Researchers at two Texas universities are launching a project to document investigations into teacher misconduct in the state for the last two decades. David Thompson, a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Catherine Robert, a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, are building a…
When the Texas Legislature wrapped up its session in May, lawmakers sent a series of bills to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk designed to put pressure on the state’s colleges and universities to do something about sexual misconduct on their campuses. The new requirements outlined in those bills come at a…
After about two years on the lam, Nathan Hawkins is back in Dallas County’s jail, but he likely won’t be there for long. Hawkins, 36, had been on probation for 12 years, stemming from a 2007 charge for burglary of a building, a state jail felony. His case was the…
Unless drastic action is taken, Dallas could see an average of 18 days per year by century’s end in which heat index values climb so high they can’t be calculated, a new report suggests. The study, which was released Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists, sheds light on some…
A month after a crane collapsed and crashed into their Bryan Place apartment complex, residents at Elan City Lights will soon be able to pick up their things. The apartment complex, which was shuttered after the crane crash, posted a statement to Facebook on Friday telling former residents that property…
When Texas rolled out its Top 10% Rule in 1997, supporters said it would promote diversity on the state’s college campuses and expand access to students at high schools that don’t typically send students to the state’s top institutions. Two decades later, it appears the program has done none of…
Although a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 census appears dead for good and all, the long legal battle over it may have done lasting damage in Texas, the head of a nonpartisan think tank said Thursday. While she welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement that his administration was backing away…
Even before it began in earnest, a question-and-answer session about the city of Dallas’ new paid sick leave ordinance grew heated Wednesday afternoon. Before she began a presentation explaining the new ordinance, Hannah Alexander, partnership liaison with the city’s Office of Fair Housing and Human Rights, told a packed auditorium…
Calls for change are continuing at Texas A&M University a little over a week after a video surfaced online of a student using a series of racist slurs while delivering a fake biology lecture. In the video, the student, who is white, stands in front of a chalkboard, holding a…
Nationwide, Ross Perot was known as an eccentric Texas billionaire who launched two unsuccessful presidential bids. In Dallas, he’s known, among other things, as the man whose name is on one of the city’s better-known museums. Perot died Tuesday after a five-month battle with leukemia, a family spokesman confirmed to…
If you’ve got a criminal record from Dallas County that you need cleared, now’s the time. The county’s district attorney’s office, public defender’s office and district clerk’s office are holding the county’s annual Expunction Expo, during which attorneys will be helping eligible people have their records expunged, county officials announced…
Attorneys for a fired Dallas police officer who shot and killed a 26-year-old man in his apartment are seeking to have her murder trial moved out of Dallas County. Amber Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, an accountant from St. Lucia, on Sept. 6.
Colleges and universities nationwide, including in Texas, are seeing a growing number of instances of white supremacist groups recruiting on their campuses, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League. The 2018-19 academic year marked the third consecutive year of growth in white supremacist campus recruiting across the country,…
The crew of a plane that crashed Sunday in Addison talked about a problem with the left engine just seconds before the crash, federal investigators reported Tuesday. The Beechcraft Super King Air 350 struck a hangar at Addison Municipal Airport shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday, killing all 10 people aboard…
For the last two years, colleges and universities nationwide, including in North Texas, have seen fewer international students applying to graduate degree programs. But officials at some North Texas universities say they’re seeing signs that international grad students are beginning to come back. Higher-education officials say a healthy population of international…
Nathan Hawkins lives in an apartment in a nice neighborhood in the the Mid-Cities — exactly where, he doesn’t like to say. During the week, he works 12-hour shifts at a job hanging electrical signs on high-rise buildings. When he’s not working, he runs a custom woodworking business. On weekends,…
A Bryan Place apartment building that was damaged when in a deadly crane crash Sunday afternoon will be closed, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue. Greystar Properties, the management company that owns the Elan City Lights apartment complex, determined the building is “totally unusable for residential purposes,” said Jason Evans, a spokesman…
Residents of a Bryan Place apartment complex where a crane fell over the weekend were able to return to their homes to gather a few things before heading back to the hotel rooms where they’re likely to be living for at least a few weeks. Shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday,…
A powerful thunderstorm toppled a crane Sunday afternoon in downtown Dallas, authorities reported. Dallas Fire and Rescue reported the incident was near 2600 Live Oak St., where the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs’ Latino Cultural Center is located. NBC DFW reported that at least two people were injured.
A woman whose body was found Saturday evening at White Rock Lake is the second black transgender woman to be killed in Dallas in less than a month, police said. Officers found Chynal Lindsey, 26, at 5:32 p.m. Saturday at 4100 W. Lawther Drive, Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said…
With state funding in place, school districts across Texas are now looking at the prospect of expanding their half-day prekindergarten programs to full-day. Dallas ISD made the same change about five years ago. The district offers an example both of what other districts should keep in mind when they expand…
Dallas school officials offered the first glimpse Thursday of a plan to offer raises to teachers in the district. At a budget workshop, officials proposed spending $30.1 million on salary increases for certain teachers and raising the salary for new hires. The proposal calls for increasing the number of distinguished…
