The script, if you’ve been around cop trials in Dallas or anywhere else over the last several years, is easy to follow. Derick Wiley, the former Mesquite Police Department officer on trial for aggravated assault by a public servant, shot Lyndo Jones twice in the back as Jones ran away…
Women were getting up and walking out in twos and threes, and at some point I realized they weren’t all taking a potty break. With eye rolls and grumpy looks, they trudged up the stairs to the balcony exit in the Music Hall at Fair Park. We were here on…
Rangers designated hitter, left fielder and kinda, sorta second baseman Willie Calhoun is going back to the minors, the team announced Tuesday, to make room for Hunter Pence’s return from the injured list. That’s the what. Given Calhoun’s performance since rejoining the Rangers on May 15, the why is much…
Really? Leave the country if he gets reelected? No, I get why people say it, and, man, do I ever know a ton of people who say it. I think half the people I know are shopping already for other countries. But really do it? The first thing is this:…
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday afternoon that they’ve arrested Jonathan Moore, 36, in connection with the wrong-way crash that killed former Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis just before 8 p.m. Monday. Moore remains in the hospital, but police expect he will be charged with intoxication manslaughter for allegedly killing Davis…
An alleged drunk driver killed former Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis on Monday night, according to multiple current council members. The crash on East Ledbetter Road in Oak Cliff also seriously injured Davis’ daughter, Melissa Davis-Nunn.
Fans of the Dallas Fuel now have more reason to anticipate the Overwatch League 2020 season. Along with a shake-up in the overall league structure, Dallas’ team in the competitive esport will host more home games and finally relocate their operations to North Texas. The Overwatch League, currently one of…
Unless drastic action is taken, Dallas could see an average of 18 days per year by century’s end in which heat index values climb so high they can’t be calculated, a new report suggests. The study, which was released Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists, sheds light on some…
With the Cowboys still two weeks or so from reporting to training camp and the blessed release that comes with the beginning of the regular season almost two months away, 2019’s summer silly season is already in full swing. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Monday, Pro…
For the second time, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office is trying to send former Mesquite police officer Derick Wiley to prison for shooting Lyndo Jones in the back. Wiley is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, a first-degree felony. Wiley shot Jones after responding to a call…
When Texas rolled out its Top 10% Rule in 1997, supporters said it would promote diversity on the state’s college campuses and expand access to students at high schools that don’t typically send students to the state’s top institutions. Two decades later, it appears the program has done none of…
A month after a crane collapsed and crashed into their Bryan Place apartment complex, residents at Elan City Lights will soon be able to pick up their things. The apartment complex, which was shuttered after the crane crash, posted a statement to Facebook on Friday telling former residents that property…
Former Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who said “times have changed” since he helped convicted sex-predator Jeffrey Epstein skate, made himself ridiculous by choosing too recent a date. Things can’t have changed that much since 2008, basically the blink of an eye. But some things may have changed in more…
Although a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 census appears dead for good and all, the long legal battle over it may have done lasting damage in Texas, the head of a nonpartisan think tank said Thursday. While she welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement that his administration was backing away…
The city of Dallas is ramping up to implement its new paid sick leave ordinance on Aug. 1 and along with it, nonprofits and political groups are working to educate employees on this new law. Starting Aug. 1, any employee of a private business or nonprofit who performs at least…
Calls for change are continuing at Texas A&M University a little over a week after a video surfaced online of a student using a series of racist slurs while delivering a fake biology lecture. In the video, the student, who is white, stands in front of a chalkboard, holding a…
Even before it began in earnest, a question-and-answer session about the city of Dallas’ new paid sick leave ordinance grew heated Wednesday afternoon. Before she began a presentation explaining the new ordinance, Hannah Alexander, partnership liaison with the city’s Office of Fair Housing and Human Rights, told a packed auditorium…
The motion filed by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s lawyers asking for her murder trial to be moved out of Dallas is 60 pages long not counting appendices. It raises very tough questions that anybody with a fair mind would have trouble answering thoughtfully right off the bat. They…
In the years before smartphones, self-driving cars and virtual reality headsets, one of the first major technological advances U.S. households got their hands on was, of course, the Roomba. The roundish dust-sucking robots were surely a sign of the future way back in 2002, but by now the novelty of…
The core Achilles’ heel problem, the perennial failing and persistent flaw in the way Dallas City Hall thinks and operates, is its bizarre insularity, almost as if the world outside Dallas city limits does not exist. Maybe the strangest and most wonderful illustration of that problem is the now almost…
Nationwide, Ross Perot was known as an eccentric Texas billionaire who launched two unsuccessful presidential bids. In Dallas, he’s known, among other things, as the man whose name is on one of the city’s better-known museums. Perot died Tuesday after a five-month battle with leukemia, a family spokesman confirmed to…
Hours after the 2016 shooting that ended five police officers’ lives at a rally against police brutality in downtown Dallas, Mark Hughes was making the long walk through the chaos of the night back to his truck with a friend. His friend’s phone rang. “Get away from Mark,” the voice…
