Something happened to the Cowboys for the first time during their 2017 season Sunday night in Oakland: They got lucky. Scrapping for their playoff lives against the Raiders, the Cowboys survived two Dak Prescott interceptions, an injury to All-Pro left tackle Tyron Smith and a 55-yard pass interference penalty that…
Six months ago, it wasn’t hard to imagine how Texas’ 2018 midterm election would go. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, backed by his $40 million war chest, was going to sweep to re-election with the rest of the Republican party’s statewide candidates. El Paso Rep. Beto O’Rourke would fall to incumbent…
Earlier this year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it’s targeting the seat of U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, the Dallas Republican in District 32. Sessions has drawn four competitive Democratic challengers — former Obama appointee Lillian Salerno, former WFAA-TV reporter Brett Shipp, former Hillary Clinton adviser Ed Meier and civil…
After a season that began with Super Bowl-high expectations, the Dallas Cowboys, about to play their 14th game of the year, are left to compete for the NFC’s booby prize, the sixth seed in the playoffs. Even if the Cowboys manage to beat the odds and get in, they’ll face…
James Ho, the Dallas attorney confirmed by the Senate on Thursday for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is staunchly conservative but isn’t in lockstep with President Donald Trump ideologically, says Chad Ruback, a Dallas-based appellate lawyer who’s crossed paths many times with Ho. Ho, appellate attorney…
Sometimes, Dallas cops get the guy. So far in 2017, the Dallas Police Department has captured a serial rapist, quickly arrested a 15-year-old who shot and killed a mother of six during an early November robbery and tracked down Earl Wayne Humphries, a man police believe committed two similar murders of day…
A 17-year-old and a swarm of yet-to-be identified accomplices lured four men to a vacant Pleasant Grove apartment Tuesday before robbing and beating them, according to the Dallas Police Department. DPD arrested the teenTuesday, but they aren’t releasing his name because they’re looking into his possible involvement in several similar…
Just after Thanksgiving, Dallas County Health and Human Services announced that flu infections were on the rise in the county, publishing a report on an early November spike in specimens sent by the county to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testing positive for the flu. At the time,…
A former Dallas County jailer pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in a Dallas federal courtroom to one count of enticement of minor. Kevin Scott Morris, 44, will be sentenced April 4 to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison, closing a sordid saga that lasted the better part…
Two North Texas men spun an elaborate tale involving the Illuminati, the NBA and Under Armour in order to defraud a would-be real estate investor out of nearly $1 million, according to Dallas’ U.S. Attorney’s Office. Dallas’ Joshua Pugh and Frisco’s Glenn Clifton will appear at a detention hearing Tuesday…
Among the biggest immediate challenges faced by Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall is the riddle of the Dallas Police Department’s recruitment and retention. The department hemorrhaged officers in early 2017 as the tenure of her predecessor ended, dipping from 3,700 officers at the department’s peak to about 3,000 officers, a 10-year…
The city of Arlington is trying to stave off the stigma of being the largest city in the United States without public transportation. Less the a month before discontinuing its single bus line, the Metro Arlington Xpress, the city launched one of the nation’s first public microtransit projects to provide…
The Rangers got bad news Friday afternoon: Japan’s two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani is not going to Arlington. Worse still for the Rangers and their fans is that Ohtani and his unique talents are headed to the Los Angeles Angels. For the next six years, the Rangers will have to deal…
A Dallas County grand jury indicted two Dallas Police Department officers Thursday for their role in the death of Tony Timpa. Both officers are charged with misdemeanor deadly conduct. On August 10, 2016, Timpa panicked in the parking lot of the New Fine Arts adult video store at 1720 Mockingbird…
Less than a month after U.S. Rep. Pete Session voted for the GOP’s sweeping overhaul of the federal tax system, the Dallas congressman pushed back Thursday on one of the bill’s most controversial provisions, asking his colleagues in the House to dump a provision that could cost U.S. university students…
A University of North Texas professor will head to Russia next week to attend a forum with one of the most controversial figures in international sports — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, whom the Olympics recently banned from all future games for his alleged participation in Russia’s doping program. The Russian…
Women in uptown have been assaulted four times in the last 14 months, and police believe it could be the work of one perpetrator. While the crimes share a set of circumstances — they each occurred between 12:45 and 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning as the victim walked toward…
A Dallas County Grand Jury has indicted Derick Wiley, a former officer for the Mesquite Police Department, for shooting Lyndo Jones last month as Jones attempted to disable his truck’s alarm system. The grand jury charged Wiley with aggravated assault by a public servant, a felony punishable by five to…
One week after finding out he’d be hanging onto his deputy chief position during a shakeup of the Dallas Police Department, Vernon Hale is leaving. Hale, who was set to become head of DPD’s Tactical Support Division, will instead resign and move to the Galveston Police Department on Jan. 2. “I…
Brett Shipp, Channel 8’s longtime investigative and political reporter, quit the station on Tuesday to run for congress, the station announced Tuesday. Shipp, who’s been with WFAA for 22 years, is joining the already crowded Democratic primary field in Texas U.S. House District 32, the seat currently occupied by Republican…
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez is running for governor. The sheriff will resign her post Wednesday morning, before officially kicking off her campaign at Texas Democratic Party headquarters in Austin. “Like so many hardworking Texans, I know it’s tough deciding between buying food, finding a decent place to live, and…
A Dallas County judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that the parents of a Richardson toddler found dead in October will not be allowed to see their other daughter even if they successfully post bail. Judge Cheryl Lee Shannon found that “aggravated circumstances” surrounding the death of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews necessitated that Wesley…
