Your socks aren’t getting soaked, you don’t need an umbrella and you’re probably glad for the lack of rain, but here comes weather wizard Pete Delkus to tell you why you’re wrong. (He didn’t say you’re wrong, but we know Pete well enough to hear that tiny hint of judgment…
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of positive cases in Texas is hitting historic highs thanks to the highly contagious omicron variant. Although some medical experts say the variant could be less lethal than others before it, hospitalizations in Texas this week doubled amid a shortage of…
It was a big, angry crowd, and those in it had come from all over the country, Texas included. They had the same goal in mind: to keep then-President Donald Trump in office. At noon on Jan. 6, 2021, the outgoing president launched into a fiery speech. Much like he…
In a perfect world, we’d right about now thank the universe that it was a slow news year. Honestly, we’d like to celebrate that Christmas is upon us. We’d like to all be enjoying the company of our relatives. We’d like to hardly feel the need to drink at all…
Before President Joe Biden ousted Donald Trump in November 2020, he famously promised his administration would not build “another foot” of the border wall. But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has other plans (to build a wall). And apparently, Biden also has other plans (to build some more wall). This week,…
With more than 5,700 coronavirus-related deaths in Dallas County to date, we’re just a couple months shy of the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 in Texas, and earlier this month, the state reported its first case of the new omicron variant. This week, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center warned…
On Monday, Texas conspiracy theorist and owner of InfoWars filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol riot select committee seeking to block lawmakers from accessing his phone records and making him testify at a deposition next month. Instead, he has offered to provide “written answers” to their questions, an offer the…
With weather like this week’s, you probably spent each day enjoying the 75-degree temperatures, taking long (read: short) walks (read: drives) around your neighborhood, taking in all of Mother Nature you could (read: wasting away at your office job). That all changed overnight. Friday saw a high of 77, but…
Back in September, Texas state officials announced that they had “already begun” what was dubbed a “full forensic audit” into the November 2020 presidential elections that saw Joe Biden defeat former President Donald Trump. Now, an investigation by the watchdog American Oversight has brought back communication records and documents that…
For more than two decades, Jasmine Café sat on the tiny, downtown-like strip lining Richardson’s Main Street, serving classic Mediterranean dishes, lots of thick (and very strong) Turkish coffee and of course, hookah. When Nameer Salman bought the business in 2012, Jasmine was a standard college-age hookah lounge and hangout…
In August 2017, hundreds of white nationalists traveled from across the country for the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, marched on a university campus in a torchlit rally and attacked community members and protesters around the city. By the time the unrest was quelled, one of the neo-Nazi…
The Aryan Circle, the second largest prison gang in Texas, is known for going to war both behind bars and outside the clink, but the feds racked up victories against two of the neo-Nazi outfit’s members this week. As part of a federal trial in Beaumont, a jury convicted Aryan…
Beau Daniel Merryman could go to federal prison for 20 years.
Internal documents obtained by Human Rights Watch paint a grim picture of the situation for asylum seekers and migrants held by U.S. government immigration authorities.
Known as “Primazo,” 44-year-old Wilson Wilfredo Luargas-Garcia was extradited to the Eastern District of Texas in April 2018 following a joint operation with American and Guatemalan authorities. The accusations? That he’d helped pump cocaine into Texas and worked closely with an armed guerrilla group in Colombia. More than two years…
The Observer has a long, storied history of documenting the people out there who take pleasure in blasting U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. Now, we’d like to introduce you Michael Gunner, the chief minister of Australia’s Northern Territory. On Sunday, Gunner joined the dearly held tradition. In a statement posted to…
Just past 2 a.m. on Sept. 14, a man wearing a ball cap, glasses and face mask slipped through the back door of Top Dog Gun Range in Krum, around an hour northwest of Dallas, and headed to the display case. Security camera footage shows the man riffling around in…
A wave of severe storms, including torrential rain, isolated tornadoes and gnarly gusts of wind, might hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area this Sunday evening, according to forecasters at AccuWeather. The first week of October saw comfortably warm weather here in Dallas, but the bringers of bad news over at AccuWeather…
Threats. Brutal beatings. Meth deals. Murders. The Texas-based prison gang Aryan Circle, the second largest of its kind in the state, has spent more than three decades building a reputation as one of the most cutthroat white supremacist outfits behind bars. But this week, federal authorities announced another victory against…
Dallas attorney Rayshun Jackson once went to bat for former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill. He took on the federal government after a teenager, a U.S. citizen, was wrongly deported to Colombia. He was time and again recognized in the local press and even made it onto the DART advisory…
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Texas over Senate Bill 8, the harsh new abortion law that bars women from receiving the procedure at around six weeks, which is often too soon for a woman to know they’re pregnant. During a press conference Thursday, Attorney General…
When Garland Police officers arrived at the crime scene in the 400 block of Forest Gate Drive early on Sunday, they found a dead body, a spokesperson said at press conference Monday. But the initial investigation got stranger from there. The deceased, a 26-year-old named Isabella Lewis, had picked up…
