UPDATE: We are now in a system-wide ground delay until 4:00pm CT as we work to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) April 16, 2013 American Airlines broke the news a while ago that it’s in the midst of a massive, system-wide computer failure. Perhaps…
In the past couple of years, the city of Dallas has begun to turn away from the glorified gumball machines that have stood sentry over downtown parking for decades in favor of more modern technologies. A hundred credit card-processing meters now dot the Arts District, West End, and City Hall…
The haircuts at Triple D Cuts & Styles on Sunnyvale Road must be top notch. They were certainly hard to pass up for two Grillmasters salesman who decided on Friday afternoon to take a break from their meat hawking and stop in for a trim. They decided the truck full…
It’s tradition by now. Every year, Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews crunches the numbers and comes up with a list of the country’s top public schools, and every year Dallas ISD’s cohabitating School of Science and Engineering and TAG Magnet are near the top. This year is no different. Mathews…
Police were on their toes last Memorial Day weekend, hoping to avoid a repeat of 2011 when a group of stunt motorcyclists succeeded in shutting down Central Expressway. Bikers did descend on Dallas that weekend — the Calatrava was a rumored target — but the havoc they wreaked was minimal…
One evening last month, police invited reporters to an empty lot at Lancaster Road and Interstate 20, an area frequented by the sex workers who serve the long-haul truckers that pass through. The goal was to showcase Dallas’ successful and innovative prostitution diversion program and to encourage the nationwide adoption…
When Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse convinced a jury to convict a former Justice of the Peace on felony theft charges, Eric Lyle Williams said his life was effectively ruined over a “misunderstanding” and a “political grudge.” County information technology personnel came into the Kaufman sub-courthouse on a…
Its been almost four years since the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, in hopes of making a bit more scratch, rolled out a line of customizable license plates. Drivers can now select from a large buffet of completely legal plate designs celebrating Dr Pepper, Jesus, the late Dale Earnhardt and…
A former student of Rick Halperin says she isn’t buying accusations outlined in a federal lawsuit that he slept with students or secretly loved Hitler. SMU student Moumita Rahman, who graduated in 2004 and now runs her own law practice in New York focusing on immigration and political asylum, had…
Update at 3:41 p.m.: CBS killed the entire show. Whitt’s tweet: Yep @1053RAGE = Dead ‘n Gone. Fired as a show by CBS today. Maddening. For now I’ll just say thanks to all FanFans for their loyal support. Original post: This isn’t the first time Greg Williams has abruptly disappeared…
The headline summarizes what we know at this point pretty well. According to Fox 4, the man you see abandoning his car in the picture above shot and killed his girlfriend and unborn child today in the 12300 block of Hoblitzelle Drive in the Hamilton Park neighborhood of Northeast Dallas…
The Texas Legislative Study Group is a caucus of around 50 Democratic representatives from the Texas House, and they’re real buzzkills. The LSG keeps a full-time staff of policy analysts around, who almost every year since 2003 have released a report called “Texas on the Brink,” detailing all the most…
Shortly after being sued last September by a neighbor for registering melissakingston.com and using it to email anti-Walmart screeds, inveterate Lower Greenville shit-stirrer Avi Adelman did something rather unprecedented: he agreed to cut it out. The temporary injunction he signed barred him from sending emails from the domain, redirecting traffic…
Neighbors and pizza aficionados have been eagerly awaiting the opening of Jay Jerrier’s second Cane Rosso, planned for Grand and Gaston just south of White Rock Lake, since word of its existence first leaked in November. It was slated to open in the middle of April — just about now,…
The Mavericks easily dismantled the lowly Hornets yesterday, a decidedly unimpressive feat given the quality of the opponent and the fact that the Mavs are now officially out of the playoff hunt. Still, this was perhaps the biggest victory of the season, because it brings the Mavs’ record to .500,…
After Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were gunned down in their home last month, just two months after McLelland’s deputy, assistant DA Mark Hasse, was murdered in broad daylight, law enforcement officials pledged to search far and wide to bring the killer, or killers, to justice…
A lot of men convicted by Dallas County have walked free over the past dozen years — 44, according to the University of Michigan’s National Registry of Exonerations. District Attorney Craig Watkins has made the liberation of innocent prisoners his personal mission, as well as his ticket to national fame…
Congressman Steve Stockman was up late last night, wading through the flood of media accounts wondering why the media isn’t paying attention to the case of alleged late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell and putting the finishing touches on his campaign bumper sticker. He tweeted a picture at 1:44 a.m. Our…
On Tuesday, Eric told you about a DISD sixth-grader who was arrested at his school, DISD’s Learning Alternative Center for Empowering Youth, after attempting to steal $4 from a classmate. After his target felt the sixth-grader’s hand in his pocket and pulled away, the frustrated would-be thief knocked him to…
Last time we checked in, Oak Cliff urban pioneer Jason Roberts had an abdominal cavity filled with post-surgical fluid and was down to a single testicle, but he was otherwise upbeat after a successful battle with cancer. The cancer is still gone. The pile of medical bills, it seems, are…
RT @psychscriv: Make sure none of these people have seats in 2014. twitter.com/PsychScriv/sta…We are in trouble when these Rs side w/ Sen Reid— Barry Smitherman (@SmithermanTX) April 11, 2013 The U.S. Senate voted only to consider gun safety legislation Thursday, which includes expanded background checks and increased penalties for illegal…
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the advocacy group funded and founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is struggling to stoke the kind of grass-roots passion for gun regulation that has made its arch-nemesis, the NRA, such a political force. Organizing For America, the post-electoral version of Obama’s campaign machine,…
