When you read a story in the media and it’s got an odd twist at the top, the twist is a signal. It means the real message is between the lines. Five times in the last three weeks, somebody at The Dallas Morning News has reported that Mike Snyder, a…
Bikes, first silver and mustard, then orange, green and yellow, swarmed downtown Dallas this summer before spreading out. The basics are all the same: Bikes cost $1 per hour to ride, payable via a smartphone app. After a rider pays, a hefty security device unlocks, freeing the bike’s back wheel…
Anthony “Tony” Culler is starving himself in hopes the FBI will start an investigation. It’s been four weeks since he started his 50-day hunger strike, and he looks to be shrinking into his clothing in videos posted online. He’s got the ease of a Baptist preacher and shares his family’s…
Something happened to the Cowboys for the first time during their 2017 season Sunday night in Oakland: They got lucky. Scrapping for their playoff lives against the Raiders, the Cowboys survived two Dak Prescott interceptions, an injury to All-Pro left tackle Tyron Smith and a 55-yard pass interference penalty that…
Earlier this year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it’s targeting the seat of U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, the Dallas Republican in District 32. Sessions has drawn four competitive Democratic challengers — former Obama appointee Lillian Salerno, former WFAA-TV reporter Brett Shipp, former Hillary Clinton adviser Ed Meier and civil…
Six months ago, it wasn’t hard to imagine how Texas’ 2018 midterm election would go. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, backed by his $40 million war chest, was going to sweep to re-election with the rest of the Republican party’s statewide candidates. El Paso Rep. Beto O’Rourke would fall to incumbent…
Not my place, but would somebody else who knows what’s what please step forward and offer to give the new Dallas city manager and his top people a 45-minute seminar on recent city history? They seem to be good people, but they’re kind of traipsing out with a basket and…
Suspected serial killer William Reece was charged with Capital Murder by a Brazoria County Grand Jury for the abduction and murder of Kelli Cox who disappeared in the late 90s.
After a season that began with Super Bowl-high expectations, the Dallas Cowboys, about to play their 14th game of the year, are left to compete for the NFC’s booby prize, the sixth seed in the playoffs. Even if the Cowboys manage to beat the odds and get in, they’ll face…
Denton police held an active shooter training for local churches in response to the First Baptist Church mass shooting in Sutherland Springs.
When the president is on Twitter suggesting a U.S. senator is a whore and his fellow Republicans are on TV talking about how much they hate the FBI, guess who gets lost in the shuffle? Why, it’s our own Rick Perry, our former Gov. Oops. Where is that boy, anyway,…
James Ho, the Dallas attorney confirmed by the Senate on Thursday for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is staunchly conservative but isn’t in lockstep with President Donald Trump ideologically, says Chad Ruback, a Dallas-based appellate lawyer who’s crossed paths many times with Ho. Ho, appellate attorney…
There was a moment this year when The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center, which serves between 8,000 and 9,000 homeless people a year, almost had to shut its doors because of a stupid software problem. Not its software. Somebody else’s. Although The Bridge had a sophisticated software system, it was paying…
Sometimes, Dallas cops get the guy. So far in 2017, the Dallas Police Department has captured a serial rapist, quickly arrested a 15-year-old who shot and killed a mother of six during an early November robbery and tracked down Earl Wayne Humphries, a man police believe committed two similar murders of day…
A 17-year-old and a swarm of yet-to-be identified accomplices lured four men to a vacant Pleasant Grove apartment Tuesday before robbing and beating them, according to the Dallas Police Department. DPD arrested the teenTuesday, but they aren’t releasing his name because they’re looking into his possible involvement in several similar…
A former Dallas County jailer pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in a Dallas federal courtroom to one count of enticement of minor. Kevin Scott Morris, 44, will be sentenced April 4 to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison, closing a sordid saga that lasted the better part…
People who watch this stuff closely for a living were not surprised at the end of last week when The Dallas Morning News got Marlon Rollins kicked off the Dallas park board. For one thing, it was a fair shoot. He was vulnerable. For another, it was inevitable because Rollins…
Just after Thanksgiving, Dallas County Health and Human Services announced that flu infections were on the rise in the county, publishing a report on an early November spike in specimens sent by the county to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testing positive for the flu. At the time,…
Two North Texas men spun an elaborate tale involving the Illuminati, the NBA and Under Armour in order to defraud a would-be real estate investor out of nearly $1 million, according to Dallas’ U.S. Attorney’s Office. Dallas’ Joshua Pugh and Frisco’s Glenn Clifton will appear at a detention hearing Tuesday…
A pair of fishermen report that there’s a body floating in a creek in the obscure wedge of park space called the White Rock Lake Greenbelt. It’s Nov. 21, two days before Thanksgiving. The police respond, calling it a “welfare check,” but the description of the man makes it clear…
We have data to share with you, about you. We examined our most-read stories of 2017 and saw some trends. Y’all like to read about reality TV, especially how fake it seems to be, as well as the law — we’re assuming how to obey it, but who are we…
The city of Arlington is trying to stave off the stigma of being the largest city in the United States without public transportation. Less the a month before discontinuing its single bus line, the Metro Arlington Xpress, the city launched one of the nation’s first public microtransit projects to provide…
