If Joshua Barton wanted to test the chair he sat in when his blood drawn after his arrest for DWI in 2015, then he should have gotten sick right away, Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. Because he didn’t, the level of cleanliness in the room police use to…
Baylor’s mess, the one the Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated school got itself into by turning blind eyes and wagging fingers to women who accused the school’s football players of sexual assault, isn’t nearly settled. Personnel dominoes are still falling, potential athletes are leaving the school in droves and the school’s leadership…
Donald Trump is being lambasted for his Trump University, a business that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is calling “phony” and “heartless.” The company marketed itself as a school that would teach students how to make money in real estate, even though it wasn’t accredited in any way. Instruction included…
Oh, man, sometimes I think I’m walking into a serious conversation about Dallas City Hall. Then I hear what people down there are saying. I just want to stop and say, “Oh, excuse me, wrong venue, I guess. I thought I was walking into City Hall. Obviously I took a wrong…
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, as one parent of a transgender teen described it at the Texas State Capitol Wednesday, has gotten himself into a “literal pissing contest.” Still defiant over a White House directive that schools receiving federal funding must allow students to use the restroom consistent with their…
Fifteen Arlington Police Department officers have been placed on leave with pay after a department investigation revealed that they said they made traffic stops that never happened. According to a department spokesman, a random audit revealed officers were reporting stops for which no digital video record existed. “All facts at…
In a move that should go in the news dump hall of fame, Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez announced on Memorial Day afternoon that he would be stepping down at the end of January 2017, ending a three-year reign as the un-elected CEO of the city. While Dallas Mayor Mike…
Image 390650350 from shutterstock, por favor This spring, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Texas woman who might seek to have an abortion a big boost when it changed the label on mifepristone, a drug that can be used to medically induce abortion. The FDA change — which calls for a…
Standing in a small Lake Dallas City Council room, Julie Mathews raised her right hand to take the oath of office as the newly elected mayor of the growing city on the shores of Lewisville Lake. It’s a familiar scene for the 40 residents gathered on this Thursday evening in…
Bernie lovers, I love you. But some of you are now officially out over your skis. You probably don’t get what just happened in Waco — the public humiliation of Ken Starr at Baylor University. But you need to figure this one out. The arc of Starr’s public career provides…
The city of Dallas might become Texas’ second major city to “ban the box” and require private employers to delay asking applicants about their criminal backgrounds until they have been given a conditional offer of employment. The policy change would bring private employers in line with the city itself, Dallas…
Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball reduced Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor’s suspension for clocking Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista right in his face from eight games to seven. With Odor’s appeal of his suspension dealt with, he’ll begin sitting out tonight against the Pirates and for much of the…
Baylor has done the bare minimum it had to do after revelations of a campus culture that turned its back on, and often actively worked against, victims of sexual assaults committed by members of the school’s football team. Art Briles, the former Stephenville High School and University of Houston head…
Last week, The Dallas Morning News’ real estate oracle Steve Brown, who is still old, reported that goddamned lazy millennials won’t get off their parents’ couch. This is a real bummer for the real estate industry, which is booming but could boom even harder if millennials could cut their umbilical cords and act…
The family of Antoinette Brown, the woman mauled and killed by a pack of loose dogs in South Dallas earlier this month, is demanding $5,000 from the city of Dallas in order for the city to avoid a lawsuit, interim City Attorney Chris Bowers said Thursday. Bowers told the city’s…
Regardless of how hearty your constitution is, you are going to want to gear up for 2016’s mosquito season. The threats that have hovered around North Texas in previous years — the West Nile and Chikungunya viruses — are back and Zika virus, the birth defect-inducing, mosquito-borne illness currently running…
Located off a county road in South Texas, what some believe is an ISIS terror compound known as “Mahmoudberg” doesn’t look like a place where terrorists would train. It looks more like a small community of rundown homes and older trailer houses. In other words, it looks like a lot…
Earlier this month, according to new information provided Wednesday by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, District Attorney Susan Hawk went on vacation. Seeking, as her doctors have recommended, to find balance between her work and personal life, Hawk took off between May 2 and May 13. According to her…
Ken Paxton is taking his potty problem to the feds. Wednesday afternoon, Texas’ attorney general announced that he, along with a cadre of other states and school districts, was suing the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor and the…
Thanks to AT&T, southern Dallas is about to have some of the fastest internet connections in the United States, the company and city announced Tuesday. By next summer, more than 20,000 homes south of the Trinity River and Interstate 30 will be wired for broadband speeds of at least 1…
The stakes, no matter who’s argument you believe, are incredibly high. If you take the state of Texas’ side, argued Tuesday in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, requiring specific, high-security photo identification from every voter in the state is essential to preventing widespread chaos and voter…
The Merriman Park/University Manor neighborhood, which sits at the northern tip of White Rock Lake in the liminal space between Lakewood and Lake Highlands, is on alert. In recent days, a handful of residents, most of them with homes that back up to DART’s White Rock Station, have had their…
