Dallas Murders Are Up, Clearance Rates Are Down

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…

We Ranked Every Rangers’ Playoff Meltdown, 1996-2016

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…

Dallas’ Republicans Blast Trump’s Misogynistic Comments

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…

Backpage.com CEO Arrested In Human Trafficking Sting

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…

Check Out DART’s New Fare System, Now Showing Up On Buses

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…

Forbes Puts 11 Dallasites on its Richest Americans List

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 —…

Baylor Continues to Flail in Response to Sexual Assault Scandal

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…

What to Watch For As the Rangers Begin Their Playoff Run This Week

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…

Violent Weekend Caps Bloody Eight Days in Dallas

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…

Dez Bryant Skipped MRI and Team Meetings, Cowboys Say

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…

Dallas County Crime Spree Fugitive Was Deported Three Times

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…

Ted Cruz Continues to Eat Crow In Public After Trump Endorsement

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…