Ronnie Lummus, 71, must not look like the type to carry a gun. But it’s a good thing he was packing last night. He and his wife were shopping at Aldi’s on Forest Lane in Northwest Dallas, close to LBJ Freeway. When the couple finished, they walked through the sliding…
Jerry Jones, who’s served as the Dallas Cowboys’ team physician since 1989, told KRLD 105.3 Wednesday morning that the team’s quarterback, Tony Romo, will be medically able to play Sunday against the 6-1 Arizona Cardinals. Romo, who had two back surgeries in 2013 — one before the season to remove…
When it comes to reporting weapons in schools, kids are often each others’ best watchdogs. In light of the recent Washington high school shooting, and the school shootings in recent years at Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech and Columbine, police departments across the country are constantly brainstorming new ways to decrease…
A judge asked the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and The Dallas Morning News to salvage their relationship Monday, but instead the two parties will duke it out in court.A lawyer for the Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins says politics is behind a Dallas Morning News lawsuit seeking to…
Earlier Tuesday, we told you that we didn’t yet know the identity of the drunk, gay-slurring man who attempted to assault a man at DFW airport before being tackled by a group of good Samaritans. Now we do. His name is McCleish Christmas Benham and he lives in Shelbyville, Tennessee…
Here are some other things I like about ice hockey. See Also: Our Englishman Falls In Love With Weird-Ass Hockey There are approximately 11 billion shots per game (I discovered this number using a complex analysis that may or may not be flawed). There are so many shots that you…
North Texas’ regional transportation officials recently announced that they would no longer recommend forcing people out of their homes in the countryside northeast of Dallas to build another toll road, because it turned out that people didn’t like the idea. “We thought we had consensus that we should proceed in…
Amber Vinson, the second Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to contract Ebola during treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, is being released from Emory University Hospital near Atlanta. “I’m so grateful to be well,” she said. “While this is a day of…
The United States’ gun-show loophole is as wide open as it’s ever been. Any private citizen with a cache of firearms can still sell them to any other private citizen without conducting a background check, as licensed dealers are required to do, because freedom. There’s a catch. The loophole, gaping…
First, the obvious. In last night’s loss to Washington, there were a few very small things that could have shifted the outcome in the Cowboys favor. If DeMarco Murray doesn’t fumble inside the 10 with just under 13 minutes left in the second quarter, the Cowboys probably win the game…
To the disappointment of the whole of the Internet, the blurry good Samaritan in the now infamous video of an apparent homophobe getting what was coming to him after attacking a man at DFW Airport is not actor Paul Rudd. Despite now retracted reports from Wonkette and D Magazine the…
Several local and national Native American leaders were out to protest the Washington vs. Cowboys game on Monday night in Arlington. Their objection? The Washington team’s name, which is a long-held racial slur toward indigenous peoples. The name that starts with the letter R. You know the one we’re talking…
Gene Phillips isn’t the type of homeowner the Texas Legislature had in mind when it passed a law in 1979 allowing senior citizens to indefinitely defer their property taxes. Think instead of an ailing grandmother, whose Social Security check wouldn’t stretch quite far enough to cover groceries and property taxes,…
A little-known perk of being a Texas hospital is that if a broke accident victim visits you for emergency treatment, you get to lay claim to any money the victim wins through the courts later. It’s officially called a “hospital lien,” legal through a state statute that’s been on the…
On Friday, UNT officially began making its students’ daily bodily activities a little less uncomfortable, with the opening of several gender-neutral restrooms on campus. The move comes as part of the yearlong push by the university to combat campus discrimination. The school has committed $100,000 toward building gender-neutral restrooms. Restrooms…
James Faulk is, apparently, very serious about this. Despite any negative reaction he may have received after media coverage of his Ebola-themed Halloween decorations — and there were probably at least as many that were positive — the University Park dad plans to keep the hazardous material drums, medical waste…
“It’s so expensive to live here.” You hear it with some frequency from young Dallasites, but if you’ve spent any time in other major metro areas, either in the U.S. or abroad, you know it’s a little naive. For being the fourth biggest metro in the country, DFW remains relatively…
Well before Wilmer-Hutchins High School basketball standout Troy Causey was beaten to death by a friend and on-court rival after being improperly recruited from Richardson ISD, it was clear to anyone paying attention that Dallas ISD’s athletic department was rotten. Superintendent Mike Miles’ subsequent house-cleaning was greeted as a righteous,…
Nina Pham is Ebola free. The National Institutes of Health announced Friday morning that Pham, the first of Thomas Eric Duncan’s treatment team to be diagnosed with Ebola, has successfully fought off the disease and will able to return to Dallas later Friday. “She has no virus in her, she…
Dallas victims of unsolved sexual crimes just got one step closer to potentially seeing justice their abusers. The Dallas Police Department recently announced it had received a portion of federal and state money to be allotted toward DNA testing for rape kits. The testing began earlier this month, and will…
Policing a city like Dallas, even as crime falls, never goes smoothly. But it’s been an especially rocky year for the Dallas Police Department, where, in the wake of Ferguson’s violence, the city saw string of officers shooting and sometimes killing citizens. The violence led to multiple town hall meetings…
Counting down the days (15) until our fair city is, officially, Ebola-free. Here’s what’s happening: The condition of the patients Late yesterday afternoon, Amber Vinson’s family announced that she was Ebola-free, meaning that the there was no detectable viral load in her blood. She remains at Emory University Hospital near…
