A 27-year-old Dallas Police Department officer injured in a shooting in Northeast Dallas Tuesday afternoon has died, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings confirmed during a Dallas City Council meeting. Rogelio Santander died at 8:11 Wednesday morning, Rawlings said. Santander’s partner, 26-year-old Crystal Almeida, remains hospitalized at Texas Presbyterian Hospital on Walnut…
Someday, perhaps when your grandchildren have grandchildren and the Cowboys have been pried away from some Jones scion’s cold, dead hands, Texas will adopt statehouse and congressional maps that are minimally acceptable to all interested parties. Until that day, however, the state’s political parties, voters and interest groups will continue…
The Dallas Police Department confirmed late Tuesday afternoon that an unknown suspect shot two DPD officers near a the Home Depot at U.S. 75 and Forest Lane. According to the department, both officers are critically wounded. The suspect also shot a third person. That person’s condition is unknown, according to…
There was clearly something wrong on David Irving’s Twitter account Monday morning. Rather than the stream-of-consciousness ramblings that can usually be expected of the Cowboys’ budding defensive star, a series of statements that read an awful lot like accusations began spilling out. “Domestic vilance [sic] again,” the first tweet read…
Dallas County Democrats avoided a crisis Monday afternoon when Dallas County District Judge Eric Moyé dismissed a lawsuit that would’ve kicked dozens of Democratic candidates off November’s general election ballot. Moyé dismissed the suit — brought by the Dallas County Republican Party and its chairwoman, Missy Shorey — for lack of standing…
The worst flu season in recent memory finally appears on its way out the door in North Texas, according to new statistics from Dallas County Health and Human Services. Only five Dallas County residents were hospitalized for the flu during the week ending April 15, and for the second week…
The Dallas Cowboys are, at most, six players away from being really good in 2018. They could use a guard to fill in the otherwise stellar offensive line, wide receiver Dez Bryant and linebacker Anthony Hitchens need to be replaced, and a ball-hawking free safety would add needed steel to…
If you’re white in Dallas, you’re probably good to go ahead a smoke up Friday, but you might want to watch out if you’re a part of the nearly 50 percent of city’s population that is made up of people of color. That’s the takeaway from the Dallas Police Department’s…
Atmos Energy officials went to City Hall on Wednesday to say that the company has made good. Since the February gas line explosion that killed 12-year-old Linda Rogers, Atmos President and CEO Mike Haefner said, the company has done everything it can to ensure that its pipes, the ones that…
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso got some good news Wednesday from one of the first major nonpartisan polls of his U.S. Senate contest with incumbent Ted Cruz. According to Quinnipiac University’s polling department, O’Rourke trails Cruz by just three points, 47 percent to 44 percent, within the poll’s 3.6 percentage…
Crystal Mason thought she was doing the right thing. Newly out of federal prison after a three-year stint for helping people file inaccurate tax returns, Mason was pulling her life together while serving out the rest of her sentence on supervised release. She’d found a job and headed back to…
Late Tuesday afternoon, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly refused to guess at what caused an engine on one of his airline’s jets to explode Tuesday morning, shattering one of a Dallas-bound plane’s windows and killing an Albuquerque woman. Jennifer Riordan, a 52-year-old bank vice president, is the first passenger to die…
A plane headed to Dallas Love Field from New York City’s Laguardia Airport made an emergency landing in Philadelphia Tuesday morning after an engine on the aircraft blew out, breaking one of the plane’s windows and injuring a passenger. Marty Martinez, the founder and CEO of Dallas-based digital marketing agency…
Texas Rangers announcer CJ Nitkowski has, once again, made himself the center of the story. With the team he covers coming off its best series of the year, having taken two of three from the world champion Astros in Houston, all anyone on Rangers or Astros social media could talk…
After a brief hiccup in the form of a disputed set of recommendations from Dallas city staff, all signs point to the city of Dallas getting rid of the Confederate war memorial in Pioneer Park sometime later this year. During a City Council meeting last month, Dallas Assistant City Manager…
After 2.5 hours of deliberations Monday morning, a Tarrant County jury convicted Charles Bryant in the murder of 24-year-old Jacqueline Vandagriff in September 2016. Bryant, 30, killed Vandagriff before dismembering her and burning her remains in a kiddie pool he left at Acorn Woods Park near Lake Grapevine. Bryant and Vandagriff met…
The victim of pit bull mauling near Fair Park early Sunday morning remains hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Dallas Police Department. About 2 a.m. Sunday, four pit bulls cornered a woman, whom DPD hasn’t identified, as she walked through her neighborhood in the 4300 block of Hamilton Avenue,…
Dez Bryant is gone. The Cowboys released the big wide receiver, one of the most talented and most divisive players in team history, Friday morning. It was an abrupt end to a tumultuous, co-dependent relationship, one that seemingly had to happen but stings nonetheless for Bryant, the team and their…
Voters in the city of Dallas will be able to give everyone who works in the city paid sick leave when they head to the ballot box in November if a coalition of worker’s rights groups gets its way. Volunteers with the Workers Defense Project and other groups will head…
Sometime Friday, provided he doesn’t elect to skip the meeting, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is going to get together with team owner Jerry Jones. The news, from Bryant’s perspective, doesn’t figure to be good. Barring an unexpected turn of events, Bryant will face a pay cut, something he’s…
In an 8-7 vote Wednesday, the Dallas City Council signed off on a $15.9 million development agreement with a former city employee, over the objections of council members who believed that the deal should’ve gone through the city’s bidding process. Rodney Burchfield, who worked in the city’s economic development office…
Activists in Austin got something Wednesday for which they’ve pushed for almost five years. The Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval to a Mexican-American studies elective for high school students, closing out a debate that began with an unsuccessful attempt in 2014. They couldn’t do so, however, without…
