Localizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most confident, depressing predictions yet is no mean feat for journalists. Which is why it helps when actual experts do it for you. Texas Climate News sought out the state’s finest climatologists, oceanographers and public-policy experts. If nothing else, their responses make clear…
In the lead up to this weekend’s UT-Oklahoma matchup, there was talk that dispirited Longhorns fans weren’t all that interested in watching their team get pummeled by the heavily favored Sooners. The evidence? Tickets for the burnt-orange side of the stadium were going for a paltry $209 each on the…
Renting a place at the Cambridge Apartment Homes in Dallas won’t put too big of a dent in your bank account–the complex, on Northwest Highway just off of Greenville Avenue, advertises studios for as little as $515 a month. But you might not know it from the parking lot. That’s…
Senator Ted Cruz may be the pied piper of the government shutdown, but it’s the House Republicans following behind him like some sort of maniacal conga line who have actually thrown the wrenches in the gears. And none of them is congaing quite as maniacally as Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert…
Whatever turns in Stephanie Terlisner’s life took her to the house at the end of Cool Morn Drive on Saturday evening, it was the wrong place and the wrong time. At about 7 p.m., an armed robber burst into the home and shot Terlisner in the chest, The Dallas Morning…
It’s possible that there is a perfectly innocent explanation for how bacon wound up in Nicole Queen’s straw during a recent visit to a TGI Fridays in Garland. Perhaps the line cook mistook her iced tea for one of the restaurant’s many bacon-laden menu options. Or maybe her server, operating…
Their teachers could tell something was off. The girls, six of them, all eighth graders at Texas City’s Blocker Middle School, were acting “zombie-like” and “delirious” at school on Monday, according to Houston’s ABC affiliate. School officials called an ambulance, but not before finding small pieces of paper wrapped in…
Even now, legions of fans are descending on the State Fair for the legendary (and lopsided) match-up between the Big 12’s bitterest rivals. But before the cries of “Texas Fight!” and the invalid moaning of “Boooomer” carom through the Cotton Bowl, the schools’ respective editorial boards traded some good-natured barbs…
Mavs fans know Chris Arnold as the vaguely obnoxious guy who appears during timeouts and halftime to emcee some ridiculous half-court shooting contest so spectators’ attention won’t drift too far away from the court. Listeners to KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan know him as the host of GBag Nation, a midday…
Update at 2:45 p.m.: Deion has reportedly been unfired. Update on October 11: Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded, has fired Deion Sanders. The announcement comes in a terse press release from superintendent Rachel King-Sanders. “Effective immediately, Deion Sanders is no longer an employee or representative…
During his four years as an undergrad at UT-Dallas, Ross Ulbricht earned a handful of mentions on the school’s website. His name appeared on a list of students at the NanoTech Institute, on a 2004 press release about students competing in an academic tournament, on a handful of research papers…
Deion Sanders has responded to allegations that he assaulted the chief financial officer of his charter school in what has become typical Prime Time fashion — by maligning his adversary and stressing his heroic, unwavering commitment to children. That’s the line he took when he accused his then-wife of assault…
Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, the electricity giant taken private in the biggest leveraged buyout in history, has been teetering toward bankruptcy for some time. Over-leveraged, with too much debt and not enough revenue in a weak electricity market, sources close to the negotiations tell Bloomberg News that a bankruptcy filing…
To the political novice, a federal government shutdown sounds like an excuse to get crazy. Anarchy in the streets! Do more than the usual drugs in Deep Ellum! Operate a bandit taxi service from the same 1993 minivan you use to transport DISD students to school! But that’s not how…
Caine Smith, an 11-year-old from Haltom City, seems legit. He’s thoughtful, eloquent, and self-aware, moreso than many adults you’ll encounter. In spite of, or probably because of all that, he’s tormented daily by classmates, who push, punch, choke and otherwise abuse and humiliate him. So, he made a video for…
Turns out, Michael John Yowell had nothing to worry about. A week after filing a federal lawsuit to delay his execution on the grounds that the state’s custom-made supply of pentobarbital, ordered hastily from a Houston-area compounding pharmacy last month, might cause an unconstitutional amount of suffering, the 43-year-old convicted…
At some point the Great Trinity Forest, that relatively untrammeled expanse of foliage in southern Dallas, will have reached capacity for grand, high-profile amusements. That hasn’t happened yet. In November, the Trinity Forest Aerial Adventure Park will make its debut on seven wooded acres off Dowdy Ferry Road just north…
Here’s the good news for customers of Dallas-based USP Labs. Its dietary supplements are no longer linked to fatal heart attacks. The FDA made sure of that this summer when it made the company destroy $8 million worth of product containing dimethlyamylamine, or DMAA, a compound that had been linked…
A couple of weeks ago, the Dallas Mavericks announced the signing of 6-8 forward Renaldo Balkman. Other than the name, which bears an uncanny resemblance to that of former Mavs star Rolando Blackman, news that the team had signed a guy who averaged 4 points a game over a handful…
In their new book Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis carefully chronicle the story of Dallas in the years leading up to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963. In this excerpt, they take us back to October 1961, when The Dallas Morning News’ combative publisher helped…
It’s happened. Ted Cruz, mere months after joining the U.S. Senate, has transcended grubby terrestrial politics and ascended into the realm of celebrity. Want proof? This puff piece by People magazine should provide all you need. In it, we learn that Cruz is a “self-described ‘movie buff,'” wears black, ostrich-skin…
Douglas Campbell has not been convicted of any crime. The allegations of sexual assault by a public servant, official oppression and theft, reported today by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Deanna Boyd, are exactly that — allegations. That said, we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that,…
