Police are investigating whether a woman found dead in White Rock Lake this afternoon was murdered. Walkers spotted the body on the east side of the lake around Garland Road, a half mile or so south of the Arboretum. The body was recovered by Dallas Fire-Rescue, which turned the investigation…
Karen Oney keeps about 15 donkeys on her property in North Fort Worth. At least she did until last October, when she awoke one morning to find two of them dead in the pasture, arrow shafts protruding from their torsos. Police told Oney they had been shot from 10 feet…
Why one would feel the need to seek Mark Cuban’s advice, seeing as he doles it out readily on his blog, his reality show, in a dirt-cheap e-book, and via whatever other medium happens to be at hand, is beyond me. But if that’s not quite enough and you’re still…
Samarendra Mohanty has spent the past decade looking for ways to better hold and rotate microscopic objects. It seems the existing techniques are just too big a pain, requiring objects to be visible under a microscope in order to hold or rotate them. That was fine, but was little help…
In June of this year, Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton sued a number of people who dropped by their rural farmhouse in Liberty County last year, people who mistakenly believed the couple had a mass grave containing dozens of dismembered bodies on the property. Those people included the Liberty County…
There is little doubt that Brian Loncar is a shrewd businessman. One doesn’t dub oneself the “Strong Arm,” create a Bat Signal-like image of a flexing appendage, and create a minor personal injury litigation empire without some measure of marketing savvy. But Loncar is also known to blur ethical lines…
Last week, Dwaine Caraway sent us a little pre-Thanksgiving note. It read, in full: We are pleased to invite you to the District Four Community Celebration, on Monday, December 3 from 10am-2pm. The event will be held in the 6th Floor Flag Room at Dallas City Hall. Hosted by Councilman…
Pretty much everyone seems to be in agreement that turning an unused former landfill in southern Dallas into something is a good idea, and that, since the city will be paying to clean up the land up anyway, and because there aren’t exactly hordes of developers itching to get get…
In the last legislative session, Texas lawmakers cut the state’s family planning budget by two-thirds, a loss of around $73.6 million over the next two years. The reason behind this, naturally, was that “family planning” is clearly a secret code word for “abortion.” “Of course this is a war on…
Theadora Ross asked for leniency. The former senior corporal with Dallas PD, who pleaded guilty in August to stealing $250,000 in would-be reward money from the Dallas Crime Stoppers program she oversaw, argued in a court filing that prison would be too hard on her daughter, who has Down Syndrome…
Last summer, as the Dallas City Council was briefed on the ins and outs of bringing heavy, industrial processes into a densely populated, urban area, industry boosters like Ed Ireland of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council assured council members we would know in virtually all cases what was being…
Sometimes we get voicemails that are too good not to share. This is one of those times. To quote our new favorite human: Un. Freakin. Believable…
If you ask the people who run it, the city’s red light camera program, aka SafeLight, has been a tremendous success. They cite statistics maintained by the program showing the number of crashes at intersections has dropped by more than half, from 115 to 57 per year, and that the…
There are only so many times one can look at a football game and say “A win is a win.” Early in the season, when a team is getting its bearings, scrappy victories can be a bit charming. In Week 12, against a team that dragged in a seven-game losing…
Early Saturday morning, about 6 a.m., the manager of the Knox Street Apple Store received a call from the alarm company: Someone had breached the store’s inner sanctum, the Genius Room, tripping the alarm. The manager arrived within minutes, but he was too late. Checking the stockroom, he discovered that…
Over the weekend, the New York Times took a hard look at the tax breaks and other incentives state and local governments dole out by the billions to lure businesses. As the magnitude of those gifts has increased over the years, corporations have learned to shop for the most lucrative…
Eric has a pretty nice rundown of today’s big announcement, and I’m sure Schutze will chime in at some point, when he’s done looking into the combination polo-field/squash complex expected to be announced for southern Dallas next week. In the meantime, Sharon Grigsby, editorial page editor for the Morning News,…
This morning, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the conflict in Syria had reached “new and appalling heights of brutality and violence,” as the clashes between government troops and opposition forces drag on. An estimated 40,000 people have died in the conflict, which began in March 2011. The Assad regime continues…
The Great Trinity Forest, as Mayor Rawlings is fond of reminding people, is an underutilized jewel, a huge, relatively untrammeled swath of nature cutting through the city’s southern half. As the country’s largest urban hardwood forest in the country, it’s already world-class, to borrow a phrase. Yet Rawlings and his…
For more than two decades now, SMU’s men’s basketball program has languished in mediocrity. It saw moderate regular-season success during the Mike Dement era of the late ’90s and early ’00s but made the postseason only once, and that was a berth in the lowly NIT. Its last trip to…
As we’ve mentioned more than once, Dallas Animal Services has been dealing with a few serious unresolved issues, some of them stretching back years: the HVAC system in the shelter doesn’t work and apparently never really has, leading to stifling temperatures in the summer months; the shelter and field divisions…
Earlier this month, I wrote a cover story so bizarre, I had to periodically check official documents just to be sure I had not wandered into the realm of magical realism. Yes, in fact, a sacred white buffalo was born to a Greenville rancher named Arby Little Soldier during a…
