Researchers at UT Southwestern published a study in the journal Nature Sunday identifying a cancer-specific metabolic pathway that fuels only the growth of certain kinds of kidney and adrenal tumors. This is a pretty remarkable finding, chiefly because if you can halt that specific metabolic process, you can kill the…
Denton County Judge Bruce McFarling declared a mistrial Friday when it was found that Seth Winder of The Colony — who is accused of allegedly murdering and dismembering his lover in the man’s Far North Dallas apartment — hadn’t been taking and/or receiving his meds. In fact, defense attorney Derek…
His family, defense attorneys — even the bailiffs and the transport drivers — noticed something was different about Seth Winder, who is standing trial in a Denton County court for allegedly murdering his 38-year-old lover Richard Hernandez in 2008, dismembering his body and disposing of him in a dumpster at…
As if this case wasn’t already weird enough, it got weirder on Wednesday in Denton County court. According to prosecutors, in September 2008 Seth Winder murdered his lover, a beloved, longtime Walmart employee named Richard Hernandez. Then he allegedly dismembered him. Why? Haven’t gotten there yet. Winder apparently has a…
Sometime late in the night of September 3, 2008, prosecutors say The Colony resident Seth Winder, then 29, murdered his lover, dismembered his body, and hauled the pieces out to the dumpster of the victim’s North Dallas apartment complex. Richard Hernadez’s friends at Walmart on Frankford and Marsh in Far…
A lawsuit filed by three Dallas exonerees against their high-powered personal injury lawyer has finally come to an end after more than two testy years. The dispute was over fees charged for more than tripling state compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned. According to Lubbock attorney Kevin Glasheen, who represented a…
Stephen Benavides, an organizer with the United Steelworkers, was one of eight arrested Saturday at the Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America tower during Bank Transfer Day, aimed at encouraging the use of not-for-profit credit unions over for-profit banks. But while the other protesters were jailed on…
The University of Texas released the preliminary results today of that comprehensive study on the controversial natural gas producing process known as hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), drawing no link between it and claims of groundwater contamination. “While there have been casing/cement issues identified by regulators, we haven’t seen evidence in…
Get ready for remedial history, college-bound Texans, because the statewide blueprint that dictates what you learn in high school isn’t doing you any favors — a longstanding tradition in public secondary education, according to a report prepared for the Texas Board of Higher Education. A 1998 survey commissioned by the…
The Texas Medical Board is putting off until April a vote on how to regulate adult stem cell therapy, which involves using tissues from one’s own body rather than controversial stem cells cultivated from human embryos. We don’t blame ’em. This issue is thornier than a Texas mesquite thicket, posing…
Wilonsky won’t say it, but I will: One week after the World Series title slipped from grasp, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is a sad, sad place. It was quiet this afternoon, empty, and the weight of Texas hope had all but evaporated.Instead of announcing an $11.5-million upgrade on the heels…
In Texas, Houston and filthy air have always been synonymous. But the Armpit of Texas has just been dethroned. For concentrated, ozone-laced air pollution, Dallas-Fort Worth has outstripped the country’s petrochemical hub as the EPA’s worst offender. According to watchdog group Downwinders at Risk, DFW exceeded air-quality standards more often…
Gov. Rick Perry’s record on racial issues has always been a little complicated. Earlier this month, there was that dust-up over his family’s Paint Creek hunting lease, which Schutze thought unfairly loaded up Perry’s shoulders with Southern-boy baggage. But back in 1990, during his run for agriculture commissioner, Perry ran…
The Sierra Club gave Luminant Generation Company, downtown-based and one of Texas’s biggest power suppliers, notice Thursday that it plans to sue them for thousands of alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at two of its coal-fired power plants in northeast Texas. According to environmental law organizations Earthjustice and…
As the story goes, a band of peripatetic, out-of-work carnies ended up squatting in the old Market Center Building at 603 Munger Ave. during the Great Depression. They took up residence in the structure’s lower, subterranean recesses. And if that wasn’t creepy enough, cadavers were stored down there in the…
Texas ranchers, bowed under the driest year in state history, are looking to Gov. Rick Perry for help. In an online petition, they’re asking him to use the Texas National Guard and any state resources at his disposal to bring hay into the starving ranch country. Drought has withered much…
Since we started catching rain in pans and writing down measurements, Texas has never gotten so little rainfall as we have this year. As we reported in our recent story on the cattle industry, we’re in uncharted territory. That’s why, in August, experts were anticipating another huge wave of cows…
A rig in ArlingtonThe New York Times ran an interesting story Thursday on the growing reluctance of banks to grant mortgages to owners of properties that have been leased for gas drilling in the northeast. Landowners often aren’t giving banks a heads up before signing on the dotted line, and…
The Southlake City Council Hall, once packed from floor to gallery with residents for whom gas drilling in town was either a looming menace or a windfall, had only a smattering of attendees a little after 11 last night. Many had already wearied of the debate, which had raged since…
Johnnie Lindsey, a Dallas man who spent 26 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, dropped his lawsuit against Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Monday after she agreed to pay him for nearly five years’ worth of compensation she initially shorted him. Under state law, the wrongfully imprisoned are…
David Barton — founder of Wallbuilders, former State Board of Education “social studies expert” and member of the Religious Right coalition that prodded Gov. Rick Perry to join the insufficiently Christian Republican field — isn’t exactly what you’d call a rigorous academic. What you might call him, though, is hellbent…
On the night of September 18, as heavy thunderstorms blew through Dallas, neighbors on West Woodin in Oak Cliff heard a “heavy, muffled boom,” they told a CBS 11 crew. A small apartment behind a house — little more than a converted, detached garage just a stone’s throw from R.L…
