Fort Worth Star-Telegram

A Man Was Gunned Down Last Night in Southlake's Town Square

People just don't get killed in Southlake. Police there last recorded a murder in 1999 and have seen two in the past 20 years. The Morning News gives the town a perfect 5.0 in its ranking of the area's safest neighborhoods. People especially don't get killed in Southlake in broad daylight at tony So ... More >>

This Week, Tarrant County Filed Murder Charges in Two Decades-Old Child Abuse Cases

Teena Mathis has always said it was an accident. She had left her 15-month-old niece, Heidi, with her children on a backyard swingset while she stepped inside to answer the phone. While she was in the house, the girl wandered behind the swing, which hit her in the head. Heidi died two days later. H ... More >>

Yet Again, The Question Is Asked: Is This the End of Fort Worth Cats' LaGrave Field?

​Speaking of the Texas League, or, at least, teams once affiliated with the mighty Texas League ...The Star-Telegram notes today that come January 3, LaGrave Field and the land around the Fort Worth Cats' ballpark -- valuable land too, as it sits between downtown and the Fort Worth Stockyards -- w ... More >>

Labor Day 2011: Let's Work This Out

​One of the best things about being a sportswriter? Getting paid to go to games. One of the worst things about being a sportswriter? Working on holidays. Not that I'm complaining. I've got lots of media friends who are without full-time jobs, and there's nothing more stressful than trying to ... More >>

Dallas PD's Investigating Yet Another Cat Mutilation in Northwest Dallas

​Last time I noted the Dallas Police Department's concerns over cat killings 'cross the city, the great Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram jumped in the comments and insisted, "Every 'cat mutilation' hoax nationwide has turned out to be the work of animal predators." Far as Bud's concerned, it's all ... More >>

More Layoffs at Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Print Media Rally Slow to Start

​As The Buggles famously sang in 1979, video, in fact, killed the radio star. As The Fort Worth Star-Telegram continues to share content with Dallas' Only Daily and slice positions and send talented writers out into the cold in 2011, it's apparent that the Internet is choking out newspap ... More >>

Like The NFL, Will.I.Am Isn't Commenting On The DMN's Anonymous-Sourced Super Bowl Halftime Performer Announcement

​Seems the NFL isn't the only one choosing not to comment on yesterday's Dallas Morning News piece that said that the Black Eyed Peas would indeed be the halftime performers at Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington in February. Today, in an interview with Billboard, the Black Eyed Peas' W ... More >>

Seryn Will Finally Get Around To Releasing Its Debut... In Just Two More Short Months!

Seryn​Just last week, we shared a new video focusing on Denton's folk-loving five-piece Seryn and joked about the band's long-anticipated debut release, which, a couple times now, has seen its release pushed back for who knows what reasons. But today comes news that, finally, the band has settled ... More >>

Fort Worth's The Door Will Now Sometimes Be Called The Bandwagon

​Earlier this week, the Fort Worth location of Russell Hobbs' The Door franchise announced a name change to The Bandwagon. Well, sort of. As Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram learned earlier this week when he broke the news, it's more of a half name-change. Just as is the case with the ... More >>

A Damned Shame: 100 Damned Guns Calls It Quits. WHO WILL BE NEXT???

Vishal Malhotra100 Damned Guns will no longer perform music of torment. Or any music at all.​ Bad news, courtesy the constant downer that is Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram: 100 Damned Guns' Thursday evening performance at Fort Worth Central Market will be the band's last. A shame, too: The ban ... More >>

News & Notes: Carona on the Gas Tax, the Best Movie Theaters in Dallas (?) and ...

​A few odds and sods with which to end your soon-to-be-stormy Wednesday ...State Sen. John Carona was down in Austin today speaking to the chamber of commerce about the state of Texas transportation, which, for those not following along, ain't good. As in: a $50-to-$100-billion-shortfall not good. ... More >>

Whitt's End: 3.19.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Randy Galloway - who's forgotten more Rangers' baseball than I'll ever learn - says a disgruntled former employee blackmailed the organization and ultimately&nbs ... More >>

What Am I Gonna Do Now That Cowboys Season is Over? Laugh.

During the 1999 NBA Finals between the Spurs and Knicks I was in New York, covering the series for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After a particularly long, fun and, yes, expensive off night at this fine establishment, I awoke at around 4 a.m. sprawled out on my hotel bed. Boxers only. Half-eaten b ... More >>

'Roid Rage: Mark McGwire - Yawn - Apologizes to Baseball

​I guess the question at this point is, do you give a crap? About baseball players and their steroid use? During the 1998 Major League Baseball season I went to Houston a couple times as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to cover the magical home-run chase between the St. ... More >>

Running The Rock

In 1990 I finished the White Rock Marathon. And it almost finished me. This year, I get my revenge: Back then I was a 26-year-old flatbelly, just a couple years removed from competitive cross country and a full-speed dork who would precede Saturday morning flag football at The Village Coun ... More >>

Have a Shot of Cuervo on Him

‘Tis The Season For … Basketball?

Re: NPR Knows What's Buggin' Dallas

Fresh Fest

The Modern screens some reel gems

Aftermath

Bark gets a bite--but just this once

Dog Bites Belo

How many lawyers does it take to make a media company a punch line?

Bad Blow

Why are the DMN city columnists so lame? Belo wants them that way.

Say Goodbye

Like most people who cancel their newspaper subscriptions, I have my reasons

Retreat

The Morning News ends its battle in Arlington with a whimper

Media Bias

All year, we tell you who's been naughty. Now, a list of those whose work is nice.

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

Blink

Micromanaging; The jury is out

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Surplus labor

The fashion for corporate downsizing cuts into the economy in many ways

BeloWatch

Classless act

Star-Telegram knuckles under to Christian group, reassigns gay editor

A pox on 1995!

Next year will be better

Stuff it

State legislators agree on the issue of dead deer heads

True crime story

Forget the usual tales of rape and pillage--consider the sins of corporate America

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Falling into The Gap

The chasm separating the haves and have-nots is getting wider

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Global warning

Republicans are aiding and abetting denial of the worldwide shift in climate

Stop the sanctimony

It's time to question the popular wisdom about families

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Bovine bliss

They're happy in Northfield, Minnesota. And that's OK

BeloWatch

Cyberdummies

New bill to outlaw "indecency" on the Internet makes no sense

Dumb and dumber

The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution

Crazy day in Nootsville

Job Creation Act threatens sanity of our environmental and health laws

BeloWatch