This week’s edition of the Dallas Voice features a long article about the video you see above, an “It Gets Better”-themed compilation featuring a whole bunch of LGBT city of Dallas employees, including city spokesperson Frank Librio, assistant city manager Joey Zapata, asisstant city attorneys Melissa Miles and John Rogers,…
Your browser does not support iframes. Earlier this week, Glenn Beck announced that he was reinventing The Blaze, his online media property, as a global libertarian news network, complete with three foreign bureaus, a nightly news magazine, and, no doubt, lots of Beck himself. Last night, he announced the next…
Texas’ voter ID law wasn’t in effect for last November’s election thanks to an order by a federal appeals court, but it remains on the books of the state’s election code. (A refresher: Anyone who shows up to vote must present a photo ID. Handgun permits are okay; school IDs…
Jim Moore was, for a time, the frontrunner in the race to succeed Tom Leppert as Dallas mayor, if only because he declared his candidacy long before anyone else. His star shone only briefly, however, as the criminal defense attorney pulled out of the race three months before the actual…
Three years ago, Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen’s dog, Avery, escaped from their Fort Worth home during a thunderstorm. They learned a few days later from Fort Worth Animal Control that Avery had been found safe and was in the custody of the city shelter. But by the time the family…
On Thursday, as the tremors from Jerry Jones’ shakeup at Valley Ranch continued to reverberate, Morning News entertainment editor Rand Duren seized the moment. “It was announced yesterday that the Dallas Cowboys have fired defensive coordinator Rob Ryan,” he wrote on the paper’s Whatever Blog, “and while that may be…
Any attempt to explain the goat-fuck at that Dallas Plan Commission meeting Thursday afternoon, I fear, may not do it justice, but here goes: A few weeks ago commissioners concluded that approving a special-use permit to allow driller Trinity East to hydraulically fracture the Trinity River floodplain wasn’t such a…
Governor Rick Perry has been coy about his plans for 2016 leaving the door open for a second presidential bid but remaining noncommittal. His epic flameout in 2012, one supposes, might be written off as a fluke. The man who had never lost an election was overly confident and thus…
Every month, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System’s board of trustees convenes at the break of dawn for its regular meeting. On a scale of exciting-ness, that meeting usually ranks somewhere between scrubbing the mold from one’s bathroom tiles and looking at the photo album my aunt used to…
Texas’ booze landscape is famously arcane, part holdover from Prohibition-era teetotaling, part jigsaw puzzle carved out by liquor interests and the municipalities that profit from them. Frustrating, too, when you find yourself on the dry side of a county line or try to buy a beer a six pack at…
Last year, Jennifer Corea was convicted of burglary and criminal mischief after she attacked, then rammed the car of, a woman accused of having an affair with her husband, disgraced attorney Tom Corea. (We now know from a incident report later released by Waxahachie police that Jennifer Corea’s daughter was…
Just after 8 p.m. yesterday, two men crept into Apartment 318 at McCallum Corners, a no-frills complex off Coit Road near the George Bush Turnpike. Police say they were after the half pound of marijuana inside, and quite possibly the $2,000 cash that was stuffed inside a purple bag inside…
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, who returned to Congress to represent his suburban Houston district last week after a 16-year absence, wasted no time courting controversy when he publicly called for John Boehner to be removed as House speaker. He’s made his second foray into the headlines with a call to…
The blood was starting to pool on the floor, forming interesting little patterns. To Steven Ray Milam, lying between his bunk and his locker, they looked like mesas, rising from the concrete as the blood began to clot. I’m still alive, Milam realized, opening his eyes and watching his cell…
The video entitled “Thank you, I will miss you guys” is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky handheld shot trained on the face of then-21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a fauxhawk, a stubbly goatee and a British accent, discernible…
It seemed a bit puzzling last week when Joe Alcantar, chair of the City Plan Commission, asked that the CPC reconsider Trinity East’s request to drill in the Trinity River floodplain, which the body had just gotten through denying. Perhaps Alcantar, who voted in favor of Trinity East’s proposal, had…
Jesus Ventura’s strange and very public criminal saga began back in March, when the 37-year-old firefighter and paramedic walked into a firehouse and started waving a pistol around. The gun went off, although no one was injured, and Ventura fled; he was arrested a week or so later at his…
On October 2 at 5 a.m., a delivery driver spotted a wrecked Chevrolet Silverado behind the Mayflower Place shopping center in Hurst. When police arrived to inspect the vehicle, they spotted two gun cases that contained a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol and a Hawk Industries 12-gauge shotgun. That didn’t…
Irving Independent School District is playing games with 2010 census numbers that should handily introduce a Hispanic voice into the all-white school board, a failed Latino school-board candidate claims in federal court. Manuel Benavidez, a retired American Airlines employee, who made unsuccessful runs for the school board in 2000 and…
Dallas police will soon be able to run your license plate through state and federal crime databases without ever lifting a finger. This morning, the City Council approved DPD’s $3.2 million plan to equip some of its squad cars with automated license plate scanners, which can check up to 1,800…
On New Years Day, listeners tuning their radio dial to 730 AM were treated not to the typical mix of old-school R&B and soul but a stream of unintelligible foreign syllables. Visiting the website informed them that KKDA, which had served southern Dallas for 42 years had, abruptly and unceremoniously,…
Update at 10:23 a.m.: Police have identified the suspected shooter as 41-year-old Ferdinand Glen Smith, who has been charged with murder. He’s being identified in media reports as Karen Smith’s husband. Update at 12:42 p.m.: The Morning News reports that the Ferdinand Smith has a history of abusing his wife…
