The new Texas Women’s Health Program is really going to be special. And by “special,” we mean terrible. But as the Texas Tribune reports , state officials have made one tiny concession in response to complaints from women’s advocacy and medical groups: Doctors will now be allowed to discuss the…
Late last night, divers searching Possum Kingdom Lake found the body of missing teenager Jacob Logan, who disappeared Sunday after diving into the lake with friends, the AP reported. His was the second death this week at Coppell, where senior Jonah Blackwell committed suicide on Tuesday. Logan, a senior, played…
Tarrant County jailers are breathing a collective sigh of relief: Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Lawayne Nelson has left the building. Convicted and sentenced to death for suffocating a 28-year-old Arlington preacher and suspected in the killing of a fellow inmate, Nelson’s new home is the Polunsky Unit in Polk County,…
We touched yesterday on what has been a bit of a rough start to the school year for Dallas ISD, and today’s news won’t help: Alan King, who led the district in the aftermath of former Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s departure last year, has resigned from the district. King served as…
It’s the kind incident that makes you want to take everyone you love to the gun range for lessons: A woman — we don’t know her age — is watching television upstairs a little before noon on Wednesday at her home, which isn’t far from Camp Wisdom Road and Interstate…
Richard Malouf has had an exciting year or so, what with being investigated by the state, the feds and WFAA for what is alleged to be a massive amount of Medicaid fraud. Malouf and wife Leanne’s rather lavish personal lifestyle has also come under scrutiny: the mansion, the jets, the…
The Los Angeles Times has obtained more than two decades of deeply disturbing confidential case files kept by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America, detailing suspected child molesters in their ranks. The files, which were kept by the Scouts for nearly 100 years, were meant to bar pedophiles from further…
Last night, a group of people were standing outside Sherlock’s, a bar and restaurant in North Dallas, when a man approached. He carried a pistol and, according to police, he demanded money from someone. It was a moment many of us script in our heads when we read these types…
Wind, sun and bullshit: Texas has plenty of all three, and we’ve done a good job converting wind to electricity. So, why hasn’t the sunny Lone Star State done more to create more power from the sun? Well, you could blame the bullshit. Today in Austin, The Clean Energy Works…
Irvin Baxter doesn’t dance. It’s a rainy fall night in Granbury, a small town about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. On the stage inside the Calvary Church of Granbury, a young, clean-cut band is blasting a syrupy, guitar-driven ballad: “I’m gonna sing for You like nobody’s listening, gonna dance…
If your debate-watching drinking game included a shot for each use of the word “coal,” you either peed on your roommate’s couch or had your stomach pumped. Or both. The primitive fuel was invoked some 22 times, apparently, mostly by Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Our…
Around midnight today, Dallas police received a call about a man walking around West 10th Street in Oak Cliff, “wielding a large knife,” as the police report puts it. The caller said the man with the knife had, furthermore, phoned him up not long ago and said, “I’m going to…
A federal judge has ruled that the City of Dallas pretty much lied about every single aspect of its so-called “flow-control” trash program. Judge Reed O’Connor granted a permanent injunction against a new city ordinance that would have forced commercial haulers to take their trash to the city-owned dump instead…
Dallas ISD’s teachers are feeling beaten down, their union rep told me this morning: “Physically, emotionally and financially.” The latest blow, she said: no longer getting paid for time they spend at after-school conferences with parents. The News’ Matthew Haag had the story last night: DISD teachers used to get…
Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not…
Houston Republican Dan Patrick — a conservative radio shock jock and founder of the Tea Party Caucus in the Texas Senate — is vowing to lead the charge in the next session of the Texas Legislature for a school voucher system that would give away tax money to private and…
In the latest bit of fallout from the doping allegations against him, several news outlets are reporting that Lance Armstrong will step down as chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, better known as Livestrong, the Austin-based cancer-fighting charity he helped found in 1997. It was also reported this morning that…
You’d think a guy with the job title “Texas land commissioner” would know a thing or two about Texas land. Little items, you know, like what the state boundaries are, what a landowner is and how to tell a Texan apart from, say, a Canadian. See also: – Keystone Pipeline…
Because of a new law passed in the last legislative session, Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates are now faced with a choice when they need to see a doctor: pay a yearly $100 fee, or don’t go in for treatment at all. As the Texas Tribune reports today, many…
Update: Steven Lawayne Nelson, who was just handed a death sentence in the suffocation of an Arlington preacher, has flooded his holding cell and the courtroom, according to Star-Telegram reporter Dianna Hunt’s Twitter feed. She said he could be heard screaming as water began seeping into the courtroom. Original item:…
On Friday afternoon, Arlington’s Michael Brutsch was catapulted squarely into his 15 minutes of fame, after a Gawker article outed him as Violentacrez, a well-known moderator and commenter on a slew of racist, misogynistic and sexually exploitative threads on the internet community Reddit. Just before Chen’s story ran, we put…
Delonte West, the Mavericks guard and most interesting man in basketball, has been suspended for “conduct detrimental to the team,” ESPN reports. Coach Rick Carlisle isn’t specifying why, nor has he laid out a timetable for West’s return. The suspension came after the Mavs’ preseason win over Houston Monday, in…
