If you’re flying out of the newly Wright Amendment-unencumbered Love Field this week and haven’t yet found a parking space, you can breathe a shallow sigh of relief. The airport will have 1,150 more spaces for Christmas than it did for Thanksgiving. Almost half of those spaces (500) are valet…
Twelve months ago, Flower Mound Mayor Tom Hayden left his seat behind the Town Council table, stood before the unusually robust audience and issued a bold call for unity. Flower Moundians -ites residents, regardless of their creed, should set aside their differences and spend the next year carefully studying the…
After this weekend, lord willing, DART’s replacement of downtown’s light rail track will finally be over. The work was scheduled to be done at the end of November, but bad weather has forced the final weekend of work to be pushed to tomorrow and Sunday, leaving Christmas shoppers downtown and…
It was over four years ago when agents from the Food and Drug Administration began hearing disturbing complaints about USPLabs, the corporation headquartered in Dallas that sells “nutrition” powder, dietary supplements and other products to bros trying to beef up their builds. Customers complaining of bad reactions included a 16-year-old…
Enrique Arochi was angry, cops say, because one of his friends declined his sexual advances. Not content to end a night that began, he told police, with an Adderall and continued with 10 shots of Captain Morgan’s at a friend’s apartment and three to five beers at a Shops at…
2014 saw a bumper crop of famous Dallas people saying, doing and tweeting ridiculous things. Often disheartening, always amusing, here are the odds and ends we liked best this year. “I have no dog in this pony” — Carolyn Davis, making us wonder all sorts of things during the lengthy,…
It was a valiant effort. Earlier this year the Texas Package Stores Association, in an attempt to shield the thousand or so liquor stores it represents from meaningful competition, sought to resuscitate an obscure and transparently stupid provision of Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code barring non-Texans from holding Texas liquor licenses…
Until 2010, Sergeant Delbert Johnson had a great career at the Fort Worth Police Department. He joined the force in 1990 and had worked his way up to sergeant by 2000. In 2005 he was transferred to the department’s day shift traffic division, giving a regular schedule that allowed him…
Mike Wilson, the managing editor of Nate Silver’s ESPN-owned data journalism project, FiveThirtyEight, will take the reins as The Dallas Morning News’ new editor-in-chief on February 16. He replaces Bob Mong, who is retiring after 13 years at the helm. Wilson is a former managing editor at the Tampa Bay…
The number of executions and new death sentences continued to drop in the U.S. in 2014, even in Texas, which killed 10 prisoners this year, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s the lowest number since 1996, when three men received lethal injections. (The 1996…
Jaguars isn’t just any strip club. “Built with the look of the Roman Colosseum, we promise a first class night out each and every night,” its website explains, adding modestly, “This simply the greatest nude club in the country.” Would a not-great strip club be open until “???” on Saturday…
Citing the need to increase transparency, accountability and community engagement, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said that his department will use forfeiture funds to purchase 200 body cameras that will begin recording early next year. The move comes in the midst of statewide movement toward using the cameras. State Senator…
To seasoned Dallas apartment renters, towing horror stories are a fact of life. But for a 23-year-old woman who recently moved here from Atlanta, towing was something she says she never thought about — not until her car had been towed from her own apartment parking lot the day she…
Last Friday, the day Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins was ticketed for shaking a 61-year-old city employee while screaming, “Do you know who I am” in her face, the security camera that should have recorded the incident wasn’t working. The city of Dallas says it had been out of order…
After hearing testimony on Tuesday about the glee Eric Williams took in killing Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, McClellend’s wife, Cynthia, and Assistant Prosecutor Mark Hasse, a Rockwall County jury decided Wednesday morning that Williams should be killed by Texas. Williams was convicted of Cynthia McClellend’s murder on December…
Remember Dallas in 1969? Roger Staubach had just joined the Cowboys. A noose of freeways was closing in around downtown. DISD was planning to desegregate its schools any minute. Enjoy the memories, because it’s all been downhill since then — “it” being the economic well-being of the average Dallas resident…
Update: December 18, 3:28 p.m.: Governor Perry has announced that he will decline having the building named after him. “Upon deep reflection, I have informed the Board of Regents of my decision to politely decline this great honor. I do so because certain places on this campus, like our most…
Two statements that are axiomatic are 1. Anyone representing themselves in court has a fool for a client, and 2. No good ever comes out of the O’Reilly Factor. For evidence, we offer you Deion Sanders’ ex-wife Pilar, who was hauled into a Collin County Court by the former Cowboys…
Every winter, the world’s only flock of wild whooping cranes flies into Texas and stays along the Texas Gulf Coast, using water near the Aransas Pass. Maybe one day in the future, Greg Abbott can require the whopping cranes to obtain a permit before they take advantage of our state’s…
Just after midnight Tuesday morning, Dallas police officer Larry Moody shot Jonathan Puckett. It was the 20th time Dallas cops have shot at a civilian so far this year. Puckett was hit in the leg and torso and is being treated for his injuries at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Puckett…
To be fair, the Dallas Police Department’s media unit did send us a press release last week informing us that “North Texas police departments are providing support for an urban training exercise at various unspecified sites.” U.S. special operations forces need realistic urban settings for preparedness training, they said, because…
Tuesday morning, one of the last remaining mysteries in the trial of Eric Williams was answered: His estranged wife would indeed participate in the proceedings. Kim Williams took the stand to describe how she and Williams plotted and executed the killings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, his wife…
