Count this among the many, many times when discretion would’ve been the better part of valor. At about five minutes to 9 a.m. Monday, according to the time stamp on a dash cam video uploaded to YouTube, commuters heading north out of downtown Dallas on I-35 saw something they had…
There are a lot of ways Sen. John Cornyn could have gone after Dallas state Sen. Royce West, the newest entrant into Texas’ Democratic Senate primary. They could have suggested that West was out of touch after nearly 30 years in office, or maybe too close to U.S. Rep. Eddie…
A Dallas County jury has found a former Mesquite Police Department officer not guilty in his second trial for aggravated assault after shooting an unarmed man twice in the back in 2017. Derick Wiley’s first trial in 2018 ended with a hung jury. Wiley shot Lyndo Jones after responding to…
Long-serving Dallas state Sen. Royce West is making a big announcement Monday morning. It’s not much of a surprise, given that he’s already filed campaign-finance documents, but West is running for U.S. Senate, hoping to take on incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in November 2020. West will join a field that…
This spring, the Texas Legislature passed a bill legalizing hemp and hemp-based products as long as those products contained less than .3% THC. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. At the time, the decision seemed simple enough. It put Texas farmers on a level playing field with farmers in…
The script, if you’ve been around cop trials in Dallas or anywhere else over the last several years, is easy to follow. Derick Wiley, the former Mesquite Police Department officer on trial for aggravated assault by a public servant, shot Lyndo Jones twice in the back as Jones ran away…
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has resurrected the only plan for paying for President Donald Trump’s favorite pet project that’s less likely to succeed than the president’s own plan for paying for the scheme. Cruz, echoing the totally conceived-in-good-faith idea that first sprang from his mouth in 2017, thinks that Joaquín Guzmán…
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday afternoon that they’ve arrested Jonathan Moore, 36, in connection with the wrong-way crash that killed former Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis just before 8 p.m. Monday. Moore remains in the hospital, but police expect he will be charged with intoxication manslaughter for allegedly killing Davis…
Rangers designated hitter, left fielder and kinda, sorta second baseman Willie Calhoun is going back to the minors, the team announced Tuesday, to make room for Hunter Pence’s return from the injured list. That’s the what. Given Calhoun’s performance since rejoining the Rangers on May 15, the why is much…
An alleged drunk driver killed former Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis on Monday night, according to multiple current council members. The crash on East Ledbetter Road in Oak Cliff also seriously injured Davis’ daughter, Melissa Davis-Nunn.
For the second time, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office is trying to send former Mesquite police officer Derick Wiley to prison for shooting Lyndo Jones in the back. Wiley is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, a first-degree felony. Wiley shot Jones after responding to a call…
With the Cowboys still two weeks or so from reporting to training camp and the blessed release that comes with the beginning of the regular season almost two months away, 2019’s summer silly season is already in full swing. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Monday, Pro…
North Texas picked up more new apartment renters than any area in the United States during the second quarter of 2019, according to data released last week by RealPage. As of July 1, DFW has 10,446 more occupied apartments than it did three months ago, the biggest quarterly jump in…
Texas, for all its grand political history, has had more than its share of bad candidates, ranging from the benign but deluded, like 2002 gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez, to the not-so-benign but totally hopeless, like Craig James. Scattered among the political graves are several Texas politicians who got too big for…
Ezekiel Elliott will not be punished for a May incident during which he was briefly handcuffed by Las Vegas police after knocking over a security guard at a music festival, the NFL announced Wednesday afternoon. Elliott met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss his actions Tuesday. A bystander video…
Barring something truly unforeseen, Texas is officially out of the woods when it comes to a potential citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census. In an email sent to opposing counsel in the ongoing legal fight over the question, lawyers for the Department of Justice said Tuesday that the “decision…
Last week, right after a Dallas County grand jury indicted him for the murder of Juan Moreno Jr., Farmers Branch Police Department officer Michael Dunn turned himself in, quickly made $150,000 bail and was released from custody. Standard operating procedure as far as North Texas cops are concerned — see…
There’s a chance, somewhere between a small- and a medium-sized one, that Tuesday ends up being one of the defining days of the Cowboys’ 2019 season. According to reports from the Cowboys beat reporters at ESPN and The Dallas Morning News, star running back Ezekiel Elliott is meeting with NFL…
It took a little digging through federal court documents and a helpful tweet pointing us in the right direction, but the Observer had the distinct pleasure of witnessing the origin story of Texas’ newest civil rights icon Monday. Turns out, he’s been sitting right in front of us the whole time…
Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in Texas today, the team announced Monday afternoon. The Rangers and Angels series opener, slated for tonight at 7:05, has been cancelled. “It is with great sorrow that we report Tyler Skaggs passed away earlier today in Texas,” the Angels said in…
Sen. Ted Cruz exposed his Achilles’ heel again last week. During a Commerce Committee hearing, Cruz went after Google executive Maggie Stanphill, preening for the cameras about Google and its donations, or lack thereof, to President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Cruz was trying, we think, to harden the growing…
It’s officially July. That means feeling your organs slowly cook as Dallas makes its annual transition to a searing, urban hellscape, sneaking up to the most convenient nearby rooftop for fireworks and, most important, the start of Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California. Football, in a way, is back, making…
