them, Joe Paterno, the Pope, gays, Obama … pretty…
