John Battaglia, the Dallas man who shot and killed his two daughters on May 2, 2001, will not die next week. His execution, scheduled for Dec. 10, will now occur no earlier than February 2017, thanks to a stay of execution ordered late Friday afternoon by the Texas Court of…
Dak Prescott is the man. The Cowboys rookie quarterback has his team sitting at 11-1, one win over the Giants away from an NFC East title, and no more than three wins away from securing the NFC’s top playoff seed. He’s affable, talented and photogenic, the perfect fit to be…
All Tim and Claire Gautreaux wanted was to buy a new car when they headed to Toyota of Grapevine earlier this year. Yesterday the couple sued the dealership for allowing one of its employees to invade their privacy. The couple showed up at the sprawling dealership with a financing offer in…
Thursday morning, Crowley police revealed the details behind the grisly double murder of Troy and Mary Brewer. Police say that Carl Brewer, 17, killed his parents and prompted a 10-hour standoff at the scene of the crime. On Tuesday afternoon, police received a 911 call from a friend of Carl Brewer’s. The…
Wednesday, Dallas police identified the man they say is responsible for the Oct. 8 attack on Trent Kreslins. Kreslins is a University of Oklahoma senior who stepped in to stop a domestic violence attack in Uptown. According to Dallas police, Abdullah Bannat, 19, is the man who punched Kreslins after…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Stevens Transport, the Dallas-based refrigerated trucking giant, for discriminating against an Air Force veteran with bipolar disorder, the agency announced Wednesday. In its complaint, the EEOC alleges that Stevens Transport turned down Bill Brown for a job because of the medication he takes…
A little more than a month after David Brown’s last day with the Dallas Police Department, the public got its first glimpse of what the former chief will be doing next. On Wednesday, ABC News announced that Brown, who served 33 years with DPD, will be joining the network to…
The five finalists are in for Dallas’ open city manager’s gig and, surprisingly, people on both sides of city hall’s political spectrum seem pretty happy with the choices. Among the five are four municipal employees — one of whom is a city of Dallas employee — and one corporate executive…
Three Expo Events, the company behind the Exxxotica porn convention that graced Dallas in May 2015, is again asking a federal judge to force the city to book the event at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Here’s the legal backstory. Acting at the behest of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, the…
That Sam’s Club, the one the neighborhood that calls itself the East Village has been fighting against for around three years, isn’t going to get built. At least not right now, after Judge Michael O’Neill threw out the zoning change that would’ve allowed the Sam’s Club in the first place…
It appears Texas has its first locally transmitted case of the Zika virus. Monday afternoon, state health officials announced that a woman living in Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley tested positive for the birth-defect causing virus. Unlike earlier diagnoses, she had not traveled to an area that’s been…
Last week, the Observer praised Tony Romo. The Cowboys quarterback has, for better or worse, brought plenty of excitement to fans for a decade. He’s affable, talented and made some of the best throws in the history of the franchise. Still, over that decade, Romo has failed to lead the Cowboys…
The Cowboys did not look great Thursday afternoon. Led by 449 passing yards from Kirk Cousins, the Redskins outgained Dallas on the day 505-353. Washington also managed, despite a typically strong day at the office from Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, to control the clock, keeping the ball for nearly…
Last week, when Texas state Senator Konni Burton filed Senate Bill 242, she made it clear that the bill was about fixing a specific problem. It was wrong, she said, when Fort Worth Independent School District created regulations to protect transgender kids this year but allowed school personnel to not…
DFW and Love Field are both doing their best to make you missing your flight as painless as possible this holiday season. The good news is, it isn’t 2014. That year, Love Field was stone-out of parking spaces by the middle of the day on Thanksgiving, leaving travelers to hopelessly…
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who called President-elect Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” and a “toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense” during the 2016 GOP primary, made a pilgrimage to Trump Tower in Manhattan Monday to pay his respects and possibly audition for a job. Perry met with Trump for…
Monday afternoon, Wichita, Kansas police released the identity of the woman they believe killed Laura Abarca, the mother of Sophia Gonzalez, the kidnapped infant found in a house near the Dallas Zoo during an early morning SWAT team raid on Saturday. Yesenia Sesmas, 34, recently moved to Dallas, said Wichita police Lt…
The Tony Romo era is over. Barring an injury to Dak Prescott, the Cowboys’ most decorated quarterback is not likely to play in front of the fans he’s thrilled and infuriated over the last decade. Romo has been a Rorschach test throughout his tenure at the helm of the Cowboys…
Thursday, an intruder kidnapped six-day-old Sophia Gonzalez and killed her mother, Laura Abarca, in Wichita, Kansas. Early Saturday morning, a Dallas Police SWAT unit found Gonzalez and made two arrests at a Dallas home. Abarca’s boyfriend found her body after getting home from work just before 4 p.m. Thursday and…
John Battaglia, who killed his two daughters on May 2, 2001, will be executed on Dec. 7, State District Judge Robert Burns confirmed Friday afternoon. Despite testimony from three psychologists that Battaglia might not understand his death sentence and that his execution is imminent — which is the Texas standard for…
Judging from Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crowford’s state of downtown speech Friday afternoon, one would think downtown Dallas is an urban residential utopia. Ninety-four new restaurants will open in downtown over the course of 2016 and 7,000 new residential units are under construction. That thing that downtown residents always…
The 2017 Texas Legislative session is already set to feature several high profile battles over abortion access, less than a week after filing for the 85th Legislature began. On the first day of filing, Monday, North Texas Republican state Senator Bob Hall fired the first shot in a battle that…
