Just over a week ago, on November 24, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the “odds were in favor” of the state suing the federal government to stop President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Wednesday afternoon, the governor-elect cashed that bet, announcing that he’d been joined by 16 other states…
Of the just more than $155,000 the city of Dallas spent responding to Ebola, almost $27,000 — just more than 17 percent of the total — went to caring for Bentley, Nina Pham’s King Charles Spaniel. The majority of the Bentley cash, $17,057.46, was spent on getting Grand Prairie Armed…
Sana Syed had a baptism by fire. Just after she took the city of Dallas’ public information officer job, Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola. Syed did an admirable job filtering and distributing the torrent of information that would come out over the succeeding weeks. She would also show…
The Cowboys have already lost the biggest game of their regular season. Thanksgiving’s debacle, the 33-10 drubbing at the hands of the Eagles, has left the team needing to win out to ensure its spot in the playoffs, something that was unthinkable after the team’s 6-1 start. 11-5 probably won’t…
You can’t make this stuff up. Early on the morning of November 25, Kory Watkins, cop-watcher extraordinaire and face of Open Carry Tarrant County, says he was hit by a drunk driver on his way home from a cop watch. The watch’s target? A DWI checkpoint. In Watkins own words…
Put aside any thoughts you had about the 2015 Dallas mayoral election being competitive. Mike Rawlings is running again. Just before his annual “State of the City” speech Tuesday, Rawlings formally revealed to The Dallas Morning News the poorly kept secret that he’ll be on the ballot in May. He…
Stacks of cash, an arsenal of guns and ammo and homemade bombs were among the items investigators seized from the home and storage locker belonging to former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams, a witnesse testified in the second day of Williams’ trial for the murder of Cynthia…
Aaron Rodarte, the Dallas Police Department officer arrested for DWI in Highland Park early Sunday morning, was found passed out in his BMW at the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Roland Avenue, according to Highland Park police. Officers pounded on Rodarte’s windows to wake him up. When he finally did…
Corey Knowlton has a problem. The Royse City hunter, who paid $350,000 in a Dallas Safari Club auction for the right to kill a black rhino in Namibia, may not receive a permit to bring his trophy back from Africa. As Eric Nicholson first reported for Unfair Park in October…
Kelvion Walker, the 20-year-old Dallas man shot by police officer Amy Wilburn as he sat in a car with his hands up in December 2013, has amended his federal lawsuit to claim higher damages against Wilburn after Dallas Police Department brass criticized Wilburn in depositions last week. As Sky Chadde…
The trial of Eric Williams, the former justice of the peace accused of killing the Kaufman County district attorney, the district attorney’s wife and one of the district attorney’s top assistants started Monday morning. The trial is being held at the Rockwall County Courthouse, the venue to which it was…
In late October, Dallas police chief David Brown promised the public that his department would make data from the last 12 years of Dallas police officers shooting people readily available. On Tuesday, just as everyone was checking out for Thanksgiving, Brown made good on his promise. The department has posted…
That’ll teach me. After I praised the Cowboys offensive line for its best pass blocking display of 2014 Sunday against the Giants, that same offensive line, the one with three first-round picks and a growing reputation as one of the best position units in the league, laid a big, fat…
We’re not saying that you should drop everything that you’re doing if you plan on flying out of DFW today. But, we’re not saying you shouldn’t immediately scramble to the airport and claim one of the last remaining parking spaces on this, the busiest travel day of the year either…
Until the very end, Tuesday night’s demonstration in Dallas against the grand jury’s decision in the Ferguson case was uneventful. Marchers congregated at Dallas Police Department headquarters in the Cedars then walked through downtown to protest the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson for…
The results are in from a survey we told you about earlier this month in which DART riders about things like frequency and what the agency could do better as it preps its latest 10-year plan. Turns out, the riders did a really good job. On the frequency question, the…
The disgusting news from the Hurst child pornography case just keeps coming. An Instagram account matching one described in court documents as belonging to Ricardo Lugo is still live. He was enrolled at Hurst Hills Elementary school as Matthew Wesson, after Randy Wesson, his alleged accomplice, picked him up from…
Paul Friberg can’t say whether the earthquakes that shook North Texas on Saturday, Sunday and Monday were caused by fracking. He says that there are only a handful of instances in the world in which an earthquake strong enough to be felt — as all three of the recent quakes…
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, soon to make his home in the governor’s mansion, says the “odds are in favor” of Texas suing the federal government to prevent the implementation of President Obama’s proposed executive or to stop the deportation of certain undocumented immigrant who have been in the country…
First, a word about Odell Beckham Jr.’s second-quarter catch: It was the best catch I’ve ever seen happen in real time. I’m not sure if it was better than this Tyrone Prothro catch for Alabama against Southern Miss, but that was some magical stuff by ODB. I could watch that…
We did it you guys. The longest wait of every fall, the two weeks surrounding the Cowboys bye, are nearly over. The team sits at 7-3 having weathered, for now at least, a Tony Romo injury crisis, a defense that still isn’t very good and Jerry Jones getting busted for…
As if we needed further proof of Dwaine Caraway’s ability to entertain, the City Council member has responded to Kroger’s refusal to participate in his annual holiday turkey giveaway by not-so-gently ribbing the grocery giant. “I was really shocked and disheartened at the actions of Kroger,” Caraway said in a…
