The DHS and Cytel Group, Inc., coordinated Operation Urban Shield for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, centering on the D/FW Metroplex the weekend of November 8 - 11. These are some of the sights and sounds that went with the experience…an exercise in learning from the mistakes of 9/11, Katrina, The Boston Marathon and other moments of terror in American life...

Operation Urban Shield

Taka Yokoyama is a WFAA camera man who was working for Boston news outlet on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing. He shared what he saw and heard when the bombs went off one block from his location where, he said, the blast shook the satellite truck with it concussion.

WFAA Cameraman Who Covered Boston Marathon Bombing

When San Antonio Telecommunications Manager John Foddrill began to prepare for a whistleblower trial that took place in 2009, he sat down with an agent and a senior auditor of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listening to this 15-minute segment of the conversation makes it abundantly clear what he was facing in the way of official reluctance to make public records available and the lethargic attitude of government watchdogs charged with the task of keeping the grant recipients honest.

San Antonio Variable Account HUD Audit Interview

Because this is truly the land where the Pharaoh died, we dedicate this university to King Farouk of Egypt...

Farouk U

They call it a communications problem. Larry Franklin Bone waived extradition and set the world on fire in the warrants and records division of the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, which spent $150 to bring him back from Arnette, Oklahoma, to answer a rubber check charge of theft of less than $1,500 on a $67 kite he wrote HEB back in 2011. His wife was hot on their trail with the cash. Bone never saw the striped sunshine...

Oklahoma interstate drive-by trucker extradited to Six Shooter Junction...

A Little Long In The Tooth

Cowboy Blues

Walk Like A Man

Caitlin McNamara is a cousin of High Sheriff Parnell McNamara who vows to stand by her man Michael, a 25 year-old Hispanic wildcat charged with shooting a cop who came to save her from him as they sat in his truck at a storage unit beside the interstate in Waco, also known as Six Shooter Junction...

A Wild Irish Rose

As the war ends and soldiers are demobilized, police agencies are buying armored vehicles with Department of Homeland Security grant money - their use in urban combat proven and battle-tested on the highways and streets of Afghanistan...

The Legendary