On Friday afternoon, a leaking natural gas line exploded, leveling a duplex along Main Street in Lewisville and cracking windows more than a mile away. Three people were injured in the blast. Two of those were firefighters who were treated at the scene and released. The third was 55-year-old duplex…
A bit earlier, the LBJ Express Twitter feed alerted its followers to a “pedestrian incident” on 635. Pedestrian incident on 635 WB @ Dallas North Tollway.Three lanes shut down.Expect major delays.— LBJ Express Project (@lbjexpress) January 14, 2013 The details are still sketchy, but WFAA is reporting that witnesses saw…
In the wake of last month’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the subsequent proposal by local state Representative Jason Villalba to arm specially trained teachers, DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander dismissed the idea that Dallas teachers will soon be roaming the halls packing heat. He did leave the door…
In October of 2010, Jane Bryant auctioned off put up for auction the front door of Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald’s one-time apartment at 604 Elsbeth Street in Oak Cliff. (The sale was halted by litigation, and the door was later stolen). The door itself, with glass that had once…
Dallas police had a busy weekend, as they always do. There were lots of reports of petty theft, minor assaults, and traffic accidents. There were also these gems, pulled from the weekend’s police reports: Saturday, 2:30 a.m.: Michael Stewart, 46, told police he had arranged an all-male threesome with two…
Fort Worth Police were mum when Martin Herrmann, a 50-year-old former agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, was arrested late last month on a charge of improper photography/visual recording. The TABC offered only slightly more information, telling the Star-Telegram that Herrmann had been fired in November for failing to…
Here’s something they don’t tell you when you stroll into University Park: You’re perfectly welcome to piss or shit wherever you please. That’s the law, anyways. The city apparently lacks an ordinance, standard among modern municipalities, banning public urination or defecation. It’s an omission city officials can no longer ignore,…
The dream-crushers over at the White House will not be building you a Death Star, and they will not be considering your requests to secede. Two months or so ago, just after President Obama won reelection, 23-year-old UT Arlington student Micah Hurd hastily wrote up the Texas version of the…
Let’s do this quickly, so you can incorporate it into all the sorrows you’re about drown after you leave work today. A state judge has denied Planned Parenthood’s request for a temporary injunction that would have allowed them to rejoin the Texas Women’s Health Program. According to Mary Tuma, a…
Update at 2:12 p.m.: The owner of the leveled house, Christian Community Actions, told NBC 5 that at least one man is in the hospital with injuries Fire and police officials have not confirmed the number of injuries. Original post: Police are so far releasing few details, but there was…
This week’s edition of the Dallas Voice features a long article about the video you see above, an “It Gets Better”-themed compilation featuring a whole bunch of LGBT city of Dallas employees, including city spokesperson Frank Librio, assistant city manager Joey Zapata, asisstant city attorneys Melissa Miles and John Rogers,…
Your browser does not support iframes. Earlier this week, Glenn Beck announced that he was reinventing The Blaze, his online media property, as a global libertarian news network, complete with three foreign bureaus, a nightly news magazine, and, no doubt, lots of Beck himself. Last night, he announced the next…
Texas’ voter ID law wasn’t in effect for last November’s election thanks to an order by a federal appeals court, but it remains on the books of the state’s election code. (A refresher: Anyone who shows up to vote must present a photo ID. Handgun permits are okay; school IDs…
Jim Moore was, for a time, the frontrunner in the race to succeed Tom Leppert as Dallas mayor, if only because he declared his candidacy long before anyone else. His star shone only briefly, however, as the criminal defense attorney pulled out of the race three months before the actual…
Three years ago, Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen’s dog, Avery, escaped from their Fort Worth home during a thunderstorm. They learned a few days later from Fort Worth Animal Control that Avery had been found safe and was in the custody of the city shelter. But by the time the family…
On Thursday, as the tremors from Jerry Jones’ shakeup at Valley Ranch continued to reverberate, Morning News entertainment editor Rand Duren seized the moment. “It was announced yesterday that the Dallas Cowboys have fired defensive coordinator Rob Ryan,” he wrote on the paper’s Whatever Blog, “and while that may be…
Any attempt to explain the goat-fuck at that Dallas Plan Commission meeting Thursday afternoon, I fear, may not do it justice, but here goes: A few weeks ago commissioners concluded that approving a special-use permit to allow driller Trinity East to hydraulically fracture the Trinity River floodplain wasn’t such a…
Governor Rick Perry has been coy about his plans for 2016 leaving the door open for a second presidential bid but remaining noncommittal. His epic flameout in 2012, one supposes, might be written off as a fluke. The man who had never lost an election was overly confident and thus…
Every month, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System’s board of trustees convenes at the break of dawn for its regular meeting. On a scale of exciting-ness, that meeting usually ranks somewhere between scrubbing the mold from one’s bathroom tiles and looking at the photo album my aunt used to…
Texas’ booze landscape is famously arcane, part holdover from Prohibition-era teetotaling, part jigsaw puzzle carved out by liquor interests and the municipalities that profit from them. Frustrating, too, when you find yourself on the dry side of a county line or try to buy a beer a six pack at…
Last year, Jennifer Corea was convicted of burglary and criminal mischief after she attacked, then rammed the car of, a woman accused of having an affair with her husband, disgraced attorney Tom Corea. (We now know from a incident report later released by Waxahachie police that Jennifer Corea’s daughter was…
Just after 8 p.m. yesterday, two men crept into Apartment 318 at McCallum Corners, a no-frills complex off Coit Road near the George Bush Turnpike. Police say they were after the half pound of marijuana inside, and quite possibly the $2,000 cash that was stuffed inside a purple bag inside…
