Goldin Auctions is very happy to fill the needs of even the most demanding JFK assassination aficionado. You know, the guy or gal who sits around thinking, ‘You know what would really make my fireplace mantle shrine to the assassination of the 35th president? A bullet fired from the gun…
Despite the “Texas Miracle” and incomes that are above the national median, Texans are doing a crappy job of maintaining their financial health. At least, that’s what a new report from creditcards.com says. Those aforementioned incomes are about 2 percent higher than the national median. Because incomes and credit scores…
The University of Texas athletic department is unlikely to face any NCAA sanctions for accusations that members of the Longhorns’ basketball teams cheated in several classes. That’s the takeaway from an independent report commissioned by the university to investigate the claims of academic impropriety — at least if you believe…
John Tesar, the chef behind Knife and Oak, has gotten out in front of people who might want to openly carry a handgun in his restaurants. He doesn’t want them eating at his businesses, as he made clear when he talked to Eater last week about how he’d be handling Texas’…
Surely, it was just a coincidence, but as soon as Ted “Canuck” Cruz crept past GOP national front-runner Donald Trump in Iowa polling a couple of weeks ago, Trump started nudging the issue of Cruz’s alleged Canadian-ness. People, Trump said, were talking to him. They had lots of questions about…
Tonya Couch, mother of affluenza-afflicted drunk driving killer Ethan Couch, was given reduced bail Monday afternoon. After an ill-fated sojourn to Mexico with her son Ethan following his skipping a probation appointment, Tonya Couch was accused of helping him flee. Her bail was set at $1 million after she was…
The problems that have dogged Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk over the last 16 months or so — prescription drug abuse, paranoid delusions and a bout of severe depression that sidelined her from work for months — are yesterday’s news. She’s feeling better, and her employees say her office…
For all the buildup, it was over pretty quickly Friday morning. Susan Hawk, dogged since the fall with the possibility of being kicked out of her Dallas County District Attorney’s chair, will stay in office. Semi-retired Judge David Peeples, who also handled the removal suit against drunk-driving District Attorney Rosemary…
Tonya Couch, the mother of affluenza-afflicted teen Ethan Couch, is back in Tarrant County after taking a probation-dodging trip to Mexico with her son. She and Ethan were arrested in Puerto Vallarta in late December. They’d been gone for almost a month, having ditched North Texas following discovery of a…
This was not the Trump show. There were far less people — 750 maybe, compared with at least 10,000 for the Donald. There was less obvious vitriol and the whole thing lacked the fever dream feeling that seeped from the pores of Trump’s September rally at the American Airlines Center…
It looks like the only thing that’s standing in the way of the Dallas Police Department and citing-and-releasing people in possession of marijuana is a formal vote. Wednesday, the full Dallas City Council was briefed on the issue for the first time, and after the meeting, it was clear that…
John Portillo, Jeffrey Pike and Justin Forster, all national leaders of the Bandidos motorcycle gang have been arrested on federal racketeering and drug charges related to a Portillo-ordered war the group waged against the rival Cossacks, according to federal authorities. Beginning in 2013, the Bandidos, under the leadership of Portillo,…
Two of the biggest names dumped by Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk during the months before she sought treatment for suicidal ideation and severe depression at a Houston mental health facility have given affidavits in the lawsuit that, if successful, will see Hawk removed from office. Bill Wirskye and…
Sunday, we are sad to say, was the last day for the Dallas location of Sherlock’s Pub — the one located near NorthPark Center at the corner of U.S. 75 and Park Lane. In a statement, the restaurant group that owns Sherlock’s and its sister locations said that the bar…
Like a lot of Texans, we here at the Observer have been looking for our first sighting of an openly carried handgun. Some are excited, some worried, but we’re all curious. Since January 1, carrying over one’s shoulder or on one’s hip has been legal, assuming the handgun owner also happens…
It’s that time of year when we look back at what was and give serious thought to what we need to do to become better people in the year ahead. Which, come to think of it, probably explains why we drink so heavily on New Year’s Eve. Either direction we…
Amidst all the hand-wringing, disgust and anger, one of the most striking things about the case of Ethan Couch — the kid whose family was so affluent and free of boundaries, his lawyers claimed, that he didn’t know the consequences of his actions — is how undignified the family acted…
Half of the Couch duo is back in the United States. Ethan’s Couch’s mom Tonya, having been denied the injunction against deportation granted her son by Mexican authorities, was flown to Los Angeles late Wednesday by Mexican immigration officials. The United States Marshals took her into custody at the airport…
Tuesday, it appeared that that “affluenza” teen and DWI killer Ethan Couch would be back in Tarrant County to face the limited music stemming from his flight to Mexico sometime late this week. He and his mother Tonya, who appears to have aided her son’s absconding following a missed probation…
Arrived: Free Plastic Bags When 2015 started, free, single-use plastic bags became officially verboten in Dallas. If you wanted one, you had to shell out a nickel, which wasn’t the most punitive thing in the world. Still, the city got sued by plastic bag manufacturers in May and ended up…
It should be noted up front that the information that’s seeped out today about Texas State Representative Jonathan Stickland and his relationship with marijuana is a classic opposition dump. It’s been passed around by Scott Fisher, the guy trying to beat Stickland in the March 1 GOP primary and none…
Ethan Couch — looking like a direct-to-video movie villain — was caught in Puerto Vallata, Mexico yesterday. The 18-year-old, on the run after apparently violating his probation for killing four in a drunk driving incident, is being held on an immigration detainer by Mexican authorities. He and his mother, Tonya…
