Which hurts more, being brained with a rock or being pestered by national media about it? This morning, Danny Fulgencio is choosing the press. “I got nailed in the head by a rock, bled like a motherfucker, became national news, went to bed, am now even bigger national news,” he says. …
Baylor University football coach-in-exile Art Briles is not going to go down without an ugly fight. The coach is now accusing Baylor of making him a scapegoat in its ongoing investigation into the alleged mishandling of multiple reports of sexual assault by football players. Jasmin Hernandez says former football player Tevin…
Among Texans who feel they’ve been screwed over by tow companies, Pat Johnson has established himself as something of a hero. Through his website, Texas Towing Compliance, his personal blog, and the advice he’s freely dispensed pro bono over the phone on the finer points of towing law, such as…
Texas’ fight to keep refugees out of the state appears to be over, and the Syrians can stay. In a ruling released Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge David Godbey, said that the state did not have grounds to sue the federal government and an immigrant settlement non-profit to keep refugees from…
It took a while, but the details of Dallas’ latest encounter with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign finally got filled in Wednesday afternoon. After a nearly weeklong search for a venue, the Trump operation found a DFW home at the Southside Ballroom, otherwise known as the big room…
Late last month, it seemed that Baylor University had done what it had to do. Following revelations of a football culture that seemingly stymied victims of sexual assault by football players, the school removed former Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr from his role as president of the university and suspended football…
Serious effort here on my part. Really. I shall approach the story of our local mentally ill district attorney from a more positive perspective than in the past. Ahem. Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has returned to Dallas from yet another institutional sojourn associated with mental illness – I…
Nerves are raw across the nation in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Orlando, as the city of Denton found Wednesday morning when a screaming man carrying an armload of Qurans tried to gain entry to a courthouse. On Wednesday morning, Peshwaz Azad Waise walked into…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing Dallas cops’ response to Sunday’s mass shooting at a gay-friendly Orlando night club with a $1 million donation. The cash will pay for an estimated 16,000 hours of overtime to be used for what the city describes as “enhanced counterterrorism efforts, including additional…
Another painful moment lies ahead for Dallas as the city struggles to deal with an issue most of the nation probably thought was long shut away in the history books – formal racial segregation by policy. It’s not history here. Segregation is about to be news again. But first, there…
One of the minor charges against David Daleiden, the self-proclaimed investigative journalist who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood clinics and officials across the country, has been dropped. Late Monday, Harris County Judge Diane Bull ruled that the indictment against Daleiden for attempting to buy or sell fetal tissue, a misdemeanor, should…
It remains one of the creepiest instances of child exploitation North Texas has ever seen, and now a court has sentenced Randy Ray Wesson to 30 years in federal prison for committing it. Sometime in January 2014, Wesson met Ricardo Lugo, 17, on Instagram. Wesson lived in Hurst. Lugo lived…
When it’s finished later this year, the Trinity Forest Golf Club will be, per Avid Golfer magazine, “pretty freaking awesome.” It will be expansive and undulating, with carpet-like greens and fairways accented by native grasses, all just a short hop from Downtown Dallas. In the meantime, the private Company of…
The case of the headless body discovered underneath a bridge near the Brazoria River has been solved. But the killer’s motive for decapitating 24-year-old Jubal Alexander, an East Texas native who’d been living out of his truck, remains unclear. On May 3 a fisherman discovered Alexander’s headless body sitting…
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has been released from the Menninger Clinic in Houston, but isn’t ready to return to her job, her office says. “Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has returned to Dallas, Texas from the Menninger Clinic in Houston, where she was being treated for depression…
On the map, District 2 for the Dallas school board looks like a mini-Texas with a big white hole in the center, which, in a sense, it is. Right at the heart of the city, District 2 swings up from East Dallas, takes in Preston Hollow and runs over to…
After the fatal savaging of Antoinette Brown in southern Dallas in May, the status quo on loose dogs in Dallas has grown increasingly unacceptable. Led by City Council member Tiffinni Young, residents and other leaders of the city’s southern sector have grown louder in demanding that the city do more…
Shawn Diamond, the guy who was shot while charging a Dallas police officer at Love Field with a landscaping rock, is out of the hospital. Diamond, 29, was booked into Dallas County Jail late Monday for domestic violence assault and assault of a public servant. Diamond’s long North Texas ordeal,…
Hundreds took to the streets in Oak Lawn Sunday night to memorialize the more than 50 people murdered in an LGBTQ-friendly Orlando night club early Sunday morning. Joined by Dallas Police Chief David Brown and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Melissa Hennings was there to document the marchers and mourners solidarity for…
Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez announced on Memorial Day he intends to resign at the end of January, telling a TV crew he wants to get his “life back.” I don’t know any more than that, so I am bound, however grudgingly, to take what he says at face value. But…
In an extensive report released Friday afternoon, the city of Dallas detailed the lapses in enforcement and communication that led to the dog-mauling death of Antoinette Brown on May 2. In memo to the Dallas City Council, Assistant City Manager Joey Zapata wrote that Dallas Police and Dallas Animal Services…
Sometime around noon Friday, there was a shooting just outside the terminal at Love Field. Bryan Armstrong, who says he’d just got off a flight at the airport, captured the incident on video, which appears to show a Dallas police officer shooting an individual just outside Baggage Claim Door 3…
