A second restaurant has failed in the same Cowtown location, and some blame an unexplained bad smell that drives diners away, reports the FW Star-Telegram. Nonsense, says the landlord, who says plumbers fixed the nuisance months ago. But Dale Simon,...
Oh, how Fort Worth's head Freds must heartily wish nobody had ever heard of the Rainbow Lounge. Ever since the unnecessary, skull-busting TABC/FWPD raid on the Short South gay bar in June, gay activists have (perhaps unfairly) blasted the city...
If it's possible to be a good sport about being stabbed by a zombie-eyed crazy man, Lisa Howe has managed it. The veteran UPS driver was making deliveries in a Fort Worth apartment neighborhood when a suspect, without warning, walked...
Fort Worth comes out looking good in the latest of Forbes Magazine's inexhaustible cities-ranked series. Cowtown scores high on the mag's list of affordable places to live, which weighs housing prices, cost of living, job avaibility and safety. Mayor Mike...
The Super Bowl XLV host committee has judiciously distributed the 2011 game's glam run-up events among the region's municipal kingpins. Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington get the ripest of the fruit - lucrative fan parties and big-ticket events. Irving gets...
Friends, we've all got a lot of cares and worries these days. But surely your heart gladdens at the happy notion of a squirrel on water skis. Yes, Twiggy the Waterskiing Squirrel is currently making a limited-engagement appearance at the...
A set of triplets serving up McNuggets and Big Macs at a Fort Worth McDonald's near Hulen Mall is causing some customers to see triple. KXAS-TV has them in action. It's also fun to see how customers react....
He got so nervous he forgot his age (he's 9, not 8, as he told a dispatcher), but a grade-schooler in Fort Worth kept his head when burglars broke into he house where he was home alone Monday. According to...
From metro reporter Dan X. McGraw... A Fort Worth school bus driver has been fired after a YouTube video showed the driver stopping on railroad tracks as a train approached, authorities said. The driver was fired earlier this month after...
Crazy brave? A 30-year-old woman working the graveyard(!) shift at a Fort Worth 7-Eleven calmly told an armed gunman she wasn't going to open the register. According to the FW Star-Telegram: The robber ... entered the store and told the...
"Girls Gone Wild" - the amateur bimbos-behaving-badly franchise launched by the verminous Joe Francis - apparently intended to spend the weekend trolling downtown Fort Worth for young women drunk enough to embarrass themselves on camera. Plans were cancelled, reports the...
Ever tempted by a guy in a lawn chair at an intersection with a homemade for-sale sign and a pen full of darling, wiggly puppies? Fort Worth has eliminated the temptation, reports the Star-Telegram, by banning all roadside pet sales....
Kenneth Elliott, former prez of the Metro Housing Partnership in neighboring Cowtown, has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing federal housing funds. He will start his new partnership with prison officials on April 29. At taxpayers'...
I'm not sure that I'm crazy about a gun store named Cheaper Than Dirt, but one exists in Fort Worth. And it was robbed. Apparently some crooks thought the prices were still beyond their means. The discount ammunition store also...
Newsletter sign-up: Top Headlines
Get Breaking News on your cell