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  • Sen. John Cornyn discloses 3 Texas pensions as supplemental income

    (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON - Sen. John Cornyn has been supplementing his Senate salary for six years with pensions earned from his days as a Texas judge and attorney general - retirement payments that went undisclosed for several years. Cornyn's most recent annual disclosure statement, filed last month, shows he collected $65,383 from three Texas pension plans in 2012. That's ...

  • Fort Worth police seek help finding truck driver who caused fatal hit-and-run

    Fox 4 ) Fort Worth police announced a $1,000 reward for information leading an the arrest in a fatal hit-and-run last month. On May 28, two 18-wheelers were driving south on the North Freeway near Heritage Trace Parkway at 7:30 a.m. when one driver swerved from the far right lane into the middle lane, colliding with the victim's truck. The collision pushed the tractor-trailer onto the ...

  • Dallas police release sketch of woman who robbed stabbed 60-year-old man

    A sketch of a robbery suspect who stabbed a man multiple times June 2, 2013, in East Oak Cliff and made off with $800. (Dallas Police Department) Police are asking for the public’s help identifying and finding a woman who stabbed a 60-year-old man several times with a butcher knife after he refused to give her money. Police released a sketch of the woman, who has straight shoulder-length ...

  • American Medical Association votes to accept obesity as a disease

    The American Medical Association voted Tuesday to accept obesity as a disease. The vote at the assocation’s Chicago meeting aims to set off a ';cascade'; of actions to highlight the dangers of a nation where half the population could be overweight by 2040, said Dr. Jeffrey Mechanick, president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, which sponsored the motion. ...

  • Wal-Mart sues grocery workers union and protesters in Fort Worth state court

    A small number of Wal-Mart employees are joined by a larger number of non-employees supporting them in a protest outside a Wal-Mart superstore along I-35E in Lancaster, Texas, on Black Friday morning, Nov. 23, 2012. (Christian Randolph/The Dallas Morning News) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Fort Worth against a grocery workers union, related groups and individuals that it said have ...


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Movie Review

Beloved

Beloved

"Beloved" is a film that overwhelms. It overwhelms in many ways, some of them good, and some of them bad, and when the final scene fades to black, it's almost hard to know what to feel. Exhausted. Exhilarated. Confused. Unsure. Unsettled. Reawakened. Haunted. Not all of those feelings are particularly comfortable, and I have the notion that some viewers will interpret them as having disliked the m ... ...

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  • Eye Opener host to do That Show in Fort Worth

    June 18--Oliver Tull, one of the hosts of the DFW-based offbeat morning show Eye Opener, and Justin Allen, the nationally broadcast show's executive producer, were on such similar wavelengths that neither remembers exactly who came up with the idea for " That Show" first. But Tull, who's also a member of Fort Worth improv group Four Day Weekend, was definitely in charge of ...

  • Dallas ISD executive suing former school district for alleged racial discrimination

    Dallas ISD executive director Jennifer Span filed a lawsuit last June against the Enlarged City School District of Troy, her former employer in New York, and its school board. Span, who is over DISD's Roosevelt High School feeder pattern, contends in an original filing in the U.S. District Court of New York that her civil rights were violated after facing discrimination and retaliation ...

  • Dallas PD FBI bust three suspected brothels arrest four women

    A sign on the exterior wall of Rosemeade Spa informs patrons the business is closed today. Dallas police targeted the spa and others as part of a two-year organized crime and prostitution ...

  • Eco-tourism guide admits to smuggling live snakes into DFW airport

    Lamar pleaded guilty to importing wildlife taken in violation of foreign law. Lamar bought the snakes at a market in Lima. He took them aboard flights from Lima to Miami and then from Miami to Dallas. The following day, TSA agents refused to let him board a commuter flight to Tyler with the snakes. So Lamar took a shuttle from the airport to his home in Tyler. ';Game Wardens went to ...

  • Christie Proud Dallas Cowboys fan

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made his political advisers sweat when he again expressed his love for the Dallas Cowboys and New York Rangers in a Q&A with elementary school students."Get ready for a nervous moment," ...

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