I have a Google Alert set up for Mike Miles, e.g. DISD’s new superintendent, so that whenever his name is mentioned on the Interwebs, I get an email. The past couple of weeks, though, the inbox has been flooded not with news of the MarineArmy Ranger-turned-school reformer but with a…
View Larger Map About 4 p.m. yesterday, a man who a witness said appeared drunk, walked into the EZ Trip Food Store above and, according to police, began harassing customers. Specifically, he slapped one person repeatedly in the face before chasing them from the store. Upon his return, he began…
Remember last week when a bus crash shut down the Dallas North Tollway? Turns out the NTTA has video. Posted it this afternoon. No one died in the crash, so you can enjoy it guilt free…
A little while ago, WFAA reported that Methodist Dallas Medical Center had made a teensy error during a recent operation and transplanted a kidney into the wrong patient. The kidney turned out to be compatible and the patient is fine, but when Methodist discovered the mistake last week, it raised…
The graph above shows the number of babies delivered each year at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Notice the steep downward trajectory, from 15,800 in 2008 to a projected 10,700 in 2013. That’s a 32-percent drop or, in layman’s terms, a shit-load fewer babies. I noticed this almost a month ago, back…
View Larger Map Harry Engel loved his home right up to the day it killed him. The retired minister had grown up as an orphan, so he took particular pride in the modest Grand Prairie house he had shared with wife Wanda for 22 years. In February 2010, the couple…
On January 6, 2007, Linoshka Torres, 18, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Luis Campos, parked his dad’s car in the driveway of an Oak Cliff mechanic’s house and vanished, keys still in the ignition of the red Ford Explorer, cell phones on the seat. It was supposed to have been a…
Paul Green was not in the best of health in 2009 when he was hired as a bus monitor by Dallas County Schools. He had been battling colon cancer for more than a decade and, several years before, had been diagnosed with hypertension and congestive heart failure. As a result,…
At about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dora Fuller and her family were woken by smoke alarms. They quickly rushed from the home, on Berwick Avenue in Oak Cliff and called 911. They got a recording telling them all dispatchers were busy. So they hung up and tried again. And again. So…
View Larger Map An employee of Sewell Lexus on Monday happened upon a badly decomposed body police initially believed had been stabbed or shot in the back of the head. An autopsy has since ruled out homicide, and police are treating it as an unexplained death pending toxicology results. But…
Before the city of Dallas was contacted several years ago about accepting a few dozen mostly undeveloped acres along the edge of the escarpment in southwest Dallas, few outside the Niblo family knew what it contained. It had been settled as part of the Peters Colony, which was founded at…
Front page of the DMN this morning is a story to warm the heart of anyone who owns a car: The number of uninsured drivers in Texas has dropped and dropped hard, from 4.2 million to 2.6 million, all in a single year. That comes after rates have been hovering…
Given his high profile over the past few months and some much-publicized decisions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Mike Miles has actually been DISD’s superintendent. Which he has, of course, but not officially and not full-time until Monday, when he took the reins in earnest. It was a busy…
Update at 5:02 p.m.: No jail time, but two years probation and a $10,000 fine. Also, Evans has already appealed the conviction, meaning he can’t be removed from office unless “the court that renders judgment finds that it is in the public interest,” which is slated to take place on…
On the night of January 25, 2010, Jil Katz was walking to her car in the parking lot of Whole Foods at Preston and Forest when she was approached by a man who threw her to the ground and repeatedly slammed her face into the pavement, breaking her nose and…
The Texas Rangers just sent word: Broadcaster Dave Barnett, who rambled incoherently about henchmen and botched robberies during a recent game, is out of the booth for at least the rest of the season. He’ll be replaced by radio play-by-play man Steve Busby. Per a statement from Barnett: I want…
If you’ve ever been serenaded by an animatronic mouse while eating terrible pepperoni pizza and fending off hordes of screaming 5-year-olds, you know Duncan Brannan. For the past 19 years, the Dallas-area voice actor has been the nasal whine behind Chuck E. Cheese, the whiskered face of the eponymous, Irving-based…
A week ago, code enforcement officials reported on progress plowing through that backlog of restaurant inspections. The backlog was taken care of with the help of an outside company, they told a City Council committee. From now on, with a few new hires, the department would be able to handle…
It just so happens that this week, both the Little People of America, which provides support to people with dwarfism, and the National Federation for the Blind, which advocates for people who can’t see, are hosting their annual conferences in Dallas. A coincidence, no doubt, but it got me thinking…
It takes a special type of person to sue televangelist Pat Robertson over a weight loss shake and say things to a reporter like “Me and Robertson are coming in a head-on crash,” and “This ain’t no goddamn game. He wants to come after me? Bring it fuckin’ on.” It…
When video surfaced earlier this year of EPA’s regional administrator Al Armendariz comparing his strategy for regulating the oil and gas industry as the EPA’s regional head to crucifixion, Republicans gladly accepted the former SMU professor’s proffered head. Then, when they asked him to Washington to be pilloried in person,…
At the end of the day yesterday, the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation sent a dispatch from its president, Brook Rawlings, reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. “Make no mistake,” Rawlings wrote. “This outcome is a net negative for every Texan — and every…
