In an extensive report released Friday afternoon, the city of Dallas detailed the lapses in enforcement and communication that led to the dog-mauling death of Antoinette Brown on May 2. In memo to the Dallas City Council, Assistant City Manager Joey Zapata wrote that Dallas Police and Dallas Animal Services…
Sometime around noon Friday, there was a shooting just outside the terminal at Love Field. Bryan Armstrong, who says he’d just got off a flight at the airport, captured the incident on video, which appears to show a Dallas police officer shooting an individual just outside Baggage Claim Door 3…
The Dallas ISD board is going to take a long look at board Vice President Miguel Solis’ idea to get stop suspending kids in kindergarten, first and second grade. Solis hopes it’s not too long. Solis first brought up his plan at last month’s board briefing. Keeping kids out of…
It’s here, ladies and gentlemen, Dallas County’s first spraying of the upcoming, sure-to-be epic mosquito season. Thursday afternoon, Dallas County Health and Human Services announced that one of its mosquito traps in Balch Springs tested positive for West Nile virus. The county sprayed Balch Springs overnight Thursday and will continue…
Very late Thursday afternoon, a Dallas County judge ruled that Dennis Topletz can’t intimidate, threaten or retaliate against his tenants for the duration of city of Dallas’ lawsuit against him. Topletz is, if you believe the city and The Dallas Morning News, a slumlord. He owns about 200 houses in…
Assessed home values in Dallas County were up by 12.2 percent across the board in 2016, thanks to the region’s robust housing market. While the state caps any increase in taxable value at 10 percent a year, the rise still means pain for homeowners, especially those in the middle of…
A Tarrant County grand jury decided not to indict former Arlington police officer Brad Miller for killing an unarmed 19-year-old man last August at a car dealership on Interstate 20. Miller, his training officer Dale Wiggins and four other officers answered an alarm at the Classic Arlington early on August…
This year, DART is celebrating 20 years of the agency’s yellow and white light-rail trains moving people around North Texas in one form or another. DART’s system traverses more than 90 miles of track, making it the longest light rail system in the country, and claims more than $8 billion…
Immigration and civil rights groups have stepped in the middle of the fight over immigration between Texas and the Obama administration, appealing a lower court decision they say threatens their clients’ privacy. The National Immigration Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas aim to…
Somehow, Ken Starr keeps making Baylor’s expanding sexual assault catastrophe even worse. Friday morning, a Waco TV station released the full video of an interview it conducted with Starr on Wednesday shortly after he made the decision to resign as chancellor of the university. During the interview, KWTX’s Julie Hays asks…
When the Rangers and Arlington announced a plan for the team to play in new, climate-controlled digs as early as 2021, it seemed too soon. Globe Life Park — formerly The Ballpark in Arlington, Ameriquest Field and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington — had just turned 22 and wouldn’t be 30…
If Joshua Barton wanted to test the chair he sat in when his blood drawn after his arrest for DWI in 2015, then he should have gotten sick right away, Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. Because he didn’t, the level of cleanliness in the room police use to…
Baylor’s mess, the one the Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated school got itself into by turning blind eyes and wagging fingers to women who accused the school’s football players of sexual assault, isn’t nearly settled. Personnel dominoes are still falling, potential athletes are leaving the school in droves and the school’s leadership…
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, as one parent of a transgender teen described it at the Texas State Capitol Wednesday, has gotten himself into a “literal pissing contest.” Still defiant over a White House directive that schools receiving federal funding must allow students to use the restroom consistent with their…
Fifteen Arlington Police Department officers have been placed on leave with pay after a department investigation revealed that they said they made traffic stops that never happened. According to a department spokesman, a random audit revealed officers were reporting stops for which no digital video record existed. “All facts at…
In a move that should go in the news dump hall of fame, Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez announced on Memorial Day afternoon that he would be stepping down at the end of January 2017, ending a three-year reign as the un-elected CEO of the city. While Dallas Mayor Mike…
Image 390650350 from shutterstock, por favor This spring, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Texas woman who might seek to have an abortion a big boost when it changed the label on mifepristone, a drug that can be used to medically induce abortion. The FDA change — which calls for a…
The city of Dallas might become Texas’ second major city to “ban the box” and require private employers to delay asking applicants about their criminal backgrounds until they have been given a conditional offer of employment. The policy change would bring private employers in line with the city itself, Dallas…
Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball reduced Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor’s suspension for clocking Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista right in his face from eight games to seven. With Odor’s appeal of his suspension dealt with, he’ll begin sitting out tonight against the Pirates and for much of the…
Baylor has done the bare minimum it had to do after revelations of a campus culture that turned its back on, and often actively worked against, victims of sexual assaults committed by members of the school’s football team. Art Briles, the former Stephenville High School and University of Houston head…
The family of Antoinette Brown, the woman mauled and killed by a pack of loose dogs in South Dallas earlier this month, is demanding $5,000 from the city of Dallas in order for the city to avoid a lawsuit, interim City Attorney Chris Bowers said Thursday. Bowers told the city’s…
Regardless of how hearty your constitution is, you are going to want to gear up for 2016’s mosquito season. The threats that have hovered around North Texas in previous years — the West Nile and Chikungunya viruses — are back and Zika virus, the birth defect-inducing, mosquito-borne illness currently running…
