At about 2:30am Thursday, a woman sent a text to 911 in East Texas’ Hunt County saying she’d been shot three times by her husband. About 20 minutes later, a Caddo Mills police officer spotted the recreational vehicle the woman said she was riding in with her husband and two…
Wednesday afternoon, nearly five years after a Collin County jury found her guilty of taking bribes and four days after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed her claims of innocence, Suzanne Wooten walked out of the Collin County Courthouse. Judge Andrea Thompson officially acquitted Wooten of nine charges stemming…
Dallas City Council member Scott Griggs, a careful student of structures, has been keeping track of the City Hall organization chart since the January departures of former City Manager A.C. Gonzalez and former City Attorney Warren Ernst. Their retirements were followed a month later by the arrival of new City…
The Dallas Police Department had a press conference Wednesday to tell the public that an intersection south of Fair Park hasn’t been forgotten by police. The reason for this reassurance is a recent Facebook Live video. The video, shot at the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard and Elsie Faye Heggins Street,…
The whole thing, Jose Barrientos says, comes down to his running his mouth. If he hadn’t shot off about how someone could go about stealing the election for Dallas City Council District 6, he says, he wouldn’t be in the trouble he is now. But he did tell Sidney Williams,…
The Denton County Sheriff’s Office set out to find victims of human trafficking using Backpage.com. Instead, it nabbed 11 people for prostitution, compelling prostitution and a couple of drug charges. The three men arrested were Micah Freeman, James Allen and Craig Childers. The eight women arrested were Meeliasha Escobedo, Kearis…
On Tuesday afternoon — two months before training camp — the Dallas Cowboys 2017 defense suffered a huge blow. The NFL has suspended David Irving, perhaps the Cowboys’ most physically gifted pass rusher, for the first four games of the upcoming season. Irving, according to the league, violated the NFL’s…
News reached me when I was out of town that the Dallas City Council will approve a cheaper partial removal of a failed concrete recreational feature in the Trinity River, opting to scrape out the guts of the Standing Wave but leave its ugly bones in place to save $5…
On one hand, you could argue that Monday’s development in West Dallas was a topsy-turvy turning of the tables. The person the mayor has repeatedly slimed as a slumlord turns out to be the knight in shining armor, the only one with a plan to protect a deep-rooted but embattled…
The 3.2-acre lot bracketed by Pacific Avenue and St. Paul and Harwood streets has become an eyesore. To say it’s poorly maintained is an understatement. The uneven layer of asphalt is littered with freshly broken glass and shards from an earlier generation of destroyed beer bottles. Walking the perimeter on…
On Monday afternoon, after two more days of debate, the Texas House of Representatives passed a “bathroom bill.” Reps tacked an amendment requiring that public schools ban transgender kids from using multi-occupancy restrooms of their choice onto another public school bill, one that requires schools to draw up plans for…
Dallas police have arrested Brandon Jordan and Brittany Pollard, both 33, for allegedly shooting and killing a man during a robbery at Oak Cliff’s Dallas Inn early Sunday morning, the department announced Monday afternoon. Police officers responded to the Dallas Inn, near Kiest Boulevard and U.S. 67, just after 8 a.m…
In a startling turnabout in the deadlocked West Dallas war over low-income housing and gentrification, Khraish Khraish, a landlord locked in a battle with the mayor over hundreds of low-rent houses, turned the tables Monday by announcing he will sell 130 of his properties to the current tenants. Mayor Mike…
It started with a phone call March 29. Two University of North Texas students, 33-year-old Brian Emerson Johnson and 23-year-old Derail Jarvis Green, called a female student to set up an appointment for paid sex. Unfortunately for them, the woman placed their call on speakerphone. A University of North Texas resident assistant…
One thing is clear two weeks after the 2017 Dallas City Council election: Something went wrong with absentee voting in West Dallas. While rumor and innuendo have been plentiful, very little has emerged in the way of fact, especially since many key players in the drama have clammed up because…
Dallas City Council member Jennifer Gates has a great idea. Really. She’s right. The city should strongly consider pulling its elections out from under the aegis of the county elections department and run them itself. The county elections department as constituted was born in sin. Its structure is the result…
One of the more telling sets of numbers that comes out before any given NFL season is the list of expected win totals for each NFL team set by, as Brent Musberger calls them, our “friends in the desert” in Las Vegas. This year, most sports books have elected to set…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s legal troubles are over. Late Friday afternoon, John Parker, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, announced that the federal government will not retry Dallas County’s longest serving elected official after a Dallas federal jury acquitted him on bribery and mail…
Reform to the Dallas Police and Fire Pension system is taking shape after a day of negotiations, mutual agreement and statehouse votes. On Thursday afternoon, Dallas police and fire associations agreed to a deal with the system and the city of Dallas. After that, the Texas Senate’s State Affairs Committee…
My fellow East Dallas superannuated hippies, progressives, bleeding hearts, people who really care, liberals, hair shirts, morally superior persons, bloody saints, whatever we call ourselves: Please listen up. We are being taken for a ride and played for fools in this June 10 District 2 Dallas school board election. All…
On Thursday, the Texas Senate joined the Texas House of Representatives in voting to ban straight-ticket voting in the state. Texas House Speaker Joe Straus identified dumping the straight-ticket option as a session priority this winter. “Too often, good men and women are swept out of down-ballot offices due to…
The Trinity River’s infamous Standing Wave feature, installed by the city of Dallas at a cost of more than $4 million in 2011, has never worked as planned. Six years later, it seems it will take at least $2 million more to remove the envisioned whitewater park.
