Late last week the Hurst Police Department announced that officer Disraeli Arnold, who delivered a flying knee during the arrest 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez for a trespassing warrant, would be “suspended indefinitely,” which the police chief has said basically means “fired.” The reason for Arnold’s termination wasn’t the flying knee, which…
A Dallas woman’s day got off to a terrible start around 7 this morning, when a man jumped into the driver’s side of the parked car she was sitting in and demanded money from her. Things devolved from there. Police say the woman was sitting in the passenger’s seat of…
The best way to prevent drunken driving deaths, as we were repeatedly reminded in the wake of Jerry Brown’s death last month, is for drunk people to stop driving. The obvious problem is that the people who are deciding whether to drive are drunk and, while per capita drunken driving…
If there’s one thing that pops into your head when you look at Claude Gilliland III, the new pastor at the New Heart Family Worship Center in Cleburne, it’s probably something like “It’s a shame to waste such a righteous mustache on somebody who would never ever be involved with…
Ed Young, the jet-setting, lion-taming, couch-surfing sexpert — not to mention pastor of Grapevine’s Fellowship Church — ranks as one of Unfair Park’s favorite human beings. So we were all ears yesterday when he delivered a sermon answering the question we’ve all been asking: What would Jesus say to Jerry…
On Friday night, Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was picking apart Oklahoma’s defense en route to an impressively lopsided 41-13 victory in the Cotton Bowl. On Saturday, he went out to celebrate. TMZ posted pictures of the Heisman Trophy winner partying at Dallas’ Avenu Lounge, all…
Prison gardens have become something of a thing in recent years, sprouting in California, then taking root in an increasing number of jails and penitentiaries across the country. The benefits claimed by gardening advocates are numerous: reduced recidivism rates; skills that are transferable to life on the outside; food costs…
Yesterday, Kenneth Howard Lee celebrated his 58th birthday. Or perhaps he didn’t celebrate it at all; police reports tend to be silent on things like that. What we do know is that around 2 a.m. today, shortly after his special day was over, Lee was pepper-sprayed and then taken to…
Update on January 7.: Uber’s Dallas GM, Leandre Johns, says the company’s attorneys have looked into the matter and determined that its operation in the city is “completely legal.” His full statement is below. Uber, the on-demand private-driver startup, was stirring controversy even before it launched in Dallas last fall…
At 3:30 p.m. yesterday, 36-year-old Terry Varghese was riding his bicycle when he turned onto the Dallas North Tollway service road. That turned out to be a bad idea. Shortly after he made the turn, a car pulled alongside Varghese and its driver began shouting obscenities. “Are you crazy?” the…
It’s no secret that Texans are fat and that they’re getting fatter. Right now, almost one in three qualify as obese, with that ratio expected to nearly double over the next two decades. The picture is almost as grim for kids. According to a 2011 study, one in five children…
On December 6, Damien Falgoust went out for post-game drinks with his kickball teammates at the Knox Street Pub. At 1:30 a.m., he got into a cab and headed for his condo off Lower Greenville. He never made it. An hour later he was found a couple of blocks away,…
First of all, a salute to all the hard-working pizza men and women out there who show up to strangers’ homes in sketchy neighborhoods carrying cash and delicious foodstuffs. It’s thankless work, and dangerous. Take last night, for instance. At 10:30 p.m., a Pizza Hut driver was delivering some pies…
As of around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, two Keystone XL pipeline protesters were perched atop platforms strung through the trees in East Texas, aiming to block construction of what may soon become the longest pipeline in the Western Hemisphere. The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which could be approved by the end…
The Associated Press is reporting that Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice player who died in a drunk-driving accident last month, was sober at the time of the crash. Brown’s teammate, Josh Brent, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when the car he was driving crashed. The two had…
On Wednesday afternoon, an employee at the Half Price Books mothership on Northwest Highway watched a customer as she picked out a selection of audiobooks, concealed them under her shirt, and nonchalantly walked out the back door. Darrell Stevens, a Dallas police officer working an off-duty security job at the…
At the beginning of the week, the Tarrant County DA’s office announced that it will not be pursuing criminal charges against Hurst police officer Disraeli Arnold for his conduct during the November arrest of 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez on a four-year-old trespassing warrant. Arnold, you’ll recall, delivered a flying knee to…
In 2011, state lawmakers took a break from slashing school funding, dreaming up new abortion restrictions and fighting against the encroachment of Islamic law to do battle with a new enemy: the compact fluorescent light bulb. More and more, those tightly coiled tubes were replacing Edison’s good ol’ incandescent bulbs,…
State Representative Bill Zedler first gained attention about a decade ago, when he led a grassroots crusade to block a Hooters from opening near his neighborhood in Arlington. To a certain extent, this was a classic case of not-in-my-backyard activism in which neighbors unite against an unwanted business, but Zedler…
This upcoming legislative session is shaping up to be a real barn-burner. In addition to the anti-TSA groping measure and the continued battle against the imaginary scourge of Sharia law already filed by other legislators, Representative Dwayne Bohac of Houston has made things even more lively. A couple weeks back,…
With the recent recession came a corresponding boom at two-year colleges as students sought to gain marketable job skills without shelling out big bucks to attend costlier four-year institutions. That boom is now over, and the numbers in Texas are bearing that out. Between fall 2011 and fall 2012, 2.7…
When my 3-year-old’s first-ever soccer season wrapped up in October and we stopped making our biweekly trips to the fields at Harry Moss Park in Northeast Dallas, the southwest corner of Greenville Avenue and Meadow Road was empty. It was still empty in November, and at the beginning of December…
