Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon to face questions from the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees about foreign interference in U.S. elections and the theft of millions of Americans’ personal data. Most of the senators questioning the Facebook CEO pushed him on privacy issues and the…
The Mavericks accomplished what they set out to accomplish this season. As hard as it might to be explain to your 8-year-old nephew — who still thinks sports are about, you know, winning — losing more than 55 games and locking up a bottom-five record was exactly what the Mavs,…
Dallas County’s black and Hispanic residents face wide gaps in income levels, educational achievement and access to health insurance, despite rapid population growth, according to a comprehensive new study from the Communities Foundation of Texas and the Center for Public Policy Priorities. The study, set to be officially released at…
Plano voters will get the final say on Tom Harrison’s fate as a City Council member. Monday night, the Plano City Council voted 6-0 with two abstentions to schedule a recall election for the council member, who’s been the center of controversy since February, when a series of anti-Muslim posts…
State health inspectors could confiscate food products that say they contain CBD oil under new procedures proposed by the Texas Department of State Health Services, raising howls from medical marijuana supporters and threatening to stifle a growing number of shops peddling products with the oil. They’ve popped up all over…
Three years after a man in an armored van launched a sustained attack on the Dallas Police Department’s headquarters in the Cedars, long-awaited increases in police station security are almost complete, according to new information from the city of Dallas. Improvements to the interiors of most of the department’s substations…
There was a time when some viewed Texas as a model for the rest of the county. It wasn’t that long ago, either. Rightly or wrongly, as the ’00s turned to the ’10s during Rick Perry’s third full term as governor, some saw Texas as a low-regulation, pro-business paradise, one you…
Thursday afternoon’s conversation, like a lot of things involving Betsy DeVos, teetered among the surreal, the confusing and the merely frustrating. The secretary of education and private school choice advocate was in the midst of a hostile crowd but did her best to seem engaged without out actually engaging. DeVos…
For the better part of month, Plano, the North Texas Municipal Water District and one very active Facebook group have found themselves in a fight that traces its origins to a single Facebook post. If the past is any guide, however, their ordeal could soon be coming to an end…
Plano City Council member Tom Harrison is headed for a recall election unless city staff members deem about 1,500 petition signatures invalid. A group called Our Plano, One Plano turned in more than 4,400 signatures Wednesday afternoon calling for Harrison’s recall to be put on the ballot in November. Plano’s…
The NBA announced Tuesday afternoon that Mavericks center Nerlens Noel has been suspended for the remaining five games of the 2017-18 season. According to the league, Noel violated the NBA’s anti-drug policy. The league didn’t disclose details of Noel’s violation, but the policy mandates a five-game suspension for a player’s…
However things end up in November, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso has already made one thing clear in his challenge to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz: It isn’t going to be easy for the incumbent, not by a long shot. O’Rourke announced Tuesday that he raised $6.7 million during…
Late last week, thanks to in large part to a Deadspin-produced supercut of news anchors across the country reading from the same fake-news-bashing script, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the United States’ largest owner of TV stations, went viral. It wasn’t the first time for the company, which frequently sends its local…
Former Dallas County Schools Superintendent Rick Sorrells faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud during his time at the school bus service between 2011 and 2016. Sorrells took more than $3 million in cash and other assets from a company…
It didn’t take long Thursday afternoon for the Astros to debut their killer app for 2018. Houston broke out their new shift, designed to beat the Rangers’ best hitter and a century-plus of baseball conventional wisdom all at once, two at-bats into their season opener at Globe Life Park in…
Sometime after 8:30 a.m. Monday, Ethan Couch is getting out of Tarrant County jail. The 20-year-old drunken-driving killer responsible for the portmanteau “affluenza” becoming part of the American lexicon will have served 720 days, completing a condition set by District Judge Wayne Salvant for Couch’s transfer to the adult probation…
An 18-year-old man arrested Thursday for a deadly shooting at a Plano apartment complex is also a suspect in two murders committed in Arlington on Thursday morning, Arlington police said Friday. Plano police believe Franklin Lee Barnes shot four people, killing one, at the Cross Creek Apartments on Alma Drive…
Atmos Energy failed to respond to service calls and failed to fix a haphazard system of pipes surrounding the home of a 12-year-old girl killed in a gas explosion last month, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her family Thursday in Dallas County. Linda Michelle Rogers’ family is…
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the 2020 census will include questions about immigration status for the first time since 1950. The policy change, supported by Texas officials including Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. Ted Cruz, could have a tremendous effect of the Texas’ already…
It’s Opening Day. It’s not the biggest one in Rangers history, or even one of the five biggest. This Rangers team doesn’t have the talent level, expectations or big names that have come with so many recent Aprils at Globe Life Park. Still, with the first game of the season…
Late Wednesday afternoon, Dallas City Council member Kevin Felder made up his mind about the concrete batching plant planned for the old freedman’s town of Joppa, which sits squarely in his District 7 domain, five miles south of downtown Dallas. Felder, reported to be on the fence about the facility…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, famous for inspiring Julia Roberts’ Oscar-winning performance in Erin Brockovich, is coming to North Texas. Brockovich, who blasted the North Texas Municipal Water District last week for using a common cleaning procedure, announced on Facebook on Tuesday that she’s visiting Plano the first week of April…
