Zion Hayes, 14, stopped wanting to become a police officer last month. Until then, he had so much enthusiasm that he had his mom, Audrey Hayes, threw him a police-themed birthday party. But a run-in with a real Dallas officer changed Zion’s career goals. Following a noise complaint at the…
In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins tonight will hold a 7 p.m. town hall meeting at St. Paul United Methodist Church, where he says he hopes to start a conversation about police shootings to avoid in Dallas what has happened in…
In Ferguson, Missouri, this week, as police officers began to look more like soldiers, and as the lack of transparency about the Mike Brown shooting continued, a police officer in Dallas took to his smartphone. Major Max Geron heads the Dallas Police Department’s Media Relations Unit, Community Affairs and Planning…
Around 10:30 this morning, Dallas police received a call about a “cutter” on Espanola Drive near Dallas Love Field. Soon after, 8-year-veteran Kevin Gladden arrived at a red-brick house with a basketball hoop in the front driveway, according to police. Eighteen-year-old Jose Manuel Gonzalez had a knife in each hand…
Off-duty Dallas police officer Antonio Hudson shot and killed Andrew Scott Gaynier, who was unarmed, in an Oak Cliff street on Sunday night after the Gaynier apparently charged the officer, according to police. A little after 6 p.m., Hudson responded to a 911 dispatch about a man “walking up and…
If you’ve stumbled on the nightly news or a daily paper of late, you’ve heard of the Surge: the wave of Central American children who are arriving, often alone, at the Texas border, and walking right into the arms of Border Patrol agents. To follow the news is to believe…
Ron Pinkston, the Dallas Police Association president, says the results caught even him off guard. According to a survey the DPA commissioned, 80 percent of the nearly 1300 members who responded to the online questionnaire rated the Dallas Police Department’s morale as either “low” or the “lowest it’s ever been.”…
Sarah Buchanan’s mother grizzly was showing. On her Highland Park block, in which the large branches of trees provided some relief from the 100-degree day, her son and his friends had set up a lemonade stand in front of her house. Two doors down was the home of Judge Clay…
Because he has sickle cell anemia, Michael Phillips sat in a wheelchair Friday morning in court, his lawyer at his side. At 57, his black hair was in a short afro, his scraggly beard white. Today, he was being officially exonerated for a crime for which he served 12 years…
Last week, the first Dallas resident came down with West Nile fever. It’s news, but it’s also to be expected. The virus has been in Texas since 2002, and every summer carries the potential for cases (and lots of spraying). Even though West Nile’s 2012 summer was unprecedented, the virus…
Fidel Akagbusu, a Lake Highlands gas station clerk, was talking to a customer late Monday night when the pop-pop of gun fire pierced the quiet. His head snapped to his right, across six lanes to the strip mall on the corner of Audelia Road and Forest Lane. He saw a…
The first incident that set Jose Vela on the path to having front and rear dash cams installed in his car happened in 2009. He was visiting his old man in Alamo, and his 7-year-old son, who has Down syndrome, wandered off. Vela and his wife searched but couldn’t find…
Well, it’s officially that time of year again. A Dallas resident in the Preston Hollow area has been diagnosed with West Nile fever, according to a city press release. “Nothing has changed as far as our mosquito surveillance is concerned,” Dallas County Health and Human Services public information officer Erikka…
Texas congressman Louie Gohmert is usually good for a sound byte or two (or three, or four …), and he gave us another one Tuesday when, with C-SPAN cameras rolling, he said the influx of immigrants at the border amounted to a war on women. Gohmert said the “criminal aliens”…
According to Arlington law, demonstrators can’t hand out literature to drivers who are not parked. It would seem, then, that distributing anything — even pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution — at busy intersections is out of the question. But earlier this year, that’s exactly what members of Open Carry…
Nine dead bodies were found in an abandoned Fort Worth funeral home Tuesday morning. According to The Dallas Morning News, the owner of the building asked the home’s operators to leave two weeks ago. But workers told police the home hosted a service on Saturday, according to WFAA. The police…
There are four major police associations in Dallas, each with its own slice of the force and its own interests. The Dallas Police Association is the biggest and oldest in Dallas, around since 1959. The Dallas Fraternal Order of Police is part of a nationwide organization that represents more than…
After being swept at home by the Houston Astros (!), your Texas Rangers now own the worst record in baseball. Suffering through injuries and errors, they’ve been at a total loss, with no solutions, nothing to ease the pain, nowhere to turn. Until now. Catcher Geovany Soto was arrested in…
The prison-based Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is a hierarchical organization, with leaders exerting lots of power over their subordinates. The group breaks the state up into five regions, based on the prison system, and the generals of each region are the top-dog. They appoint two majors, one on the inside…
Michael O’Connor used Motherless.com much like other people use Facebook. He set up a profile, messaged other users and uploaded pictures. The pictures, though, were not of him. In May, O’Connor came across a profile he liked. It was of a 31-year-old woman who listed her interests as incest and…
The money was stashed in a secret compartment in her car door. Silvia Flores, a middle-aged woman, was on the Gateway of the Americas Bridge, trying to cross from Laredo into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She was stopped, and in her secret compartment was more than $100,000. The 2009 incident didn’t…
By now, you must have heard about the new virus — the one that gets passed by mosquitoes that bite during the day — that could potentially come to Texas. Well, there’s nothing potential about it anymore. The first Texas case has been confirmed by the Department of State Health…
