For the record, the jailer in the above photo no longer works for Dallas County. Rachel Leigh Graham lost her job and pleaded guilty to official oppression for slamming her handcuffed charge into the tile floor of the Lew Sterrett jail. But that doesn’t make the video, seen below in…
Police don’t make a habit of blasting out the names and faces of 17-year-old crime suspects, but the Irving Police Department made an exception for Travis Lekas. The Nimitz High School student was arrested Monday on charges that he drugged a fellow student and forced her into prostitution. According to…
Yesterday, the Dallas Police Department has blanketed its Facebook page with a portrait and brief biography of every officer killed in the line of duty over the past 121 years. The procession of 80 mostly young faces is a somber reminder of how dangerous a job policing is. A handful…
We could report this one out and inform you that Optimus Prime’s cameo at Main Street Garden this afternoon was part of a promotion for Transformers Thirtysomething, but we’d rather just assume Downtown Dallas Inc. was rolling out the newest member of their downtown security patrol. Those pooping dogs over…
Neighbors were growing concerned about the fate of Pemberton Spring. In recent months, surveyors with the city had come within spitting distance of the site as they drilled soil samples and staked out buildings for $10 million Texas Horse Park. They feared the imminent disappearance of the spring, which has…
Washington is still reeling from the revelation on Friday that the IRS has been singling out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny. The news immediately drew howls of bipartisan protest, and pretty much everyone agrees that using the tax system to target political enemies is not what happens in a…
The media has had a hard time labeling Barrett Brown. “Anonymous spokesman” doesn’t fit because Anonymous is too anarchic and loosely organized to have a spokesman. For the same reason, he’s not the collective’s “self-proclaimed” spokesman, though he did have more than his share of media appearances. The best option…
The man who knocked on David Goldman’s door at 9:30 last night didn’t look like trouble. He was fairly young, in his mid-20s, “dressed neat, clean-shaven and (with) a good haircut,” the 76-year-old later told police, and he asked the price on the 1996 Mercedes for sale in the driveway…
Justin Grogg was in town from Panama City on a business trip when he and a colleague went out on the town to sample the local fare. They went to the Red Lobster at Stemmons and Northwest Highway, and Grogg ordered a Budweiser. Grogg says it took only a second…
Klyde Warren — the park, not the kid — was still just a twinkle in the city’s eye when Mayor Tom Leppert unveiled plans to kick the cars off the Continental Avenue bridge and transform it into a linear park over the Trinity River. The original plan was to have…
The last time the Mavericks overhauled their uniforms it was 2001, and Dirk was still a scrawny, clean-cut German import flanked by Steve Nash and Michael Finley. The previous design was two decades old and carried the reek of futility of the early ’90s. There have been a few minor…
It’s always been nearly impossible to compare prices between hospitals. For one, most people who find themselves in an emergency room don’t have the leisure to shop around. Even if they do, where are they going to turn? Healthcare providers don’t typically put their prices on billboards. The opacity of…
Right now, the City Council is debating whether to lower fees and loosen the rules governing what businesses can put on sidewalks and public rights of way, the idea being that more sidewalk cafes and awnings and creative signage and landscaping can help create a more enjoyable urban experience. Planners…
Spoiler alert: Charlotte Brown did not win the state pole vaulting championship over the weekend. The sophomore at Emory Rains High School, 70 miles east of here, cleared 10’6″ on Saturday, putting her eighth out of nine contestants and more than two feet shy of victory. Still, her performance was…
There was a City Council election on Saturday and, if you’re like the vast majority of Dallas, you didn’t notice. But whether you were paying attention or not, some important things were decided and some interesting trends emerged. Here’s what you need to know: Angela Hunt’s legacy: Saturday’s most interesting…
Ever since they parted ways with ESPN Dallas, sports talk duo Ben Rogers and Skin Wade have hinted that they had something else lined up. They’ve just been vague about what exactly that might be. No longer. As Rogers announced a few minutes ago, he and Wade have officially found…
Typically, Dallas saves its wilder side for the weekend. That’s when, once the booze and drugs are flowing in earnest, the weird crimes tend to happen. But the weekend arrived early, with police reporting an armed diaper bag robbery, a Craigslist heist and a low-budget movie production scaring the bejesus…
Dallas ISD trustees still haven’t decided what to do about the roster of principals whose jobs could be on the chopping block. The matter has now been delayed twice, thus sparing trustees from making an extremely controversial decision until after this weekend’s election. At their meeting Thursday, trustees did manage…
You wouldn’t have expected a bill to rename a stretch of Central Expressway for George W. Bush to inspire a rare bipartisan kumbaya moment in the Texas legislature. His presidency is too recent and remains a source of bitterness for too many Democrats. But when the House vote was posted,…
We learned a little bit more yesterday about Jeff Bliss, the Duncanville High School student whose blistering classroom rant against uninspired teachers seems to have struck a nerve. He’s 18, but he’s only a high school sophomore, having dropped out of school for a year. He’s new to, and not…
It wasn’t quite heard around the world, but the shot fired by The Liberator, the plastic gun that University of Texas law student Cody Wilson designed and fabricated using a 3-D printer, was witnessed by a lot of people. It proved beyond a doubt that the gun works. What people…
Village Fair is Dallas ISD’s alternative school, where the district sends those students deemed too disruptive or unruly to function in mainstream classrooms. That it experiences its share of discipline problems is a given. But even there, the iron rule of Texas education applies: Don’t mess with the STAAR test…
