On Thursday, the Texas Senate joined the Texas House of Representatives in voting to ban straight-ticket voting in the state. Texas House Speaker Joe Straus identified dumping the straight-ticket option as a session priority this winter. “Too often, good men and women are swept out of down-ballot offices due to…
Reform to the Dallas Police and Fire Pension system is taking shape after a day of negotiations, mutual agreement and statehouse votes. On Thursday afternoon, Dallas police and fire associations agreed to a deal with the system and the city of Dallas. After that, the Texas Senate’s State Affairs Committee…
The Trinity River’s infamous Standing Wave feature, installed by the city of Dallas at a cost of more than $4 million in 2011, has never worked as planned. Six years later, it seems it will take at least $2 million more to remove the envisioned whitewater park.
Wednesday afternoon’s Dallas police memorial ceremony downtown, despite the contentious debates currently embroiling the Dallas Police Department and the city, wasn’t about politics, pensions or retention. Instead, the services held in front of the city’s monument to officers killed in the line of duty focused on the past the 84 Dallas…
A former Baylor University volleyball player sued the school this week, claiming that the university failed to act on her report of a vicious sexual assault at the hands of Baylor football players. The Baptist university’s inaction to curb similar behavior, the woman claims, left her at risk for the assault…
The Dallas City Council will decide next week whether the city of Dallas should join with the city of Austin in its legal battle with the state of Texas over the state legislature’s recently signed “sanctuary cities” bill. The bill, set to go into effect Sept. 1, threatens sheriffs, constables and…
Adan Salazar, arrested on April 26 when he tried to roll through the security checkpoint at the Dallas Police Department’s Southwest Patrol Division wearing a Guy Fawkes mask while in possession of marijuana and two 9 mm handguns, now faces federal charges for possessing a firearm while using a controlled…
Over the last four years, Atmos Energy, the company that provides natural gas to residents of the city of Dallas, has come to the city for more than $18 million in rate increases. On Monday they aske for another $7.8 million from the city, an amount they say represents a…
U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn sentenced Guadalupe “Sleepy” Segovia, part of a 19-member methamphetamine conspiracy operating out of Pleasant Grove, Seagoville and Balch Springs, to 20 years in federal prison last week. Segovia, 44, pleaded guilty in October 2016 to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Federal…
Compared to the test of Texas, the Dallas Police Department is a paragon of transparency when it comes to police shootings. Whenever a DPD officer fires his or her weapon, data from the shooting, including a description of the incident, is readily available on the department’s website. As the incident moves…
Late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater canceled one of North Texas’ most anticipated trials of the summer when he pulled the plug on Exxxotica’s lawsuit with the city of Dallas, dismissing the suit just before the trial’s slated June kickoff date. Fitzwater didn’t rule on the case’s central issue,…
Former Dallas City Council member and Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill died Saturday at 65. Federal authorities released Hill from prison Friday, commuting his 18 year sentence on bribery charges, due to his terminal prostate cancer. Hill is survived by two daughters, Erika and Kristin, and his wife Sheila Farrington-Hill…
Just before 9:00 a.m. Monday, Dallas Police shot a man in the stomach after he grabbed an officer’s taser during a fight with police officers. The shooting is the fourth involving Dallas Police Department officers this year. Dallas police officers responded to the 8300 block of Reva Street in Pleasant…
The suspects of an Oak Cliff crime spree, Dallas police say, tried to cover their tracks. Just not very hard. Between robbing four the four fast food restaurants between 10:15 p.m. Wednesday and 6:00 am the next morning, the suspects switched hoodies and shirts but used the same same green Ford…
The city of Dallas and Texas Legislators have reached a tentative deal to fix the city’s floundering police and fire pension system. The deal, announced at separate press conferences by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas- based Texas Senators Royce West and Don Huffines, makes several key concessions to the…
On Thursday, after four days of waiting, the Dallas County Elections office updated the totals in last Saturday’s District 6 city council race to include 387 of the 426 that were sequestered on election day. The new ballots changed some totals but not the outcome: Incumbent Monica Alonzo, credited with…
Don Hill is getting out of prison more than eight years early. Federal prosecutors moved this week to commute Hill’s 18-year sentence on bribery charges, allowing the subject of Dallas’ largest successful corruption case to live out what prosecutors say could be the last 18 months of his life in…
Former Dallas City Council member and Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, sentenced to 18 years in federal prison in 2010, is getting out of jail. Hill is dying of prostate cancer and is expected to live fewer than 18 months, according to a motion filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Chad…
Earl Wayne Humphries decided to rob Alejandro Morales-Martinez, according to Dallas Police, because he thought it would be an easy target. Now Humphries faces capital murder charges. Morales-Martinez, according to DPD, was waiting in his white Chevrolet mini-van for his co-workers to arrive at 4700 Colonial Avenue, just before 8:00…
Picking up where the Dallas ISD school board left off earlier this year, the Texas House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban the state’s public schools from suspending students attending pre-kindergarten through second grade. Like Dallas, the proposed state wide policy includes an exception for extreme behavioral issues like violent…
Heading into Wednesday morning, the fourth after Dallas’ Saturday city council election, there are a couple of sure things about the incomplete District 6 council race. There is going to be a runoff election on June 10 to decide the West Dallas seat at the horseshoe and Monica Alonzo, the…
In the aftermath of the death of Mesquite 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, Balch Springs police and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office have acted quickly. Within a week of the honor student’s and football player’s death, police arrested Balch Springs Police Department Officer Roy Oliver for shooting Edwards in the head with…
