Dallas police didn’t set out to arrest Julio Escobar at the intersection of Oak Lawn and Hall Street at 5 a.m. this morning. They set out to arrest the 25-year-old at a Lemmon Avenue apartment complex a half mile away, where they took note of his slurred speech and alcohol…
City officials have made this much clear: a plastic bag ban, a la Austin and any number of California cities, will be coming to Dallas — eventually. Just last month, assistant city manager Jill Jordan told the City Council that Dallas is “maybe a year or two” away from considering…
Teenagers, volatile bundles of hormones that they are, are going to have sex. That’s an iron law of nature, as unchangeable as the fact that lions like to eat zebras. It’s also a fair bet that, unless they are taught otherwise, these teenagers are going to have sex in an…
Yes, true.After 34 years at WFAA I resigned today to accept job as Dir ofComm @luminantpower the largest elec power generator in TX.— Brad Watson (@watsonwfaa) March 18, 2013 Growing up, Brad Watson was a fixture on my parent’s TV set. WFAA was their news station and, therefore, my own,…
Two summers ago, more or less out of the blue, a couple of thousand egrets descended upon a neighborhood off Josey Lane in Carrollton, just north of Frankford Road. It was an ideal spot for the birds: They liked the dense tree canopy and sizable pond, and there no predators…
This crowd during this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities was relatively well-behaved, as far as these things go. Sure, there were three dozen public intoxication arrests and one DWI, but by far the most common offense was a simple parking violation, of which police issued 243. Not a bad outcome,…
By the time she died in December 2011, Kathlyn Gilliam’s reputation as a pioneering civil rights advocate had been tarnished somewhat by her role, cemented during 23 years on the DISD board of trustees, in establishing the race-obsessed bureaucracy that has long since stopped benefiting the district or its students…
There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids’ drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston…
Four months after his death and mere days after his larger-than-life alter ego J.R. Ewing was laid to rest, Larry Hagman will finally get that which he never had in life: a life-sized Larry Hagman statue in Weatherford. That’s the plan of the Weatherford City Council and The Larry Hagman…
Serving people with lawsuits or divorce papers can be a tricky business. Maybe they’ve moved. Maybe they haven’t left much of a paper trail. Maybe they just don’t want to be found. Chances are slim, after all, that they’ll be delighted with what the process server brings them. But this…
Christopher Jones was lurking behind a dumpster at a FedEx Kinkos at Skillman and LBJ around 2 this morning when, according to Dallas PD, a police cruiser pulled to a stop nearby. The officers inside, Kyle Tholl and Erik Vasquez, were on routine patrol when they spotted spotted two men…
In her time in office, Councilwoman Pauline Medrano has established herself as a staunch ally of the LGBT community. That’s more or less a requirement for election in District 2, which includes much of Oak Lawn and has a sizable, and politically active, gay population, and there’s no reason to…
Dear Deion: There was a time when your Prime Time swagger was endearing. Back when you were still effortlessly shutting down opposing receivers as a Hall of Fame defensive back, your brash self-confidence, unfiltered by any hint of superego, played as charming. You’ve also proven yourself a passable used car…
In late 2008 and early 2009, the Five Points area was put on edge by the news that two girls there, one 12, the other 14, had been bound with tape and sexually assaulted by a suspected serial rapist. Detectives, after combing through police calls and incident reports, zeroed in…
There are a couple of bills bouncing around the state Legislature now that would make it easier — or, rather, make it harder to interfere with — to breastfeed in public. We wrote about one of them, state Representative Jessica Farrar’s HB 1706, which would allow women to sue if…
You only thought you’d heard the last of the nightmarish Carnival cruise-turned-floating toilet ride that gripped the global media for days last month and exhausted every imaginable “poop deck” pun. But no. In Dallas federal court today, 17 Texans who were aboard that ill-fated voyage have filed suit against Carnival…
This weekend’s Greenville Ave — ahem, Dallas St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival — is supposed to be more “family friendly” than years past. It sounds ominous but, as we were assured in January, is more of a marketing thing than an effort to keep keep people from getting wildly,…
In the race to replace Ann Margolin as District 13’s representative on the City Council, Jennifer Gates has Staubach as a maiden name and the backing of the establishment; Leland Burke, a real estate investor, has the business experience that plays well in the district’s Preston Hollow core; and Jacob…
On February 5, U.S. Postal Inspectors customs agents were doing a routine inspection at the North Texas Processing and Distribution Center when they spotted a package freshly arrived from Singapore and destined for a home address in Crowley. The customs agents opened the mail — they have the authority to…
As Washington shuffles forward toward some sort of expansion of gun control (universal background checks, yes; bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, maybe not), state legislators in Texas are debating the optimal technique for thumbing their noses at the federal government. On Wednesday, the House Select Committee on Federalism…
It was hard to fathom how Robert Jeffress could possibly refine his already highly nuanced views on human sexuality, but the First Baptist pastor has managed, somehow, to do just that. Right Wing Watch brings us a video of Jeffress’s appearance last week on Trinity Broadcasting Network’s “Praise the Lord”…
It was moderately entertaining when a Tennessee-based company called Poo Prints lobbied the City Council to implement a citywide dog-crap DNA testing regime. But even the considerable charm of total A-list actor David Keith couldn’t convince council members to transform the city into a giant CSI: Dog Poop. It was…
