A Dallas County jury closed the books on one of the county’s highest profile cases of the year Monday afternoon, convicting Edward Thomas of simple assault. Thomas, 29, beat up Muhlaysia Booker in April. The attack, caught on cellphone video, went viral. Thomas and Booker started fighting after getting into…
Big-time political rallies, more than anything, are about waiting. Doesn’t matter if the crowd is there to see a Republican or a Democrat, the president or the next big thing, they’re going to wait. To park, to get to the door, to get through the door and security, to find…
Thursday night, in as much trouble as he’s been since his inauguration, President Donald Trump returned to Dallas’ American Airlines Center a little more than four years after his first visit to the place that Ron Kirk built. On a day in which his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney,…
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, one of the Trump administration’s biggest connections to Texas and mainstream conservatism, plans to quit his post as energy secretary, according to reports from Bloomberg and The New York Times. Despite calling President Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” during the 2016 Republican presidential primary,…
One thing you can’t say about President Donald Trump, and there aren’t many, is that he’s never taken North Texas for granted. Unlike basically every national politician in Texas’ blood-red era, the real estate developer turned reality TV star turned political sideshow turned legitimate candidate turned president has shown up…
It’d been too long, we guess, since anyone had done anything truly stupid on the freeways that surround and knife through downtown Dallas. About 6 p.m. Saturday, according to media reports, a caravan of street racers stopped traffic on Woodall Rodgers Freeway just before the Klyde Warren Park underpass. They…
The bomb, such as it was, has been detonated. Now comes the time to figure out the size of the fallout and, more important, its half-life. Tuesday, everyone who’d been waiting for months to hear Chekov’s smartphone recording — otherwise known as Texas conservative gadfly Michael Quinn Sullivan’s record of…
Tuesday morning, Michael Quinn Sullivan finally released the long-awaited tape of his summer meeting with Dennis Bonnen, the speaker of the Texas House. At first listen, the recording appears to back up the basics of what Sullivan, a conservative activist and blogger, has been saying for months: In exchange for…
Working through the Cowboys’ schedule before the season, it was difficult for anyone but the most hardened cynics to imagine the team doing any worse than 4-2 through the first six games. A trip to New Orleans to play the Saints and a home tilt against the Packers looked daunting,…
The family of Atatiana Jefferson, the woman shot and killed by Fort Worth police during a wellness call early Saturday morning, spoke out for the first time since the shooting Monday morning, calling for a federal investigation of Jefferson’s death. A still-unnamed white police officer shot Jefferson, who was black,…
Like many anti-abortion activists, Mark Lee Dixon left the 2019 Texas legislative session unsatisfied. Sure, the Legislature, deep red for at least one more election, had passed the “born-alive bill,” which mimics a federal law that requires doctors to care for a baby born during an attempted abortion, and another…
If you’re the type of person who doesn’t have a taste for political sideshows, next week might be a good one to get out of Texas and head somewhere like Easter Island or anyplace, really that isn’t going to have to deal with Michael Q. Sullivan, his recording and President…
Just when you, Dallas resident, thought you were rid of Pete Sessions, he’s doing his best to pull you back in. The erstwhile North Texas congressman and current Central Texas congressional hopeful is all over the international news, and not because of blimps, burlesque clubs or maybe living in Florida…
Boxer Errol Spence Jr., Dallas’ unified welterweight champion, is in intensive care following a single-car accident early Thursday morning, the Dallas Police Department said. Spence, 29, is expected to survive. Spence was driving north on Riverfront Boulevard just south of Interstate 30 when he overturned his white Ferrari just before…
Get your jokes about stopped clocks and blind squirrels ready. Ted Cruz, Texas’ Observer-beloved junior senator, is actually on the right side of a controversial issue. Late Wednesday afternoon, Cruz, along with a Star Wars cantina-like menagerie of politicians from both sides of the aisle — Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep…
Two high-ranking and long-serving members of the Dallas Police Department are finalists for the top job at the Frisco Police Department, Frisco announced Wednesday. DPD Executive Assistant Chief David Pughes and DPD Major and acting Deputy Chief Max Geron are joined by Frisco Deputy Chief David Shilson on the short…
Next Monday, the second one in October and the one frequently celebrated as Columbus Day, will be known as Indigenous People’s Day in Dallas from that point forward. The change, passed by a 12-3 City Council vote, didn’t come easy, as several members of the council decided to put their…
Joshua Brown, a witness for the prosecution against former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger, was killed during a drug deal that went bad, according to one of the participants in the would-be deal. Thaddeous Green, 22, shot Brown, 28, twice in the lower body after a fight interrupted a…
The headlines Sunday and Monday came fast. The Dallas Cowboys, fresh off their second loss in a row, were “frauds” according to The Dallas Morning News’ Jean-Jacques Taylor. Mac Engel at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram went a step further, proclaiming the Cowboys capitulation to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers…
The Texas Attorney General’s Office made an appearance at the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans today. That’s nothing new. If there’s anything that Attorney General Ken Paxton likes, it’s fighting the federal government, whether about the environment and Texas’ ability to pollute it, people with preexisting…
One of the state’s most memorable witnesses against former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger was shot and killed late Friday night in Dallas, Lee Merritt, one of the civil attorneys representing Botham Jean’s family, confirmed Saturday. Joshua Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean in September 2018. Almost…
Mark Washington tried to make the best of a bad night in downtown Nashville Tuesday night. Confronted by Nashville police in a Shell station at which he’d been arrested multiple times for refusing to leave, Washington decided to try on a new identity. According to WKRN-TV, Washington told police officers…
