Rafael Palmeiro has proved something this spring and summer. It’s not exactly clear what. The Rangers legend and North Texas resident has played in about two dozen games for the Cleburne Railroaders, an independent minor league team. Palmeiro is 53 and was strongly linked to steroid use at the end…
For Texas Democrats, the big blow came last week. Tuesday was just the insult added to the injury. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 that the overwhelming majority of the congressional and legislative districts that Democrats have claimed for decades were racially gerrymandered were perfectly fine. On Tuesday afternoon,…
White Rock Lake is officially back to normal after more than a million gallons of sewage threatened the recreation spot late last week. At 5 a.m. Tuesday, the White Rock dog park will reopen, allowing the lake’s furriest visitors to get back in the water for the first time since…
Just as Dallas’ skirmish over the bike-share wave of 2017 seems to be winding down, a new front is opening up in the city’s ongoing quest to prove that if you squint and tilt your head just right, you can actually maybe get by in Dallas without a car —…
Almost three years to the day after first agreeing to a free-agent deal, DeAndre Jordan and the Dallas Mavericks are ready to take the leap again. They agreed over the weekend to a one-year contract for a little more than $24 million, according to multiple reports. If and when the…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political career should be on its last legs. Throughout his first term, he’s been dogged by controversy. He’s under indictment for alleged securities violations, although his trial is unlikely to begin before 2019. His defense of Texas’ ill-fated 2013 abortion law cost the state millions…
Three Dallas Police Department officers — two senior corporals and a sergeant — turned themselves in Thursday afternoon on gambling promotion charges. DPD declined to name the law enforcement agency Sgt. Shannon Browning, Senior Cpl. Edward Van Meter and Senior Cpl. Roger Williams, turned themselves into. Their arrests are the latest in a…
Dallas officials cut off all water recreational activities at White Rock Lake on Thursday afternoon until further notice after 1,000,000 gallons of untreated wastewater flowed into White Rock Creek for about 12 hours Wednesday night and Thursday morning, threatening the lake. The pollution stems from a Wednesday afternoon construction accident…
Texas reproductive rights groups and their legal allies made a major move earlier this month. In attempt to reclaim the abortion rights that Texas Legislature has slowly chipped away over the last decade, the groups sued the state. Two weeks after the lawsuit was filed on June 14, however, the…
Finally, about a year after hordes of multicolored bikes descended on the city, Dallas has definitive bike-share regulations. Electric scooters are coming to the city, too, after the City Council voted Wednesday to temporarily allow the stand-up two-wheelers. Since the bikes showed up last fall, the five companies that own…
This year has been something of a turning point for Major League Baseball. While it’s been almost two decades since the Chicago Cubs hosted the league’s first LGBTQ fan day at Wrigley Field in 2001, this year’s celebrations and events show that acknowledging and celebrating the diversity of baseball’s fan…
A police chase that began with a suspicious person call, crossed through three cities and shut down part of a major highway ended after the man driving the car being chased won a struggle with a pursuing police officer for the officer’s gun, the Dallas Police Department said late Tuesday…
Mark Cuban made a mistake Monday afternoon. A TMZ camera found him outside a restaurant in California, and the Mavs owner actually stopped and talked to the paparazzo. Quickly, Cuban was talking about the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia and its decision to deny service to White House press secretary…
The Heart of Dallas Bowl, the city’s annual post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s showcase at the Cotton Bowl for two aggressively mediocre college football teams, looks likely to survive after a Monday compromise for the city to continue paying ESPN to host the game. That doesn’t mean the game’s going to be…
Just like that, Texas years-long fight over its congressional and state legislative districts is over, thanks to a Monday morning decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The GOP-led Texas Legislature, the court ruled, did not intentionally discriminate against minorities when it approved the state’s electoral map. By a 5-4 partisan…
Over the weekend, the Texas Democratic Party, still big if not that powerful, took over downtown Fort Worth for its biennial state convention. The party’s full slate of statewide nominees preached to the assembled choir, and the party did its business, passing a platform calling for a bunch of stuff…
In this case, at least, Dallas pulled its hand back before it got slapped. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state law regarding the disposal of solid waste preempted Laredo’s plastic bag ban. Similar bans in about a dozen other Texas cities are now effectively dead…
In the end, it made too much sense not to happen. Thanks to a trade with the Atlanta Hawks, the Dallas Mavericks came away from the NBA draft Thursday night with the player they’ve coveted throughout the draft process. Luka Doncic is 6-foot-8, has the ball-handling skills of point guard,…
It’s only a matter of time, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, before Latinos become Texas’ biggest ethnic group. From 2010-17, the state’s total Latino population increased by about 1.4 million, from 9.7 million to 11.1 million. Over the same period, the state’s white population grew by…
As President Donald Trump did his best to worm his way out of a self-inflicted crisis Wednesday afternoon, issuing an executive order that halts the separation immigrant children from their parents if the parents are arrested crossing the U.S. border, two of Dallas’ biggest companies made it clear that they…
As of Wednesday afternoon, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have racked up exactly one conviction in their quest to root out voter fraud in Dallas County. Miguel Hernandez, 28, arrested in July for illegal voting, pleaded guilty to improperly returning a marked ballot,…
President Donald Trump announced early Wednesday afternoon that he will end the policy of separating immigrant children from their families, initiated by the Department of Justice in April. An executive order, which the president said he would sign later in the day, will call for children and families detained trying…
