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It was a hot morning in July at the Lake Park Golf Course in Lewisville, and the teenager known as Tank had a choice to make. It was an 8-foot putt, breaking right to left. The 16-year-old conferred with his caddy, argued briefly about the proper line and then stepped...

Robyn Byers never imagined she'd become a prostitute, but the risk factors were there. She was abused sexually, emotionally and physically as a child, and she grew up in a dysfunctional family. While dealing with a difficult divorce, she smoked marijuana to ease the pain and eventually moved on to...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released its annual National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which revealed, first and foremost: "Although the study documents substantial improvements over time in many health risk behaviors among all high school students, Hispanic students remain at greater risk for certain health related behaviors...

The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio's wide, mirrored space is punctuated by gleaming silver poles that extend from floor to ceiling, and the purple walls are festooned with pink feather boas and bright, sequined leotards. It's all so girly, and I've...

The protesters outside the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting this morning Things are ugly-ish here at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, site of ExxonMobil's annual shareholders get-together. This morning, media outnumbered protesters two-to-one; Enough's enough, looks like. But at the actual meeting ExxonMobil’s board of directors recommended the shareholders vote against...

Angela Hunt The blog's acting up this a.m., refusing to post comments to some items. So I thought it best not to let this one linger in the ether: It's a response from council member Angela Hunt, who has a few words for Friend of Unfair Park Alfredo. Yesterday, in...

Farhat Chishty pushes her son's wheelchair into the shade of an oak tree and sits down with a sigh. It's a calm spring morning at Denton State School, the largest institution for people with mental retardation in Texas, and she has come for her morning visit. She puts a knit...

On a cloudy May morning, the 1,700 students of Bryan Adams High School enter the building in different states of haste, some racing to class to beat the 8:35 bell, some loitering with friends unaware of time or space, some openly defiant and bent on being tardy. A metal detector...

His nightly transformation began with a twinge. Then, gnawing and relentless, it consumed him. At 45, "Steve" was a hard-charging sales manager who'd snagged two promotions in three years. After work one spring day in 2006, he picked up his infant and toddler from day care, had dinner with his...

Dig the "concept" of an urban lake downtown. Because the "reality," well, it isn't close at all. Back in October, Christopher Anderson of the North Texas Tollway Authority helped debunk several of the claims made by Mayor Tom Leppert and the Vote No! team during the Trinity River toll road...