The exciting part of the Virgin/Southwest/Delta feud for America Airlines’ two up-for-grabs gates at Love Field (i.e. Richard Branson crowd-surfing and doing tequila shots at The Rustic) is over. Today was the excruciatingly boring part when the Dallas City Council spent a couple of hours debating who it thinks should…
Synthetic marijuana — K2 and its chemical analogues — is the scary-new-drug du jour in Dallas, having sent somewhere close to 100 users to local emergency rooms in the past week. Even scarier: This represents a spike of only 50 percent. Baylor alone treats 70 fake-weed overdoses per month. Parkland…
On Tuesday, some 18 years after shooting 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent in the back and stuffing her body in a deep freezer, and three years after Jack Black played him in the Hollywood retelling, Bernie Tiede walked from a Carthage courtroom a free man. The former mortician, now 55, had been…
Global climate change is real, it’s caused by people, and it will have a significant, often unpredictable impact on the United States and the human beings who live here. Those are the takeaways from the third-ever National Climate Assessment, an 840-page, congressionally mandated tome released by the White House on…
There is a YouTube clip, jerky and brief, posted by his mother, showing Wilmer-Hutchins High School’s Troy Causey Jr. going head-to-head against Madison’s Johnathan Turner. Causey opens the game with a put-back jam. Turner responds with one on the other end. Two months later, on March 23, Dallas police say…
It’s a wonderful time to be an Atmos Energy shareholder. The gas distributor’s profits — and dividends — keep going up. It’s much less wonderful to be an Atmos Energy customer, who is fueling those profits through increasingly large bills. Despite its profitability and despite getting six rate hikes out…
Keller, with its exurban tangle of big, fast streets, is not the most wonderful place to be a pedestrian. Not even in its subdivisions. Just ask the family of Robert Lariz-Trinidad, who was run over by a pickup on Thursday while pushing a wheelbarrow across a street so quiet it…
Eccentric British billionaire Richard Branson’s last visit to North Texas — in 2010, to launch Virgin America’s service from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — he brought along an absurd cowboy getup, barbecue, and a small herd of longhorn cattle. This time, God-willing, his arrival should be much more low-key. The…
By Saturday night, the members of New York’s Finest Baseball Club will be be back home in the Big Apple, a place where neighbors look out for one another and people respect respect private property. It’ll be a relief to escape from Dallas, where the team of New York City…
Reason 5,312 why reporting for print is better than TV: There’s no video camera to catch your journalism fails. That time I knelt in a nice fresh pile of dog turds while I snapped a picture? The evidence was washed away with the next load of laundry. That time NBC…
It was a sad day — for reporters at least — when North Richland Hills’ Lady Theresa Thombs lost her bid for a seat on the State Board of Education. Between her outrageously padded resume (she claims to be an “international ambassador” and carrier of “diplomatic papers”), her seeming inability…
A year ago, Half Price Books made the rather unexpected announcement that it would be dipping its toe into real estate development. The decision, executive vice president Kathy Doyle Thomas told us at the time, was less about finding an alternative revenue stream than about boosting the decaying area surrounding…
Brick-and-mortar retailers in Dallas beware. Amazon has you in its sights. The e-commerce behemoth on Thursday announced that it has added Dallas to the list of a dozen cities eligible for same-day delivery. That means that if a customer orders any of the million-plus eligible products by 12:15 p.m., it’ll…
On Tuesday, the White House released a report — and a star-studded public service announcement — aimed at reducing the estimated one in five women who is sexually assaulted during her college career. “Colleges and universities can no longer turn a blind eye or pretend rape and sexual assault doesn’t…
Deion Sanders, amazing football player, atrocious charter school operator, dropped by K104’s “Dede in the Morning” show on Thursday to field some friendly questions and share his perspective on current events. At least we think that’s what he means: I’m on K104 in Dallas right now. I’m keeping it so…
When the Star-Telegram finally pried a comment from Fort Worth veterinarian Millard “Lou” Tierce on Wednesday, he dismissed allegations that he’d mistreated animals — specifically keeping a family’s supposedly euthanized dog alive for six months as a source for blood transfusions — as “all a bunch of hooey.” The state…
Last month, Collin County Judge Keith Self received what in normal times would be an unremarkable letter from the Bureau of Land Management. The agency’s Oklahoma office, the letter explains, is beginning an environmental impact study on about 40,000 acres in and around Lake Lavon. It’s part of a larger,…
Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs wasn’t pleased with the status update on the downtown-to-Oak Cliff streetcar line city staff delivered Monday. He wasn’t happy that planners had settled on a final color scheme (parallel bands of DART’s yellow, blue and white; picture here) without informing him. The Oak Cliff end…
Brent Herling has a confession to make. “I’m the one that put SpongeBob on the wall.” The sudden appearance of the cartoon sponge sparked a minor uproar in 2011 among purists who wanted to preserve W.T. White students’ 1976 mural, which covers a half mile of wall along Forest Lane,…
For 41 years, no Dallas police officer faced charges for an on-duty shooting. With Tuesday’s indictment of former officer Carden Spencer, there have been two in the past week. Spencer, if you’ll recall, shot a mentally ill man in a Rylie cul-de-sac in October. He and his partner said the…
Movoto, for those of you who don’t get their unsolicited press releases in your inbox, is an online real estate brokerage that specializes, best we can tell, in mass producing generic listicles. As a general rule, it’s best to ignore these things and hope they go away, but we had…
Yesterday, the nonprofit Children at Risk released its annual rankings of North Texas public and charter schools. Dallas ISD performed incredibly well, its magnets snatching seven of the top 10 slots in the high school rankings. Newly minted educator Deion Sanders fared considerably worse. The Fort Worth campus of Sanders’…
