Training camp, finally, is here, and everything feels like the early ’90s again. The heat is oppressive, the Rangers are oppressively mediocre and the Cowboys are desperate to get back on the field in hopes that their fans and the media will pay a little less attention to some of…
Forget all the small-bore stuff like the Trinity toll road, Fair Park and so on. It’s more and more clear that we are at a major crossroads in the city, a place calling for real regime change. Total. In what we in the print business call a full-page “bleed” —…
Starting today, flyers at Love Field have the option of skipping to the front of the airport’s security lines, bypassing fellow travelers and the TSA agents responsible for making sure passengers’ identification is valid and matches their boarding passes. All those who want the privilege of being first in line…
Over the next couple of days, the special session of the 85th Texas Legislature will get rolling. On Friday, Texas Senate committees will hear testimony on the state’s two proposed “bathroom bills,” which would regulate which restrooms Texans are allowed to use, and several anti-abortion bills. On Saturday, the upper…
Dallas police announced late Thursday night that they’ve arrested a suspect connected to at least two sexual assaults in the city over the last month. Police have not released the suspect’s name because they believe he may be connected to additional crimes. At about 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, a man approached…
Hey. Be careful what you say about Detroit. I don’t know anything about this new Dallas police chief coming down here — U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department — but I do know a little bit about her hometown. Judging by some of the comments…
On Wednesday, Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, for the first time gave the public a glimpse of his side of the story. In a court filing made in response to the federal civil lawsuit filed against Oliver by Edwards’ parents, the former…
You know you’re witnessing a particular kind of aviation history when the models show up. A pair of them in jean shorts and cowboy hats stalked the flight line at Addison Airport, hired to be eye candy for the photographers chronicling the North Texas visit of a vintage DC-3 airplane. Few airplanes deserve…
So let me get this right. Fifty years from now, some young doofus reporter from Detroit moves here, looks around town and thinks, “Oh, just like Indianapolis.” He not only does not see that this city’s economy was created by slave labor before the Civil War, but he also doesn’t…
Dallas police announced late Wednesday afternoon that they are suspending the investigation into an altercation involving Ezekiel Elliott on Sunday night at Clutch in Uptown because of a lack of cooperation from both the complainant and witnesses. Police responded to Clutch around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a police reports…
On Wednesday afternoon, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced that Dallas’ next police chief will be U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department. She’ll take over the post vacated by former Dallas Police Chief David Brown, who retired in October. She’s expected to start on September…
Daryl Nkemakola Ibeneme, better known as DJ DTrain, has gone underground. After telling police that he was punched in the face during a fight at Clutch in Uptown on Sunday night, Ibeneme has been radio silent. He’s stayed off his usually prolific social media profiles, refused to respond to interview requests…
We understand that recent experience in the voting booth might have left a bad taste in your mouth, but don’t give up on democracy just yet. It’s Best of Dallas® time again, your chance to cast a ballot that really matters. This is an opportunity to help your fellow citizens…
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday that the teenager found dead in a southeast Dallas creek Sunday morning is Mikayla Mitchell, the 17-year-old stepdaughter of Howard Diamond, a Sherman doctor whom federal prosecutors recently connected to seven overdose. Police found Mitchell in a creek near the 3000 block of Rochester Street just before…
I’m a Democrat. I’m anti-Trump. The only things more depressing to me than President Donald Trump are Democrats. If it’s still like this in 2018, I may have to vote for the vegan, even though I have never really been totally sure what that is. Maybe for a change and…
Hicks Holdings, the Dallas-based investment arm of the family of former Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks, announced Tuesday that it’s throwing its considerable weight behind a company that makes body cameras and in-car video systems for police departments and transit authorities across the country. The investment in Georgia-based Utility…
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and kick returner Lucky Whitehead is having a rough 2017. In April, the Cowboys drafted his potential replacement — the University of North Carolina’s Ryan Switzer — jeopardizing Whitehead’s playing status in 2017. Last week, something worse happened to Whitehead: Someone stole his dog, Blitz. According…
Every once in a while, somebody says something so wholly at odds with evident truth, so totally contrary to known facts, so diametrically opposed to obvious reality that we just have to stop and do big, loud forehead slaps on ourselves. Last week, Dallas City Secretary Rosa Rios, bristling at…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted a former Balch Springs police officer for murder. Roy Oliver, 37, is charged with killing Jordan Edwards, 15, as Oliver and another officer attempted to break up a house party in the Dallas County suburb. After heading into the house to break up…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was involved in a fight Sunday night at the Clutch Dallas bar in Uptown, according to multiple media reports. According to the Dallas Police Department, police responded to the bar on Cedar Spring Road in Uptown at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. Nkemakola Ibeneme, a Dallas…
On Sunday afternoon, Dallas police announced the end to a tragic weekend. Just before noon, police said, they’d been called to the 3000 block of Rochester Street in southeast Dallas. When they arrived, they found a woman’s body floating in the creek. The unidentified woman had been murdered, according to…
A new study published in July’s American Journal of Public Health attacks one of contemporary policing’s biggest questions using data culled from the Dallas Police Department. The central question: Are white police officers more likely to use force against nonwhite suspects? The answer in Dallas appears to be no, according…
