In 2006, the city of Dallas picked the Dallas-based architecture of Brown Reynolds Watford to design the Texas Horse Park. At the time, plans still called for a massive, $30 million complex complete with a half-mile race track, grandstands, a therapeutic pool, an RV campground, and all sorts of other…
Back in April, Raymond Jackson and James Curtis Williams once again found themselves in a Dallas County courtroom, some 28 years after they were sentenced to life in prison the 1983 rape and assault of a 26-year-old Highland Park woman. This time, the mood was different. DNA evidence proved that…
Because the Tom Corea saga just wasn’t train-wrecky enough, we bring you another dispatch from Ellis County, where, if you’ll recall, Corea was recently indicted for attacking his wife and interfering with a 911 call. This incident occurred on October 28, 2011 and involves Corea’s wife, 41-year-old Jennifer Corea. According…
Last winter was a godsend. After surviving the driest year in Texas history, we got one of the wettest winters on record. Since April, though, North Texas has been racking up rain deficits, according to the National Weather Service’s winter outlook. October was drier than usual, and November saw virtually…
Mary Padian and Moe Prigoff are regular cast members on “Storage Wars: Texas,” the Lone Star spinoff of the A&E reality show chronicling the odd souls who bid on the contents of abandoned storage units. He’s an antiques dealer, she’s a free-spirited collector, and both run shops in the Design…
Back in September, using the format of a totally ridiculous board game, we recapped the fight over gas drilling on land owned by the city of Dallas. At that point, the drilling task force had long since wrapped up its work, and a vote from the City Council on new…
Michael Furrh is an Arlington golf pro who, according to his Facebook profile, splits his time between working in the pro shop at Rolling Hills Country Club, training caddies at Caddie Club Golf and swinging ridiculously long golf clubs. Last week was Furrh’s first, unofficial shot at the Guinness World…
In the summer of 2004 crews began filming Easy Rider: The Search Continues, a sequel the cult 1969 film that tracked Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as they made their long, drug-soaked motorcycle ride from L.A. to New Orleans. Never mind that Fonda and Hopper’s characters died at the end…
You can get a massage from SMU’s Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports, but it’s not free and it won’t be given by Edwin Kim. Kim, 24, was arrested by SMU police and charged with criminal trespass after he was found wandering the halls of the Morrison-McGinnis residence hall, posing as…
Mike. I’m talking to you. Your whole story now, your profile, is all about the Miles-high salaries. “DALLAS ISD SUPERINTENDENT DEFENDS HIGH SALARIES…” “DISD’S NEW COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF WILL MAKE $185,000…” Wrong. So wrong. One hundred and eighty degrees wrong. Think in terms of sack-cloth and begging bowls. That’s what you…
Despite its vaguely official-sounding name, the Christmas Bureau of Austin & Travis County is not a branch of local government. It’s a nonprofit charity, one that purports to help needy individuals and families during the holiday season. That seems to be what the organization did from 1964, when it was…
Back in October, Demitri Brown and Donna Evans-Brown filed a not-at-all-frivolous lawsuit in Dallas County District Court claiming that Christopher Bridges, aka Ludacris, had stolen their trademark and illegally used it to build his Atlanta-based record label/entertainment empire. The dispute centers around “Disturb the Peace,” which Brown trademarked through the…
In 2008, Denton police began fielding reports from women who complained that their physician, Dr. Ramon Cruz, was overstepping professional boundaries. One claimed Cruz had put his hand down the front of her pajama pants. Another alleged he had grabbed her from behind and put his hand under her shirt…
It’s a warm fall morning near the Texas State Capitol’s south steps, and there’s a fight brewing. “Don’t be an idiot!” a man shouts at a small crowd making its way up toward the Capitol. He is David Stokes, a self-described “street preacher” from Houston, arrived specially in Austin for…
The video above was taken at about 2:30 a.m. on Decenber 1 from inside the Texas Rangers store on McKinney Avenue. If you’ll watch carefully — or really if you just keep your eyes open — you’ll see the taillights of a white Ford pickup creep slowly backward, then smash…
It’s getting near Christmas, and as far as we’re aware, Texas has yet to secede from the Union. Even Governor Rick Perry thinks it’s a bad idea, and he looks like the sort of man who’d snort wasabi on a bet. But the Texas Nationalist Movement is still feeling pretty…
The full Dallas city council just got its first chance to learn a little more about the proposed golf course that the city and AT&T want to build in southern Dallas. There’s still a lot for the city to work out before it agrees to clean up and lease the…
Downtown Dallas 360, the city’s long-range master plan for the area, has high hopes for southwestern downtown. Where Reunion Arena once stood, it envisions a cluster of mid-rise mixed-use developments. These would be clustered around a promenade and central park and would be accessible by stops on the new Oak…
Governor Rick Perry vows that the Medicaid expansion prescribed under Obamacare won’t come to Texas, the state with the highest rate of uninsured in the country. He fears it would render Lone Star State health care a mere “appendage” of the federal government. The feds, of course, would pick up…
Horse racing may be dying, but the horse track remains a uniquely fascinating place, with its mix of blue bloods and lowlifes united by a pursuit that cuts across all class lines: gambling. Even Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, a venue that from the outside seems relatively staid, is…
With the exception of Mike Hashimoto, the Morning News’ editorial team has been dutifully lining up behind the idea that a (semi?) private golf course can be “the tipping point” — their words, not mine or anyone else’s — southern Dallas needs. “A game changer,” the paper says. Next up:…
On the afternoon of September 6, Franklin Davis drove away from Hebron High School with Shania Gray, a 16-year-old student there. Davis, 30, had arranged the meeting using a fake Facebook profile featuring a picture of a teenage boy. Otherwise, Gray might not have agreed to meet. Davis is accused…
