We know you’re busy, so here’s a recap of the week’s news. Rick Perry Makes Time for the Naked Cowboy, But Not the Media, During Trump Tower Visit The former governor met the Times Square icon during a visit to Trump tower to visit the president-elect. Woman Who Faked Pregnancy…
The Cowboys did not look great Thursday afternoon. Led by 449 passing yards from Kirk Cousins, the Redskins outgained Dallas on the day 505-353. Washington also managed, despite a typically strong day at the office from Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, to control the clock, keeping the ball for nearly…
Police are warning the public about a man who has been lurking near Dallas schools and exposing himself to students. There has been at least four offenses reported in the past year anmd in one recent case, the man rubbed a victim’s breasts and genitals before fleeing. “The Child Exploitation…
In the wake of the recent election, you may want to think about some formal rules to prevent your family from blowing up at Thanksgiving.
DFW and Love Field are both doing their best to make you missing your flight as painless as possible this holiday season. The good news is, it isn’t 2014. That year, Love Field was stone-out of parking spaces by the middle of the day on Thanksgiving, leaving travelers to hopelessly…
So-called fake news, which President Obama wants Mark Zuckerberg to suppress, has been around at least as long as the Bible.
Last week, when Texas state Senator Konni Burton filed Senate Bill 242, she made it clear that the bill was about fixing a specific problem. It was wrong, she said, when Fort Worth Independent School District created regulations to protect transgender kids this year but allowed school personnel to not…
The Tony Romo era is over. Barring an injury to Dak Prescott, the Cowboys’ most decorated quarterback is not likely to play in front of the fans he’s thrilled and infuriated over the last decade. Romo has been a Rorschach test throughout his tenure at the helm of the Cowboys…
Monday afternoon, Wichita, Kansas police released the identity of the woman they believe killed Laura Abarca, the mother of Sophia Gonzalez, the kidnapped infant found in a house near the Dallas Zoo during an early morning SWAT team raid on Saturday. Yesenia Sesmas, 34, recently moved to Dallas, said Wichita police Lt…
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who called President-elect Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” and a “toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense” during the 2016 GOP primary, made a pilgrimage to Trump Tower in Manhattan Monday to pay his respects and possibly audition for a job. Perry met with Trump for…
The mayor has been talking openly about the possibility of a municipal bankruptcy in Dallas.
Judging from Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crowford’s state of downtown speech Friday afternoon, one would think downtown Dallas is an urban residential utopia. Ninety-four new restaurants will open in downtown over the course of 2016 and 7,000 new residential units are under construction. That thing that downtown residents always…
John Battaglia, who killed his two daughters on May 2, 2001, will be executed on Dec. 7, State District Judge Robert Burns confirmed Friday afternoon. Despite testimony from three psychologists that Battaglia might not understand his death sentence and that his execution is imminent — which is the Texas standard for…
Thursday, an intruder kidnapped six-day-old Sophia Gonzalez and killed her mother, Laura Abarca, in Wichita, Kansas. Early Saturday morning, a Dallas Police SWAT unit found Gonzalez and made two arrests at a Dallas home. Abarca’s boyfriend found her body after getting home from work just before 4 p.m. Thursday and…
Dallas activist Dominique Alexander has been called many derogatory names since he began leading protests in Dallas in late 2014. He claims he’s been held partially responsible for five Dallas police officers’ deaths after one of his protests ended in gunfire in early July. But the hate mail and death…
We know you’re busy. So here’s a convenient wrap-up of recent news from your pals at the Dallas Observer. Developer Behind Statler Remodel Accused of Involvement in a Ponzi-Like Scheme, Unpaid Taxes Is Dallas developer Mehrdad Moayedi’s business model just a Ponzi scheme worth billions of dollars? New Marijuana Bill…
Johnny Manziel’s winding legal journey appears to be coming to an end. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and Manziel’s defense team agreed Thursday to preliminary terms for dismissing the family violence charges filed against Manziel in April, according to the Associated Press. Manziel, winner of the Heisman Trophy during his…
Former A.H. Belo CEO Robert Decherd wants to be in charge of a new park downtown, and woe betide the person who gets in his way.
The 2017 Texas Legislative session is already set to feature several high profile battles over abortion access, less than a week after filing for the 85th Legislature began. On the first day of filing, Monday, North Texas Republican state Senator Bob Hall fired the first shot in a battle that…
Dallas developer Mehrdad Moayedi has spent the last two years juggling several projects across Denton, Dallas and Collin counties. As the president and CEO of Centurion American Development Group, he has mastered the use of special purpose districts to help fund development in rural areas, birthed a Riverwalk town center…
State Rep. Joe Moody of El Paso introduced a bill in the Texas Legislature on Monday that would remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana and replace them with a civil citation and a fine. State law currently makes marijuana possession of 2 ounces or less a…
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