In 2010, the Texas State Board of Education voted to change history. Now, students, teachers and activists are trying to fix it. The board held a hearing Tuesday and a first reading of proposed revisions to the social studies curriculum standard on Wednesday, but the night ended in the board…
Dallas civil rights activists united Wednesday afternoon at Dallas City Hall to call on the City Council to create a citizens’ police review board with the power to subpoena and discipline officers. At a lunchtime press conference, organizers demanded that the city beef up its review board following the death…
The post-season college football game formerly known as the Heart of Dallas Bowl and now, seriously, known as the Servpro First Responders Bowl, will live on at least two more years, the Dallas City Council made sure Wednesday with an 8-6 vote. As a result, two college football teams will…
Ivan Garcia was born in Dallas and lived in the city for most of his life, but he was still shocked when he began apartment hunting in February. He didn’t know that his first apartment would cost so much — especially in his own hometown. North Texas has seen the…
Six years after it started, all four people behind a mortgage scam that bilked dozens of desperate North Texans out of hundreds of thousands of dollars are behind bars, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Godbey sentenced Mark Demetri…
For now at least, ex-cop Roy Oliver is not facing additional felony charges following his August murder conviction for killing Mesquite teenager Jordan Edwards. Tuesday, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office dropped four charges of aggravated assault by a public servant against Oliver, citing the district attorney’s need to allocate…
Two protests Monday night outside police headquarters captured the range of emotions aroused by the death of Botham Jean, who was killed last week in his apartment by Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger. One was a silent sit-in. The second, louder protest was met by police firing balls of pepper…
Everybody always says the schools should be the No. 1 issue in the city. I wonder how we’ll take it when that idea suddenly comes true? Maybe well, maybe not very well at all. Gov. Greg Abbott has been giving off strong signals in recent weeks that he thinks the…
Details about exactly what happened the night Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger killed Botham Jean are going to be kept out of the public eye as Dallas County prosecutors continue to investigate, District Attorney Faith Johnson said Monday. The more information that gets out during the investigation, Johnson said, the…
We are easy talking about shootings according to the law. We all jump in. The one thing nobody ever seems to talk about is shooting according to the heart and soul.
Three days passed before Texas Rangers sought a manslaughter charge against Amber Guyger, the off-duty Dallas police officer who police say mistakenly shot and killed her 26-year-old neighbor. Commenters on social media, however, started asking why the officer wasn’t arrested immediately as soon as the news broke. “If I shoot…
Dallas police late Saturday said Amber Guyger is the officer who shot Botham Shem Jean. DPD’s announcement came after an attorney representing Jean’s family named Guyger, 30, as the off-duty cop who shot and killed Jean Thursday night. Lee Merritt posted Guyger’s name in a tweet Saturday afternoon.
After initially seeking a manslaughter warrant for the off-duty Dallas Police Department officer who shot and killed Botham Shem Jean after she entered Jean’s apartment, believing it was her own, DPD backed off, Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said early Saturday afternoon. “We were in the process of obtaining…
Heavy gray storm clouds lingered over downtown Dallas on Friday night as Alyssa Kinsey crossed South Lamar with a bouquet of flowers in hand. Her eyes welling up with tears, she stopped in front of a makeshift memorial in front of Dallas Police headquarters. She paused, tears now streaming down…
An unnamed Dallas police officer entered the wrong apartment on her way home after a 12-hour shift. Presumably under the assumption he was an intruder, the officer fired two shots that killed St. Lucian native, Botham Shem Jean on Thursday Sep. 6.
There was one sure way to know you were near Botham Shem Jean, the man shot and killed by a Dallas police officer Thursday night after she entered his apartment believing it was her own, his friends say. Whether he’d spotted someone he knew or taken the stage to lead…
A Dallas Police Department officer shot and killed a 26-year-old man late Thursday after she entered his apartment in the Cedars believing it was her own, DPD said early Friday morning. According to DPD Media Relations Sergeant Warren Mitchell, the officer, who has yet to be identified, had just returned…
This is from way out in the boondocks here in Dallas, Texas, so far from the nation’s capital we have to take its existence on faith, but we’ve got feelings, too, you know. In fact I feel a very strong need to tell somebody how I’m feeling about the anonymous…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but Dallas is one step away from settling one of the biggest civic issues left on its plate. Thursday, the Dallas Park and Recreation Board voted 13-2 in favor of the latest, greatest city plan to turn over control of Fair Park…
Ahead of November’s election, Texas Republicans have apparently found the hill on which they are willing to die. Late Thursday, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who’s campaigning by flying around in a private jet and speaking in front of local TV cameras at airports, made his newest push for re-election,…
For all the Observer’s many disagreements with former Texas Governor Rick Perry, sometimes he is, even we have to admit, so naive that he’s charming. Thursday morning, the man who got a C in freshman U.S. History at Texas A&M, hopped on the old Twitter machine to calm the fears…
It’s hard to figure out if any of this is going to matter. An hour before a hearing that could go a long way toward determining the final fate of the Affordable Care Act, and Justin Nelson, the guy trying to take down the guy trying to take down Obamacare…
