The king is dead, so who’s next in line? That’s the question facing Dallas sports fans following Dirk Nowitzki’s pitch-perfect Mavericks denouement two weeks ago. Since dragging the Mavs to the franchise’s only championship in 2011, Nowitzki has been the undisputed face of professional sports in the city he’s called…
Nine months after a petition drive to get an ordinance requiring paid sick leave for everyone who works in Dallas went down in flames, the Dallas City Council will take up a similar ordinance. Wednesday, the council will decide whether city code will require all Dallas employers to credit their…
To hear Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata tell it, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot’s new reforms — Creuzot’s office will no longer prosecute certain misdemeanor theft cases or first-time marijuana offenses — stereotype poor people, rather than helping them out. “I take great offense to saying that poor…
Sen. Ted Cruz learned a lesson he should’ve leaned long ago the hard way Wednesday afternoon: Mess with the mouse, and you’re going to get the ears. The story starts, as many have over the last six-years plus, with Cruz trying and failing miserably to pass himself off as human…
The Dallas Police Department Family Violence Unit is investigated a complaint made against community activist Dominique Alexander, DPD confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Alexander’s accuser called Dallas activist and pastor Jeff Hood after the alleged assault. The pair then went to the hospital, before filing a report at the Northwest Dallas Police…
Texas is set to turn a very fake problem into a very real law. Monday night, the state’s House of Representatives signed off on Plano Republican Jeff Leach’s “Born Alive Protection Act” which would create civil and criminal penalties for doctors who fail to care for babies born after attempted…
Tuesday afternoon, all 144 of state Rep. Victoria Neave’s colleagues available to vote on the Texas House floor agreed with the two-term Dallas Democrat: It’s time, the state’s lower chamber unanimously voted, to end Texas’ rape kit backlog. “This bill is for all the women who have waited for years…
A former University of Texas All-American and U.S. National Team swimmer sued a Dallas clinic Tuesday, claiming a multivitamin she bought from the clinic led to a 2018 doping suspension. FINA, international swimming’s governing body, suspended Madisyn Cox for two years in March 2018 after she tested positive for trimetazidine,…
If Beto O’Rourke drives to a coffee shop or college campus and cable news doesn’t mention it, does he make a sound? O’Rourke’s been running for president now, at least officially, for just more than a month. During those first 32 days, his campaign is happy to tell you, the…
Local government officials and social activists groups marked Monday, the first day individuals and commercial interests can challenge their 2018 property tax appraisals, with a call to fix a process they say has cost Dallas County local governments more than $1 billion in revenue since 2013. “We are ready to…
The headlines on reports about last week’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s raid on an electronic repairs plant in Allen were startling. In one day, ICE agents arrested 280 people at CVE Technology Group, making Wednesday’s bust the biggest in a decade. Despite the scale of the operation, however, the way…
U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn sentenced former Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway to a little more than four and a half years in federal prison Friday afternoon. In August, Caraway admitted to taking almost $450,000 in bribes and kickbacks related to Dallas County School’s ill-fated stop-arm camera program. Lynn…
Friday afternoon, nearly seven months after Dwaine Caraway pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges and resigned from the Dallas City Council, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn will tell him just how long he’ll spend in prison for his transgressions. For a while Thursday, it looked like that might not happen…
Last week, a Denton County grand jury indicted former Dodgers, Rangers, Yankees and Montreal Expos pitcher John Wetteland on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. Wetteland is accused of forcing a child to perform oral sex three times between 2004 and 2006 at…
When Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall rolled out her first draft of potential changes to Dallas’ Citizens Police Review Board last month, she took heat from all sides. Supporters of reforming the board felt that Hall’s changes didn’t go far enough, while opponents of the reforms worried that strengthening…
The Texas Senate moved the state one step closer to teachers having guns on their hips in class, voting 28-3 Wednesday to end a requirement that all guns belonging to members of the state’s school marshal program be kept in a locked box. Sen. Brian Birdwell, a Republican who represents…
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has dropped felony criminal mischief charges against L’Daijohnique Lee, the woman allegedly assaulted by a Deep Ellum bartender in an incident caught on video nearly two weeks ago. Dallas police issued a warrant for Lee’s arrest Tuesday based on her admission that she broke the…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is celebrating because a Missouri man might choke to death on his own blood. Paxton led a 16-state coalition last year asking the U.S. Supreme Court to deny Russell Bucklew’s death row appeal and uphold Missouri’s lethal injection procedures, claiming that upholding Bucklew’s appeal would…
Dallas police charged L’Daijohnique Lee, the woman allegedly beaten by a Deep Ellum bartender in an incident caught on video almost two weeks ago, with felony criminal mischief Thursday afternoon. Lee is accused of knocking out the windows of Austin Shuffield’s car after an altercation in the early morning of…
The New York Post broke the news over the weekend as the Mavericks continued to play out the string on the road during a lost season and one of the biggest pieces of their on-court future, star center Kristaps Porzingis, remained in North Texas for injury treatment. A woman who…
Maybe Sen. Ted Cruz is just really hard up for $10,000. Otherwise, it’s hard to figure out what he’s trying to achieve with a Monday lawsuit against the federal elections commission, beyond pure campaign-finance nihilism. Broken down to its simplest terms, Cruz’s suit challenges a federal law that bans candidates…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott first warned of the coming scourge in 2015. Ousted Dallas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions spotted it, too, but not soon enough to stave off defeat from Democrat Colin Allred. The real threat to Texas, its economic prosperity and its way of life, at least to Republicans…
