Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings changed direction Friday afternoon on his plan for the city’s four Confederate statues and monuments. While Rawlings initially called for three months of public meetings and deliberation by a task force, the mayor says now that he wants the City Council’s Quality of Life Committee briefed on the…
Two men carjacked a valet Sunday morning in front at the Omni Dallas Hotel on Lamar Street downtown. Dallas Air 1, the Dallas Police Department’s helicopter, picked up the Lamborghini around 8 a.m. near Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Oak Cliff. As Air 1 continued tracking the Lamborghini, it…
The story of the 1988 Carter High School Cowboys is tough to get right. There are so many moving parts — one of the most talented high school football teams in history, a school fighting for a new grading system that leads to an eligibility scandal and a group of…
One of Deep Ellum’s long nightmares is over. Dallas police have arrested a local spine doctor suspected of flashing multiple women during the past few months. Police picked up Reginald Newsome, who works for the iSpine Clinic, on Wednesday night, and he posted bail early Thursday morning. Nobody answered the…
Earlier this year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it’s targeting the seat of U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, in Texas Congressional District 32. Sessions has drawn two competitive Democratic challengers, former Hillary Clinton adviser Ed Meier and civil rights attorney and former NFL linebacker Colin Allred. A little more…
The White House announced Wednesday that Hope Hicks, an Southern Methodist University alumna, is taking over as interim White House communications director after the tumultuous 10-day reign of Anthony Scaramucci. Hicks, 28, is one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving aides. Hicks majored in English on the Hilltop and distinguished herself…
The Texas House of Representatives called a close to Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session Tuesday, a day early. While the House used the session to act on about half of the governor’s cherry-picked priorities — including increasing penalties for mail-in ballot fraud and passing a bill that allows key state…
A tan SUV barreled through the intersection at Mockingbird Lane and Greenville Avenue in Dallas just before 11 a.m. Wednesday, smashing the front end of a black crossover vehicle before flipping onto its roof. The driver of the SUV, who was fleeing from a small fleet of Dallas Police Department…
Yesterday afternoon, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott officially appealed the six-game suspension the NFL handed him last Friday. His case will be heard by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the same man who decided Elliott’s punishment, or someone designated by Goodell, on Aug. 29. The decision on the appeal is…
One day after issuing a statement condemning the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced his plans for dealing with the monuments and statues of Confederate figures that dot the city. Rather than promoting teardown or removal the monuments, as other members of the City Council have…
On Monday afternoon, @ICEGov, the official Twitter account of the United States Department of Immigration and Customs enforcement made two posts, both curious for their timing. The first came at 1:48 p.m., touting a federal court’s decision to sentence Jeramy Weatherall, a 29-year-old Dallas man, to 20 years in prison for one…
The Dallas City Council will vote during the next four weeks on whether the city should remove all monuments to the Confederacy throughout the city and rename schools, city parks and other public facilities named after Confederate figures. The vote will occur in one of the most racially charged political…
Denton ISD removed Eric Hauser — the Rodriguez Middle School assistant principal who courted controversy last week after the release of his self-published children’s book, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede — from his post Monday afternoon. Hauser is being reassigned to an unannounced role with the district because of the…
While the length of Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension might have come as a surprise, the fact that it came wasn’t a shock. Since being picked fourth overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL draft, Elliott has made a series of poor decisions, seemingly daring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to…
On Friday morning, the NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for the first six games of the 2017 season following a 13-month investigation into allegations of domestic violence. The accusations were made against Elliott by his ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson. The league’s decision isn’t based on any legal standard…
Barring a successful appeal, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is suspended for the first six games of the 2017 NFL season, the league announced Friday morning. Elliott’s suspension, according to the league, stems from allegations of domestic violence made by his ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson, in July 2016. Thompson claims…
The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for Reginald Kimbro. Kimbro, 23, is accused of raping and strangling 22-year-old Molly Matheson in her apartment April 10 near Texas Christian University’s Fort Worth campus. Authorities believe he also raped and murdered Megan Getrum, a…
Without context, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede looks like a fairly standard children’s book. Its cover features a smiling frog with its left arm around a friendly looking centipede, and its pages are filled with Wishington Farm’s anthropomorphic animals talking to each other. With context, however, the self-published book, written by…
The Dallas Stars announced their opposition Wednesday to the three bathroom bills under consideration during the Texas Legislature’s special session, becoming the first Texas sports franchise to do so. “The Dallas Stars stands strongly opposed to any legislation perceived as discriminatory, including proposed bathroom legislation,” President Jim Lites said. “We…
Around lunchtime Wednesday, former Dallas City Council member Craig Holcomb, fresh off the biggest defeat in his political career, approached former council member Angela Hunt. She was decked out in her trademark red suit and fresh off the biggest win in her political career. The two shook hands. Holcomb, long…
The Trinity toll road is dead. After limited discussion Wednesday morning, the Dallas City Council voted 13-2 to abandon Alternative 3C, the only federally approved plan for a road between the Trinity River levees. The vote received a round of applause from road opponents in the City Council gallery. For…
Lancaster police made an arrest Tuesday in a road-rage incident that’s been the talk of Dallas’ Facebook community for four days. On Saturday, Victoria Best posted three photos and a video of a man pointing a gun at her during her Friday commute. Best was just south of the Dallas…
