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Monday, September 21, 2026

Zebras Redux

Crooked Ken?

News Roundup

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Nobody’s home at LaGrave Field these days, and sports teams are looking for new quarters — or new owners for the property.

Needing a Forever Home

Few writers have resisted the temptation to make “nine lives” jokes when writing about the Fort Worth Cats in recent years. Other bad cat...
As with this skull, a small section of bone was removed from the Austin skull for DNA testing.

A Skull and a Bad Guy

When a 12-year-old Labrador retriever named Carly found a human skull near a large creek bed in southeast Austin on Sept. 8, the lower...
Bounds: “We want that new technology in place to protect us.”

Blowback

A group of Mansfield residents who’ve been pushing for more than a year to strengthen their city’s gas drilling ordinance are finally getting a...
Texas is a favorite state for high-interest payday lenders, and Fort Worth resists their regulation.

Alone on Loans

Stymied by the legislature’s lack of action, 21 cities across Texas have passed an agreed-upon ordinance to stop some of the worst excesses of...
Crain: “We found out a lot of things that were broken ... and figured out how to fix them.”

Rebooting the Fight

Cindy Crain is determined to learn the name of every homeless veteran in Fort Worth within the next 100 days. And the executive director...
Dozens of abandoned cats still stay close to homes from which the people are gone.

Abandoned

When Cienda Partners recently purchased prime Riverside-area property on Fort Worth’s East Side, the Dallas-based company wasted no time in evicting tenants of the...
Courtesy City of Fort Worth

Worth Questioning

Mayor Betsy Price is on television a lot these days. She stars in a commercial pushing three ballot proposals for funding a multi-purpose arena...
Gulla: Range Resource’s practices “made a lot of people terribly ill ... .”

Sow, Reap

Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources, two major gas drillers that pretty much packed up and left Tarrant County once the Barnett Shale’s best days...
Charles Carroll (left), with R.J. Logan, holds his notice to vacate, to which he has added his own comments. Brian Hutson

Get Out

Susan Bethke, a seven-year resident of the Scenic Bluff area, chose her house northeast of downtown for its location near her son’s school and...
Friese: “Most of the people I know who were homeless treated those bus passes as gold.”

No Pass/No Job

On weekday mornings Lou Friese takes an hour-long bus ride to work from his West Fort Worth apartment near Las Vegas Trail. Before he...