Dwaine Caraway against John Wiley Price for the District 3 county commissioner seat was always going to be a fantastically entertaining election — as long as you’re the type who enjoys zero-sum political theater and doesn’t care too much about policy or people maintaining a minimal level of decorum. During…
Leonys Martin might not be a Ranger anymore — he was signed early in the 2015/2016 offseason by the Seattle Mariners — but the Cuban center fielder’s saga continues to be one of the most interesting things about the team. Friday morning Martin’s former agent Bart Hernandez was arrested on…
Dallas Police confirm that they were called to the radio station KHVN Monday after Dwaine Caraway and John Wiley Price got into a physical altercation. Price and Caraway were at the station for a debate ahead of their March 1 primary battle for the Democratic nomination for the District 3…
Late last week, DART provoked a bit of a fervor when the transit agency’s police chief told The Dallas Morning News’ Brandon Formby that the long awaited security cameras finally being stalled on DART’s light rail trains would be equipped with facial recognition software. DART is a lot of things,…
Ethan Couch, the affluenza-afflicted drunk driving teen who killed four people in a 2013 Tarrant County crash, is finally getting his day in adult court. Couch’s juvenile probation would’ve expired in April, on his 19th birthday. Friday morning — in front of his father, Fred Couch, and the families of…
United Development Funding is having a no good, terrible, very bad month. A visit from FBI agents yesterday is the latest trouble for the embattled firm. During the first week of February, Kyle Bass, who runs Dallas’ Heyman Capital hedge fund, shorted UDF’s Nasdaq stock, basically betting that UDF’s stock…
Texas horse racing, if you believe the people most dependent on it, is now doomed to die a slow death. Thursday morning, the Texas Racing Commission, in a 5-4 vote, decided to take a rule allowing historical racing terminals at Texas horse tracks off the books. Historical racing terminals are…
Ostensibly, all the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs was doing Wednesday was addressing Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s charge that, between sessions, the Texas Senate take a look at protecting religious liberties in the state — something that, it should be noted, means different things to different people. That happened…
Police broke up a phone scam in Georgia, aimed squarely at North Texas, that originated in a Georgia prison. The result is that the Flower Mound Police Department closed 53 officer impersonation cases Wednesday. Each of the cases involved inmates using a Flower Mound officer’s name in an attempt to…
The first place the mind wandered following the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was, for a lot of people, conspiracy. Even the Observer was not immune. The second obvious place, especially for those who live in Texas, was the effect the jurist’s death might have on Whole…
The GOP’s 2016 South Carolina primary is doing what primaries in the Palmetto State are wont to do: getting really, amusingly nasty really quickly. The home state of the patron saint of dirty tricks, the Boogie Man himself, Lee Atwater, wouldn’t have it any other way. Monday morning, Texas Senator…
To untrained ears, it can sound strange, sometimes even a little threatening. Ted Cruz or one of his representatives, out on the campaign trail, will say something that sounds a lot like someone pushing for theocracy — like someone who views the constitutional separation of church and state as a…
Starting Monday, the waiting will no longer be the hardest part. Thanks in part to lab equipment installed during the fall 2014 Ebola scare, Dallas County will be able to test for the Zika virus at its facilities. Results will be available in as little as 24 hours, rather than…
If the status of the Dallas Police and Fire System weren’t so dire, it might be amusing. The retirement plan, facing an unfunded liability somewhere north of $1 billion, faces a lawsuit filed by a group of real estate advisers that was helping the fund pick properties as it dug…
This is exactly what Scott Griggs was worried about. As the Dallas City Council arduously debated whether or not to ban the Exxxotica adult expo from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Griggs told a packed house that the council was giving Exxxotica the best public relations it could hope…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, already facing three felony charges related to illegal lobbying in Collin County, received even more bad news Wednesday when a Texas State Bar disciplinary committee announced that it would allow to move forward a complaint about Paxton’s acts in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme…
More or less, the main voices on the Dallas City Council behind a proposal that will bar Dallas City manager AC Gonzalez from signing a contract with the eXXXotica porn expo in 2016 said Wednesday that they didn’t care if they got sued. Protecting Dallas from the convention — Rawlings…
Thanks to a last minute injunction stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Texas Greyhound Association, the Texas Racing Commission did not have to make the decision Tuesday that will decide the future of horse racing in Texas. The commission tabled a discussion that would’ve decided whether or not to keep…
The problem with K2 downtown, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Monday, might be more than the drag on resources it causes for Dallas police and firefighters or the health threat it poses to the synthetic drug’s often homeless users. The drug also could be responsible for an increase in…
Late last week, the Dallas Police Department received a report from Fort Worth Police about a sustained domestic assault alleged committed by Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel across DFW on January 29 and 30. Colleen Crowley, Manziel’s ex-girlfriend, had filed a request for a protective order from Manziel in Tarrant…
Last August, just ahead of the eXXXotica Expo’s Dallas Convention Center debut, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, announced that he was “deeply concerned” about the convention. Seemingly, he was acting in concert with the Dallas Women’s Foundation, which drew a line between a harmless, tacky convention hawking dildos and overpriced photos…
Charles Cato, long thought to be Dallas’ police-chief-in-waiting, is leaving the Dallas Police Department. The long-serving first assistant chief has been named the chief of Mesquite’s police, and will start March 7. During his time with the department, Cato served as the interim Dallas ISD police chief in 2006, was…
