August was a wild month for Randy Travis, what with the naked arrest in Greyson County followed two weeks later by a scuffle in the parking lot of a Plano church that resulted in a citation for misdemeanor assault. On that first point, the country singer says he’s now sober…
If you haven’t been keeping up with the sneaker industry recently, you probably didn’t know that today was one of the red-letter days on the calendar, when the new Air Jordan XI Retro “Breds” were set to be released. Several hundred were quite aware and showed up early this morning…
If you could make it through the interminable hours of debate regarding the virtues of video boards; the dire necessity of liquoring up establishments zoned dry; and what sounded like a monolithic Oak Lawn apartment building, something interesting did in fact transpire during a Plan Commission meeting: a zoning request…
Just two weeks after former Dallas PD senior corporal Theadora Ross was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for pocketing $250,000 from North Texas CrimeStoppers, which she was charged with overseeing, the Feds are again alleging fraud in the program. On Tuesday, the local U.S. Attorney’s office filed charges against…
Feral hogs are, by all accounts, a pain in the ass. They’re voracious. They obliterate crops, gardens and natural vegetation. They can do a helluva lot of damage to your front fender. And mostly? They’re just dicks. In Texas, their prevalence has prompted all sorts of countermeasures. One legislator wanted…
When Minnie K. Patton wrote her will, she left a portion of her estate to the Dallas County Community College District Foundation to create a scholarship in her name. She’d grown up poor and uneducated in rural Oklahoma and wanted to give students the shot at upward mobility that she…
Back in October, Richard Malouf, the Dallas dentist accused of massive Medicaid fraud, sued real estate blogger Candy Evans, who had published photos of the small waterpark that appeared to be under construction in his backyard. For good measure, he and his wife Leanne also sued WFAA and their reporter…
Freshman state Rep. Jason Villalba has spent much of the past couple days scrambling to respond to the sudden media attention sparked by his announcement that he would file a bill for the coming legislative session allowing teachers to carry guns. He talked to the Morning News yesterday, and yesterday…
In what no doubt seemed like a wonderful idea at the time, Lewisville’s Eagle Gun Range announced last Wednesday that Santa would be paying a visit, and he’d be “bringing his favorite toys to share in the Christmas photos — his AR-15 and other firearms of choice.” “Come get your…
It’s been over a decade since the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup and proved, six years after moving from Minnesota, that there was room for professional ice hockey even in football-obsessed, not-at-all-icy Texas. The team’s popularity has flagged significantly in recent years, but a generation of North Texas kids…
OK, business-community school reformers. I believe you mean well. But your guy is toast. You recruited a school superintendent who cannot and will not make it in the big city. You can get all stubborn about it and defend him to the last ditch. If I had to bet, I’d…
For more than two weeks, three young people arrested on misdemeanor charges have remained in a Smith County jail, unable to bond about because a judge set bail at $65,000. They stand accused of misdemeanor criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and illegal dumping. But the unusually high bond amounts are entirely…
Six months into his tenure at DISD, it’s now official: Superintendent Mike Miles is hellbent on squandering whatever good will he was granted upon his arrival. Case in point was his news conference Wednesday to more fully address findings in a recent internal audit concluding that he and top staff…
Late yesterday we told you about a bizarre event that popped up on Dallas’ nightlife calendar: a party at the nightclub Zouk, hosted by LeBron James and apparently designed to honor Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice-squadder who died in a drunk-driving accident. The event drew all sorts of red flags…
The Texas Department of Public Safety has been mostly quiet about the case of Angel and Ashley Dobbs, who were cavity searched by a state trooper during a July traffic stop. The agency released a statement late Tuesday saying only that the troopers’ actions have been investigated and that the…
Jerry Brown Jr.’s life was cut short almost two weeks ago when the Mercedes driven by Josh Brent, his best friend and Cowboys teammate, veered off the highway near the former site of Texas Stadium. The two had just come from Privae, a members-only night club, where the 320-pound nose…
Back in September, attorney Melissa Kingston sued Lower Greenville blogger/rancorous shit-disturber Avi Adelman, memorably calling him “a self-proclaimed vigilante-style neighborhood activist who more accurately resembles a neighborhood terrorist.” The whole fight began over the new Wal-Mart in that neighborhood: Adelman hates it, while Kingston says she was working with five…
This past October, the Women’s Southwest Federal Credit Union closed its doors. It was tiny, with just 743 members and $2 million in assets, but more important was its balance sheet. The National Credit Union Administration determined WSFCE was insolvent and had to liquidate. That’s when federal regulators began poking…
On May 22, Garland police raided the home of Willis Bassham, a 40-year-old social studies teacher at Garland High School, and seized his cell phone and several computers. Stored there were sexually explicit photos and videos of at least four female students. One, who was 17 at the time, was…
Over the summer, plans for a $33 million parking garage next to the American Airlines Center briefly became the focus of the ongoing feud between Ross Perot Jr., whose company was building the structure, and Mark Cuban, whose company opposed the project. The garage was green-lighted by the City Council…
On Tuesday morning, Dallas police got a call from the Transportation Security Administration. The agency had some 65 pounds of abandoned ammunition that needed to be picked up. That’s all DPD’s incident report said. Not a word about what the hell such a large amount of ammunition was doing at…
“They came by the other day and swept some of our stuff up,” Michelle complained. She’s a petite black woman in her mid 40s, with chin-length hair partially hidden under a black and orange knit cap. On a recent weekday morning, she was perched atop an upside down bucket, blowing…
