Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson will not go to trial on charges that he backed his truck into a woman and brandished a weapon during a dispute over a parking space on July 4. According to a report from KRLD’s L.P. Phillips, a Collin County grand jury declined to indict…
Hunter Allis has always loved playing video games. But unlike some fellow 14-year-olds, Hunter’s interest goes beyond simply playing the games. He dreamed of someday creating them. Hunter was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which one side of the organ is weaker than the other. He’s had four open-heart…
During his weekly radio show Tuesday, Jerry Jones doubled down on his stance that Cowboys players will not play for the team if they choose to protest before games in a way that, in Jones’ words, disrespects the United States’ flag or national anthem. The Cowboys owner, the first in…
As terrible and heartrending as the impact of Hurricane Harvey was on the people of Houston, the sick backstory was almost worse. Everything awful that happened to Houston was known beforehand. The same things are known here, too. It just hasn’t happened here. Yet. Houston is learning, to its dismay,…
Amy Ero, the Dallas Observer’s advertising director, is leaving us for a gig as managing director of a Dallas-based design and consulting agency. It’s not so much a “goodbye” as a “see you around” — she’ll continue to collaborate with the Observer at her new job developing digital marketing for…
The Texas Department of Public Safety discontinued the Amber Alert for Richardson 3-year-old Sherin Mathews late Monday afternoon. Richardson police said they are continuing the search, but the Texas Department of Public Safety cut off the alert because there was no suspect or vehicle description. Wesley Mathews, Sherin’s father, posted…
Amazon, if you’re still out there somewhere and you’re still looking at us for your new subheadquarters, I have a favor to ask. Please don’t judge our book by the cover. I know, I know. We have to talk about the cover. In fact, let’s do that first. As far…
New Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall will execute a major shakeup of her department in order to get more cops on the street and streamline the Dallas Police Department’s command structure. Hall plans to cut down from nine assistant chiefs to two or three and from 14 deputy chiefs…
A 3-year-old Richardson girl remains missing Monday morning after her father sent her outside as a punishment late night on Saturday, according to police. Richardson police arrested the girl’s father, Wesley Mathews, Saturday night for abandoning or endangering a child, a second degree felony. Mathews sent his daughter Sherin Mathews…
For all its splendor, the three-story Alexander Mansion is easy to miss. It sits too far back from the road to catch with drivers’ peripheral vision. Its neighbors are payday loan shops and long-shuttered shells of used car lots, their perimeters still fenced off by barbed wire and the occasional…
Faced with the real threat that Dallas could go bankrupt if it loses a bundle of police and firefighter pay lawsuits, the mayor and a majority on the City Council are ready to roll the dice. They’ve rejected a potential $300 million settlement offer, choosing instead to take their chances…
One night last spring, infamous right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Dallas’ homegrown white nationalist, Richard Spencer walked into a karaoke bar on Abrams Road in Lake Highlands. They left less than a half-hour later after being kicked by One Nostagia Tavern’s bartenders, but not before someone filmed a video of…
For now, at least, personal data from millions of Texas voters won’t be handed over to President Donald Trump’s commission on voter fraud. Earlier this week, a Travis County judge issued a restraining order barring the Texas secretary of state from turning over the records, which the Trump administration sought…
Texas Rangers fans who checked their email boxes Thursday morning were greeted with something that’s become fairly typical among local sports teams as they’ve made attempts to target their marketing: an end-of-the-year survey about the fans’ experiences and what they might like to see moving forward. While about 80 percent…
At 54 years old, the unnamed subject of a Purdue Pharma ad, a writer, suffered from osteoarthritis of the hands, a degenerative joint disease that guitarists and other musicians dread. Purdue claimed in its 2012 ad, which it called a “pain vignette,” that OxyContin was the key to the writer’s…
The Dallas Observer received the following query Tuesday night from someone identified as “Big Poppa Pump” from New Jersey. Hi Stephen, I just finished reading your article, which was the most well informed article I read on the matter, and had to ask this question. Based off of all the information…
The Dallas Police Department released video Wednesday afternoon of three suspects in an early Saturday morning sexual assault. Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, two men approached a woman at a Chase Bank ATM on Wheatland Road in Duncanville. The men, caught on security cameras at the ATM and a nearby…
Elle Gargano stood near the front of the stage at the Jason Aldean concert with a friend when the shooting began Sunday night. At 23, she recently graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in strategic communication. She moved home to California, where she got a job as a…
A key drug reform policy passed by the city of Dallas this spring remains under threat by the continued efforts of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who wants to submarine cite-and-release before it starts. On Tuesday, Price sparred with Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston, Dallas County District Attorney…
People can say anything, but if you want to see what people really mean when they talk about improving poor neighborhoods in Dallas, look at State-Thomas, look at Little Mexico, look at what’s going on today in West Dallas. Don’t even call it gentrification. Nobody who used to live there…
After 41 shots, five years and one mistrial, former Garland police officer Patrick Wayne Tuter has received nine months probation for killing Michael Vincent Allen. He pleaded no contest yesterday to discharging a firearm in certain municipalities, a Class A misdemeanor. A Dallas County grand jury indicted Tuter for manslaughter in…
After Monday’s U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing, neither Ezekiel Elliott nor the NFL should feel comfortable in their nearly year-and-a-half-long legal battle over domestic violence allegations made against the Dallas Cowboy. The league, which desperately wants to enforce a six-game ban handed to Elliott by Commissioner Roger Goodell…
