The city of Dallas doesn’t buy Uber’s oft-repeated claim that it’s simply a technology company. Its lawyers made this perfectly clear to the company 10 months ago, when they warned the California-based purveyor of private driver apps to get taxi permits or shut down. Uber has done neither of those…
Maybe you’ve had a bad week. Maybe work sucked. Maybe your car broke down or you were dumped by your significant other or your cat died. Maybe you experienced all of that. Even if you did, you had a better week than Reginald Keith Zackery Jr. Zackery’s misery began last…
Tuffy Gessling didn’t mean to offend anyone when he put on an Obama mask and did his thing as a rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair. Yet enough people mistook Gessling’s good intentions for some sort of race-baiting minstrel show that he wound up getting banned for life from…
A 25-year-old woman was kidnapped while leaving a downtown party on Thursday night. According to police, the woman was getting into her 2004 Lexus, parked in a lot adjacent to Bryan Tower at about 11 p.m. when a man approached with a gun and knife. He forced her inside, hopped…
Unfair Park has no particular beef with Deion Sanders Jr. He, unlike his father, has never established a charter school and used it to get his own reality show, or tried to trick us into being a part of that reality show. He’s just your average SMU student who enjoys…
Carrollton police Officer Don Patin was pretty sure Jason Geils was drunk when he pulled him over on December 10, 2009, for speeding down Stemmons Freeway and driving in the HOV lane without a passenger. Patin said he could smell alcohol on Geils’ breath and, according to Dallas County court…
Talk of closing the so-called “gun show loophole,” like talk of gun control in general, has died down in recent months. Partly, this is the inevitable ebb of the rage that followed Sandy Hook; partly, it’s because it seems futile to talk about something Congress has made clear it has…
One of the undersung virtues of dating is the ability to end a relationship without lawyers and protracted litigation. It’s easier that way to make a clean break and move on with one’s life. Christopher Konvicka, a 24-year-old from McKinney, appreciates that fact less than most. He was dating a…
Update at 11:43 a.m.: Attorney General Eric Holder officially has Dallas County’s back: Holder statement on new Texas voter ID lawsuit: pic.twitter.com/YhdZstRCLF— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 22, 2013 Original post: On Tuesday, Dallas County Commissioners voted 3-2 to join Congressman Marc Veasey in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Texas’…
Earlier this week, the Houston Astros called up Max Stassi from the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks. On Tuesday, he made his Major League Debut against the Rangers, going a solid 2-3. On Wednesday, he faced Rangers reliever Tanner Scheppers. Things did not go very well. On the SportsCenter replay, fast-forward…
Not too long ago, The Dallas Morning News promoted Avi Selk from the crime beat to the Irving beat, where he’s so far proved himself a more-than-capable chronicler of the bout of mild insanity currently gripping Irving’s City Council and school board. So, things are looking up for Selk professionally…
There were two main actors in the weekend stabbing of 26-year-old Good Samaritan Terrell Cowherd on Lower Greenville, police say: Jerry Brown, 23, who punched Cowherd, then held him from behind, and Julian Terence Martin Jr., also 23, who repeatedly plunged his knife blade in Cowherd’s torso. Both men were…
A young boy buys a bag of potato chips. He’s barely out of the local bodega when he takes his first bite, thoughtlessly tossing aside the plastic bag it came in. Meanwhile, in an alleyway nearby, two more of the polyethylene sacks dislodge themselves as a garbage truck empties the…
The collapse of the U.S. housing bubble wreaked tremendous amounts of misery on homeowners, who suddenly discovered that they owed more on their mortgages than their houses were worth, or found themselves in overbuilt and mostly vacant subdivisions, or could no longer afford ballooning mortgage payments. But whereas they saw…
During his decade in the Texas House, Republican Dan Branch has never been one to demagogue on social issues, always more focused more on fiscal and other matters that lined up better with the values of his Park Cities constituency. Now that he’s waded into the attorney general’s race, however,…
The NBA, like other professional sports leagues, is in the midst of a statistical and technological revolution. Advanced stats are helping teams better evaluate players and tweak in-game strategy while new gadgets emerge that better evaluate just about everything. Take SportVU, an advanced camera-tracking system recently purchased by 15 NBA…
Even if what they put in the police report were true — and it’s now clear that it wasn’t — Dallas police officers Bryan Burgess and Michael Puckett had no business chasing Fred Bradford Jr. on the night of April 21. The two officers were on patrol in South Dallas…
Yesterday, 16 months after Justice died from burns suffered at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex, the last of the four men accused of dousing the dog in lighter fluid and setting it on fire pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. Richard Valentine, 25, and 19-year-old Darius Ewing, the alleged ringleader,…
Life Dynamics, the Denton-based pro-life group that long ago earned a permanent spot on Planned Parenthood’s anti-choice hall of fame, has always prided itself on being a bit different from its allies in the abortion fight. It’s less about standing outside of abortion clinics with photos of bloody fetuses than…
Abel Garcia is several decades too old to be eligible for the services offered by Jonathan’s Place, a Garland-based nonprofit dedicated to helping abused and neglected children. But the 51-year-old isn’t one to let age stand in the way of his goals, which in this case was free clothing. Police…
Congratulations, Cowboys fans. When any rational human being would have long since turned away in disgust, you’ve stuck by your team, undaunted by nearly two decades of unrelenting mediocrity. Your patience has finally paid off — not with a Super Bowl victory, which is still probably too much to hope…
For several days now, state health officials have been sounding the alarm about a nascent measles outbreak in North Texas. As of Friday, there had been nine confirmed cases, a number that will grow as new reports from local health agencies filter up to the state. The epicenter of the…
