Hard to believe just looking at their mugshots, but Julia Thacker and Keith Fields were running a medium-scale marijuana farm out of their Southlake home, police say. On January 12, cops received a call suggesting that they check on the safety of an infant who lived at 125 Sweet St…
Anticipating what will be one of the hottest button issues of the 2015 session of the Texas Legislature, advocates for the right to carry assault rifles into fast food establishments and handguns wherever they damn well please gathered at the state capitol in Austin yesterday to manufacture gun parts on…
One thing has proved true during each of Dallas’ last two significant winter storms, DART service — DART rail service specifically — will fail. The week that Jerryworld hosted the Super Bowl in 2011, DART light rail suffered its first full shut down. Almost three years later, DART experienced another…
Not content after losing a local battle against Plano’s LGBTQ equal rights ordinance, a group of four local state representatives plan to introduce legislation that would nullify any municipal equal rights ordinances passed anywhere in the state, including Dallas’ March 2014 ordinance. See also: Plano Ignores Cries of Hometown Liberty…
Tuesday, as she was sworn into the Texas Senate seat formerly occupied by erstwhile gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, Colleyville Republican Konni Burton left no doubt that she’d be a vast departure from Davis’ moderation. Seemingly mocking the pink Mizunos Davis made famous during her filibuster of House Bill 2, Texas’…
WFAA “share” is a community engagement tool that allows users of the ABC affiliate’s website to upload their photos and videos to potentially be featured on an image carousel on the station’s homepage. Typically it features things like cute pictures of dogs and kids in Cowboys gear or user photos…
Randolph Glenn is about to get at least a little of what he deserves for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Glenn was shot by Dallas Police Officer Bunthavuth Te after failing to remove his hands from his pockets while Te and other officers looked for Donnell…
The city of Dallas got in on the earthquake hysteria Monday. The takeaways: Chances of a significant (5.0 or higher on the Richter scale) quake are small, but we all need to start putting together our emergency kits — the city recommends we stock them with bottled water, several days’…
Just over a month after a fire at Thanksgiving Tower killed three men working on the downtown building’s HVAC system, Dallas Fire and Rescue gave the most definitive answer yet as to what caused the blaze. Oscar Esparza-Romo, Luis Carrillo-Solorzano and Nicacio Carrillo-Martinez, were working in underground tanks when the…
Latasha Wilson should have just gotten a Lyft. The 34-year-old Dallas woman, apparently unsatisfied with the other transportation options available, commandeered an empty ambulance at Baylor Hospital on Sunday, Dallas police say. Considering Wilson was driving a vehicle that’s pretty hard to miss, she actually did pretty well for herself…
As it does every single time a big sporting event rolls into town, The Dallas Morning News took the time Friday morning to run an estimate of that event’s economic impact on the region. According to the paper, Monday night’s College Football Playoff championship game between Oregon and Ohio State…
Bobby Ross’ more than 30 years with the Dallas Fire Department will end on Tuesday. The deputy chief elected to take retirement following the release of a memo accuse him of lying about orders he gave while fighting a six-alarm blaze in May 2013. Ross said that he didn’t order…
I moved into a new apartment on New Year’s Day. Wednesday, as I was making my way down the stairs, I saw the door you see in the photo. It stopped me cold. “Surely, it couldn’t be this easy,” I thought. Had Wylie H. been hiding in plain sight –…
David Kattner, the longtime Dallas police officer accused of sexually assaulting prostitutes, has been found dead in his Little Elm home. WFAA reports that he was found by his wife after a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. See also: Dallas Cop Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Prostitute Kattner was arrested December 21…
Big cities are threatening to turn the state’s economic miracle into a nightmare, according to Texas Governor-elect, Greg Abbott. Regulations drafted by cities with regard to fracking, plastic bags and cutting down old trees are a grave threat to the state’s well-being. If cities like Dallas lead the way, we…
ESPN anchor Bob Ley learned a lesson the hard way Wednesday: Don’t ask Kinky Friedman a question unless you really want to know the answer…
All of Vanity Fair reporter Bryan Burrough’s portrait of Dallas in the hours, days and weeks after the arrival of Thomas Eric Duncan is worth reading, but we thought it’d be worthwhile to highlight some of the most interesting stuff in his piece for those who can’t afford to read…
Acknowledging that maybe the tear down first, ask questions later policy with regard to old buildings that aren’t protected landmarks might not be the best thing, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and District 14 City Council member Philip Kingston have teamed up to form the most Dallas of all pseudo-governmental units…
The final pre-Supreme Court skirmish over Texas’ restrictive abortion legislation known as HB2 kicked off today in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The state, as it has throughout the fight over the law, stuck to the same bullshit. “Texas adopted HB2 for the purpose of raising the standard…
In response to the spate of earthquakes shaking their city, Irving ISD conducted an actual earthquake drill on Wednesday in attempt to prepare students for the worst…
This earthquake thing is, at the very least, getting weird. A 2.6 magnitude quake shook the area near the former Texas Stadium site in Irving just after 8:30 Wednesday morning. It was the 10th earthquake to shudder the site since Tuesday. Before 2008, there was exactly one recorded earthquake in…
DFW rents are at all-time high and home prices in the area are rising faster than anywhere in the country save Houston, say surveys released by a couple of real estate research firms. While Dallas remains one of the most affordable big cities in the United States, paying to keep…
