This year, our annual news rehash features some really good news. You ready? Here goes. Jesus came back. That’s right: J.C., right here in Dallas. Really. We have that on good authority from a Dallas City Council member. Not only that, but anti-Jesus also made an appearance in 2013, according…
Harold Simmons, 82, who in the last presidential election became the most prolific political donor in the country, died Saturday at the Baylor University Medical Center. His legacy is complicated — at once toxic, literally and figuratively, and marked by laudable philanthropy. He grew up in Golden, Texas, the son…
By now, you’re probably sick of year-end lists. Too bad. New Year’s is still a day-and-a-half away, there’s very little happening news-wise, and, most important, journalists have not yet exhausted their onanistic need to rehash their old work. So, here’s our contribution. Part best-of, part most-clicked, part whatever the hell…
No one wants to give kids a crappy education with taxpayer dollars, but Texas regulators are now cracking down on a few charter schools that aren’t actually the most embarrassing ones in the state. In an announcement this month, the Texas Education Agency called out six charter schools that it…
1. Listen to the guys who want to Tear down 345. 2. Find a sensible solution to the Uber-Yellow feud. 3. Build more freeway parks so we can play ultimate Frisbee on 635. 4. Fewer valet stands, more bike racks. 5. Fewer police shootings, more transparency when they happen…
There were already questions swirling about whether State District Judge Carlos Cortez’ moral character befit the dignity of the office. As The Dallas Morning News detailed earlier this month, he is in the middle of a long-running legal battle to keep allegations about his personal life, reportedly involving drug use…
With Tony Romo sidelined, a last-in-the-league defense and an innate inability to deliver in the clutch, the Cowboys’ chances against the Eagles on Sunday aren’t looking good. So, rather than lose money betting on Dallas, we thought it would be more productive to wager on how the Cowboys will lose…
The photos that started showing up under Evelina Elterman’s name on Russian social media — photos showing a woman with her bare ass pointed toward the camera, back arched in pornographic longing — didn’t actually show Evelina Elterman. They were cut-and-paste jobs, photos of the Queens woman grafted onto Internet…
It was a chaotic scene overnight as emergency vehicles and news crews descended on the 3000 block of Hanger Avenue in Fort Worth. Details were scarce, but Fort Worth PD said that a 14-year-old boy had been shot in the face a few minutes before midnight on Thursday and that…
All week, ever since he re-injured a herniated disk in his back against the Redskins, Cowboys fans have waited for final word on whether Tony Romo will play in Sunday’s season-deciding matchup with Philadelphia. Now we know. Despite some brief glimmers of hope — vague pronouncements from Jerry Jones, a…
Earlier this month, the Dallas Police Department released figures that seemed to be encouraging for Dallas motorists. The DPD’s data showed that police have been slowly scaling down on traffic tickets over the years. In the most recent fiscal year, from October 2012 until September 2013, the DPD issued 37,000…
When, in the predawn hours on Christmas morning, a Grand Prairie police officer spotted a suspicious 1997 Honda driving through the Grand Peninsula neighborhood near Joe Pool Lake, he didn’t know the car was stolen, nor did he know the driver had a gun. “Whatever he was doing caught the…
In 2013, Dallas residents were treated to an unprecedented whiff of Dallas city government, and the experience was something akin to opening that long-forgotten Tupperware container wedged beneath your car seat. The fumes aren’t going to kill anyone, but the noxious mix of incompetence and deceit is unmistakable. An unpleasant…
When a natural gas company is accused of making an oopsie during fracking, the EPA’s response has typically been to come down hard on the company at first but then back away. That was one of the the major plot points of the Gasland documentaries. Environmentalists and homeowners accuse the…
It started on Sunday in the closing minutes of the Eagles’ 54-11 shellacking of the Chicago Bears when Philly fans filled Lincoln Financial Field with chants of “We want Dallas!” The taunts have only increased in scope and volume as Sunday’s season-deciding Cowboys-Eagles grudge match has neared. Call it trolling…
Airport Freeway in Bedford is not a likely source of breakthroughs in consumer electronics and medical technology. But there, in a nondescript office building overlooking a Twin Peaks and Super 8 motel, is the world headquarters of iLife Technologies and Solutions. So far, the company has solved sleep apnea, elderly…
It’s still far too early to declare D-Link’s two-year pilot program a success or to gauge the long-term popularity of a free downtown shuttle. But after nearly two months in operation, officials say they’re pleasantly surprised. “It’s exceeded our expectations so far,” says Downtown Dallas Inc. president John Crawford, whose…
Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Gareth Long woke to a noise outside his bedroom door. He got out of bed, grabbed a handgun and went to investigate. In the hallway of his Cedar Hill home, Long’s attorney told The Dallas Morning News, he encountered a stranger. Several times, Long…
One day in 1997, seven police officers walked into the Institute of Ancestral Braiding in Oak Cliff and arrested Isis Brantley, a local hair guru whose clients include Erykah Badu, for braiding hair without a cosmetology license. Brantley no longer has the cops to worry about. In 2007, a decade…
At the close of Prime Prep Academy’s first year, Deion Sanders was already unhappy with his role at the charter school he co-founded with D.L. Wallace. Sanders’ attorney John Nation sent Wallace a letter expressing concern that “Mr. Sanders is becoming marginalized from the very institution that represents his vision,…
There’s no guarantee that U.S. Congressman Ralph Hall, who has represented Rockwall and Northeast Texas in Washington for so long that they named a lake after him, will survive next year’s Republican primary. For the first time in years, he’s facing a formidable challenger in former U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe…
Something clearly didn’t quite wash with this Gian Carlo Donatelli guy. Here he was, inside a event-level area at the American Airlines Center, almost half an hour before the doors would open for the rest of Jay Z’s ticket-holding fans Saturday night. He flashed a Magna Carter All-Access World Tour…
