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Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

Sam Gross does, but despite his claims to the contrary, he's only about a billion or so short of his goal.

Money to Burn

The City of Dallas pays consultants millions to write reports. Does anyone read them?

The legal commode

Dallas school board follows ancient legal principle of

nolo brainero

Huntsville Houdini

Federal prosecutors get tough with an escape artist

The Race Not Run

Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

Deathtrap

While Erica Sheppard sits on death row, penniless and convicted of a gruesome murder, her cadre of elite Dallas lawyers tries to prove that the justice system has gone fatally awry

Fly away, little jailbird

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

Not as dome as you think

Dallas attorney Darrell Jordan wants to cover the Cotton Bowl--anyone got $150 million to spare?

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

Soul food & crackers

How two black Dallas men learned to love the lily-white Republic of Texas--especially the part about phony checks and payment-free plastic

Meltdown man

John Spano was just a dull, two-bit Dallas businessman before he tried to buy a professional hockey team. Now he's been charged with bank fraud, and his claims of wealth and business prowess are dissolving in the glare of scorching publicity.

'I'm not that stupid'

City council hopeful Brenda Reyes shows amazing inventiveness in meeting residency laws

Mommie dearest

Why I'm trading my typewriter for diapers and drool cloths

God and mammon

Kathy and Richard Kingsmore seemed like such nice church folk. But the Feds say their greed trumped their gospel.

Not Ready for Prime time

The Bobby Jack Pack Show lurks in the shadows of cable access, threatening its creator with low-rent success

Hello, Dallas! DART Light Rail is here

The Bobby Jack Pack Show lurks in the shadows of cable access, threatening its creator with low-rent success

Taxman cometh

IRS drops the other shoe on former First Republic bankers

Clueless

For city Councilman Al Lipscomb, taking handouts from power brokers has become a way of life. Is there a problem?

Politics makes strange enemies

Why Domingo Garcia is running against the father of his godson

Deadly serious

Bounty-club founder rests on fame and fortune while waiting for someone to pull the trigger