On Tuesday night, one week into Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s first called special session of the 85th Texas Legislature, the Texas Senate signed off on the term’s most controversial bill. After nearly eight hours of debate, 20 Republicans and one Democrat voted to require Texas children attending public schools to use bathrooms…
Dallas police announced late Tuesday afternoon that they’re looking far a suspect in a fatal Monday night carjacking in northwest Dallas. According to DPD, the suspect killed the car’s owner, who has not been identified. As the suspect attempted to drive away in a red 1992 Pontiac, the car’s owner…
On Tuesday, the Dallas Cowboys made it clear that they are content to make an example out of Lucky Whitehead. Following the team’s decision Monday afternoon to cut Whitehead, the Cowboys learned Tuesday that the alleged wrong for which they’d released Whitehead — a shoplifting arrest in Prince William County,…
The Dallas Cowboys cut wide receiver and return specialist Lucky Whitehead late Monday afternoon, shortly after the team completed the first practice of its 2017 training. Whitehead, already on the chopping block thanks to his lack of development as a receiver, gave the team all the excuses it needed to…
The Colony Police Department announced Monday that a retired soldier — who famously stood at attention for hours outside Dallas Police headquarters in honor of the officers killed in last summer’s ambush — was killed in his home Sunday night. Police found Chandler Davis, 34, with a gunshot wound to…
Just after midnight Sunday, San Antonio police got a call about a suspicious tractor-trailer in the back of a Walmart parking lot. There, they found a horror that has captured the nation’s attention. According to a federal criminal complaint released Monday, federal authorities have charged James Matthew Bradley Jr. with…
Starting today, flyers at Love Field have the option of skipping to the front of the airport’s security lines, bypassing fellow travelers and the TSA agents responsible for making sure passengers’ identification is valid and matches their boarding passes. All those who want the privilege of being first in line…
Training camp, finally, is here, and everything feels like the early ’90s again. The heat is oppressive, the Rangers are oppressively mediocre and the Cowboys are desperate to get back on the field in hopes that their fans and the media will pay a little less attention to some of…
Over the next couple of days, the special session of the 85th Texas Legislature will get rolling. On Friday, Texas Senate committees will hear testimony on the state’s two proposed “bathroom bills,” which would regulate which restrooms Texans are allowed to use, and several anti-abortion bills. On Saturday, the upper…
Dallas police announced late Thursday night that they’ve arrested a suspect connected to at least two sexual assaults in the city over the last month. Police have not released the suspect’s name because they believe he may be connected to additional crimes. At about 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, a man approached…
On Wednesday, Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, for the first time gave the public a glimpse of his side of the story. In a court filing made in response to the federal civil lawsuit filed against Oliver by Edwards’ parents, the former…
Dallas police announced late Wednesday afternoon that they are suspending the investigation into an altercation involving Ezekiel Elliott on Sunday night at Clutch in Uptown because of a lack of cooperation from both the complainant and witnesses. Police responded to Clutch around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a police reports…
On Wednesday afternoon, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced that Dallas’ next police chief will be U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department. She’ll take over the post vacated by former Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who retired in October. She’s expected to start on September…
Daryl Nkemakola Ibeneme, better known as DJ DTrain, has gone underground. After telling police that he was punched in the face during a fight at Clutch in Uptown on Sunday night, Ibeneme has been radio silent. He’s stayed off his usually prolific social media profiles, refused to respond to interview requests…
Hicks Holdings, the Dallas-based investment arm of the family of former Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks, announced Tuesday that it’s throwing its considerable weight behind a company that makes body cameras and in-car video systems for police departments and transit authorities across the country. The investment in Georgia-based Utility…
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday that the teenager found dead in a southeast Dallas creek Sunday morning is Mikayla Mitchell, the 17-year-old stepdaughter of Howard Diamond, a Sherman doctor whom federal prosecutors recently connected to seven overdose. Police found Mitchell in a creek near the 3000 block of Rochester Street just before…
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and kick returner Lucky Whitehead is having a rough 2017. In April, the Cowboys drafted his potential replacement — the University of North Carolina’s Ryan Switzer — jeopardizing Whitehead’s playing status in 2017. Last week, something worse happened to Whitehead: Someone stole his dog, Blitz. According…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted a former Balch Springs police officer for murder. Roy Oliver, 37, is charged with killing Jordan Edwards, 15, as Oliver and another officer attempted to break up a house party in the Dallas County suburb. After heading into the house to break up…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was involved in a fight Sunday night at the Clutch Dallas bar in Uptown, according to multiple media reports. According to the Dallas Police Department, police responded to the bar on Cedar Spring Road in Uptown at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. Nkemakola Ibeneme, a Dallas…
On Sunday afternoon, Dallas police announced the end to a tragic weekend. Just before noon, police said, they’d been called to the 3000 block of Rochester Street in southeast Dallas. When they arrived, they found a woman’s body floating in the creek. The unidentified woman had been murdered, according to…
A new study published in July’s American Journal of Public Health attacks one of contemporary policing’s biggest questions using data culled from the Dallas Police Department. The central question: Are white police officers more likely to use force against nonwhite suspects? The answer in Dallas appears to be no, according…
On Thursday night, the George W. Bush Presidential library hosted a throwback to a kinder, gentler, political universe, where two ex-presidents from opposing parties got along like old friends. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton spoke to the graduating class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program about the need for bipartisanship,…
