Cesar Gonzalez, according to Dallas Police, has a penchant for picking up women in his truck, attempting to sexually assault them, and then trying to pass himself off as a cop. Early Saturday morning, DPD says, Gonzalez picked up a female passenger in his black Ford F-150. He then drove…
The day after the election of Donald Trump to the White House, the aviation advocacy group Partnership for Open & Fair Skies released a pitch in the form of a statement. “We are optimistic that the Trump administration will stand up to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, enforce our trade…
The real challenge isn’t here yet. The real challenge comes four years form now when we really know what he is.
The unexpected victory of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign inspired politicians and pundits to take to Twitter. The Texas GOP, which has backed Trump fairly consistently even during his scandal-prone campaign, took a victory lap. Dallas GOP leader Phillip Huffines set the general tone: Primary rival and reluctant supporter Sen…
In the end, Tuesday night’s election results in North Texas appear to have been affected very little by the night’s national trend. Disaffected white voters throughout the south and Rust Belt banded together in an effort to, as Donald Trump would call it, drain the swamp in Washington. Republicans held…
A killer gets off with two years after shooting an Arlington teacher. Now the victim’s family lives in fear and anger.
Denton County Sheriff candidate Randy Butler decided to run for office for one reason: to challenge Sheriff Will Travis’ stance on marijuana. Butler’s inspiration was watching a 2015 video of Travis in Austin testifying against a change in marijuana policy. Travis, a former DEA agent, confused marijuana with hemp while…
A little over a week ago, Dallas’ animal services department began publishing daily report cards of the actual, concrete work it does each day in the field. In the wake of its reorganization following the South Dallas mauling death of Antoinette Brown, the agency is increasing efforts to be transparent…
No one will be going to jail for the alleged March 2015 sexual assault of a trainee volunteer firefighter with a link of chorizo if a deal tentatively agreed to Friday by the victim and the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office is completed. On March 31, 2015, the trainee firefighter told Ellis…
Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced plans for the more than 500 election monitors it plans to send to 67 counties in 28 states to ensure that voters in those jurisdictions will be able to exercise their right to vote. Monitors will post up in three Texas counties: Dallas,…
Late Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dallas City Council member Monica Alonzo and Dallas City Council member Carolyn Arnold issued a joint statement announcing that the city has secured a deal with the Khraish family that will keep tenants of the Khraish’s rent-house business in their homes until the end…
By the time polls closed at 7 p.m. Friday night, 514,330 Dallas County residents had cast their ballots early, setting a new record for the county. The previous record for votes cast before election day was 477,228, set in 2008. In 2012, almost 99,000 fewer Dallas County voters cast their…
We know your busy. So here’s a one-stop for the news of the week you may have missed. The Dallas IRS Office That’s Quietly Determining the Fate of the Clinton Foundation This IRS review has not generated similar waves as Department of Justice probes into the foundation, and has largely…
Now that the World Series is done, the Texas Rangers can get down for the same business. It’s the same business that the club’s done after each of the club’s first 44 seasons: reloading its roster in an attempt to win the club’s first ever World Series championship. The Rangers…
Last week’s announcement of a $50 million gift to design and build a park along the Trinity River was scary, mainly because it’s possible to do so much damage with that much money. Word of people walking around with that much money in their pockets always puts me in mind…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings sat in front of the Texas State Pension Review Board Thursday morning, arguing, he believed, for his city’s continued existence. “It is horribly ironic that a city that has enjoyed such tremendous success, a city that has made Texas so strong and so proud is potentially…
Today is Chicago’s day. No doubt about that. The forever-downtrodden Cubs’ organization and their beleaguered fans are celebrating the quenching of the 108-year fire after the Game 7 World Series win, one that some are calling the best baseball game ever played. But a whole nation of baseball fans seemed…
There is a way of talking about bad things that happen in this city as if those things are irresistible workings of destiny. In truth it’s not destiny. It’s some guys doing some stuff. Last week I got a 1,700-word letter from the mayor’s spokesperson, Scott Goldstein, taking me to…
The Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas is an all purpose office complex, a bastion of federal bureaucracy located at 1100 Commerce St. Most people come for a passport or to get business done in front of a federal judge. But inside, a quiet review is underway that has…
Dallas Police arrested a 22-year-old local man for the Sunday night murder of Martha Teran. Lonzell Hunter, according to police, shot Teran, killing her in the parking lot of Dallas’ Medieval Times on I-35. Teran, 42, was in the parking lot to sell an iPhone 7, according to police. Hunter,…
Tuesday night, about 100 protesters took to the narrow sidewalks around Energy Transfer Partners’ University Park headquarters to rail against the company’s Dakota Access Pipeline, challenging the decision to build the pipeline through the land and sacred sites of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe. “Dallas stands with Standing Rock,”…
Based on the evidence of a mayoral media event Monday, somebody already has told a small private organization called The Trinity Trust Foundation that they will be taking the lead role in designing, developing and then running the city’s long-awaited new linear park along the Trinity River. What? In fact,…
