The above photo was snapped at last night’s Dallas Stars game by Twitter user @EdCahill before making its way to Deadspin. Together with the Stars’ recent handling of an exceedingly dickish Cowboys’ Tweet, we’re getting the impression the AAC’s hockey residents don’t give all that many shits. Kudos to them…
This morning, the First Presbyterian Church hosted a gun buyback, offering cold, hard cash for unwanted firearms which will later be destroyed. The idea, as Rev. Bruce Buchanan told the Morning News, is to “make Dallas homes and families safer, one gun at a time.” As far as gun-control measures…
Mayor Mike Rawlings said today that he’s behind President Obama’s push for new restrictions aimed at curbing gun violence. “We already say we can’t own Stinger rockets. So the question is where does the line go? And the line being at semiautomatics is the right place,” Rawlings told the Morning…
Agents of nearly a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies busted a large drug ring this week, arresting a dozen people and seizing 600 marijuana plants and 25 pounds of hydroponic weed. The sweep — conducted by Dallas PD, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security and the IRS,…
In 1969, Norma McCorvey was just 21 and living in Dallas with her father when she got pregnant for the third time. She was poor, working menial jobs and couldn’t afford another child. She wanted an abortion, but she also couldn’t afford the trip to one of the six states…
Just before midnight last night, an Uptown resident received a frantic text message from her friend: He had just been hit by a car and had fallen into Turtle Creek. He didn’t think he was going to make it. The friend immediately called police, who dispatched several units to canvass…
Johnny Manziel learned the hard way what happens when a suddenly famous college football player celebrates one of the more impressive individual performances in recent bowl game history by publicly guzzling Dom Perignon: People tsk-tsk and tell him to be a better role model. He’s now discovered what happens when…
At 7 p.m., a 41-year-old Dallas woman stepped onto an elevator at Founders Plaza that was already occupied by two men, one of whom police identified as 20-year-old JC Gholston. When the elevator reached the second floor, Gholston stepped in front of the woman, pulled out a black CO2-powered pistol…
On a Sunday night in January 2010, Johnson County deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call on a rural road a couple of miles south of Mansfield. The husband, 33-year-old Joshua Adam Lewis, had gotten drunk and begun arguing with his wife and insulting her dead father. The argument escalated,…
A clerk was working alone at the AZ Mart convenience store on Military Parkway in Pleasant Grove when a man walked in. He was a regular customer, police say, but this time he carried a large knife and demanded cash. When the money didn’t immediately appear, the man stabbed the…
Yesterday’s announcement that the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade is now the Dallas St. Patrick’s Day Parade seems to have been greeted with a collective, “Call it whatever the hell you want so long as there’s booze.” Look a bit more carefully, and the announcement included some ominous signs…
Back in 2011, a simpler time, the most heated gun-related debate in the Texas Legislature was over a provision allowing concealed weapons to be brought onto college campuses. That proposal seems almost quaint as the focus has shifted to proposals to arm elementary school teachers. That’s not to say that…
On January 1, Texas took over the Women’s Health Program, booted Planned Parenthood out and dyed the website several shades of Pepto Bismol pink. Despite quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, Health and Human Services Commission officials continue to claim there’ll be more than enough doctors for every…
American Airlines has had a rough go of it in recent years, what with its ongoing bankruptcy, a knock-down fight with its unions, and the general hatred of the flying public. Today, on the heels of its first quarterly profit in a while, American announced that it is turning over…
Conventional wisdom and mountains of anecdotal evidence suggest that old people are really, comically bad at doing things: driving; operating those newfangled pocket telegraph thingamajigs; gauging other people’s interest in the details of their goiter surgery; continence. We can go on. This is low-hanging fruit. But researchers at the University…
Last Thursday, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency received a tip from someone in Brownsville, Texas: A Dallas-bound freight shipment described on shipping manifests as a collection of scales and metal plates actually seemed to contain something else entirely. The shipment was picked up that day from International Welding…
Six years ago, SMU religious studies professor Mark Chancey teamed with the Texas Freedom Network to produce a report on the Bible classes that were proliferating in the state’s public school classrooms. Chancey’s not-very-surprising finding was that these classes were not so much even-handed, academically rigorous surveys of the text…
Israel Keyes, an itinerant construction worker and Army vet, spent much of the past decade crisscrossing the United States, carrying out kidnappings, robbing banks, and murdering at least eight people, according to Time. His crime spree came to an end on March 13, when he was pulled over in Lufkin…
Two years ago, Joey Dauben was full-time small-town muckraker, publishing the Ellis County Observer and a string of other small papers, blending investigative stories with vicious gossip and baseless speculation at a rate of speed that thrilled and enraged his target audience. He focused intensely on child pornography and child…
In a midday press conference, President Obama laid out proposals to combat gun violence. You can read them in full here. In a nutshell, he called for background checks on all gun sales and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Rick Perry wasted no time in issuing a proclamation…
Last year, Mark Cuban swooped in at the last minute to save the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade, thereby ensuring that the gutters of Lower Greenville would flow with beer and other liquids for a 33rd consecutive year. The parade had run into trouble as the event — and…
Smoking rates in the U.S. are plummeting. According to the CDC, there were three million fewer smokers in 2010 than in 2005. The factors contributing to this decline are are fairly obvious: improved educational efforts; cessation programs; higher cigarette taxes; tighter state and local anti-smoking laws; and a growing stigma…
