While its students enjoyed the waning days of 2013 as a reprieve from schoolwork, the University of Dallas was eyeing the new year with trepidation. On January 1, Obamacare’s contraception mandate was set to kick in, meaning the school would have to start offering free contraception under its insurance plans…
The lawsuit Patricia Lawson filed Tuesday against Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is a straightforward discrimination claim. Lawson, a 64-year-old surgical systems supervisor with two decades’ experience at the hospital, says Presby fired her in October 2012 for being too old and a woman. The hospital didn’t admit that,…
At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, Pizza Villa was calm. The phones were silent, the ovens cooling. The workers stood idly, or else lounged in the otherwise empty booths. The cash register stayed shut. For a weeknight dinner rush at Richardson’s best and probably oldest pizza joint, the silence was bizarre…
Update at 12:45 p.m.Police have identified the gunman as Michael Edward Schmidt, whom The Dallas Morning News describes as a “prominent” lawyer. Schmidt works for his dad, C.L. Schmidt, at The Schmidt Firm, a group of trial lawyers whose specialties range from car accidents to oil and gas litigation. The…
At the December 16 meeting of the Flower Mound Town Council, Mayor Tom Hayden left his seat at the horseshoe, invited the two dozen or so church leaders in attendance to join him at the dais, and extended a middle finger to non-Christians everywhere. “I’m very fortunate to have had…
Dude Perfect, for those who are still unaware, is a quintet of A&M grads who found YouTube stardom after posting a clip of themselves hitting absurdly difficult basketball shots in a Texas backyard. Their few dozen encores have followed a similar pattern: make an elaborately conceived trick shot, celebrate it…
By now, you’re probably sick of year-end lists. Too bad. New Year’s is still a day-and-a-half away, there’s very little happening news-wise, and, most important, journalists have not yet exhausted their onanistic need to rehash their old work. So, here’s our contribution. Part best-of, part most-clicked, part whatever the hell…
There were already questions swirling about whether State District Judge Carlos Cortez’ moral character befit the dignity of the office. As The Dallas Morning News detailed earlier this month, he is in the middle of a long-running legal battle to keep allegations about his personal life, reportedly involving drug use…
With Tony Romo sidelined, a last-in-the-league defense and an innate inability to deliver in the clutch, the Cowboys’ chances against the Eagles on Sunday aren’t looking good. So, rather than lose money betting on Dallas, we thought it would be more productive to wager on how the Cowboys will lose…
The photos that started showing up under Evelina Elterman’s name on Russian social media — photos showing a woman with her bare ass pointed toward the camera, back arched in pornographic longing — didn’t actually show Evelina Elterman. They were cut-and-paste jobs, photos of the Queens woman grafted onto Internet…
It was a chaotic scene overnight as emergency vehicles and news crews descended on the 3000 block of Hanger Avenue in Fort Worth. Details were scarce, but Fort Worth PD said that a 14-year-old boy had been shot in the face a few minutes before midnight on Thursday and that…
All week, ever since he re-injured a herniated disk in his back against the Redskins, Cowboys fans have waited for final word on whether Tony Romo will play in Sunday’s season-deciding matchup with Philadelphia. Now we know. Despite some brief glimmers of hope — vague pronouncements from Jerry Jones, a…
When, in the predawn hours on Christmas morning, a Grand Prairie police officer spotted a suspicious 1997 Honda driving through the Grand Peninsula neighborhood near Joe Pool Lake, he didn’t know the car was stolen, nor did he know the driver had a gun. “Whatever he was doing caught the…
In 2013, Dallas residents were treated to an unprecedented whiff of Dallas city government, and the experience was something akin to opening that long-forgotten Tupperware container wedged beneath your car seat. The fumes aren’t going to kill anyone, but the noxious mix of incompetence and deceit is unmistakable. An unpleasant…
It started on Sunday in the closing minutes of the Eagles’ 54-11 shellacking of the Chicago Bears when Philly fans filled Lincoln Financial Field with chants of “We want Dallas!” The taunts have only increased in scope and volume as Sunday’s season-deciding Cowboys-Eagles grudge match has neared. Call it trolling…
Airport Freeway in Bedford is not a likely source of breakthroughs in consumer electronics and medical technology. But there, in a nondescript office building overlooking a Twin Peaks and Super 8 motel, is the world headquarters of iLife Technologies and Solutions. So far, the company has solved sleep apnea, elderly…
It’s still far too early to declare D-Link’s two-year pilot program a success or to gauge the long-term popularity of a free downtown shuttle. But after nearly two months in operation, officials say they’re pleasantly surprised. “It’s exceeded our expectations so far,” says Downtown Dallas Inc. president John Crawford, whose…
Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Gareth Long woke to a noise outside his bedroom door. He got out of bed, grabbed a handgun and went to investigate. In the hallway of his Cedar Hill home, Long’s attorney told The Dallas Morning News, he encountered a stranger. Several times, Long…
One day in 1997, seven police officers walked into the Institute of Ancestral Braiding in Oak Cliff and arrested Isis Brantley, a local hair guru whose clients include Erykah Badu, for braiding hair without a cosmetology license. Brantley no longer has the cops to worry about. In 2007, a decade…
There’s no guarantee that U.S. Congressman Ralph Hall, who has represented Rockwall and Northeast Texas in Washington for so long that they named a lake after him, will survive next year’s Republican primary. For the first time in years, he’s facing a formidable challenger in former U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe…
The Washington Redskins got their comeuppance Sunday afternoon thanks to a near-miraculous fourth-quarter drive by the Cowboys. This Redskins fan, clad in a classy “Dallas Sucks” sweatshirt, got his just desserts some time before that at the hands of a Washington security guard. Deadspin provides some context. The man and…
Erick Munoz wasn’t trying to set off a debate about abortion or end-of-life care. He just wanted to comply with the wishes of his wife, who is on life support at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth after suffering an apparent pulmonary embolism two days before Thanksgiving. But because his wife,…
