Robert Johnson has more than one side to him. By day, he’s the police chief of Corsicana. By night or any time he’s free, he’s a movie actor and producer. One Tuesday afternoon, he sits in his office at the Corsicana Police Department. He’s wearing his full uniform, but his…
Two upcoming City Council votes, both technical and arcane on the surface, will go to the heart of the city. The moment draws nigh. With two simple votes Aug. 9, the Dallas City Council may leap across an immense chasm in time and usher in a new era. Or not…
On Monday, seemingly seconds before the trade deadline, Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels did what he’d been trying to do for the better part of a week: He got rid of Yu Darvish. With his team seemingly out of contention and needing a farm system rebuild, Daniels sent his…
On Monday afternoon, minutes before Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline, the Texas Rangers traded their ace, Yu Darvish, to the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor leaguers Willie Calhoun, A.J. Alexy and Brendon Davis. As the minutes ticked toward 3 p.m., it appeared that Darvish would not be traded. The…
Reliably, once every six months or so, the Arlington Police Department ends up in the news for screwing up, even though the city it serves is about a quarter the size of Dallas and less than half the size of Fort Worth. Here are five of the lowlights of the…
In multiple court hearings last May, Assistant City Attorney Melissa Miles complained that the city just couldn’t quite trust West Dallas landlord Khraish Khraish, who was selling many of his rental houses to his tenants. The city didn’t know if the deeds were kosher. The city was afraid he might…
Dallas County Health and Human Services officials announced late Friday that the county has had its first death from West Nile virus in 2017. The deceased patient, unidentified because of health privacy laws, became the county’s first diagnosed case of West Nile in 2017 on July 14. According to the county,…
Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, Dallas police arrested a 20-year-old woman for street racing southbound on South Central Expressway at Linfield Road in South Dallas. Police found the woman after she spun out down an embankment and wrapped her car around a wooden utility pole on the west side of…
One of the teenagers who attacked local actor Daniel Whitener outside Dallas’ Cityplace Target in January pleaded guilty this week to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson announced Thursday. Zantrell Sauls, 17, will spend four months in jail and 10 years on probation for…
If I utter one single encouraging word about charter schools, I get this instantaneous backlash from people, many of them friends, insisting that charter schools are part of an elitist plot to undermine and one day do away with public school education and, by the way, I am an idiot…
After nearly a week of criticism from Boy Scouts, their parents and the public, Michael Surbaugh, chief Scout executive of Boy Scouts of America, apologized Thursday for a speech President Donald Trump gave at the group’s National Jamboree on Monday night. The president’s speech lambasted the press, rehashed his Electoral College victory…
Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels certainly didn’t get any help last night. Making his last start before Monday’s trade deadline,Yu Darvish melted down against the Miami Marlins on a steamy night at Globe Life Park in Arlington, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of potential suitors as they…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wants the City Council to hurry up — hurry up! — and sign a pile of documents creating some kind of a private thing to control the new park we want to build on the Trinity River downtown. Former City Council member Angela Hunt has her…
The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to significantly beef up the state’s election code, creating stiffer penalties for those who attempt to manipulate mail-in ballots. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made stemming mail-in ballot issues a priority for the special legislative session after problems during the Dallas City Council election in May…
On Tuesday night, one week into Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s first called special session of the 85th Texas Legislature, the Texas Senate signed off on the term’s most controversial bill. After nearly eight hours of debate, 20 Republicans and one Democrat voted to require Texas children attending public schools to use bathrooms…
Sometimes we have to go back to the old-fashioned used-car lots that used to line Ross Avenue if we want to know how to handle things. You don’t sign a check to buy a car if the guy won’t let you drive it around the block first. Walk away. You…
On Tuesday, the Dallas Cowboys made it clear that they are content to make an example out of Lucky Whitehead. Following the team’s decision Monday afternoon to cut Whitehead, the Cowboys learned Tuesday that the alleged wrong for which they’d released Whitehead — a shoplifting arrest in Prince William County,…
Dallas police announced late Tuesday afternoon that they’re looking far a suspect in a fatal Monday night carjacking in northwest Dallas. According to DPD, the suspect killed the car’s owner, who has not been identified. As the suspect attempted to drive away in a red 1992 Pontiac, the car’s owner…
The Dallas Cowboys cut wide receiver and return specialist Lucky Whitehead late Monday afternoon, shortly after the team completed the first practice of its 2017 training. Whitehead, already on the chopping block thanks to his lack of development as a receiver, gave the team all the excuses it needed to…
The Colony Police Department announced Monday that a retired soldier — who famously stood at attention for hours outside Dallas Police headquarters in honor of the officers killed in last summer’s ambush — was killed in his home Sunday night. Police found Chandler Davis, 34, with a gunshot wound to…
Yesterday. I am staring at a Dallas Morning News online story telling me that the Texas Association of Business would start running ads on Texas radio stations today warning that, if the special session of the Texas Legislature passes a bathroom bill, it could cost Texas the NFL draft. I…
Just after midnight Sunday, San Antonio police got a call about a suspicious tractor-trailer in the back of a Walmart parking lot. There, they found a horror that has captured the nation’s attention. According to a federal criminal complaint released Monday, federal authorities have charged James Matthew Bradley Jr. with…
