The Texas House of Representatives called a close to Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session Tuesday, a day early. While the House used the session to act on about half of the governor’s cherry-picked priorities — including increasing penalties for mail-in ballot fraud and passing a bill that allows key state…
The White House announced Wednesday that Hope Hicks, an Southern Methodist University alumna, is taking over as interim White House communications director after the tumultuous 10-day reign of Anthony Scaramucci. Hicks, 28, is one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving aides. Hicks majored in English on the Hilltop and distinguished herself…
A tan SUV barreled through the intersection at Mockingbird Lane and Greenville Avenue in Dallas just before 11 a.m. Wednesday, smashing the front end of a black crossover vehicle before flipping onto its roof. The driver of the SUV, who was fleeing from a small fleet of Dallas Police Department…
Denton local Willie Hudspeth has spent the last decade trying to remove the confederate soldier monument on the courthouse lawn. Now he plans to run for Denton County Judge if he can get the 1,800 signatures needed to get on the ballot.
One day after issuing a statement condemning the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced his plans for dealing with the monuments and statues of Confederate figures that dot the city. Rather than promoting teardown or removal the monuments, as other members of the City Council have…
Yesterday afternoon, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott officially appealed the six-game suspension the NFL handed him last Friday. His case will be heard by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the same man who decided Elliott’s punishment, or someone designated by Goodell, on Aug. 29. The decision on the appeal is…
The Dallas City Council will vote during the next four weeks on whether the city should remove all monuments to the Confederacy throughout the city and rename schools, city parks and other public facilities named after Confederate figures. The vote will occur in one of the most racially charged political…
On Monday afternoon, @ICEGov, the official Twitter account of the United States Department of Immigration and Customs enforcement made two posts, both curious for their timing. The first came at 1:48 p.m., touting a federal court’s decision to sentence Jeramy Weatherall, a 29-year-old Dallas man, to 20 years in prison for one…
Denton ISD removed Eric Hauser — the Rodriguez Middle School assistant principal who courted controversy last week after the release of his self-published children’s book, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede — from his post Monday afternoon. Hauser is being reassigned to an unannounced role with the district because of the…
Joshua Baish looks uncomfortable in his orange jumpsuit as he tells his story in a video conference call at the Denton County Jail in early August. Fifteen video monitors line the walls inside the small visitation room, and nearly all of them are in use this Sunday afternoon. Several children patiently…
While the length of Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension might have come as a surprise, the fact that it came wasn’t a shock. Since being picked fourth overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL draft, Elliott has made a series of poor decisions, seemingly daring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to…
Over 111 episodes of Shark Tank, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has invested $19.9 million in 85 companies. When we asked Cuban to comment on his investments, he told the Dallas Observer he couldn’t “call out my babies.” He obviously takes his on-air investments to heart. Here are his five…
On Friday morning, the NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for the first six games of the 2017 season following a 13-month investigation into allegations of domestic violence. The accusations were made against Elliott by his ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson. The league’s decision isn’t based on any legal standard…
Barring a successful appeal, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is suspended for the first six games of the 2017 NFL season, the league announced Friday morning. Elliott’s suspension, according to the league, stems from allegations of domestic violence made by his ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson, in July 2016. Thompson claims…
The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for Reginald Kimbro. Kimbro, 23, is accused of raping and strangling 22-year-old Molly Matheson in her apartment April 10 near Texas Christian University’s Fort Worth campus. Authorities believe he also raped and murdered Megan Getrum, a…
Without context, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede looks like a fairly standard children’s book. Its cover features a smiling frog with its left arm around a friendly looking centipede, and its pages are filled with Wishington Farm’s anthropomorphic animals talking to each other. With context, however, the self-published book, written by…
It’s not every day that a religious leader with the ear of the U.S. president advocates raining hellfire down on another nation. But that’s what happened yesterday when Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, released a statement that seemingly gave President Donald Trump religious permission to attack North…
The fun thing about being a reporter, the payoff, is getting to talk to interesting people. So that’s what I have been doing lately — calling people and getting them to talk to me without a specific agenda. Mariana Griggs, a 40-year-old mother of two young children, is a longtime…
Around lunchtime Wednesday, former Dallas City Council member Craig Holcomb, fresh off the biggest defeat in his political career, approached former council member Angela Hunt. She was decked out in her trademark red suit and fresh off the biggest win in her political career. The two shook hands. Holcomb, long…
The Dallas Stars announced their opposition Wednesday to the three bathroom bills under consideration during the Texas Legislature’s special session, becoming the first Texas sports franchise to do so. “The Dallas Stars stands strongly opposed to any legislation perceived as discriminatory, including proposed bathroom legislation,” President Jim Lites said. “We…
The Trinity toll road is dead. After limited discussion Wednesday morning, the Dallas City Council voted 13-2 to abandon Alternative 3C, the only federally approved plan for a road between the Trinity River levees. The vote received a round of applause from road opponents in the City Council gallery. For…
The fun thing about being a reporter, the payoff, is getting to talk to interesting people. Often I hang up after an interview and think, “I wish I could call that person back some day and just get him or her to ramble on about whatever. I bet it would…
