Throughout the public collapse of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by Deion Sanders, the former Cowboy star has been accused of bullying and even attacking school employees who failed to cow to his demands for more power and more money. Those allegations have largely been hard to corroborate,…
After spending two years on the brink of shutting down, Parkland Hospital has turned a corner. Things are far from perfect, but the federal government is reasonably confidant that Parkland won’t kill you. That’s the medical side of things. According to a trio of nearly identical wrongful termination lawsuits filed…
Because you can never have too many reasons to feel inadequate about your teenage years, we’d like to introduce you to 16-year-old Graham Smith. By day, he’s your typical Episcopal School of Dallas sophomore. By night, he’s a white-hat hacker who’s recently gained notoriety by exposing security flaws in Snapchat…
For a full and detailed account of what Christina and Trevor Tutt have experienced over the past four months — a run-in with CPS, the removal of their children by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, an ongoing legal fight to get them back — read this. It’s…
There’s no doubt that rookie Fort Worth cop Alex Hoeppner screwed up spectacularly on the morning of May 28. He and his partner, also a rookie, responded to the wrong house for a burglary call. When he encountered a man with a gun near the garage he opened fire, discovering…
Meet America’s business cheerleaders. People tend to view the Chamber of Commerce in the same colors as the Rotary Club or the Knights of Columbus: officious do-gooders lending a helpful hand in the name of economy and country. It’s a largely accurate assessment — at least on the local level…
At first, Mineral Wells police were stumped by Shannon Herrin Huddleston’s death. How could a grown woman, her home and person bearing no sign that she’d been attack, wind up locked in her own freezer? Things became clearer when the autopsy report came back in October and speculated that Huddleston…
Some might argue that Gary Lee Young was performing a public service as he hung around the parking lot of the Dallas International Street Church on South 2nd Avenue earlier this month. The Lord’s work, if you will. Not long after midnight on January 9, Young watched a would-be john…
If there was ever any doubt that the debate over the fudged details in Wendy Davis’ bio had completely jumped the shark, confirmation came this week in the form of unsolicited parenting advice the Democratic gubernatorial candidate was offered by Bristol Palin. Yet the story continues, feeding on itself in…
Pro tip: When planning a bank heist, it’s best to eliminate or conceal any distinguishing features that might help cops identify you later. Exhibit A is this Fort Worth bank robber’s grotesque salt-and-pepper facial hair. Yes, the powder blue sweats are suitably nondescript, and the beanie-over-the-eyes trick is a nice…
A Dallas police officer was arrested today for allegedly raping a woman he’d pulled over. According to a DPD news release, officer La’cori Johnson stopped a vehicle on the 9300 block of Larga Drive on September 9, 2013. Johnson told the woman driving the car that she had an outstanding…
For a portrait of the Kafkaesque nightmare criminal residency restrictions can create, go read about the permanent sex offender camp that took root several years ago beneath Miami’s Julia Tuttle Causeway. Thanks to a local ordinance barring them from living within 2,500 feet of any place that children congregate, there…
For the past year Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., one of the two big players in the red-light camera industry, has been embroiled in a bribery scandal in Chicago. The company, according to news reports, treated a senior transportation official to lavish vacations and had an unusually close relationship with bureaucrats…
Even though the new, techie transportation services can often be cheaper than cabs, city officials like to accuse the apps of discriminating against people who live in poor areas. Most recently, Councilwoman Vonciel Jones Hill concluded yesterday’s transportation meeting by sharing a story about a person who tried to get…
In a secret underground lair somewhere deep below Europe, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hunched over a map of Mansfield, Texas, an evil glimmer lighting his eyes. A mirthless chuckle escapes his lips as he presses pencil to paper. Lubbock County Judge Tom Head may have sniffed out his…
KERA’s hour-long debate between the four Republican lieutenant-governor hopefuls was, as expected, a desperate scramble to the right. On issue after issue — evolution, abortion, immigration — the candidates studiously avoided any hint of moderation. Nowhere was that clearer than in their answers to the first question of the day:…
According to YouTube, where the video was posted on Saturday, it happened at Peter Piper Pizza in Burleson. During a kid’s birthday party. We don’t know the exact circumstances surrounding the brawl but, in this case, how much context do you need?…
With the knockout game having officially arrived in Dallas, and with the two documented cases here occurring in restaurant parking lots in northern Dallas, it would be only natural to assume that the man beaten with a baseball bat outside Smashburger on McKinney Avenue is a victim. Yet that doesn’t…
In the weeks since marijuana became legal in Colorado, there have been a thick plume of stories on how to plan a pot-smoking vacation. Even The Dallas Morning News, which still blanches at the notion of fully legalized pot, offered a buyer’s guide. The pot tourism boom, however large it…
When First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress proclaimed a couple of weeks back that President Obama is “paving the way for the antichrist,” we dismissed it as a publicity stunt designed to sell copies of his new book on the end times. Not everyone was so quick to call Jeffress’ claim empty…
The lawsuit filed last year by Bush Library protesters alleging that Dallas’ ordinance banning hand-held signs from within 75 feet of highways violated the First Amendment has been in a holding pattern for several months while the city worked to revise its rule. That process wrapped up last week when…
Update: On Sunday, Marlise Munoz was allowed to die. According to attorneys for her family, Fort Worth’s JPS Hospital removed Munoz, 23 weeks pregnant, from life support at about 11:30 a.m. Her body was released to her husband, Erick Munoz. The hospital had announced earlier in the day that it…
