The number of murders in Dallas, and the number of those murders that are being solved, are both headed in the wrong direction. So far in 2016, 138 people have been murdered in Dallas, two more than were killed in Dallas during all of 2015. Monday morning, Dallas Assistant Police…
The Rangers’ 2016 playoff journey is over. It lasted all of four days. Despite finishing the regular season at an American League-best 95-67, the 2016 Rangers, just like the 43 Rangers clubs that preceded them, will not win the last game of the MLB season and the World Series championship…
Friday, Donald Trump got caught. The Washington Post published a transcript of a tape, recorded while Trump talked to Billy Bush on a bus ride to a soap opera cameo. (For those who haven’t read the transcript, it’s at the end of this post.) Trump’s foes gleefully attacked, but so did a…
The woman accused of masterminding the murder of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher is, finally, in Dallas County Jail after the FBI turned her over to Dallas Police Thursday night. Thursday, Mexican officials handed Brenda Delgado over to the FBI at Mexico City International Airport, ending a months long standoff over…
The CEO of Backpage.com, the Dallas-based adult classified website, was arrested Thursday for human trafficking. Carl Ferrer was picked up at Houston International Airport after a return flight from Amsterdam. Ferrer faces charges in California following a joint investigation of the California and Texas attorneys general. “Making money off the…
In May, we told you about DART’s new, near-field communication fare system. The system, which has the potential to solve a few of DART’s longstanding problems, is set to debut sometime in early 2017, but the equipment that it’s going to use is already being placed on buses. The NFC…
Wednesday morning, the Dallas Police Department arrested a Dallas ISD teacher for the “continuous sexual abuse of a child,” a first-degree felony. Jorge Ruiz, 53, is currently being held at Lew Sterrett jail. His bail is $100,000. Ruiz has been placed on administrative leave from his job teaching pre-kindergarten at…
Major League Baseball, as it did in 2010, 2011 and 2015, and as it will the next time the Rangers make the playoffs and aren’t playing the Yankees or Red Sox, has screwed DFW baseball fans again. The Rangers will start their 2016 playoff journey with a couple of weekday…
Officially, David Brown’s six-year tenure as Dallas Police Chief ended at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Brown left the department two and a half weeks earlier than originally announced to meet a pension cut-off. His last day went off without much fanfare. Of course, there were TV cameras at Jack Evans…
Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the United States’ 400 richest individuals dropped Tuesday morning. Dallas, as you might expect, was well represented. Just as he was in 2015, mysterious banker Andy Beal checked in as Dallas’ richest human, with Forbes estimating his net worth at a cool $8.9 billion —…
The hole Baylor University is in due to the sexual assault scandal that has enveloped its football program is getting deeper. So far this week, the university’s Title IX coordinator has resigned due to inaction from the university, two more women have joined a federal lawsuit against Baylor and a…
The city of Dallas is going to be getting some extra help hiring the 549 cops the Dallas Police Department intends to bring on during the next year. Monday afternoon, as part of United States Community Policing Week, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the city of Dallas will…
Sam Wyly, the Dallas erstwhile billionaire, has settled his six-year squabble with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the discounted sum of $198.1 million. In exchange for this, the SEC has agreed to make sure that the cash is used as part of a multi-part agreement that would also help…
The Rangers lost Sunday afternoon. The Rays beat them 6-4, and the Rangers got exactly one extra-base hit, a home run from catcher Jonathan Lucroy, in a thoroughly uninspiring performance. None of it mattered. Thanks to a win Friday night behind a dominant, 12-strikeout performance from Yu Darvish, the Rangers…
Beginning a week ago Saturday, Sept. 25, eight people have been murdered in the city of Dallas. After the violent week, Dallas’ murder count for 2016 sits at 137, already one more than the 136 total homicides Dallas Police investigated in 2015. Sixty-seven of those murders remain on the police…
It’s been a couple of weeks. That means it’s time for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the federal government again. This time, he’s picking up his fellow Texan Ted Cruz’ fight against what they both claim is the Obama administration’s turning over control of the internet to a…
Now we know why Dez Bryant’s knee diagnosis took so long. The Cowboys wide receiver, injured on the second play of the game against the Bears on Sunday night, skipped out and missed a team meeting, an MRI and other medical treatment early this week. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett offered…
Following two robberies and one sexual assault, the Dallas Police Department has stepped up patrols in the area, Deputy Chief Lonzo Anderson said Wednesday. All three crimes occurred over the last two weeks, Anderson said; the police suspects two young black men between the ages between 15 and 20. Anderson…
Guillermo Luviano-Franco, or Silvestre Franco-Luviano — depending on which of his aliases he happens to be using — shouldn’t have been in the United States for the weekend crime spree that ended with his arrest at a Georgetown apartment complex, Hector Gomez, a deputy marshal with the Lone Star Fugitive…
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant has a hairline fracture in his right tibia. Bryant suffered the injury during the first quarter of the Cowboys 31-17 win over the Bears on Sunday night when his leg caught underneath him while being dragged down behind by Bears linebacker Christian Jones. Bryant…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz continued his Donald Trump-supporting tour Tuesday morning, stopping by right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show to insist his formal rival won the first general election debate on Monday night. The senator earlier called Trump a “sniveling coward,” “serial philanderer” and “pathological” this spring. But these days he’s…
Police have detailed the evidence against Charles Bryant, the Haslet man accused of dismembering and burning a TWU student earlier this month. Denton County authorities released multiple search warrants for Bryant’s car and home, detailing items that they say pointed them to Bryant as Jacqueline Vandagriff’s killer. Here are 10 items worth…
