Jack Evans died Thursday night, three days short of his first wedding anniversary. He was 86. Last June 26, Evans married his longtime partner, George Harris, 82, in Dallas County’s first ever legal same-sex marriage ceremony. Evans and Harris were together for 56 years and pioneers in Dallas’ LGBTQ community,…
Thursday afternoon, a Collin County grand jury elected not to indict former McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt, who made national news when video surfaced of him pinning a pool party reveler to the ground last June. Casebolt and 11 other McKinney police officers were called to bust up a pool…
For now, the state of Texas is winning its battle with the federal government over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Obama signed an executive order allowing the parents of U.S. residents brought to the United States as young children to receive the same protection from deportation that their…
Abigail Fisher’s long fight against the University of Texas’ admissions system is over. Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University, didn’t get into UT-Austin, her first-choice school, in 2008. She sued the school, claiming that the system it uses for admitting students who don’t automatically get in thanks…
Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is being sued by his former attorney and landlord, Royce West, for allegedly causing more than $60,000 worth of damage to a DeSoto rental mansion. The court action is the latest falling out between the two, who used to be close. West, the property’s owner,…
Marc Veasey, who represents a swath of southern Tarrant and Dallas Counties, was among the Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives involved in a sit-in on the House floor yesterday. The stunt was an attempt to force the chamber’s Republican leadership to take a vote on so-called “no fly,…
Dallas County officials have officially reported that 10 pregnant women have tested positive for the Zika virus. The mosquito-borne illness is often benign in adults, but contracting it when pregnant can cause severe birth defects, including microcephaly. Each of the 10 pregnant women potentially carrying Zika came in contact with the…
If you’re going to run a political campaign, it doesn’t hurt to have David Axelrod on your team. The New York-born, Chicago-schooled operator shepherded a green Barack Obama past John McCain and into the Oval Office in 2008. After the election, Axelrod served as Obama’s senior adviser until it was…
Less than a week after returning home to Dallas from the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk is again getting treatment for mental illness, this time at a treatment facility in Arizona. Hawk released a statement today: “Under the guidance of my doctors, today I’m entering…
Dallas police have been looking for Jesus Anthony Rodriguez since February 5. With the help of the United States Marshal North Texas Fugitive Task Force, they finally got their man over the weekend, booking Rodriguez into Dallas County Jail early Saturday morning. According to DPD, Rodriguez, his common law wife and…
Nothing has changed but the stakes. From the American Airlines Center last September to Gilley’s Southside Ballroom last night, this is still Donald Trump’s show. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate showed up in Dallas on Thursday as unlikely party standard bearer. He’s the guy who, unless something unprecedented happens…
Baylor University football coach-in-exile Art Briles is not going to go down without an ugly fight. The coach is now accusing Baylor of making him a scapegoat in its ongoing investigation into the alleged mishandling of multiple reports of sexual assault by football players. Jasmin Hernandez says former football player Tevin…
Texas’ fight to keep refugees out of the state appears to be over, and the Syrians can stay. In a ruling released Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge David Godbey, said that the state did not have grounds to sue the federal government and an immigrant settlement non-profit to keep refugees from…
It took a while, but the details of Dallas’ latest encounter with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign finally got filled in Wednesday afternoon. After a nearly weeklong search for a venue, the Trump operation found a DFW home at the Southside Ballroom, otherwise known as the big room…
Late last month, it seemed that Baylor University had done what it had to do. Following revelations of a football culture that seemingly stymied victims of sexual assault by football players, the school removed former Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr from his role as president of the university and suspended football…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing Dallas cops’ response to Sunday’s mass shooting at a gay-friendly Orlando night club with a $1 million donation. The cash will pay for an estimated 16,000 hours of overtime to be used for what the city describes as “enhanced counterterrorism efforts, including additional…
One of the minor charges against David Daleiden, the self-proclaimed investigative journalist who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood clinics and officials across the country, has been dropped. Late Monday, Harris County Judge Diane Bull ruled that the indictment against Daleiden for attempting to buy or sell fetal tissue, a misdemeanor, should…
It remains one of the creepiest instances of child exploitation North Texas has ever seen, and now a court has sentenced Randy Ray Wesson to 30 years in federal prison for committing it. Sometime in January 2014, Wesson met Ricardo Lugo, 17, on Instagram. Wesson lived in Hurst. Lugo lived…
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has been released from the Menninger Clinic in Houston, but isn’t ready to return to her job, her office says. “Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has returned to Dallas, Texas from the Menninger Clinic in Houston, where she was being treated for depression…
Shawn Diamond, the guy who was shot while charging a Dallas police officer at Love Field with a landscaping rock, is out of the hospital. Diamond, 29, was booked into Dallas County Jail late Monday for domestic violence assault and assault of a public servant. Diamond’s long North Texas ordeal,…
After the fatal savaging of Antoinette Brown in southern Dallas in May, the status quo on loose dogs in Dallas has grown increasingly unacceptable. Led by City Council member Tiffinni Young, residents and other leaders of the city’s southern sector have grown louder in demanding that the city do more…
Hundreds took to the streets in Oak Lawn Sunday night to memorialize the more than 50 people murdered in an LGBTQ-friendly Orlando night club early Sunday morning. Joined by Dallas Police Chief David Brown and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Melissa Hennings was there to document the marchers and mourners solidarity for…
