The woman accused of masterminding the murder of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher is, finally, in Dallas County Jail after the FBI turned her over to Dallas Police Thursday night. Thursday, Mexican officials handed Brenda Delgado over to the FBI at Mexico City International Airport, ending a months long standoff over…
General Michael Hayden has overseen America’s shadow wars from atop the highest echelons of the American security apparatus. The retired United States Air Force four-star general and former director of both the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency spoke to a crowd this week at the George W. Bush Presidential Center…
In May, we told you about DART’s new, near-field communication fare system. The system, which has the potential to solve a few of DART’s longstanding problems, is set to debut sometime in early 2017, but the equipment that it’s going to use is already being placed on buses. The NFC…
The CEO of Backpage.com, the Dallas-based adult classified website, was arrested Thursday for human trafficking. Carl Ferrer was picked up at Houston International Airport after a return flight from Amsterdam. Ferrer faces charges in California following a joint investigation of the California and Texas attorneys general. “Making money off the…
So let’s just say you’re an astronaut, of the professional or paying tourist kind. You’re sitting on top of a rocket, filled with tanks of explosive fuel and cryogenically-cooled, highly pressurized gases. This rocket, called a booster, will soon be propelling your ass at transonic speeds as it tears into…
Major League Baseball, as it did in 2010, 2011 and 2015, and as it will the next time the Rangers make the playoffs and aren’t playing the Yankees or Red Sox, has screwed DFW baseball fans again. The Rangers will start their 2016 playoff journey with a couple of weekday…
Wednesday morning, the Dallas Police Department arrested a Dallas ISD teacher for the “continuous sexual abuse of a child,” a first-degree felony. Jorge Ruiz, 53, is currently being held at Lew Sterrett jail. His bail is $100,000. Ruiz has been placed on administrative leave from his job teaching pre-kindergarten at…
Officially, David Brown’s six-year tenure as Dallas Police Chief ended at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Brown left the department two and a half weeks earlier than originally announced to meet a pension cut-off. His last day went off without much fanfare. Of course, there were TV cameras at Jack Evans…
The hole Baylor University is in due to the sexual assault scandal that has enveloped its football program is getting deeper. So far this week, the university’s Title IX coordinator has resigned due to inaction from the university, two more women have joined a federal lawsuit against Baylor and a…
Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the United States’ 400 richest individuals dropped Tuesday morning. Dallas, as you might expect, was well represented. Just as he was in 2015, mysterious banker Andy Beal checked in as Dallas’ richest human, with Forbes estimating his net worth at a cool $8.9 billion —…
Some people are left wondering what to do about the creepy clowns appearing in cities and towns across the country. One Denton police officer seems to be offering an answer. “Pop a cap in the first clown you see,” Officer Latrice Pettaway posted on Facebook on Monday evening. “Someone needs…
The nationwide clown scare has swept North Texas. After a weekend of social media produced a handful of separate clown-related threats to at least four Dallas high schools, police and school officials had to handle the obligatory police investigation as well as inquiries from worried parents. Monday’s fun included this…
Sam Wyly, the Dallas erstwhile billionaire, has settled his six-year squabble with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the discounted sum of $198.1 million. In exchange for this, the SEC has agreed to make sure that the cash is used as part of a multi-part agreement that would also help…
The city of Dallas is going to be getting some extra help hiring the 549 cops the Dallas Police Department intends to bring on during the next year. Monday afternoon, as part of United States Community Policing Week, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the city of Dallas will…
Since Vandagriff’s murder a few weeks after she started college, police investigators, the public and her friends and family are left to wonder what might have possessed a 30-year-old man who once posted “life is precious” on his Facebook page to murder, mutilate and burn a young woman whom friends and family remember as someone who loved to laugh and everyone loved.
The Rangers lost Sunday afternoon. The Rays beat them 6-4, and the Rangers got exactly one extra-base hit, a home run from catcher Jonathan Lucroy, in a thoroughly uninspiring performance. None of it mattered. Thanks to a win Friday night behind a dominant, 12-strikeout performance from Yu Darvish, the Rangers…
Dallas is subway happy. Property owners and their renters want the downtown train, known as D2, to be a subway. Local politicians want a subway. Even the Observer’s Jim Schutze wants a subway. The suburbs who have paid into DART don’t want their Cotton Belt line to be forgotten amid…
Beginning a week ago Saturday, Sept. 25, eight people have been murdered in the city of Dallas. After the violent week, Dallas’ murder count for 2016 sits at 137, already one more than the 136 total homicides Dallas Police investigated in 2015. Sixty-seven of those murders remain on the police…
News Highlights of the Week Activist Dominique Alexander, Now Free, Says He Befriended Aryan Brotherhood Members in PrisonWhat happens when you put a Black Lives Matter protest organizer in prison with a racist gang? According to recently released Dominique Alexander, they become uneasy chums. 6 Things We Learned From Reading…
It’s been a couple of weeks. That means it’s time for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the federal government again. This time, he’s picking up his fellow Texan Ted Cruz’ fight against what they both claim is the Obama administration’s turning over control of the internet to a…
Now we know why Dez Bryant’s knee diagnosis took so long. The Cowboys wide receiver, injured on the second play of the game against the Bears on Sunday night, skipped out and missed a team meeting, an MRI and other medical treatment early this week. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett offered…
Ah, the airport. It’s where national security, the transportation industry, human psychology, aeronautical physics and government personnel collide in an awkward dance. Add into this mix the police who respond to Transportation Security Administration drug-related discoveries, and a collection of travelers that for whatever reason caught their attention. The Dallas…
