U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered Texas to tell all 254 counties in the state not to take any action, for the time being, on the list of registered voters sent to them in late January by Texas Secretary of State David Whitley’s Office for citizenship verification. Counties can attempt…
Dallas’ youth curfew is going back into effect March 4 following a lengthy back-and-forth at City Hall about balancing kids’ and neighborhoods’ safety — perceived or otherwise — with equitable policing. Fines for curfew violations will be lowered from $500 to $50 and the city will give Dallas parks $500,000…
Tuesday afternoon, Dallas City Council member Kevin Felder turned himself in on charges that he left the scene of South Dallas accident that injured an 18-year-old scooter rider. Tuesday night, following Felder’s being released on a $2,500 personal recognizance, local TV stations got their hands on the affidavit Dallas Police…
The NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory indefinitely Tuesday afternoon. It’s the fourth time the 2015 draftee has been pinched by the league for violating its substance-abuse policy. Gregory has previously admitted to using marijuana to help cope with chronic anxiety. The Cowboys have been here before with…
Dallas City Council member Kevin Felder turned himself in at the Dallas County Courthouse Tuesday, responding to an arrest warrant issued Monday charging him with leaving the scene of a traffic accident that caused injury, a third-degree felony. On Feb. 13, an 18-year-old man told Dallas police that Felder hit…
Dak Prescott’s dogs got a chance to break into the open field Monday morning and took it, Frisco police say. Residents of the suburb have more to fear than just coyotes, it seems. Around lunchtime Monday, one of the Cowboys quarterback’s neighbors near Hilton Head Lane and Princess Caroline Court…
Texas’ next big abortion fight is here, coming in the form of Houston-area state Rep. Briscoe Cain’s fetal-heartbeat bill. If it passes, it will ban any abortion performed more than six weeks after fetal conception. That’s the written part of the bill. The unwritten part, the part that will fill…
Dallas police issued an arrest warrant for Fair Park City Council member Kevin Felder late Monday morning, almost two weeks after the council member allegedly hit an 18-year-old scooter rider in South Dallas. District Judge Tammy Kemp’s office confirmed to the Observer that the judge signed the warrant, but couldn’t provide…
A Dallas man hacked two people to death with a machete before ditching the bodies in one of the victims cars late Saturday night, according to police. Dallas Police Department officers got a 911 call around noon Sunday, after a neighbor checked out a car that had been left across…
The favorite to replace outgoing East Dallas City Council member Mark Clayton is out of the race. Paul Sims, a former member of the Dallas Park Board and former council member Angela Hunt’s husband, announced on Facebook Friday afternoon that he is no longer a candidate, just before the city’s…
Barring a couple of changes of heart or a couple of absences, acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley is not be confirmed, thanks to united opposition from Texas Senate Democrats. Whitley has been under fire for the last month, following his questioning the citizenship of nearly 100,000 Texas voters…
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley may have finally found the limit on just how far a Republican official in the state can go and still keep his job. Thursday, after weeks of public debate, hearings and lawsuits, the surest signs yet that Whitley’s nomination was in real trouble emerged…
Texas House Democrats want full-day pre-kindergarten for every public school student in the state, raises for all school personnel and property tax cuts for Texas homeowners as part of their school finance reform package, they announced Thursday in Austin. The proposals would come at a big cost, some $16.2 billion…
Working with state and federal law enforcement agencies, the Dallas Police Department, including officers from the narcotics and newly reconstituted vice divisions, arrested four men and women as part of an investigation into potential human trafficking at four northwest Dallas massage parlors. DPD detectives also took several potential trafficking victims…
There are two possible takeaways from Collin County state Sen. Angela Paxton’s recently filed Senate Bill 860: The senator is either staggeringly unethical or incredibly politically naive. SB 860 would allow the Texas Attorney General’s Office — the same one run by her husband, Ken Paxton — to oversee a…
State Rep. Matt Krause rolled out a new plan Tuesday to take on one of Texas conservatives’ long-standing bugaboos, announcing a bill he’s calling the “Toll Payer Protection Act.” The bill, the Fort Worth Republican says, is intended to get local communities involved in decisions to build toll roads or…
VisitDallas CEO Phillip Jones’ long-awaited appearance before the City Council’s Government Performance & Financial Management Committee ended up seeming a lot like a mock trial. There was evidence, plenty of pleas and admonitions from both sides and some political theater, but no real stakes. Jones and his organization remain, for now…
According to multiple reports, the Dallas Cowboys are moving on from one of their chief headaches, Terrance Williams, having decided not to pick up the wide receiver’s 2019 option. Williams will become an unrestricted free agent. The Cowboys drafted Williams out of Baylor in 2013, hoping he’d be the speedy,…
The calendar has finally crept past February’s midpoint, and that means a bit of Dallas 2019 election-related news. The announcements — and the “she’s running, he’s running, who exactly is running” drama — are over. Across 15 races, for 14 City Council district seats and mayor office, 65 candidates will…
Monday, the 2019 Texas Rangers are going to take the field for their first full-squad workout in Arizona, kicking off the rituals that mark the return of spring, and baseball. At the end of the week, they’ll play their first spring training games and begin the process of figuring out…
Among the many issues stemming from the Dallas Police Department’s struggles to hire and retain police officers is that it is becoming harder to get a traffic ticket in Dallas, according to city officials, DPD union leaders and municipal court data. “You cannot get a ticket in this town,” Dallas…
Former Dallas mayor and Observer columnist Laura Miller is running for Dallas City Council. Miller filed paperwork with city Friday afternoon, just beating the 5 p.m. filing deadline, to challenge north central Dallas incumbent Jennifer Staubach Gates in District 13. D Magazine broke the news that Miller was considering taking another…
