One of the most intriguing sideshows of Texas’ mid-term elections is basically over before it opened, thanks to a special election upset in the Rio Grande Valley. Until Republican businessman Pete Flores beat former Democratic U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego in an emergency special election to fill the last two years-plus…
To paraphrase former Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke are who we thought they were. That was the biggest takeaway from the Senate candidates’ debate showdown at SMU on Friday night. Cruz displayed his patented blend of know-it-all smarminess, along with…
Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister has been fired, the Rangers confirmed Friday afternoon. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu will serve as interim manager for the remainder of the 2018 campaign, according to John Blake, the team’s longtime executive vice president of communications. Banister’s dismissal comes after rumors surfaced over the last…
Amber Guyger is still getting paid by the Dallas Police Department because going through the process necessary to fire her could compromise the criminal investigation of her shooting and killing Botham Jean in his own apartment on Sept. 6, DPD Chief U. Renee Hall said Thursday. After Jean’s death —…
For Beto O’Rourke supporters, Tuesday had to feel a little bit like the day the air got let out of the balloon. The El Paso Democratic U.S. representative trying to take down GOP Sen. Ted Cruz got his first piece of serious bad news in weeks. O’Rourke, according to a…
Over the last two decades, the Dallas Mavericks organization has suffered from a culture of sexual harassment, misconduct and intimidation, according to the results of an independent investigation into team culture released Wednesday. Team owner Mark Cuban will donate $10 million to women’s groups because of what the NBA calls…
There are inescapable similarities between the shooting for which former Mesquite cop Derick Wiley went on trial Tuesday and the one by Dallas Police Department Officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Botham Jean in Jean’s apartment, believing it was her own, on Sept. 6. Like Guyger, Wiley made a…
When the dust settled Tuesday, just two hardliners remained at the Dallas City Council horseshoe, willing to resist pressure from their colleagues and Dallas’ undermanned police force and vote against a pay raise for all of the city’s police officers and firefighters. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and North Dallas City…
Monday afternoon, the Republican Attorney Generals Association (RAGA) sent out a proud email, patting one their most prominent members on the back. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a new op-ed out, you see, in which he tells the Corpus Christi Caller-Times’ audience all the things he’s done to combat…
Sunday night’s protests before and during the Cowboys’ home opener in Arlington against the Giants and the demonstrations’ aftermath are like a Rorschach test for how one feels about the current state of policing in North Texas. If one is inclined to take the side of those protesting the recent…
The University of North Texas football team had a chance Saturday to set the table for a season that could put the formerly moribund program on the national map for the first time in decades. All the Mean Green had to do, after starting their season 2-0 with wins over…
Sen. Ted Cruz is still the favorite in his race for re-election. He’s got plenty of cash on hand, has yet to trail his challenger, El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, in any publicly released poll and, according to the number-crunchers at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, has about a 66 percent…
After four straight years of Affordable Care Act-inspired gains, Texas’ uninsured rate for adults took a step back in 2017, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. About 4.8 million Texas adults, 17.3 percent of the population, do not have health insurance, up from 4.5 million and…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his challenger for re-election, El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke will hold three debates over the six weeks-plus that remain in the run-up to the Nov. 6 election, their campaigns announced in dueling press releases late Friday afternoon. The first of the debates will be…
Willie Nelson is going to headline a free concert for U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke at Auditorium Shores in Austin on Sept. 29. It’s an interesting headline — one that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, given Nelson’s history of support for marijuana legalization and his work for Farm…
In the hours and days between shooting Botham Jean and her name being made public, Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger appeared to scrub as much of her life as possible from the internet. By the time Guyger’s name was widely known, she and her family had disappeared from Facebook, Twitter…
The post-season college football game formerly known as the Heart of Dallas Bowl and now, seriously, known as the Servpro First Responders Bowl, will live on at least two more years, the Dallas City Council made sure Wednesday with an 8-6 vote. As a result, two college football teams will…
Dallas civil rights activists united Wednesday afternoon at Dallas City Hall to call on the City Council to create a citizens’ police review board with the power to subpoena and discipline officers. At a lunchtime press conference, organizers demanded that the city beef up its review board following the death…
For now at least, ex-cop Roy Oliver is not facing additional felony charges following his August murder conviction for killing Mesquite teenager Jordan Edwards. Tuesday, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office dropped four charges of aggravated assault by a public servant against Oliver, citing the district attorney’s need to allocate…
Six years after it started, all four people behind a mortgage scam that bilked dozens of desperate North Texans out of hundreds of thousands of dollars are behind bars, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Godbey sentenced Mark Demetri…
Details about exactly what happened the night Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger killed Botham Jean are going to be kept out of the public eye as Dallas County prosecutors continue to investigate, District Attorney Faith Johnson said Monday. The more information that gets out during the investigation, Johnson said, the…
Dallas police late Saturday said Amber Guyger is the officer who shot Botham Shem Jean. DPD’s announcement came after an attorney representing Jean’s family named Guyger, 30, as the off-duty cop who shot and killed Jean Thursday night. Lee Merritt posted Guyger’s name in a tweet Saturday afternoon.
