Earlier this week, as part of the ongoing process to select Dallas’ next police chief, the seven remaining finalists for the job met with community members selected by City Manager T.C. Broadnax. Among those selected to participate in the panel interviews was Dominique Alexander, the leader of the Next Generation…
The only suspect in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation into voter fraud in May’s City Council election is in custody. Miguel Hernandez has been on the lam for more than a month; a warrant was issued June 2 for his arrest on illegal voting charges. A grand jury…
Dallas police have confirmed that a suspect took a shot at officers as they tried to serve an aggravated assault warrant at an apartment complex Thursday morning. At about 6 a.m. Thursday, U.S. marshals and Dallas police officers attempted to arrest the suspect at the Rosemont at Cedar Crest Apartments…
Texas’ state leadership, led by Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, may be set on passing legislation telling transgender Texans which bathroom to use during the upcoming special session, but Dallas ISD board members Miguel Solis and Dan Micciche aren’t having any of it. Ahead of the special session,…
For the second year in a row, the Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable sports franchise on Earth, topping Forbes’ annual ranking with an estimated value of $4.2 billion. The New York Yankees, worth $3.7 billion, are next on the list, up from fourth in 2016. Soccer clubs Manchester United,…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave the keynote speech at 30th Drug Abuse Resistance Education International Training Conference in Grapevine on Tuesday afternoon. Ostensibly, the attorney general was on the program to talk to the drug-prevention educators at the conference about the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in Texas and…
A Tarrant County judge sentenced two former Arlington jailers to one year of probation Tuesday for their role in the 2015 death of inmate Jonathan Paul. Pedro Medina and Steven Schmidt both pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges. Each initially received a felony charge of criminally negligent homicide. Arlington police picked…
On Tuesday, Dallas police arrested Julio Ruvalcaba for shooting and killing Christopher Geddes on Sunday. The incident started at a CVS Pharmacy on South Buckner Boulevard on Sunday afternoon. Surveillance video recorded at the store shows Geddes, 31, shoplifting from the store. According to DPD, Geddes headed to the parking lot after taking the…
This week is the beginning of the end for one of Texas’ longstanding political fights. Over the course of at least five days in a San Antonio courthouse, a three-judge federal panel will hear arguments over whether Texas illegally discriminated against the state’s minority population when it drew its current…
In a sense, John Wiley Price is getting back all that cash the feds seized from his safe in 2011. It isn’t being turned over to the government as part of civil forfeiture proceeding, so Price is entitled to it. He’s not really getting it back, though. Not after U.S. Magistrate…
A Dallas County grand jury issued its first indictment in the ongoing investigation into mail-in ballot fraud in West Dallas on Monday. The grand jury charged Miguel Hernandez, 27, with illegal voting, a second-degree felony. Investigators in the case believe Hernandez is responsible for at least one of the tainted…
One of the easiest lines to draw between eras of sports history is before and after free agency in each of the U.S.’ four major leagues. Before free agency, players were stuck with the team that drafted them or signed them out of high school until they retired, were traded…
Dallas Police Department officials announced Friday afternoon that the department will turn over its investigation of last year’s murders of five Dallas officers to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office next week, more than a year after Micah Johnson opened fire on police following a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas…
At some point far into the future, it’s possible that a Dallas Maverick will mean as much to the franchise, and to the city of Dallas, as Dirk Nowitzki. It’s possible, in the same way that it’s possible that Dak Prescott could finish his career with more Super Bowls than…
The state of Texas, thanks to its new, slightly weaker voter ID law, is no longer discriminating against minority voters. At least that’s the case if you listen to the U.S. Department of Justice. Late Wednesday, John Gore, the deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,…
On Wednesday morning, the basic facts began to arrive with few details: Frisco police arrested Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson on Tuesday night for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. By the time reports of his arrest hit DFW media, Wilson was already out of jail, having posted…
Dallas County vehicle inspections are about to get a little cheaper. That’s not necessarily a good thing. The Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously Wednesday to stop collecting the $6 fee it’s charged Dallas drivers for more than a decade as part of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s clean…
Frisco Police Department officers arrested Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday night. According to the department, Wilson was picked up after in incident in Toyota Stadium’s parking lot during the city of Frisco’s Freedom Fest. After being booked into the Frisco detention center,…
During President Obama’s term in office, it was an almost weekly activity for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to announce his newest lawsuit against the federal government. Whether it was environmental regulations, LGBTQ rights or immigration policy, the formula was the same: Paxton picks an issue important to his conservative…
In the end, it appears kidnappers murdered 13-year-old Shavon Randle over a drug heist. Police and her family say that kidnappers abducted the Lancaster teenager after a man named Kendall Perkins and three other men stole 22 pounds of marijuana from Devontae Owens and Darius Fields on June 26 at a Lancaster…
Early Sunday morning, Eric Jackson, special agent for the Dallas FBI field office, announced that Shavon Randle, the 13-year-old Lancaster teenager missing since Wednesday, was found dead inside an Oak Cliff home along with a then-unidentified man. “We didn’t have the positive result we were looking for, but being able to…
On July 7, 2016, Dallas witnessed the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 9/11 when a gunman opened fire on police during a protest rally. Five officers died. Police cornered the gunman, entered a failed negotiation and sent in a bomb-disposal robot armed with explosives to kill him. The…
