The effect of Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling is simple: The state of Texas is not required to issue license plates featuring the Confederate battle flag. The state was sued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans after the organization’s 2009 application for a specialty plate with the group’s logo was…
Surely, Raquel Hultquist knows now who Tennell Atkins is, but that’s not really the point. What was an issue Thursday, at Atkins’ long-awaited trial for his December alleged assault on Hultquist, was whether she knew who he was then. Hultquist, a 911 operator conscripted into temporary security duty at one of…
Five North Texans have been arrested, and two more indicted, for their alleged roles in Medicare fraud schemes that the U.S. Department of Justice says netted more than $700 million. “This action represents the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice, and it adds to…
The Preston Center skybridge that would connect the shopping center’s aging city-owned garage to a potential Tom Thumb remains but a twinkle in developer Harlan Crow’s eye. The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday to delay a final vote on the bridge until at least November, heeding the request of council member…
Remember that time four years ago that AT&T gutted your precious, grandfathered-in unlimited plan and started throttling your “excessive” data use? Turns out, the Federal Communications Commission didn’t like it either. Wednesday, the FCC expressed that displeasure in a big way, announcing plans to hit the Dallas-based communications giant with…
Tracey Carver, the woman in the middle of the fight that led to McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt and his coworkers being called to bust up a pool party, has fled to California. Carver says she fears for her’s and her family’s safety after receiving threats over her reportedly using…
The heaviest rain from Tropical Storm Bill is now expected to arrive in Dallas on Wednesday, rather than overnight Tuesday, as was originally forecast. The biggest risk for flooding, the most likely severe weather from Bill, will happen days after the rain, Rocky Vaz with the Dallas Office of Emergency…
From the Dallas County sheriff comes this awesome video of Deputy Katrina Caldwell stopping James Boulware and his armored van. Dallas cops were chasing Boulware south on Interstate 45 early Saturday, away from police headquarters on Lamar Street, where Boulware had fired at officers and left pipe bombs. From the DSO: “Video…
Texas has suffered through years with basically no rain. As my West Texas-dwelling grandmother was fond of telling my drought-bemoaning grandfather, it shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, she’d say, we live in the middle of the desert. In May though, across the state and in Dallas specifically, the seemingly…
Plano knocked over its old water tower today “to make room for Legacy West, an exciting new development, which will include shops, restaurants, residential living, a high-rise hotel and the Liberty Mutual Insurance campus,” according to a city news release. Crews from a Michigan company, Iseler Demolition, cut the base…
Featuring boarded-up, bullet-hole riddled windows, Dallas Police’ Lamar Street headquarters in the Cedars reopened Monday, after a weekend attack that saw 14 officers engage with James Boulware. Boulware attacked the building early Saturday morning, spraying it with semi-automatic rifle fire and planting pipe bombs in its parking lot. He was…
Please excuse us for missing this last week, but First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress has again said something as odious as it is catastrophically stupid. American Christians, Jeffress said, are being treated in the same way Jews in Nazi Germany were treated before the Holocaust. “I want to remind…
At about 12:30 Saturday morning, according to police, witnesses near Dallas Police headquarters in the Cedars saw what they believed to be multiple people shooting at the building. Patrol cars approached the armored van the shots were coming from. The van rammed the patrol cars and someone inside fired more…
A yet to be named Corinth resident is facing charges for trying to keep a black bear as a pet. The cub was found running around a neighborhood Thursday morning after an off-duty police officer spotted him. Corinth Police Lieutenant Jim Gregg told Star Local Media that the department believed…
Let’s be clear: No member of the clergy in Texas has been forced to marry a couple they didn’t want to marry, nor will they be in the future. Churches are not a public accommodation like, say, a pizza restaurant run by opportunistic bigots in Indiana . Even if the…
One would think that maybe, just maybe, that XTO Energy, faced with a peer-reviewed study by SMU researchers and a mountain of evidence that the company is causing earthquakes, consider shutting down its fracking and disposal wells in Azle and Reno. The SMU and federal research demonstrates pretty clearly that the…
The McKinney police officer who pulled a gun on two unarmed teenage boys and tackled and pinned an unarmed teenage girl was the victim of his emotions, his attorney said Wednesday. “With all that happened that day, he allowed his emotions to get the better of him. Eric regrets that…
One of the two women charged with operating an illegal butt injection clinic in Deep Ellum has been arrested for murder. Wykeshia Reid died on February 15 after allegedly receiving injections at the clinic. Reid said she didn’t feel well after the injections, Clarke told police earlier this year, so…
And then there were eight. Tuesday afternoon, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed most of a lower court decision that kept most of the state’s remaining abortion providers open. The ruling makes the most onerous provision of Texas 2013 anti-abortion law, House Bill 2, enforceable. Every health clinic…
Monday night, a weekend of outrage, stemming from a McKinney police officer pulling a gun on unarmed kids at a pool party before tackling and pinning an unarmed 14-year-old girl, culminated in a pair of protests in the North Texas suburb. One group of protesters marched from Comstock Middle School…
The best thing that could be said about Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt, the McKinney police officer seen on video pulling his gun on and tackling teenagers at a pool party gone bad, is that he didn’t shoot anybody, according to Jahi Bakari, who said Casebolt hit his daughter during the incident…
Friday night, a pool party in McKinney went bad. Then it went worse after 12 McKinney cops showed up. Residents of the Craig Ranch subdivision called McKinney police after, according to Chief Greg Conley, teenagers at a party at the subdivision’s pool began fighting and then refused to leave when asked…
