On the afternoon of September 6, police officers came to the door of an apartment in the 4300 block of Wyoming Street. They were following a man who lived there, who had just received a disturbing call: his one-year-old child was dead. The police were met at the door by…
At the end of October, highly watchable Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott threatened to press charges against any “U.N. poll watchers” who might “interfere with Texas elections.” Not to be outdone, state officials in Pennsylvania and Iowa also started threatening to arrest people. Those “poll watchers” were in fact election…
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but it’s true: the argument between the state of Texas and Planned Parenthood over the Women’s Health Program looks like it’s never, ever going to end. This case has dragged itself through state courts, federal courts, and back down to…
Everyone has their own way of coping with or celebrating the results of last night’s election. For his part, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn’t appear to have made good on his threat to arrest any European election monitors (who are, by the way, due to give a news conference…
It seems like decades, or perhaps centuries, since we first started hearing about the feud between the Nasher Sculpture Center and its shiny new neighbor, Museum Tower, a high-end condo building owned by the pensioners of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The latest development, aside from our Jim…
Back in March, Derek Madrigal, a 21-year-old student at Brookhaven Community College, was viciously beaten and stabbed by around a dozen people after he tried to defend a woman who was being harassed. The group of men beat Madrigal with cooler lids and stabbed him nine times, landing him in…
Last spring on the steps of the State Capitol, it was possible to buy a highly metaphorical cupcake, one that would cost you just $100 million. The “Billion Dollar Bake Sale” was put together by an outfit called Save Texas Schools, and it was meant to draw attention to the…
Update, January 29, 2013: A Dallas County grand jury has declined to indict Romo. On Tuesday, Ryan Adam Romo, an 18-year-old Highland Park High School senior and star baseball player, was charged with sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony. Romo is accused of raping a HPHS classmate after…
Yesterday morning, in a vote split along partisan lines, Dallas County narrowly approved domestic partner benefits for Dallas County employees. But the historic vote was accompanied by an odd incident that most every media outlet in town commented on: County Comissioner Maurine Dickey, as you can see in the Dallas…
Republican state senator John Carona got himself into a bit of hot water with fellow conservatives last week, after he told Dallas Voice senior editor John Wright that he would support several LGBT rights bills during the upcoming legislative session. Those bills would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation…
Steven Ray Milam’s long run as the “Handsome Guy Bandit” came to a sudden end on a rural Mississippi highway in January of this year, as the former casket salesman turned bank robber led local police on a chase along Interstate 10. Officers tried no less than three times to…
A few weeks back we told you about Cody Wilson, the UT Austin law student who heads a group called Defense Distributed. Wilson and co. would like to make a printable gun, a process that was stymied after the company that was renting them the printer abruptly seized it earlier…
That faint popping sound you heard last night was Governor Rick Perry uncorking a nice bottle of bubbly, after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused a request by Planned Parenthood to rehear the case over its ban from the new Texas Women’s Health Program (TWHP). Texas,…
Earlier today, Dallas attorney Tom Luce abruptly resigned as the mediator in the dispute between Museum Tower and the Nasher Sculpture Center. This afternoon, Dallas Police and Fire Pension System administrator Richard Tettamant quickly released a lengthy letter to Museum Tower’s homeowners, assuring them that DPFP’s shiniest project remains on…
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is threatening to bring criminal charges against European election observers who may be monitoring the general election process in Texas. His always-entertaining Twitter feed suggests he would also be willing to throttle them with his bare hands. “UN poll watchers can’t interfere w/ Texas elections,”…
The Morning News has obtained an email from Dallas attorney Tom Luce, in which he tenders his resignation as the facilitator in the endless dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The email, sent to pension system administrator Richard Tettamant, has the subject…
Last week, Richard Malouf, the Dallas dentist accused of massive Medicaid fraud, sued WFAA, Owen Wilson’s mom and real estate blogger Candy Evans, accusing them all of libel, defamation, slander and invasion of privacy. Malouf and wife, Leanne, still in the midst of being investigated by the state of Texas,…
A Dallas businessman, who for some unfathomable reason is choosing to stay anonymous, told an East Texas TV station that he has several photos of “a bigfoot,” taken in Shelby County and just outside Dallas. (The video above comes from KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News.) The man told…
A few days after Arlington’s now-outed Reddit troll Michael Brutsch sat for an interview in a Fort Worth hotel room with CNN reporter Drew Griffin, the rest of us finally got to see it. It’s a bit of a trainwreck. CNN’s first shot of Brutsch shows him fidgeting nervously as…
State Fair mascot Big Tex has gone up in flames. It’s still not clear what caused the fire, which is reported to be “under control.” Remembering Big Tex: “Big Tex Gets a Makeover,” by Allison V. Smith Alice Laussade’s exclusive interview with Big Tex “Big Tex Will Haunt Your Dreams,”…
The new Texas Women’s Health Program is really going to be special. And by “special,” we mean terrible. But as the Texas Tribune reports , state officials have made one tiny concession in response to complaints from women’s advocacy and medical groups: Doctors will now be allowed to discuss the…
Richard Malouf has had an exciting year or so, what with being investigated by the state, the feds and WFAA for what is alleged to be a massive amount of Medicaid fraud. Malouf and wife Leanne’s rather lavish personal lifestyle has also come under scrutiny: the mansion, the jets, the…
