The Boy Scouts of America has been found negligent in the case of Siegfried Hepp, a Connecticut troop leader accused of sexually assaulting multiple Scouts. Hepp was convicted of unlawful sexual touching of a minor in 1999. Witnesses at the trial, held in Waterbury, Connecticut, said that the Irving-based organization…
A bill filed Monday in advance of the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature would make the maximum penalty for the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana a $100 fine. The fine would not count as a criminal conviction and could not considered as such by anyone performing…
Kory Watkins can’t leave well enough alone. After months of protests by him and his gun-toting, cop-watching buddies, Texas lawmakers seemingly want to give the open-carry extremists exactly what they say they want: the right to wield whatever firearm they damn well please without having to do so much as…
Mark Cuban’s curious real estate play at Preston and Northwest Highway — the one where he’s tearing down 80-year-old estates and floating plans to build a couple office buildings — has gone over about as well as if he had littered the earth with the carcasses of a thousand rotting…
Unfair Park thinks it’s time to resurrect the “Death to Flying Things” nickname.The Warriors’ Marreese Speights made a critical error during his team’s Saturday game against the Mavs. He lost his shoe in the general vicinity of Tyson Chandler. When his teammate Steph Curry tried to toss it back to…
Commissions and consulting fees. That’s what Grapevine-based Dallas Airmotive called the bribes it paid to military officers and government officials in Brazil, Argentina and Peru to keep its maintenance contracts for those countries’ military planes. Many of the payments were for small amounts like $3,000 or $5,000, the biggest was…
Surviving on minimum wage, even working full-time, is basically impossible. That’s the jumping off point for a map released by the real estate website Zillow on Wednesday, that relates the median rental price in 15,099 cities to the hourly wage one would need to afford it. The conclusions drawn don’t…
Update: 12:54 p.m.: Atkins has issued a statement about the incident. He admits that he was “a little upset” but denies touching Hultquist. “I regret that the two ladies feel I was too aggressive in my comments and that I ‘shook’ one of them,” he says. (You can check out…
Get ready for Round 3 in the ongoing — and possibly never-ending — bout between Laura Miller and would-be Preston Road/Northwest Highway developers. A few months after helping neighbors kill two proposed apartment developments near the intersection, Miller is limbering up to fight Crow Holdings’ plan to build a pedestrian…
Three workers were confirmed dead after a fire broke out in Thanksgiving Tower’s garage. They were working 35 feet deep in an HVAC system tank when the fire started. Dallas Fire and Rescue was able to evacuate almost 2,800 others from the building, but could not get to the workers…
Veronica Dunnachie, who Arlington police say shot her husband Russell Dunnachie and his adult daughter Kimberly on Wednesday afternoon, knew her way around firearms. Her Facebook page is filled with pictures of her firing rifles and posing with her fellow Open Carry Tarrant County members. She decided to put that…
Just in time for the holidays, the people left at a run-down apartment complex in Lake Highlands have been hearing a lot of different things about whether they have to pack their bags and get out, and when. The week before Thanksgiving, the occupants of the Town Creek Condos were…
In his first term as North Dallas’ state representative, Jason Villalba established himself as a serious, policy-minded lawmaker focused on finding common-sense solutions to important problems, like freeing Mavs fans from stupid and outdated liquor laws. Unapologetically conservative, to be sure, but in a reasonable, non-pandering way that has won…
In late September 2012, an SMU freshman, just a month into his life on campus, went to university police to report that he’d been sexually assaulted at a frat party. He hoped the school could help — help protect him from his alleged assailant, help save him from further embarrassment…
Presented, almost, without comment. This photo was taken by local architect Ben Reavis on Wood Street downtown. It features some newly installed parking meters immediately adjacent to a bike lane. Be careful out there people…
One of Unfair Park’s favorite things is all the unsolicited lists we receive that tell us where Dallas ranks when categorized in some completely unverifiable, useless category. Normally, they just languish in our inbox like so many Groupon notifications, but sometimes we’re too weak to resist. Dallas is one of…
Starting in the spring of 2015, cabs, limos and app-based services like Uber will operate on a reasonably level playing field. That’s the end result of months of wrangling that culminated with three and a half hours of debate before the Dallas City Council voted 13-2 to approve a transportation-for-hire…
On paper — and video — firing Jesus Martinez was a straightforward call for Dallas Police Chief David Brown. Martinez was filmed “using his right knee to pin the pedestrian’s right elbow down while raising the pedestrian’s left elbow and hand upward causing him severe pain,” according to the police…
BY DIANNA WRAY The hair has been the great constant. For the past 14 years, the state of Texas has been run by the guy with the best head of hair in professional politics. Now we are reaching the end of an era. Come January 20, Governor Rick Perry will…
In a shocking turn of events, Eternal Eden, the afterhours rave held on Saturday nights at Jaguars, a northwest Dallas strip club, may have been a haven for illegal activity, feds say. Authorities recently announced the indictments on firearms and drug charges of 15 people involved with the club. Feds…
Oak Cliff’s University General Hospital, touted as one of Mayor Mike Rawlings’ GrowSouth success stories, is on life support — or maybe in an induced coma — while its owners try to sell the 111-bed facility. Houston-based University General Health Systems Inc., which purchased the former South Hampton Community Hospital…
Jada Antoine has quite the resume for a hospice nurse. From January 2009 to April 2012, she cared for more than 100 patients while employed by eight Dallas hospice companies. The thing is, Antoine isn’t a nurse. She isn’t licensed as any kind of healthcare provider. Antoine didn’t let that…
