Randy Wesson, the 28-year-old man arrested by Hurst Police on child pornography charges, has admitted some of the details of his alleged crimes, police say. After his arrest, Wesson told detectives they could find about 42,000 images of child pornography on his computer, electronic storage and phone. He also admitted…
Glenn Beck is fed up with Santa. Specifically, he’s tired of the commercialized, belly full of jelly Santa we all know and mostly love. Beck, as he does with so, so many things, has a plan to fix the problem though: An origin story for good ole St. Nick that…
Randy Ray Wesson and Ricardo Javid Lugo have been arrested by detectives from the Hurst Police Department after a search of Fort Worth home revealed a “large amount of evidence of child pornography and exploitation of children,” according to Hurst Police. Cops say Wesson posed as Lugo’s father in August…
Julian Harris, a rookie officer in the Dallas Police Department’s South Central Patrol Division, was arrested Thursday morning after police were called to meet with an injured woman at Dallas’ Charlton Methodist Hospital. DPD detectives say that a fight between Harris and the woman at Harris’ Dallas apartment escalated into…
Boston is the smartest large city in the United States, according to a new study from New Geography. Dallas did not fare nearly as well. The numbers behind the rankings are straightforward. Weight is given to the number of college graduates in each of the Census Bureau’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas…
One thing is clear after Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ 15-minute speech Wednesday at a Trinity Groves breakfast: It can’t possibly be about what he said it was about. There is no way that after all the time, all the “balloon juice,” that’s been expelled over the issue, that he can…
The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority has heard your cry, trolley rider for whom 15 minutes is just too long of a wait. The Uptown transportation provider now has a live map showing where each of its vehicles is at any given time. It is exactly what it looks like in…
The results are in from state Representative Rafael Anchia’s survey of Dallas residents’ feelings about the Trinity toll road. They are exactly what you’d expect. Of 1,014 respondents who reported Dallas ZIP codes, only 42 said they supported the toll road, and 955 were against the toll road and. Somewhat…
As we’ve mentioned before, City Manager A.C. Gonzalez’s presentations at the end of City Council briefings are frequently excruciating and uninformative. Tuesday, though, there was an interesting tidbit in the midst of Gonzalez’s promotion of the city’s wellness initiative for city employees. After singling out City Council member Dwaine Caraway’s…
A debate that began more than a year ago when City Manager A.C. Gonzalez tried to slip an ordinance that would have banned car services like Uber and Lyft in Dallas will likely end December 10, when the council takes up new regulations for transportation-for-hire businesses. The new regulations that…
Shortly after midnight on September 2, 2013, Brice Johnson, then 19, began a conversation with Arron Keahey on MeetMe.com, a social-networking platform that would change both of their lives. Over the next few hours, the two men exchanged messages, many of them sexually explicit, before Johnson gave Keahey directions to…
Like the river its supposed to run beside, everything about the Trinity toll road is murky. It’s hard to know where the funding for the toll road will come from, hard to know what it will look like if it ever gets built and harder still to figure out why…
Well this sucks. As first reported by CBS’ John Heyman Giancarlo Stanton, the Miami Marlins slugger who has long been the dreamiest of all Texas Rangers dream acquisitions, has agreed to a 13-year $325 million contract with the Marlins that will make him the highest paid player in American professional…
Maybe Mike Cantrell was right. As first reported by The Dallas Morning News late last night, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office is being investigated for the potential improper use of money seized during criminal investigations. Cantrell, the lone Republican on the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court, fought a solo battle…
There is no worse feeling as a DART commuter than seeing your bus pull off seconds before you complete your jaywalk/sprint to the bus stop. The frustration of almost making it is bad enough, the fact that you’ll have to wait a long time — sometimes over an hour –…
Vinita Hegwood, the Duncanville High School English teacher whose profane tweet aimed at “dumb duck ass crackers” went viral on conservative social media, has resigned, she announced Thursday afternoon. Hegwood was suspended without pay in anticipation of her being fired after her Friday night tweet went viral…
If we’ve learned anything this week, it’s that net neutrality is the real enemy. Ted Cruz let us know that it’s Obamacare for the Internet. Rick Perry sent out a press release saying “President Obama’s call to saddle 21st century technology with outdated, unnecessary regulations from the era of the…
The issue at hand is a little wonky, but not too complicated. The Dallas City Council took bids for a contract to collect fines for the city’s municipal courts. In the next fiscal year, the contract holder is expected to resolve more than 150,000 cases. MSB Government Services submitted the…
Sometimes, things are delightful for their simplicity. Cowboys’ receiver Cole Beasley’s response to a Twitter heckler Sunday was definitely one of those times. Beasley made his first fumble of the year Sunday afternoon against the Jaguars. Twitter user @massot15 thought Beasley needed to know he should hold onto the ball…
It was something that was inevitable once Thomas Eric Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with antibiotics on September 26. There would be legal action against the hospital for its treatment of Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States. Wednesday morning,…
They had one job. Last Tuesday, the one day this year most people will even think to look at the Dallas County elections website, it went down. For seven hours. Any person needing to know her polling place had to seek out other methods. The situation was laughable, but it…
Tuesday morning, a lawsuit was filed in federal court by an anonymous plaintiff asserting that her daughter, who has Down syndrome, was raped twice by a DART paratransit driver in September 2013. According to the plaintiff, driver Cedrick Agentdropped off his other passengers on the bus before pulling over and…
