Much has been made of Mayor Mike Rawlings’ foray into Dallas Independent School District politics in recent months. Depending on who’s talking, his involvement is either the leadership and commitment this city needs to save its schools; another sign of the business community’s hostile takeover of those schools; or a…
Officially, Andrew Luck won’t become a pro until Thursday, when he and his golden egg arm are snapped up by the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL Draft. But as a lawsuit filed Friday in Dallas County Court reminds, Luck has been a commodity for years. Courthouse News unearthed the lawsuit,…
While the Mavs stare bleakly into James Harden’s beard and the Cowboys kick tires ahead of Thursday’s draft, the local sports world takes a minute to look longingly in reverse today, over the long, remarkable career of Pudge Rodriguez, arguably the best catcher of all time. (And what is baseball…
Update, 9:42 p.m., Friday: An arrest has been made. From DPD: Darius Ewing, who was wanted in connection to the puppy who was burned, has surrendered to the Dallas Police Department. He surrendered to police while a candle light vigile was being held by area animal advocates for the puppy…
Before we decamp for Le Bar: If you haven’t been following the spat between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the owner of the Museum Tower project — which happens to be the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System — Schutze had a thoughtful, balanced take on the matter last week…
Islam Karimov is the president of Uzbekistan; he’s also widely known as a brutal dictator accused of the systematic use of torture. His regime is charged with things like boiling political dissidents to death and forcibly sterilizing women. Now one of his daughters, who’s well-disliked in her own right, is…
Allow us to introduce Gail Spurlock, a Republican from Richardson seeking her party’s nom for the State Board of Education seat. She has some interesting things to say about history in this interview with the North Texas Council, a group “concerned with the direction our country is taking with regards…
When Texas Public Utility tentatively voted to increase the ceiling on the wholesale price of electricity by 50 percent by August 1, public reaction was swift. It sounded like this: chirp … cheep … when you wish … chirp … cheep … upon a star. Which was surprising. Stereotypically, you’d…
We all remember the Kwik Stop protests, right? When some black civic leaders led some of their constituents in a picket against a South Dallas Korean storeowner named Tommy Pak, increasing racial tensions in the neighborhood until media braved the Trinity to report on the story and found that, actually,…
I got a call from Damarcus Offord yesterday. The 20-year-old school-board candidate sounded excited, energized. “Did you read the email I sent?” he asked. “Did you see the poll?” I did not, so then I did. “Damarcus Offord is a candidate running in the May 12 election for DISD School…
In pancake-related news that’s already gone national, four Muslim men of Arab descent are suing IHOP, claiming they were all fired from their managerial positions at DFW-area locations because of their ethnicity and religion. In the suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, Hussein Chamseddine claims that despite receiving consistently positive…
Oncor, the transmission company that runs power lines and electricity meters, is just about the only good thing Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings has going for it. Energy Future’s generation arm, Luminant, the largest unregulated power generator in Texas, has seen its coal-fired power plants precipitously lose value because of low…
Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, who’s made a habit of announcing department firings on the DPD Facebook page, announced three more firings late yesterday, including one officer accused of molesting a relative in Rains County. Here’s the rundown: Officer Zenae Humphries of the South Central was caught lying after…
James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony. It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management’s ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with…
There’s nothing like the sad death of an adorable puppy to stir up the police, animal services and the media. That’s certainly the case with Justice, the 4-month-old lab-terrier mix doused in lighter fluid and burned in a Pleasant Grove apartment complex on April 4. Justice suffered through a week…
Dallas PD just sent over the video above, captured at 5 in the morning on April 3. It shows a burglary suspect using a large rock to try to bust through the door of Bioscrip Pharmacy, at 2909 Lemmon near Highway 75. The suspect is a poorly dressed white male…
You will either be saddened, confused or hugely indifferent to the fact that Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked Dallas last in a list of 35 hipster-friendly cities. I’ll give you a moment to collect yourselves. Now then: What in the hell are we doing wrong that we rated so…
A key battle was won this morning in what cable-news commenters might call the War on Sprinklers: The Dallas City Council just voted 13-2 to permanently limit sprinkler use, either by hose or by automatic system, to two days per week, in what can only be seen as a huge…
Look, we’re sorry. We wanted badly to just ignore the earth-shattering news. Unfortunately, though, Schutze is off in Arkansas ingesting giardia all week, and not everyone reads The Dallas Morning News (cheap bastards), so it’s up to those left behind to let everyone in on it. Ready? Here it is:…
Larry Brown has agreed to coach SMU’s Mustangs, ESPN reports. The 71-year-old coach was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and has coached in college, the NBA and the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 2004 games. He’s coached pretty much every NBA team, and even…
In less-than-surprising news, Dallas firefighter and paramedic Jesus Ventura, who in recent weeks has been accused of both bank robbery and waving a gun around in a firehouse, has been fired. Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Joel Lavender says in a statement that the department’s internal investigation into the allegations against…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Seems like only six months ago (because it was) that First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress was still casually referring to Mormonism as a “cult.” Back then, that word choice earned him a round of appearances on various TV news shows to explain himself…
