“This is funny shit,” Assistant Chief Billy Getzendaner said after he watched a video of a trainee volunteer firefighter being sodomized with a link of sausage by a group of other volunteers, a warrant issued for Getzendaner’s arrest in Ellis County claims. Getzendaner, 34, and Gavin Satterfield, the 31-year-old chief…
Dear Dallas Weather: Stop trying to be Seattle. If we wanted to live in Seattle, we’d buy a train, fill it with enough Bob Armstrong queso to last us a lifetime and drive it there. But we don’t want that. We want to live in Dallas: the land of patio…
Senior Corporal Jimmy Thongrivong, a Dallas bike cop, died March 30. He’s better now, though. Thongrivong, who collapsed of a heart attack on patrol before being rushed to Baylor Hospital, is going home. Dr. James Choi, the interventional cardiologist treating Thongrivong, was asked at a press conference Thursday what was…
Texas’ rapidly expanding renewable energy industry owes much of its success to, of all people, a Republican state senator from Horseshoe Bay, one who is now trying to stop cities from banning fracking. Ten years ago Senator Troy Fraser authored legislation that required that Texas get 10,000 megawatts of its…
BY STANTON BRASHER Three bills that take different approaches to reforming Texas’ marijuana laws got a hearing before the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on Wednesday. Supporters packed the only committee hearing scheduled on the bills in either chamber. With the clock running out on the session, other hearings aren’t…
Mississippi, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, cannot use the courts to challenge President Obama’s 2012 decision to allow some immigrant children who entered the United States illegally to avoid deportation. Affirming a district court ruling, the 5th Circuit found that the state couldn’t prove any actual…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings took the time Wednesday to finally tell us when we we’re all going to get to hear about the sure-to-be-revelatory findings of his self-convened Trinity toll road “dream team.” Rawlings, who says he asked the team to design a road consistent with both a meandering parkway…
Somewhere along a Dallas highway is an eye-catching, emerald-tinted billboard for Breitling Energy. It features an oil derrick and an expanse of sky emblazoned with the legend “American Oil from American Soil.” It always seemed odd that a local fracking concern would be spending money directly on a billboard campaign…
As Unfair Park should have made clearer in our report Tuesday about Ellis County volunteer firefighters accused of sexually assaulting a trainee with a link of chorizo, the firefighters are not employed by the the city of Waxahachie or connected with Waxahachie’s 58-member professional fire department. Texas Rangers say the…
State Representative Rafael Anchia of Dallas, state Senator Rodney Ellis of Houston and Bill Hammond, the CEO of the Texas Association of Business, made it abundantly clear Tuesday: If many Republicans in the Legislature get their way and pass any number of the bevy of anti-LGBTQ constitutional amendments and bills…
Just before Dallas’ revamped transportation-for-hire regulations go into effect on April 30, a new report shows how deep of a foothold app-based car service Uber has carved into the city. Dallas and San Francisco are the the two cities that saw more business users take trips in an Uber car…
“I’m pregnant,” yells an unseen woman, surrounded by police officers, moments before one of the officers is seen throwing down his fist. The woman, Deanna Jo Robinson, says she was 38 weeks pregnant when she was arrested and punched by a Hunt County sheriff’s deputy on March 4. The event…
Six people — including five volunteer firefighters — face criminal charges in Ellis County after a firefighter trainee reported last week that he’d been sexually penetrated with a sausage in January. Authorities arrested Keith Wisakowsky, 26; Casey Stafford, 30; Alec Miller, 28; Blake Tucker, 19; and Preston Peyrot on sexual…
Early last month, a few weeks after members Congregation Toras Chaim partook of a dessert reception to celebrate their victory in a lengthy court battle with the Highlands of McKamy Homeowners Association, Rabbi Yaakov Rich realized the synagogue’s legal tribulation had only begun. On March 3, the city of Dallas,…
A McKinney teenager who shot himself last week was given a stolen gun by a friend to use as protection against alleged bullying, McKinney police believe. Jordan Sharifi, 17, stole the handgun from a drawer in the home of the family he was staying with along with a box of…
Late Friday afternoon, the Federal Highway Administration issued its record of decision (ROD) for the Trinity toll road. As everybody anywhere knows, a ROD is the FHWA’s final step in a process under the NEPA that begins with an NOI, a draft EIS, final EIS and then ROD. We SYN…
Monday morning in Dallas, if you’d gotten up without a permanent job and gone out seeking a couple of hours of physical labor to make whatever ends meet you could, you might have headed to 7-Eleven at Marsalis Avenue and Eighth Street in Dallas or the closed Sam’s Club on…
In many ways, Dr. Richard Malouf is the very picture of success (See: “On Being Successful”; RichardMalouf.com). Born to Lebanese immigrants, he built a multi-million dollar chain of dental clinics from the ground up. He bought a French chateau on Strait Lane in Preston Hollow and set to work building…
Nina Pham does not deserve to go forward with her lawsuit against Texas Health Resources, the parent company of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the company says. Pham became the first person to contract the Ebola virus in the United States last fall during her treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan, a…
In 1967, T.W. Bruton of North Carolina was the only state attorney general willing to do what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and fourteen other state’s attorneys general did on Thursday. Bruton filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court urging that it uphold Virginia’s prohibition against…
Before Troy Aikman, Danny White, Roger Staubach, Craig Morton or even Don Meredith, there was Eddie LeBaron, the 5-Foot-7 gunslinger who started 10 games for the Cowboys in their maiden season, including the first, a September 24, 1960 Saturday night game against the Steelers at the Cotton Bowl. The Cowboys…
Dallas ISD will extend the school day, offer thousands of dollars in relocation incentives to staff and install new grading policies in an effort to close the achievement gap at six district schools deemed “Improvement Required” campuses by the Texas Education Agency,. Beginning with the fall 2015 semester, instructors classified…
