The Delta Plaza apartment complex in South Dallas recently gave its tenants a little midweek surprise: On Thursday, they found out that they all had to move. Tenants say they got the news via a note on the door, apparently taped there by the property manager. “You have violated your…
Add comedian and Huell running mate Bill Burr to the list of people who aren’t blaming Tony Romo for Sunday’s loss to the Broncos. Related: Did anyone outside Theoretical Call-In Dumbasses actually blame Romo for the loss?…
From the start, something about Michelle Williams’ story just didn’t add up. She told police that a man, dressed in black and carrying a wrench, had broken into her Keller home one October morning and shot her husband, 40-year-old Gregory Williams, in the temple. But there was no sign of…
This afternoon in Fort Worth, a “parade of dignitaries” will mark the opening of the new West 7th Street, and good for them. It’s a fully competent work of civil engineering and a pleasant enough way to get to downtown Fort Worth, if get to downtown Fort Worth you must…
It tends to get overwhelmed by the reek of humiliating ineptitude that still wafts from Rick Perry’s disastrous 2012 presidential campaign, but there was a moment when he took a principled stand and defended a position that was wildly at odds with the Tea Partiers he was trying so desperately…
As insanely dangerous as the event sounds — it consists of flimsy-looking stunt planes weaving through a series of large pylons at 200-plus miles per hour — there has been only one crash in eight years of Red Bull Air Races. It happened in 2010 in Perth, Australia, during a…
We asked former Ticket board op and master nicknamer Michael “Grubes” Gruber to autopsy the Rangers so we can throw their cadaver into our winter fire and focus on football. Here’s his hot-but-not-tremendously-hot sports take: This was a weird season for your Texas Rangers. For all intents and purposes, they:…
The pendulum of public opinion on marijuana policy has been swinging rather dramatically in recent years away from prohibition and toward a more libertarian approach. Hence last year’s decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize the stuff and the corresponding announcement by the Justice Department that, so long…
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from Dallas-based Luminant seeking to topple Clean Air Act limits on emissions increases resulting from planned startups and shutdowns of its power plants. The state’s largest generator of electricity sought an exemption for these operations from fines levied by the EPA…
Death row inmate Michael Yowell’s last-minute, Hail Mary lawsuit, based on the claim that the state was going to experiment on him with untested execution drugs, failed to sway U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. In an order handed down Saturday, he dismissed that as “a guess piled on an assumption”…
It’s always a thankless task, manning the counter at a convenience store, but it was particularly unpleasant for those who happened to be working the graveyard shift at southern Dallas 7-Elevens last night. In the span of just over an hour and a half, four of the stores were robbed…
Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourself and grab a tissue. No, make that the whole box. We bring you a tale of technological woe, a David and Goliath story in which, alas, the Philistine wins, that will set even the stoniest heart ableed. Chase Giunta is a 25-year-old graphic designer in…
Patrick, the Dallas Zoo’s recently departed lowland gorilla, was never quite a social butterfly, but he wasn’t always quite so angry, either. Embittered by his best friend’s death at the hands of Dallas police in 2004, he retreated further into himself, lashing out at his fellow primates — especially the…
It’s not yet clear who will become Texas’ next lieutenant governor. David Dewhurst, though tarnished by his defeat at the hands of Wendy Davis and her “unruly mob,” could hang onto the seat. Or he could be out-flanked to the right in the Republican primary by a trio of challengers:…
In one very limited sense, the Dallas PD response to a pair of armed robberies in South Dallas on the night of February 2, 2012, was a success. After a brief chase, they arrested 29-year-old Donnell Charles Collins after finding him wedged between a toilet and a wall in an…
Richard Slatkin must have appreciated the irony in his predicament. Here he was, a 66-year-old private investigator who caught cheating spouses for a living — whose stock and trade was sorting through lies to find something near the truth — and he was being divorced by a wife who had…
The announcement by Klyde Warren Park officials back in February was unequivocal. Come November, Dallas’ premiere urban green space would be home to an outdoor ice-skating rink. They used the term “ice” loosely. Visitors would actually skate on a synthetic substance called Super-Glide. But then-Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation chairman Jody…
Not long after UT-Austin published an “unprecedented” study (funded by the gas industry, whoops) claiming that fracking wells are safe from methane leaks, a bunch of investors are now accusing one gas company of being dishonest about its methane problem. The natural gas industry has aggressively fought off accusations over…
Even before the Internet, the young men at the Townview Magnet would have figured out that Cristy Nicole Deweese, their new Spanish teacher, had posed in Playboy. Someone would have gotten their hands on the February 2011 issue, in which an 18-year-old Deweese was featured as “Coed of the Month,”…
Earlier in the week, 59-year-old Robert Prichard learned he would be staying in jail for the time being. A Dallas County judge upped his bail to $50,000 on a felony animal cruelty charge and sent him back to Lew Sterrett. The upside for Prichard is that he now has more…
A decade ago, Konrad “Konny” Reimann, tired of his native Hamburg, Germany, packed up his family and set off for Gainesville, Texas. There, he established Konny Island (Google translates it back from the German as “Konny Iceland”) and embarked upon a thoroughly American life, complete with an ever-present cowboy hat…
An NBC5 report last night shows just how desperate Yellow Cab Co. was to run Uber, the rider-summoned, smartphone-app car service, out of its territory. In emails dating as early as May, a lawyer for the biggest taxi company in North Texas hectored the city manager’s office about citing Uber…
