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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Moncrief encouraged anyone who witnessed the events to tell police what they saw, and he said he has asked acting U.S. Attorney James Jacks to independently review the police investigation afterward "to ensure the department has thoroughly and impartially carried out its obligation to all the citizens of Fort Worth. I encourage the TABC to follow the same course."
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Moncrief encouraged anyone who witnessed the events to tell police what they saw, and he said he has asked U.S. Attorney James Jacks to independently review the police investigation afterward “to ensure the department has thoroughly and impartially carried out its obligation to all the citizens of Fort Worth. I encourage the TABC to follow the same course.”
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The Fort Worth police department said today it has suspended all operations with the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission until more information about a beverage code inspection at the Rainbow Lounge is obtained. "In the coming weeks, Chief [Jeffery] Halstead will conduct meetings with TABC officials in an effort to establish clearly defined roles and responsibilities of each organization with the...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
FORT WORTH – Matt Meador struggled to find what good could come from last weekend's police sweep of the Rainbow Lounge. Also Online Meador said Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents and Fort Worth police roughed up his friend, Chad Gibson, during a beverage code inspection at the gay bar on Sunday. The events surrounding the 1 a.m. incident at the club are disputed. Witnesses said officers...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
The Fort Worth Police Department still has some explaining to do about what happened early Sunday at a southside gay bar called the Rainbow Lounge. Or some clarifying or some illuminating or some supplementary detailing – anything to mitigate the apparently self-administered public-relations shot-to-the-foot it suffered after what it keeps calling a routine "bar check." 'Cause –...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Homer Johns was last seen in his garage in the 4700 block of Ardenwood Drive. His car and cellphone were found at his home. Police said he was not diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or any other serious medical condition. He does take medication for high blood pressure.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Protesters said they want to know why Fort Worth police officers and Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission agents used what the protesters described as excessive force when arresting seven patrons at the Rainbow Lounge early Sunday.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
“Children should never be left unsupervised for any length of time in or around water, because the results can be devastating in a matter of minutes. If you can’t see them, you can’t save them,” said Sasha Rasco, the department's assistant commissioner for Child Care Licensing.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Melvin Hall Jr., an outfielder whose big-league career included stints with the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants, was accused in 2007 of sexually assaulting two teens in the late 1990s. A Tarrant County grand jury indicted him on seven counts including aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14; indecency/fondling; and aggravated sexual assault of a child...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
OKLAHOMA CITY – For a few days, a portion of downtown Oklahoma City has been transformed into 1950s Texas for the filming of an independent movie.Casey Affleck donned a light-colored cowboy hat and a dark blue suit Saturday as he walked past an old bank building that was serving as a Fort Worth train station for the filming of The Killer Inside Me. Signs directing pedestrians to the trains were...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Bishop T.D. Jakes told the congregation at his church Sunday that a last-minute change of plans kept him from being killed in a natural gas explosion at his Fort Worth home last week, according to an Associated Press report.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
No one was injured in the explosion in the rear of the approximately 15,000-square-foot home in the 8400 block of Meadowbrook Drive. The explosion, which appeared to have been accidental, heavily damaged the sunroom but did not result in a fire, said Lt. Kent Worley, a Fire Department spokesman.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Authorities are investigating how a bank official fatally fell from a parking garage Tuesday afternoon in downtown Fort Worth across the street from Bass Hall, according to media reports. The Tarrant County medical examiner's office identified the man as Gary Robeson, 57, of Hurst. A Frost Bank spokeswoman said Robeson was a senior vice president and had been with the company for more than 13 years....
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Faced with growing absences and five confirmed cases of flu, Mesquite school officials decided Tuesday to end the school year early for Range Elementary School. "We understand it's going to be hard for some parents," said Ian Halperin, a district spokesman. "I think there are going to be some parents who are disappointed, but there are going to be some parents who are going to be glad."...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
According to a preliminary investigation, a resident in the 8100 block of Camelot Road told police he had heard someone in his backyard and grabbed a shotgun. The 37-year-old man told police he fired approximately five times at the suspect and then went back inside the house to protect his children.
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