A little before noon Wednesday, a Twitter account with fewer than 50 followers caught a viral wave and sent Cowboys fans into a panic. Amari Cooper, the team’s star free-agent wide receiver had been, according to @TOffseason, shot “in a parking garage in the Dallas area.” The tweet was bullshit…
Airbnb, Vrbo and the rest of their short-term rental brethren appear set to head down the same road traveled by Uber and Lyft five years ago. The Dallas City Council wants a task force, one that will make sure the city gets its cut and will respond to concerned neighbors…
A half-decade ago, Dallas County came this close to signing off on a contract that could’ve banned in-person visits at its county jail. Tuesday, by a unanimous vote, the Dallas County Commissioners Court approved a plan that will see county jail inmates charged just $.01 per minute for phone calls…
If it seems like just yesterday that the Iowa Democratic Party was making a mockery of their caucus’ treasured first-in-the-nation status thanks to their inability to count votes or name a winner — it isn’t. But it’s close. Things are just getting started and, already, Texans are about to get…
First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress is not a stooge. In fact, if one even raises the idea that he’s totally in the tank for President Donald Trump, providing evangelical cover for keeping kids in cages, hush money payments to porn stars and absolutely anything else Trump decides to during…
Never let it be said that Dallas isn’t doing its best to make things easier on you, dear residents. Later this month, thanks to the city’s largess, you’ll be able to experience all the fun of a municipal court proceeding, right in your own backyard. That’s right, everyone in Dallas…
A Dallas County jury is deliberating whether to make former Dallas Police Department officer Christopher Hess the third DFW police officer sent to prison for an on-duty police shooting in as many years. Hess shot 12 times at Genevive Dawes, hitting her five times and killing her on Jan. 18,…
The Dallas City Council wants much tougher penalties for those caught participating in street races in the city. Dallas city staff, and its police department, appear ready to oblige. Monday afternoon at City Hall, Dallas Police Department and city staff filled in the council’s public safety committee on just what…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, forever at war with affordable healthcare, women’s personal autonomy and reality, added a new foe to his list Monday afternoon: California. Three years after the fact, Paxton is making his objection to the Golden State’s ban on state-paid travel to Texas his office’s newest cause célèbre,…
Thursday afternoon, Dallas got hit with a punch that’s been on its way for long time. A Dallas County jury found that the city, thanks in large part to former city manager Mary Suhm, owes drilling company Trinity East somewhere between $23 and $33 million for accepting $19 million from…
Speaking after the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, President Donald Trump took on Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the only Republican to vote for the president’s removal from office during his just concluded impeachment trial. “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,”…
Finally, after a court case that’s moved up and down the appellate ladder in fits and starts since 2014, Dallas is going to have to pay Trinity East back for all those drilling rights the city never let the energy company use. Thursday afternoon, according to The Dallas Morning News’…
Dallas’ Reverchon Park fight, already voted on twice by the Dallas City Council, isn’t over. Thursday afternoon, a group of the park’s neighbors announced a lawsuit intended to stop the city’s deal to give the reins of the park to a private group led by Dallas Mavericks executive Donnie Nelson…
Just after 1 p.m. Thursday, Dallas firefighters received a call about a burning upholstery warehouse in the 2400 block of Irving Boulevard in the Design District. Lots of smoke was coming from the building, but no one was inside when firefighters showed up. After a roof collapsed, the fire department…
In Texas, at least, impeachment didn’t mean a damn thing. Wednesday, three weeks after Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz were sworn in for the trial of President Donald Trump, both Texas representatives voted to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment with which Trump was charged — abuse…
The Observer’s news vertical is, for the most part, a local concern. We do our best to stay focused on DFW, while occasionally allowing our eyes to wander further afield to the rest of Texas. So we are, for the purposes of this article at least, going to disregard about 99.8%…
Former Dallas police officer Christopher Hess had no choice but to shoot Genevive Dawes on Jan. 18, 2017, his lawyers said during opening statements Tuesday. Dawes posed an immediate threat to Hess and his colleagues. She was a felon committing another felony, incapable of following officers orders’ to show her…
The ground being fought over is getting smaller, but, five years after the fact, the Dallas County Commissioners Court is still fighting among itself and with activists over phone calls at the Dallas County jail. Tuesday, a plan that would’ve seen Dallas inmates paying some of the lowest per-minute rates…
It’s officially put up or shut up time for all of you out there who consider yourselves true, degenerate pro football fans. With Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs having put the cherry on top of the NFL’s 2020 sundae, it’s time, this weekend,…
For the last two years, Dallas’ headlines have been dominated by cops on trial. In 2018, Dallas County juries convicted ex-cops Roy Oliver and Ken Johnson on murder charges. Last year, Dallas County juries acquitted former Mesquite officer Derick Wiley of aggravated assault after he shot a man in the…
“Pod Bless Texas,” like a lot of ideas, was born out of failure. It was election night 2018 and Kendall Scudder, fresh off a suicide mission against incumbent Texas Sen. Bob Hall, no longer had anything to run for. Lillian Salerno, Scudder’s future co-host, had lost her own race a few…
Ellis County is now, officially, a safe space for guns, fetuses and conservatives. This week, the Ellis County Commissioners Court voted 5-0 in favor of a resolution declaring itself a sanctuary city for the unborn, hopping on a bandwagon started by anti-choice activists last year in Waskom. In the succeeding…
