Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant has a hairline fracture in his right tibia. Bryant suffered the injury during the first quarter of the Cowboys 31-17 win over the Bears on Sunday night when his leg caught underneath him while being dragged down behind by Bears linebacker Christian Jones. Bryant…
Guillermo Luviano-Franco, or Silvestre Franco-Luviano — depending on which of his aliases he happens to be using — shouldn’t have been in the United States for the weekend crime spree that ended with his arrest at a Georgetown apartment complex, Hector Gomez, a deputy marshal with the Lone Star Fugitive…
Following two robberies and one sexual assault, the Dallas Police Department has stepped up patrols in the area, Deputy Chief Lonzo Anderson said Wednesday. All three crimes occurred over the last two weeks, Anderson said; the police suspects two young black men between the ages between 15 and 20. Anderson…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz continued his Donald Trump-supporting tour Tuesday morning, stopping by right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show to insist his formal rival won the first general election debate on Monday night. The senator earlier called Trump a “sniveling coward,” “serial philanderer” and “pathological” this spring. But these days he’s…
The tone was serious but optimistic at a meeting hosted by the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss the state of the Lewisville Lake Dam and the measures being prepared to keep it functioning. A failure would submerge a large swath of Dallas and its suburbs. Tuesday night’s overall message…
Police have detailed the evidence against Charles Bryant, the Haslet man accused of dismembering and burning a TWU student earlier this month. Denton County authorities released multiple search warrants for Bryant’s car and home, detailing items that they say pointed them to Bryant as Jacqueline Vandagriff’s killer. Here are 10 items worth…
So Dallas will solve its loose dog problem by killing more dogs. Good. I could hope for only more thing. I wish they would film the killing of the dogs every week and put the video online. With that video, I wish the city also would post the names, addresses and…
Spending his days and nights in a tiny cell at the Walls Unit in Abilene and living among inmates affiliated with Aryan Brotherhood isn’t how local Black Lives Matter activist Dominique Alexander imagined he’d be spending his time in prison. Considered a high profile inmate because of his activist work…
Sitting in front of his computer in the back room of his gun shop in Hood County, my father holds a revolver in his hand. It’s a used gun like the .45 revolver in the glass case in the other room but smaller caliber at a .38. It looks like…
Dallas’ strangest and most entertaining legal battle of 2016, the squabble between Cowboys superstar wide receiver Dez Bryant and Texas state Senator Royce West, is over. Late Friday afternoon, Bryant and West decided to drop all claims and counterclaims against each other, dismissing their dueling lawsuits. West sued Bryant in…
The Dallas City Council’s transportation committee left no doubt Monday about what the city wants DART to do as the transit agency moves forward toward its new 20-year plan: Build a subway downtown and fix the dysfunctional bus system. And the committee had one “don’t” as well: Don’t allocate a ton of…
Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin, the new temporary leader of Dallas Animal Services, didn’t hide the grim reality of what his department is going to have to do to stem the tide of the more than 8,000 loose dogs currently roaming southern Dallas. Dallas Animal Services is going…
Friday night, the Rangers clinched the American League West title for the second consecutive season. It was the team’s fourth division championship in seven seasons. The Rangers are in the middle of the deepest purple patch in club history, but still searching for their first World Series title. The 2016…
The first draft of Dallas’ surprisingly controversial southern Dallas deck park is out. Phase one of the proposed $118 million park build-out looks an awful lot like its cousin, Klyde Warren Park. Spanning I-35 between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the park — assuming it gets funded — will initially feature…
We know you’re busy, so here’s a roundup of the news of the week. Zika Could Open Up a New Frontier In Workplace Injury Litigation, Just Probably Not in Texas Can you sue your boss for a Zika infection you acquired while on the clock? Lawyers are already weighing in…
The head of the Dallas Black Police Association joined with police reform activists on Friday in a call for changes at the police department aimed a curbing the misuse of force by officers. Activists must be given “sitting at the table” with police if the city is to find a way…
This week the Dallas City Council completed its single most important task of 2016 when it passed the city of Dallas’ budget for the next fiscal year. Like the city itself, the new budget was heavily influenced by Dallas’ formative event of 2016, the July 7 police ambush that killed…
A team led by Stanford University geophysics professor William Ellsworth has linked a 2012, 4.8 magnitude East Texas earthquake to human activity in an article published in the Science journal Thursday. Specifically, Ellsworth and his team found, wastewater injection stemming from hydraulic fracturing at a nearby well likely caused the tremor…
A little more than two years after Christina Morris disappeared from The Shops at Legacy in Plano, Enrique Arochi, the last person seen with Morris, is going to jail for her kidnapping. Wednesday night, a Collin County jury convicted Arochi after a little more than 17 hours of deliberation. Arochi’s…
Eventually, according people who predict this sort of thing, Dallas County is going to get its very own homegrown case of the birth-defect causing Zika virus. A mosquito carrying the disease is going to bite someone here, and we’re going to have a, hopefully small, local outbreak. Dallas County Health…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government again, this time in hopes of stopping new labor rules that would make 5 million workers eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay in December. The new Department of Labor regulations raise the minimum amount workers can be paid and anyone making…
Police recreating the chain of events that ended with the murder of 24-year-old Texas Women’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff produced a grim narrative of a night out gone very wrong. Vandagriff’s body was found burning last Wednesday morning at about 6:30 a.m. in a kiddie pool in Grapevine’s Acorn Woods…
