The Los Angeles Times has obtained more than two decades of deeply disturbing confidential case files kept by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America, detailing suspected child molesters in their ranks. The files, which were kept by the Scouts for nearly 100 years, were meant to bar pedophiles from further…
Irvin Baxter doesn’t dance. It’s a rainy fall night in Granbury, a small town about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. On the stage inside the Calvary Church of Granbury, a young, clean-cut band is blasting a syrupy, guitar-driven ballad: “I’m gonna sing for You like nobody’s listening, gonna dance…
Around midnight today, Dallas police received a call about a man walking around West 10th Street in Oak Cliff, “wielding a large knife,” as the police report puts it. The caller said the man with the knife had, furthermore, phoned him up not long ago and said, “I’m going to…
In the latest bit of fallout from the doping allegations against him, several news outlets are reporting that Lance Armstrong will step down as chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, better known as Livestrong, the Austin-based cancer-fighting charity he helped found in 1997. It was also reported this morning that…
Because of a new law passed in the last legislative session, Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates are now faced with a choice when they need to see a doctor: pay a yearly $100 fee, or don’t go in for treatment at all. As the Texas Tribune reports today, many…
On Friday afternoon, Arlington’s Michael Brutsch was catapulted squarely into his 15 minutes of fame, after a Gawker article outed him as Violentacrez, a well-known moderator and commenter on a slew of racist, misogynistic and sexually exploitative threads on the internet community Reddit. Just before Chen’s story ran, we put…
Last year saw the start of some big, possibly permanent changes at Dallas Animal Services: 53 full-time employees were pink-slipped and replaced with temporary workers. Meanwhile, the number of animal services officers in the field dropped from 55 to 32. And the “drop boxes” at the shelter were closed at…
Drop everything, including whatever inferior trousers you’re wearing right now. Drop them and then burn them, because the Glenn Beck-made, Glenn Beck-approved jeans you’ve been waiting for have finally arrived. See also: Glenn Beck Says American Airlines Flight Attendant Made Him Feel “Subhuman” When Beck picked up and moved to…
Newsflash: Reddit can get creepy. Really creepy. The hugely popular internet community has been in the news over the past few years because of various gross subreddits (message boards devoted to specific topics). Some of them, like the one devoted to sharing sexualized images of young girls, titled, “r/Jailbait,” get…
Elizabeth Escalona, the 23-year-old mother of five accused of torturing her two-year-old daughter Jocelyn Cedillo, has been sentenced to 99 years in prison, several news outlets are reporting. According to Scott Goldstein at the Dallas Morning News , one of several reporters who’s been live-tweeting the trial for the past…
Last night, SMU’s Daily Campus reported that university police released a crime report to students, informing them that a female SMU student was sexually assaulted at an apartment off-campus by a male acquaintance, also an SMU student. The assault took place on Friday, October 5 in the 3400 block of…
Museum Tower’s PR team has really been stepping up their efforts lately to persuade people to live there, which sources familiar with the development told us in late August has been an uphill battle. The charm campaign began with an exuberant full-page ad in The Dallas Morning News a couple…
Former city council woman and intermittent Unfair Park commenter Sandra Crenshaw was arrested in August after she allegedly failed to return a rental car to Budget. Court records show that she was indicted on felony theft charges last week. We accidentally broke the news of her indictment to Crenshaw just…
Last week, we told you about Cody Wilson and his group Defense Distributed, which would very much like to create a printable gun using a 3D printer. Not so much because Wilson plans on stockpiling weapons in his dorm room, but because, as he told us, he’s trying to make…
“On the inside, I’m a wreck,” Don Nedler confided. He’s a baldish, blue-eyed guy in his mid-50s, and from the outside he looked pretty calm. “I didn’t sleep last night,” he added. “I woke up at 5 a.m. My dogs were looking at me like I was crazy.” Although he’s…
Last week, the city’s Park and Recreation Board made City Council member Dwaine Caraway very unhappy when they announced their plans to go about searching for someone to replace outgoing department director Paul Dyer. The seven-member committee won’t be hiring a national search firm, instead looking at the Park Department…
Last night’s Senate debate between Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler got surprisingly heated, with the two men snapping at each other about illegal immigration, healthcare, where Barack Obama was born and whether Ted Cruz is, in fact, a troll. Meanwhile, John Jay Myers, the Libertarian Senate candidate who did not…
Cody R. Wilson, a second-year law student at UT Austin, has a hobby that’s gotten a fair amount of media attention over the last few months: He wants to print out some guns. But his plan to make and test a pistol using a 3-D printer ran into an unexpected…
A few weeks back we told you about John Jay Myers, the Free Man-owning, big government-distrusting Libertarian candidate for Senate, who believes he’s being unfairly excluded from a Belo debate that will feature his two major-party competitors. After a small protest in front of WFAA’s Young Street headquarters failed to…
Museum Tower will be opening in January 2013, and it will be “iconic,” “world-class” and “environmentally responsible,” says the full-page ad we were just sent from Barbara Buzzell, who handles the building’s PR. Anyone who finds themselves worried about the tower’s ongoing dispute with its Arts District neighbors can probably…
It’s been nearly a year since Texas legislators slashed the state’s family planning funding, diverting $73 million to a variety of other programs. That was about two-thirds of the total family planning budget, and the conservative lawmakers who orchestrated the cuts were vocal about why they’d done it: to harm…
Since @barackobama has forgotten how much he’s added to national debt #ForAll our kids to pay off… twitter.com/GovernorPerry/…— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 20, 2012 Rick Perry is so good at Twitter. A few days ago, he posted the gem above, complete with that extremely OG photo. Seems pretty clear, right?…
