Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins certainly likes to make an entrance, which isn’t hard to do when you’re 6-foot-5, star of a nationally broadcast reality mini-series, a recent guest on The View and the subject of countless gushing profiles for your office’s work in helping to free the wrongfully…
Jose and Alicia Elizondo, the parents of a Garland teen who died on March 19 from gunshot wounds suffered after a Garland police officer responded to a 911 call for a suicide attempt, have filed a civil rights and wrongful death suit in Dallas County District Court. The 15-page lawsuit…
Yesterday, Miss Texas and Miss Teen Texas announced they were relocating from Fort Worth, where they’ve been for the past 46 years, to Arlington in an overt attempt to pump life into a dying tradition pageant officials insist is as American as apple pie. Jean Magness, executive director of the…
Several hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away from offering the breath test…
Early this morning, a Canadian police officer parked his Hummer H3 in front of Dallas Police Department headquarters on South Lamar Street. This was no surprise visit. A crowd of about 50 DPD officers and staff waited outside for Sgt. Steve Gibson to arrive. Gibson is on a “drive to…
At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, two men drove a few blocks in a bulldozer to the Walgreens on 1306 N Beckley Avenue. They backed it up, and then rammed the ‘dozer into a side wall, sending hundreds of goods flying off the shelves and creating a cloud of dust. See…
Last night, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s project manager, Ernie Martinez, stopped by a downtown resident’s council meeting at the Old Red Museum to pose a question: He wanted folks who live and work in downtown to tell him which proposed light-rail route they would prefer.There are four options on the…
Just hours before word broke (in German first) that Ross Perot Jr. and Hillwood agreed to give up a majority stake in Victory Park, essentially turning it over to Hillwood’s German investors, the beleaguered ghost town belonged to a single man: 50-year-old David Genera of Mesquite. We spotted him last…
The cold case of Amber Hagerman — the 9-year-old who was kidnapped and found dead in a creek bed near her grandparents’ house in Arlington 13 years ago, and whose case started the Amber Alert program — was officially reopened yesterday at a press event at Hagerman’s mother’s home in…
When the phones in the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s Child Support Division wouldn’t stop ringing, Delene Richardson did what she says she was told to do: pretend to be an answering machine. For the better part of four months, the Mesquite resident answered the phone in a robotic monotone and…
What you don’t know about R. Allen Stanford you can find in this week’s story about the country-fried Madoff in the paper version of Unfair Park. But far less is known about his second-in-command, James Davis. Maybe it’s time to get to it: Only days ago, Stanford told ABC News…
A new musical promises to entertain the whole family despite its title–Are We There Yet?–a question that generally signals the beginning of boredom. However, a local blogging mom–now there’s a scary thought–who reviewed the show gave it a big thumbs up, describing it as a heartfelt, motherhood-relatable play that brought…
“Athletes’ Feat?” by Richie Whitt, April 2 Dim Whitt I don’t know who you think you are, but you have no idea what you’re talking about. So why don’t you keep your screwed-up, backward opinions about the No. 1 sport in America to yourself? You don’t know what the hell…
Last night at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and school board trustee Edwin Flores took their show back on the road and hosted yet another town hall meeting, following last month’s what-up-y’all at W.T. White High School. And, yet again, Hinojosa was affable…
Just last week, Judge Ken Tapscott of County Court No. 4 ruled that Dallas County John Wiley Price had every legal right to take Dallas County Judge Jim Foster’s deposition so Price could determine whether he had a lawsuit for defamation on his hands. You know the whole story, right?…
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that the blood draws would…
I’m going to screw up, Andrea says to herself as she walks a straight line in front of a Dallas police officer. Only hours into what was supposed to be a relaxing Memorial Day weekend, Andrea is on the side of the road near the bar she just left on…
Embarrassed.That was the word used over and over by Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle during an afternoon press conference at DPD HQ during which he described how he felt about the conduct of police officer Robert Powell. As you’re no doubt aware by now, Powell detained Houston Texans running back…
Today Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price made some progress in his legal battle against Dallas County Judge Jim Foster, who has been ordered to submit to a deposition so that Price might investigate whether he wishes to pursue a defamation claim against Foster for statements he made to the…
Yesterday, about 35 people marched from City Hall to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse to protest the Iraq War, which began six year ago. They dressed in black shirts and pants and wore white masks over their faces to represent the dead. From their necks, they hung cardboard…
Three weeks ago, Frank Farias, an airman stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque was arrested for murder. Dallas police had issued a warrant that accused him of first-degree murder in the January 25 death of Marlon Alfaro, 23, outside a Lower Greenville club. Farias spent last week in…
On Tuesday evening, Mike Graham, a tall and wiry 50-year-old, hopped off the bus with just his instrument in tow and walked over the red bricks to the corner of Ross Avenue and Market Street. He took the saxophone out and left the case propped against the picturesque streetlamp in…
