It seems that Jay Torres, the DFW-based La Estrella freelancer killed in the backyard of a Garland home last month, was not killed because he was a journalist. Garland Police announced Tuesday afternoon that they are looking for Anibal Edilfredo Chirino Mejia, 23, of Garland. Mejia, police believe, killed Torres over a…
Parked in a 2005 gold Impala, Colton Crews waited in a busy Target parking lot, an AK-47 in the trunk of his car. He’d parked away from other cars, but not too far away, when he arrived just a few minutes earlier on this Saturday afternoon in Carrollton. The 24-year-old…
Reality check. That’s all. I just thought you might like to know that Texas now leads the nation in spending more on prisons than schools. To be sure, we spend more on public education in Texas than we used to. State and local expenditures for pre-K thorugh 12th grade increased…
Prince Fielder is not going to take another turn at bat for the 2016 Rangers. The hulking designated hitter has a herniated disc in his neck, and doctors have recommended that he get surgery to fix it, the team announced Monday afternoon. It’s the second time in his three years…
Early Sunday afternoon, a Dodge van crashed into the Dallas Cowboys team bus as the van tried to make a left turn across traffic at the intersection of Pierce Ferry Road and State Route 93 just north of Kingman, Arizona. All four of the van’s passengers were killed. Each of the…
No one who lives in the Estell Village Apartments very much wants to live in Estell Village Apartments. It’s a housing project, after all, 291 units spread across a warren of white-and-beige barracks near Paul Quinn College in southeast Oak Cliff. The apartments themselves are nice enough, no frills but…
The Dallas Cowboys first training camp practice is less than a week away and, as has so often been the case during the Jerry Jones era, the biggest story surrounding the team has nothing to do with football. As the Observer and other news outlets reported Friday morning, Ezekiel Elliott, the…
The Lone Star State is known for its wealth, pumped from the ground. But entrepreneurs here have been looking up to make their money, putting Texas on the forefront of the movement to move spaceflight industry from government hands. The state hosts the burgeoning private space industry from the Panhandle to…
Last June 17, when organized anti-Trump protesters showed up outside a Donald Trump rally in Dallas, Breitbart, the conservative online news service, described some of the protesters with the headline: “Dallas Anti-Trump Protesters Are Entitled, Vile and Stupid.” Well, at least Micah Johnson, the shooter who killed five Dallas cops three…
Dallas Cowboys superstar running back in waiting Ezekiel Elliott faces accusations that he beat up his ex-girlfriend. In two reports filed with the Columbus, Ohio police department early Friday morning, Tiffany Thompson says that she was attacked by Elliott first last week, when he hit her and left bruises on…
Next Generation Action Network, the primary organization behind the July 7 protest against police brutality that preceded five Dallas police officers being shot to death by Micah Xavier Johnson, has, for the second time since the shooting, postponed the march scheduled for this week. The head of the network, Dominique…
The latest numbers from the Texas Department of State Health Services aren’t great. Texas parents are still taking advantage of a Rick Perry-sized loophole the then-governor created in the state’s requirements for school kids. For the 2015-2016 school year, parents of nearly 45,000 school-aged kids filed for non-medical exemptions from vaccines…
Dallas Park and Recreation Board meetings have always been like high tea – tinkly tee-hee and not much done. But Thursday’s was a barroom punch-out. Angered that they were not allowed to fully discuss a proposal to give Fair Park to a private entity, five board members got up and…
You know what? That new housing policy the Dallas City Council is working on, Julian Castro’s bright shiny political future, Mayor Mike Rawlings’ next move, the rep that this city has earned in recent days for dealing with demons of the past — now might be too early to lay down any big…
Barring Supreme Court intervention, Texas residents unable to secure photo identification before the November 8 general election will not be prevented from voting, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The state pushed the Texas Voter ID law as the last bulwark against a rising tide of voter…
You can say this about him; Ted Cruz stuck to his guns. Texas’ junior senator, after a presidential campaign that saw him call the GOP presidential nominee a “sniveling coward” and “utterly amoral” thumbed his nose at Donald Trump during his speech Wednesday night at the 2016 Republican National Convention…
Micah Xavier Johnson started his rampage by pulling his SUV onto Lamar Street. The street was empty, cleared out in anticipation of the police protest march that was just concluding downtown. He parked his vehicle sideways in the street, grill facing El Centro’s east entrance. There, El Centro College Police…
Listen, the debate about Fair Park – turning our 277-acre albatross two miles east of downtown over to a private entity — probably started out with good enough intentions. But now, not so much. Now it’s about nothing so much as shielding the board of directors of the State Fair…
With Zika at the forefront of the news, everyone’s thinking about mosquitoes. The good news: There have been no local mosquito-borne transmissions of Zika virus in Texas to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has identified 16 travel-associated cases of Zika in Dallas. …
Dez Bryant has finally responded to Royce West’s claim that the Cowboys’ star wideout destroyed a rent house owned by the attorney and state senator. Bryant didn’t specifically deny West’s charge that he left dog feces, wrecked carpets and a general layer of filth in his wake when he moved…
If there was ever a time to show just a bit of caution when it came to stoking the fears of a shocked and wounded city, it might’ve been this weekend. Dallas was finally coming down from a week of uncertainty inspired by the murders of five of the city’s…
Not all of the women who pull into the driveway at Whole Woman’s Health Clinic in West Fort Worth go inside. For some, facing the images of bloody fetuses on the signs carried by demonstrators manning a gantlet outside, the shouts and the threat of having images of their cars…
