Texas advocates for the open carrying of firearms are accusing Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and President Obama of political opportunism, criticizing the pair for suggesting that the number of civilians walking around with guns downtown as Micah Xavier Johnson rained gunfire on Dallas police officers might have added to the confusion…
Major Max Geron is a 24-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. He’s served as the voice of the department, leading the media relations unit, and is now assigned to the crimes against persons unit. Thursday night, as Micah Xavier Johnson began shooting, Geron was sitting down to dinner. He…
People have been paying their respects with flowers, letters and signs, affixed to DPD cruisers parked in the plaza just outside the entrance to Jack Evans Police Headquarters. Lunchtime Saturday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and his wife Micki stopped to pay their respects at the memorial and to attempt to…
On Friday, police searched the home of police shooter Micah Johnson, gleaning details about the man who targeted them in a rampage Thursday night. Detectives found “bomb making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics,” according to the Dallas Police Department. Johnson, 25, had no…
Micah Xavier Johnson, the man Dallas police say killed five officers in an ambush attack at a demonstration against police violence Thursday night, told officers he was not affiliated with any group or organization but was targeting white people and white police officers because he was upset about police shootings…
Late Wednesday, former Baylor University Head Football Coach Art Briles asked a federal court to remove him as a defendant in a lawsuit brought against the school by a former student who claimed she was raped by a player. That player, Tevin Elliot, who has been convicted and sent to prison…
Franklin Russell was already tired when he accepted a Lyft ride request from a passenger at downtown Dallas’ Greyhound Station at about 2:45 a.m. He was trying to make a little extra cash before picking his sister up in Richardson, to take her to the airport. Upon arrival and commencing the…
Despite the thousand of tips that have poured in, all of the evidence that’s been collected and all of the man hours that have been put in by the Midlothian police department and federal agents, authorities are apparently no closer to finding Missy Bevers’ killer more than two months after…
Following a disappointing 5-4 rubber-game loss to the Twins in Minnesota Sunday afternoon, the Rangers made the best of the situation and headed to their three-game set in Boston dressed in what the sartorially challenged might call “style.” There is enough going on in this photo to fill a blog…
Former Cowboys safety C.J. Spillman has been convicted of rape by a Tarrant County jury. He now faces a minimum of two and as many as 20 years in prison at a Friday sentencing hearing. On September 20, 2014 Spillman attacked a woman visiting him from Chicago at the Gaylord…
There is a certain primal joy to be found in setting of your own legal, or illegal, fire storm to celebrate the birth of our United States. It’s you, the amateurs, who make July 4 one of the busiest days of the year for fire departments, emergency rooms and burn…
This is what happens when a Dallas restaurant has the gall to charge for chips and salsa. Early Saturday morning, a brawl broke out at the El Paisano taqueria on Lombardy Lane near Love Field because, Isael Rojas says on Facebook, “chips were $5 and they wanted green salsa instead…
Nineteen Texans, mostly women, were arrested Tuesday for their role in a methamphetamine distribution ring the U.S. Department of Justice says was operating out of the southeast Dallas County towns of Pleasant Grove, Seagoville and Balch Springs. Each person named in the indictment is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess…
Local police and federal agencies are investigating the murder of Jacinto Hernández Torres, better known under his byline, Jay Torres. Torres worked for more than 20 years at La Estrella, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Spanish language sister paper. Someone shot the reporter dead, police believe, a few days before…
Nicholas Fierros Jr., a Dallas 10-year-old kidnapped during an apparent home invasion Monday afternoon in Dallas, is “physically fine,” Dallas police said Tuesday afternoon. A couple found Fierros after several hours and identified him from photos distributed by Dallas police, Assistant Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker said. The three men who…
In an opinion issued late Tuesday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says Fort Worth ISD’s attempt to let all students use a restroom consistent with their gender identity is likely illegal. Paxton was asked for the opinion in May by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, an outspoken opponent of…
Even before Monday, there were two main points of the rationale Texas Republicans claimed in support of House Bill 2, the anti-abortion law largely struck down by the Supreme Court Monday morning. The first revolved around protecting women, and they pitched the second at ending abortion. Texas Governor Greg Abbott…
John Wiley Price’s federal corruption trial has been delayed again, this time until February 2017. This guarantees that Price will be sworn into his seat as Dallas County commissioner one more time before the case’s resolution. Price’s attorneys and federal prosecutors agreed to delay the trial in deference to the…
Thanks to a 5-3 decision from the United States Supreme Court, Texas still has 21 operating abortion clinics. The portion of the state’s 2013 anti-abortion legislation that would have shut down 13 of the 21 clinics by requiring them to be certified as ambulatory surgical centers (essentially mini-hospitals) will not…
Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston has changed the name of his campaign Facebook page, the one he calls Dallas’ “3rd best media outlet,” from Philip T. Kingston for Dallas City Council District 14 to Philip T. Kingston for Dallas. Kingston, long rumored to be a future mayoral candidate, says…
Daniel Miller is seizing his moment. Following Great Britain’s vote Thursday to remove itself from the European Union, Miller, the leader of the Texas Nationalist Movement, has jumped on the opportunity to push his message of Texas sovereignty as hard as he can. “From the looks of it, the British…
One of the last session of the Texas Legislature’s rare moments of compassion and common sense is bearing fruit. A bipartisan coalition of representatives passed a bill that makes it easier to buy naloxone, a medication that can quickly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Tuesday, Walgreens became the first…
