The story had all the hallmarks of a potboiler for the internet age — race, police misconduct, violence against women, Twitter, police cameras. A black North Texas woman accused a white law enforcement officer of sexually assaulting her during an arrest. She hired a civil rights attorney to represent her,…
At around 8 p.m. Tuesday, just five votes separated Lupe Valdez and Andrew White in the runoff for the Democratic primary for Texas governor. By 10 p.m., White, speaking from his home in Houston, was congratulating Valdez for her win while Valdez supporters packed a banquet room inside Ellen’s in…
When somebody picks up a gun and takes it into a crowded area to kill people, the world quickly asks why. This search for answers naturally happens in the public, on Twitter or Facebook, in side conversations, and in news media. The press is here to add meaning to any…
The outrage that came to Southern Methodist University last week after news stories heralded a “racist survey” conducted by the university, is precisely the kind of outrage that led SMU to conduct the survey in the first place. The survey is only one leg of a seven-year project at SMU…
Charter schools in North Texas ranked lower overall in quality than traditional public schools in the state, according to a recent report by Children At Risk, and charter schools serving primarily black or Latino students did worst of all in terms of achievement. When a Texas school falls short of…
? 01:08 Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings was in Houston Friday morning when, about 40 miles away in Santa Fe, another person with a gun opened fire on another school, killing at least 10 as of Friday afternoon. Rawlings said in a tweet Friday that officials should spare Texans their thoughts…
Authorities found her body floating in White Rock Creek on Saturday evening. She was wearing a black shirt and black scrubs bottoms. At a little over 5 feet tall, the black transgender woman had no tattoos and no marks on her body to identify her. And as of Thursday afternoon,…
More than 300 people lined the sidewalk of Dealey Plaza on Dec. 9. Honking car horns and chants from the crowd filled the air as protesters wielded Palestinian flags and signs that read, “Hands off Jerusalem.” The Rally for Jerusalem, Capital of Palestine was organized by the Dallas Palestine Coalition,…
Deep Ellum and downtown Dallas meet right around 2200 Main St., where a nightclub called Purgatory used to sit. It was a great concept — three floors with different designs, one heaven, one purgatory and the other hell — that quickly went wrong, and the club served as a touch…
Former Richardson Mayor Laura Jordan and her real estate developer husband, Mark Jordan, face federal bribery and corruption charges over a controversial project called Palisades, a mix of retail space, restaurants, office space and apartments under construction along Central Expressway. In 2015, plans for 1,000 apartments in Palisades drew bitter…
Suicide is still a taboo in our society. That was what Steve Blow, retired longtime columnist of The Dallas Morning News, tried to convey in a piece he wrote in 2010 that landed him and the News in court, sued for defamation. Last week, Blow and the News won the libel…
Denton County detention officer Jason Inman lost his left eye Monday night when he tried to catch an inmate who ran off during medical treatment. The inmate, Matthew Harmon, required a visit to the hospital. When he and Inman arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Denton, medical staff needed…
