Jordan Spieth will be back. The Dallas-bred golfer has one multiple majors and recovered nicely after botching the end of the 2014 Masters, so it stands to reason he’ll recover from his complete and utter disaster in Augusta this year, blowing a five-stroke lead on the final nine holes. Spieth’s…
Add one more study to the pile of evidence that activity related to oil and gas drilling is responsible for an unusual spate of earthquakes rattling Texas. This week, University of Texas scientists published a report in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth that said it was plausible that a…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown his support behind Mayor Mike Rawlings’ and the City Council’s effort to keep the Exxxotica adult expo out of the convention center. Currently under felony indictment and facing an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the state’s top lawyer insists in a…
For the last two months, the city of Dallas has been pumping about $4,000 a day into a case that outside observers and many members of the City Council view as an obvious loser — the city’s fraught attempt to ban the Exxxotica adult expo from using the Kay Bailey…
Ethan Couch, the affluenza-suffering teen who killed four in a 2013 Tarrant County drunk driving incident, had his first day in adult court Wednesday. Couch, originally sentenced to 10 years probation, will remain in Tarrant County Jail for two years as a condition of that probation, Tarrant County District Judge…
The last thing the state of Texas’ Republican leadership wants to do is give in and accept the Medicaid expansion mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Texas has the highest uninsured population in the country, but no matter how many Texans might receive access to healthcare if the state would…
Thursday, the Dallas Police Department announced that they were looking for a man who “stripped completely naked, began to masturbate, exposed his anus to the victim and then fled on foot,” from a Dallas construction site on Tuesday, April 5. The next day, the man returned to the construction site:…
Before dying at the hospital from self-inflicted stab wounds, McCann Utu Jr. told police he was murderer. The 19-year-old told a police dispatcher that he’d “committed murder” and “killed them,” Plano police said Friday, after he is believed to have stabbed his mother, Stacy Fawcett, and his 17-year-old brother Josiah Utu to death…
State troopers and Dallas County sheriff’s deputies will help the Dallas Police Department serve domestic violence and drug warrants, Dallas Police Chief David Brown and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced Thursday. The goal is cutting off the source of a recent increase in violent crime in the city. Last week,…
The easiest takeaway from the revised plan for the private takeover of Fair Park is that it isn’t going to cost the city quite as much as was initially thought. In November, when Ray Hunt buddy and “father of DART” Walt Humann first told the City Council how much the…
The deadline, May 4, set by the city to clear the Dallas homeless encampment known as Tent City was not hard and fast. That much is clear after Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting. Adam Medrano desperately wants to get rid of Tent City. His district — which covers the Cedars…
Since the Affordable Care Act became effective, nearly a million previously uninsured Texans have acquired health insurance. That’s good, but despite the gains, Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured residents in the country and the highest raw number of uninsured residents. Gains in Texas have come at a…
The water Brenda Delgado is swimming in just got a lot hotter. Following the murder of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher, Delgado, 33, was quickly identified as the alleged mastermind behind the killing. Hatcher’s boyfriend at the time of her death was Delgado’s ex. Police say that Delgado, steaming with jealousy,…
Jeffrey Handy, the guy promoting Exxxotica porn conventions under the name J Handy, says in a new court filing that Dallas knew exactly what it was getting into when it allowed the porn convention to come to the city’s convention center last summer. Nevertheless, the City Council banned Handy and…
Dallas has an affordable housing problem. The city has too little of it and what it does have is largely contained to southern Dallas. Affordable housing doesn’t venture north of Interstate 30 in Dallas unless it’s coaxed. For example, when the city wanted the Trammel Crow company to put 10…
For a long time, each of the Observer’s online sections has had its own Facebook page except for the news section, or what was once called Unfair Park, may it rest in peace. News restricted itself to the Observer’s main page, drawing weird looks from those who came for the…
Maybe it’s just verbal jujitsu. Maybe, when Greg Hardy, as he did Monday, says that he’s never laid a hand on a woman, he means just that — that he’s never laid a hand on a woman in the way that your uncle’s congregation lays hands on members who’ve gone…
Last Friday, The New York Times, hit the NFL hard, reporting that the NFL’s research into player concussions was “was deeply flawed and incomplete” and that the league hired attorneys and other personnel affiliated with the tobacco industry to help oversee that research. The implication made by the Times was clear,…
Hopefully, this won’t happen again for a long time. It would be nice if, following picking fourth and 34th in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys didn’t have two picks that high for the foreseeable future. If the teams’ front office — led, as ever, by Jerry Jones —…
Needs shutterstock: 312342893 Wednesday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Leander Johns, the head of Uber Dallas announced a plan to add 2,500 new drivers for the app-based ride hailing service in southern Dallas. On the surface it looks like an easy win. Dallas south of I-30 needs jobs and is under…
Merrick Garland is getting all the attention. President Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia seems just as unlikely to receive a confirmation vote as he did the day he was nominated, March 16. Both of Texas’ senators, John Cornyn and…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to update the recommended dosage for women taking the abortion drug mifepristone may give Texas women easier access to abortions in the state. The FDA changed the label on the drug, bringing it in line with the way doctors in other states have…
