Update at 1:11 p.m.: Police have identified the homeowner as 57-year-old William Hall. According to county property records, he lives at 10316 Sandra Lynn Drive, which shares an alley with Plummer Drive. At a press conference this morning, police provided a more detailed narrative of the shooting, which you can…
It’s a question that stumps even the most erudite of moral philosophers: who beats their own grandmother? What type of vile creature would stoop so low as to willingly injure a blood relative, much less one who’s frail and 85 years old? Here, at last, is the answer: James Dolan…
Yesterday afternoon, Texas gaped as the resurrected Big Tex experienced, in the vaguely unsettling words of State Fair spokeswoman Sue Gooding, a “premature birth.” Fair Park’s official Twitter feed announced the successful delivery with an equally unfortunate metaphor: “Ta-daaa! Big Tex drops his robe earlier than announced.” Rest assured that…
The Founding Fathers were farsighted men. They were wise enough to write iron-clad protections of individual liberty into the Bill of Rights and wise enough to craft those protections with just enough wiggle room that, three centuries on, they would still be relevant. Take the Second Amendment: A well regulated…
He is risen…
It started with a call to the Alzheimer’s Association in Dallas. On May 29, David Seyfried phoned the agency’s hotline to tell them that his wife, Delores, a 67-year-old Alzeheimer’s patient, was “agitated” and waving around a letter opener. He was expecting advice. What he got a few minutes later…
The goal of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty — of fostering international peace and cooperation and “reducing human suffering” — is laudable. Its methods, which basically consist of asking countries to monitor gun exports so they don’t wind up in the hands of terrorists and other malevolent actors, are commonsense…
There are a handful of possible explanations for what went down on Tuesday night at the McDonald’s at 4800 South Freeway in Fort Worth. It may have been, as Sergeant Joe Loughman suggested to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, an act of divine intervention. Perhaps gun manufacturers developed a mind-reading anti-murder…
Liberty Tax Service doesn’t let just anyone don its trademark Lady Liberty costume and dance for potential tax customers. There are tryouts and specialized training on proper singing, dancing and waving techniques. A lot of dreams are crushed. Channing Gould was one of the lucky ones. A 19-year-old performing arts…
Some way, somehow, Mark Cuban managed to whittle down the 1,000-plus quality entries in his design-the-next-Mavs-uniform contest down to a final 10. For whatever reason, Buster the Armpit Lion didn’t make the cut. The submissions are currently up for a vote here. All of them are pretty quality, save for…
You’re a public health policymaker in Texas. Teenage girls in the state are getting knocked up at an alarming rate, then they’re having babies and getting knocked up again. The data, along with the bulk of the scientific literature, suggest that the state’s longstanding strategy of telling kids not to…
Kiowa Park, a postage stamp of green space tucked behind Prestonwood Elementary in Far North Dallas, is not known as hotbed of Voodoo or Santeria, a fact that makes yesterday’s discovery all the more puzzling. According to police, a neighborhood resident was walking a dog through the park at about…
It’s probably been a while since you read Charlotte’s Web. Maybe a few details from the spider-hatching scene have slipped your mind. If so, here’s a refresher. One fine morning, a tiny spider crawled from the sac. Then another, and another. They were no bigger than the head of a…
Good news: The vast majority of Texans think global warming is real. Seventy percent, according to a just-released study from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. That’s way more than one might expect from listening to the people they choose for statewide office and proof that Texas’ massive, multi-year…
Craig James’ tenure as a college football analyst on Fox Sports Southwest was hilariously brief. It took all of one day for the station’s corporate parent to learn of the hire, review James’ comments on homosexuality from his failed U.S. Senate campaign, and show him the door. College football fans…
At some point, after a year-plus of hand-wringing and delays, the push for DART to offer benefits to the domestic partners of employees took on an air of inevitability. Two weeks ago, the DART board’s administrative committee overwhelmingly voted to move forward with a “plus-one” plan, allowing unmarried employees to…
When TCU and SMU’s football teams face off this weekend in the battle for the coveted Iron Skillet, the Horned Frogs are expected to dominate. The three-touchdown spread falls a couple of touchdowns shy of an abject humiliation, but it at least represents a solid pounding. That’s not good enough…
U.S. Representative Ralph Hall isn’t dead. The Rockwall Republican hasn’t even left Congress, forging ahead in a Bob Barker-like battle against the ravages of the time. Despite all that, Hall is now the namesake of a reservoir. Lake Ralph Hall hasn’t actually been built yet. The project, planned for 12,000…
In mid-July, CBS 11 carried a brief report about a near-drowning at a University of North Texas swimming pool. A teenager attending an overnight football camp had been pulled from the bottom of the pool by lifeguards around 9 p.m. on July 11 and rushed to the hospital. The boy…
This is what 13-year-old Taylor Storch left behind when she died in a skiing accident three years ago: a heart, which went on to beat in the chest of a 39-year-old mother in Arizona; two kidneys, which saved two separate people in Colorado; two corneas, which helped restore sight to…
Van Dralan Dixson, the man accused of raping as many as nine women in South Dallas in recent months, is sorry. He’s sorry that he raped a woman as she walked home from her job at at a fast-food chicken restaurant on September 1, then stole her cell phone, cash,…
Ted Cruz did not make the cover of the October issue of GQ, an honor reserved for The Wire’s Idris Elba. That’s probably for the best. The appearance of Texas’ junior senator on the cover of a national magazine, this one not a political rag but one that defines itself…
