We all remember the Kwik Stop protests, right? When some black civic leaders led some of their constituents in a picket against a South Dallas Korean storeowner named Tommy Pak, increasing racial tensions in the neighborhood until media braved the Trinity to report on the story and found that, actually,…
I got a call from Damarcus Offord yesterday. The 20-year-old school-board candidate sounded excited, energized. “Did you read the email I sent?” he asked. “Did you see the poll?” I did not, so then I did. “Damarcus Offord is a candidate running in the May 12 election for DISD School…
In pancake-related news that’s already gone national, four Muslim men of Arab descent are suing IHOP, claiming they were all fired from their managerial positions at DFW-area locations because of their ethnicity and religion. In the suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, Hussein Chamseddine claims that despite receiving consistently positive…
Oncor, the transmission company that runs power lines and electricity meters, is just about the only good thing Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings has going for it. Energy Future’s generation arm, Luminant, the largest unregulated power generator in Texas, has seen its coal-fired power plants precipitously lose value because of low…
Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, who’s made a habit of announcing department firings on the DPD Facebook page, announced three more firings late yesterday, including one officer accused of molesting a relative in Rains County. Here’s the rundown: Officer Zenae Humphries of the South Central was caught lying after…
James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony. It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management’s ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with…
There’s nothing like the sad death of an adorable puppy to stir up the police, animal services and the media. That’s certainly the case with Justice, the 4-month-old lab-terrier mix doused in lighter fluid and burned in a Pleasant Grove apartment complex on April 4. Justice suffered through a week…
Dallas PD just sent over the video above, captured at 5 in the morning on April 3. It shows a burglary suspect using a large rock to try to bust through the door of Bioscrip Pharmacy, at 2909 Lemmon near Highway 75. The suspect is a poorly dressed white male…
You will either be saddened, confused or hugely indifferent to the fact that Travel + Leisure magazine has ranked Dallas last in a list of 35 hipster-friendly cities. I’ll give you a moment to collect yourselves. Now then: What in the hell are we doing wrong that we rated so…
A key battle was won this morning in what cable-news commenters might call the War on Sprinklers: The Dallas City Council just voted 13-2 to permanently limit sprinkler use, either by hose or by automatic system, to two days per week, in what can only be seen as a huge…
Look, we’re sorry. We wanted badly to just ignore the earth-shattering news. Unfortunately, though, Schutze is off in Arkansas ingesting giardia all week, and not everyone reads The Dallas Morning News (cheap bastards), so it’s up to those left behind to let everyone in on it. Ready? Here it is:…
Larry Brown has agreed to coach SMU’s Mustangs, ESPN reports. The 71-year-old coach was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and has coached in college, the NBA and the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 2004 games. He’s coached pretty much every NBA team, and even…
In less-than-surprising news, Dallas firefighter and paramedic Jesus Ventura, who in recent weeks has been accused of both bank robbery and waving a gun around in a firehouse, has been fired. Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Joel Lavender says in a statement that the department’s internal investigation into the allegations against…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Seems like only six months ago (because it was) that First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress was still casually referring to Mormonism as a “cult.” Back then, that word choice earned him a round of appearances on various TV news shows to explain himself…
The Morning News has a “Healthy Living” story today about extreme races like the Original Mud Run. I came across the online (and pay-walled) version in the middle of the night last night and thought: Well, that’s odd, considering what happened over the weekend, not to mention the ensuing onslaught…
In a letter Monday, state Representative Lon Burnam called upon Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to allow him to release confidential documents he says prove state regulatory scientists fear a West Texas radioactive waste disposal facility may contaminate groundwater for thousands of years to come. Waste Control Specialists is set…
Tony Weathers, a 30-year-old athlete in the competitive division of Saturday’s Original Mud Run in Fort Worth, went missing before the end of the race, and yesterday, authorities found his body in the Trinity River, where participants crossed as part of the course. Original Mud Run organizers say they did…
As the always fashionable friends of Unfair Park are surely aware, Nordstrom stands firmly on a reputation as the fairy godmother of customer satisfaction. If you’ve had a dress for a while and it no longer fits, they’ll likely accept the return. If you used lipstick and decided you don’t…
Only three out of every 100 black students in Dallas Independent School District graduate ready for college. Among black students entering DISD high schools as freshmen, 28 percent don’t graduate at all. Those are some of the findings in a report DISD District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall passed on to…
For years, Dallas has struggled to regulate the city’s boarding houses, the places that many low-income mentally ill, disabled and elderly people call home. As we discussed in a recent cover story, right now, the city knows where about 330 of these homes are, and they’re inspected regularly for code…
The state Supreme Court is considering developing a uniform, simplified do-it-yourself form for uncontested divorce filings, an effort to increase access to the justice system for people who can’t afford a lawyer. Not surprisingly, some Texas lawyers feel the legal system is too complicated to be boiled down into checked…
ESPN’s still-reliable Sunday news magazine spared no expense in producing this heart-wrenching, hi-def look at the journey of Monika Korra, which aired yesterday. (When Tom Rinaldi’s on the case, it’s good to have some tissues handy.) Korra came from Norway to SMU on a running scholarship, only to be dragged…
