Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin, the new temporary leader of Dallas Animal Services, didn’t hide the grim reality of what his department is going to have to do to stem the tide of the more than 8,000 loose dogs currently roaming southern Dallas. Dallas Animal Services is going…
The Dallas City Council’s transportation committee left no doubt Monday about what the city wants DART to do as the transit agency moves forward toward its new 20-year plan: Build a subway downtown and fix the dysfunctional bus system. And the committee had one “don’t” as well: Don’t allocate a ton of…
Dallas’ strangest and most entertaining legal battle of 2016, the squabble between Cowboys superstar wide receiver Dez Bryant and Texas state Senator Royce West, is over. Late Friday afternoon, Bryant and West decided to drop all claims and counterclaims against each other, dismissing their dueling lawsuits. West sued Bryant in…
The first draft of Dallas’ surprisingly controversial southern Dallas deck park is out. Phase one of the proposed $118 million park build-out looks an awful lot like its cousin, Klyde Warren Park. Spanning I-35 between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the park — assuming it gets funded — will initially feature…
Friday night, the Rangers clinched the American League West title for the second consecutive season. It was the team’s fourth division championship in seven seasons. The Rangers are in the middle of the deepest purple patch in club history, but still searching for their first World Series title. The 2016…
The head of the Dallas Black Police Association joined with police reform activists on Friday in a call for changes at the police department aimed a curbing the misuse of force by officers. Activists must be given “sitting at the table” with police if the city is to find a way…
A team led by Stanford University geophysics professor William Ellsworth has linked a 2012, 4.8 magnitude East Texas earthquake to human activity in an article published in the Science journal Thursday. Specifically, Ellsworth and his team found, wastewater injection stemming from hydraulic fracturing at a nearby well likely caused the tremor…
This week the Dallas City Council completed its single most important task of 2016 when it passed the city of Dallas’ budget for the next fiscal year. Like the city itself, the new budget was heavily influenced by Dallas’ formative event of 2016, the July 7 police ambush that killed…
A little more than two years after Christina Morris disappeared from The Shops at Legacy in Plano, Enrique Arochi, the last person seen with Morris, is going to jail for her kidnapping. Wednesday night, a Collin County jury convicted Arochi after a little more than 17 hours of deliberation. Arochi’s…
Eventually, according people who predict this sort of thing, Dallas County is going to get its very own homegrown case of the birth-defect causing Zika virus. A mosquito carrying the disease is going to bite someone here, and we’re going to have a, hopefully small, local outbreak. Dallas County Health…
Construction on Texas Live!, the multi-faceted development slated to go up around the Rangers’ ballparks, both old and new, will begin this fall, the team announced Tuesday afternoon. New details of just what will occupy the baseball-themed village were also made public for the first time. Texas Live! is slated…
Police recreating the chain of events that ended with the murder of 24-year-old Texas Women’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff produced a grim narrative of a night out gone very wrong. Vandagriff’s body was found burning last Wednesday morning at about 6:30 a.m. in a kiddie pool in Grapevine’s Acorn Woods…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government again, this time in hopes of stopping new labor rules that would make 5 million workers eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay in December. The new Department of Labor regulations raise the minimum amount workers can be paid and anyone making…
Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murder of Jacqueline Vandagriff, a Texas Woman’s University student whose charred and dismembered body was found last week. Grapevine police say they have video evidence that the 24-year-old woman left a bar in Denton at about 11 p.m. with Charles Dean Bryant, a…
Ron Pinkston, the combative face of the Dallas Police Association, announced Monday that he’ll be stepping down as the police union’s president. The date of his departure: Oct. 4, the same day Dallas Police Chief David Brown is set to step down from his post. Pinkston is a Dallas Police…
Gunfire injured a child on Friday during a fight in the parking lot of the Dallas Housing Authority-owned Hidden Ridge Apartments in Lake Highlands. According to the Dallas Police Department, someone shot into a crowd of people, striking the unidentified child. Someone in the crowd then fired at the shooter. The…
Dallas County is suffering through an infectious disease outbreak that has nothing to do with mosquitoes. Dallas County Health and Human Services announced Thursday that 13 residents have suffered from brucellosis so far in 2016, way up from the 2 to 6 cases the county normally sees in a given…
Dallas Police officer Jesus Martinez, over the last two-plus years, has been charged, fired, let go by a grand jury and rehired by the Dallas Police Department. Thursday afternoon, the saga of this officer continued as he announced that he was suing outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Brown and the…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council granted landmark status to the iconic Lakewood Theater. It wasn’t exactly a fight. Everyone, from neighbors to the theater’s owners to city officials, wanted the theater, its marquee and phallic purple tower to stick around, so it was a sense of relief that greeted the 15-0…
Forbes’ newly released NFL franchise values confirm something that you know in your head is true, no matter what your heart says: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is a genius. His Cowboys, according to the magazine, are worth $4.2 billion, up five percent from 2015. The Cowboys are the most valuable…
It was impossible Tuesday, at the first Texas State Board of Education meeting discussing a proposed new Mexican-American Studies textbook, to find anyone willing to say they believed the text was fit for Texas classrooms. Attendees called book in question, Mexican American Heritage, racist, inaccurate and embarrassing for the state…
Friday night Bob Poynter, a University Park firefighter, made a mistake when he went to help his estranged wife, according to Royse City police. Chacey Poynter told him her Jeep was stuck in the mud on Farm to Market Road 35 near County Road 2595 in Royce City. Poynter took his…
