Jimmy Lewis White ran a red Volkswagen Beetle off the side of Highway 820 on Jan-uary 15, 1995. The Bug apparently flipped and rolled, killing driver John Marcellus, an off-duty Fort Worth police officer. Tests after the accident pegged White’s blood alcohol level at .25–more than double what the law…

When Cloyce Box was alive, three things seemed destined to come his way: money, notoriety, and lawsuits. Box may have left behind his millions–and his reputation as a freewheeling businessman–when he died in 1993. But the lawsuits just keep on coming. The former football star’s estate is on the hook…

By nightfall last Tuesday, the Ambassador Room of the Regal Row Ramada Inn held more empty chairs than crowd. The rumor of television cameras had scared a fair number of regulars away. On ordinary Tuesdays, the unadorned ballroom is packed with as many as 300 true believers. But in the…

Randall Dale Adams is married and living a quiet life in Columbus, Ohio, near his mother and family. Clarence Brandley has turned to preaching, opening his own church in Houston. What the two men have in common, of course, is that each–after years in prison and torturous legal appeals–managed to…

Every Tuesday evening, several hundred profoundly disaffected citizens gather in the ballroom of a hotel near Dallas Love Field. Tax protesters, survivalists, anarchists, conspiracy nuts, and Biblical literalists, they are drawn together by a shared conviction. Some force beyond the Ramada lights–the government, bankers, Jews, maybe all three–is relentlessly closing…

Each year, the Texas branch of the American Cancer Society receives $21 million and change in donations from the state’s good citizens–individual and corporate–to fund the fight against one of the nation’s leading killers. Who, after all, can turn their back on cancer victims? But after the society’s expenses are…

A mere three years ago, optimism reigned at the Dallas headquarters of Greyhound Lines, Inc. The venerable bus company, thread of the American fabric for nearly eight decades, had cheated death–surviving a fractious drivers’ strike and ensuing plunge into bankruptcy. With the government’s blessing, Greyhound had swallowed its only direct…

On a ridge overlooking the scrub and pinon country of northern New Mexico, Clifford Sinclair crafted a monument to his own felonious ingenuity. From a federal prison cell, the confessed swindler directed construction of a house in an exclusive subdivision outside Santa Fe. It would be the home Sinclair retired…

The last time Richard Sledge Harvey ran for office, his defeat was sealed when opponent Ted Lyon pointed out Harvey’s unfortunate tendency to land his private airplane with the landing gear up. After licking his wounds for six years, Harvey is back, making another pass at the District 2 seat…