According to Wycliffe, the global authority of Bible translation, the complete scriptures have been rendered in some 518 languages and dialects as of 2012. There’s a Bible in every language you can name, plus hundreds that you can’t. Speakers of Esperanto have their own version, and Klingons soon may. In…
Councilwoman Angela Hunt and former mayor Tom Leppert have never exactly been besties. She was a frequent and vocal critic of the mayor, accusing him of lying, putting his ambitions for higher office before the interests of the city, and generally not doing a very good job running the city…
A number of facts surrounding Donny Hinshaw’s May 23 arrest by Cleburne police are firmly established. Minutes before the YouTube clip above, the 30-year-old had gotten in a wreck and driven away. When he’s pulled over, he steps out of his truck and ignores the officer’s command to put his…
Remington Reimer’s classmates at Joshua High School called him “Spock” — less, it seems, due to any lack of human emotion than because he’s whip-smart. The Cleburne Times-Review referred to him recently as the “most gifted, academically excellent student that Joshua High School has ever produced,” which would explain how…
By now, you’ve likely heard about Ezekiel Gilbert, the 28-year-old San Antonio man who was acquitted yesterday of murder in the death of Lenora Ivie Frago. In case you’ve somehow missed it: Gilbert met 23-year-old Frago on Craigslist on Christmas Eve 2009. She came over to his house and he…
When the City Council voted in January to supply the Dallas Police Department with license plate scanners that automatically check vehicles against a law enforcement database, the decision was nearly unanimous. Most council members viewed it as a useful crime-fighting tool and little more. Only Angela Hunt expressed any serious…
It’s that time of year again, when the feds single out Texas’ precariously thin power reserves. Even California — a state not known for electrical reliability — is projected to experience fewer problems with its power grid as the summer heat drives residents to their thermostats. A reserve margin is…
At first, Jamie Lamont Jones told police he couldn’t have fired the shots. He’d been lying in bed in a back room when it happened, the same spot he’d been for days. Surely the officers could see that someone in his condition — paralyzed from the waist down and missing…
Taking a charge in basketball is an art, and it has been for a long time. A not-insignificant portion of high school basketball practices — at least as of a decade ago — are dedicated to training players on coming to an abrupt stop, setting one’s feet just so, and…
To be clear, burning the American flag is perfectly legal. The Supreme Court has ruled in two cases that igniting Old Glory is a form of speech and thus can’t be abridged by the government, no matter how much Congress might like to. Outstanding traffic tickets, on the other hand,…
The weather on Tuesday afternoon was pleasant, so Myretha Clark, 86, decided to spend it outside, chatting with her South Dallas neighbors. They’d been visiting for the better part of two hours when, at about 6:30 p.m., she declared that she was tired and was going home. A younger neighbor…
The postings on fired 911 operator April Sims’ Facebook account speak for themselves. When you write things like, “Black people are outrageous! They are more like animals,” there’s just not a lot of gray area there. But WFAA’s Rebecca Lopez, who co-broke the original story with The Dallas Morning News’…
Two weeks ago Josh Brent’s attorney managed to keep his client out of jail by convincing a Dallas County judge that, even though the alcohol monitor around the Dallas Cowboy’s ankle had detected booze, it didn’t mean Brent had actually consumed any. Court documents filed in the case today show…
In the same way that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC once America caught on to the fact that deep-frying things isn’t good for you, National Lead — one of the dozen stocks that comprised the original Dow Jones industrial average — became simply NL Industries. At some…
This session in the Texas Legislature was sort of stupid, but then again, they usually are. Although they did manage to pass a budget, their main piece of business each session, your esteemed lawmakers also spent time approving such vital pieces of legislation as the “Merry Christmas Bill” . They…
The recent history of the Alamo, the iconic San Antonio fort where a ragtag band of freedom fighters made their desperate stand against Santa Ana, has been marred by controversy. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, which had overseen the shrine for more than a century, was stripped of…
The 5 a.m. shift is typically a quiet one for a cashier at an all-night pharmacy. The drunks have mostly gone to bed while the sober haven’t yet roused themselves for the new day. But for whatever reason, that wasn’t the case on Wednesday at the CVS at Central Expressway…
Buried in an unheralded weekly U.S. petroleum balance sheet released Wednesday was a milestone that not so long ago seemed unimaginable: We pumped more oil out of the ground than we imported for the week ending May 31. The difference between oil production and imports wasn’t huge — about 80,000…
Update at 2:57: Dallas ISD spokesman Jon Dahlander wrote to clarify that Morath was not actually delivering a commencement address. (For that, you can watch the entire ceremony DISDBlog firmly in the latter category. Morath is their fork-tongued punching bag.” target=”_blank”>here.) “All elected trustees are asked to participate in graduation…
Over the past several months, since the murder of Deanna Cook and a couple of other cases laid bare deep-seated problems at the city’s 911 call center, Dallas police have scrambled to hire dozens of new call takers to address a chronic staffing shortage that had lasted for years. It…
The AR-15 is lighter than I expected. It’s an intimidating chunk of rough-hewn black metal and rubber, but it sits softly in my hands. I bring it to my shoulder and, making sure I’m not pointing it at anyone, I peer down its sights. I’m not sure what to do,…
Last year, as part of its ever-so-hesitant embrace of things that aren’t cars, the city of Dallas eased its parking requirements a bit. The idea was that, by shrinking the sea of asphalt the city requires shops and restaurants to surround themselves with, the measure would help foster the denser,…
