The public reaction to Mayor Mike Rawling’s “Dream Team’s” coming-out party yesterday has been startling for its lack of cynicism. D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers wrote a piece headlined “Larry Beasley Just Killed the Trinity Toll Road” — Beasley is the leader of the Dream Team. The Morning News ran…
At 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, the DeSoto Police Department put out an alert. The department and U.S. marshals were looking for Colby Robinson, who faced murder warrants in Oregon. By 10 p.m. Robinson was dead, shot by DeSoto police after a car and foot chase that ended in southeast Oak Cliff…
The Texas Senate did some actual good on Tuesday, passing a bill that would make Texas the 17th state to criminalize so-called “revenge porn.” More important, the bill would make Texas one of fewer than five states to allow civil penalties for the posting of nude or sexually explicit images…
In an East Dallas efficiency roughly the size of the prison cell where he once lived, John Whiteman has finally found a home. His neighbors in the rundown apartment building are former inmates like him. The apartments are like dorm rooms at what would be a very seedy college. A…
When the FBI announced in November that it had taken down a Pleasant Grove drug ring, it buried the lede. Yes, the vague allegations of kidnapping and gave the story a bit more juice than the bust of a typical alligator-less street-level drug ring, and casually pointing out that one…
For a former Dallas vice cop set to head to federal prison this summer it was, as it was for Richard Nixon, not about the crime, but about the cover up. Jose Luis Bedoy was convicted in October of telling a prostitute with whom he was having a relationship to…
On a late Monday night in 2013, police pulled over Brian Michael Hunter for making an unsafe lane change. He was arrested on old warrants and taken to the City Detention Center, which is run by the City Marshal’s Office, and placed in solitary confinement. The next morning, city jail…
BY JIM SCHUTZE AND STEPHEN YOUNG Over a $125 plate of chicken salad with boiled egg at the Trinity Commons Foundation’s annual luncheon, Dallas’ betters — and Jim Schutze — were the first to hear just what exactly Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ Trinity toll road “Dream Team” had been up…
A woman arrested Monday by Balch Springs police allegedly joined pastors at her church in starving a toddler the group believed to be demon-possessed then tried to resurrect the child in a “raising ceremony” after he died on March 22, according to The Dallas Morning News. Areceli Meza, who served…
One of The Dallas Morning News’ resident scolds, editorial board member Tod Robberson, is fixated on a hookup-website billboard that was erected over Interstate 345 in Deep Ellum a couple of weeks ago. It’s not so much the implication of hot, dude-on-dude action that bothers Robberson, he tells us, but…
Police from across the state lined up at a hearing of the Texas Senate’s Transportation Committee to vouch for red light cameras. The cameras are not merely revenue generators, they prevent accidents and injuries, officers said. “If I could put a police officer on every corner where I have a…
Five years ago, Cynthia Wilson says, she was uninsured when she discovered lumps in her breast and abdomen. So she made an appointment at Planned Parenthood, where a doctor performed a biopsy and said she had ovarian cancer. From there, Wilson says, Planned Parenthood referred her to get chemotherapy and…
The trains themselves are pretty damn neat. Slick, good looking and capable of operating without overhead wires, the city of Dallas’ new Union Station to Oak Cliff streetcar looks the way one might wish the transit authority’s light rail vehicles looked. The thing is, and this should change later this…
Since Texas lawmakers considered, but failed to pass, a measure requiring warrants for obtaining cell-phone location data in 2013, has been a major shift has occurred in public discourse over electronic privacy, thanks to disclosures, by Edward Snowden and others, of widespread government surveillance. The bill, by Representative Bryan Hughes,…
Each spring, the Dallas Museum of Art hosts an expensive fundraiser called the Art Ball. It costs $2,500 bucks to attend, features a live auction and, this year, an after-party DJed by Solange Knowles. This year’s ball went down Saturday night. None of that really matters, though. What matters is,…
When we first saw that the city intends to roll out something called “Dallas City Hall To Go,” frankly, we imagined something else. Maybe the city would bring Vonciel Jones Hill to your neighborhood to check your pool chlorine levels or maybe Sheffie Kadane to test your tap water for…
The man who menaced South Dallas with a series of sexual assaults over the summer of 2013 will spend at least the next 30 years in prison. Van Dralan Dixson, captured in Baton Rouge in September 2013, attacked women at night. Carrying a gun he said he used to do…
Thursday marked the 30-day deadline before Dallas’ May 9 municipal election. That means a couple of things: First, it’s too late to register to vote in the election if you haven’t already, and second, candidates had to file their latest campaign finance report. A couple of weeks ago, we told…
Ben Sandifer isn’t the Great Trinity Forest’s only guardian angel. A small but dedicated contingent of amateur naturalists and environmentalists have devoted themselves to exploring and preserving the thousands of acres of wildlands that follow the Trinity River through southern Dallas. But Sandifer is their leader, and he has emerged…
Ahead of a vote next week in the Texas House of Representatives on a bill that would strip Texas cities of most of their power to regulate a certain resource extraction process that totally doesn’t cause earthquakes or flaming tap water and will carry the United States to energy independence,…
As much of the nation still reels from the death of Walter Scott, a South Carolina man shot in the back by police officer Michael Slager, the Texas House of Representatives considered mandating body cameras for the state’s police officers Thursday. Slager was charged with murdering Scott on Tuesday after…
While Congregation Toras Chaim fights the city of Dallas for the right to operate out of a Far North Dallas house — and thus to continue existing — another peculiar legal tussle over the rites of Orthodox Judaism is playing out directly across the street. Last October, the residents of…
