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One-Year-Old Child Dies After Being Left in Locked Car at Elementary School

A 1-year-old child died after being left in a locked car in the parking lot of Frank Guzick Elementary School in Pleasant Grove. The child's mother is a teacher at the school, according to a statement from Dallas ISD. A statement from the Dallas Police Department says that a witness observed the c ... More >>

Dallas PD Found a Pregnant 19-Year-Old Beaten and Shoved from a Moving Car Yesterday

Every day, Dallas police respond to a disheartening number of domestic violence calls, too many to note. In 2011, there were 13,000 instances of family violence, most of them assaults. Last year, 26 women were murdered by their partners. Yesterday's alleged thuggery took police to Great Trinity For ... More >>

The Man Who Allegedly Murdered Orr-Reed Owner John Hargrove Turned Himself in Yesterday

In early hours last Saturday morning, police arrived at Club Extasis to find John Hargrove sprawled in the middle of the floor, unconscious. He had been badly beaten in a bar fight, struck with a chair and pool cues by several attackers. He was dead by the time his body arrived at Baylor Hospital. ... More >>

VIDEO: A Convenience Store Clerk Was Brutally Beaten With a Hammer During a Robbery Yesterday

A clerk was working alone at the AZ Mark convenience store on Military Parkway in Pleasant Grove when a man walked in. He was a regular customer, police say, but this time he carried a large knife and demanded cash. When the money didn't immediately appear, the man stabbed the clerk in the neck, th ... More >>

WFAA Leaned On Baylor Health Care to Fire Ad Agency Over Dispute, Lawsuit Claims

A Grapevine ad agency is accusing WFAA of throwing its weight around and scuttling a relationship with its biggest client. Ann Page-Cahill of AP Commnications filed suit against WFAA's parent company, Belo Corp. and her former client, Baylor Health Care system in district court Tuesday, claiming Bay ... More >>

Former Councilwoman Sandra Crenshaw Arrested for Allegedly Not Returning Rental Car

Dallas PD just passed along word that former City Councilwoman Sandra Crenshaw was arrested today at about 4:45 p.m. at the downtown library on a theft warrant for a rental car. According to CBS 11, Crenshaw claimed she was having medical issues when officers arrested her and was taken to Baylor Me ... More >>

This Morning in Pleasant Grove, Man Knocks On Door, Demands Weed, Shoots Resident in Ass

An already freakish weekend just got a bit more bizarre. Police spokesman Warren Mitchell passes along the following note from an incident that apparently happened this morning in Pleasant Grove. Suspect came to a residence in the 800 block of Rose Garden and knocked on the door. The complainant a ... More >>

Man Kills Attacker at Northeast Dallas Convenience Store in Stand-Your-Ground-Style Shooting

View Larger Map About 4 p.m. yesterday, a man who a witness said appeared drunk, walked into the EZ Trip Food Store above and, according to police, began harassing customers. Specifically, he slapped one person repeatedly in the face before chasing them from the store. Upon his return, he began pu ... More >>

Deep Ellum's Ambrose Complex on Green Line Is Done Trying to Make Retail Spaces Work

​When The Ambrose and DART's Baylor University Medical Center Station on the Green Line finally, formally married three short years ago, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hailed it as the "consummate example of the new transit-oriented lifestyle." After all, the complex at Indiana and Malcolm X consisted ... More >>

Up East Dallas Without a Paddle

Very mixed feelings about the city council briefing coming up this morning on proposed East Dallas storm-water projects. On the one hand, my paranoia is confirmed, which is always satisfying. On the other hand, there's not much I can do about it. Yes, just as I thought, my house in East Dallas -- t ... More >>

Dallas PD's New Year's Eve, By the Numbers

WFAA​The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning: It guesstimates 30,000 turned out for last night's Big D NYE in Victory Plaza, otherwise known as the Dallas Stars' post-game party that filled a few hours of Channel 8 airtime in between all that Dick Clarking. And while DWI numbers aren' ... More >>

Sweet Sue Diner: Friendly, Cheap and Lots of Thongs -- That's a Sue to Love

Alice Laussade​Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she's full of sugar at Sweet Sue Diner, 3813 Bird St., 469-734-1864. At least, we think it was sugar. Something beginning with an "S" anyhow. Other times in my ... More >>

At Mama Connie's Diner, All You Need is $5.35 and an Old Man to Light the Way

via Oak Cliff Peeps​Other people eating breakfast for lunch count: 5 Level of weirdness felt when "Let's Get It Started" by the Black Eyed Peas played on the speakers in this old-school diner: 4 out of 5 I'm drawn to open restaurants with deserted parking lots like Glee is drawn to sucking. L ... More >>

How Long Should Texas Docs Treat Untreatable Patients? The Debate That Won't Go Away.

Jordan Allen's case will become part of Texas' annual debate over medical futility.​Last week, just outside of Houston, a little boy's parents were scrambling. Doctors at Texas Children's Hospital had told them there was nothing more they could do for the boy, 14-year-old Jordan Allen, whose b ... More >>

The Other Side of Dallas' Electric Daisy Carnival Story

Some 22,000 people enjoyed the second Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park without incident, but one death and several health scares marred the event.

A Year Later, Family Says a 22-Year-Old Died After 2010 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas

Jesse Morales was 22 years old.​Four days after 19-year-old Argyle native Andrew Graf died after attending Electric Daisy Festival at Fair Park, another family is stepping forward to share the story of 22-year-old Jesse Morales, who they say died due to similar circumstances in the wake of 2010's ... More >>

A Second Death Related to the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas?

​More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Hai ... More >>

More Thoughts on Saturday Night's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park in Dallas...

Kevin TodoraMost people at EDC Dallas seemed to be having a good time. For more images from the event, check out the slideshow of attendees.​ Still waiting on a lot of news this early afternoon in regards to Saturday night's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park. All morning long city officials -- ... More >>

Aikman's Agent Recounts QB's Concussions to Illustrate "Undiagnosed Health Epidemic"

​USA Today directs our attention to agent Leigh Steinberg's kick-off column for the Los Angeles Times's small-paper spin-off The Daily Pilot, which ran last week. In it Steinberg tackles the subject of concussions, which, he writes, have become an "undiagnosed health epidemic ... sweeping athletic ... More >>

Tacos: Big E's Serves Them Hearty and With Aspirations

Jose Ralat Maldanado​The small bodega, trading in beer and candy, on Gaston Avenue had been opened for 10 months before a kitchen was set up in the back of the shop. That's when business began to pick up for Big E's Food and Beverage, sparsely decorated with beer and soda memorabilia, signs, t ... More >>

One Day Before Its "Open 24 Hours" Sign Goes Dark, Metro Postcards (From Gaston Avenue)

Photos by Dylan Hollingsworth James Adams, in front of the iconic Gaston Avenue diner he opened more than four decades ago​Tomorrow at 2 p.m., Wayne Adams will do something he hasn't done since The Great Remodel of '97: He will lock the front door to the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue. Which is why ... More >>

On the Scene at Burger Street Shootings

Dylan Hollingsworth The scene outside Burger Street, shortly after last night's shooting over what appeared to be a robbery involving a 30-pound bag of marijuana​By now you've no doubt heard: Two men were killed and two more were arrested last night following what appears to be a drug-related robb ... More >>

Is David Kunkle's candidacy for mayor a sign that Dallas is headed in the right direction or that Schutze is off his meds?

Watch Hard: Christmas in Oak Cliff, and a Tour of Some of Your Finer Dallas Nativity Scenes

Two You Dallas offerings this morning, both guaranteed to put a smile on Robert Jeffress's face. At top is our pal Justin Terveen's Crèche Crawl -- "from Lakewood to Baylor Hospital to Highland Park," and points in between. Prematurely aged for your pleasure. And on the other side: the bright Chris ... More >>

Cautionary Tale: Even If Your Neighbors Are Victims of Crime, Don't Shoot at Detectives

​This is just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning a home invasion that occurred last night, not far from W.W. Samuell High School. Long story short: Even if you think the bad guys, who'd committed their crime dressed in police uniforms, have returned to the scene of the violent crime n ... More >>

Santiago's Taco Loco Express: Crazy Big, Crazy Bad and Crazy Sad

​On a Sunday morning when our son was at his grandmother's house, the missus and I headed to Deep Ellum for brunch at All Good Café. Mike Snider's restaurant and live-music venue is a fantastic place for brunch -- if you can tolerate waiting in line. Then I saw the little building with a roof ... More >>

A Sneak Peek at a Walkable, Cyclable Deep Ellum, Set to Take a Step Forward October 30

​About a month ago, Patrick Michels sat in on the planning session for Deep Ellum's attempt to build a Better Block, a la Oak Cliff's two experiments with taking back the streets. Today, organizer Brandon Castillo sends more details -- as in, when and where. Castillo had hoped to stage the event l ... More >>

After Three Early-Morning Robberies, DPD To Step Up Presence Downtown For a While

Click to enlarge: DPD sends this still from the AT&T building, taken just prior to the shooting outside the building this morning​The Dallas Police Department's still searching for the man responsible for shooting a 63-year-old AT&T employee in the head this morning as she and a colleague ... More >>

Texas-OU's Five Months Away, And DART Wants to Work Out the Kinks Way Early

​Speaking of Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Green Line ...You won't be able to catch it at the Victory Park or MLK Jr. stations Sunday between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. DART's got a very good reason: It's trying to see if it can reconfigure the Green Line in order to avoid the clusterfudge that ... More >>

Far as Mayor and DART Prez Are Concerned, the Green Line's All About Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Kimberly Thorpe​Mayor Tom Leppert and other city officials got their first ride on the much-anticipated Dallas Area Rapid Transit Green Line this morning. The first four stops on the $1.8 billion, 20-station, 28-mile line will officially open Monday -- following tomorrow's Super Saturday spectacul ... More >>

Feces Don't Fail Me Now: Baylor Docs May Have a Way to Doo Away With Colonoscopies

Oh, like you don't already have one of these stored under your bathroom sink.​The Los Angeles Times has sniffed out an article published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, in which researchers from Baylor University Medical Center on Gaston Ave. and Japan write about a new test ... More >>

The WSJ Polices Insurance Companies' Image Scanning Police

Visual Communicators to Decorate Site of Colleague's Cycling Accident

Bringing Dallas' Past Into the Present

Love-Love

Re: T.O., O.D.

Parcells Wonders, You a Player or a Pansy? (Update: Or a Suicide?)

Going Down in Downtown

Culbreath in "Grave Condition"

In the Studio

Psycho Greens

Arugula anguish and lettuce laments don't deter Greenz from churning out fresh salads

Action!

It's a race to the finish for Dallas video-makers

Tons of fun

Pachyderm-ing them in at Fair Park

The Dropout Piece

Lee Lozano was among the most celebrated conceptual artists of the 1960s. So why is she buried in an unmarked grave in Grand Prairie?

Disease of the week

Letters

Buzz

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway

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