Back in May, longtime Dallas Independent School District educator George Clayton was defeated in State Board of Education reelection bid, apparently ending his all-too-brief, redistricting-shortened two-year term. The loss was partly because he was badly outspent by Tincy Miller in her attempt to regain the seat she occupied for several…
For the past decade, the city has been inching forward with plans for the Elm Fork Soccer Complex, a $40 million, 160-acre collection of athletic fields at Stemmons Freeway and Walnut Hill Lane that’s part of the non-tollway portion of the Trinity River Corridor Project. Last we checked, phase one…
A local medical device maker agreed yesterday to pay $5.2 million to settle a charges that it systematically bribed officials to win sales contracts with government hospitals in Mexico in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. According to a complaint filed by the SEC, Promeca, the Mexican subsidiary of…
Just before 2 p.m. on June 9, Kerrick Butler was shot and killed by two men inside his Northeast Dallas apartment while his 3-year-old daughter watched. An informant pinned the murder on Marquis White, the 21-year-old believed to have committed two rapes near an Audelia Road bus stop. That lead…
There was a lot of buzz back in May when a group led by the Central Japan Railway Co. and former Harris County Judge Robert Eckels announced plans to raise $10 billion in private funds to establish a bullet train linking Dallas and Houston. TxDOT, too, has been looking at…
Not to belabor the point, and with all due respect to the people who were injured, but watching a DART paratransit van plow into a line of cars on the Tollway is awesome. Now, we can watch it from the van’s perspective, plus bonus footage of the driver, who is…
NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry is gone effective today, the station announced in a statement released a while ago. Long-time NBC 5 news anchor Jane McGarry announced that she will leave effective today, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Tom Ehlmann, NBC 5 president and general manager said, “We support Jane’s decision…
An officer with the Dallas Police Department was arrested last night for drunk driving after she allegedly got into a wreck on the Central Expressway service road and drove away without leaving insurance information. DPD announced a few minutes ago on their Facebook page that Officer Erica Montanez , a…
Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, is a powerful sedative used in Europe for decades as a sleep aid and anesthetic during childbirth before it became widely used as a convenient and powerful date rape aid. That use has become disconcertingly common, at least according to date rate victims, their advocates, state and…
A while back, DART announced it was considering fare changes that will, assuming they are adopted, will go into effect on December 3. The proposal would do several things. It would streamline the fare structure and introduce variable pricing for peak- and non-peak hours, but for most riders, it will…
If you watched the footage of a DART paratransit van plowing, without so much as a hint of a tap on the brake pedal, into a line of cars exiting the Dallas North Tollway on June 29, you might have assumed the driver was a) not completely sober, b) sending/receiving…
As a rule, I never read the DMN’s automotive section, which, in case you were wondering, is in fact a thing that exists. It’s not just that the section is basically one long advertisement for vehicles I’m never going to buy or that Car Talk is infinitely better as a…
A man walking his dog at Brookhaven College last night discovered a human skull in a wooded area on the western edge of campus. Police searched the area today and discovered the rest of the skeleton. The Dallas County Medical Examiner has collected the remains to determine how old they…
On April 1, 2011, Dallas Police Officer Eric Watts went to check out a report that vehicles were racing in an area near Stemmons and Northwest Highway. Watts reportedly saw an orange Nissan peel out of a parking lot, narrowly missing another car, turned on his lights and siren, and…
If you think “I couldn’t find the courtroom” is a terrible excuse for failing to show up to one’s criminal trial, you’re right. But in Dallas County, more often than you’d think, it’s legitimate. That’s not just according to the defendants but to County Clerk John Warren, who says as…
Browsing through the monthly agenda of the City Plan Commission, the august body tasked with interpreting and tweaking Dallas’ arcane zoning rules, is typically a snoozefest. Whether to allow insignificant amendment to this-and-that SUP, if PDD 762 allows such-and-such a use, etc. Something caught my eye on Friday as I…
Last May, Texas joined the growing roster of states with a voter ID law requiring those seeking to exercise their most fundamental civic duty to present a state-issued ID before casting a ballot. Like a driver’s license or, this being Texas, a concealed handgun permit. And that was that, at…
An already freakish weekend just got a bit more bizarre. Police spokesman Warren Mitchell passes along the following note from an incident that apparently happened this morning in Pleasant Grove. Suspect came to a residence in the 800 block of Rose Garden and knocked on the door. The complainant answered…
This afternoon, a clear and still day yielded with surprising speed to a small gale with powerful gusts of wind and some rain. Other than the suddenness, the storm was unremarkable, but the weather was apparently responsible for two fatal accidents to day. Two construction workers were killed at UTD…
When Dora Fuller’s Oak Cliff home caught fire early Wednesday morning, family and neighbors called 911 only to be greeted by a recorded hold message. All told, according to police it took about 10 minutes between the first call and the time a fire crew arrived from a station 500…
When Renzo Piano, the architect of the Nasher Sculpture Center, visited Dallas last month and cast himself and the museum as the impotent victims of the phallic death rays emanating from Museum Tower next door, Jim pointed out a subtle irony. Because at the very moment Piano was delivering his…
Texas Republicans have been complaining loudly since the Supreme Court decided that the Affordable Care Act passed constitutional muster. The law is a huge overreach by the federal government, it’s a “stomach-punch” to the economy, Obama is a socialist, etc. etc. There’s even quite serious talk about refusing a Medicaid…
