The incident report on DPD’s public access website regarding Marshall Moreno’s death is bare-bones. Yesterday at 4:47 p.m., the 43-year-old died at Baylor Hospital of unknown causes, and his body was taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. But the cause of Moreno’s death isn’t quite as obscure…
This morning around dawn, as Stevens Park Golf Course was preparing for the day, a worker passing noticed something odd sticking out of the sand trap on the 18th hole. Closer inspection revealed it to be a silver 2004 Ford sedan. Police were called to the club and, through careful…
At their end-of-season press conference yesterday, Rangers brass mostly deflected questions about Josh Hamilton’s terrible performance down the stretch. Team president Nolan Ryan opened up a bit more yesterday to Galloway & Company on ESPN Dallas, at least about Hamilton’s on-field performance. Ryan dismissed the idea that Hamilton quit on…
The city’s proposed rules for drivers operating motor vehicles near cyclists — that they must pass at a safe distance, can’t turn right into their path, and, last but not least, aren’t allowed to pelt them with things from car windows — seem like no-brainers. Anyone who doesn’t think they…
The claim that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs has been endlessly recited in media exposes and confessional tell-alls from former teammates. The evidence, however, has never been put forth in any sort of formal way, as was going to happen publicly before the seven-time Tour de France winner announced he…
The development of North Texas’ Barnett Shale did not go as smoothly as gas companies had hoped. The flaming water in Parker County, elevated levels of benzene in DISH, elevated rates of breast cancer in Flower Mound, and any number of other reports contributed to the perception among the general…
Melissa Kingston, the Lower Greenville resident and attorney representing neighborhood groups in negotiations over the Greenville Avenue Walmart, didn’t hold back in her lawsuit against Avi Adelman. The longtime neighborhood activist and proprietor of BarkingDogs.org is a “menace” and a “neighborhood terrorist” who bullies anyone with whom he disagrees, the…
The sequence of events detailed in the lawsuit filed last month by the family of Deanna Cook was damning: Cook, screaming for help as her ex-husband attacked her, called 911. An understaffed emergency call center finally, after several minutes, dispatched officers, who stopped at a 7-Eleven and checked on a…
It’s mid-October again, time for temperatures to cool, leaves to turn, and Neiman Marcus to drop its annual compendium of decadent absurdity in the form of its 176-page Christmas Book. The catalog, which you can find here, contains just as hypnotic a collection of high-end fashion photography and ridiculously expensive…
Last week, workers at Wal-Mart stores in Southern California walked off the job in what was, per Salon, the first multi-store strike in the retail giant’s history. Today, the protest made its way to Dallas. Workers at nine area Wal-Mart stores walked off the job this morning to demand higher…
There is good news to be found in the city’s crime stats. For the ninth year in a row, Dallas is on pace to see a drop in its crime rate and, while violent crime is about flat, burglary and theft are down by 15 and 11 percent, respectively. The…
Just last week, we noted that while those long-delayed bike lanes downtown are great and all, it’ll be a long time before Dallas drivers give cyclists their space. Texas motorists tend to feel entitled to the road, which they are loath to share with some spindly, non-motorized conveyance. We learn…
The police report for Sunday afternoon’s robbery of the Zone d’ Erotica on Forest Lane doesn’t say much. Someone walked into the adult novelty retailer with a knife, demanded cash, and left. The robber got the money, about $250, but he (or she — the report doesn’t specify) also made…
You already knew that Mike Miles, DISD’s new superintendent, isn’t one to mince words. That was, after all, part of the thinking in hiring him: that a straight-talking, pull-no-punches leader could transform DISD from an improving but still struggling urban district into one of the country’s finest. So far, Miles’…
This summer, Andrew Moss, a former DART police officer, launched a petition urging the transit agency to offer domestic partner benefits. Moss had worked for DART until health problems forced him to step down in 2008. Though his husband continued to work there as a police officer, their marriage isn’t…
It’s been almost a year since the city first began mulling changes to its solicitation and anti-litter ordinance, which is a roundabout way of saying the City Council wants the Morning News to quit it with the damned Briefings, those free papers distributed to unwitting homeowners across the city. Those…
Over the summer, Methodist Dallas Medical Center admitted it had made a teensy weensy mistake and accidentally slipped the wrong kidney into one of its organ recipients. Such an error could have easily killed the patient had her body rejected the organ, but it didn’t. The kidney turned out to…
Jerry Jones must have felt the superlatives slipping away from Cowboys Stadium, that monument to football, consumerism, and, not least, Jerry Jones. What other explanation could there be for opening the first ever lingerie store inside a sports stadium? Three years after it opened with a dome that, at 275…
The Indigo on Forest is, per its website, a wonderful community located in “prestigious North Dallas” that still manages to offer apartments at the low, low price of $440 per month. It would be almost idyllic if it weren’t for the contingent of MS-13, a.k.a. Mara Salvatrucha, a.k.a. the brutal…
Meet Ricky Carr. He’s 53, from Fort Worth, and a regular visitor to both the Dallas and Tarrant County jails. One’s first impression upon looking at his picture is probably not “Hey, he looks just like a police officer!” or “Finally! Someone who can tell me if this pile of…
There was a time when you couldn’t turn on daytime TV without being bombarded with dire, low-budget ads advising anyone who’d stepped near a pharmacy between 1999 and 2004 to talk to contact an attorney immediately about Vioxx. The anti-inflammatory drug was linked to tens of thousands of cases of…
The death of Deanna Cook, who police believe was murdered by her ex-husband as 911 operators listened, was a rare public reminder that instances of domestic violence can turn fatal, with alarming frequency. So far this year, 19 PEOPLE have been murdered in acts of domestic violence, few of which…
