Throughout his Cowboys career, Joseph Randle toed the line between lovable flake — think Mickey Rivers — and toxic malcontent — think Greg Hardy. When he said DeMarco Murray had “left meat on the bone” following Murray’s posting perhaps the best single season by a running back in Cowboys’ history,…
Since the beginning of December, Dallas Fire and Rescue has received more than 200 calls to deal with people who are, apparently, on one of the many substances colloquially known as K2. In media reports, the calls are often said to be addressing overdoses, but the behavior described often also…
Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson confirmed Thursday that four additional individuals were being tested for the Zika virus, following Dallas County’s first two cases of the mosquito-borne virus being discovered Tuesday. The two confirmed cases include one person who recently traveled to Venezuela and another person…
The question of just what it would take to get Governor Greg Abbott to get out in front of a women’s rights issue has been answered. Following the widespread dissemination of now canceled plans by Return of Kings, an online group of men’s rights activists misogynists, to hold meetings across the…
Over the past year, as Dallas has confronted tornadoes, flooding and 15,000 screaming neighbors who showed up to cheer Donald Trump, we here at the Observer have been forced to confront our civic mortality, and to embrace apocalyptic fervor with a zeal that we normally reserve for stories about pot…
Heading into the Iowa caucuses, the contest that could cripple his presidential run, Ted Cruz’s campaign is in flux. Having seemingly peaked in the Hawkeye State around the turn of the year — taking the lead in multiple polls from GOP frontrunner Donald Trump — Cruz has focused the attention…
Ethan Couch’s kinda strong, kinda strange trip to Mexico is over. After dropping his appeals against deportation earlier this week, the 18-year-old returned to Tarrant County Thursday. He will now face the transfer of his 10-year juvenile probation sentence — handed out after he killed four in a 2013 drunk-driving…
The fault lines running through the charter school debate Wednesday afternoon at Dallas City Hall were striking. The City Council chambers were filled with kids from one of Uplift Education’s schools, the one that’s been left in a lurch by council rancor over approving a seemingly routine zoning change. Joyce…
Amid growing worries about public safety among downtown residents, the Dallas Police Department said Wednesday afternoon that it made its first two felony arrests for the distribution of K2 — the synthetic drug that’s been blamed for more than 200 calls to paramedics and police downtown since the beginning of…
They couldn’t even acknowledge what had happened. In all of the responses — and that term is being used very loosely — from Texas’ statewide leadership to an investigation they ordered leading to arrest warrants being issued for two anti-abortion activists, not once did Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan…
Ethan Couch is expected to end his long Mexican vacation this week. The 18-year-old killer drunk driver has been south of the border since the beginning of December, following a viral video of Couch playing beer pong being posted to Twitter and the teen’s subsequent missing a probation appointment. His…
Most of the stuff contained in the Dallas City Auditor’s report about naughtiness and potential naughtiness by the outgoing members of the Dallas City Council last summer isn’t particularly galling. That Tenell Atkins and Vonciel Jones Hill both had outstanding balances on their city of Dallas water accounts when they…
The Center for Medical Progress’ David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the two “reporters” who filmed a video that they said showed a Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast official talking about selling baby parts but actually didn’t, have been indicted in Harris County. Both Daleiden and Merritt are charged with tampering with…
Judging from the tenor of the Downtown Dallas Resident Council’s Facebook page this week, one might think Dallas’ Central Business District had turned into some sort of urban hellscape. “I just had some STUPID HOMELESS ASS try and rob me while I was parking my truck in West End!!!!!! I’m…
Despite deep consternation from animal rights groups, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has approved an application from the Dallas Zoo to import six elephants from Swaziland in southwest Africa. According to the Swazi government, the animals needed to be moved in order to help preserve the country’s game…
One of the best lists each year, put out by the Transportation Security Administration blog, informs us of just how many guns were confiscated at America’s airports. In 2015, as it has every time the list has been published, Texas did itself proud, filling out a full 50 percent of the…
This much should be said for Ted Cruz: At least he’s paying attention. Rather than largely dodging the issue, as his fellow GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have done, Cruz has taken time this week to both lambaste all levels of Michigan government and actually do something about…
Andy Beal, he of enormous banking wealth and modest fame from his second life as an amateur mathematician, high-stakes poker player and failed space entrepreneur, has purchased what was listed as the most expensive home in Texas history — Tom Hicks’ sprawling, 25-acre Preston Hollow estate. Being that Preston Hollow…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision was inevitable. Once state Representative Myra Crownover asked for the AG’s opinion on daily fantasy sports, the opinion could only really come down one obvious way. Paxton, in an opinion issued Monday, says that the games are considered gambling under Texas law. That means…
Slowly, as if it could go any other way, the process that might eventually lead to another process that will end in both the Trinity park and Trinity parkway getting processed is coming into focus. Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced the names of the six people who will join…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz handled the biggest moment of his campaign for president thus far with humor and aplomb. Facing increased pressure over his Canadian birth and a misreported personal loan he took from Goldman Sachs in order to fund his 2012 Senate campaign, Cruz cracked wise about making Donald…
Planned Parenthood has sued the Center for Medical Progress over a series of videos released in 2015 that CMP said showed Planned Parenthood officials engaging in illegal conduct — namely, attempting to sell fetal tissue obtained from abortions, for profit. The videos touched off a firestorm from anti-abortion politicians. In…
