Last Tuesday, four men smashed the front door of Southern Staple Supply in the 7000 block of John Carpenter Freeway, stole 30 air guns and an air compressor worth a combined $14,000, then drove away in a white van. You can see the video here All four suspects are described…
Offering benefits to the partners of LGBT workers is gradually becoming a standard thing for large public employers in North Texas. The city of Dallas included domestic partner benefits in 2004, DFW Airport in 2010 and Parkland this year. Dallas County is poised to follow suit at the first of…
Last week, Gregory London got his job back. The Precinct 1 deputy constable had been fired in 2011 along with 16 of his peers after a county audit of the constabulary’s GPS units concluded that the officers had lied about their whereabouts, saying they were serving, say, an eviction notice…
Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Mike just had to see if there were any new sweater vests at Neiman’s, so he strolled downtown and tweeted the picture you see above. (Okay, so it wasn’t the mayor, who now signs his tweets MR, but a staffer under the handle @DallasMayorsOfc. It’s great to…
In March 2011, the Exciting Greater New St. John Primitive Baptist Church closed on a modest white clapboard building on 56th Street in South Oak Cliff. The church, led by the Reverend Vincent Davis, appointed three trustees to handle the financing of the purchase and later put Sandra Diamond Taylor…
The University of North Texas at Dallas has come along way since it was founded in 2000 as a 55-student extension of UNT’s Denton campus. In 2007, it moved onto its permanent campus and three years later became a standalone institution that now boasts a shade over 2,000 students. Not…
Update at 9:55 a.m. on July 25: Police sent word this morning that Beltran has been found. Promising more details later. Original post:Early this morning, just after the bars closed, Elia Beltran, 20, and a friend were walking from Club Rio along S. Walton Walker Boulevard. They were nearing Beltran’s…
Since they were put in place a decade or two ago, use of Dallas-area HOV lanes has required having only two people per vehicle. The idea was to encourage carpooling but not make the requirement so onerous that the lanes would sit empty. In that regard at least, the plan…
There was never much to Bankersmith, Texas — little more than a post office and general store at its peak — but it wasn’t a ghost town. Maggie Montgomery made sure of that. Maggie — she promptly disabused me of the notion that I would call her Mrs. Montgomery when…
Dallas and Fort Worth are similar. They’re both in Texas, both have oversized conceptions of themselves, and both came of age in the automobile era. The cities also developed similar bike plans, involving miles of designated bike lanes, at about the same time. And that’s where, transit-wise at least, the…
Update at 8:42 a.m.:The guy with the gun has been identified as 23-year-old Todd Canady. Original post: It’s Monday night and you’re out of milk. Mornings just aren’t the same without the chocolate milky dregs of your Cocoa Puffs, so a trip to Walmart is in order. Keys? Check. Wallet?…
I wouldn’t have known it by watching two over-muscled and under-clothed men pummel each other senseless, in a cage no less, but mixed martial arts has rules. Surprising, too, that one of the rules is that you can’t have too much testosterone in your system. I learned these things from…
Our Dearest Domingo: You’ve had a good run for Congress. You made it out of a crowded, 11-person scrum into a mano-a-mano face off with State Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth. You had the balls to call GM’s gas-guzzling SUVs “not good for America,” even though the plant that…
We’re still not certain what Glenn Beck means when he says he’ll be “Restoring Love” at Cowboys Stadium on July 28. Truth be told, we’re a bit terrified to find out, which is yet another reasons Unfair Park will steer well clear of Arlington on Saturday. (Editor’s note: Actually, Eric,…
You might have already figured this out given the perennial threat of rolling blackouts and grid operator ERCOT’s own admission that, come 2013, there won’t be sufficient wattage to cover peak demand, but the state’s electrical grid isn’t the best. In fact, as the Texas Tribune reports today, it’s the…
By most measures, LG Pinkston High School is failing. The school, which neighbors Fish Trap Lake in a poor area of West Dallas, has higher dropout rates, lower graduation rates, and lower test scores than the rest of Dallas ISD. It is considered academically unacceptable by the state and has…
Update at 2:34 p.m.:Okay, now we know. DPD’s statement hit my inbox a few minutes ago: In response to the shooting that occurred in Aurora, Colorado, the Dallas Police Department has instructed patrol officers to provide extra visibility and to be extra vigilant at public locations where large numbers of…
Six months ago, Peter Stone was working for Apple in Manhattan when he decided, somewhat randomly, to move to Dallas. “He liked the idea that he could golf and play tennis year-round without the mounds of snow and icy winds of New York City. “I came here, and it is…
Slugging, aka commuting to work in random strangers’ cars, has long been a thing in Houston and a handful of other cities across the country but never in Dallas. Maybe it’s that use of our HOV lanes requires only two people per vehicle or that Dallas doesn’t have enough pockets…
It’s Saturday night, and you and the lady have just finished a romantic, candlelit dinner. You’re on your third glass of wine, and you move to the bedroom, where she tells you she’s going to slip into something a little more comfortable. She disappears into the closet and emerges wearing…
Back in April, Ryan Walker Grant had agreed to close Flashdancer, his Arlington strip club, for a year to settle a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General. Walker could apparently live with that but, when Arlington officials began taking steps to put him out of business for good by…
With all the hullabaloo surrounding the completion of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, not to mention what must have been a righteous party, it was easy to forget that world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava was supposed to design two more of his signature (e.g. big, white, and arch-y) bridges across the…
