News reports after the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and similar school killings often tell inconsistent stories about the number of such cases because of incomplete data, adding to fear and confusion. Nadine Connell, an associate professor of crime at the University of Texas at…
The Dallas Cowboys are, at most, six players away from being really good in 2018. They could use a guard to fill in the otherwise stellar offensive line, wide receiver Dez Bryant and linebacker Anthony Hitchens need to be replaced, and a ball-hawking free safety would add needed steel to…
The worst flu season in recent memory finally appears on its way out the door in North Texas, according to new statistics from Dallas County Health and Human Services. Only five Dallas County residents were hospitalized for the flu during the week ending April 15, and for the second week…
University of North Texas communications student Chelsea Shaw wants a campus restaurant to close after a student employee typed a racial slur on her receipt Tuesday afternoon. The student employee, who was later identified as the chef, typed the N-word on Shaw’s receipt instead of asking for her name. Both…
Sorry about that headline. It’s 4/20, the unofficial national marijuana holiday when America celebrates the happy wonders of weed. It should be cheerier, right? Weed is potent and plentiful. Yay! But this is Texas, where it’s still illegal. Boo! And it will probably remain illegal until the cows come home,…
If you’re white in Dallas, you’re probably good to go ahead a smoke up Friday, but you might want to watch out if you’re a part of the nearly 50 percent of city’s population that is made up of people of color. That’s the takeaway from the Dallas Police Department’s…
Just a thought. I’m not a lawyer, certainly not a prosecutor. But after watching the extremely unsatisfying hearing before the Dallas City Council on Wednesday on this winter’s natural gas home explosion crisis, I wonder why authorities are not at least looking at the recent indictment in Wyandotte County, Kansas,…
Conservative TV and radio show host Glenn Beck once had the ear or the ire of almost every political wonk and zealot in America, depending on which side of the political aisle they were on. These days? Well, let’s just say that his on-air crying fits would make a lot…
Because I’m not very good at remembrances — can’t remember — and because Jacquielynn Floyd at The Dallas Morning News just wrote a wonderful tribute to former first lady Barbara Bush that I know I can’t match, I wish I could just shut up, but, you know. Can’t. I have…
Atmos Energy officials went to City Hall on Wednesday to say that the company has made good. Since the February gas line explosion that killed 12-year-old Linda Rogers, Atmos President and CEO Mike Haefner said, the company has done everything it can to ensure that its pipes, the ones that…
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso got some good news Wednesday from one of the first major nonpartisan polls of his U.S. Senate contest with incumbent Ted Cruz. According to Quinnipiac University’s polling department, O’Rourke trails Cruz by just three points, 47 percent to 44 percent, within the poll’s 3.6 percentage…
Crystal Mason thought she was doing the right thing. Newly out of federal prison after a three-year stint for helping people file inaccurate tax returns, Mason was pulling her life together while serving out the rest of her sentence on supervised release. She’d found a job and headed back to…
Another story this week of a Dallas resident viciously mauled by pit bull dogs: This latest victim, a 35-year-old woman, was attacked early Sunday morning by four dogs but saved by good Samaritans on Hamilton Avenue just southeast of the Cotton Bowl. It’s really hard to see something like this,…
Late Tuesday afternoon, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly refused to guess at what caused an engine on one of his airline’s jets to explode Tuesday morning, shattering one of a Dallas-bound plane’s windows and killing an Albuquerque woman. Jennifer Riordan, a 52-year-old bank vice president, is the first passenger to die…
A plane headed to Dallas Love Field from New York City’s Laguardia Airport made an emergency landing in Philadelphia Tuesday morning after an engine on the aircraft blew out, breaking one of the plane’s windows and injuring a passenger. Marty Martinez, the founder and CEO of Dallas-based digital marketing agency…
After a brief hiccup in the form of a disputed set of recommendations from Dallas city staff, all signs point to the city of Dallas getting rid of the Confederate war memorial in Pioneer Park sometime later this year. During a City Council meeting last month, Dallas Assistant City Manager…
This is how it works at City Hall. The city gives a mixture of city money and federal money to a community group to build affordable housing. The group sucks down the money. But the group barely nibbles away at the construction project — doesn’t get it done, in other…
Texas Rangers announcer CJ Nitkowski has, once again, made himself the center of the story. With the team he covers coming off its best series of the year, having taken two of three from the world champion Astros in Houston, all anyone on Rangers or Astros social media could talk…
What are the most vital questions concerning the marijuana industry today? No, not “Got any?” or “Hey, can you hook me up with your guy?” The truth is the marijuana industry is booming, medical use of marijuana is expanding and entrepreneurs are entrepreneuring, and there’s a whole world of valuable weed…
After 2.5 hours of deliberations Monday morning, a Tarrant County jury convicted Charles Bryant in the murder of 24-year-old Jacqueline Vandagriff in September 2016. Bryant, 30, killed Vandagriff before dismembering her and burning her remains in a kiddie pool he left at Acorn Woods Park near Lake Grapevine. Bryant and Vandagriff met…
The victim of pit bull mauling near Fair Park early Sunday morning remains hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Dallas Police Department. About 2 a.m. Sunday, four pit bulls cornered a woman, whom DPD hasn’t identified, as she walked through her neighborhood in the 4300 block of Hamilton Avenue,…
Dez Bryant is gone. The Cowboys released the big wide receiver, one of the most talented and most divisive players in team history, Friday morning. It was an abrupt end to a tumultuous, co-dependent relationship, one that seemingly had to happen but stings nonetheless for Bryant, the team and their…
