After almost a week of waiting and preparation, the city of Dallas finally, started receiving a steady stream of evacuees from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Thursday night and Friday. The travelers aren’t coming from Houston, according to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Instead, they’re coming to North Texas from flooded-out southeast…
The NFL Players Association preemptively sued the NFL in federal court late Thursday, seeking to vacate the NFL’s suspension of Ezekiel Elliott if it’s upheld by Harold Henderson, the former league executive appointed to hear Elliott’s suspension appeal. Elliott’s suspension is based on a series of domestic violence allegations made…
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin temporarily blocked a new state of Texas law Thursday that would’ve banned the most commonly used procedure for second-trimester abortions. Yeakel ruled that without the temporary restraining order, women in Texas could be denied access to the safest abortion procedure available to them…
As of today, Sept. 1, Texas police officers can pull people over and give them tickets for texting and driving. Those busted will face fines of up to $99 for a first offense and $200 for a second offense. Advocates against handheld phone use say the new law will save…
Lines stretched around the block at North Texas gas stations Thursday morning as drivers made desperate efforts to fill their tanks following a decision to shut down a major pipeline on Wednesday evening. The shutdown compounds issues already being faced by Dallas’ gas suppliers, which were already feeling the pressure…
Major portions of Senate Bill 4, Texas’ just-passed “sanctuary cities” bill, will not immediately become law after U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia blocked significant portions of it from taking effect. Garcia’s ruling, handed down late Wednesday, stops a portion of the law the would require all local law enforcement agencies to comply…
Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey has brought destruction that federal, state and local governments have not been able top keep up with. Private citizens, non-profits and businesses have sprung into action, spurred by the now-ubiquitous “Texas Strong” rallying cry that swept in with the storm. Other, less noble creatures have…
Along with the devastating, still largely unknown human and property costs of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on the Texas coast, the state’s dogs and cats have also born the brunt of the storm. Some have been left behind by owners, forced to fend for themselves as the rains rolled…
This week, largely ignored in the face of Hurricane Harvey, one of Dallas municipal politics’ biggest worms turned again when Mayor Mike Rawlings announcing a new date for the vote on the immediate removal of Lee Park’s Robert E. Lee statue. The City Council will decide the issue Sept. 6,…
Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center is ready for guests, Mayor Mike Rawlings said Tuesday morning, whenever they arrive. Over the last two days, city of Dallas employees and volunteers have converted the first floor of the convention center’s air-conditioned parking garage into a 5,000 capacity shelter capable of housing…
Eric Hauser, author of The Adventures of Pepe and Pede, won’t be keeping any of the meager profits reaped from his book. Hauser, a former Denton ISD assistant principal, released his book Aug. 1. Its themes and imagery — which include Pepe, a frog, and Pede, a centipede, draining the…
Early Monday afternoon, as volunteers inside the first floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center’s parking garage scurried to put together and line up 5,000 cots, two volunteers from East Texas Community Emergency Response Team sat outside on the parking garage steps, finishing off their Jason’s Deli boxed lunches…
Last week, two court decisions came down that could change the course of electoral politics in Texas — and Dallas County — for the 2018 midterms and beyond. A U.S. District Judge in Corpus Christi tossed the state’s new voter ID law Wednesday, ruling that it unconstitutionally discriminated against the…
The city of Dallas announced late Sunday afternoon that it is opening its biggest emergency shelter, adding space for about 5,000 more evacuees from Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. At the request of the state of Texas, the city is preparing the bottom floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention…
A Dallas County Grand Jury indicted three men Thursday in the aggravated kidnapping of Lancaster 13-year-old Shavon Randle, bringing a summer saga that began with a drug robbery and ended with two murders one step closer to its end. Desmond Jones, 22; Devontae Owens, 24; and Laquon Wilkerson, 30, are charged…
Sometime late Friday or very early Saturday, a massive weather system named Harvey, possibly a tropical storm but more likely a hurricane, is going to hit southeast Texas. While it appears North Texas will avoid the brunt of the winds, rainfall and flooding expected, Harvey is still going to have…
The Texas Rangers have announced the sale of the naming rights for their new stadium that’s under construction to Globe Life Insurance, which owns the naming rights to the team’s current stadium. The deal runs through 2048. For the next two seasons, the Rangers will ply their trade at Globe Life Park,…
A federal district judge in Corpus Christi ruled late Wednesday afternoon that the Texas’ voter ID law, in all its forms, is unconstitutional. Her decision, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced he will appeal, says that the original 2011 law and a revamped version passed this year both…
Like any good set of tragic heroes, the 1988 Carter Cowboys reached fantastic heights before they fell. During the fall and winter of that year, a team loaded with players who went on to play football at big-time colleges and in the NFL cruised to Dallas ISD’s first football state championship…
On Tuesday, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Reginald Kimbro, who is facing the death penalty for the April murder of a Fort Worth woman, for a separate capital murder, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Kimbro, who authorities believe raped and murdered 22-year-old Molly Matheson near the Texas…
Throughout July and August, a thought has bubbled in the back of Cowboys fans’ minds. Every time Kellen Moore, the team’s de facto backup quarterback, was on the field during the Cowboys first three preseason games, committing turnovers, stalling drives and generally getting outplayed by Cooper Rush, an undrafted free…
Dallas police released video Monday afternoon of one of three suspects wanted for a robbery and murder at a Red Bird 7-Eleven. According to police, three teenagers approached Jorge Alberto Torres, 37, as he was filling up at about 10:45 Sunday night. The teens robbed and shot Torres, DPD Deputy Chief…
