Ezekiel Elliott will keep playing for at least two more weeks. On Friday afternoon, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals elected not to make an immediate decision on the league’s request to stay a lower court decision that’s allowed Elliott to play as the case has made its way…
Now that the Robert E. Lee statue is gone, his formerly eponymous park in Oak Lawn is getting a new name. The city of Dallas Parks Board voted unanimously Friday morning to give Lee Park a new placeholder name, returning the park to its original name, Oak Lawn Park, until…
When the Texas Rangers released the first renderings in January of their proposed new ballpark in Arlington, the team’s fans were unimpressed. The new stadium looked a lot like the Astros’ Minute Maid Park, thanks largely to the series of arches backing the stadium’s left-field stands. HKS Architects, the firm…
Hate to tell you — and I know this will make people mad on both sides, and I’m really only talking about Dallas — but this debate we’ve been having about the Confederate statues is absolutely the best thing we’ve done in Dallas in the 100 or so years I…
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed John Battaglia’s claims of incompetence late Wednesday, clearing the way for the state of Texas to put the Dallas child killer to death more than 16 years after his crimes. Over the past year, Battaglia’s defense team and lawyers for the state have…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced Wednesday the closure of the emergency mega-shelter for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey. The shelter occupied the bottom floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center’s parking structure for the better part of a month. There simply aren’t enough evacuees left — less than 300 at…
Two huge forces are bearing down on Dallas right now — climate change and Amazon — and either one could be the boost the city needs to leap ahead. Or land in the ditch. See what Hurricane Harvey did to Houston, Irma to Florida. People can nibble around the edges…
A unique airplane called the Cosmic Girl landed at Texas State Technical College’s airport in Waco earlier this year and parked inside one of the big hangars there. When it rolled out months later, the airplane was ready to launch a space rocket from under one wing while flying at…
Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway loves the city’s Youth Commission. It comes up whenever he talks about the reasons he serves on the council. The commission comprises council-appointed high school students from around the city who aspire to public service, and Caraway says it’s essential to fostering southern Dallas’…
Just after the Dallas City Council voted Sept. 6 to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a public park, a crane and work crew appeared to take it down. Municipal government is not known for its speed, and it is constrained by rules to make spending slow and…
“Little Chris” didn’t even make it a month on the state of Texas’ 10 most wanted list. Dallas police announced Tuesday afternoon that Los Angeles Police Department officer have arrested Christopher Gonzalez, 18, who has been on the Texas’ most wanted list since Aug. 23. According to the Dallas Police…
A 20-year-old Frisco man pleaded guilty Monday to hate crime charges stemming from a series of home invasions targeting gay men in Dallas’ northern suburbs. Chancler Encalade admitted that he and two other men targeted a Plano man in January because of his sexual orientation. Encalade faces up to life…
Under normal circumstances when a Republican member of the Congress from Texas calls you “unconscionable,” you probably should just report to the nearest convent and ask them to lock you up in the laundry for the rest of your life. Your moral struggles have come to an end. U.S. Rep…
After 15 months, the end of the NFL’s investigation into a series of domestic violence allegations made against Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott is coming into focus. Sometime soon, as early as today and likely no later than next week, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will…
John Tufts was accused of a horrific crime involving his adopted daughter. Now he speaks out to reiterate his claims of innocence.
Two star-crossed North Texas lovers are set to spend time in federal prison after Collin County Sheriff’s Office employees foiled their plan to exchange a greeting card soaked in liquid methamphetamine. Amanda Lynn Mollison, 29, mailed the card to Justin Chadwick Brown, 39, in October 2016. Workers at the Collin County…
American and Confederate flags waved Saturday at an Oak Lawn park where, until last week, a statue of Robert E. Lee stood. The city voted to remove the statue and, after a series of delays, removed it from its pedestal and carted it away late last week. A group called The Texas…
Here’s a little number the Dallas mayor and the City Council won’t want you to see. During the State Fair of Texas’ 24-day run this year, it will suck an average of 10 percent of the Dallas police force out of the rest of the city. At a time when…
Newly appointed Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall spoke about human trafficking Thursday afternoon during a lecture titled “Protecting Our Daughters and Sons” through Southern Methodist University’s Embrey Human Rights Program. Her speech, the first appearance of her tenure, only lasted a few minutes. Hall, who previously served as deputy chief…
First thing you probably will have to do, if you even hope to understand what’s going on these days in the Dallas public school district, is turn most of your assumptions upside down. On Aug. 17, the three African-American members on the Dallas school board voted to kill two tax…
After a week-long melodrama of false starts, pratfalls and tragedy, the city finally succeeded Thursday night in evicting Confederate General Robert E. Lee from his place of prominence atop a hill over Turtle Creek two miles north of City Hall. Spurred by the threat of an armed rally in defense…
A rash of home invasions in South Dallas has police probing for possible connections. Pairs of armed thieves have struck four times in the past two days, with three offenses reported on the same day. The latest attack happened at 4 a.m. Thursday in the 3300 block of Idaho Avenue, where…
