Lufkin

HIV-Positive Man Charged with Aggravated Assault for Spitting on Police Officers

Anthony Duane Horne, 25, an HIV-positive man, was charged with aggravated assault for spitting on two Dallas police officers, The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Voice reported yesterday. According to police, when a Dallas County Hospital employee tried to put a spit mask on Horne, who was being book ... More >>

Pill-Pushing Founder of a South Dallas Clinic Pleaded Guilty to Health-care Fraud Yesterday

In 2003, Dr. Daniel Leong opened the South Dallas Community Medical Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a few blocks from Fair Park. It was something of a second chance for Leong, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1989 after he was caught writing prescriptions to supply his wife with near ... More >>

If You Spotted Serial Killer Israel Keyes in North Texas Last February, the FBI Would Like to Speak with You

Israel Keyes, an itinerant construction worker and Army vet, spent much of the past decade crisscrossing the United States, carrying out kidnappings, robbing banks, and murdering at least eight people, according to Time. His crime spree came to an end on March 13, when he was pulled over in Lufkin ... More >>

There Will Be Tar Sand

Tarry Canadian bitumen is barreling its way to Texas via the Keystone XL pipeline. Will it bring energy independence or environmental calamity?

Fuel City the Sequel Coming to Lufkin

Ever hear of Lufkin? I hadn't until recently, but I'm not as Texan as some of you Texans, so I thought I'd ask. The town 170 miles southeast of Dallas made news yesterday when Fuel City announced they'd be opening a second location of their popular gas-station-meets-car-wash-meets-taco-stand there ... More >>

Postcard from Texas Meth Country

In one East Texas town, a new brand of meth lab has business -- and the occasional house -- booming.

2011 Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Day 9: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. To accommodate the veterans who will practice with the team for the first time tonight and to give those fans who get off work later a chance to see their 'Boys, the team has moved its 2:30-5:30 practice this afternoon to 6:30-9:30 tonight at The Alamodome. Players like Doug Free an ... More >>

Now Seems Like As Good a Time As Any To Re-Visit Dez Bryant's Story

​Last September I penned a cover story in the Observer about you-know-who, better known as Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant. Looking back at it now, there are some interesting, relevant points that may shed some light on the receiver's current "dark place,' according to adviser David Wells. My ... More >>

Rookie Receiver Dez Bryant Has The Talent To Take The Cowboys To The Championship. But Does He Also Possess The Temperament To Push Them Into Chaos?

Like frontier scouts, we picked up his trail

Tracking Skills

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

With Dez Bryant, The Dallas Cowboys Catch A Break In The NFL Draft And Inch Closer To The Super Bowl

Dallas Cowboys' Draft: 'Tis Better to Receive?

​Jason Witten? Check. Miles Austin? Check. Patrick Crayton? Yeah, okay, check. Roy Williams? Hmm. Dez Bryant? Interesting. Entering next month's NFL Draft the Dallas Cowboys have needs. At safety. At kicker. At offensive tackle. And, yes, at receiver. But are the concerns there enough to take ... More >>

How the Historic 601 Elm Street Ended Up on City's List of Vacant Downtown Buildings

View Larger MapI've spent a small chunk of the day trying to reach owners of some of the vacant downtown buildings ID'd by the City Attorney's Office during this latest code-enforcement blitz. Took a while to find someone to talk about the formerly Dallas County-owned 601 Elm Street, otherwise known ... More >>

The City of Dallas Has Enough Water to Last Till 2035. After That, Well ...

​It's never too early to look at next Wednesday's city council briefing, especially when one of the subjects on deck is where and how Dallas will get its water beyond 2035. Because, see, we're all good for the next years, give or take, but according to the briefing, "Even with conservation and reu ... More >>

Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply

As Attorneys Argue Over Neches River's Future, Some Suggested Reading About Its Storied Past

In our editorial meeting this morning, Schutze offered a book report concerning his holiday reading: Paddling the Wild Neches by Richard Donovan, which was published by the Texas A&M University Press in May 2006. Says Jim about the book documenting one man's canoe trip through East Texas, it's e ... More >>

In East Texas, Further Efforts to Keep Neches River Water Out of Dallas

The City of Dallas has maintained for years that it needs the proposed Fastrill Reservoir in East Texas to meet the city's future water needs; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists looking to protect the Neches River disagree. Hence, the lawsuit filed by the city in January 2007, ... More >>

After Being Drugged and Dragged to DFW, A Stay of Execution

Bill Clinton's Gonna Be Relatively Close to Dallas on Friday

Moolah for Mullahs in Charlie Wilson's War

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good time Charlie

Not So Fastrill

When Will the Story of Rrustem Neza Get Made Into a Movie?

A Voice Silenced

High on the Hog

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

Best Cup of Coffee

Bottomless Cup of Melvyn's Darn Good Coffee at Einstein Bros Bagels

Muddy Waters

Plus: Ashleigh, Ashleigh; Divided Against Ourselves; The Waxahachie Vote; Love Us for Our Mind

Down by the Old Mill

A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

The Way of the Gun

The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed

Survivor

Carmen Rivera-Worley swam away from the plane crash that killed her daughter. Now she wonders how many more will die before the FAA acts to prevent similar accidents.

Letters

Cultural ignoramuses; Steppin' out with Mr. F; Hail to the chief; Take a trolley Uptown; Muddy waters

Belly up

Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

Critic's circle

WFAA movie reviewer Gary Cogill is guru and matchmaker for a caffeinated crowd of film buffs

A mother and child reunion

Eight years after the state took away their children, an Albanian Muslim couple take their first, bitter steps toward rebuilding their broken hearts and family

Fouled nest

Chicken king Bo Pilgrim meets his critics on his home turf

Bo? Hell no!

Chicken king Bo Pilgrim wants to bring a new plant and new jobs to East Texas. But East Texans say they want no more of his filthy business.

Rough road ahead

NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding