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    December 8, 2011

    Strippers Have Rights. But Do They Want Them?

    In courthouses across the country, lawyers are fighting for strippers' rights -- and winning. But dancers are worried the lawsuits will cut into their cash flow.

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    July 8, 2010

    Lawnmower Man: Kenneth Page Followed His Peculiar Dream from Texas to Florida.

    In courthouses across the country, lawyers are fighting for strippers' rights -- and winning. But dancers are worried the lawsuits will cut into their cash flow.

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Battle Against Teaching Evolution in Texas Begins

    Should creationism win out, textbooks throughout the country–not just Texas–will challenge the theory of evolution in science curricula

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    American Toxic

    The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    Psycho Mom

    Lisa Diaz had to save her "precious babies" from an evil world. She drowned them.

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Shipshape?

    Awash in oil, the Spanish victims of a tanker disaster seek justice from a Texas company

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Unfair Share

    High-pressure sales tactics and promises of fabulous prizes make Dallas-based Silverleaf Resorts the champion of Texas time-shares, but dissatisfied customers say, "Buyer beware"

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Deadbird

    How vicious racial politics, mismanagement, and dirty dealing turned Dallas' Redbird Airport into a Third-World airfield

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Unlucky strike

    Less than two years after Billie Bob Harrell Jr. took the $31 million lottery jackpot, he took his own life

  • Music

    November 4, 1999

    Asleep at the wheel

    Hot Club of Cowtown calls Austin home, but never for long

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Prison sweet prison

    Horace Caraker doesn't belong in federal prison. But he likes it there, and he'll threaten a president if it means going back.

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Pay up?

    Dan Morales' pal faces questions over his demand for millions in tobacco-suit fees

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    Smoke-filled room

    When Dan Morales brokered Texas' $17.3 billion tobacco settlement, he blew away Governor Bush. He also made sure his friends got a few puffs.

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    The Grifter

    Smooth-talking stockbroker Roger Turner came across as a good Christian man--one who made it his business to charm widows and retirees out of their life savings

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Fly away, little jailbird

    Reports of Steven Russell's death were greatly exaggerated, but they were enough to spring him from a Texas prison

  • Music

    December 25, 1997

    Cry tough

    Essential bassist Tommy Shannon hangs in there

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    Soul food & crackers

    How two black Dallas men learned to love the lily-white Republic of Texas--especially the part about phony checks and payment-free plastic

  • News

    October 31, 1996

    U.S. Reprehensible

    Eddie Bernice Johnson has burned through more than 50 staffers during her four years in Congress. She says she's just demanding. They say she's a tyrant.

  • Music

    March 28, 1996

    The beautiful loser

    Keith Ferguson keeps a loose grip on Fabulous past

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    Private dealing

    How Ron Kirk killed the public arena briefing

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    Who's afraid of Robert rose?

    At the Dallas County Courthouse, everybody. David Pasztor explains why

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    Bad Company

    Drugs from Bolivia. Cash to Panama. Arms to Nicaragua. Bo Abbott says the CIA called - and he delivered.

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