This week, we’ve given you a little background on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, and some reasons why two experts familiar with the gang are skeptical that they could be behind the murders of Kaufman County DA Mark McLelland, his wife Cynthia, and ADA Mark Hasse. In short: because while…
Watch Emmanual Mudiay on the court and it’s not hard to see how the junior point guard came to be ESPN’s No. 3 recruit in the country, or why University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari would take such a keen interest. He’s big, for one, 6-foot-4 and almost 200…
When I read a story in The Dallas Morning News this morning about a contest for ideas to link the Trinity River to downtown and saw that the contestants were required to include the city’s stupid underwater proposed toll road on top of the river in their submissions, my first…
Every day, Dallas police respond to a disheartening number of domestic violence calls, too many to note. In 2011, there were 13,000 instances of family violence, most of them assaults. Last year, 26 women were murdered by their partners. Yesterday’s alleged thuggery took police to Great Trinity Forest Boulevard, where…
With the mammoth six-year, $108 million deal he signed last week, Tony Romo became the most richly rewarded player in Cowboys history. That put him fifth on the list of current NFL players, ahead of Eli Manning and Tom Brady but well behind Ravens QB Joe Flacco’s $20.1 million per…
From a purely aesthetic point of view, Ori Raphael is dominating the District 11 City Council yard sign war. His opponent, former park board member Lee Kleinman, went with blocky, mustard-colored letters superimposed on a blue background, his enormous first name partially obscured by a silhouette of the Dallas skyline…
Nick Morale, a 56-year-old man from Terrell, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making “terroristic threats” against the life of an unnamed county official. Lieutenant Justin Lewis of the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office told reporters Wednesday that the threat was left on a Crime Stoppers tip line Monday afternoon, warning…
The chic St. Tropez Nail Spa in Fairview offers the standard array of of waxes, facials and manis and pedis you expect from a strip center nail salon but with a special twist. Because not only will the ladies there turn your toenails plaid and your fingernails a tasteful sparkling…
It didn’t take long for the District 2 City Council race to turn into a mud-slinging match, even if the mud has come from only one side. The first volley came last month from Herschel Weisfeld, who seized on Adam Medrano’s refusal to discuss his sexual orientation to question his…
The city of Dallas has been criticized at times for the agonizingly slow implementation of its 2011 Dallas Bike Plan. Two years after its adoption, only about 10 percent of the planned 1,127 miles of bike lanes and trails have been been put in place. That would seem to indicate…
When I spoke to Terry Pelz late yesterday afternoon, he sounded hoarse and exhausted. “I’m just about talked out,” he said. Pelz is a former prison warden at the Darrington Unit who now runs a criminal justice consulting firm in Missouri City, about 20 miles southwest of Houston. He’s been…
The LGBT Resource Center at Texas A&M University, like its cousins at the University of Texas and the University of Houston, is an innocuous arm of school bureaucracy that offers an array of resources to gay and transgendered students. There is a guest speaker program, a lending library, networking opportunities,…
Kyle Coplen can pinpoint the exact moment the idea came to him. He was visiting a 93-year-old World War II veteran on January 23 whose home had just been vandalized. Mementos were broken. The walls had been covered with spray paint. The man was distraught, and so was Coplen, who…
tough break for that dirty jap yu darvish he should probably kill himself losing his perfect game— Andy Chacon (@Andle008) April 3, 2013 This Week in Racism … Even discounted for his putrid opponent, Yu Darvish pitched one of the best games in Rangers history last night, setting down 26…
It was less than two weeks ago that Dallas Police Chief David Brown appeared at a press conference to say that, despite the department’s initial hopes, they had no idea who raped three women in Lake Highlands over the course of a month. Now, they do. Officers arrested 30-year-old Cesar…
There’s been a bit of a fuss lately over the Memphis City Council’s decision to change the name of three city parks, scrubbing them clean of any reference to the Confederacy in hopes of making them more inviting to residents who may not exactly have felt welcome in early-1860s Tennessee…
Every law enforcement agency in North Texas has descended on Kaufman County in the past several days following the murder of District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, at their home. The couple was found by a concerned friend around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday night, according to a search…
It’s been two-and-a-half months since Collin County Sheriff Terry Box made headlines (and, some might say, a bit of an ass of himself) by proclaiming that he and his deputies would have no part in enforcing federal gun laws that might “violate our precious constitutional rights.” It’s not a terribly…
Jaime Moreno-Gutierrez and Roberto Moreno-Gutierrez just wanted to reduce their carbon footprint. Or maybe they just wanted to save on gas costs. Either way, they sold their gas-guzzling 2004 GMC Envoy and set off from their home in Killeen on March 31, 2011, and headed for Plano, where a dealership…
Police had only just opened Blarney Stone Way in Forney Monday afternoon when this picture was taken. Satellite trucks were already stacked fender to fender for 100 yards or more, and cameramen were trained on the house ringed with yellow police tape, shooting B roll for the evening newscasts. See…
Late yesterday evening, about 8 p.m., four Dallas police cars descended on a the 2800 block of South Avenue, lights and sirens blazing. They’d been told there was a major disturbance on the South Dallas street, and that one of those involved was hurling legitimate-seeming death threats. Officers arrived to…
Texas has never played around when it comes to its standardized tests, and the STAAR exam, the new assessment whose rigor is currently the center of debate in the state legislature, is no different. As one of the primary ways the state evaluates educational outcomes, and thus ensures accountability, the…
