Mississippi, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, cannot use the courts to challenge President Obama’s 2012 decision to allow some immigrant children who entered the United States illegally to avoid deportation. Affirming a district court ruling, the 5th Circuit found that the state couldn’t prove any actual…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings took the time Wednesday to finally tell us when we we’re all going to get to hear about the sure-to-be-revelatory findings of his self-convened Trinity toll road “dream team.” Rawlings, who says he asked the team to design a road consistent with both a meandering parkway…
As Unfair Park should have made clearer in our report Tuesday about Ellis County volunteer firefighters accused of sexually assaulting a trainee with a link of chorizo, the firefighters are not employed by the the city of Waxahachie or connected with Waxahachie’s 58-member professional fire department. Texas Rangers say the…
State Representative Rafael Anchia of Dallas, state Senator Rodney Ellis of Houston and Bill Hammond, the CEO of the Texas Association of Business, made it abundantly clear Tuesday: If many Republicans in the Legislature get their way and pass any number of the bevy of anti-LGBTQ constitutional amendments and bills…
Just before Dallas’ revamped transportation-for-hire regulations go into effect on April 30, a new report shows how deep of a foothold app-based car service Uber has carved into the city. Dallas and San Francisco are the the two cities that saw more business users take trips in an Uber car…
Six people — including five volunteer firefighters — face criminal charges in Ellis County after a firefighter trainee reported last week that he’d been sexually penetrated with a sausage in January. Authorities arrested Keith Wisakowsky, 26; Casey Stafford, 30; Alec Miller, 28; Blake Tucker, 19; and Preston Peyrot on sexual…
A McKinney teenager who shot himself last week was given a stolen gun by a friend to use as protection against alleged bullying, McKinney police believe. Jordan Sharifi, 17, stole the handgun from a drawer in the home of the family he was staying with along with a box of…
Late Friday afternoon, the Federal Highway Administration issued its record of decision (ROD) for the Trinity toll road. As everybody anywhere knows, a ROD is the FHWA’s final step in a process under the NEPA that begins with an NOI, a draft EIS, final EIS and then ROD. We SYN…
Monday morning in Dallas, if you’d gotten up without a permanent job and gone out seeking a couple of hours of physical labor to make whatever ends meet you could, you might have headed to 7-Eleven at Marsalis Avenue and Eighth Street in Dallas or the closed Sam’s Club on…
Nina Pham does not deserve to go forward with her lawsuit against Texas Health Resources, the parent company of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the company says. Pham became the first person to contract the Ebola virus in the United States last fall during her treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan, a…
In 1967, T.W. Bruton of North Carolina was the only state attorney general willing to do what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and fourteen other state’s attorneys general did on Thursday. Bruton filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court urging that it uphold Virginia’s prohibition against…
Before Troy Aikman, Danny White, Roger Staubach, Craig Morton or even Don Meredith, there was Eddie LeBaron, the 5-Foot-7 gunslinger who started 10 games for the Cowboys in their maiden season, including the first, a September 24, 1960 Saturday night game against the Steelers at the Cotton Bowl. The Cowboys…
Dallas ISD will extend the school day, offer thousands of dollars in relocation incentives to staff and install new grading policies in an effort to close the achievement gap at six district schools deemed “Improvement Required” campuses by the Texas Education Agency,. Beginning with the fall 2015 semester, instructors classified…
The swarm, it seems, is still with us. Thursday, North Texas earth quaked three times. Each of the tremors struck near a two-mile line connecting Irving and West Dallas that SMU researchers Heather DeShon and Brian Stump identified in February as the start locations of numerous temblors that have inflicted…
In the surest sign yet that the United States is in the midst of a dramatic economic recovery, Americans have seen fit to set fire to more $4 million by giving it to Ted Cruz’s nascent presidential campaign. Not that we’re prejudging. “This constitutional conservative campaign has raised more in…
As it does before every election, The Dallas Morning News has published a series of candidate questionnaires probing hopefuls for their views on a number of city topics. To the DMN’s credit, the survey’s question about the proposed Trinity toll road is both thorough and specific. “Do you support any…
Six people, including a Houston woman feds allege to be the gang’s ringleader, have been indicted in Michigan for allegedly being part of a conspiracy that led to a string of home invasion robberies in that state and North Texas. Chaka Castro, 40, used public data software to identify potential…
The attacks on 9/11 were not the result of Islamic extremism, retribution for continued American military presence in the Middle East, the inevitable consequence of clashing civilizations or even a false-flag operation engineered by the feds, says First Baptist Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress. No, he told a crowd gathered for…
In what we’ve been assured is not an April Fools’ prank (but is probably still an April Fools’ prank), the Texas General Land Office, under the leadership of Commissioner George P. Bush announced Wednesday that it is banning the use of the Comic Sans — the favorite font of your…
Susan Hawk, despite the ongoing controversy about her previously undisclosed October 2013 stint in drug rehab and swirling rumors about distrust and paranoia in her Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, fulfilled her commitment to speak at SMU’s Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture Series. Rather than give a speech, Hawk had…
“Who’s in charge?” It was a question that everyone seemed to have in early October last year. Thomas Eric Duncan had just become the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and no one, it seemed, knew what to do, as documented in February’s Vanity Fair…
The U.S. Justice Department will investigate whether Dallas County’s truancy and juvenile courts afford defendants due process. Only Texas and Wyoming allow truancy cases to be sent to adult criminal court, and Texas filed 115,000 truancy reports in 2013, according to a review released earlier this month by the Texas…
