Jazmine Torres, infamously seen in a Facebook video showing her tossing a child to the ground, at a Plano daycare center, turned herself in to Plano police Tuesday afternoon. She’s charged with felony child endangerment. Her bail is $10,000. Sunday morning, the mother of child in Torres’ care at the…
On Monday afternoon Glenn Beck countersued Tomi Lauren asserting that the she wasn’t fired for revealing she was pro-choice on The View. According to Beck, who owns the online and able network The Blaze, already planned to fire Lahren when her contract expired in September. The causes of termination: Poor…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price could see some of the charges against him dismissed even if a federal jury finds him guilty. During a hearing Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn repeatedly questioned the validity of some of the government’s charges against Price. By late Monday afternoon, she…
The sign on the door of Little World, a convenience store on the 4600 block of Malcolm X Boulevard, reads “no Guns.” It’s a plea from the owner to the neighborhood, which has been wracked with violence. The store was the backdrop of a shooting at 1am on Friday night. Dallas…
A stolen car sting operation ended in a officer-involved shooting early this morning, Dallas police say. Like many police departments, Dallas has embraced the use of “bait cars” to lure car thieves. The vehicles, often festooned with electronics and other tempting items, are wired with tracking devices and cameras. On…
The Dallas City Council passed cite-and-release for marijuana possession Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean anyone is getting a ticket for possessing less than four ounces of marijuana. It might feel like it – you get stopped, cops find pot and you drive away with a piece of paper from the…
Every six months or so Dallas is shocked, shocked again to find that racial segregation is going on here, but every time we discover it again, Dallas always avoids saying who. Somebody did it. Segregation is an act. People with names have to do things for segregation to persist. It’s…
If the Rangers finish the season behind a competitor by a single game, Sunday’s outing in Seattle against the Mariners will lilt be one fans will wish they had to do over. Somehow, in the span of four hours at Safeco Field, the Rangers managed to cough up both a…
Late Thursday, the Texas Supreme Court denied Ethan Couch’s request to be released from Tarrant County jail. Couch and his attorneys argued that District Judge Wayne Salvant didn’t have the authority to sentence the 20-year-old. The judge gave Couch two years in jail last spring after receiving the case from…
Thirty-two Dallas County dogs are in SPCA of Texas custody after being rescued from squalid conditions in a southeast Dallas County home. Lancaster Police Department officers found the dogs living in “cruel confinement” Thursday during an unrelated visit to the property, according to the SPCA, and called in the animal…
After warning two weeks ago that Dallas was on the edge of mosquito season, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed Thursday afternoon that it’s found West Nile virus, a sometimes-fatal mosquito-borne pathogen. Three mosquito traps in Balch Springs and Mesquite tested positive for the West Nile virus this week…
Over the past week to week and a half, as the Rangers have muddled their way through the first nine games of the 2017 season, a sense of despair has settled in among some of the team’s less faithful. Despite the fact that the team hasn’t even played at home,…
In a surprising move late Thursday afternoon, the defense for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant Dapheny Fain rested their case after calling only two witnesses. Price is accused of taking nearly $1 million in bribes and tax evasion. Fain is charged with lying to FBI…
Add this up. On March 16, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told reporters that events he called “ghost calls” were crashing the city’s 911 emergency call center, causing potentially deadly backups in police and fire response times. Rawlings said solving the ghost call problem needed to be the city’s “number one…
A set of compromises and a City Council vote marked the birth of Dallas’ homeless commission on Wednesday, the latest effort to address the estimated 1,100 homeless people who live in the city. Initially, the city and the county will each contribute $50,000 toward the board’s operating costs for the…
Finally, after nearly three years of close calls, the Dallas City Council passed cite-and-release for marijuana possession Wednesday afternoon on a 10-5 vote. Starting Oct. 1, anyone caught with less than four ounces of marijuana in the portion of the city of Dallas that lies within Dallas County will get…
Tuesday afternoon, the Texas Senate gave the go-ahead to a bill that will, if it becomes law, allow Texas county clerks to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The bill, written by Senator Brian Birdwell, would allow county commissioners courts to appoint another person to issue licenses…
Did you ever get badly bawled out by somebody, and the person stalked out of the room and then stalked back in and started bawling you out again? That means the person is mad at you. That’s what happened to federal prosecutors Tuesday in the corruption trial of Dallas County…
Turns out, New Year’s Day against the Eagles wasn’t former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo’s last day in a Dallas sports uniform. On Tuesday the Mavericks made Romo point guard for a day, allowing him to take part in the team’s morning shoot-around, as well as layup lines before the…
Dallas police are on the lookout for a puppy thief. At a little after 7pm last night, the man seen in the photo below visited the Petland pet store on Preston Road in North Dallas. He asked an employee to see a golden brown Maltese Shih Tzu puppy and took…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s trial for failing to register as a securities agent is moving to Houston. On Tuesday morning, Judge George Gallagher issued a statement confirming that the trial would be moved out of Collin County, where Paxton lives, due to the jury pool’s potentially being tainted by…
Driving southbound on U.S. 75 just north of downtown, you can’t miss it: Former Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s smiling face, imploring Dallas City Council District 14 residents to vote for Matt Wood. But this endorsement may not be as much about helping Wood as kicking his opponent, incumbent city council…
