Local law enforcement raided two cockfights Sunday, netting 384 chickens. In Ellis County, sheriff’s deputies confiscated 284 fowl and arrested 30 people. Another bust the same day conducted jointly by the Lancaster Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office netted 100 more birds and 37 more arrests…
Susan Hawk, the newly minted Dallas County district attorney, went to rehab to help kick the painkillers she was prescribed after back surgery. She admitted as much after the Morning News dropped a bombshell of a (mostly) anonymously sourced report last week. Just after she kicked off her campaign to…
The Dallas County Community College District has placed two El Centro College police officers on adminstrative leave after a video showing them making a controversial arrest — purportedly on March 25 — was posted to YouTube. The video shows four teenagers forced against a wall outside El Centro. During the…
A Dallas woman has been arrested and charged with child abandonment and endangering a child after helping her 7-year-old daughter into a dumpster near the King Spa and Sauna on Royal Lane and then leaving her there overnight Saturday, police say. Alicia Carroll called police at 9:40 Sunday morning and…
It’s still a long shot for sure, but the Dallas Green Alliance’s path to eight votes against the Trinity toll road on the Dallas City Council is coming into focus. The DGA, a pro-environment PAC expressly formed to get toll road opponents elected, announced its endorsements Friday, along with plans…
Richard Sheridan, the perennial gadfly candidate accused of painting “666” on a number of local buildings and landmarks, is out of jail. He was released at 7 a.m. Sunday, he says, but not before he was able to persuade 10 people inside to vote for him in May 9’s mayoral…
The University of Oklahoma’s president said Friday that the Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, the two locals seen on video leading their Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers in a chant about segregating and lynching black people, learned the chant as part of a process that began four years ago on…
Richard Sheridan — perennial gadfly candidate, profane voicemail leaver and word-salad chef extraordinaire — has been arrested in connection with the June 2014 tagging of a number of Dallas buildings, including the Legacy of Love Monument in Oak Lawn, the Cathedral of Hope and the building where the Observer is…
Sometimes it’s hard for prosecutors to get a conviction. The case of Arlington’s “Black Hoodie Bandit,” judging from evidence the FBI says it found, will not be one of those times. Starting in November, the bureau says, Dana Campbell began robbing grocery-store bank branches — specifically First Convenience Banks. She…
Susan Hawk, Dallas County’s newly elected district attorney, spent a month in rehab for prescription painkiller abuse during her campaign and accused her former top assistant, Bill Wirskye, of breaking into her home, the Morning News reported this morning. Friends and colleagues of Hawk told reporters Gromer Jeffers and Sarah…
District 3 might be the most important race in the upcoming Dallas City Council election. Incumbents Scott Griggs and Philip Kingston have taken the rare step of endorsing a candidate outside their own districts, giving their support to high school teacher Joe Tave. Vonciel Jones Hill, who represents District 3…
There’s a new plan for Dallas’ Fair Park making the rounds this week, one that would relegate the State Fair itself to a 84-acre section of the 277-acre park and tear down Gexa Energy Pavilion, and it has the State Fair worried. As things stand, the plan is just a…
The trophy is coming back to North Texas. Corey Knowlton, the Royse City hunter who bought the right to kill a Namibian black rhino at a Dallas Safari Club auction in January 2014 , has been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to bring his spoils back from…
The process, as described in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Dallas, was simple. Recruiters would pay homeless people — including residents of The Bridge shelter in downtown Dallas — a fee, often $30, to visit a doctor’s office. The indigent recruits were given instructions on how to get a…
Levi Pettit is sorry. The Highland Park grad, one of two University of Oklahoma students expelled this month for leading their Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers in a racist chant, spoke to reporters at Fairview Baptist Church in Oklahoma City after a closed-doors meeting with community leaders. “There is no…
Robert Durst, the New York real estate heir charged with murder after famously spilling his guts into an open microphone in the HBO documentary series The Jinx, has some mildly weird Dallas connections, as revealed by NBC’s Today Show and Candy Evans’ local real estate blog, Candy’s Dirt. Linda Walker…
Those who wanted a bit of theater at Dallas City Hall on Wednesday — us, for instance — didn’t get exactly what they wanted, but Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston made sure they didn’t go home empty handed. Kingston, the id of Trinity toll road opposition, and Vonciel Jones…
Texas is down to its last dose of lethal injection drugs. On April 9, pending court action, Kent William Sprouse — who killed a Ferris police officer and another man in 2002 — will be given that three-drug cocktail and Texas will become one of a number of states forced…
This story starts at a Plano IHOP. Early on the morning of March 25, 2014,, Cierra Allyn Rounds and Glen William Brunton met Kathryn Grace Dirks, Rian Lashley and a heroin dealer Rounds knew as Jaymo for breakfast. As they ate, Rounds and her friends became aware that Lashley had…
Troy Causey, the Wilmer-Hutchins basketball player beaten to death outside his home one year ago today, should never have been in the situation that led to his death, his mother says. Causey was improperly recruited to play basketball at Wilmer-Hutchins while he was in the custody of the Dallas County…
Dallas Police Department’s Air 1 helicopter got an unexpected and unwanted guest last night. While the chopper was flying over Lake Ray Hubbard, a bird — initially reported to be a duck but later confirmed to be an American coot — flew through Air 1’s windshield, shattering glass and injuring…
Almost a week after Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings issued a memo to try to curtail City Council members’ responses to open microphone speakers at council meetings, two council members will take to the open microphone themselves on Wednesday to talk about the Trinity toll road. Rawlings’ memo came after March…
