The Texas Department of Public Safety discontinued the Amber Alert for Richardson 3-year-old Sherin Mathews late Monday afternoon. Richardson police said they are continuing the search, but the Texas Department of Public Safety cut off the alert because there was no suspect or vehicle description. Wesley Mathews, Sherin’s father, posted…
A 3-year-old Richardson girl remains missing Monday morning after her father sent her outside as a punishment late night on Saturday, according to police. Richardson police arrested the girl’s father, Wesley Mathews, Saturday night for abandoning or endangering a child, a second degree felony. Mathews sent his daughter Sherin Mathews…
One night last spring, infamous right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Dallas’ homegrown white nationalist, Richard Spencer walked into a karaoke bar on Abrams Road in Lake Highlands. They left less than a half-hour later after being kicked by One Nostagia Tavern’s bartenders, but not before someone filmed a video of…
Texas Rangers fans who checked their email boxes Thursday morning were greeted with something that’s become fairly typical among local sports teams as they’ve made attempts to target their marketing: an end-of-the-year survey about the fans’ experiences and what they might like to see moving forward. While about 80 percent…
For now, at least, personal data from millions of Texas voters won’t be handed over to President Donald Trump’s commission on voter fraud. Earlier this week, a Travis County judge issued a restraining order barring the Texas secretary of state from turning over the records, which the Trump administration sought…
The Dallas Police Department released video Wednesday afternoon of three suspects in an early Saturday morning sexual assault. Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, two men approached a woman at a Chase Bank ATM on Wheatland Road in Duncanville. The men, caught on security cameras at the ATM and a nearby…
The Dallas Observer received the following query Tuesday night from someone identified as “Big Poppa Pump” from New Jersey. Hi Stephen, I just finished reading your article, which was the most well informed article I read on the matter, and had to ask this question. Based off of all the information…
After 41 shots, five years and one mistrial, former Garland police officer Patrick Wayne Tuter has received nine months probation for killing Michael Vincent Allen. He pleaded no contest yesterday to discharging a firearm in certain municipalities, a Class A misdemeanor. A Dallas County grand jury indicted Tuter for manslaughter in…
A key drug reform policy passed by the city of Dallas this spring remains under threat by the continued efforts of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who wants to submarine cite-and-release before it starts. On Tuesday, Price sparred with Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston, Dallas County District Attorney…
After Monday’s U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing, neither Ezekiel Elliott nor the NFL should feel comfortable in their nearly year-and-a-half-long legal battle over domestic violence allegations made against the Dallas Cowboy. The league, which desperately wants to enforce a six-game ban handed to Elliott by Commissioner Roger Goodell…
Nearly sixth months after Miguel Sotelo-Trujillo’s murder, Dallas police announced Monday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest. The Dallas Police Department has charged Alex Thomas Delrio with killing Sotelo-Trujillo on April 20 after a Regal Row drag race. According to DPD, Sotelo-Trujillo and his brother headed home after watching street races…
At first, this year looked like it could be a good one for the Rangers. The team arrived in Arizona for spring training fresh off back-to-back American League West championships and a 95-67 record. Although storm clouds threatened the future, thanks to soon-to-be free agent stars and an aging roster,…
Five-and-a-half months ago the Dallas City Council finally, after years of trying, passed cite-and-release for low-level marijuana possession and set a start date for the program of Oct. 1. But on Sunday, anyone stopped for possessing less than four ounces of pot are still subject to arrest. What happened? The…
When the 2018-2019 school year kicks off next August, four Dallas elementary schools will sport new names, thanks to a vote by Dallas ISD Board of Trustees. Thursday night, the board voted 9-0 to require that schools named for Albert Sidney Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, William L. Cabell and Robert E. Lee,…
Next week, the Dallas Cowboys may finally get some clarity on star running back Ezekiel Elliott’s status for the rest of the season, following a critical hearing before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. After oral arguments on Monday, the court will decide whether or not…
When now Dallas County District Judge Brandon Birmingham started working in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s cold case unit, there was set of files that was forbidden fruit, even for the highest ranking members of the office. “There, in the warehouse of the DA’s office in a corner, was…
Early in the evening of Sunday, Sept. 10, Spencer Hight stopped by a local bar, according to Plano police. He chatted up the staff, who knew him well. Then he brandished a knife and a pistol, trying to show off for the employees. Instead, he scaring them enough that one…
The job listing was clear. KTVT-TV (Channel 11), Dallas’ CBS affiliate, needed a traffic reporter with “strong knowledge of local traffic in the Dallas/Fort Worth area” and at least five years of professional broadcasting experience. The station seemingly had the perfect candidate, too. Tammy Dombeck, a longtime fixture on local…
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the rest of the team each took a knee before the national anthem at Monday night’s game against the Arizona Cardinals. The demonstration, after which the team stood and linked arms during the anthem, was a show of solidarity in the face of comments made…
For North Texans struggling to keep current on their mortgages, the offer must’ve sounded too good to be true. And it was. Rather than continue paying their current mortgages, homeowners could get new loans with better terms and stay in their houses. This supposed lifeline, peddled by Bruce Hawkins of…
What started as a solo stand by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick became a movement Sunday. Following comments and series of tweets from President Donald Trump on Friday and Saturday — he told an Alabama crowd that any player protesting during “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a “son of…
After a Friday afternoon session lasted more than three hours, the city of Dallas’ Confederate Monuments Task Force is done. The task force, convened by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and made up of nominees named by each member of the City Council, recommended the city remove the Confederate War memorial…
