Tarrant County

This Week, Tarrant County Filed Murder Charges in Two Decades-Old Child Abuse Cases

Teena Mathis has always said it was an accident. She had left her 15-month-old niece, Heidi, with her children on a backyard swingset while she stepped inside to answer the phone. While she was in the house, the girl wandered behind the swing, which hit her in the head. Heidi died two days later. H ... More >>

'Sadomasochistic' Couple Killed an Arlington Man, Then Stuffed His Body in a Refrigerator

It was Independence Day 2011 when the boy and his father went to the abandoned shell of a house in rural Ellis County. They hoped they might find the treasure that was rumored to be buried there, but came up empty handed. What they found instead was a refrigerator, which pretty clearly had not been ... More >>

Dallas County's Only Halfway House Could Lose its Home, So John Wiley Price Wants the County to Build a New One

The only halfway house in Dallas County occupies the cabana area of the luxury hotel-turned-county lockup on Stemmons Freeway. At any given time, the Bill Decker Detention Center houses 225 former Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates, all sex offenders, trying to make the transition back to ... More >>

Dallas Police Say They've Broken Up a Sizable Coke-Crack-Weed-PCP Supply Chain

Chuck's Car Wash has long been a fixture on the Morning News' 10 Drops in the Bucket campaign, the compilation of the eye-soreiest eye sores in southern Dallas that Tod Robberson drives past and tsk-tsks at. Chuck's, which sits near the corner of Sunnyvale and Ledbetter, does seem to be a particula ... More >>

Dallas Stripper Sues Baby Dolls, Claims Club Shorted Her on Wages and Overtime

Strip clubs are the brave new frontier in employment lawsuits. Women who were for years treated as "independent contractors" are filing suit in droves against their current or former employers. All of them want basically the same thing: the minimum wage and overtime money they feel they should have ... More >>

Restaurant Week is Growing in Popularity, Especially at Pappas Bros. and Al Biernat's

Organizers for KRLD Restaurant Week have announced the haul associated with last year's event: $695,000, raised for the North Texas Food Bank and the Lena Pope Home. The previous year brought in $605,000, as reported on City of Ate. Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Al Biernat's and III Forks topped the li ... More >>

Yet Again, The Question Is Asked: Is This the End of Fort Worth Cats' LaGrave Field?

​Speaking of the Texas League, or, at least, teams once affiliated with the mighty Texas League ...The Star-Telegram notes today that come January 3, LaGrave Field and the land around the Fort Worth Cats' ballpark -- valuable land too, as it sits between downtown and the Fort Worth Stockyards -- w ... More >>

Big Shake-Up in Craig Watkins's Office As D.A. Loses First Asst. Terri Moore and Mike Ware

Mike Ware, via​Seems like only four and a half years ago that Terri Moore joined the Dallas County District Attorney's Office as Craig Watkins's first assistant. But Moore, once a perennial candidate for the Tarrant County District Attorney's job, is out effective July 1. So too is Mike Ware, head ... More >>

Texas Rangers, Tom Hicks Settle Dispute Over Ballpark Parking. For This Season, Anyway.

Photo by Sam Merten​Two weeks back it came to light that the current owners of the Texas Rangers were feuding with the former owner of the Texas Rangers over some 12,000 parking spots around the Ballpark in Arlington. To recap, quickly: Ray Davis and Bob Simpson's Rangers Baseball Express, LLC too ... More >>

How Not to Bring Dope Through DFW Airport

Courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection​As The Musers might say, count the red flags in this story: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on Tuesday, it stopped two 22-year-old Japanese citizens at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who were on their way from Jamaica to ... More >>

In Tarrant County, Oswald's Brother Sues Auctioneer, Funeral Home Over Lee's Coffin

Inside the coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald​Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the c ... More >>

Gas Drilling Variances Denied Near Grapevine Lake, While A Pair of Federal Suits Allege Water Contamination from Barnett Shale Fracking

​Worries about groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing around the Barnett Shale got a fresh wave of attention yesterday -- first with a pair of federal suits filed in Dallas, and then with the Town of Flower Mound's denial of a request to drill near to Grapevine Lake. Keystone Energy w ... More >>

For One Night Only, a Chance, Finally, to See the Rolling Stones Play Fort Worth in 1972

More than once I've directed your attention to the sound track to the long-lost Rolling Stones in-concert doc Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones, filmed during the '72 Exile on Main St. tour. All of the footage comes from Texas -- two shows at the Tarrant County Convention Center, two at the U ... More >>

If a Team That Plays in Arlington Wins a Championship, Where Do We Hold the Parade?

​I realize I'm getting waaaaaaay ahead of myself here, but some of us were sitting around the pool over the weekend drinking and getting creative and salivating over what if. As in, what if this is finally the year the Texas Rangers hold it together down the stretch and win the World Ser ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Waylon at the Tarrant County Convention Center in '76

​Been thinkin' about Waylon Jennings quite a bit this week; can't imagine why. Even went home Wednesday night and dug out the re-release of the 1976 classic Waylon Live, fleshed out years later to 42 tracks of can't-beat-it country music recorded in Austin and at The Western Place, "a classy, up-t ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: From 1972, the Rolling Stones In Exile In Fort Worth

​I mentioned this one in passing one Sunday morning in early March, but with this week's super-duper-deeeeeluxe reissue of Exile on Main St. I figured it was worth a revisit. Besides, you never know when it'll disappear again -- and by "it" I refer to the soundboard sorta-kinda soundtrack to a lit ... More >>

Do You Care If Postal Service Ditches Saturday Delivery? We Do. Hence Another Liveblog.

​Ruth Goldway, chair of the Postal Regulatory Commission, opened today's meeting deep in the bowels of Dallas City Hall thusly: "We're hoping to get as much input as we can, from a wide cross-section" of people who care (or don't) about their Saturday delivery. The commission held its first he ... More >>

Work up an appetite for the Super Bowl with NFL Dinner Series; Attend Backyard Braising Class and $30 Dinners at Landmark

Sarah Johnson​ Chef Kent Rathbun and the Taste of the NFL are partnering up again with a new event called Taste of the NFL Dinner series. This will be a string of culinary events leading up to next year's Super Bowl XLV and the annual Taste of the NFL's Party with a Purpose. The dinner series will ... More >>

Hipster Crafts

Westfork: Fueling The (Shopping) Fury

​Westfork is our series exploring the dining culture of Fort Worth and its surroundings.I know a gal--for anonymity's sake we'll call her "Martha"--who finished her holiday shopping and baking and wrapping weeks ago. My hatred for her perfection burns with the fury of a thousand suns. I--like 9 ... More >>

Look, Highland Capital Lending, Tom Hicks Needs His Money, Dig?

Quite the shocker to pull up Courthouse News and see a big ol' Texas Rangers logo. Then again, when Daddy needs his money, Daddy needs his money, and he'll go to Tarrant County District Court to get it. Because, according to the complaint filed yesterday,  Dallas-based Highland Capital Lending ... More >>

Russ Martin's Day in Court Finally Set

The latest non-development in Russ Martin's assault case in Tarrant County is actually a development. After a couple of time-wasting, docket-management appearances in Fort Worth over the last three months, Martin showed up again this morning and got the word: His trial date ... More >>

Sooner Than Later, "New LBJ" Freeway Construction Will Take Its Toll

The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that LBJ Development Partners will be responsible for the so-called New LBJ Freeway -- which, as we pointed out in September, will feature among its renovations six managed toll lanes sunk smack in the middle. TxDOT spokesman Tony Hartzel ... More >>

Damn this Traffic Jam: Dallas Is Now the Fourth Most-Congested Traffic City in U.S.

From the INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2008 Annual Report, a look at DFW's traffic hot spotsThe INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2008 Annual Report is out today, and Dallas-Fort Worth is up one spot from last year's list: We're now No. 4 on the most-congested list, behind only Los Angeles, New Yo ... More >>

Study Figures Dallas-Fort Worth Has Fifth-Worst Traffic in U.S.

This Just In: Dallas Moving to Arlington.

Wonders a Downwinder: A Bad Wind A-Blowin' In From Midlothian?

Is Fort Worth-Based BNSF Trying to "Intimidate Its Critics"?

Andrea and Glenna Star in Women on Death Row 3! Not What You Think.

Laughcast: Tom Wilson, Aaron Aryanpur, Matt Sadler

A Trial for Mercy

Chelsea's Story

The Moore the Merrier in DA's Office

The Candidate of Contempt

Wilting Rose

Rose Renfroe gets on the wrong side of a judge

The Waiting Game

Street Strollin'

Get your fill of meats-on-sticks at Fort Worth's fest

Oh Shit, That's Today?

Oh Shit, That's Today?

Repressed

Arlington says Hooters threatens its moral fabric. Wait, what year is this again?

Face Off

Kids, this puck's for you

CSI: Cedar Hill

Two Dallas suburbanites put art and science to work unraveling the mysteries of the dead

The brat beat

Why so much coverage of kids in the newspapers? Because women--and advertisers-- like it that way.

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September 10 - 16, 1998

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