After the Denton City Council had its butt handed to it in court by oil company EagleRidge last Fall, Denton civic leaders decided to pretty much stop fighting EagleRidge altogether and let it drill close to a few residential neighborhoods. Residents complained, but the city said it had no choice,…
State District Judge Jeanine Howard quickly backtracked on her sentencing of a convicted rapist to volunteer at a rape crisis center after we called her office last week to ask what would happen if no rape crisis center wanted to accept him. “She’s going go back and modify those conditions…
Johnson & Johnson is known as the family company. Except for when it sells defective medical implants that destroy patients’ genitals.As I reported in last week’s feature story, over 17,000 women, including some in Dallas, are suing Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon, for its transvaginal mesh products. The…
If Fred Jackson wins his bid for Justice of the Peace in the upcoming Democratic Primary, lawbreakers should prepare to face a man packing a hard, award-winning body under his judicial robe. Here are other things they should prepare for: a DWI conviction when he was a cop in which…
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12, 2014: Dallas Jury Awards Woman Largest Amount So Far in Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit It felt like fishing line was scratching him: That’s how he knew something was wrong. His wife had been complaining for a while that sex hurt, but he thought maybe she just didn’t want…
Sir Young may have hated to say that he was a rapist, but he couldn’t deny it, either. “That’s rape,” he said in a recorded interview with a Dallas police detective, describing his encounter with a 14-year-old girl. Young was 18 at the time. They were both students at Booker…
Sure, there are a few powerful American Jewish groups that blur the line between religion and politics, lobbying congress to spend political and financial capital protecting Israel at all costs. But all obvious signs indicate that Makom is not one of those groups. Makom, instead, is a loose congregation of…
When Outside magazine named Dallas the least outdoorsy city in America, as Eric reported this week, the insult felt personal. The magazine not only failed to notice local outdoorsy favorites like White Rock Lake and Klyde Warren Park, it also accused us all of wearing unfashionable “ten-gallon hats.” We now…
When the Frisco Police Department discovered the body of 10-year-old Arnav Dhawan in his Frisco home, they said, he was lying in a dry bathtub with a cloth wrapped around him, surrounded by plastic bags. His mother, Pallavi Dhawan, had arranged him that way, and police claimed in a press…
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is either very bad at building and managing staircases, or is just a convenient entity to blame when people suffer accidents on those staircases. A lawsuit filed last week says that Myung Oh fell down the museum’s concrete steps and injured his neck…
It’s a pretty good time to be in Frisco, if you are the Texas Legends. Last week the Frisco City Council agreed to spend $90,000 in taxpayer dollars to purchase a basketball court for the minor league NBA team to play on. By coincidence, Frisco Mayor Maher Maso is good…
People who live in Flower Mound may or may not be at higher risk for developing cancer. The state already assured the public that there isn’t a cancer cluster back in 2010, but after a UT-Austin researcher published a recent report challenging the state’s methods, Texas has grudgingly agreed to…
Pallavi Dhawan is still facing charges in the death of her 10-year-old son, Arnav, even though the final autopsy report ruled that “natural disease is most likely.” It’s for that and other reasons that the Frisco Police Department seems to have jumped the gun when it held a press conference…
We’re all getting sophisticated enough to agree that climate change is real, climate-deniers are wrong and someone should do something about it. Good for us. But what any of that actually means is still a major point of debate. On Monday the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released…
Texas doesn’t necessarily want the lesser prairie chicken to die, but Texas is vehemently opposed to doing anything that might prevent the bird from dying. Late last year Texas was vowing to fight any efforts by the feds to place the dying bird on an endangered list, but the state…
Dallas thinks it’s really great that some of you people are interested in environmental bullshit. That’s the clear message we’re getting from the city’s 2014 Mosquito Plan, a report that makes a few lazy attempts to appease the environmental folks who have argued that Dallas’ current mosquito-killing methods are bad…
Last fall, the fate of Dallas’ destructive, hyper-sexual feral hog population rested in the traps of just one man, Osvaldo Rojas, who runs a feral hog business called City Trapping. He’d been hired to capture hogs on some city property before, but September was when he got the big contract,…
Well, here’s an even better argument to strap dash-cams on all cops. Dallas Police Department officer Rene Villanueva had claimed in November that a drunken-driving suspect tried to punch him. But footage from the police car showed that it was the officer who was doing all the punching. Chief David…
It was a domestic violence call that first brought Dallas Police Department officers to the 4300 block of Crozier avenue on Thursday night. A witness who lived nearby said he saw a man “beating the shit” out of his girlfriend. The witness, later identified by family members as Rubin Brown,…
A teacher at Kennedale High School was washing his hands when a camera suddenly fell from the underside of the sink and landed on the ground. He handed it to Kennedale Vice Principal Jeff Krieger, who promptly turned it over to the cops. The cops found the camera contained footage…
As part of our look this week at what it means to live in Dallas without a car, Amy Silverstein put DART to the test to see how well it could get her from our offices at Oak Lawn and Maple avenues to D/FW International. There’s a United Airlines flight…
Don’t have a car but the bus isn’t your style? As part of our look at car-free Dallas living, Amy Silverstein weighs the pros and cons of other ways to get there from here. Taxi Pro: Even if you’re partying in a sketchy part of town, calling Yellow Cab guarantees…
