Just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, a black Dodge Durango approached the front entrance of the Dallas Police Southwest Patrol Division at 4230 West Illinois Avenue. Guards outside the building stopped the driver, who “asked questions and made statements that led the officers to take the suspect into custody for a mental health…
No matter what happens over the next three days, the Dallas Cowboys 2017 NFL Draft will not be better than the team’s 2016 draft. Last year, the Cowboys picked up a game-breaking running back in the first round (Ezekiel Elliott), a franchise quarterback (Dak Prescott) in the fourth round and…
On Tuesday afternoon, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced a plan to help President Trump build the multi-billion dollar wall along the Mexican border that both politicians insist is essential securing America. Cruz’s proposal would fund the wall with cash seized from illegal drug proceeds and identified the assets of drug…
After nearly five days of deliberations, a Dallas federal jury told U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn Tuesday afternoon that they are deadlocked on several of the 11 counts facing long-serving Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. After a brief conference with lawyers for Price and his co-defendant, the commissioner’s executive…
The city of Dallas ongoing public safety is at risk after missing hiring targets and increasing officer attrition, interim Dallas Police Chief David Pughes said Monday. According to the chief, Dallas could dip below 3,000 police officers this summer, a staffing level Pughes identifies as a tipping point for the…
A key marking executive of American Airlines is leaving “to spend time with his family, according to a copy of his resignation obtained by the Chicago Business Journal,” a move made in the aftermath of several high-profile missteps. Those include a messy roll-out of uniforms that employees lambasted as unwearable…
Note: This article will be updated as more information is available. The Dallas police and fire departments evacuated an office building at 8330 LBJ Freeway Monday morning following reports of multiple gun shots in the building. Just before 1 p.m., Dallas police confirmed that the building is safe. One police…
Monday morning marks the beginning of the fourth day of jury deliberations in the federal corruption case against Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant, Dapheny Fain. Price is accused of accepting about $1 million in cash and other benefits in exchange for confidential information and influence,…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wants to snuff out attempted voter fraud in Dallas before it starts during this Dallas City Council election season. Friday, Dallas state Representative Eric Johnson joined Rawlings to call attention to Dallas County’s efforts to investigate media reports of dozens of voters receiving mail-in ballots they…
A Dallas County jury found former Dallas Police Department officer Bryan Burgess not guilty Friday afternoon of criminally negligent homicide in death of Fred Bradford Jr. In 2013 Burgess hit and killed Bradford, who was riding on a bicycle, with his police car after a brief chase in South Dallas…
For the second month in a row, a U.S. district court panel on Thursday afternoon found that a Texas district map illegally discriminates against minority voters. In March, a three-judge panel ruled that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally limits the effects of votes cast by Texas’ ethnic minorities. Thursday, a…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has a lot of problems with Texas state Representative Dan Flynn’s bill to fix Dallas’ failing police and fire pension system. On Thursday afternoon, he aired them in a letter aimed at Dallas residents. The letter also laid out the fixes he believes can save the bill,…
A group of middle school-aged boys laughed as their friend jumped a smaller boy at T.W. Browne Middle School in Oak Cliff. At least one of the onlookers whipped out his cell phone and filmed a video of the incident, which began circulating on Facebook Tuesday night. As the victim…
Texans of all stripes came out in force against the Texas House’s bathroom bill Wednesday night, stretching a late-night public hearing for House Bill 2899 well into Thursday morning. City leaders from Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso called the bill discriminatory and transgender Texans from across the state…
Lackluster staffing and network issues between T-Mobile and the city of Dallas are to blame for the city’s recent spikes in 911 wait times, Dallas police officials told the City Council Wednesday, and work is still needed to fix the problem. Wait times, according to Dallas Police Chief David Pughes and…
After spending much of the beginning of the 2017 Texas legislative session refusing to take a position on his state’s controversial “bathroom bill,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced his support for the legislation Tuesday afternoon. “As the debate on this issue continues, I will work with the House and Senate…
The saga that ended with Steric Paul Mitchell getting 35 years of federal prison time began nearly four years ago with a 911 call. The woman on the line, as the Observer’s Eric Nicholson reported at the time, was frantic. She told the dispatcher she’d been kidnapped the day before. She…
Jazmine Torres, infamously seen in a Facebook video showing her tossing a child to the ground, at a Plano daycare center, turned herself in to Plano police Tuesday afternoon. She’s charged with felony child endangerment. Her bail is $10,000. Sunday morning, the mother of child in Torres’ care at the…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price could see some of the charges against him dismissed even if a federal jury finds him guilty. During a hearing Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn repeatedly questioned the validity of some of the government’s charges against Price. By late Monday afternoon, she…
On Monday afternoon Glenn Beck countersued Tomi Lauren asserting that the she wasn’t fired for revealing she was pro-choice on The View. According to Beck, who owns the online and able network The Blaze, already planned to fire Lahren when her contract expired in September. The causes of termination: Poor…
The Dallas City Council passed cite-and-release for marijuana possession Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean anyone is getting a ticket for possessing less than four ounces of marijuana. It might feel like it – you get stopped, cops find pot and you drive away with a piece of paper from the…
If the Rangers finish the season behind a competitor by a single game, Sunday’s outing in Seattle against the Mariners will lilt be one fans will wish they had to do over. Somehow, in the span of four hours at Safeco Field, the Rangers managed to cough up both a…
