Last June, the Carrollton City Council passed a measure aimed at cleaning up apartment complexes in the city that had become magnets for crime. The ordinance set out a number of very specific requirements on things like fencing and landscaping, but the crux of the measure was the crime index,…
If you live in Texas and have health insurance, chances are your coverage is through either Aetna or Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, and it’s about twice as likely to be the latter. The insurance giant covers 7.7 million Texans, controlling roughly 40 percent of the market. Some…
After his father died in a nursing home operated by Healthsouth Corp., Howard Wright sued the company for medical malpractice and in January 2011 agreed to a $225,000 settlement. A good chunk of that, 36 percent, went to his lawyer, Tom Corea, and another $20,000 went to pay off a…
Last week, Richard Malouf, the Dallas dentist accused of massive Medicaid fraud, sued WFAA, Owen Wilson’s mom and real estate blogger Candy Evans, accusing them all of libel, defamation, slander and invasion of privacy. Malouf and wife, Leanne, still in the midst of being investigated by the state of Texas,…
Greyhound is without a doubt one of the classiest ways to travel across the country, which is probably why so many classy people choose to ride it. Like that one guy in Louisiana who serenaded his seatmate, from memory, with the entire soundtrack of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical…
The new Texas Women’s Health Program is really going to be special. And by “special,” we mean terrible. But as the Texas Tribune reports , state officials have made one tiny concession in response to complaints from women’s advocacy and medical groups: Doctors will now be allowed to discuss the…
Richard Malouf has had an exciting year or so, what with being investigated by the state, the feds and WFAA for what is alleged to be a massive amount of Medicaid fraud. Malouf and wife Leanne’s rather lavish personal lifestyle has also come under scrutiny: the mansion, the jets, the…
The Los Angeles Times has obtained more than two decades of deeply disturbing confidential case files kept by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America, detailing suspected child molesters in their ranks. The files, which were kept by the Scouts for nearly 100 years, were meant to bar pedophiles from further…
Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not…
A Dallas code inspector named Donna Garza was making her appointed rounds back in December 2010 when she came upon the home of Loyd Ferrell Ray, in a tree-lined neighborhood south of Preston Hollow. As she conducted her routine inspection of his home, Ray’s pit bull got loose somehow, and…
Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville’s resident pot-stirrer, now claims that the lawsuit against him, filed by neighborhood organizer Melissa Kingston, is actually an effort to silence him during her husband’s run for, and potential stint on, the Dallas City Council. See also: Lawsuit Calls Barking Dog Avi Adelman a “Neighborhood Terrorist”…
Melissa Kingston, the Lower Greenville resident and attorney representing neighborhood groups in negotiations over the Greenville Avenue Walmart, didn’t hold back in her lawsuit against Avi Adelman. The longtime neighborhood activist and proprietor of BarkingDogs.org is a “menace” and a “neighborhood terrorist” who bullies anyone with whom he disagrees, the…
The sequence of events detailed in the lawsuit filed last month by the family of Deanna Cook was damning: Cook, screaming for help as her ex-husband attacked her, called 911. An understaffed emergency call center finally, after several minutes, dispatched officers, who stopped at a 7-Eleven and checked on a…
Over the summer, Methodist Dallas Medical Center admitted it had made a teensy weensy mistake and accidentally slipped the wrong kidney into one of its organ recipients. Such an error could have easily killed the patient had her body rejected the organ, but it didn’t. The kidney turned out to…
EPA isn’t ready to give up the fight over a rule aimed at curbing air pollution wafting across state lines. The agency filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Friday morning, asking for a re-hearing before the full court. This comes more than a…
There was a time when you couldn’t turn on daytime TV without being bombarded with dire, low-budget ads advising anyone who’d stepped near a pharmacy between 1999 and 2004 to talk to contact an attorney immediately about Vioxx. The anti-inflammatory drug was linked to tens of thousands of cases of…
In July of 2006, Dr. Barry Fenton began treating a woman for depression and anxiety at the office of the Uptown practice of Live Oak Counseling Center. It was 16 months later that the relationship moved outside of his office, not to mention the bounds of the typical relationship between…
The weather on July 7 quickly turned windy, almost violently so. The sudden gusts, which reached 40 miles per hour, capsized a surfboarding 55-year-old into the waters of White Rock Lake, where he drowned. Even more dramatic was the scene a dozen miles to the north, when a construction crane…
It was in 2001 that Christopher Bridges, a.k.a. Ludacris, released “Move Bitch,” a song still considered his masterpiece. (The inimitable chorus: “Move bitch, get out the way/Get out the way bitch/Get out the way.”) It was the third single from the album Word of Mouf, and it helped propel the…
Museum Tower will be opening in January 2013, and it will be “iconic,” “world-class” and “environmentally responsible,” says the full-page ad we were just sent from Barbara Buzzell, who handles the building’s PR. Anyone who finds themselves worried about the tower’s ongoing dispute with its Arts District neighbors can probably…
If you’ve ever wondered who controls any given parking lot downtown, the answer is probably either Central Parking Corporation or Standard Parking Corporation. Central owns more than a dozen locations there, according to its website. Standard owns several more, though its website doesn’t say exactly how many. The same thing…
Joel Schulman is not on the North Texas Tollway Authority’s list of top toll scofflaws. In fact, he lives in Bossier City, Louisiana, three hours east of the nearest NTTA-controlled roadway. That hasn’t stopped the agency from sending notice after notice demanding payment for tolls racked up by a certain…
