The good news for Child Care Associates, a major Tarrant County Head Start provider that serves 10,000 low-income kids, is that Congress seems to be inching toward a last-minute deal to avert a default on the federal debt and end the government shutdown. If that doesn’t happen, the Fort Worth…
On Monday night, a fully laden 7-Up trailer, much like the one you see above, vanished from the the Dr Pepper bottling plant in West Dallas. It simply disappeared. No trace. One minute it was there, the next it was gone. So stealthy was the disappearing act that employees didn’t…
Carlos Sanders was at home in Burleson with his young son on January 31 when there was a knock on the door. He opened it to find two cops standing there, holding a warrant. Exactly what happened next depends on whom you ask. Sanders says in a federal lawsuit filed…
Collette Flanagan has spent the past seven months rallying to have the cop who killed her son Clinton Allen put in jail. Nothing has worked, not her complaints against Dallas Police Chief David Brown, not her protest outside District Attorney Craig Watkins’ Grambling-Prairie View fundraiser, not Allen’s twin boys holding…
Sitting on 19 acres of Collin County pastureland, Storybook Ranch is part nonprofit, part for-profit kids camp and dude ranch, with horseback riding, a petting zoo, and a faux-Western saloon — a place where exurbanites can indulge in their nostalgia for a simpler time. And that’s the feel the city…
The question of who shot and killed 28-year-old Stephanie Terlisner on Saturday evening did not go unanswered for long. This morning, Dallas police released an affidavit pinning the murder on 19-year-old Ka’Darius Demond Barrett. According to the affidavit, it was about 7 p.m. Barrett burst through the front door of…
When Google’s Street View car rolled by 422 Peavy Road in late 2011, it captured a spacious but ordinary four-bedroom, ranch-style home that was all but indistinguishable from its neighbors. No more. The structure that’s being erected in its place is a strikingly modern, 3,700-square-foot box whose third-story penthouse will…
At the Dallas law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Bluenthal, LLP, diversity is important. Says so right here on its website. The problem, despite boasts of being “one of the first Dallas law firms to hire women attorneys,” is that it’s not very good at it. Out of 53…
Dallas ISD still won’t comment on the case of Cristy Nicole Deweese, the 21-year-old teacher whose Playboy-modeling past came to the attention of the Internet last weekend. The evidence, however, suggests that she was fired on October 10. Piece of evidence No. 1: There is a Facebook page calling for…
The man who walked into the Knox Street Apple Store with his family on Sunday afternoon was operating on a pair of assumptions. One was that no one would suspect the guy holding the small child of stealing a rechargeable iPhone battery. The other was that, if someone did, they…
In the lead up to this weekend’s UT-Oklahoma matchup, there was talk that dispirited Longhorns fans weren’t all that interested in watching their team get pummeled by the heavily favored Sooners. The evidence? Tickets for the burnt-orange side of the stadium were going for a paltry $209 each on the…
Senator Ted Cruz may be the pied piper of the government shutdown, but it’s the House Republicans following behind him like some sort of maniacal conga line who have actually thrown the wrenches in the gears. And none of them is congaing quite as maniacally as Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert…
Whatever turns in Stephanie Terlisner’s life took her to the house at the end of Cool Morn Drive on Saturday evening, it was the wrong place and the wrong time. At about 7 p.m., an armed robber burst into the home and shot Terlisner in the chest, The Dallas Morning…
It’s possible that there is a perfectly innocent explanation for how bacon wound up in Nicole Queen’s straw during a recent visit to a TGI Fridays in Garland. Perhaps the line cook mistook her iced tea for one of the restaurant’s many bacon-laden menu options. Or maybe her server, operating…
Their teachers could tell something was off. The girls, six of them, all eighth graders at Texas City’s Blocker Middle School, were acting “zombie-like” and “delirious” at school on Monday, according to Houston’s ABC affiliate. School officials called an ambulance, but not before finding small pieces of paper wrapped in…
Mavs fans know Chris Arnold as the vaguely obnoxious guy who appears during timeouts and halftime to emcee some ridiculous half-court shooting contest so spectators’ attention won’t drift too far away from the court. Listeners to KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan know him as the host of GBag Nation, a midday…
Update at 2:45 p.m.: Deion has reportedly been unfired. Update on October 11: Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded, has fired Deion Sanders. The announcement comes in a terse press release from superintendent Rachel King-Sanders. “Effective immediately, Deion Sanders is no longer an employee or representative…
During his four years as an undergrad at UT-Dallas, Ross Ulbricht earned a handful of mentions on the school’s website. His name appeared on a list of students at the NanoTech Institute, on a 2004 press release about students competing in an academic tournament, on a handful of research papers…
Deion Sanders has responded to allegations that he assaulted the chief financial officer of his charter school in what has become typical Prime Time fashion — by maligning his adversary and stressing his heroic, unwavering commitment to children. That’s the line he took when he accused his then-wife of assault…
Caine Smith, an 11-year-old from Haltom City, seems legit. He’s thoughtful, eloquent, and self-aware, moreso than many adults you’ll encounter. In spite of, or probably because of all that, he’s tormented daily by classmates, who push, punch, choke and otherwise abuse and humiliate him. So, he made a video for…
Turns out, Michael John Yowell had nothing to worry about. A week after filing a federal lawsuit to delay his execution on the grounds that the state’s custom-made supply of pentobarbital, ordered hastily from a Houston-area compounding pharmacy last month, might cause an unconstitutional amount of suffering, the 43-year-old convicted…
At some point the Great Trinity Forest, that relatively untrammeled expanse of foliage in southern Dallas, will have reached capacity for grand, high-profile amusements. That hasn’t happened yet. In November, the Trinity Forest Aerial Adventure Park will make its debut on seven wooded acres off Dowdy Ferry Road just north…
