On May 22, Garland police raided the home of Willis Bassham, a 40-year-old social studies teacher at Garland High School, and seized his cell phone and several computers. Stored there were sexually explicit photos and videos of at least four female students. One, who was 17 at the time, was…
Over the summer, plans for a $33 million parking garage next to the American Airlines Center briefly became the focus of the ongoing feud between Ross Perot Jr., whose company was building the structure, and Mark Cuban, whose company opposed the project. The garage was green-lighted by the City Council…
On Tuesday morning, Dallas police got a call from the Transportation Security Administration. The agency had some 65 pounds of abandoned ammunition that needed to be picked up. That’s all DPD’s incident report said. Not a word about what the hell such a large amount of ammunition was doing at…
During the 2011 session of the Texas Legislature, after hearing a report on the radio indicating that judges in Dearborn, Michigan, now embrace Islamic jurisprudence, state Representative Leo Berman, a Republican from Tyler, filed a bill to keep Texas courtrooms free of sharia law. The proposal was referred to committee,…
Yesterday afternoon, Mark Cuban began passing a kidney stone. We know this because he told us. Kidney stones are no fun.If this one pops out in one piece I’m either going to get it bronzed or sell it on eBay #pukinglikeaftermyfirstbeer— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) December 18, 2012 Please, Mark. Elaborate…
Last night, NBC 5 laid bare the truth about distracted driving and the Dallas Police Department. Over two years, the station reported, in-car computers and similar distractions were a factor in 13 accidents involving DPD vehicles. Over the summer, the department considered changing its policy governing the use of in-car…
Jason Villalba, the newly elected state representative from North Dallas, is starting his legislative career with a splash. Villalba announced today that he will introduce the Protection of Texas Children Act, the innocuous-sounding title of a bill that would allow Texas school districts to designate pistol-packing faculty and staff members…
On July 13, Angel Dobbs was driving her boyfriend’s car north down the George Bush Turnpike when they were pulled over by state troopers. The troopers said they had spotted Dobbs throw a cigarette butt out the window. According to a lawsuit filed by the Dobbs yesterday in federal court,…
In March 2011, after federal inspectors visited Keeneland Nursing and Rehab, a Weathorford nursing home, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a report detailing a laundry list of concerns. The report concluded that staff were medicating patients unnecessarily so they’d be easier to deal with. One nurse reportedly…
Victor Lozada was a 19-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department when he was killed in a motorcycle crash while escorting then-presidential contender Hillary Clinton to a campaign rally in Oak Cliff on February 22, 2008. His death yielded a momentary pause to the hard-fought Democratic primary, an organ donation…
You know Micah Hurd as the 23-year-old UT-Arlington student whose petition for Texas secession gained 120,000 signatures and triggered a yet-to-materialize White House response, and who claimed he would have posted it anyways if Romney were elected. It was an entertaining gesture, and its entertainment value will no doubt increase…
Several months ago, researchers gathered 164 volunteers in College Station, Texas and Seattle, outfitted their cars with GPS devices, and had them fill out questionnaires detailing how they drive (i.e. if they speed up for yellow lights, drive drunk, miss road signs, and any number of other factors). Then they…
If you’re not yet in the holiday spirit, then perhaps you should take a drive Southwestern Boulevard in University Park. Dan Koller, managing editor of Park Cities People and my former boss, apparently did so this weekend. looking at holiday lights in the Park Cities when he stumbled upon the…
Christmas is just eight days away, so people are rushing to get last-minute gifts. iPhones are always popular, and one can never go wrong with cash. Of course, everything’s so much cheaper when you just take it, as demonstrated by this weekend’s police calls. Even Santa got in on the…
Brad Kirby has been pushing for tougher penalties for pet thieves for a while now, ever since two of his Huskies were stolen from in front of the Design District warehouse where he lives and works. He reported the thefts to the police, even told them who stole the dogs…
Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson was among the first to opine that the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday were a testament to the need for more guns in schools, not fewer. That other pundits and politicians would deploy the same argument in the days that followed, casting…
In the wake of the massacre of 27 people, 20 of them children, at a Connecticut elementary school today, Texas officials behaved with remarkable decorum. Attorney General Greg Abbott, a noted gun lover, sent a muted press release urging parents and students to be vigilant about school safety. And Governor…
Several things emerged from the internal Dallas ISD audit the Morning News got its hands on earlier this week. One was that Superintendent Mike Miles didn’t hesitate to bend or break established protocol when he was assembling his leadership team. Another was that DISD really didn’t want the report to…
News has been bouncing around the right-wing blogosphere for a while now (and to trustees with Irving ISD) that some 70 percent of school districts in Texas are indoctrinating children with pro-Islam propaganda. WorldNetDaily, which if nothing else is free of left-wing bias, reports “students are learning the ‘fact’ that…
When the Texas Legislature passed new rules governing the payday and auto-title lending industry in 2011, lawmakers accidentally (or not) left gaping holes large enough to drive large, cash-laden trucks through. It was little surprise, then, that that’s exactly what’s been happening. The Texas Observer’s Forrest Wilder found one of…
Two years ago, Southwest Airlines abruptly changed the rules of its Business Select program, which allows travelers to breeze through security, get to the front of the boarding line, earn extra reward points, and, most importantly, get free booze. Before August 1, 2010, could use their free drink vouchers whenever…
The idea that the Twinkie, so long a staple of America’s culinary landscape and fat kids’ lunch boxes, would disappear forever once Hostess went bankrupt was always laughable. And now that the company is officially in the process of shutting down, a clearer picture is emerging of who might inherit…
