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How The Internet Killed (Or Maybe Just Changed) Dallas' Leather Scene

Veterans say Dallas' leather scene is under attack by sexual tourists, straights, women and worst of all, social media.

Johnnie Lindsey Spent 26 Years Wrongfully Locked Up, But the State Won't Pay For Eight

​If a man spends 26 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, you can bet he's going to want every cent he can get through the state's statutory compensation plan for the wrongfully imprisoned. We spoke with Johnnie Lindsey for this week's cover story about the ongoing legal battle between ... More >>

Rais Bhuiyan, Victim of Post-9/11 Shooting, to Sue the State to Try to Spare Attacker's Life

​At 10 this morning on the steps of the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse, Rais Bhuiyan, who was shot in the face by white supremacist Mark Stroman as part of a post-September 11, 2001 shooting spree, will announce that he's filing suit today against Gov. Rick Perry and other state offi ... More >>

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

Still an Aryan Blood Brother

Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

Crazy Fish May Redefine Computer Industry

He claims to have invented e-mail. He holds a world skydiving record. But his current invention promises to top them all

The Endurance Evangelist

Your savior arrived wearing running shoes

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Going Down in Downtown

After the Flood

Plus: Still Living, Wrist Slap, We Screwed Up

Jailbait

Frank Rodriguez faces a lifetime on Texas’ sex offender registry for having sex with a 16-year-old—who is now his wife. He’s not alone.

Unbuttoned-Down Muse

Plus: Girls Wanted; The Eyes Have It; We Win

Writer's Block

Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews

Bellies of the Beast

Food cuts have inmates and guards grumbling

Counsel for the Defense

At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

Evil Eyes

Coral Eugene Watts is a serial killer. He says he'll murder again. Why can't Texas stop him?

Ticket to Ride

It's good news for bad people as low morale saps Dallas cops' will to work

A Girl Named Suicide

Texas' Valerie Mahfood--last seen getting clobbered by Laila Ali--could change the pretty face of women's boxing

The Ex-Con Game

How do we deal with the staggering number of prisoners re-entering society? Ned Rollo thinks he knows. He should. He's been there.

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

For a growing number of Texas kids with mental illnesses, the only place to get help is behind bars.

Letters to the Editor

Death and Dignity, I Am Far Superior, Slam Bam

Jesus' Favorite Singer

Fifty years after leaving the Soul Stirrers, Rebert Harris has been called home

Dirty Cops, Dirty Games

The untold story of Dallas' bigest-ever police corruption scandal. Part two of a special report.

The Apostle

The preacher who launched this century's longest-running revival, transplanted Texan Stephen Hill, spreads the word: Sinners wanted here

Inside the soapbox

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Good time Charlie

The don of Dallas criminal lawyers, Charles Tessmer reshaped justice through decades of hard-fought cases and hard drink

Huntsville Houdini

Federal prosecutors get tough with an escape artist

Rotting away in jail

Kevin Young earned his trip to the Dallas County jail, but no one deserves what happened to him there

Innocence Lost

Railroaded onto death row, Kerry Max Cook endures rapes, beatings, and suicide attempts while waiting for justice

Blood Vow

When investigators uncovered the bodies of a Dallas mother and her young son in a makeshift Oklahoma grave, FBI agent Tase Bailey swore to bring the killer to justice

The biggest pump wins

Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumping water nearby. Under the state's "rule of capture," he has no right to complain.

Cheating death

A notorious murder-for-hire ex-con may have reached the end of his road in Dallas

Defending Darlie

Wealthy Waco businessman Brian Pardo spends his time and money helping death-row inmates he believes are innocent. His efforts on behalf of Darlie Routier have raised suspicions about her husband--and about Pardo's motives.

Fly away, little jailbird

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

Dallas Confidential

The Texas Troubadour's Fatal Rendezvous and other amazing stories from the police department's cold case squad

The Few, the Proud, the Battered

At Harlingen's Marine Military Academy, the line between discipline and abuse is sometimes as thin as a knife's edge

Glory and injustice

Is bass legend Chuck Rainey falling through the cracks?

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Square peg

Don McCalister Jr. ain't your typical Austin renegade

Dead man waiting

After a decade on death row, Andre Lewis grasps at straws Andre Lewis is a dead man waiting.

Good rockin' last night

Dallas' forgotten Star Talent Records label got there before Sun's rise