Ezekiel Elliott will keep playing for at least two more weeks. On Friday afternoon, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals elected not to make an immediate decision on the league’s request to stay a lower court decision that’s allowed Elliott to play as the case has made its way…
Now that the Robert E. Lee statue is gone, his formerly eponymous park in Oak Lawn is getting a new name. The city of Dallas Parks Board voted unanimously Friday morning to give Lee Park a new placeholder name, returning the park to its original name, Oak Lawn Park, until…
When the Texas Rangers released the first renderings in January of their proposed new ballpark in Arlington, the team’s fans were unimpressed. The new stadium looked a lot like the Astros’ Minute Maid Park, thanks largely to the series of arches backing the stadium’s left-field stands. HKS Architects, the firm…
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed John Battaglia’s claims of incompetence late Wednesday, clearing the way for the state of Texas to put the Dallas child killer to death more than 16 years after his crimes. Over the past year, Battaglia’s defense team and lawyers for the state have…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced Wednesday the closure of the emergency mega-shelter for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey. The shelter occupied the bottom floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center’s parking structure for the better part of a month. There simply aren’t enough evacuees left — less than 300 at…
Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway loves the city’s Youth Commission. It comes up whenever he talks about the reasons he serves on the council. The commission comprises council-appointed high school students from around the city who aspire to public service, and Caraway says it’s essential to fostering southern Dallas’…
“Little Chris” didn’t even make it a month on the state of Texas’ 10 most wanted list. Dallas police announced Tuesday afternoon that Los Angeles Police Department officer have arrested Christopher Gonzalez, 18, who has been on the Texas’ most wanted list since Aug. 23. According to the Dallas Police…
A 20-year-old Frisco man pleaded guilty Monday to hate crime charges stemming from a series of home invasions targeting gay men in Dallas’ northern suburbs. Chancler Encalade admitted that he and two other men targeted a Plano man in January because of his sexual orientation. Encalade faces up to life…
After 15 months, the end of the NFL’s investigation into a series of domestic violence allegations made against Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott is coming into focus. Sometime soon, as early as today and likely no later than next week, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will…
Two star-crossed North Texas lovers are set to spend time in federal prison after Collin County Sheriff’s Office employees foiled their plan to exchange a greeting card soaked in liquid methamphetamine. Amanda Lynn Mollison, 29, mailed the card to Justin Chadwick Brown, 39, in October 2016. Workers at the Collin County…
On Sept. 6, when the Dallas City Council sat to consider bringing down the city’s 81-year-old equestrian monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, slavery and the American Civil War flowed into the moment as if yesterday and today were one. A packed council chamber was alternately raucous and respectful…
The 2017 Rangers are the platonic ideal of a mediocre baseball team. Through the first five-plus months of the season, they’ve never dipped more than seven games under .500 — they were 13-20 on May 8 — nor have the Rangers ever climbed more than three games above .500 —…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will not begin serving his six-game suspension until the resolution of his federal lawsuit, which could last well into 2018. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III issued a preliminary injunction Friday afternoon, essentially agreeing with Elliott and the NFL Players Association that Elliott has…
The Robert E. Lee statue at Lee Park will not be coming down today. Late Friday morning, Michael Van Enter, the art conservator charged with preserving the statue as it’s removed, said that work couldn’t continue on the statue until a crane was in place and an appropriate work crew could…
Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Next Generation Action Network head Dominque Alexander on Thursday morning at his home in North Dallas on theft charges stemming from a 2016 dispute with an employer. Police took Alexander to Denton County Jail, where he was booked and released on $1,500 bail. Alexander is…
A federal judge dissolved a temporary restraining order Thursday that barred the city of Dallas from removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from Lee Park. U.S. District Judge Sydney Fitzwater approved the order yesterday, halting the work crews that had started the demolition at Lee Park. Plaintiffs argued that their…
They began gathering well before noon Wednesday, greeted by police and gathered around barricades surrounding Lee Park. They wanted action, either to see the statue of Robert E. Lee taken down after a Dallas City Council vote that seemed preordained, or to see it saved at the last minute. Around…
After an hour spent listening to the public and another hour stating their own positions, the Dallas City Council voted 13-1 today to pull down an equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in an upscale neighborhood near downtown. Within hours of the vote a crane appeared at the…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will not begin serving his potential six-game suspension until at least week two, when the team plays the Denver Broncos, after a federal court hearing in Sherman on Tuesday night. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III did not rule on Elliott’s request for a…
On Tuesday, U. Renee Hall officially took over as Dallas’ chief of police in an atypical way. Traditionally, Dallas’ chiefs have been sworn in on their first day in a public ceremony. Thanks to Hall’s background, she was unable to do so. Officers coming to Texas from outside the state…
It was a long weekend, so there was plenty of time for sleuths to pour through the thousands of pages of exhibits that accompanied Ezekiel Elliott and the NFL Players Associations’ request for a temporary restraining order against the league. While Elliott’s lawsuit is intended to cutoff the six-game suspension…
For eight hours or so Monday morning, self-help guru John Carpenter Dealey went missing, and police labeled him “a danger to himself and others.” Dealey is the great-grandson of legendary former Dallas Morning News publisher George Bannerman Dealey. The Dallas Police Department issued an alert just before 11 a.m: “On September…
