Two high-ranking and long-serving members of the Dallas Police Department are finalists for the top job at the Frisco Police Department, Frisco announced Wednesday. DPD Executive Assistant Chief David Pughes and DPD Major and acting Deputy Chief Max Geron are joined by Frisco Deputy Chief David Shilson on the short…
In November, two Volvo SUVs equipped with LIDAR laser sensor technology and two Uber technicians per vehicle will begin driving Dallas streets to map them.
Get your jokes about stopped clocks and blind squirrels ready. Ted Cruz, Texas’ Observer-beloved junior senator, is actually on the right side of a controversial issue. Late Wednesday afternoon, Cruz, along with a Star Wars cantina-like menagerie of politicians from both sides of the aisle — Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep…
The first meeting of Dallas’ new police oversight board fell into chaos Tuesday night as activists stormed the microphone after being denied a public hearing. The board overhaul was approved by the City Council earlier this year after years of debate, resulting in a compromise that created a new office…
Next Monday, the second one in October and the one frequently celebrated as Columbus Day, will be known as Indigenous People’s Day in Dallas from that point forward. The change, passed by a 12-3 City Council vote, didn’t come easy, as several members of the council decided to put their…
The death of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant and innocent man, and the trial of his killer, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, have challenged Dallas as no event since the 2016 murders of five police officers in one terrible night downtown. Now as then, a big part of this…
Immigrants are hastily dropping public benefits in response to a federal rule change put forth by President Donald Trump, but many of them don’t need to, advocates say. The fear, misinformation and rumors have lead to people needlessly giving up food stamps and healthcare assistance. The new guidelines stipulate that the use of assistance like Medicaid and food stamps and the likely hood that an applicant will use them in the future be weighed when deciding if an applicant should be approved for a green card.
Joshua Brown, a witness for the prosecution against former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger, was killed during a drug deal that went bad, according to one of the participants in the would-be deal. Thaddeous Green, 22, shot Brown, 28, twice in the lower body after a fight interrupted a…
The Texas Attorney General’s Office made an appearance at the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans today. That’s nothing new. If there’s anything that Attorney General Ken Paxton likes, it’s fighting the federal government, whether about the environment and Texas’ ability to pollute it, people with preexisting…
The headlines Sunday and Monday came fast. The Dallas Cowboys, fresh off their second loss in a row, were “frauds” according to The Dallas Morning News’ Jean-Jacques Taylor. Mac Engel at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram went a step further, proclaiming the Cowboys capitulation to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers…
Dallas has the fifth highest rates of traffic and pedestrian traffic fatalities in United States, according to statistics collected in 2017 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
When Marsha Jackson moved to the red-brick home in southern Dallas over two decades ago, her daughter was overjoyed to have a pasture to keep her horses. But since an industrial recycling plant opened up next door at the beginning of last year, the clear stream and fresh air are…
Ahem. One hates to be Miss Penny Pinch-Pinch, but the deadline is now two weeks gone for the outfit in charge of the proposed fancy park on the Trinity River downtown to come up with about $150 million to pay for it. They’ve had three years. One doesn’t see a…
One of the state’s most memorable witnesses against former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger was shot and killed late Friday night in Dallas, Lee Merritt, one of the civil attorneys representing Botham Jean’s family, confirmed Saturday. Joshua Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean in September 2018. Almost…
Moments after Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday, Judge Tammy Kemp hugged the former police officer and handed over her personal Bible. “This will strengthen you,” Kemp could be overheard telling Guyger. “You just need a tiny mustard seed of faith.” Now, Kemp is drawing fire…
In November, North Texas made it clear that it didn’t want longtime U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions wandering the halls of the capitol anymore, at least not on its behalf. Thursday, Sessions returned the favor, announcing that he’s running for Congress again, just, you know, not here. Sessions is moving about…
Dominique Alexander clarified that currently, the Next Generation Action Network has no plans to shut down the State Fair or the Texas-OU game.
Mark Washington tried to make the best of a bad night in downtown Nashville Tuesday night. Confronted by Nashville police in a Shell station at which he’d been arrested multiple times for refusing to leave, Washington decided to try on a new identity. According to WKRN-TV, Washington told police officers…
The Dallas Police Department is launching an internal affairs investigation following allegations of evidence tampering during the murder trial of former DPD officer Amber Guyger. Jurors convicted Guyger Tuesday and sentenced her to 10 years on Wednesday. “Dallas today is different than it was yesterday and definitely different than it…
The scent of burning sage and the sounds of Jamaican dancehall legend Buju Banton wafted down the steps of the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts Building on Wednesday night as protesters gathered to react to the sentencing of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger. By the end of the night, one…
In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids into college. But a story based right here in Dallas reminds us that stupid Hollywood tricks…
Following less than two hours of deliberation Wednesday afternoon, a Dallas County jury sentenced former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison for the murder of Botham Jean. Guyger killed Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, after she entered his apartment in the Cedars, believing it was her…
