A Dallas County jury has found Donald Cuba not guilty of rape, The Dallas Morning News’ Melissa Repko is reporting. Cuba, a 20-year-old junior, was accused of raping a fellow student in a dorm room early on the morning of February 10, 2012. As we wrote this morning, the trial…
Jose Canseco is apparently having second thoughts about his decision this morning to publicly announce that he’s being accused of rape. He took down the above tweet not long after he posted it, but not before we got a screenshot (and blacked out his alleged accuser’s name). We have a…
If you’re looking to be entertained on your virtual 4-minute trip down the new LBJ Express, check out Frontburner’s commentary on a video clip released in January. But if you want a full, bird’s eye view of your future commute, take a glance at the clip above. As you can…
In the months since Big Tex met his untimely end, State Fair officials have been releasing snippets of how an iconic 50-foot cowboy statue is designed in the 21st century. First, they showed the hand, then a his head. Today, we get our first good look at Big Tex’s face…
The Boy Scouts of America’s National Council meets this week at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, and it’s scheduled to decide on Thursday whether to lift its long-standing policy banning gay scouts. (The ban on gay leaders is staying in place for now, but the organization’s leadership, as well as…
Yesterday when my wife, son and I were driving back from Lubbock, the news on my tablet told me that Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, and Tea Party leaders in 25 states had released an open letter urging congress to dump…
Last fall, 20-year-old SMU junior Donald Cuba was indicted on charges of raping a fellow student in a dorm room. He was one of two SMU students charged with sexual assault that year (both in the same month, in fact). The other student, J.D. Mahaffey, saw his charges dropped by…
Update at 11:20 a.m.DPD and the FBI told The Dallas Morning News the department has been informing the agency of officer-involved shootings: “They do notify us when there is an officer-involved shooting,” Chaumont said. She further confirmed that the bureau had been notified about the Allen shooting. Cited as evidence…
When Dallas police found Robert Schneider on the wrong side of a six-foot barbed-wire fence at Love Field in March, the 55-year-old at least had the wherewithal not to yell “jihad,” or “Jesus” for that matter. “I’m in there scrapping,” he explained according to police records. See also Turns Out,…
Between the end of this past weekend’s Byron Nelson and the start this week of the Colonial in Fort Worth, the professional golf world had a bit of time to kill in Dallas. And what better way to do that than designing a Texas-shaped green, putting it in the plaza…
So far, Brek Shea’s trip across the Atlantic has been rougher than he anticipated. The former FC Dallas forward, who enjoyed mild fame in the states as American soccer’s young hope, Adidas pitchman, and, of course, alt-weekly cover story subject, has spent his first season in the English Premiere League…
William Youkers was on parole in 2011 when he choked his pregnant girlfriend in Plano. He pleaded guilty, and the judge was lenient, placing him in a community supervision program. But three months later, he tested positive for meth. He assured Judge Scott Becker that he was turning his life…
The Promise of Peace Community Garden is in an awful location, shoehorned into a formerly vacant lot in a row of apartments and liquor stores just south of White Rock Lake, reachable only by a narrow sidewalk running along busy Grand Avenue. Nevertheless, the spot has served the garden’s needs…
Digital rights advocates cheered yesterday after the state House passed a measure requiring police to obtain a search warrant before collecting personal cell phone data. Groups as diverse as the ACLU of Texas and the arch-conservative Texas Eagle Forum have expressed concern that current law, which allows law enforcement agencies…
Isaac Bugyendu was already dead when police responded to a shooting call Sunday night on Montana Avenue in Cedar Crest. The 25-year-old’s body, pierced by multiple bullets, had been left in the middle of the road, barely a block from the Illinois Avenue 7-Eleven where he was a clerk. Notably…
This Thursday, the Boy Scouts of America will teach its young men a lesson as indelible as any they’re likely to learn from a scoutmaster. Its national delegation will vote on a longstanding prohibition against gays in the country’s largest youth organization. BSA leaders have floated what they see as…
We’re not sure exactly what Shawn Marion is driving here. It’s clearly not a car in the traditional sense of the word, nor is it a tricycle, even though it has three wheels. It’s kind of like a golf cart, except it appears to be able to reach highway speeds…
First, the good news: Crazy ants don’t sting. They do sometimes bite, but the pain is mild, and it fades quickly. Even better, they drive out their stinging cousins, fire ants, which have been tormenting Texans for decades. Now, the bad news: When entomologists say “crazy,” they mean it. “When…
To the naked eye, the UPS parcel contained nothing but an ordinary wooden folding chair and two paintings. Not precisely the “wooden frames” described on the shipping manifest, but nothing that isn’t shipped across the country hundreds or thousands of times every day. But U.S. Customs agents at the UPS…
The suburbs stir up a lot of associations in the popular imagination. It covers territory as diverse as Leave It to Beaver and Blue Velvet. What the ‘burbs don’t usually evoke is poverty. For decades the war on poverty has been fought mostly in urban centers, but according to a…
Jose Canseco has been busy since his two-year stint with the Rangers almost two decades ago. He became an author. He danced with the stars. He admitted using steroids and accused a laundry list of former teammates of doing the same. He tried to become mayor of Toronto which, in…
John Carona, our Republican state senator from Dallas, learned some hard lessons this session about how his fellow lawmakers’ business interests tend to dominate the doings in the legislature. Last month, Carona’s bill to try to reform the incredibly predatory payday loan industry was picked down to its skeletal bones…
