Author: Jamie Stengle
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Bats, birds among wildlife pummeled during Southern freeze
DALLAS • As many people in the southern U.S. hosted neighbors who had no heat or water during the vicious February storm and deep freeze, Kate Rugroden provided a refuge for shell-shocked bats. Starving and disoriented, the winged mammals tumbled to the snow-coated ground as temperatures plunged to levels rarely seen in the region. “They…
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Suspected hypothermia deaths in homes mount in Texas
DALLAS — With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice and frigid temperatures nationwide,…
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At least 5 killed in massive crash on icy Texas interstate
DALLAS • At least nine people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the U.S. At the scene of the crash on Interstate 35 near Fort Worth,…
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Art collected by Jewish lawyer before WWII goes to auction
DALLAS • About 200 works of art from a Jewish lawyer’s collection that were spirited out of Nazi Germany to the U.S. are going up for auction. The works collected by Ismar Littmann being offered Tuesday at Swann Auction Galleries In New York are mostly drawings, etchings and lithographs. They were once part of a…
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Harvey horror: Shivering girl, 3, clinging to drowned mom
DALLAS — A shivering 3-year-old girl found clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in Southeast Texas was likely saved by her mom’s effort to carry her child to safety from Harvey’s floods, police said Wednesday. Beaumont police identified the mother as 41-year-old Colette Sulcer and said her daughter was…
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Norma McCorvey, who was at center of Roe v. Wade, dead at 69
DALLAS — Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday. She was 69. McCorvey died at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas, said journalist Joshua Prager, who is working…
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Texas, Missouri, officers shot in ambushes
A police officer has been fatally shot in San Antonio, Texas, and another in St. Louis was shot in the face but is expected to survive, in what authorities are calling the latest in a series of target attacks on law enforcement. The San Antonio detective was writing out a traffic ticket when he was…
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Retreats should reflect a casual glamour, says Dallas decorator
From airy beach houses filled with light to rustic retreats tucked into the mountains, vacation homes can lead to inspired decorating. “You love that place; that’s why you’re there. That’s the place you want to go to relax,” says Dallas interior designer Jan Showers, author most recently of “Glamorous Retreats” (Harry N. Abrams, 240 pages,…
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Bush leads bike ride for wounded vets at his ranch
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush pedaled off Friday on the second of a three-day mountain bike ride with 16 “extraordinary” wounded veterans to honor their service and celebrate their recoveries. Bush, 67, planned to ride the full 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the fourth annual Warrior 100K, accompanied all the way…
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European sites, art reflect work of new movie ‘The Monuments Men’
From a fairy tale-inspiring castle in the Bavarian Alps to a serene sculpture of Mary and Jesus by Michelangelo tucked away in a Belgian church, sites and works of art across Europe can give travelers a glimpse of the heroic work done by the group depicted in the new movie “The Monuments Men.” The group’s…