The swarm, it seems, is still with us. Thursday, North Texas earth quaked three times. Each of the tremors struck near a two-mile line connecting Irving and West Dallas that SMU researchers Heather DeShon and Brian Stump identified in February as the start locations of numerous temblors that have inflicted…
In the surest sign yet that the United States is in the midst of a dramatic economic recovery, Americans have seen fit to set fire to more $4 million by giving it to Ted Cruz’s nascent presidential campaign. Not that we’re prejudging. “This constitutional conservative campaign has raised more in…
As it does before every election, The Dallas Morning News has published a series of candidate questionnaires probing hopefuls for their views on a number of city topics. To the DMN’s credit, the survey’s question about the proposed Trinity toll road is both thorough and specific. “Do you support any…
A while back, residents of the idyllic Richardson neighborhoods of Canyon Creek and Prairie Creek filed into the Richardson City Plan Commission meeting to voice their objections to the Palisades, at the time a 750-unit apartment tower/mixed-use development planned for an empty plot of land along Central Expressway. At the…
Six people, including a Houston woman feds allege to be the gang’s ringleader, have been indicted in Michigan for allegedly being part of a conspiracy that led to a string of home invasion robberies in that state and North Texas. Chaka Castro, 40, used public data software to identify potential…
At the end of 2013, there were just over 76,600 Texans living with HIV, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. That’s a lot. A decade ago, the figure was about 50,000. Texas ranks fourth among states in total HIV cases and 11th in HIV cases per capita,…
The attacks on 9/11 were not the result of Islamic extremism, retribution for continued American military presence in the Middle East, the inevitable consequence of clashing civilizations or even a false-flag operation engineered by the feds, says First Baptist Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress. No, he told a crowd gathered for…
In what we’ve been assured is not an April Fools’ prank (but is probably still an April Fools’ prank), the Texas General Land Office, under the leadership of Commissioner George P. Bush announced Wednesday that it is banning the use of the Comic Sans — the favorite font of your…
Susan Hawk, despite the ongoing controversy about her previously undisclosed October 2013 stint in drug rehab and swirling rumors about distrust and paranoia in her Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, fulfilled her commitment to speak at SMU’s Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture Series. Rather than give a speech, Hawk had…
The case sounds like small potatoes, but the sentence lasted for decades. In the 1990s, federal prosecutors from the Northern District of Texas said they had evidence that Donel Marcus Clark was part of a group that cooked cocaine powder into crack and then weighed and packaged the drug. Clark…
“Who’s in charge?” It was a question that everyone seemed to have in early October last year. Thomas Eric Duncan had just become the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and no one, it seemed, knew what to do, as documented in February’s Vanity Fair…
It was a matter of seconds, closer to six than seven, before what was happening became obvious, the colt masked in pink kicking up clouds of red on its way into the lead. It was late November, 2009. This race, the Texas Classic Futurity, was among the last of the…
The U.S. Justice Department will investigate whether Dallas County’s truancy and juvenile courts afford defendants due process. Only Texas and Wyoming allow truancy cases to be sent to adult criminal court, and Texas filed 115,000 truancy reports in 2013, according to a review released earlier this month by the Texas…
People who live downwind from cattle feedlots are familiar with the smell of crap in the air, and Texas Tech researchers took it upon themselves to study that crap. The researchers analyzed dust samples taken near 10 cattle feedlots in Texas and found something disturbing, according to a recent study…
Local law enforcement raided two cockfights Sunday, netting 384 chickens. In Ellis County, sheriff’s deputies confiscated 284 fowl and arrested 30 people. Another bust the same day conducted jointly by the Lancaster Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office netted 100 more birds and 37 more arrests…
The Dallas Police Association would like it known that you, the civilian outraged by recent police shootings and/or the proposal to legislate where someone can stand to film cops, are wrong. Policing, they want to make clear, is a tough job occupied by human beings who must make split-second, life-and-death…
Susan Hawk, the newly minted Dallas County district attorney, went to rehab to help kick the painkillers she was prescribed after back surgery. She admitted as much after the Morning News dropped a bombshell of a (mostly) anonymously sourced report last week. Just after she kicked off her campaign to…
The Dallas County Community College District has placed two El Centro College police officers on adminstrative leave after a video showing them making a controversial arrest — purportedly on March 25 — was posted to YouTube. The video shows four teenagers forced against a wall outside El Centro. During the…
A Dallas woman has been arrested and charged with child abandonment and endangering a child after helping her 7-year-old daughter into a dumpster near the King Spa and Sauna on Royal Lane and then leaving her there overnight Saturday, police say. Alicia Carroll called police at 9:40 Sunday morning and…
It’s still a long shot for sure, but the Dallas Green Alliance’s path to eight votes against the Trinity toll road on the Dallas City Council is coming into focus. The DGA, a pro-environment PAC expressly formed to get toll road opponents elected, announced its endorsements Friday, along with plans…
Richard Sheridan, the perennial gadfly candidate accused of painting “666” on a number of local buildings and landmarks, is out of jail. He was released at 7 a.m. Sunday, he says, but not before he was able to persuade 10 people inside to vote for him in May 9’s mayoral…
The University of Oklahoma’s president said Friday that the Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, the two locals seen on video leading their Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers in a chant about segregating and lynching black people, learned the chant as part of a process that began four years ago on…
