The house that Leon built
The buzzing whine of a power saw and acrid smell of sawdust fill the back part of the century-old building on the Near Southside....
Texas Girls’ Choir Time
The little girl looked nervous as she stepped into the music room to audition.
The only singing that Alina Ortiz had done before was at...
Turkey Awards 2015
Turkey Time 2015
We’re not trying to be mean. Wait. Yes, we are. Some folks need to be held accountable for their transgressions, from the...
Not another brick in the wall
Jason Hernandez began selling marijuana in his McKinney neighborhood in 1992, when he was 15. At first, it was baggies, but within a couple...
The Next Drug Epidemic
When addiction is discussed, benzodiazepines are rarely mentioned. When they are, it’s for their use by a stimulant-driven addict who is anticipating 70 sleepless...
Van Raiders
Of course with any theft, an item’s intrinsic value is impossible to quantify. You can sell an amp for what it’s worth, less the...
Remembering the Real J.R. Ewing
Sitting at his office in Dallas, Douglas D. Box, wearing broken-in cowboy boots, faded jeans, and a blue, pearl-snap shirt, looked as comfortable as...
Student Scourge
The couple sitting in the front row of City Hall looked more than a little pissed off. Talk about body language. Stephen Buttram had...
Jurassic Park
Art Sahlstein has seen it all.
From his two-story home in Euless, the 59-year-old recently re-married father of three recalls mud flying from the tires...
Books over Abuse
Barbara Sullivan’s husband wasn’t always abusive. At first, he was kind, loving, and attentive.
Then temptations got the better of him.
“I lost him to drugs,”...
