On July 12, Amber Lowrey arrived at her sister’s apartment in Fort Worth. The FBI had raided it days earlier, Lowrey said, and she surveyed the wreckage: shattered windows, broken doors, damaged floorboards from a flash bang. Agents seized four “pages of map documents,” according to a property receipt reviewed by The Barbed Wire. Lowrey’s […]
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This Weekend in Texas Football: Cowboy Tears, a Camp Mystic Tribute & a Texas Tech Victory
Well, it turns out that even the great Brandon Aubrey couldn’t kick his way out of a slightly cringe-y weekend for Texas football. Welcome back to The Barbed Wire does football, in which our team of completely unqualified-to-write-about sports writers recap the highlights (and lowlights, and baby lights) of Texas teams. After the thrill of […]
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When the School Year Starts in Texas, So Do the School Stabbings. Parents Have Had Enough.
Children were back on campus for just under two weeks when a student at Ryan High School in the Dallas suburb of Denton allegedly stabbed a classmate. It happened at 9:10 a.m. Friday, reported The Dallas Morning News. Both students were boys under the age of 17. The injured student suffered non-life-threatening wounds, while the […]
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Need a Court-Appointed Lawyer in North Texas? You Might Get One With a White Nationalist Tattoo.
EXCLUSIVE Editor’s note: This story includes quotes in which the subject uses offensive racial slurs and references to racial terror. The Barbed Wire does not condone the use of such language, but believes them to be newsworthy, important context. Any racist language has been censored with hyphens. This is a story about white nationalism, taxpayer […]
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‘Love Is Blind’ Is Coming to Austin, Home of Horribly Behaved Singles
Tech bros, it’s your time to shine — “Love is Blind” is casting in Austin. The mega-popular show, where faceless singles meet behind a screen, fall in love, and get engaged (to varying degrees of success), bases itself out of one city for each season. The eight-season show has already had its moment in Dallas […]
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Dang, Texas Heat Advisories Are Back. Shocked? Neither Are We.
And we almost made it to August without triple-digit temperatures. North Texas is facing its hottest day of the year yet, and has been placed under a heat advisory as temperatures threaten to reach 105 degrees. According to the National Weather Service, a heat advisory means you should reconsider outdoor activities, primarily during peak heat […]
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Babies Burned to Death & Pregnant Women Bombed in Tents: What a Dallas ER Doctor Saw in Gaza
When Dr. Adil Husain finally reached the hospital in Gaza, he told the staff he didn’t mind working 12-hour shifts. They laughed. “You’re not going to survive more than four-hour bursts,” they told him. Husain, a 32-year-old emergency room doctor who lives in Dallas, was part of a group that called themselves “the Gaza Six”: […]
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Dallas Cop Accused of Stealing Nearly $38,000 of Apple Products to Sell on Facebook
A Dallas police officer is on administrative leave after being accused of stealing nearly $38,000 worth of products from local Apple stores, where he worked as an off-duty overnight security guard. After noticing a pattern of missing products in March, employees at the Apple stores installed covert cameras to monitor the officer, Senior Cpl. Le […]
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‘The Pulpit is Sacred’: Dallas Faith Leaders Sue to Block Ten Commandments Bill
Dallas-based faith leaders are suing to block a “religiously coercive” bill that requires Texas public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments. The plaintiffs are all parents, suing on behalf of themselves and their minor-age children, and allege that S.B. 10 “unconstitutionally pressures students” into observing the state’s “mandated religious scripture.” The Texas Education […]
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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Are Superheroes in Sequins
Texas hasn’t gotten its due as a major piece in the complex puzzle of American art. We’re here to rectify that. Every three weeks, H. Drew Blackburn will conduct a thoroughly scientific analysis of the 254 integral (one for every county) books, movies, tv shows, albums, podcasts, songs, and magazine articles — you name it […]