Two-year-old Boi Sang died on Sunday afternoon. He’d been left in his parent’s Honda Pilot in the parking lot of Dallas Matu Christian Church, which caters to the city’s Burmese population. He was the fifth Texas child to die after being left in a hot car so far this year, and…
Prince Fielder is not going to take another turn at bat for the 2016 Rangers. The hulking designated hitter has a herniated disc in his neck, and doctors have recommended that he get surgery to fix it, the team announced Monday afternoon. It’s the second time in his three years…
Early Sunday afternoon, a Dodge van crashed into the Dallas Cowboys team bus as the van tried to make a left turn across traffic at the intersection of Pierce Ferry Road and State Route 93 just north of Kingman, Arizona. All four of the van’s passengers were killed. Each of the…
The Dallas Cowboys first training camp practice is less than a week away and, as has so often been the case during the Jerry Jones era, the biggest story surrounding the team has nothing to do with football. As the Observer and other news outlets reported Friday morning, Ezekiel Elliott, the…
Dallas Cowboys superstar running back in waiting Ezekiel Elliott faces accusations that he beat up his ex-girlfriend. In two reports filed with the Columbus, Ohio police department early Friday morning, Tiffany Thompson says that she was attacked by Elliott first last week, when he hit her and left bruises on…
Next Generation Action Network, the primary organization behind the July 7 protest against police brutality that preceded five Dallas police officers being shot to death by Micah Xavier Johnson, has, for the second time since the shooting, postponed the march scheduled for this week. The head of the network, Dominique…
The latest numbers from the Texas Department of State Health Services aren’t great. Texas parents are still taking advantage of a Rick Perry-sized loophole the then-governor created in the state’s requirements for school kids. For the 2015-2016 school year, parents of nearly 45,000 school-aged kids filed for non-medical exemptions from vaccines…
You can say this about him; Ted Cruz stuck to his guns. Texas’ junior senator, after a presidential campaign that saw him call the GOP presidential nominee a “sniveling coward” and “utterly amoral” thumbed his nose at Donald Trump during his speech Wednesday night at the 2016 Republican National Convention…
Barring Supreme Court intervention, Texas residents unable to secure photo identification before the November 8 general election will not be prevented from voting, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The state pushed the Texas Voter ID law as the last bulwark against a rising tide of voter…
Micah Xavier Johnson started his rampage by pulling his SUV onto Lamar Street. The street was empty, cleared out in anticipation of the police protest march that was just concluding downtown. He parked his vehicle sideways in the street, grill facing El Centro’s east entrance. There, El Centro College Police…
Dez Bryant has finally responded to Royce West’s claim that the Cowboys’ star wideout destroyed a rent house owned by the attorney and state senator. Bryant didn’t specifically deny West’s charge that he left dog feces, wrecked carpets and a general layer of filth in his wake when he moved…
Dominique Alexander, the head of Next Generation Action Network and one of the people behind the protest that preceded July 7 police shootings in downtown Dallas, is not wasting much time. The group’s next protest, he announced Monday afternoon, is going to go on Thursday night, two weeks to the…
Not all of the women who pull into the driveway at Whole Woman’s Health Clinic in West Fort Worth go inside. For some, facing the images of bloody fetuses on the signs carried by demonstrators manning a gantlet outside, the shouts and the threat of having images of their cars…
If there was ever a time to show just a bit of caution when it came to stoking the fears of a shocked and wounded city, it might’ve been this weekend. Dallas was finally coming down from a week of uncertainty inspired by the murders of five of the city’s…
Dallas’ police department has received intense scrutiny since Micah Johnson ambushed Dallas police following a march against police brutality on July 7. Our city has a complex history with law enforcement that the Observer has extensively covered. Here’s a quick list of reading material that can help explain the dynamic between the…
As Dallas was hit with rain Friday morning, the Dallas Public Library moved to save the memorial that sprung up at police headquarters in the immediate aftermath of July 7’s police ambush. Everything hand-written or non-perishable from the memorial will be saved. Thousands of items left by people from around…
As was inevitable. The conspiracy theories about last week’s police shooting in Dallas are sprouting. According to YouTube user WhoCares, who crafted the intricate video seen below from footage shot by Central Track intern Sidney Johnson, the bystanders who witnessed Thursday night’s ambush in Dallas weren’t bystanders at all. They…
Last Thursday’s police ambush in downtown Dallas was a perfect storm for confusion. A big, participatory event (the protest against police-involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota) with media in place on the ground. Mix in social live-streaming through Facebook live and apps like Periscope. Add a violent act meant to…
It’s official: Mack Rhoades is Baylor University’s new athletic director. The former athletic director at the University of Houston and, most recently, the University of Missouri, Rhoades has to rebuild a program reeling with accusations of sexual assaults by players. The task he faces is hard to underestimate, and…
When the Texas Legislature decided to allow the licensed, concealed carry of handguns on the state’s public university campuses, it gave the state’s schools until the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year to get things figured out. On Wednesday, the University of Texas at Austin finalized what campus carry will…
As typically happens when the president of the United States goes anywhere, there were cops everywhere. Cops directing traffic around the Arts District and the rest of downtown. Cops with rifles stationed at the barricades keeping pedestrians from getting anywhere near the Meyerson Symphony Center before, during and after Dallas’…
The doctors and nurses of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital Emergency Room didn’t expect the mass shooting that rocked downtown Dallas on Thursday night, but they were prepared for the influx of patients. Emotionally, however, the incident has taken a toll. There were more surgeons on duty throughout the night than…
