At about 9:45 Wednesday morning, a Dallas Police Officer shot and killed a man in the 3600 block of West Davis in Oak Cliff. It was the first fatal officer-involved shooting of the year. DPD says the man got out of his gray Nissan Sentra during a traffic stop and…
Ever since her Facebook battle over transgender bathroom rights with local officials in late April, former candidate for Denton City Council Amber Briggle has become a prominent defender of transgender children who she claims are being unfairly targeted by Republican politicians’ desire to regulate school bathrooms. “I don’t understand what…
The lawsuit filed this week against Dallas City Council member Tiffinni Young accusing her of barratry in the death of a woman by dog attack will provide us all with an opportunity to learn what barratry is. I know one thing already. This is going to be all about gray…
It’s a small win, and one neighborhood business owners aren’t too happy with, but Dallas urbanists picked up a significant victory from the Dallas City Council Wednesday. Knox Street is going from four lanes to three, acceding to the vision laid out for the popular retail and residential stretch that’s…
Donald Trump has a point. When he asks black voters what the hell they have to lose, he misses nuances and conflates things that shouldn’t be conflated. But he has a point. And we are the living proof of his point here in Dallas. Last week the three African-American members…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not going to quit fighting against Texas’ transgender community. Tuesday, Paxton filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Franciscan Alliance, a religious hospital network, against the Obama administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt to block HHS from…
James Dunn comes hurtling out of the shade of the tree-laced AT&T Plaza downtown, holding a cell phone that just ran out of batteries and a folder full of looseleaf paper. The 59-year-old has been fielding calls from hundreds of homeless across the city and taking down notes for how…
Josh Hamilton, the most talented player to ever wear a Rangers uniform, has been released by the team, effective Tuesday afternoon. Hamilton’s second stint with the Rangers ended with his being placed on unconditional release waivers following his not playing a game in 2016 due to injury. The move ensures…
Dallas is waiting for the seemingly inevitable local transmission of the Zika virus, but in the meantime there is preparation to be done. When someone in the city of Dallas contracts the birth defect-causing disease from a local mosquito, Dallas County — home to 30 residents so far who’ve caught…
Do you know what a carbuncle is? It’s something awful, swollen, painful and pus-filled under the skin. Oh, sorry. But I think of the fake kayak rapids that the city built five years ago in the Trinity River – closed for use the same week it opened because it’s too…
The Dallas Police Department’s Child Exploitation Squad and Internet Crimes Against Children Unit arrested Javier Echeverria, 22, for the possession and distribution of child pornography, a third degree felony, on Sunday. Echeverria was arrested following a tip submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the sexual abuse of an…
The case against Jerry Jones is easy to make. Through admitted hubris, Jones destroyed the greatest Cowboys team of all time when he fired Jimmy Johnson after the 1993 season. He’s meddled constantly, ruining drafts and playoff chances more times than one can count on two hands. Jones might have…
At the age of 23, recently discharged from the U.S. Navy and enraged by recent murders of unarmed, black men at the hands of police officers, Mark Essex took matters into his own hands. On January 7, 1973, shots rang out over downtown New Orleans. There were reports of officers…
Friday night, finally, the Next Generation Action Network cancelled a rally. Friday’s event was cancelled, officially, because of rain. Still, at the time the cancellation happened, Free Speech Friday had just 22 RSVPs on Facebook. The advocacy group’s “Free Speech Friday” event at Belo Garden would’ve been its third protest…
It’s Saturday afternoon in Farmer’s Branch. Inside a two-story house, family, friends and police gather to remember the life of Kelli Cox, murdered by a serial killer in 1997. “We wanted to have something for people to have an opportunity to share memories and ways that Kelli had impacted them,”…
We know you’re busy. So here’s a roundup for those news junkies who need their Friday fix. Is DPD Ready For the Psychological Damage of July’s Deadly Ambush? The mental health impact caused to police by last month’s deadly ambush may take a long time to reveal itself. The…
“Most of our patients coming for elective work come in through here,” Dr. Hasan Hashmi says as he stands in a hospital waiting room that is completely empty. No patients seeking elective work are in sight nor are any staffers behind the receptionists’ desk to admit them. “The admission staff…
A new batch of documents posted to the Army’s public records portal reveals the details behind the investigation that got Micah Johnson sent home from service in Afghanistan in 2014, two years before the shooting downtown. Here are 5 details of note from the more than 130 pages of released…
Wildebeest-gate. Please let me say that to my knowledge the Dallas Police Association (DPA), the main police union, is not responsible for the placement of a photo of a dead wildebeest on the mayor’s desk to intimidate him in labor talks like the scene in The Godfather where the guy wakes…
The ugly fight between the Cowboys’ superstar wide receiver Dez Bryan and his former mentor and attorney, state Senator Royce West, comes down to money. The pair are suing each other, claiming financial harm on both sides. “Royce West is literally out of pocket $66,000 for the damage that was…
Bishop Kevin Farrell, head of Dallas’ Catholic diocese for nearly a decade, is leaving North Texas for Rome. Farrell announced Wednesday that he’s been invited by Pope Francis to head the Roman Catholic Church’s new department for laity, family, and life. Farrell will take over the job on September 1 and…
It’s been a little over a month since the killings of five law enforcement officers, four of them from the Dallas Police Department, and Lt. Alexander Eastman is on the lookout for its impact on the mental health of the force. Eastman, a trauma surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical…
