Lancaster

Eddie Bernice Johnson Blasts the Morning News for "Slanted and Biased Coverage"

It's been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and thei ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Beware: The American Federation of Teachers is Coming for You

Last spring on the steps of the State Capitol, it was possible to buy a highly metaphorical cupcake, one that would cost you just $100 million. The "Billion Dollar Bake Sale" was put together by an outfit called Save Texas Schools, and it was meant to draw attention to the $5.4 billion Texas lawmak ... More >>

Where To Party During This Weekend's State Fair Classic

It is upon us: Fair season. Thirty days of fried food, weird crafts, blue-ribbon jams and petting zoos. The people watching, square dancing and pig racing are in full bloom in Fair Park, but as we hit October, Dallas will also prep for two of the biggest college football weekends our little village ... More >>

Couple Suing Over False Reports of Mass Grave Say After Police Raid, They Came Home To a Trashed House and No Friends

Back in June, we told you about Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton, a couple in Hardin whose rural farmhouse was raided after law enforcement got a hot tip from a psychic named "Angel" about a mass grave on the property. The mass grave didn't exist, Angel quickly made herself scarce, and the half-dozen ... More >>

Tom's Treats Tries, But Nothing Can Replace Cookie Talk. Except This List.

Video: Tom's Treats: Rangers vs. Angels - 07.31.12 Maybe you experienced the awkwardly awesome Cookie Talk segment(s) during the Rangers broadcast. Maybe you didn't. For those suffering from the latter, above's a tip of the amazing iceberg that is now Tom's Treats. Squirming yet? Thought so. Cooki ... More >>

Tornado Tally: No Deaths and Few Injuries, but Plenty of Wreckage Left Behind

The storms have moved on, but chaos is hanging around for another day: According to Oncor, some 4,000 people are still without power across the 'plex. NBCDFW reports that about 300 homes were damaged or destroyed in Lancaster, while an AP report from this morning says there were another 650 in Arlin ... More >>

Feed Church of God Family and Local Boxing Dynasty Are One and The Same

Still from Sweet ScienceFrom left: Charles Hatley, Greg Hatley Jr. and Dominic Littleton​Yesterday, we told you about the Feed Church of God, where police are investigating possible animal cruelty charges relating to dead livestock, and introduced you to its pastor, James Hatley Jr. We're still aw ... More >>

City's Now Taking Bids For Transit-Oriented "Area Plans" and "Catalyst Project Concepts"

From A New Paradigm: Strategies for Revitalizing Dallas' Distressed Neighborhoods​In November of '09 we were introduced to St. Louis-based housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar, which was hired by The Real Estate Council to take a long, hard look at potential for development along the DART Gre ... More >>

Check Out Dorrough Vs. DEA, The Rapper's Response To The February Raid On His Home

It's elementary, my dear Dorrough.​It's been a couple months since the DEA conducted an early morning raid on the Dallas home of Lancaster native Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough, only to come up empty in their search and to leave the premises without arresting anyone.At the time, a spokesperson for the p ... More >>

Area Man Kicked Off Mineola Nature Preserve Trying to Bait Bigfoot in His Toyota

Natalie DeeA man from Lancaster spent Monday night in a nature preserve 75 miles east of Dallas trying to lure Bigfoot to his black Toyota sedan, police say. Mineola Police Capt. Jack Newman tells Unfair Park he responded to a trespassing call Tuesday morning to find the man camped out in his car al ... More >>

Kroger Seeks Federal Dough to Redo Elliott's Hardware; Lancaster Project Nabs $3.3 Million, Heads to Council Committee for Approval

City of DallasA model of the Lancaster Urban Village proposed development at the corner of Ann Arbor Avenue and South Lancaster Road in South Dallas.​ If you're not familiar with the Dallas Development Fund, well, neither were we until we discovered it would be spending this afternoon in the base ... More >>

Caraway Wants to Make It Clear: "The Majority Has Spoken" About Beer, Wine Sales

​Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn't exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center's permit office -- in large part because of the city and county's hoop-heavy permitti ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Dorrough -- "Get Em Live"

Dorrough gets big and live.​In this week's paper, Ben Westhoff chats up Dorrough, or as he calls himself, Mr. D-O-Double-R, in advance of the release of the Lancaster-based rapper's sophomore effort, Get Big, which hits stores on Tuesday. Seems there are two roads before the 23-year-old born Dorwi ... More >>

Dorrough Releases Statement Confirming The Loss of Sex Tape Footage From His Cell Phone

Dorrough gets "freaky."​Followers of Dallas rapper Dorrough, the man behind "Walk That Walk," "Ice Cream Paint Job" and "Get Big," on Twitter were treated to an onslaught of retweets on Thursday from the fast-rising performer's account, most of which centered around a rumor that the Lancaster nati ... More >>

Grief Turns Needlessly Ugly as Storm Over Friday's Police Funeral Procession Rages On

​I know nobody asked me. But the latest development in the story of the police chief's son is just too much to ignore. Under relentless hectoring by Dallas police unions, City Manager Mary Suhm has hired attorney Terry Hart, a respected former federal prosecutor who worked on Don Hill's gag-order ... More >>

On Father's Day, DPD Chief David Brown Loses Son in Circumstances That Remain Unclear

Patrick MichelsDallas Police Chief David Brown​It's unusual for Dallas City Hall to send word of a briefing involving the Dallas Police Department, but last night, a little after 10, Frank Librio notified the media of a briefing scheduled for 11:15 p.m. concerning "the incident in Lancaster." By n ... More >>

Black Students Are Leaving DISD And Heading For Suburban Schools. Is That Such A Bad Thing?

In This Morning's Wall Street Journal, the Prize Winner of Lancaster, Texas

Gwen Beauchamp, left, after winning five grand at the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest at the Fairmont​I knew the name Gwen Beauchamp sounded familiar -- back in April of '08, her Toffee-Banana Brownies recipe picked up $5,000 at the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest held at the Fairmont Hotel. Whi ... More >>

Looking Back on the Biggest Local Music Stories of 2009.

OK, So Dallas Is Changing the Way it Deals with Prostitutes. But What About the Johns?

Dallas CountyTwo prositutes picked up Wednesday night, as part of Dallas's Prostitute Diversion Initiative off Interstate 20 near Lancaster​While the focus of this week's National Prostitute Diversion Conference was Dallas's collaborative approach to treating prostitutes as victims and diverting t ... More >>

American Baseball, the European Way

​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer ... More >>

Buscar Bronca

Kings and Killers (Self-released)

Turns Out Jury in City Hall Corruption Trial Isn't the Only Ones Learning About CHDOs

It's good to know CHDOs are doing some good 'cause the City Hall corruption trial is teaching us that they're naughty.Among the dozens of acronyms we've grown accustomed to hearing throughout the City Hall corruption trial is CHDO -- Community Housing Development Organization -- which is why yester ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Buscar Bronca -- "Angels Sing"

​We haven't heard from Aryn Dalton for some time now that Blackbird Harmony went teats up, but that's not to say the former drummer for BH and The Paper Chase hasn't been lurking behind the scenes, conjuring up some new noise of his own. Dalton's project Buscar Bronca, however, is quite a bit diff ... More >>

Dallas Police Department to Receive $8.9 Million in Federal Money to Back the Blue

​Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference this morning during which they doled out $1 billion in federal money to back the blue. And from the look of the list of cities due to receive Community Oriented Policing Services grants, Dallas fared pretty, pretty ... More >>

A Killer F5 Tornado Rips Through Dallas County -- How Ready Are We for this Nightmare Scenario?

Dallas' Inland Port of Gall

Old boys act like a bunch of hicks over the inland port that could mean progress in South Dallas

The Million-Dollar Cookie

Dallas Woman Just May Have the Recipe For Million-Dollar Cookies

Sinking Song

Titanic, the Musical is a hit--pun intended

Kiss Ass or Kick Ass -- It's Your Choice

Lancaster ISD's Way Late With Audit, And People Are Starting to Notice

Did Someone Just Say "Amon"?

Some Fight Left

Odds & Ends

Raise a final beer (or seven) to the boys in Speedtrucker at their farewell shows

Hope Chest

Before DISD goes marrying Wilmer-Hutchins, let's get a look at the dowry

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Flood Blood

Politicians create flooding, not the Bible

Letters

Above the Law, The Real Deal

Damage control

A deadly accident in a pit at Texas Instruments sent lawyers and flacks scurrying, but the company's response may put it deeper in the hole

McFugue, no cheese

Beethoven and the Dead European Males clean up a notorious street corner

Events for the week

Honky-tonk from Hell

Liquor and lawsuits keep flowing at the legendary Crystal Chandelier

Letters

A tale of two Tricky Dicks

Two Richards--Nixon and Lancaster--plus one Oliver--prove that power corrupts absolutely

Winds of fortune

A twister helped bring Amaya's Grill to Dallas. It means you're that much closer to a real treat

Trashed

State examiner recommends rejection of Ferris' controversial landfill-expansion permit

BeloWatch

BeloWatch

FBI probes bribery allegations in Ferris