Dallas police announced Friday afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in two sexual assaults that occurred in downtown Dallas and Deep Ellum over the weekend. The Dallas Police Department says an anonymous tip led officers to arrest Jerly Patrick Graves Bailey Jr., 36, on Thursday on warrants for forgery and…
Earlier this month, picking up a woman at an Uptown bar turned into a nightmare for Daniel King. He told police the woman drugged him and left his apartment with his puppy under her arm. Police released video Thursday night of the suspect heading out of the W with Daisy,…
Robert Jeffress spent Wednesday with Donald Trump, supporting the president during his fundraising visit to the Belo Mansion in downtown Dallas. On Thursday, the First Baptist Dallas pastor and Trump’s biggest evangelical supporter had to do something a lot less fun — take to the Fox News airwaves to defend…
Dear Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall: When people here talk to you about criminal nuisance abatement ordinances, you need to be very cautious. You came here four months ago from Detroit to take over as our new chief. Detroit has made good use of certain kinds of nuisance laws,…
Robert E. Lee’s statue is gone, but it’s not forgotten. That much was clear Wednesday night as a long line of North Texas residents made their way to Dallas City Hall to tell the City Council they want the city’s other Confederate monuments left intact and, most of all, they…
Wednesday was an especially tough day for Dallas’ police and firefighters. After an afternoon during which they had to shut off much of downtown Dallas so President Donald Trump could travel to and from his $4 million fundraiser at the Belo Mansion, the evening brought further chaos to the city…
One of the most important items in technology history is up for sale in Dallas next week. On Nov. 4, Dallas’ Heritage Auctions will sell a early prototype of the world’s first microchip. The minimum bid is set at $350,000. Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby designed the first microchip, then…
Wow. This does not feel like our finest hour. Joe Straus, Republican of San Antonio, just announced he will not seek re-election in 2018 after five terms as speaker of the Texas House. U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, is bailing. So is Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake. They…
San Antonio Republican Joe Straus, the five-term speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, announced Wednesday morning that he won’t be running for re-election next year, giving up his seat in the Legislature and his speaker’s gavel. Straus’ decision comes after a rancorous legislative session during which he was the…
President Donald Trump is visiting Dallas today, but chances are you won’t see him unless you work at Love Field or are a major GOP donor. This trip is about filling Trump’s and the Republican National Committee’s piggy banks, not whipping up the base at one of the president’s trademark…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday afternoon that an undocumented teenager living in a Texas federal detention center must immediately be allowed to terminate her pregnancy. The court’s decision reverses a decision made last week by a three-judge panel that blocked her from getting an abortion…
Dallas’ most famous President John F. Kennedy conspiracy theorist and an FBI analyst turned JFK historian agree on one thing: They don’t expect much from the of assassination-related documents set to be released on Thursday. For the conspiracy theorist, Robert Groden, the release isn’t important because all the important stuff…
Dallas homes and business that host “habitual criminal activity” could soon face having their doors decorated with a city of Dallas placard announcing their status, thanks to a newly proposed ordinance from the Dallas Police Department. The owners of the properties could face legal trouble, too, if they fail to…
The Dallas Police Department released video Monday afternoon of a man police say committed two separate sexual assaults, one downtown Dallas and one in Deep Ellum, early Saturday morning. In the short clip, a man walks beside a woman, one of his victims, the police department says, as she leaves…
Since new Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall took over the job in early September, her department has shown increased flexibility in the ways it gets more officers on the street. For example, her department reassigned officers to patrol units. On Monday, the Dallas Police Department took another step by announcing…
On Monday afternoon police arrested the father of a missing 3-year-old Richardson girl. Wesley Mathews appeared voluntarily at the Richardson police station with his attorney to speak with detectives. He was subsequently arrested on a charge of Injury to a Child, a first degree felony that carries a 5 to 99…
One way or another, a reckoning is coming in Ezekiel Elliott’s legal fight with the NFL over his yet-to-be imposed six-game suspension. Both sides, thanks to Elliott’s aborted initial lawsuit in Texas and the circuit court skirmish that followed, have had amble opportunities to make their case, leaving the New…
You and I will be asked to vote Nov. 7 on killing the Dallas County school district, or Dallas County Schools, as it calls itself. The proposition is to let DCS “continue,” or stay alive. To kill it, you have to vote against. In the drumbeat of bad stories over…
Social media users broke the news that 3-year-old Sherin Mathews’ body had been found Sunday in a field not far from the Mathews’ home in Richardson. She has been missing for more than two weeks. Police found the body of a small girl believed to be Sherin in a culvert near…
Nearly two weeks have passed, and 3-year-old Sherin Mathews is still missing. According to her father, Wesley Mathews, she disappeared at 3 a.m. Oct. 7 while standing in an alley about 100 feet from their home in Richardson. Mathews, 37, told Richardson police he put his daughter in timeout in the…
During President Barack Obama’s terms, Dallas resident and former President George W. Bush, for the most part, kept his mouth shut about matters of policy, following in a long line of ex-presidents who declined to criticize their successors despite obvious political differences. But on Thursday, Bush made his clearest stretch…
Carrollton police have arrested a Dallas man they believe worked with five others to steal more than $500,000 from drivers whose identities they stole off at gas station pumps across North and East Texas. According to Carrollton cops, Yoandi Valdez, 33, worked with a crew that installed internal skimmers on…
