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A West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Has Exploded, Killing 5 to 15 (Video) [Updated]

Update, 10:24 a.m.: Scroll down for updates, including a statement from the President and information on shelter for the people displaced by the explosion. We'll be adding to this post throughout the day, as new information becomes available. Original post, 11:20 p.m., Wednesday: News outlets acros ... More >>

Twinkies Have Officially Been Saved

In a move that will protect our children from a future of grocery store snack aisles packed with nothing but kale chips and similar creme-free items, private equity firm Apollo Global Management has teamed up with food mogul Dean Metropoulos to purchase Hostess' snack business out of bankruptcy. Th ... More >>

FrackNation Creator Phelim McAleer Fibs About Parker County's Flaming Hose Case

Fracking is finally getting the Hollywood treatment. Promised Land, an anti-fracking film conceptualized by The Office's John Krasinski, co-written by Dave Eggers, starring Matt Damon and Hal Holbrook, and directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting), is set in a hard-luck Pennsylvania farming ... More >>

Refusing to Let Championship Dreams Wash Away: Texas Rangers-St. Louis Cardinals World Series Game 2 Preview and Open Thread

Texas Rangers​Sometimes the worst managerial moves are the ones that weren't made, but the focus tends to be on the ones that were. The vast majority of media and fans across the country agree that Tony La Russa out-managed Ron Washington in Game 1 of the World Series last night, which is har ... More >>

The Power of Plan B: Texas Rangers-Detroit Tigers ALCS Game 6 Preview and Open Thread

​Not so long ago, Minnesota Twins backstop Joe Mauer was the consensus pick as baseball's best catcher. But the 2009 American League MVP, four-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner and .323 career hitter had another injury-plagued season in 2011 (missing significant time for "leg weaknes ... More >>

Tim Halperin Reaches No. 1 on iTunes, Sly Stone Is Now Homeless and Other News and Notes...

Tim Halperin​Last week we ran a quick item about American Idol contestant, Tim Halperin, and his publicity stunt leading up to the release of his new record, Rise & Fall. He was to sit in a mock jail cell at Plano's Shops At Legacy for 28 hours leading up the expiration of his dreaded American ... More >>

Play-N-Skillz Sue Lil Wayne -- And His Entire Posse -- For $1 Million Over "Got Money" Rights

Steve VisneauPlay-N-Skillz​For two years now, Juan and Oscar Salinas, the Dallas-based production duo known as Play-N-Skillz, have publicly and repeatedly claimed that they had never received payment for their work on the 2009 Grammy-winning T-Pain and Lil Wayne collaboration, "Got Money," from L ... More >>

Bite It, Big Apple

​Again, something with which to occupy your time while we wait on return calls ...This time, it's a New York Post piece that ran a couple of days back from a local scribe of note who writes that no way, no how would he move to New York City, even if they do have real bagels. It's been e-mailed and ... More >>

Mark Hadley, after 10 years as the Dallas Theater Center's managing director, steps into a different stage of his career

Rangers and Yanks Both Lose Cliff Lee Sweepstakes as Southpaw Heads Back to Philly

Sam MertenThanks for the memories, Cliff.​After much procrastination, former Texas Rangers ace Cliff Lee has decided to return to the Philadelphia Phillies, according to MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan, with Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweeting that the deal is for five years and approximately $ ... More >>

Back, Back in the New York Groove?

​Writes Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News: "The Yankees showed up on Wednesday in Game 5, they did, hundred percent. Now they have to do it again in Texas, or they become another big, bad Yankee team of this decade that got hit somewhere before the World Series and never recovered. You know w ... More >>

Damned Yankees

​Groans Erik Boland of Newsday: "All the elements that put the Yankees in a three-games-to-one series hole materialized Friday night, ensuring they wouldn't be able to completely climb out of that hole. It was another night of ragged starting pitching, ineffective relief pitching and next to nothi ... More >>

For Now, At Least, a Fairytale of New York

​Sums up George A. King III in this morning's New York Post: "The Yankees arrived last night deep in the heart of Texas with a pulse. Faint, for sure, but enough of a beat that the ALCS stethoscope detected it. Can the pump tick long enough to get the Yankees to the World Series? That's not the wa ... More >>

Hard Times in New York Town

​Writes Mike Lupica in this morning's New York Daily News: "So it has come to this for the Yankees, after the Texas Rangers threw them down another flight of stairs, trying to throw them all the way out to 161st St., all the way into next season. It has come to CC Sabathia trying to keep them aw ... More >>

This Morning, In a New York State of Mind

​Writes Mike Lupica in this morning's New York Daily News: "So now, after all the winning during the regular season that Joe Girardi talked about in a testy postgame interview session, after starting the postseason with four straight wins and maybe thinking the Rangers were going to be the kind o ... More >>

News & Notes: Superman's Away, Southwest Airlines Finds God and a Good Guys Pick

Dallas Independent School DistrictFrom Mayor Tom's Back to School Fair press conference Thursday, your Sunday-morning caption contestant​Some random notes while I attempt to get myself out of a murky land deal:Dallas Theater Center's revisal of It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman closes ... More >>

Wait. The Texas Rangers Got Cliff Lee?

​So tweets New York Post baseball columnist Joel Sherman. To which MSNBC adds this concerning the pick-up of the Seattle Mariners pitcher:There is no report yet as to who those others may be. Given Texas' financial issues, it's possible that they could be veterans in salary offsets or it could be ... More >>

Jay-Z Sues Dallas-Based Highland Capital and NexBank Over Failed Hotel Development

​So reports The New York Post, which says one Shawn Corey Carter filed a $3.7 million suit in New York on Wednesday concerning a hotel he was trying to get off the ground in Chelsea. The two defendants are Highland Capital Management and NexBank, both HQ'd here and both of whom Carter says are try ... More >>

One Last Time, With Feeling: A-Fraud

Before we hop onto the bandwagon of your first-place Texas Rangers, let me chunk one more rock at Alex Rodriguez. And myself. Back in 2004 - in the couple months between leaving the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and joining the Dallas Observer - I got word that A-Rod twice frequented the Dallas ... More >>

Chewing the Fat: Wednesday Ground 'Round

Fourth-graders leading a political movement, paying for tap water... JaseMan, via FlickrWisconsin fourth-graders are organizing to boycott their school's lunches. Even weirder? Administrators take it seriously. The kids want healthier options on the menu and worked with their teacher to set up ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez Would Like to Apologize to All Texas Rangers Fans. Awesome!

So says A-Roid -- that'll never get old, unlike this song called "A-Roid"  -- in an interview with Peter Gammons just posted on ESPN.com. But why, Alex, why?"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day. Back ... More >>

The Moose is Loose! Or: Dallas Cowboys Fans Are Damned Dirty Rats!

Obama's Campaign Confirms It: The News Was Booted Off the Plane

New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams Too Busy to Talk, Fact Check

No More Bull

After splitting from Matador, Early Man searchs for—and finds—a newfound credibility

Trolling Right-Wing Political Blogs Proves That November Can't Come Too Soon

What's More Real: UFOs or The Fake Jessica Simpson?

When One Jessica Ain't Enough

Bringing the Kidd Back to Dallas?

Tony Romo, Now Officially in More Gossip Columns Than Ink

Mr. Crunchy Con Speaks|You Cheap Bastards

Sure Hope You Like Norah Jones

Home Solutions Apparently Needs Some New Solutions, Pronto

Cheaters Never Win?

Don't whisper a word to the children, but hell yeah, of course they do

A Famous Pro Athlete in a Local Topless Bar? Say It Ain't So!

A-Rod = A-Fraud

Canton v. Bristol

Wilson or Won't He?

The Calatrava Bridges of Movies

Dena and Andrea: LYLAS!

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Slice of Life

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Bless This Mess

The Go-Go's, sweethearts of pop, move beyond old sins

Sleeping with the enemy

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