The Trinity Strand Trail will someday run about eight miles from the old Trinity River channel, pass under Stemmons Freeway and out of the Design District, lope alongside Turtle Creek, loop beneath the DART/TRE tracks and the Tollway, then link up with the Katy Trail. That’s the plan, at least,…
View Larger Map Update at 10:48 a.m.: Police have identified the suspect as Kendrick McDaniel and announced that he died about 11 hours after the shooting.Original post: Over the weekend, a Dallas police officer shot an armed suspect at the Taco Bell at 4325 Camp Wisdom Road, adding to the…
Earlier this week, a federal judge signed an order directing the U.S. government to take possession of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton that had been sold last month by Dallas’ own Heritage Auctions. The fossil, the government said, had been looted from the Gobi Desert some time between 1995 and 2005…
As I type this, Mayor Mike Rawlings is in a room at Shanghai’s Purple Palace Hotel, 7,000 miles away and 13 hours ahead of us. That makes it about 1 a.m. over there, so you might expect him to be sleeping, resting up for another big day at the U.S.-China…
A few moments ago, Parkland sent word that John Dragovits, its executive vice president and chief financial officer, is leaving the struggling hospital. Come mid-July, he’ll become the president and COO of Anthelio, a healthcare IT provider headquartered in Dallas. The press release, of course, makes no mention of Parkland’s…
Texas is no stranger to beefs with the federal government. Look no further than its perennial pissing match with the EPA. Last week, Texas officials declared victory in another front of their skirmish with the feds, this one involving an obscure reptile, the dunes sagebrush lizard, found only in four…
This morning, the DMN gives us more details (paywall) about the guy who allegedly tried to blow up a gas main in Plano but was instead taken to the hospital with shrapnel wounds. He now has a name, Anson Chi, a past conviction on a concealed weapon charge in California,…
First Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress gets most of the press for his outspoken views on homosexuality and Mormonism, but over at the Dallas Voice, John Wright highlights the, um, retrograde views of another prominent local preacher, Dwight McKissic of Arlington’s Cornerstone Baptist Church. McKissic successfully introduced a resolution at the…
When Texas Democrats gathered in Houston last week for their annual convention last week, the mood was glum. Republicans have, after all, held every statewide office since 1994 and, while demographics are likely push the state back into Democratic hands by, oh, 2050 or so, there’s not a lot to…
Yesterday, a company named Clear, which bills itself as “the nation’s pre-eminent biometric secure ID program” announced that it will set up shop at DFW Airport’s Terminal E on June 27. Says the news release, the company’s “innovative biometric technology combined with members-only lanes allows travelers to speed through security,…
Every morning at a METRO stop along the Katy Freeway in Houston, several dozen commuters gather and wait. Except they’re a little out of place. “There’s a main area where the buses pick up the people who park up at the park-and-ride lot and, not far from there are relatively…
At its meeting today, the board of the North Texas Tollway Authority approved a plan to publish the names of every person who has 100 or more unpaid tolls. It will be an updated list of more than 25,000 drivers who owe something like $12.5 million. I can get behind…
Damage estimates from the hail storm that pummeled, to name a few things, historic slate roofs, delicate glass sculptures, the Midway sign at Fair Park, and my car. Also, the head of state Rep. Eric Johnson’s wife Nakita when a hailstone boulder crashed through his car’s sunroof, which might have…
Why is Fair Park so deserted? It’s a question that has baffled city officials forever, but so far no one has come up with a plan to draw people to the 277 acre fairgrounds in months that don’t start with “O.” It’s a puzzle no longer, because council member Dwaine…
Update at 5:26 p.m.: Just kidding. Great Clips sends word that they are in the process of dismissing the lawsuit. “We have come to an amicable resolution with Mr. Ross,” the company said in a statement. You may not have noticed, but the hair-styling landscape in Dallas is shifting beneath…
Yesterday, when it came out that the guy who said he had been injured by a hit-and-run driver during a midnight jog had actually been attempting to blow up a natural gas main (the shrapnel was a dead giveaway), people went bat shit. My Twitter feed exploded (figuratively) when the…
First, the bad news. Next year, the city estimates that residential users will pay 5.7 percent more for water, according to City Manager Mary Suhm’s latest budget briefing (page 35). Wilonsky told you it was coming, right after the city hiked rates last year, again more than five percent. The…
First, it was the president of Mongolia, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, who cried foul when Dallas’ own Heritage Auctions auctioned off a rare Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton for a bit over $1 million. Said that there was no way the specimen could have come from anywhere but Mongolia and that, since there are…
So. We stumbled on this photo on Tumblr a while ago and had to ask: “Hey Texas Rangers. Why are so many of you holding assault weapons?” Rangers spokesman John Blake sent word from the road a few moments ago: “Several of the Rangers visited the Navy Seals Training Facility…
At about 2 p.m. Sunday, a Latino man in his early 30s, his head bald and both arms covered with tattoos, pocketed a $10 T-shirt, a pair of Starter tennis shoes and a DVD player from Walmart on Cockrell Hill Road. On his way out of the store, he was…
Update at 4:54 p.m.: JC Penney just sent me a statement. As expected, it makes no mention of One Million Moms: Michael’s departure does not signify a change to jcpenney’s long-term transformation plans. We remain focused on our vision to becoming America’s favorite store through great product and exciting new…
Update at 12:15 p.m.: I’ve posted a copy of the affidavit below. Original Post:Twice in the span of about a week, a young woman walking near the DART bus stop at Walnut and Audelia in Northeast Dallas was approached by a young black man, forced to a secluded area and…
