In late December, two cyclists with heavy bruising on their faces said they had been punched by a random, angry motorist driving behind them on Turtle Creek Boulevard. Despite the serious accusations, the Dallas police who came to the scene that night didn’t appear to try too hard to get…
This weekend, a religious media company is hosting a huge event in a taxpayer-funded building. Sounds like another day in the life of Texas, but it’s not because, in this case, the religious conference is a Muslim one. Just a week after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, the Chicago-based…
Monday’s news that Prime Prep Superintendent Ron Price is resigning at the end of January marked the beginning of the end (for real this time, we think) of Deion Sanders’ troubled charter school. His resignation was followed with an announcement from state officials that the Texas Education Agency is appointing…
There was a time, late last year, when someone actually tried to fire Deion Sanders from Prime Prep Academy, the charter school he co-founded. That brave someone was the school’s then-superintendent, an educator unrelated to Prime Time named Rachel King Sanders. At a school unofficially run by some of Deion…
The developer who attempted to illegally evict people from the Town Creek Condos in three days the week before Thanksgiving — and then backtracked when reporters showed up to ask why — is getting residents to leave for good this time. His property manager Rena Hansen has been going around…
David Harrison is still waiting to see the footage of Dallas Police Department officers killing his brother. The June shooting death of Jason Harrison, the subject of last week’s cover story by Sky Chadde, was the first fatal DPD shooting ever captured on the department’s new body camera technology, but…
On January 1 Dallas residents faced a 5-cent charge on grocery bags for the first time. These are their stories…
In a heartwarming story about the triumph of property values over the human spirit, a Frisco homeowners association has finally persuaded a nonprofit serving the homeless to get the hell out of the neighborhood. The homeless teens living in Frisco’s Plantation Resort 2 neighborhood can stay there for now, but…
Cop watchers, or the people who follow cops around with cameras to catch them doing something wrong, were predictably outraged after one of their own got arrested by the Arlington Police Department this weekend. “A copwatcher with a black powder revolver was kidnapped and hauled away like a dog catcher…
People in other, more normal cities bought each other cool gifts like Beats headphones and men’s Uggs for Christmas. Popular toys and games in the rest of America were Legos, Cards Against Humanity and the Xbox, all fine choices. But in Dallas, for some reason, there appears to have been…
Whether it’s a police union rep or an activist who says their neighborhood is terrorized by the police, pretty much the safest opinion either side can have is that all cops should wear body cameras. Activists like the idea of cameras because they argue that the footage will bring more…
The news just keeps rolling on, and not every story has a neat ending. Sometimes it pays to stop and take a look back to see what’s happened with stories we reported during the year. That time is the day after Christmas, when all the new newsmakers are sneaking in…
Three friends were riding their bikes along Turtle Creek after a night out early Saturday when, they say, a French couple in a black Volkswagen pulled up behind them and started honking. While that sounds like typical Turtle Creek driver behavior (minus the French accent), they say the motorist then…
In July, all of the TRUTH-haters in the media reported that Deion Sanders’ disaster of charter school was being “shut down.” But we were wrong. Prime Prep is still open and participating in sports. Not only that, Prime Prep has proudly become the only school in the country to equip…
It was over four years ago when agents from the Food and Drug Administration began hearing disturbing complaints about USPLabs, the corporation headquartered in Dallas that sells “nutrition” powder, dietary supplements and other products to bros trying to beef up their builds. Customers complaining of bad reactions included a 16-year-old…
To seasoned Dallas apartment renters, towing horror stories are a fact of life. But for a 23-year-old woman who recently moved here from Atlanta, towing was something she says she never thought about — not until her car had been towed from her own apartment parking lot the day she…
Every winter, the world’s only flock of wild whooping cranes flies into Texas and stays along the Texas Gulf Coast, using water near the Aransas Pass. Maybe one day in the future, Greg Abbott can require the whopping cranes to obtain a permit before they take advantage of our state’s…
Just in time for the holidays, the people left at a run-down apartment complex in Lake Highlands have been hearing a lot of different things about whether they have to pack their bags and get out, and when. The week before Thanksgiving, the occupants of the Town Creek Condos were…
When Texas Health Presbyterian was still in the middle of its Ebola public relations fallout, hospital officials had an ever-shifting series of explanations for why Thomas Eric Duncan was initially misdiagnosed and sent home. The hospital had at first made a subtle suggestion that the misdiagnosis was a nurse’s fault…
Most people don’t realize that Texas has had a pretty cool law on the books since 1985 that bars merchants from charging customers extra for paying by credit card. The famously annoying credit card surcharge feels like it’s everywhere, and Texas is just one of a handful of states where…
For the past few years, the Dallas City Council says it’s been trying to develop a vacant lot on Simpson Stuart and Bonnie View roads, in a section of Dallas south of Loop 12 that is 22.5 square miles but home to just 27,500 people. What the relatively low-population area…
In Texas’ business-friendly climate, no industry spokesperson wants to be the weakling who admits that maybe water is sort of important. But it appears that some tough guys are finally letting their guard down. Last week, a rice farmer gave an interview in which he wasn’t so coy about water,…
