Ron Pinkston and the Dallas Police Association are on high alert following the killing of two New York Police Department officers in Brooklyn on Saturday. Over the weekend, the association’s Twitter account quickly joined what’s been a frenzied attack by conservative media and law enforcement officials on New York City…
Sunday morning, Dallas police officer David Kattner was arrested for allegedly using his authority to coerce a woman into having sex with him while he was in uniform. An arrest affidavit obtained by The Dallas Morning News says Kattner called a woman and told her to follow him to the…
This photo, taken from the passenger seat on my way home to Oak Cliff Saturday night, raises a number of questions. Chief among them: How exactly did the car get into the bike lane on the Jefferson Viaduct? There’s no auto-accessible entrance on the downtown side, and the spaces between…
If you’re flying out of the newly Wright Amendment-unencumbered Love Field this week and haven’t yet found a parking space, you can breathe a shallow sigh of relief. The airport will have 1,150 more spaces for Christmas than it did for Thanksgiving. Almost half of those spaces (500) are valet…
After this weekend, lord willing, DART’s replacement of downtown’s light rail track will finally be over. The work was scheduled to be done at the end of November, but bad weather has forced the final weekend of work to be pushed to tomorrow and Sunday, leaving Christmas shoppers downtown and…
Enrique Arochi was angry, cops say, because one of his friends declined his sexual advances. Not content to end a night that began, he told police, with an Adderall and continued with 10 shots of Captain Morgan’s at a friend’s apartment and three to five beers at a Shops at…
2014 saw a bumper crop of famous Dallas people saying, doing and tweeting ridiculous things. Often disheartening, always amusing, here are the odds and ends we liked best this year. “I have no dog in this pony” — Carolyn Davis, making us wonder all sorts of things during the lengthy,…
Until 2010, Sergeant Delbert Johnson had a great career at the Fort Worth Police Department. He joined the force in 1990 and had worked his way up to sergeant by 2000. In 2005 he was transferred to the department’s day shift traffic division, giving a regular schedule that allowed him…
Mike Wilson, the managing editor of Nate Silver’s ESPN-owned data journalism project, FiveThirtyEight, will take the reins as The Dallas Morning News’ new editor-in-chief on February 16. He replaces Bob Mong, who is retiring after 13 years at the helm. Wilson is a former managing editor at the Tampa Bay…
The number of executions and new death sentences continued to drop in the U.S. in 2014, even in Texas, which killed 10 prisoners this year, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s the lowest number since 1996, when three men received lethal injections. (The 1996…
Citing the need to increase transparency, accountability and community engagement, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said that his department will use forfeiture funds to purchase 200 body cameras that will begin recording early next year. The move comes in the midst of statewide movement toward using the cameras. State Senator…
Last Friday, the day Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins was ticketed for shaking a 61-year-old city employee while screaming, “Do you know who I am” in her face, the security camera that should have recorded the incident wasn’t working. The city of Dallas says it had been out of order…
After hearing testimony on Tuesday about the glee Eric Williams took in killing Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, McClellend’s wife, Cynthia, and Assistant Prosecutor Mark Hasse, a Rockwall County jury decided Wednesday morning that Williams should be killed by Texas. Williams was convicted of Cynthia McClellend’s murder on December…
Update: December 18, 3:28 p.m.: Governor Perry has announced that he will decline having the building named after him. “Upon deep reflection, I have informed the Board of Regents of my decision to politely decline this great honor. I do so because certain places on this campus, like our most…
Two statements that are axiomatic are 1. Anyone representing themselves in court has a fool for a client, and 2. No good ever comes out of the O’Reilly Factor. For evidence, we offer you Deion Sanders’ ex-wife Pilar, who was hauled into a Collin County Court by the former Cowboys…
Just after midnight Tuesday morning, Dallas police officer Larry Moody shot Jonathan Puckett. It was the 20th time Dallas cops have shot at a civilian so far this year. Puckett was hit in the leg and torso and is being treated for his injuries at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Puckett…
Tuesday morning, one of the last remaining mysteries in the trial of Eric Williams was answered: His estranged wife would indeed participate in the proceedings. Kim Williams took the stand to describe how she and Williams plotted and executed the killings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McClellend, his wife…
The Boy Scouts of America has been found negligent in the case of Siegfried Hepp, a Connecticut troop leader accused of sexually assaulting multiple Scouts. Hepp was convicted of unlawful sexual touching of a minor in 1999. Witnesses at the trial, held in Waterbury, Connecticut, said that the Irving-based organization…
A bill filed Monday in advance of the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature would make the maximum penalty for the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana a $100 fine. The fine would not count as a criminal conviction and could not considered as such by anyone performing…
Kory Watkins can’t leave well enough alone. After months of protests by him and his gun-toting, cop-watching buddies, Texas lawmakers seemingly want to give the open-carry extremists exactly what they say they want: the right to wield whatever firearm they damn well please without having to do so much as…
Unfair Park thinks it’s time to resurrect the “Death to Flying Things” nickname.The Warriors’ Marreese Speights made a critical error during his team’s Saturday game against the Mavs. He lost his shoe in the general vicinity of Tyson Chandler. When his teammate Steph Curry tried to toss it back to…
Commissions and consulting fees. That’s what Grapevine-based Dallas Airmotive called the bribes it paid to military officers and government officials in Brazil, Argentina and Peru to keep its maintenance contracts for those countries’ military planes. Many of the payments were for small amounts like $3,000 or $5,000, the biggest was…
