Although we trail such medieval wonderlands as Spain, Bavaria, and Wales in castles per square mile, Texas is studded with crenellated, turreted strongholds, ranging from the kitschy to the magnificent. October 23, 2015By John Nova LomaxComments Login / Register OR No Account? Register here. Although we trail such medieval wonderlands as Spain, Bavaria, and Wales in castles per square mile, Texas is studded with an apparently growing number of these crenellated, turreted strongholds, Read more [...]

Tom Donoghue / DonoghuePhotography.com Siegfried Roy feed a tiger cub during a Make-a-Wish Foundation event on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at the Mirage. By John Katsilometes (contact) Published Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 | 1:24 p.m. Updated 3 hours, 29 minutes ago Siegfried Roy + Emma Goldsberry Launch slideshow » The Kats Report Bureau on Thursday wheeled into the Villas at the Mirage, where Siegfried Roy welcomed the latest members of “our family,” as Siegfried often refers Read more [...]

Police in Germany stopped a plan by neo-Nazis to attack a refugee centre in Bavaria, local authorities revealed on this week. Officers arrested eleven men and two women during raids on Wednesday in the town of Bamberg near Nuremburg. The group, which had been under observation by police for many months, held a cache of ammunition, firearms and makeshift explosives, as well as Nazi memorabilia, including banned Swastika flags and Third Reich helmets. Read more [...]

Flags branded with swastikas, Nazi magazines and memorabilia from the Third Reich were found at the homes of the suspected plotters in Bavaria. 

Detectives observed the group of 11 men and two women for more than a year before swooping in on Wednesday morning, seizing illegal firecrackers, a firearm, ammunition and other weapons.