Dallas Police Department officials announced Friday afternoon that the department will turn over its investigation of last year’s murders of five Dallas officers to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office next week, more than a year after Micah Johnson opened fire on police following a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas…
Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron is a 25-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department and a graduate of the United States Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. He currently serves as the executive officer for DPD’s Southeast Patrol Division. In the wake of last summer’s ambush, Geron wrote…
The state of Texas, thanks to its new, slightly weaker voter ID law, is no longer discriminating against minority voters. At least that’s the case if you listen to the U.S. Department of Justice. Late Wednesday, John Gore, the deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,…
For now, let’s pretend for a minute that nobody wants to build an expressway on top of the Trinity River through downtown Dallas. For the sake of argument, let’s just pick up that naughty little gnome of an idea by the ears and plunk it down in the center of…
At some point far into the future, it’s possible that a Dallas Maverick will mean as much to the franchise, and to the city of Dallas, as Dirk Nowitzki. It’s possible, in the same way that it’s possible that Dak Prescott could finish his career with more Super Bowls than…
I understand why leaks in Washington about Trump are a big deal and my leaks about things like drainage problems in Dallas, not so much. I think I have a pretty good working sense of proportion. But leaks are still leaks, and I have my reasons to make sure people…
Dallas County vehicle inspections are about to get a little cheaper. That’s not necessarily a good thing. The Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously Wednesday to stop collecting the $6 fee it’s charged Dallas drivers for more than a decade as part of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s clean…
On Wednesday morning, the basic facts began to arrive with few details: Frisco police arrested Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson on Tuesday night for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. By the time reports of his arrest hit DFW media, Wilson was already out of jail, having posted…
Frisco Police Department officers arrested Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday night. According to the department, Wilson was picked up after in incident in Toyota Stadium’s parking lot during the city of Frisco’s Freedom Fest. After being booked into the Frisco detention center,…
The view I give you here sometimes of City Hall is depressing, and yet some twinge of conscience provokes me now and then to tell you how optimistic I am about the city. According to the surveys, I think you are, too. Between City Hall and the city, a strange…
During President Obama’s term in office, it was an almost weekly activity for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to announce his newest lawsuit against the federal government. Whether it was environmental regulations, LGBTQ rights or immigration policy, the formula was the same: Paxton picks an issue important to his conservative…
In the end, it appears kidnappers murdered 13-year-old Shavon Randle over a drug heist. Police and her family say that kidnappers abducted the Lancaster teenager after a man named Kendall Perkins and three other men stole 22 pounds of marijuana from Devontae Owens and Darius Fields on June 26 at a Lancaster…
The school reform issue ought to split up conservatives as badly as it does liberals. But it doesn’t. I can’t figure that out. No matter which side looks at it, school reform turns on the same fundamental question: Can a poor, minority kid from a chaotic background be as smart…
On July 7, 2016, Dallas witnessed the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 9/11 when a gunman opened fire on police during a protest rally. Five officers died. Police cornered the gunman, entered a failed negotiation and sent in a bomb-disposal robot armed with explosives to kill him. The…
Early Sunday morning, Eric Jackson, special agent for the Dallas FBI field office, announced that Shavon Randle, the 13-year-old Lancaster teenager missing since Wednesday, was found dead inside an Oak Cliff home along with a then-unidentified man. “We didn’t have the positive result we were looking for, but being able to…
The greatest challenge in the thing we call vaguely “The Trinity River project” is sheer size. The full project area along the river through downtown is 10,000 acres. That’s 15.6 square miles. You could put New York City’s Central Park in it 12 times. It’s two-thirds the size of Manhattan,…
One of the most interesting things about the Dallas Police Department’s blog, DPDBeat.com, is that it provides action-packed photos and videos, which the department posts to crow about big arrests or seek help with unsolved crimes. So far in 2017, DPD Beat has featured a woman running a man down…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday that he and a 10-state coalition will sue the federal government over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protections if the U.S. Department of Homeland Security refuses to phase out the program. DACA, established by President Barack Obama in 2012, protects certain undocumented individuals…
Tonya Couch managed to stay out of jail Thursday morning. The mother of Ethan Couch, the teen who got 10 years probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving crash in 2013, is awaiting trial for helping her son flee to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The two headed south of the border…
Shocking news, shocking, unbelievably shocking that the Russians tried 17 times to hack the Dallas County election system before last year’s presidential election. More shocking, possibly even earth-shaking: They did not succeed. In years covering vote fraud issues in Dallas, I have known drunken homeless people who could hack local…
The Dallas City Council turned over the city’s seats on DART’s board of directors Wednesday, dumping three board members who defied the City Council in 2016. The council move is in direct defiance of the stated goal of DART’s leadership to build the suburb-friendly Cotton Belt rail line from Plano…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced late Wednesday afternoon that he and his office will assist Dallas County in the ongoing investigation into potential mail-in ballot fraud during May’s Dallas City Council election. Paxton, like Dallas District Attorney Faith Johnson, a Republican, has prioritized fighting voter fraud. “Nothing is more sacred to our…
