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Kaufman County district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot dead in their home on Blarney Stone Way in Forney, Texas, on March 30th, 2013. Their shooting came almost two months after Assistant DA Mark Hasse was fatally gunned down on January 31st as he walked to the courthouse on East Grove Street in Kaufman, Texas. A Read more...
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Mickey Mantle is interred in the Mantle family mausoleum at Sparkman/Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. The American former professional baseball player for the New York Yankees died, aged 63, on August 13th, 1995, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He received a liver transplant two months earlier after cancer was found in his own liver, already damaged Read more...
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The city of Houston, Texas, is named after Sam Houston, an American general and statesman who became the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1837, after the territory’s declaration of independence from Mexico. In 1836, brothers John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen purchased the land to establish the townsite that became Houston, naming it after General Houston, Read more...
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, was previously called Houston Intercontinental Airport from 1969 until 1997. It was renamed in honor of George H W Bush, the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and also a member of the US House of Representatives representing Texas’s 7th congressional district. He and his wife, Barbara, settled in Read more...
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The corporate headquarters of upscale organic food supermarket Whole Foods Market, Inc are located at Bowie Street and West 6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas. Based at the site since 2005, Whole Foods expanded its Austin corporate campus in 2021 with the construction of a second office building across the street. In addition to housing the company’s global support offices, Read more...
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Baylor University in Waco, Texas, operates a dry campus, prohibiting the possession, use, and distribution of alcohol, or being under the influence of an alcoholic beverage while on campus, including all extension campuses. Baylor’s restriction on alcohol policy also extends to prohibiting students and employees from being under the influence of alcohol at off-campus University-related activities. The university defines an Read more...
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IAH is the IATA code for George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, located around 23 miles (or 37 kilometers) north of downtown Houston. Opened in June 1969 as Houston Intercontinental Airport, it was renamed George Bush Intercontinental Airport in 1997 after George H W Bush, the 41st US President of the United States and a former US House representative Read more...
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The FC Dallas MLS soccer team plays its home games at the Toyota Stadium (previously called Pizza Hut Park) in Frisco, Texas, some 30 miles north of downtown Dallas. Frisco Independent School District also uses the stadium for high school football games and it is also the home of the National Soccer Hall of Fame which opened in 2018. Read more...
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University of Utah freshman running back Ty Jordan died, aged 19, of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound on the evening of December 25th, 2020. Police responding to reports of a shooting at 1109 South Avenue B in Denton, Texas, found Jordan suffering from a gunshot injury to his abdomen. He was transported to hospital where he died shortly afterwards. Jordan, Read more...
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The Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team plays its home games at American Airlines Center in the Victory Park neighborhood of downtown Dallas, Texas. The Mavs relocated here from the Reunion Arena where they played until 2001. American Airlines Center is also the home arena of the Dallas Stars NHL ice hockey team. Read more...
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Actor Eddie Hassell was shot dead during the early hours of Sunday, November 1st, 2020, in an apparent random robbery at Indigo Pointe on Bardin Road in Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. He was outside his girlfriend’s apartment and was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to the stomach. The Corsicana, Texas native starred Read more...
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The Dallas Stars NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at American Airlines Center in the Victory Park neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas. The Stars relocated here from the Reunion Arena where they played until 2001. American Airlines Center is also the home arena of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. Read more...
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The Houston Rockets NBA basketball team plays its home games at the Toyota Center in downtown Houston. The team moved into the new arena for the 2003-04 season, having previously played for 29 years at Houston’s Compaq Center (formerly called The Summit). In their first game at the Toyota Center on October 30th, 2003, the Houston Rockets secured a 102 Read more...
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Leashed dogs are permitted in most areas of Zilker Park in south Austin, and the park has a designated dog park at The Great Lawn where well-behaved dogs are allowed off leash. There is also a dog swim area in Barton Creek known as Barking Springs, located just outside Barton Springs Pool. Dog leashes must be no longer than 6 Read more...
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The NPR member radio station in Austin is KUT which broadcasts to Central Texas on FM and HD Radio at 90.5 MHz, and also streams online. The station is operated by the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas from studios at the G B Dealey CenterĀ for New Media (formerly the Belo Center) on the UT campus in Read more...
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Tyler Wayne Skaggs, baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels, died at the Hilton Dallas/Southlake Town Square Hotel on July 1st, 2019, aged 27. The Angels were visiting for a four-game series against the Texas Rangers at the time. His death was determined to be an accident after an autopsy found that Skaggs had aspirated on his own vomit and Read more...