For the second consecutive year and third in the last four, the Cowboys enter Week 6 of the NFL season at a crossroads. They are, like they were in 2017 and like they were in 2015, 2-3 and lurking on the periphery of the NFC playoff picture. Win Sunday in…
Another week, another regulatory change that could hurt millions of Texans proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration. This time around, Kirstjen Nielsen’s Department of Homeland Security is looking to change the way the federal government evaluates immigrants applying for permanent residence in the United States. If a change to the so-called…
The Catholic Diocese of Dallas will release the names of all priests “credibly accused” of sexual assaulting minors from 1950 until the current day in January as part of a joint effort of each of Texas’ 15 dioceses, Dallas Bishop Edward Burns said Wednesday. Investigators have been looking through the…
Just looking at the two candidates’ Facebook pages, it couldn’t be clearer what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his challenger, Houston attorney Justin Nelson, are trying to do as they head into the homestretch of their campaigns. Four years after gaining his office as a Tea Party insurgent, Paxton…
Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Pete Session, the incumbent in Texas’ 32nd Congressional District. On its face, the Trump’s seal of approval was nothing out of the ordinary, just another rote tweet from a president who’s an endless source of them. What was attention grabbing was that this…
Before the season, an argument could’ve been made that Terrance Williams was going to be the Cowboys’ No. 1 wide receiver in 2018. Despite underachieving during his first five years in Arlington, Williams had a chance to escape Dez Bryant’s shadow for the first time. He still had the game-breaking speed,…
In response to multiple deadly police shootings, the 2017 Texas Legislature, led by Dallas state Sen. Royce West, passed the Community Safety Education Act. West’s bill requires all high school students, new drivers and police officers in Texas to take a class on how to better interact with one another…
Sen. Ted Cruz has a new initiative up and running in his re-election campaign against U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, blasting his challenger for his supposed animosity toward police and touting Cruz’s own deep ties to law enforcement. One of the cops prominently featured by Cruz has a backstory worth paying…
The 2018 Rangers are dead. Out of the race by May, this year’s model of Arlington’s finest limped to a 67-95 finish, ending up last in the American League West. That got their manager fired despite his having won two division championships in four seasons at the helm. They saw…
The Observer’s Facebook page, thanks to our thoughtful, engaged readers, is one of the last bastions of civility on the internet. The same can’t be said for the rest of the social network, which remains today, as it ever was, a cesspool. Between the posts from former classmates who, in…
Throughout 2017 and 2018, your good friends here at the Observer have strained to make sense, any sort of sense, out of the Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz and El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke. We’ve talked with O’Rourke about Cruz’s plan to have notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman…
The second debate between Texas Senatorial candidates Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke, previously set for Sunday night, has been postponed, the University of Houston announced Friday. Rather than taking on his challenger for another hour, Cruz will remain in Washington to participate in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination process over…
After eight hours of deliberation, a Dallas County jury said Thursday afternoon they could not reach a verdict in the case against former Mesquite Police Department Officer Derick Wiley, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting an unarmed man who was trying to quiet the alarm on his…
Friday night, for a couple of hours at least, the sideshow will be center stage in Texas politics. After months of the Senate race between incumbent Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke sucking all the air out of the room, former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez will get her…
With the HQ2 announcement still shining in the distance — Jeff Bezos said earlier this month that it would be made by the end of the year — Dallas got a decent-sized chunk of good Amazon-related news Wednesday. By a 14-0 vote, the City Council signed off on a deal…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 100 people during a recently concluded 10-day sting targeting North Texas and Oklahoma, the agency announced Wednesday, continuing a trend in Texas throughout 2018. According to ICE, its “enforcement action” was intended to sweep up “criminal aliens and immigration violators” in the area…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, apparently, has an iron deficiency. Tuesday, the former state representative and current securities-fraud indictee decided to take a bite of the reddest of conservative red meat — the Pledge of Allegiance. Paxton is intervening in a lawsuit between a Houston-area high school student, India Landry,…
A Mesquite police officer who shot an unarmed man twice in the back last year will soon find out how much prison time he might serve, if any. Testimony concluded Tuesday in the trial of Derick Wiley, who is on trial for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a…
Monday night, a group of Washington D.C. activists let Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi Cruz know just how unhappy they were about the senator’s strong support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Protesters surrounded the Cruzes at Fiola, an upscale Italian restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue near the…
There is no denying that Michael Avenatti is an attention hound. He’s leveraged the notoriety of his biggest client, Stormy Daniels, into repeated media appearances, a huge following on social media and a probably pretend bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Somehow, he’s now involved in the suspension…
Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall intends to significantly change Dallas Police Department procedures for police shootings and supports strengthening Dallas’ citizens review board, she said Monday. Hall’s new proposals, once effective, will require Dallas police involved in shootings to give a statement immediately. Under current DPD policy, officers are…
Amber Guyger, the Dallas Police Department officer who shot and killed Botham Jean in Jean’s apartment a little over two weeks ago, has been fired. “Effective immediately, Amber Guyger is no longer with the Dallas Police Department. That decision and hearing was held this morning, at approximately 10 a.m.,” Hall…
