Patriot Tower, the I.M. Pei & Associates-designed skyscraper at St. Paul and Bryan Street that opened in 1979, has not been well loved of late. The property changed hands several times before it was sold at a foreclosure auction last year. There are 30 stories of office space that are…
Back in May, Phillip Jones drove from his home in Frisco eight hours west to Bledsoe, Texas, a tiny town on the New Mexico border. Why? Because Johnson, an IT guy and amateur astrophotographer, wanted to capture the coming annular eclipse in all its glory. As you can see from…
You know the Liberty Institute as the group that has steered Plano’s infamous Candy Cane Case through the courts. More recently, it’s championed the cause of Angela Hildenbrand, the Texas high school student who wanted to pray during her valedictory speech. As part of its work, in 2004 the nonprofit…
Jesus Ventura first made headlines back in March when the then-firefighter walked into Fire Station No. 45 near West Commerce and Sylvan Avenue, removed his pistol from its holster, and began waving it around recklessly, pointing it at at lease one firefighter, according to a police report. The gun went…
The football team at Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders’ charter school, has been struggling to find opponents after a UIL committee barred it from competing against district opponents.That pretty much wiped out their schedule, save for a game against Parish Episcopal at which they endured a 50-6 shellacking and another…
Quick: What day is it today? If you answered Tuesday or September 18, you’re technically right but you’re actually very, tragically wrong, because it’s National Cheeseburger Day which a) exists and b) is a great opportunity to check out a new burger joint. It’s also, perhaps, time to reflect on…
Janet Parker, a 61-year-old waitress, was working the overnight shift at an Irving Denny’s on State Highway 183 this morning when her husband, Thomas Parker, walked in. Without warning, the 54-year-old took out a knife and stabbed his wife several times, according to a release from the Irving Police Department…
A six-year court battle waged by the feds against an ExxonMobil policy mandating the retirement of all corporate pilots at the age of 60 was dealt its second defeat in a Dallas federal court. The challenge, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, characterized the policy as ageist and in…
It was not the scene housekeepers expected to find when they entered the seventh-floor room of the upscale Whitehall Hotel in Chicago: the body of Brianna Gardner, a 22-year-old Dallas woman, fatally shot in the head. Police found a cell phone in the room and, shortly after, brought it’s owner…
Yesterday, still irrationally giddy from the beatdown their Seahawks delivered on Sunday ( I for one blame the replacement refs for Felix Jones’ fumble on the opening kickoff. And the subsequent blocked punt. And the Romo interception right after. And — oh screw it, the Cowboys blew.) , our colleagues…
On February 3, Clay Carpenter and two golfing buddies went to hit around at The Golf Club at the Resort in Fort Worth. They made it through the front nine okay, but ran into a group of four golfers on number 12. Carpenter’s group was fine with waiting behind the…
Judith Segura thought raising the $1 to $2 million in private donations needed to restore Dealey Plaza before the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination would be a cinch. It wasn’t. “It’s been a lot harder than I expected, frankly,” Segura said. “There was nobody who didn’t agree completely, 100…
Over the weekend, two pedestrians were struck and killed as they crossed Dallas streets. One was 71-year-old James Sadler, who apparently stepped into traffic on Illinois in Oak Cliff just before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Around the same time, Devora Lopez, 7, was walking across Northwest Highway near Bachman Lake…
Bloomberg names Elaine Marshall the fourth richest woman in the U.S.
Back in June, we told you about Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton, a couple in Hardin whose rural farmhouse was raided after law enforcement got a hot tip from a psychic named “Angel” about a mass grave on the property. The mass grave didn’t exist, Angel quickly made herself scarce,…
In June, Bill and Barbara Harris opened Silver Spoon Bakery and Cafe in Southlake. “I’m 81 years old, my wife’s 78,” Harris said. “We’re not dead yet, and we’re just trying to stay active.” Silver Spoon is a lunch spot whose every detail, from the cutesy, pink-striped walls to the…
In April 2005, the city of Dallas began an experiment. What if, rather than spraying millions of gallons of fully treated, tap-quality water on the Cedar Crest Golf Course, it used partially treated wastewater. The grass doesn’t mind water that’s a little bit dirty and, so long as it’s piped…
Tomorrow, Ann Romney will visit the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush to raise money for a “women’s lunch” to raise money for her hubby’s campaign, and it won’t be the first time she’s been invited to a house occupied by the Bushes. In a taping for…
The Cowboys’ 27-7 pasting at the hands of the Seahawks was about as brutal as the final score indicates. From the opening kickoff (literally!), Seattle simply played with a level of physicality that the Cowboys could not match. Every Dallas ball carrier was getting plowed, while Seahawks running back/prehistoric torture…
A 20-year-old junior at SMU has been indicted on charges that he raped a fellow student in a dorm room in February, Dallas County records show. The student, Donald Samuel Cuba, was booked into Dallas County Jail and is out on a $15,000 bond. The story — including details on…
The reaction of Anonymous members to the arrest in Dallas Wednesday night of Barrett Brown, the group’s self-proclaimed spokesman, was as swift as it was inevitable. Within hours, members had posted the names, home addresses and other identifying information of 13 federal employees, most of them involved with the military…
There are good things you can do with your 5-year-old kid, and there are bad. We were always unsure which category a shoplifting trip to 7-Eleven belonged in, but the video above clears that right up. DPD sent over the video. The incident happened on August 29 at the 7-Eleven…
