Beneath Turtle Creek's placid surface, tension, anger and turned off sprinklers. At a condominium near Turtle Creek, there is a bitter, strange battle brewing between the building's homeowners' association and the domestic partner of one of the HO...
He played! Yay? London games, at least from the various couches I've watched them on, are always odd. English fans, to their credit, are always enthusiastic, but their cheers are usually half-a-beat off. The extra quarter-of-a-second they need to ...
There are 40 more pages of Dallas-based cameras. Insecam is a super-creepy Moscow-based website that is currently streaming footage from 73,000 unsecured IP cameras. The site says it's doing it to promote security -- it is able to access the camer...
Plano in 1891 Density is good. Regionalism is bad. Dallas' city government should focus on the city itself, not on getting in good with our suburban neighbors by forming partnerships that hurt the city itself. These are things Unfair Park has hear...
Amber Vinson hugs her doctors as she leaves Emory University Hospital near Atlanta. Amber Vinson, the second nurse from Thomas Eric Duncan's treatment team to contract the Ebola virus, had her engagement ring incinerated along with many of her oth...
But enough about me. I spent a good deal of yesterday trying to see this story as others might, especially the individuals at City Hall who were singled out by name as complicit in acts of racism. Having tasted that lash once or twice myself, I know ...
There's a long and sordid history of notorious American criminals cashing in on their fame by publishing books, selling prison artwork or hawking their personal effects. Nowadays, the macabre "murderabilia" market has mostly migrated online, where an...
The Dallas Cowboys, complete with their famous silver trousers, play their first game in London on Sunday. You should tear yourself away from Swansea vs. Arsenal (or as they would call it in America, "Swans - Gooners") and watch a man with a malfunct...
It's on the way!! RT @RyanMaue: Next week's Arctic blast will threaten 41 States and 250,179,444 people pic.twitter.com/MR78ssJVVL -- Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) November 6, 2014 Suck it, boring sunny weather. Now we have something to live in fe...
Craig Watkins wants his office to handle all criminal evidence produced on devices such as these. Ahead of his election day disaster, District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the creation of a new division in his office. He's done this before, mo...
Virtual currency. Real jail time. At its peak, Bitcoin Savings and Trust -- Trendon Shavers' Bitcoin business that he purported to be an investment operation -- controlled a full 7 percent of all publicly traded Bitcoin. Operating out of his McKi...
We get to vote on it again! Sort of. Just two days after winning his unopposed re-election bid, state Representative Rafael Anchia has released a survey to gauge Dallas residents' opinion of the proposed Trinity toll road. The survey was quickly ...
Obama's new HUD Secretary Julian Castro: Focus on this picture for a while, and you can see him blink. City Hall announced late yesterday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has caved on the 4-year-old Lockey/MacKenzi...
My only quibble with Mata so far is this: The school has a disturbingly large dungeon. Yes. A dungeon. It's clearly labeled on the floor plan you see above, which is prominently posted right next to the stairwell next to Mata's library. Insofar as ar...
BY SEAN CHAFFIN One morning in 2011, just after sunrise, a swarm of federal agents rolled quietly down a neatly manicured cul-de-sac in Southlake, the city police's SWAT alongside them. They gathered outside the home of their target, a $750,0...
No we didn't. Preliminary numbers are out for Texas' midterm election voter turnout from the Election Project, and they are abysmal. Just 28.5 percent of Texans eligible to vote did so, either in early voting or on Tuesday, the lowest percentage i...
Say what you will about Longhorn Wrecker, one of Dallas' notorious towing companies, you can at least never accuse it of laziness. This is the same company that during the Dallas Gay Pride Parade five years ago descended on a post office nearby and t...
As in any good tragedy, Craig Watkins' tumble from his perch as Dallas County district attorney was preceded by hubris and stupidity. After badly underperforming compared with the rest of his party in his 2010 re-election win against Republican Danny...
The Texas Oil and Gas Association and General Land Office are the first, so far, to file lawsuits against the city of Denton. By the time Denton's city offices opened this morning, officials already had two brand new lawsuits waiting for them. A...
Everything you need to know about Michael Furrh you can learn from his outgoing voicemail message: Caddie Master at Caddie Club; golf ambassador for Rolling Hills Country Club; Guinness World Record holder. Hopefully you didn't get bored and hang up...