Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a string of Dallas rapes he did not commit, was arrested in Carrollton for cocaine possession — an arrest that could cost him millions. When reached by phone, Phillips declined to comment. But according to the arrest affidavit obtained…
Back in June, the city sent word that it had agreed to hand over to the feds $2.5 million — without acknowledging that, ya know, maybe it did violate the civil False Claims Act and Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act by overcharging Medicare and Medicaid for ambulance rides. Could have…
1402 Rowan Avenue, located just a few blocks from O.M. Roberts Elementary near Fair Park, is on the tax rolls at around $18,000. But that didn’t stop two men — Blaise Hancock of Arlington and Clint Allen of Lewisville — from taking out insurance policies on the property worth a…
Quite the stink back in April when I opined that I didn’t think Rangers’ pitcher Colby Lewis should miss a start to attend the birth of his second child. I stand by that. I still root for Lewis to be a good pitcher and don’t really give a rat’s ass…
A couple of weeks back, City Hall asked residential and commercial customers to voluntarily cut back on watering landscapes — twice a week, at most, if that’s OK with you, thanks. A few days later, Assistant City Manager Forest Turner told the council that we’re actually quite a ways off…
Only 19 days until the Cowboys kick off the 2011 NFL season against the New York Jets at Meadowlands Stadium. Even more imminent, a week from today Dallas will trim its roster down from 90 to 75. By September 3, we’ll be down to the final 53. After two weeks in San…
After taking a few weeks off, the city’s Gas Drilling Task Force reconvenes at City Hall at 2 today; lucky Leslie will recap by day’s end. Should be an interesting one: After weeks of tours and overviews and regulation reviews and a public hearing, today the industry will make its…
First, the city of Dallas said it would begin exploring the possibility of selling naming rights to … well, you name it, from city-owned facilities to its vehicles; first on the to-sell list, the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill. A few weeks later, Dallas Independent School District trustee…
Sure, let’s get greedy. In June, Mavericks fans were presented with a utopian climax: Sweep the hated Lakers and then rally to beat the even-more-despised Dwyane Wade and the Heat in the NBA Finals behind an MVP performance from long underrated, underappreciated star Dirk Nowitzki. I’ve pretty much given up…
When City Manager Mary Suhm proposed dumping all of the city’s trash at the McCommas Bluff Landfill as a revenue-generating brainstorm last summer, few imagined it would become such a hot-button issue this summer. Because in 2010, the idea came and went nowhere, along with that suggested transportation user fee…
I like that camo draping those wooden picnic tables on the site of the former Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts at Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue — very M*A*S*H. In recent months, of course, that’s been the site of the Cox Farms outdoor market, a sorta sneak peek at what’s to…
In some cases the fees became so burdensome that some of the plaintiffs were forced to walk away from their property
Shortly before 1 p.m., the city council dove into that plan to dry up the city’s 17 pools and replace them with those family aquatic centers — a plan that’s “just the beginning of a plan,” as Park and Rec head Paul Dyer cautioned the council. It’s still going on,…
A little past 7 Saturday evening we stopped by to say our farewells to the Joe Ratcliff Pedestrian Walkway over LBJ Freeway, between Marsh and Webb Chapel, which will be demolished in coming weeks to make way for the extreme managed toll-road makeover. As with the Forest Lane cruisin’ reunion,…
As one of the most fierce pass-rushers of his era, Haley belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, just not the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor.
The end is near! The city’s Redistricting Commission has just one more meeting left before its forwards its final recommended map to the city council. And after Saturday’s public forum in a jam-packed council chambers, and the commission vote that followed, it looks pretty clear that map will be cPlan16b,…
Must be the season for new websites — first Dallas Independent School District, now Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Morgan Lyons, spokesman for the transit agency, sends word this morning: The old URL directs you to a spiffed-up site, where, he writes, “We’ve tried to open the look and put a…
What started so promising … ended with a whimper. The Rangers won the first six games of the 10-game road trip. Late last Thursday night they were three outs from an eight-game lead in the AL West. Then Mark Trumbo took Mike Adams deep, Texas’ offense evaporated in Chicago and,…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVBack in April, Logo sent word that come fall it would expand its A-List franchise to include Dallas — but one of several realty series set ’round town, including that Bravo show that airs tonight, which Hunter Hauk is watching over on…
Some time after lunch is when today’s budget briefing ought to get interesting: Not only will the city council take a dip in Paul Dyer’s Aquatics Facilities Master Plan, but it’ll ride shotgun as Assistant City Manager Forest Turner looks at how much it’ll cost to rescue Dallas’s roads from…
[jump] 5. Talked to head coach Jason Garrett in the locker room about Tony Romo’s interception. Sure enough, it was half-bad read (he thought Eric Weddle was latching onto Bryant and not Kevin Ogletree) and half-bad throw (too flat to get over the safety). 4. Bryant dropped a first down…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price did not attend yesterday’s rally on his behalf at the Pan-African Connection Bookstore across the street from Fair Park. And those who’d packed the pews at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church one month ago did not fill the parking lot, or the…
