The story was absurd enough when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported it earlier this week. Tempie Strickland, an 80-year-old Fort Worth woman fed up with her ex-husband’s lip and his late-night trips to the barber shop and bingo hall, allegedly tried to murder him on Sunday. Police said she…
Monica Meza’s trips to Walmart don’t always end very well. In March, the 32-year-old was detained after waltzing out of a Northwest Dallas location with a cart full of nearly $300 worth of stolen merchandise. Police say the same thing happened earlier this month at the Supercenter on Central Expressway…
At first, the official story of what happened in the early morning hours of August 31, 2012, was that 25-year-old Michael Vincent Allen had led police on a high-speed chase through Garland and Mesquite before being herded into a cul de sac. In a last-ditch attempt to escape, he rammed…
Open Carry Texas has two main reasons for existing. One is to advocate for the open carry of firearms, which it does primarily by marching around in public wielding rifles and shotguns. The other is to troll liberals, which it does by marching around in public wielding rifles and shotguns…
By most accounts, local Anonymous hacktivist Barrett Brown has a loving mother. In its detailed profile of Brown from a few years ago, D Magazine reported that Karen McCutchin had paid to get the carpet in his messy Uptown apartment shampooed before reporters visited. And before FBI agents raided McCutchin’s…
This weekend, heavily armored police, SWAT teams, bomb squads, and paramedics will descend upon 20 sites in North Texas–Irving’s Stipes Elementary, Tarrant County College’s Northwest Campus, Baylor hospital in Dallas, and some barns in Duncanville among them–for the region’s inaugural Urban Shield training exercise. It’s funded by the Department of…
Last night in Oak Cliff, at about 8 p.m., two Dallas police officers watched a dark-colored Cadillac speed through a red light. The car did stop at the next red light, at Hampton Road and Illinois Avenue, which is where the cops caught up with it. At first, it seemed…
Jennifer Gerson, a 2007 SMU graduate and rape survivor, passed along her response to the Daily Campus’ recent victim-blaming alcohol-and-rape op-ed, which she sent to SMU president Gerald Turner and other school officials. We’re running it here in full. President Turner: Today I am ashamed to call myself a graduate…
The armed robbery yesterday afternoon of the the Oak Lawn headquarters Trivie wasn’t a random holdup. The app-maker’s office is on the third floor of a plain retail-and-office building between Hall Street and Rawlins, hardly an obvious target, and the robbers were methodical. According to police, three of them, all…
When federal prosecutors announced yesterday that Refugio “Cuco” Ramirez-Garcia will spend the next 20 years in federal prison for helping run a pair of heroin-distribution conspiracies, they gave a shout-out to the local law enforcement agencies who helped bring him down. That’s standard practice. What’s unusual about Ramirez-Garcia’s case is…
Even for the most financially and technologically challenged, receiving a personal email from Dallas Police Chief David Brown asking for cash sets off all sorts of alarm bells, alarm bells like He’s not the NSA — how did he get my email address? and Wouldn’t it be easier to shake…
Werner Eric Brauss is long gone. The real estate dealmaker fled the country in 2009 as the market collapsed, leaving behind a pile of unpaid debt to investors and Las Vegas casinos and the feds’ hopes of an easy prosecution. The chance that Brauss will leave the Brazilian coast, where…
At the end of September, researchers at Sam Houston State University’s Crime Victims’ Institute compiled a study of sexual assault resources offered by 74 Texas colleges and universities for the state legislature. The results were underwhelming. On the bright side, most of the schools had on-campus clinics offering pregnancy testing…
Arthur Dawson left his Oak Cliff apartment at 9:45 p.m. on Halloween night, headed for the MS Express convenience store around the corner at Chaucer Place and Camp Wisdom Road. He didn’t make it back to the apartment complex until 11 p.m., when a neighbor spotted him staggering on the…
Unlike most of the separatist groups that are currently en vogue, the folks behind the republic State of Texas do not call for secession. They don’t need to, having already established a parallel state government on the theory that, in conjunction with their counterparts in the other 49 states, they…
An HIV diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it once was. With early detection and proper treatment, those infected with the virus can fight off AIDS for decades — unless, that is, the patient happens to be in a relationship with 37-year-old Larry Dunn of Irving. Prosecutors say that…
The members of the One Nation Motorcycle Club were in a hurry last week, and for good reason. They were headed to the Ricky Bobby Sports Saloon (no, not that Ricky Bobby), one of Fort Worth’s newest breastaurants. So maybe their speedometers did occasionally inch above the officially posted 60…
The big surprise that emerged from this summer’s arrest of Arlington police officer Thomas Kantzos wasn’t that he’d been using steroids, nor that he’d once had them delivered to his squad car, nor that he repeatedly tipped off his dealer as a local drug task force was preparing to move…
The IRS still hasn’t said why federal agents raided the Preston Hollow home of Straight Line Automotive Group founder Jeremy Wiggains in August, ultimately leaving the $3.3-million McMansion toting several boxes of documents. Pretty much all that could be gleaned at the time came from the bankruptcy filing he’d made…
Attention white people: It might be time to take heed of all those stay-away-from-Fair Park warnings you heard growing up, because when you take the pop-country stylings of Jason Aldean, whose Night Train Tour made a stop at Gexa Energy Pavilion Saturday night, and mix in a little alcohol, you…
On Saturday afternoon, Lorenzo Cantu was playing with friends in the backyard of his home in the 3100 block of Conroe Street while his mother made preparations for his birthday party. At some point, he left the backyard and wandered across the street and greeted a dog who was sniffing…
The California Crossing Dam doesn’t look like much, just a few hunks of concrete anchored in the Trinity River in far Northwest Dallas, but it’s important. The water that pools up behind it is processed at the Bachman Water Treatment Plant, which is a key component of the city’s water…
