Texas has executed five people so far this year, all using the same procedure. First, a barbiturate, pentobarbital, is administered to induce unconsciousness. Then a dose of pancuronium bromide paralyzes every muscle in the body. Finally, a dose of potassium chloride stops the heart. That will change when Yokamon Hearn…
When the Cowboys drafted Dez Bryant a couple of years back, I ignored all the hand-wringing over supposed character issues. He’s young, I thought. Everybody does stupid stuff when they’re young. Give him a massive spotlight and several million dollars a year and he’ll grow out of it. But last…
Daniel Hall’s dog, Boyd, was 10 years, two months, and 24 days old on July 9 but still spry. They’d played fetch together the day before. But that day, according to Hall, the golden retriever/rottweiler mix was lounging on the floor while Hall, his girlfriend and a friend sat on…
Pleasant Grove grandmother Elizabeth Smith, 45, had a wild hour last night, after a 3 a.m. trip to the corner store to get medicine and food for her grandbaby turned into an attempted kidnapping followed by a high-speed chase. Smith told police that as she was walking back from the…
For the past year, WFAA has been digging into Richard Malouf and All Smiles Dental and Orthodontics, the chain of pediatric clinics he owns (used to own, actually) with his wife. What the station found was what appeared to be a massive case of Medicaid fraud in which he bilked…
On Tuesday, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced it would use a single drug — pentobarbital, a barbiturate — to carry out executions due to a shortage of one component in a three-drug cocktail. Overseas manufacturers of pancuronium bromide, a powerful paralytic, have halted shipments to the U.S., protesting…
A local medical device maker agreed yesterday to pay $5.2 million to settle a charges that it systematically bribed officials to win sales contracts with government hospitals in Mexico in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. According to a complaint filed by the SEC, Promeca, the Mexican subsidiary of…
Just before 2 p.m. on June 9, Kerrick Butler was shot and killed by two men inside his Northeast Dallas apartment while his 3-year-old daughter watched. An informant pinned the murder on Marquis White, the 21-year-old believed to have committed two rapes near an Audelia Road bus stop. That lead…
An officer with the Dallas Police Department was arrested last night for drunk driving after she allegedly got into a wreck on the Central Expressway service road and drove away without leaving insurance information. DPD announced a few minutes ago on their Facebook page that Officer Erica Montanez , a…
A man walking his dog at Brookhaven College last night discovered a human skull in a wooded area on the western edge of campus. Police searched the area today and discovered the rest of the skeleton. The Dallas County Medical Examiner has collected the remains to determine how old they…
On April 1, 2011, Dallas Police Officer Eric Watts went to check out a report that vehicles were racing in an area near Stemmons and Northwest Highway. Watts reportedly saw an orange Nissan peel out of a parking lot, narrowly missing another car, turned on his lights and siren, and…
Parents of the victims of Joseph Garbarini, the pedophile who was sentenced to more than 60 years last October for the sexual abuse of kindergarten girls at Plano’s Hunt Elementary school, are suing the school district and the principal for ignoring the predator in their midst. An investigation of the…
An already freakish weekend just got a bit more bizarre. Police spokesman Warren Mitchell passes along the following note from an incident that apparently happened this morning in Pleasant Grove. Suspect came to a residence in the 800 block of Rose Garden and knocked on the door. The complainant answered…
This afternoon, a clear and still day yielded with surprising speed to a small gale with powerful gusts of wind and some rain. Other than the suddenness, the storm was unremarkable, but the weather was apparently responsible for two fatal accidents to day. Two construction workers were killed at UTD…
When Dora Fuller’s Oak Cliff home caught fire early Wednesday morning, family and neighbors called 911 only to be greeted by a recorded hold message. All told, according to police it took about 10 minutes between the first call and the time a fire crew arrived from a station 500…
View Larger Map About 4 p.m. yesterday, a man who a witness said appeared drunk, walked into the EZ Trip Food Store above and, according to police, began harassing customers. Specifically, he slapped one person repeatedly in the face before chasing them from the store. Upon his return, he began…
The Dallas Police Department would like you to know they’ve fired one officer and disciplined another, effective immediately, following two disciplinary hearings Thursday morning. The first one is pretty straightforward: Officer Kelly Schumpert was arrested in Forney for DWI in February of this year. An Internal Affairs investigation concluded she…
On January 6, 2007, Linoshka Torres, 18, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Luis Campos, parked his dad’s car in the driveway of an Oak Cliff mechanic’s house and vanished, keys still in the ignition of the red Ford Explorer, cell phones on the seat. It was supposed to have been a…
At about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dora Fuller and her family were woken by smoke alarms. They quickly rushed from the home, on Berwick Avenue in Oak Cliff and called 911. They got a recording telling them all dispatchers were busy. So they hung up and tried again. And again. So…
View Larger Map An employee of Sewell Lexus on Monday happened upon a badly decomposed body police initially believed had been stabbed or shot in the back of the head. An autopsy has since ruled out homicide, and police are treating it as an unexplained death pending toxicology results. But…
Erika Perdue, the 41-year-old University Park woman indicted in May for collecting and sharing child pornography, has been kicked out of a rehab facility for attempting suicide, court records show. Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney ordered that Perdue be detained until trial, deeming her a flight risk…
Update at 5:02 p.m.: No jail time, but two years probation and a $10,000 fine. Also, Evans has already appealed the conviction, meaning he can’t be removed from office unless “the court that renders judgment finds that it is in the public interest,” which is slated to take place on…
