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Gary Cartwright received his B.A. in journalism from Texas Christian University. He has had a distinguished career as a newspaper reporter and as a freelance writer, contributing stories to such national publications as Harper’s, Life, and Esquire. He was a senior editor at Texas Monthly for 25 years until his retirement in 2010 at age 76. Cartwright was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1986 in the category of reporting excellence. He has been the recipient of a Dobie-Paisano fellowship and has won the Texas Institute of Letters Stanley Walker Award for Journalism and the Carr P. ...

Judge Wood's 1979 slaying by Charles Harrelson was 'crime of the century' The convicted hitman was the father of actor Woody Harrelson. FacebookTwitterEmail 12 1of12Charles Harrelson under arrest in 1982 for the slaying of federal judge John Wood.Express-News file photoShow MoreShow Less 2of12U.S. District Judge John H. Wood was assassinated in San Antonio May 29, 1979, by Charles Harrelson.FILE PHOTOShow MoreShow Less 3of12Charles Harrelson, arrives at the U.S. Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday morning, September 28, 1982, to begin the trial for the May 1979 murder of Fe...

Hackers want millions in ransom. American schools are considering the cost. Kevin Collier The ransomware attack on her daughter's school was the last thing Glynnis Sanders needed. Like most parents, Sanders has been performing a daily juggling act. When she's not teaching special education classes at Buffalo Public Schools, she and her husband are usually making sure their three kids are attending their remote classes. So it hit hard when hackers struck the school of her youngest daughter in early March, the Friday before she was supposed to finally return to in-person learnin...

  Gary Cartwright, EU Today publishing editor.  3 Feb 21, On January 29th EUToday hosted a conference at the Press Club, Brussels, concentrating on the new and proposed nuclear power plants in Belarus, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. Moderator Natalia Richardson drew parallels between the risks surrounding nuclear energy today, and the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, of which she, as a student in Ukraine at the time, had experience. Keynote speaker Jutta Paulus, a German Green MEP who sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, told the conference...

By Jane Sumner Special to the American-Statesman Those of us who gathered to say goodbye on the grassy slope of Republic Hill at the Texas State Cemetery on May 12, 2009, thought we’d heard the last from legendary author Edwin “Bud” Shrake. We were wrong.  Eleven years later, Shrake, dubbed “the lion of Texas letters,” has come roaring back with a crisp, wild and witty novel inspired by his real-life manic adventures as a screenwriter in 1970s and ‘80s Tinseltown. A riveting read, "Hollywood Mad Dogs" is the same kind of  “eyewitness fiction” as his superb incendiary novel...