On the evening of October 29, 2010, Matthew Tate and other Dallas police officers were conducting a sweep of the Cedar Garden apartment complex in east Oak Cliff when they came upon Tobias Mackey. According to officers’ accounts, Mackey began to reach into his waist band when ordered to show…
John Ellis Price, the founding president of UNT-Dallas, made precisely zero friends among the school’s faculty two years ago when he fired every one of them. That was when the school officially spun off from UNT in Denton and established itself as a separate entity, which Ellis said meant faculty…
John MuseJohn Muse is the ‘M’ of HM Capital Partners, the private equity firm he co-founded with former Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks in 1989. It was for a while one of the most recognized leveraged buyout firms in the country before it all but collapsed when the tech bubble…
BMWs are not native to White Rock Lake, though they found a welcoming habitat among the mansions along Lawther Drive and have established colonies in the arboretum parking lot. On Sunday, for one day only, the car company will briefly introduce a new specimen: the 2013 X1. The vehicle –…
On April 2, 2010, as 36-year-old Pedro David Garcia sat in the back seat of a car at an apartment complex in Northwest Dallas, he was shot several times, dying at the scene. The shooter fled in a white Dodge pickup. Homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Augustin Gonzalez,…
In 2001, the Texas Legislature passed a law that made prostitution a state jail felony after a third misdemeanor conviction. The measure was intended to be tough on crime and help clear hookers from Dallas truck stops. The law has done little to curb the sex trade, but it has…
Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys. He also really likes/has an endorsement deal with Papa John’s. That goes some ways in explaining the existence of the above video, titled “Hip Hop Jerry,” in which Jones proclaims his love for the pizza chain via a rap song. It’s about what you’d…
The city of Dallas is awfully proud of its efforts to be green, what with the cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions and the garbage plan that promises zero waste by 2040. Add another item to that list: the city’s first comprehensive sustainability plan. The plan, which will be mulled…
On Saturday morning, a Dallas Police Department helicopter was on routine patrol over South southern Dallas when officers spotted what appeared to be marijuana growing inside a deeply wooded area off the 1500 block of Wood Vista Court, just north of the intersection of C.F. Hawn Freeway and Lake June…
The drive south down Interstate 35 isn’t a particularly pleasant one, but there soon there may be something to distract you, namely a 243-mile elevated rail line dedicated to shipping freight. The Texas Department of Transportation is close to reaching a deal to lease highway right-of-way to Freight Shuttle International,…
Lubbock County Judge Tom Head is raising taxes just in case, steeling himself for the U.N. invasion that will almost certainly follow an Obama win in November. But what is the U.N. doing to get ready for its occupation of Lubbock? Maybe buying some Red Raider gear to fit in…
A year ago, John Pena Medellin, aka “Papa John,” aka “Uncle John,” the founding president of the Los Homeboys motorcycle club, was head of an operation that purchased large quantities of black-tar heroin, meth, and coke (some of it from Dallas’ Enchanted Hills apartments, and distributed it throughout the DFW…
State Senator Dan Patrick, a Houston Republican, fired something of a warning shot two weeks ago when he announced a renewed push for school choice, both in the form of vouchers and expanded charter offerings. “To me, school choice is the photo ID bill of this session,” Patrick told the…
NBC5. Note: Jump to the :35 mark for the dancing. First, a question: why do people in leadership positions in Dallas feel its a good idea to dance in public? Because it’s not. You would think they would have learned that after this video, which was apparently so embarrassing it…
I met Will Becker just over two years ago on a nondescript residential street near Bishop Lynch High School in East Dallas. I was writing for Preston Hollow People at the time, and had wanted to meet him at a fetid, swimming pool in North Dallas, but he refused to…
Update at 11:47 a.m.: The AP has a few more details. Travis apparently knew the woman who was arguing with her estranged husband. No one was injured, but Travis and another woman were both ticketed for simple assault, a Class C misdemeanor. The police report does not indicate that alcohol…
Last year, on a short block between Pearl and Olive, a few dozen groups hijacked some metered parking spaces downtown for a day. There was music, pop-up museums, a little bit of soccer, and a good deal of lounging. They were miniature parks, set up by volunteers for Dallas’ inaugural…
Update at 10:55 a.m.: It’s now officially official. The USADA has formally instituted a lifetime ban against Armstrong and erasing all competitive results since Aug. 1, 1999. That includes his seven Tour victories. From the USADA’s statement: Numerous witnesses provided evidence to USADA based on personal knowledge acquired, either through…
Things were going well for Charles Anthony Jones last Valentine’s Day. Business was good, he had $3,000 cash in his front pocket and enough anti-impotence medication in his car to kill a stallion. But that’s when things started going down hill. Irving police arrested him later that day and took…
Last month UNT-Dallas made the rather unexpected announcement that founding President John Ellis Price was stepping down effective August 2013, leaving him in office long enough to launch the so-called New University Model. Details about the model were left up to Bain & Company (the consulting affiliate of Mitt Romney’s…
In 2010, Theadora Ross was a senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department and the officer in charge of Dallas Crime Stoppers, the program that offers thousands in cash rewards to tipsters who give information leading to arrest and indictment of criminals. Now, she is neither of those things. Last…
Last year, just after state lawmakers had finished cutting $5.4 billion from Texas’ public education system, voters passed a constitutional amendment intended to put $300 million back into schools by allowing the General Land Office to put a portion of its real estate earnings into the Available School Fund. That’s…
