When Debbie Jones saw her mother, she knew the news was bad. For weeks, Jones had been waiting to hear from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office about the results of a DNA test. Now, on a sunny April morning in 2008, one of the DA’s investigators, Jim Hammond, had…
Dallas black activist the Reverend Ronald Wright went home last Friday expecting to be greeted happily by his 2-year-old German shepherd Sadie. When he opened the door, the house was silent. He immediately knew something was wrong. When he went to the backyard, he saw his dog lying on the…
Aftermath Inc. refers to itself as a “biohazard restoration company”, more commonly known as crime-scene cleanup: The company’s employees go in after murders, suicides, injuries, hoarding cases and other seriously unpleasant situations. But now three of their Texas employees are being sued in Dallas County district court, where five families…
The Nasher Sculpture Center and the developers of the Museum Tower project are continuing to hammer out their white light, white heat debacle behind closed doors. They recently hired a mediator in lawyer Tom Luce, who promptly asked both sides to quit talking to the media already. Above, however, you…
Having a wife, an almost-3-year-old and another on the way (child, not wife), I’ve shackled myself to a life of uneventful domesticity, at least for the next 18 years. It’s a comfortable setup, but one that can induce restlessness, so when fate put me in Dallas a full week before…
Update 12:45 p.m.: City spokesman Frank Librio sends word that, on second thought, there is plenty of parking available for the Chihuly exhibit at the Arboretum and no need to mow Winfrey Point. Attendance numbers for the current exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum appear to be within the facility’s ability…
Is it any wonder that Prime Prep Academy, the charter school hyped by Deion Sanders, is accepting triple the number of students that most charter schools accept in their first year? Everything about the place has been propped up with hopeful grandeur. Sanders, the school’s co-founder and spokesperson (though he…
Two Dallas high schools — the School for the Talented and Gifted and the School of Science and Engineering Magnet — didn’t just survive the multi-stage culling process U.S. News and World Report used to arrive at a list of the country’s 97 cream-of-the-crop schools. They snagged two of the…
Ah, the Trinity River corridor, that swath of green that anchors urban Dallas to Mother Nature. How we cherish it. Unless, that is, someone — Mayor Mike Rawlings, for example — wants to build a toll road through its heart … Or maybe dump a few hundred gallons of pig…
“The Josh Hamilton relapse: What does it mean?” one headline blared, after Hamilton got drunk at a Dallas bar earlier this year. “Hamilton’s slip could cost him millions,” another professed. And we all thought: Sure, that makes sense. A couple teams get scared off, demand drops, price drops. But there’s…
So by now you’ve probably seen or heard about 55-year-old Sharon Simmons, who tried out to be a Cowboys cheerleader. For some reason I hadn’t heard of her, probably because I’m a Redskins fan and have been sitting in my bedroom with candles lit and YouTube on, looking at videos…
Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and a gaggle of other titans, from former U.S. Spec Ops commanders to Sam Gilliland, chief executive officer of Dallas-based Sabre Holdings, reject outright the idea that we can drill our way to energy independence. In an Energy Security Leadership Council report unveiled Tuesday at…
That’s right: Tonight, during an open house and public meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, you can crop-dust NTTA with all your brilliant ideas to save the Trinity River flood plains from the dreaded pavement monster, only to see your suggestions treated like the things my wife leaves at the…
Dallas may be inhospitable to hipsters, but we’re apparently a city filled with porn enthusiasts: Men’s Health recently ranked Dallas 15th in a list of the 100 “smuttiest” American cities (Orlando won. Those perverts.) MH based its rankings on the number of adult DVDs purchased, rented or streamed, square footage…
Early last week, before the start of his ongoing divorce hearing with dramatics suited for a soap opera, former Cowboy Deion Sanders tweeted the above photo. It looks like a boring portrait of three wide-smiling, well-dressed men. In fact, the photo is quite revealing of the tangle of lies behind…
The badly burned body of a man in his 20s or 30s was found Saturday in a vacant field at the end of Wixom Lane in far southeast Dallas, not far from a set of railroad tracks. His death is being treated as a homicide, but police haven’t yet identified…
A couple of weeks back, Dallas ISD trustee candidate Damarcus Offord filed an ethics complaint against someone named Mike Rawlins. It turned out that Rawlins was actually Mike Rawlings, mayor of Dallas, even though he had allegedly removed his mayor’s cape off before he endorsed three trustee candidates in the…
Around 3 a.m. today, a cab driver called the Dallas police to report that he’d been carjacked after dropping off a passenger. He couldn’t specify just where he’d been when this happened, and he didn’t know the license plate number of the cab, only the unit number. Upon arriving at…
Late on Friday, we passed along a letter from the Dallas Arboretum celebrating an agreement with White Rock Lake neighbors that allows the city to turn the grasslands of Winfrey Point into a temporary parking lot. It was a strange missive to begin with — a botanical garden celebrating its…
Longtime NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry got popped for DUI over the weekend. She was stopped early Sunday morning in a 2007 Porsche, WFAA reported, after failing to use her signal on the tollway. She refused to take a breathalyzer and was booked into Dallas County jail, where they apparently…
Earlier this week, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction that kept Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of the Women’s Health Program. It looked as though that was the first step toward a decision allowing Texas to keep Planned Parenthood out of…
After an agreement was reached earlier to let the city mow the wild grass at Winfrey Point, both City Hall and the Arboretum have come out firing PR-wise, trying to turn the tide of support for keeping cars off of the “prairie.” Below you’ll find releases sent by both City…
