Maybe Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is feeling the heat. Maybe he’s just making sure to empty his campaign coffers ahead of the Nov. 6 general election, but, whatever the reason, Paxton has gone negative for the first time in his campaign against Democrat Justin Nelson. In a 30-second spot…
After less than three hours of deliberation Thursday afternoon, a Dallas County jury convicted Kristopher Love, 34, for the 2015 murder of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher. Prosecutors in the case successfully argued that Love took drugs and cash from Brenda Delgado in exchange for shooting Hatcher in the head as…
Dallas is out of the business of managing Fair Park. By a unanimous vote Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas City Council voted to turn over the reins of the city’s biggest vein of untapped potential to the Fair Park First Foundation, which will oversee management of the park. Spectra — a…
Three days. That’s how quickly it would’ve been over if Dallas had just let Jeff Handy have his convention in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Instead, here we are two-and-a-half years later with no end in sight to the legal battle between Handy and the city. Wednesday, the 5th…
Dallas County residents kept up the momentum and then some on day two of early voting. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said more than 55,000 registered voters cast ballots at polling places throughout the county Tuesday, eclipsing 53,000-plus who voted the second day of early voting during the 2016 presidential…
The Dallas Police Department wants to start patrolling the space between its cops on the ground and its helicopter unit, DPD Assistant Chief Paul Stokes said Monday. The department wants drones, he said, to keep officers safe and provide better surveillance of protests, demonstrations and other large events. Stokes compared…
After dropping to 3-4 following a dismal performance against the Redskins on Sunday afternoon in D.C., the Cowboys were seemingly left with two choices. Go in the tank, get the best possible pick in the 2019 draft and reload with more than $70 million in salary-cap space during the off-season…
If you’ve been to a political event this election season, there are two dates that speakers have tried to sear into your memory. The first is obvious. Nov. 6, two weeks from Tuesday, is Election Day, the first chance Texas and the rest of the United States will have to…
Former Dallas City Council member Larry Duncan faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced Monday. In court documents, Duncan admits that he took $245,000 in…
Monday night in Houston, Texas’ junior senator, governor and lieutenant governor will take the stage with the president of the United States, two weeks and a day ahead of the Nov. 6 mid-term election. At almost any other point in American history, the rally wouldn’t be a surprise or even…
As of Thursday afternoon, Tonya Couch is a mostly free woman again after spending four months in Tarrant County jail. A Tarrant County judge revoked the affluenza mom’s bail in June, after she tested positive for amphetamine or methamphetamine, according to the county. Couch, the mother of Ethan Couch, is…
The waiting, at least, is over for Cowboys wide receiver Terrance Williams. Thursday afternoon, the NFL announced that the sixth-year enigma has been suspended three games for his behavior before, during and following an arrest for public intoxication this spring. Frisco police arrested Williams after he flipped head first over…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price gave local Republicans a gift earlier this month when he sent out a mailer encouraging his constituents to vote a straight Democratic ticket in the mid-term elections by comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Predictably and rightfully, much of the local media, led…
The Texas Legislature’s 2017 “sanctuary cities” bill, which requires local law enforcement and elected officials to cooperate with federal immigration authorities or face loss of state funding or removal from office, is already harming the health of Texas children and their families, according to new research from Human Impact Partners,…
There’s probably a more delicate way to put it, but former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez is getting molly-whopped by incumbent Greg Abbott in their race to be Texas’ governor. That’s the only takeaway one can draw from the new gubernatorial forecasts published by polling guru Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight on Wednesday…
After two debates in their race to the U.S. Senate, it’s hard to imagine what Texas voters might’ve learned about U.S. Senator Ted Cruz or U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke that they didn’t know going in. Tuesday night in San Antonio, as they did in Dallas a couple of weeks ago,…
Throughout his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, El Paso U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke has remained unrelentingly positive. Cruz and his campaign have, in ads or in person, called him a socialist, insinuated that he supports flag-burning and painted him as an enemy of law enforcement, but O’Rourke has…
Monday, more than a year after the Texas Legislature, the Dallas City Council and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund struck a deal to give the city some breathing room from the threat posed by a massive shortfall in the retirement system, Dallas residents got a peek at what’s…
Since about 10 a.m. Monday, AT&T internet service in Dallas has suffered from widespread outages, according to the company and user reports on downdetector.com. An AT&T spokesperson told the Observer that a fire caused the outage, but declined to provide any further details or say when service might be restored. “Damage…
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced Friday afternoon that it is ending its contract with an anti-abortion group receiving millions from the state to provide women’s health services as part of multiple programs. The Heidi Group, according to the state, repeatedly failed to serve the number of patients…
Over the last 90 days, Democrat Beto O’Rourke raised more cash in a three-month span than any U.S. Senate candidate since there have been U.S. Senate candidates. He raked in $38.1 million, more than three times as much as his Republican rival, incumbent Ted Cruz. Despite the El Paso U.S…
The real, hard news coming out of the U.S. Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke Friday is hard to read as anything but good for the challenger. Over the last three months, the El Paso U.S. representative raised an astounding $38.1 million, the most ever in a quarter…
