Dallas police are seeking a robbery suspect who bit a store clerk during a robbery late last week. On July 28 at about 1:05 a.m., a black man in a red T-shirt and sneakers entered the 7-Eleven store at 302 North Marsalis Avenue and made a purchase. “When the clerk…
After just 289 games, Prince Fielder’s career with the Texas Rangers is over. As first reported by Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the hulking designated hitter will announce Wednesday that he is physically unable to continue playing, thanks to a damaged back that’s necessitated two disc fusion surgeries in the last…
Our souls are burdened by the murder of five police officers on the streets of Dallas just over a month ago. But we’re going to have to muster some patience and some self-control, anyway, while our City Council hammers out the fire and police pay and hiring issues on its…
In the aftermath of Micah Johnson’s July 7 attack on Dallas police officers, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and other city officials made it clear that fixing DPD’s attrition problem would be a top-priority. The draft version of the city of Dallas’ upcoming budgeted, presented to the city council by Dallas…
The Dallas Police Department has been hit with everything a big city has to offer so far in 2016. There’s been a well-publicized “spike” in violent crime and the murder rate, a string of robberies in Oak Lawn and a campaign visit by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. And then…
Trump creating havoc politically is no surprise. He seems to pride himself on his ability to connect with the more extreme of the voter base. But his most recent political bombshell is so shocking it will be a wonder he’ll have any Texan Republicans left to vote for him in November…
Stray dogs, dog bites and dog bite deaths: There was never an issue in this city better designed for single-member City Council districts to tackle and solve on their own. I think it’s fair to say the problem can only be solved by individual council members seeking solutions from their…
When one reports on the 150th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan, as the Longview News-Journal did on Sunday, one must be cognizant that people reading the paper might give the cover special scrutiny. In a region with as fraught a history with the Klan as East Texas has, the burden…
A Carrollton resident is the first person in Dallas County to die from the West Nile virus in 2016, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed Monday afternoon. The name and gender of the victim, who was more than 60 years old, will not be disclosed for “medical confidentiality and…
Ahmed Mohamed, better known as the Clock Boy, is back. He filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Irving, Irving Independent School District and Daniel Cummings, the principal of MacArthur High School. The then-14-year-old made national headlines when he was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school last…
Midway through a seven-hour park board meeting last Thursday, board member Lawrence S. Jones, who represents the rarefied Strait Lane district of North Dallas, expressed his misgiving about a certain class of people who have been appointed to the board of a private entity set up to take over Fair…
Eventually the other shoe will drop and a Texan will catch Zika from a mosquito. It hasn’t happened yet, as it has in Miami, so public health authorities in Texas and Dallas County are in a holding pattern. Miami was always going to be one of the first cities in…
Ezekiel Elliott first training camp as a Dallas Cowboy is going just as one would’ve imagined when the Ohio State running back was selected with the fourth pick of the 2016 NFL Draft. In the run-up to the Cowboys first preseason game on Saturday night, he’s been treated like any…
The clock is ticking towards five o’clock Thursday evening and the jury is still deliberating about whether or not Daeveion Mangum, 20, should be charged guilty for murdering 60-year-old Michael Castagne in his office on the 500 block of E. Arapahoe Rd on November 17th last year. The question is…
On Thursday a federal court in Ohio unsealed the affidavit of an FBI agent that chronicles the chase of a homegrown, ISIS-supporting terrorist cell during the lead-up to an armed attack on a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland. The documents show that an FBI agent was in touch with one…
Julie Mathews seemed to have won the battle against the city council when they removed her shortly after she won an election to the Lake Dallas city council in early 2015. She maxed out her credit cards, depleted her savings account, and won a mayoral election. But just four…
Sorry, but I do think we are starting to have a Wylie H. problem. I know I am, and I believe others are, as well. We need to stop the speculation, the guessing, the false accusations. It is eroding our civic life and possibly even our psychological well-being. Yesterday during…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings got what he wanted. After an arduous Dallas park board meeting that lasted more than eight hours, the Rawlings-pushed plan to offload the management of Dallas Fair Park to a private foundation achieved an important step, moving on to what will surely be a city council…
Dallas police today released a bulletin regarding two very similar robberies of Pokemon Go players near White Rock Lake. The first incident occurred on July 22, 2016 at about 1:05 a.m, when officers responded to a robbery call in the 600 block of E. Lawther. “The victim was robbed at…
Mechanically, voting at Texas polling places this November is going to be the same as it was during the Texas primary on March 1. The easiest way to exercise your right is going to be by bringing one of the seven forms of photo ID — a driver’s license, state ID,…
Psst. Hey. Downtown property-owners and major institutions. I’m talking to you. This is between us, OK? That subway idea might be more popular and more feasible than you think. But you need to not listen, block your ears, totally ignore the arguments you are getting from our regional mass transit agency,…
Around 9:30 am Wednesday morning, the jury seated to hear the murder trial of Daeveion Mangum files in and finds their seats. This is the second day of the trial. As they settle in, they are told they will be presented with some “graphic and disturbing” evidence — portions of the three…
