Johnny Manziel’s winding legal journey appears to be coming to an end. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and Manziel’s defense team agreed Thursday to preliminary terms for dismissing the family violence charges filed against Manziel in April, according to the Associated Press. Manziel, winner of the Heisman Trophy during his…
Mexican American Heritage was dead on arrival. Just as they promised in September, members of the Texas State Board of Education rejected the book, labeled as “racist,” “inaccurate” and “embarrassing” by opponents. Wednesday’s preliminary vote was 14-0 against adopting the book as a text approved for use in Texas’ classrooms. The…
Virtually everyone else in Dallas has weighed in on Tony vs. Dak by now, so Tuesday afternoon was finally Tony Romo’s turn. Dak Prescott should keep his starting quarterback job for the Cowboys, Romo said. Romo spoke to the media for the first time since injuring his back during a…
SMU confirmed Tuesday that racist fliers encouraging white women not to date black men were posted in two residence hall stairways over the weekend. The flier, titled “Why White Women Shouldn’t Date Black Men” was originally published on unamusementpark.com, a white supremacist blog popular with the so-called “alt-right” movement. The…
The general consensus growing in Dallas is that the bus and train system is broken. Routes need reworking. Wait times for buses are too long. Too many resources are being flung on lightly traveled light rail lines in the suburbs. The City Council wants Dallas Area Rapid Transit to focus…
For the first time since the end of the last legislative session in May 2015, the Texas Legislature did some official business Monday. Yes, filing has kicked off the 2017 session. While the procedures to pass the bills filed today won’t begin until Jan. 10, 2017, the political process has…
As the Cowboys marched through the first half of their schedule to the tune of 7-1, they’ve been shrouded by a couple of black clouds. One, what to do with budding rookie star quarterback Dak Prescott when Tony Romo is ready to play following his preseason back injury, is competition…
On their fourth consecutive night on the streets, Dallas’ anti-Trump protesters aimed concrete target for their anger: Dallas’ First Baptist Church. First Baptist’s pastor, Robert Jeffress was square in the middle of Trump’s victory party in New York City on Tuesday night. He earned the spot: He has been the president-elect’s…
The NFL’s investigation against Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for multiple alleged incidences of domestic violence, and the slow drip of information that comes with it, continued Thursday. The league, according to documents and a 911 call obtained by USA Today, is now actively looking into a February 2016 altercation…
On Thursday, acting Dallas Police Chief Cynthia S. Villarreal fired two long-serving Dallas Police Department officers following a recommendation from the department’s internal affairs department. Sergeant Terrance Scott was charged with official oppression in June after witnesses told police that Scott hit a man while working as an off-duty security…
Cesar Gonzalez, according to Dallas Police, has a penchant for picking up women in his truck, attempting to sexually assault them, and then trying to pass himself off as a cop. Early Saturday morning, DPD says, Gonzalez picked up a female passenger in his black Ford F-150. He then drove…
In the end, Tuesday night’s election results in North Texas appear to have been affected very little by the night’s national trend. Disaffected white voters throughout the south and Rust Belt banded together in an effort to, as Donald Trump would call it, drain the swamp in Washington. Republicans held…
A little over a week ago, Dallas’ animal services department began publishing daily report cards of the actual, concrete work it does each day in the field. In the wake of its reorganization following the South Dallas mauling death of Antoinette Brown, the agency is increasing efforts to be transparent…
Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced plans for the more than 500 election monitors it plans to send to 67 counties in 28 states to ensure that voters in those jurisdictions will be able to exercise their right to vote. Monitors will post up in three Texas counties: Dallas,…
No one will be going to jail for the alleged March 2015 sexual assault of a trainee volunteer firefighter with a link of chorizo if a deal tentatively agreed to Friday by the victim and the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office is completed. On March 31, 2015, the trainee firefighter told Ellis…
By the time polls closed at 7 p.m. Friday night, 514,330 Dallas County residents had cast their ballots early, setting a new record for the county. The previous record for votes cast before election day was 477,228, set in 2008. In 2012, almost 99,000 fewer Dallas County voters cast their…
Late Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dallas City Council member Monica Alonzo and Dallas City Council member Carolyn Arnold issued a joint statement announcing that the city has secured a deal with the Khraish family that will keep tenants of the Khraish’s rent-house business in their homes until the end…
Now that the World Series is done, the Texas Rangers can get down for the same business. It’s the same business that the club’s done after each of the club’s first 44 seasons: reloading its roster in an attempt to win the club’s first ever World Series championship. The Rangers…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings sat in front of the Texas State Pension Review Board Thursday morning, arguing, he believed, for his city’s continued existence. “It is horribly ironic that a city that has enjoyed such tremendous success, a city that has made Texas so strong and so proud is potentially…
Tuesday night, about 100 protesters took to the narrow sidewalks around Energy Transfer Partners’ University Park headquarters to rail against the company’s Dakota Access Pipeline, challenging the decision to build the pipeline through the land and sacred sites of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe. “Dallas stands with Standing Rock,”…
Dallas Police arrested a 22-year-old local man for the Sunday night murder of Martha Teran. Lonzell Hunter, according to police, shot Teran, killing her in the parking lot of Dallas’ Medieval Times on I-35. Teran, 42, was in the parking lot to sell an iPhone 7, according to police. Hunter,…
Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott can’t move fast enough to escape the shadow of domestic violence accusations. The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney’s office declined to press charges against Elliott, due to conflicting statements from witnesses and Elliott’s ex-girlfriend and accuser, Tiffany Thompson. But yesterday Tobert S. Tobias, the assistant…
