A few months ago, just south of the Texas-Mexico border, a 17-year-old girl was cautiously making her way to the Rio Grande river and the American desert beyond. In her arms she carried her 1-year-old daughter. The two made it across, but, like most of the South American women and…
In a dark basement at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, just north of downtown, sits a small, continually refreshed stockpile of radioactive waste that awaits disposal. After it leaves Southwestern, it is taken out to the tiny town of Andrews, where it is promptly added to the only…
It’s never been a better time to get busted in Dallas, at least for inmates Willie Brown, James Langley and Jose Morquecho, who were each politely escorted out of the county jail on Thursday and set free thanks to an error caused by officers’ unfamiliarity with a new computer system…
The Dallas County Health and Human Services Department has had a rough week. First, the state cracked down on the department for allegedly falsifying county STI records. The manager of HIV-STI division, Lashonda Worthey, has been fired, and the Texas Department of State Health Services is set to launch a…
There are a few things you never, ever, want to hear a doctor say. Like “uh-oh.” Or “oops.” Lucky for Glenn Hermes, he was far away from the operating table when his doctors had their “oops” moment. In December 2012, Hermes first visited the doctor for an odd growth on…
How many times in college did you call your parents in a panic because you found out you needed a graphing calculator the day before your math final? Or bombed an exam and called your mom to gripe? Or brought a bag full of laundry home for Christmas break? For…
See update at bottom.Agape is a Christian organization that lends crisis housing support to women, their children and unaccompanied children in need. They provide shelter to homeless women and children, as well as community ministry and counseling. They operate out of four residential homes as Household Care Facilities, according to…
In the past week, the ‘burbs have not exactly been friendly to local Muslims. Keller ISD school board member Jo Lynn Haussman was asked to resign after her fiery Facebook post saying what a “SHAME” it is to “NOW HAVE A ‘MUSLIM’ on the City Council!!!” Keller ISD’s board quickly…
Until 2011, Luis lived in Mexico, where he made a living building houses. Luis’ wife and children, who are American citizens, lived in Los Angeles. Luis visited his wife and children as much as he could, until he was arrested for illegal reentry. For this crime, he served a three-year…
For as long as a decade, the feds say, brothers Cesar and Gilberto have been the kingpins of a large and violent drug-dealing syndicate in North Texas, known by law enforcement as the Goon Squad. Theirs was a family business. The brothers worked along with their sister Elva as drug…
When we left you on Friday, there was a glimmering hope that Texas Republicans might consider adopting a more middle-ground approach to immigration, in an attempt to appeal to Hispanic voters. According to state Representative Jason Villalba, a more moderate stance would be critical to the survival of the Republican…
“Unless we adjust, we as a party are at tremendous peril of vanishing forever.” This was Jason Villalba, the state rep from Dallas, over the phone today, imagining the doomsday scenario that could break his Republican party, if far-right members don’t shuffle toward the center aisle on immigration. Villalba recently…
The Republican National Convention committee on Tuesday kicked off a week of host city-searching with a trip to Cleveland, the first of four stops. After Cleveland, committee members will make stops in Kansas City and Denver before rounding out the trip in Dallas late next week. Dallas city officials, for…
Baby, it’s really freaking hot outside. And it’s only getting hotter, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Texas has landed itself toward the top of another undesirable list, according to a recent federal climate data study by the Associated Press. The AP analyzed weather trends from the National Climatic…
As a recent transplant to Dallas from Austin, where I apparently spent 76 hours in 2013 banging my head against a steering wheel, I have little sympathy for Dallasites. But traffic is traffic is traffic, and it sucks in any form. TomTom, the company responsible for most in-car navigation and…
It’s hump day, people, so lose yourself in a fantasy of jetting off on a one-way flight to exotic Lubbock or Wichita, with one of Southwest Airlines’ trademark ultra-cheap flights to … somewhere. Southwest announced yesterday that it would be offering a three-day sale on tickets for as low as…
As the Division Director of Immigration and Legal Services for Catholic Charities of Dallas, Vanna Slaughter has long received email updates whenever young migrants arrive alone in the Dallas area. For some time, she says, she’s received around 250 of these cases in a given month — already a large…
Hidden Cash, for those of you living under a WiFi-free rock, is the Twitternet sensation that rocked San Francisco last month. An anonymous local millionaire placed envelopes of cash around the city and released clues to their whereabouts on @HiddenCash, calling the exercise a “social experiment.” Hidden Cash events have…
