Late last week, when Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax released his first proposed budget since the city hired him earlier this year, one of the things that stood out immediately was the way he managed to balance his budget without slashing services. Broadnax did this by targeting money used to…
Speculation over Ezekiel Elliott’s potential suspension ramped up again Monday in the aftermath of claims made by Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter that led to a response by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The NFL’s investigation into domestic violence allegations against Elliott has lasted 13 months, extending well past an…
Dallas police need helped finding the person who mowed down a Dallas man July 15. That night, an unknown assailant gunned down Traytonio King during a drive-by shooting in the 700 block of Emberwood Drive near Camp Wisdom Road and Polk Street in South Dallas. On Monday afternoon, the Dallas Police…
On Saturday night, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones took his victory lap. After nearly 30 years as owner of the Cowboys, many of them spent in conflict with the league, team personnel or DFW sports fans, Jones received football’s highest individual honor: induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame…
Dallas City Manger T.C. Broadnax released his first budget late Friday afternoon. It makes a lot of promises — increased funding for Dallas’ police and fire pension system, cash for fixing some of the city’s beleaguered streetlights and money for public safety improvements among them — with no accompanying increase…
DART officials confirmed Thursday night that a 21-year-old Dallas man has been arrested for his alleged role in the attack on a stranger on a DART train Sunday night. Police booked Jakobi Darion Hendrix into Dallas County Jail just before midnight yesterday. He’s charged with aggravated assault with a deadly…
Executives from 10 of the United States’ biggest companies joined growing opposition to Texas’ pending bathroom bill Thursday. Prominent North Texas industry heads have signed a letter urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to drop his support for the bill, which would require public school students to use the bathroom corresponding…
On Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas Police Department announced that it’s looking for suspects in 10 similar robberies in East Dallas. Robbers targeted Latino men between the ages of 51 and 78 in each incident, according to Assistant Chief Thomas Castro, threatening victims with a gun before taking their property. The…
The battle over the potential toll road between the Trinity River levees, Dallas municipal politics’ forever war, is finally winding down. On Wednesday, during a Dallas City Council briefing, a clear majority of the council members, including Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, a longtime supporter of the road, indicated that they…
On Tuesday, Mike Rawlings finally got a meeting with Gov. Greg Abbott. After the meeting, Dallas’ mayor said that are many areas in which he disagrees with the governor, but he was encouraged by the focus Abbott put on poverty in southern Dallas and reforming the state’s public education system…
It all started, according to Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Mark Ball, with a request to stop smoking. Between 11 p.m. and midnight Sunday night, a group of seven teenagers got on a northbound Green Line train while smoking. A man asked them to stop smoking, Ball said. The teenagers, some…
Last 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. Last week, the Observer…
Ed Butowsky is having a rough Tuesday. “The story is ridiculous, it’s all made up crap,” the Dallas financier told the Observer on Tuesday morning before begging off the phone. He’d love to tell us the full story, he said, but he just didn’t have the time to talk. He might,…
On Monday, seemingly seconds before the trade deadline, Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels did what he’d been trying to do for the better part of a week: He got rid of Yu Darvish. With his team seemingly out of contention and needing a farm system rebuild, Daniels sent his…
On Monday afternoon, minutes before Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline, the Texas Rangers traded their ace, Yu Darvish, to the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor leaguers Willie Calhoun, A.J. Alexy and Brendon Davis. As the minutes ticked toward 3 p.m., it appeared that Darvish would not be traded. The…
Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, Dallas police arrested a 20-year-old woman for street racing southbound on South Central Expressway at Linfield Road in South Dallas. Police found the woman after she spun out down an embankment and wrapped her car around a wooden utility pole on the west side of…
Dallas County Health and Human Services officials announced late Friday that the county has had its first death from West Nile virus in 2017. The deceased patient, unidentified because of health privacy laws, became the county’s first diagnosed case of West Nile in 2017 on July 14. According to the county,…
Reliably, once every six months or so, the Arlington Police Department ends up in the news for screwing up, even though the city it serves is about a quarter the size of Dallas and less than half the size of Fort Worth. Here are five of the lowlights of the…
After nearly a week of criticism from Boy Scouts, their parents and the public, Michael Surbaugh, chief Scout executive of Boy Scouts of America, apologized Thursday for a speech President Donald Trump gave at the group’s National Jamboree on Monday night. The president’s speech lambasted the press, rehashed his Electoral College victory…
One of the teenagers who attacked local actor Daniel Whitener outside Dallas’ Cityplace Target in January pleaded guilty this week to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson announced Thursday. Zantrell Sauls, 17, will spend four months in jail and 10 years on probation for…
Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels certainly didn’t get any help last night. Making his last start before Monday’s trade deadline,Yu Darvish melted down against the Miami Marlins on a steamy night at Globe Life Park in Arlington, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of potential suitors as they…
The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to significantly beef up the state’s election code, creating stiffer penalties for those who attempt to manipulate mail-in ballots. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made stemming mail-in ballot issues a priority for the special legislative session after problems during the Dallas City Council election in May…
