Also, a story in some editions Monday on Page 2 about Osama bin Laden’s life said bin Laden died in the lawless badlands of Pakistan along the Afghanistan border. Bin Laden was killed in a house in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad. The story also repeated a paragraph that had some garbled sentences. A timeline in [...]
Blogger Fred Witzell wrote to Hurst Mayor Richard Ward that his membership in Mayors Against Illegal Guns was a disgrace. After that, Ward responded that Witzell was “dumb” and “ugly.” Witzell then responded that Ward was an “idiot” mayor. The sequence of events was incorrect Thursday in an article. Link Report an error
McClatchy Watch spotted a rather remarkable concert recommendation in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Have you heard of Django Reinhardt?" it asks. Then it reports that "he returns to Mount Crested Butte again Labor Day weekend (Sept. 5-6) for DjangoFest Colorado." Well, that would definitely be worth seeing. Alas, Reinhardt is not coming back from the [...]
Bishop Eddie Long of Georgia, left, is one of six televangelists being investigated by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. An incorrect photo was published with a Sunday report. Link Report an error
A note to readers from Jill “J.R.” Labbe, deputy editorial page editor of the Star-Telegram: I blew it in my Sunday column. My apologies to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign for not being up-to-date on the permutations of the anecdote she was using about a 35-year-old pregnant woman who died at an [...]
The last paragraph of the Monday “Focus on …” letter (“The problem with ethanol”) should have read that “future ethanol subsidies will be $51 million per day,” instead of $51 billion. Report an error
A news article in last Sunday’s Stars magazine incorrectly reported the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt. The writer is not dead. Report an error
