Why did a few thousand immigrants imprisoned in South Texas riot last week against the nice private prison corporation that was housing them? Management and Training Corp.’s version of events is that its inmates “refused to participate in regular work duties or attend breakfast early Friday morning,” which certainly seems…
The letter was anonymous, just like other warnings that came before it. In late January, it arrived in the mailboxes of advocates who work on behalf of Christian sex-abuse victims. For 26 pages, it offered a rambling defense of a place that shouldn’t need one — Prestonwood Baptist Church, a…
The tow truck driver who shot and killed a young, unarmed probation officer named Lance Lemons earlier this month was not arrested afterward, and Dallas police are still refusing to identify the shooter. They say they don’t have to reveal his name unless they decide to send his case to…
Who lives in Dallas? No, not not you, suburbs. We mean big D, little A, double L, A, S, the actual city, a curious place with some expensive, high-class entertainment areas and homes but then also a lot of poverty and some Detroit-like patches. City officials decided to investigate that…
The last time we wrote about Excalibur towing, the person whose car had been towed wondered if someone broke into her car to rip off her parking sticker, possibly causing her car to be towed — assuming the sticker went missing before her car was hauled away instead of after…
When Prime Time wasn’t admitting to choking his employees or threatening to throw chairs at them and break their necks, he displayed a generous side. In Prime Prep’s final year, co-founder Deion Sanders donated $132,937 to the school. The former Cowboys star worked at the school in an official capacity…
The notorious radioactive waste dump in West Texas once run by late, politically-corrupt connected Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons could soon begin a new, more extreme phase of waste-dumping. On Friday, Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the company will seek a license to temporarily — up…
7-Eleven, the store where bums wait outside by the Redbox to harrass you for change after you buy yourself a $1 slice of something pizza-like, is suddenly trying to act like it’s all fancy. The convenience chain is charging Dallas customers a whole 15 cents if they need to carry…
“I’m in the lobby, and I need some help,” Kristiana Coignard said into the station telephone at the Longview Police Department. “OK what kind of help do you need?” an officer asked. The officer gets no response, and the recording ends…
At an age when most of us were preoccupied with hot-boxing our parents’ cars or eating Crayons (you ate crayons in high school too, right?!), the teenagers at Greenhill School in Addison are making us all look like slackers. “I kind of got into the whole social justice scene during…
Even before Joshua and Jordan Earls were formally charged with making child pornography and child molestation in 2013, it should have been obvious to the Garland church where they worked that something was awry, one of their victims says. Josh moved to Texas to work as a youth minister at…
We won’t say the Centerpoint Apartments on Frankford Road is one of the sleaziest apartment complexes in Dallas, because last time we checked the business had filed at least 700 lawsuits against its former tenants. The 700 suits don’t include regular evictions, but instead are for offenses such as excessive…
Texas lawmakers are trying to strip Planned Parenthood clinics of funding that goes to breast and cervical cancer screenings for poor women because, as always, abortion. Not that a dime of taxpayer money ever — ever — pays for abortions at Planned Parenthood or anywhere else. But this is Texas,…
In the lobby of the Longview Police Department station nearly two weeks ago, police fired their guns five times at a mentally ill teenager named Kristiana Coignard, killing her. In her final moments, Coignard was cornered by three armed officers. Why couldn’t they subdue her without killing her? The Longview…
Friday was the last day of school at Prime Prep Academy, according to state administrators assigned to pull the plug on the charter school founded by ex-Cowboy Deion Sanders. After two and a half years of legal fights, actual fights and assorted controversy, the Texas Education Agency finally said enough…
One week after Longview Police Department officers shot and killed a mentally ill teenager in the lobby of their own police station, the department has released a surveillance video that captures the teenager’s death. It does little to clear things up. The police say Kristiana Coignard charged at officer Glenn…
In a region with poor public transit but plenty of available parking at the bar, it’s no longer surprising to learn that someone in law enforcement was arrested for driving drunk. That doesn’t make it OK that a longtime Dallas Police Department officer allegedly drove while under the influence in…
In the elevator of a sleek Dallas office building indistinguishable from any other downtown or uptown, an elderly businesswoman with a head of teased blond hair stares at Christina Jones. Dressed in jeans, with her hair pulled back in a no-frills ponytail and a bicycle helmet in hand, Jones looks…
We so often associate Prime Prep Academy with its co-founder Deion Sanders that we often overlook all the little people who helped make the school such a dysfunctional place. If it wasn’t for Prime Prep’s school board, for instance, Sanders may have remained permanently fired from the school, removing the…
In October 2013, Clint Peterson was shot to death by a Duncanville Police Department officer. Now his family has filed a lawsuit in federal court against three unnamed officers who responded to the call that ultimately lead to his death. Other defendants named in the suit are Duncanville Police Chief…
Maybe you moved here from some expensive city on the coast, lured by a job offer and the cheap rent. An apartment broker directed you to a new building with a really pretentious name, like, say, “Celebrity.” But after spending a few months renting a cramped, thin-walled unit inside Celebrity,…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings recently released his semiannual campaign finance report, detailing the money he’s received for his re-election campaign and what he’s doing with it. There are no smoking guns in the report, no examples of obvious corruption that everyone can feel righteously outraged about. Most disappointingly, there is…
