Video from a body cam worn by a DPD cop — released by the department Thursday — shows a dramatic water rescue from creek near 5800 Military Parkway. The man being rescued lost control of his car before he and the car fell more than 50 feet into the creek…
After Artrai Alexander stole a Dodge Challenger from a convenience store in the 3000 block of Grand Avenue Wednesday afternoon, police say, he took cops on a high speed chase. The chase ended when he crashed, a fairly typically outcome. What happened after the crash wasn’t. Jessica Liesmann, the woman…
When word came down Tuesday of a new PAC intended to support getting rid of Interstate 345, the freeway bridge that cleaves downtown Dallas from Deep Ellum and connects I-45 to U.S. 75, one of the most interesting names listed among the PAC’s supporters was former state Senator John Carona…
Last week, we reported District 9 City Council candidate Sam Merten’s response to allegations that a $10,000 payment he received from Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings in May 2014 was improper. Merten told Unfair Park that the $10k was payment for work he’d done on behalf of the DISD home rule…
Opening statements in the trial of Eddie Routh, the former Marine accused of murdering “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield focused on the limited ground over which the case will be decided — whether or not Routh met the Texas standard for legal insanity when he shot…
They weren’t mentioned. Not once. No one, not the parents, not the teachers from other schools nor longtime critic and DISD trustee Joyce Foreman, asked DISD Superintendent Mike Miles about the “reptile’s nest” of instant messages sent between former members of the district’s human resources department at a parental forum…
Much has been made on Unfair Park and elsewhere over the fact that, due almost certainly to a drafting error, the city of Dallas election code allows for unlimited donations to officeholder accounts. See also: Ronquillo Calls Out Rawlings On Fat-Cat Contributors. Me, Too. Marcos Ronquillo, a challenger to Mike…
Sometimes, something happens that gives us hope that some small amount of justice lives in this world. Today was one of those times, because Texas House Bill 195 was referred to committee. Yeah, yeah. That’s extremely wonky, but you take your hope where you can get it. HB 195 is…
Lest you consider, not that you would, heading to Arlington for any pre-Valentine’s Day fun via I-30, Unfair Park has a few words of advice: Don’t. Unless you don’t care if you actually make it back to Dallas. TxDOT will be closing the two left lanes of the eastbound side…
When Unfair Park’s attention was first drawn to Connect Dallas Now, a nascent marketing campaign we’ve now learned is intended to promote the Trinity toll road, we weren’t sure it was real. The effort’s Twitter account still has just four followers — including an apparently hate-following Angela Hunt — and…
Last week, Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle was cited and released for misdemeanor marijuana possession after police responded to his Wichita, Kansas, hotel room following a 911 call about domestic violence. The weed charge was subsequently dropped, but just released 911 tapes obtained by The Dallas Morning News show…
Larry Tuttle, a six-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, died Saturday after police say a woman in his apartment shot Tuttle before shooting herself. The woman was an acquaintance of Tuttle’s, police say, but cops have not yet identified her. A 6-year-old girl, thought to be the shooter’s daughter,…
Last week, Schutze told you about an interpretation of the city’s election rules that allows any incumbent to receive unlimited donations, regardless of the city’s $5,000 limit on campaign contributions from individuals. Money going to something called an officeholder account are not bound by the $5,000 rule, and can be…
The khapra beetle, considered the world’s most destructive insect, has popped up in DFW luggage screens on five different occasions in recent months. In each instance, the beetle has been found in dried food a passenger was attempting to get past customs, despite not declaring the packages of rice, dried…
SMU’s initial report of data collected from seismometors placed in Irving is interesting, provides a bit of useful context for the recent rash of quakes and promises further action. It does not, however, fill us in on what we’re all so curious about — whether or not the resource extraction…
Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is going to be like the weather, apparently. We know it’s coming, so we might as well relax and enjoy it. Perry’s PAC, RickPac, announced a list of major donors Thursday, calling the group its “advisory board.” “I am grateful and humbled to have the support…
Texas Central High-Speed Railway, the private company backing high-speed rail that, potentially, would provide service from DFW to Houston in 90 minutes, announced two preferred sites for its Dallas hub as well as a development partnership Friday morning. The preferred station sites, part of a list of seven submitted to…
First there was the heavy smoke that enveloped the City Council campaign of Adam McGough, Mike Rawlings former chief of staff. Now, a $10,000 contribution given from the mayor’s campaign fund to another former staffer running for council, Sam Merten, is raising questions. See also: Dallas City Council Candidate Answers…
Twitter has informed Unfair Park that today is National Weather Person day. In deference to local weather god Pete Delkus, we’re celebrating by remembering a year ago tomorrow, when we all laughed at a storm shaped like a dick. Total snow for DFW still expected around 1″. Snow is light/fluffy…
It may have cost a cool $1 million, but Dallas’ city website, which has looked like a throwback to the Geocities era since, well, the Geocities era, is finally going live with a much needed update on Friday. According to city spokeswoman Sana Syed, the site will be everything the…
Kory Watkins, leader of the ammosexual group Open Carry Tarrant County, posted a video with a distinct Colonel Kurtz vibe to his Facebook page this morning. Pretty quickly, he took it down. Here’s what he said: This morning I removed a video from my Facebook because I thought there were…
For the second time in less than six months, Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle has gotten in trouble with police. Randle was cited by Wichita, Kansas, officers after they found marijuana in Randle’s downtown Wichita hotel room. The reason police were called to the hotel room is less innocuous…
