Portrait of a True Crime Character
The Swiss Pastry Shop is a longtime Fort Worth establishment, the kind of place with wood floors, bingo hall chairs, and black forest cake...
Everyone Hates Josh?
On Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Donald Trump, one of the most controversial U.S. presidents ever elected. Unlike previous inaugurations, most A-list...
Death Sentence
George Gasich carries himself with the air of a successful businessman as he walks through the lobby of a downtown Fort Worth hotel. The...
Earth Angel
Twenty-five years ago, a kind and lovely young woman took a kick to the head. A sneaker print remained on her face 10 hours...
Arlington Police: No Justice
On a sunny October day in 2011, Paul Balson watched out the window of his Arlington home as a car with three men in...
Defending Darlie
Like pretty much everyone else who watched the news on Channel 5 that evening back in June of 1996, I was dumbstruck at the...
Making the Cut at Colonial
The majestic course with its traps of white Florida sand and slick putting greens glistened in last Thursday's rain, which was coming down harder...
Gang Life
Recently, while attending a housing meeting on the East Side, I overheard a conversation between two residents, one of whom appeared to be a...
Young Nudists Rising
I pulled up to the strip mall at the predetermined meeting time of midnight. All but one of the Mid-Cities area retail spaces was...
Mercy Culture Wars
Everything about their first visit to Mercy Culture’s pop-up church service felt right to Sam and Jane, a young married couple who asked that...