Jeff Caplan, Bradenton Herald

Jeff Caplan

Bradenton Herald

Fort Worth, TX, United States

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  • Bradenton Herald
  • Star-Telegram.com
  • The Fresno Bee
  • The Sacramento Bee
  • The Kansas City Star
  • Idaho Statesman
  • The Miami Herald
  • TriCityHerald
  • News Democrat

Past articles by Jeff:

Facebook-fueled uprising in this Texas town has some people worried they'll 'get shot'

A political uprising in depressed Mineral Wells, Texas, led by three local characters who look like extras from Duck Dynasty, has awakened a populace demanding to know why their property taxes continue to rise but the streets never get fixed. → Read More

North Main bridge construction has cut-off local merchants desperate for a lifeline

Local business owners along the stretch of N. Main Street cut off from traffic while a bridge is being built as part of the Panther Island Project are panicking as customers stay away and their incomes shrink by as much as 75 percent. → Read More

A Fort Worth tow company is fined again, and the curious ties between owner and attorney

Fort Worth, TX-based company Black Bull Towing fined $10,400 and warned by state of Texas that it is in danger of having its operating license revoked for one year. It has a history of towing vehicles illegally from apartment complexes. → Read More

After-school care for all? That's the plan for this underserved Fort Worth community

The Las Vegas Trail Revitalization Project is rolling out a mobile community center as its promise of delivering a brick-and-mortar center progresses with the cooperation of the YMCA and a plan to create a non-profit to operate it. → Read More

Tarrant County judge used electric shocks to punish sex offender, who is getting a new trial

A Tarrant County judge ordered a bailiff to administer electric shock 3 times to a convicted sex offender who will now get a new trial. → Read More

Teachers packing heat: It's one thing to carry a gun. It's another to pull the trigger

Weapons training is available for Texas teachers but how do they prepare for possibly shooting a student, or maybe even someone they know? → Read More

Texas woman, 69, and her lifelong addiction to drugs

Judy Rice started using drugs in the 1970s and hasn’t stopped. She recently chose to spend her Social Security check on meth instead of paying her electricity and water bills for her dilapidated home in Westworth Village. → Read More

Woman almost hit by stray bullet at Knights Inn motel in Fort Worth, Texas

A 23-year-old woman narrowly missed being struck by a stray bullet in her and her husband's motel room Friday night at the troubled Knights Inn in Fort Worth. → Read More

How unpaid traffic tickets can unravel your life

An Arlington woman’s Class C warrants finally got her arrested, tossing her life into chaos. Fort Worth’s new program can avoid such grief. → Read More

City files for injunction on Las Vegas Trail apartments

City of Fort Worth attorneys filed a motion requesting a temporary injunction against Mira Monte Apartments citing no attempt to decrease crime. → Read More

Social Security disability claimants die waiting for hearing

The backlog to reach a disability benefits hearing is wrecking families financially and psychologically. Congress is providing no answers. → Read More

Fort Worth lawsuit targets troubled motel

Knights Inn faces closure after failing to satisfy Fort Worth officials regarding code compliance and cooperating with police. → Read More

Disability: Backlog forces injured workes to wait months for benefits

Disability benefits backlog forces people in dire need of Social Security benefits to wait up to 2 years. → Read More

Disability: Backlog forces injured workes to wait months for benefits

Disability benefits backlog forces people in dire need of Social Security benefits to wait up to 2 years. → Read More

Disability: Backlog forces injured workes to wait months for benefits

Disability benefits backlog forces people in dire need of Social Security benefits to wait up to 2 years. → Read More

Disability: Backlog forces injured workes to wait months for benefits

Disability benefits backlog forces people in dire need of Social Security benefits to wait up to 2 years. → Read More

Disability: Backlog forces injured workes to wait months for benefits

Disability benefits backlog forces people in dire need of Social Security benefits to wait up to 2 years. → Read More

Documents: Fort Worth leaders voted against residents' wishes on SB4

A majority of emails and phone calls to Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and four councilmen urged them to join a lawsuit challenging Texas Senate Bill 4, the state’s “sanctuary cities” law. → Read More

Trump Jr. scolds univeristies, past presidents in North Texas speech

President Donald Trump’s son details American nationalism and says universities peddle in hate speech. → Read More

Wyndham joins Fort Worth pressure on Knights Inn, threatens penalty

Wyndham Hotel Group owns the Knights Inn name and could strip the Las Vegas Trail-area hotel of it if the owner doesn’t show quick progress. → Read More