James McAuley, Dallas native, ’12 Harvard grad, and current Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, is well on his way to a smashingly successful career in academics, journalism or whatever else he puts his mind to. Already, though, he seems to have settled on an avocation: trashing his birthplace in The…
It’s the holiday season, which means it’s time for Nike to release slightly altered versions of old Air Jordan sneakers. This year the hot ticket is the $185-per-pair Air Jordan 11 Retro Gamma Blue, the model MJ wore during the 1995 playoffs. What are people so excited about? What sets…
On Thursday, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst became the latest Texas politician to insert himself into the debate over the sentence handed down to 16-year-old “affluenza” victim Ethan Couch, who killed four people during a drunken joy ride earlier this year. Days after gubernatorial candidates Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis chimed…
There’s a lot of stupid stuff floating around the Internet A&E’s decision to suspend Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson from the reality show for going public with his personal views on sin. “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there,” he told GQ. “Bestiality, sleeping around with this…
If you simply must have an authentic Hustle Gang T-shirt but can’t afford the $50 price tag, and if you aren’t put off by criminal activity, shoplifting isn’t a horrible option. If properly executed, a surprise grab-and-run operation, much like this 300-pound dude carried out at Mockingbird Station’s Victoria’s Secret…
The decades-long alliance between the city’s best local news station and its only daily newspaper is over. NBC 5 reported yesterday that it has teamed up with The Dallas Morning News and that the two outlets “will join together on important content like weather, politics and breaking news” in print,…
Bath salts haven’t gone away. Just this week, a California smoke shop owner was arrested with half a ton of the stuff. But with a federal crackdown and heightened awareness of their face-eating side effects, their use (or at least the panicked reporting on it) is on the decline. Now…
Even after a wave of exonerations confirmed the fallibility of the criminal justice system, even after the state’s supply of lethal-injection drugs has been all but cut off by squeamish pharmaceutical companies, even as national support for capital punishment steadily declines, Texas remains enamored with the death penalty. In 2013,…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comKelvion Walker says he didn’t know he was sitting in a stolen car on December 9. He’d just hopped in the passenger seat of the Chevrolet Malibu driven by 19-year-old Reginald Robertson, whom he describes as a close friend. It came as a surprise, then, when Robertson…
Earlier this week, Tarrant County prosecutors were busy lamenting that they are unable to appeal the sentence handed down to 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who got 10 years’ probation and a stint in rehab for drunkenly running over four people in June. Under state law, only the defendant in juvenile cases…
Breath easy, North Texas. Come out of your fallout shelters and panic rooms. Let your children play in the front yard. After four months on the run, federal authorities have captured documented menace-to-society Lonnie L. Jones and locked him up. His crime? Stealing burritos. Federal prosecutors prefer to describe it…
The debate over who is most at fault for the Cowboys’ second-half collapse against the Packers will continue to simmer until Sunday, when fans and the media will presumably have a new debacle to grouse about. On YouTube, at least, the debate has been settled. Judging by the way the…
It took a Parker County jury all of five minutes on Thursday to convict 44-year-old Dana Brock of burglary. The evidence, after all, was pretty incontrovertible. Surveillance video showed her stealing a weedwacker and power washer from an Aledo garage last May. But that’s not what made Brock famous. Last…
Smokin Dragon Gifts, with its wide array of smokes and smoking accessories, including a delightful selection of novelty pipes (see: Mario, Angry Birds, the “Despicable Me” minions) and a presumably high percentage of cash transactions, might seem like an ideal target for the criminally inclined. Bad idea. Robbers and shoplifters…
Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg’s home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were “fixing to” cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked through the front door, rounded…
The debate about voting in Texas over the past several years has focused on the controversial voter ID law that passed in 2011 and finally took effect over the summer. It was a necessary step to prevent voter fraud, supporters said, while opponents countered that it erected illegal hurdles to…
LBJ’s TEXpress Lanes opened overnight Friday, and fears that their fluxuating toll rates would create some type of rift in the space-time continuum proved to be wildly overblown. The first vehicle — the guinea pig, if you will — entered the newly completed corridor, which stretches from Preston Road to…
There are some murders that are so carefully planned that police spend months or years trying to piece together clues. There are others in which the suspected killers, through carelessness or lack of foresight, practically walk themselves into the jail cell. The slaying of 31-year-old Jose Orta-Sanchez is decidedly in…
Dallas Cowboys fans should know better by now. Whatever cheerful confidence is inspired by an impressive quarter or two of play is destined to be crushed, swiftly and without mercy. So, the team’s late-game collapse Sunday afternoon to an Aaron Rodgers-less Green Bay Packers squad was less shocking than it…
Five North Texas mayors walk into a room. After some glad-handing and small talk, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck launches into a soliloquy. “In the city of Arlington, we are constantly looking for new ways to encourage the community to sustain an active lifestyle,” he begins. Residents should be made aware…
It’s been a traumatic and deeply strange week for Crawford and Mary Clay Gupton. After last week’s ice storm, someone sawed the lock off the gate of their Fort Worth backyard and stole Heidi, their greater Swiss mountain dog. Then the thief, using the handle dogthedogsaver, took to Reddit to…
Three days later, the country continues to seethe over Tarrant County Judge Jean Boyd’s decision to let 16-year-old Ethan Couch off with probation for killing four people and injuring several others near Burleson during a drunken joy ride on Father’s Day weekend. It’s an absurdly light sentence given the amount…
