Clay Graham From left to right: James C. Giles, Thomas McGowan, James Waller and Charles Chatman Clay Graham, a newly minted lawyer with The Innocence Project of Texas, was on hand in the courtroom of Judge Susan Hawk yesterday and snapped photos as Thomas McGowan, wrongfully convicted of burglary and…
The Yearning for Zion Ranch just outside Eldorado In San Angelo this morning, under cloudy skies, dozens of polygamist parents are filing into court to argue for custody of their children. At the center of the storm is 51st District Judge Barbara Walther, who is presiding over the largest child…
No, the Dallas Mavericks’ first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Hornets won’t be slam-dunk simple. Not with the way the Mavs have played on the road, and Dirk Nowitzki is limping, and ,,, well, you know the story. But of the MVP candidates in the West, I’d much rather…
I can’t guarantee that Marion Barber will be the starting running back for the Dallas Cowboys in 2008 and beyond. But I can guarantee the fact that he’s house-hunting — er, condo-craving — in Uptown is a damned good sign he isn’t going anywhere. I know, I know — Barber…
Just a few hours ago, Tom Hicks gave an “explosive interview” to Sky Sports, conducted from his Dallas offices, during which he took a baseball bat to Liverpool FC co-owner George Gillett and swung a hockey stick at the head of Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry. Insists Hicks, under Parry…
A conservative pastor known for championing dissident views in the Southern Baptist Convention has posted an interesting, well-argued and chilling sequel to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s controversial decision to deny tenure to a female Hebrew professor, apparently because of seminary President Dr. Paige Patterson’s view that women should not be…
“Down and Dirty Developers Want Into the Inner City,” by Jim Schutze, April 10 Fighting for the Fiefdom Jim Schutze, you have done it again. I read the DMN editorial on fiefdoms and was ready to fall in with that notion. I should’ve known better, especially as an East Dallasite…
Something funny happened on the way to penning another Dallas Stars’ April obit. The team that annually dies in the first round of the playoffs not only has life, it suddenly looks like the strongest outfit in the whole damn National Hockey League. On the heels of a month so…
Shoe doesn’t fit: More than a decade has passed since Buzz visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., so we remember little about the exhibits there. One image remains firmly embedded, however: a large pile of worn shoes taken from death camp victims. That pile seemed especially poignant, it’s hominess…
It’s a Thursday morning at A. Maceo Smith High School, and the girls in parenting class are struggling to stay awake. There are six of them, freshmen and sophomores mostly, and not one had a full night’s sleep. They are young mothers with babies, or they are in the final,…
I’ve found a way to gauge the economic desperation of the times: Note what gets stolen from my church in the heart of South Dallas, a microcosm of economically hard-hit places. Here’s the rundown of property-related crimes from the last 12 months, our most active period ever. And yes, we…
There was a buzz March 12 at Urban Market, and it had nothing to do with the beer and wine samples at the front of the store. Downtown residents were gathering near the meat and cheese section, where chairs were set up in front of a microphone. An elderly couple…
Intriguing item just posted to The Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal blog. Something to do with the headline: “American Airlines: Preparing For a Sale?” It’s a short item, but a complicated one involving AMR, American’s parent company, and the pending sale of its asset-management business, which is owned by Dallas-based…
Yesterday, the Texas Medical Board released an “agreed order” signed on April 11 by Dr. Richard Buch, the brilliant but nutty orthopedic surgeon who has a reputation for going off on nurses and cursing hospital personnel. He was, of course, the subject of the cover story in last week’s paper…
Jennifer Lopez, your new KXAS meteorologist This morning, Uncle Barky and KXAS-Channel 5 revealed the NBC affiliate’s replacement for ousted meteorologist Rebecca Miller: The Weather Channel’s Jennifer Lopez, an eight-year vet of the channel only watched in hotel rooms. Funny coincidence, though: On the same day we learned of the…
JohnMcCain.com Two news articles in recent days have shed light on an enigma: John McCain’s Christian faith. Andrea Billups’ story in the Washington Times — despite its inadvertently funny lede, which appears to have caught multiple people sleeping at the copy desk — will do nothing to boost evangelical Christians’…
J.D. Freeman, the ever-vigilant and always informative Dallas-Fort Worth market manager for Clear Channel Radio, delivers some breaking news — well, broken news, if you want to get technical about it. Because almost one year to the day since Clear Channel announced that KZPS-FM (92.5) was going commercial-free under the…
Well, that was fun. We spent Tuesday getting our asses handed to us by Southern California, by a combined score of 11-6. First, the Texas Rangers bumbled their way to a 7-4 loss, followed by the Dallas Stars’ humbling 4-2 defeat at the wings of the Mighty Ducks. The good…
We are so getting the council members a copy of this book before April 23. At the end of February, the Dallas City Council approved plans to move forward with using certificates of obligation to purchase land that is likely to be used as the site for a convention center…
When Gov. Rick Perry’s office confirmed last month that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating allegations of abuse and neglect at the Denton State School, Laura Albrecht, a spokesperson with the state’s Department of Aging and Disability Services, insisted, “We welcome the scrutiny.” Not sure she feels the same way…
You’re still No. 1, Ex-Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill! Breaking news this afternoon from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Allen J. McGill — one of the 14 folks indicted in the City Hall corruption case that also involves former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, State Rep. Terri Hodge and former city…
Thomas McGowan The most stunning thing about the Thomas McGowan case, as mentioned below, is “how normal it is,” says Jason Kreag, staff attorney with The Innocence Project of New York. Kreag just arrived in Dallas so he could appear with McGowan at a hearing tomorrow afternoon in the courtroom…
