Fort Worth police shot and killed two dogs that mauled a man and his daughter early Tuesday morning. According to police, the man heard a commotion outside his home, located in the 3300 block of N. Crump Street, just southeast of Meacham Airport, just after midnight. He stepped outside to…
The house on Allencrest Lane — a tidy four-bedroom, three-bath ranch-style in North Dallas — isn’t the first place one would look for a weed-growing mastermind named Bone. Nevertheless, that’s where DEA agents tracked down 37-year-old Brian Edward Deloney in June 2010, not to mention several gallon-sized bags of hydroponic…
On October 14, Bobby Bennett was scooting across a cul-de-sac in an office chair in front of two advancing Dallas police officers. He held a knife, but he stood flat-footed, his arms at his sides, a safe distance from the cops. Seconds later, Officer Cardan Spencer inexplicably opened fire. Bennett…
Funding-wise, the Dallas Public Library is starting to recover from the financial crisis. After four straight years of cuts, the system has gotten more money in each of the past two years. The $22.4 million allotted for next year is far from the $32.4 million peak six years ago, but…
Many athletes, amateur and professional alike, swear by cryotherapy. The three-minute sessions, which take place in a chamber cooled to a chilly -220 degrees Fahrenheit, do wonders for muscle recovery, never mind the ambiguity of the scientific literature. It’s like an ice bath, only better. So, what’s the downside? At…
Teresa Mendez no doubt looked like an easy mark as she stepped to the front door of her Jefferson Boulevard apartment Sunday night. Shouldn’t be any trouble to sneak up behind her, flash a knife and make off with her purse. But Mendez’s would-be robber never quite made it to…
Pecan Lodge’s recent defection for Deep Ellum seemed to bode ill for the planned renaissance of the Dallas Farmer’s Market. Despite that, developer Brian Bergersen says things are actually looking up for the $64 million-plus redo. Bergesen, who purchased the long-struggling market from the city six months back, told the…
For those folks who still refer to Brown Thursday as “Thanksgiving” and for whom Black Friday is all the more reason to stay indoors, here’s some of what you missed, according to blackfridaydeathcount.com: -In Connecticut, an 11-year-old was hospitalized after being trampled by a crowd at Walmart and a shopper…
Thanksgiving is almost here, Dallas. What are you thankful for? 1. Despite years of dedicated efforts by the city, we’ve yet to screw up the Trinity River so badly that it can’t eventually become something really cool. 2. Craft coffee, urban farming, urban parks, cycling — it’s like living in…
Balcones Distilling is tucked under the far end of the 17th Street bridge in Waco. Its windows are obscured by rusty metal bars, a callback to its former life as a welding shop, and it sits among two rows of massive cement pillars that support the bridge, so cars constantly…
Texas is one of a handful of states that hasn’t adopted the coming Common Core curriculum standards, but former State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar nonetheless believes that the creep of “socialized education” is apparent in a new environmental science text. In an innuendo-heavy segment that could be debunked…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, anti-depressant-gobbling, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. OK, people, listen up. Buzz can’t believe we have to repeat this lesson, but apparently someone hasn’t been paying attention. We’re looking at you, Mr. Watkins, so please…
Last August, a couple of years removed from a two-year stint in the Texas prison system, John David Waguepack sat down for a thoroughly fascinating Reddit “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA, in which he offered a highly detailed, unvarnished glimpse of life behind bars. Among the subjects he touches on…
John Brown gets asked the question a lot. What happens if he doesn’t find oil in Israel? If his biblically inspired quest to restore the Holy Land to Israel comes to naught? Always, he gives the same response. “Well, I can’t really deal with that,” Brown explains in a promotional…
Earlier this year, the city of Denton approved regulations that would supposedly stop gas companies from drilling new wells near homes. Yet recently, residents in the Vintage neighborhood began noticing some suspicious noises and vibrations. They were coming from an old gas well site nearby. Denton officials realized a company…
An Arlington head shop clerk is facing murder charges after allegedly gunning down a suspected shoplifter on Tuesday. Police arrived at Smoking Dragon Gifts in the 5900 block of South Cooper Street just before 11 a.m. Tuesday to find Jonathan Brian Lambert, 28, and another employee holding two other men…
Former Editor John Wright didn’t make the most gracious exit from the Dallas Voice, what with the charges that the LGBT weekly had become a spineless rag that was “fucking its employees” and that his former boss had a thing for Thai boys. Wright’s dander has since settled. Plus, he…
On early Sunday morning, a man crossing Harry Hines Boulevard was stuck by a car, which then crashed into a second car. Both of the drivers took off, leaving the man to die in the road. The police could find no witnesses to the crash, but put the pieces together…
Stormy, as the scary-cute puppy rescued Monday from a West Dallas storm sewer has been dubbed, needs a home. Unlike most of the animals who pass through Dallas’ animal shelter each year, he won’t have any trouble finding one. “He’s pretty damn adorable,” says Cate McManus, who, as operations manager…
The creationists didn’t win Friday when the State Board of Education took up new biology textbooks in an ideologically fraught, historically contentious adoption process. Most of the materials sailed through. But they didn’t exactly lose, either. Biology, one of the top two or three most widely used textbooks in the…
When word came out of Grayson County last August that a drunk and nude Randy Travis had been arrested after crashing his car and lying naked in the middle of a farm-to-market road near Tioga, pretty much every reporter’s first instinct was to ask for the dash-cam footage. No dice…
Every year, it seems, the War on Christmas creeps earlier and earlier into the season. A week or two back, some rogue PTA moms in Frisco were defeated in a minor skirmish. This week, with Thanksgiving still two days away, Fort Worth-based RadioShack, has launched a full-frontal assault on baby…
