Surviving on minimum wage, even working full-time, is basically impossible. That’s the jumping off point for a map released by the real estate website Zillow on Wednesday, that relates the median rental price in 15,099 cities to the hourly wage one would need to afford it. The conclusions drawn don’t…
Update: 12:54 p.m.: Atkins has issued a statement about the incident. He admits that he was “a little upset” but denies touching Hultquist. “I regret that the two ladies feel I was too aggressive in my comments and that I ‘shook’ one of them,” he says. (You can check out…
Three workers were confirmed dead after a fire broke out in Thanksgiving Tower’s garage. They were working 35 feet deep in an HVAC system tank when the fire started. Dallas Fire and Rescue was able to evacuate almost 2,800 others from the building, but could not get to the workers…
Veronica Dunnachie, who Arlington police say shot her husband Russell Dunnachie and his adult daughter Kimberly on Wednesday afternoon, knew her way around firearms. Her Facebook page is filled with pictures of her firing rifles and posing with her fellow Open Carry Tarrant County members. She decided to put that…
Presented, almost, without comment. This photo was taken by local architect Ben Reavis on Wood Street downtown. It features some newly installed parking meters immediately adjacent to a bike lane. Be careful out there people…
One of Unfair Park’s favorite things is all the unsolicited lists we receive that tell us where Dallas ranks when categorized in some completely unverifiable, useless category. Normally, they just languish in our inbox like so many Groupon notifications, but sometimes we’re too weak to resist. Dallas is one of…
Starting in the spring of 2015, cabs, limos and app-based services like Uber will operate on a reasonably level playing field. That’s the end result of months of wrangling that culminated with three and a half hours of debate before the Dallas City Council voted 13-2 to approve a transportation-for-hire…
On paper — and video — firing Jesus Martinez was a straightforward call for Dallas Police Chief David Brown. Martinez was filmed “using his right knee to pin the pedestrian’s right elbow down while raising the pedestrian’s left elbow and hand upward causing him severe pain,” according to the police…
In a shocking turn of events, Eternal Eden, the afterhours rave held on Saturday nights at Jaguars, a northwest Dallas strip club, may have been a haven for illegal activity, feds say. Authorities recently announced the indictments on firearms and drug charges of 15 people involved with the club. Feds…
Jada Antoine has quite the resume for a hospice nurse. From January 2009 to April 2012, she cared for more than 100 patients while employed by eight Dallas hospice companies. The thing is, Antoine isn’t a nurse. She isn’t licensed as any kind of healthcare provider. Antoine didn’t let that…
All signs point to the Dallas City Council adopting a new transportation-for-hire ordinance at their Wednesday meeting. The ordinance, fought over for more than a year, attempts to level the playing field for cabs — dominated by Yellow Cab in Dallas — and app-based services like Uber and Lyft. To…
Police say Clarence Mallory and Carter Cervantez thought they got away with their first theft — an $18,000 deposit absconded with from the Hulen Mall’s American Eagle’s safe after-hours in August — so they decided to do it again. This time, they were going after a bigger score, the store’s…
By the close of business Monday, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, dropped another 4 percent. Since July the price of oil is down 40 percent, which seems like it could be a disaster for Texas, given the portion of the state economy based on…
The D-Link has to be considered a success. The city-funded, DART-operated, free-to-ride circulator has done what it was created to do: connect many of Dallas’ entertainment districts — Bishop Arts, Downtown Dallas, the Arts District and Victory Plaza — at a reasonable frequency. It’s the only bus line that runs…
Bringing an end to almost an eight-year legal battle, the Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday on whether to pay two charity groups $250,000. Big Heart Ministries and Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry sued the city in March 2007, challenging a city ordinance that restricted the ways groups could provide…
By midday Thanksgiving, Love Field’s 4,000 parking spaces weren’t enough. Each one had been sold and parked in, leaving those arriving to take afternoon flights circling hopelessly or forced to go home and take DART back to the airport. The influx of cars can be blamed on more than just…
After last night’s drubbing of the Bears in Chicago, Dez Bryant had one simple request: that the assembled press not censor his post-game rant when the ran it the next day — no “little stars,” no nothing. After waiting dutifully all day for someone, anyone, to heed this very important…
For the second week in a row, demonstrators took to Dallas streets to protest an out-of-state grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black man. Unlike last week, Dallas police blocked off access to Interstate 35 and kept demonstrators from closing the freeway…
Providing yet another reason for me to be thankful I never have to attend another day of primary school, The Dallas Morning News’ Matthew Haag enumerated a little of what’s on DISD’s controversial exams for elective courses in elementary school Thursday afternoon. They are tough. The list is littered with…
Josh Brent may have done his time for the December 2012 drunk driving wreck that killed his passenger, former University of Illinois teammate and best friend Jerry Brown Jr., but the legal battle surrounding the case isn’t over. Brent’s been sued by Beamers Private Club as it attempts to insulate…
He didn’t do it. That’s what Eric Williams’ defense boiled down to. Despite the storage locker filled with weapons and survival gear, the getaway car bought using an assumed name, the emailed confession that came from his house and the bullet found in his possession that came from the same…
Monta Ellis, volume-scorer extraordinaire turned straw that stirs the Mavericks drink, hit a ridiculous spinning, off-balance fadeaway to beat the Bucks at the buzzer Wednesday night. Unfair Park thinks that’s a thing you should see. The celebration afterwards was almost as good as the shot itself, check out Mark Cuban…
