One of the prerequisites for holding statewide office in Texas nowadays is the gun-toting photo op. Governor Rick Perry’s done plenty. So has Attorney General Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is the rare exception — just more proof that he can’t be trusted. Attorney…
When Naim Rasool Muhammad went on trial this spring for killing his two young sons — an act for which he was sentenced to death — local news outlets focused mainly on the brutality of the crime, and understandably so. Muhammad kidnapped 5-year-old Naim and 3-year-old Elijah in August as…
On Friday afternoon, Kim Cope was driving along Beach Street in North Fort Worth on her lunch break when she was stopped at a police roadblock. After being ushered into a nearby parking lot, she was given a menu of options. “They were asking for cheek swabs,” she told NBC…
It’s not like anyone needs another reason to hate the Transportation Security Administration, whose groping and overly revealing body scans have made air travel only slightly less unpleasant than riding Greyhound. Yet the agents at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport seem keen on providing more of them. Last month, it was…
On Friday, fed up with the ineffectual legislative and judicial responses to rampant gun violence and in the spirit of open and honest academic debate, Texas A&M University law Professor Meg Penrose offered the not-so-modest suggestion that the United States do away with the Second Amendment. “Unfortunately, drastic times require…
Jose Luis Bedoy is sort of like the Richard Gere character in Pretty Woman. He, too, became smitten by a woman of the night, despite his better judgment, and he, too, risked his career to keep the relationship alive. There are, however, some key differences, which are described in detail…
Favian LaTorre wasn’t too keen on paying child support, so the Dallas ISD police sergeant made his former lover an offer. Instead of forking over a specified portion of his $46,000 salary every month, he would hire a full-time, live-in nanny to help raise their young child. The child’s mother,…
Sam Hurd was never destined for the Cowboys record books. An undrafted wide receiver out of Northern Illinois, he recorded a modest 45 catches and 630 yards and excelled on special teams during four seasons with the team before he was traded to the Chicago Bears in 2011. What Hurd…
The story was absurd enough when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported it earlier this week. Tempie Strickland, an 80-year-old Fort Worth woman fed up with her ex-husband’s lip and his late-night trips to the barber shop and bingo hall, allegedly tried to murder him on Sunday. Police said she…
Monica Meza’s trips to Walmart don’t always end very well. In March, the 32-year-old was detained after waltzing out of a Northwest Dallas location with a cart full of nearly $300 worth of stolen merchandise. Police say the same thing happened earlier this month at the Supercenter on Central Expressway…
At first, the official story of what happened in the early morning hours of August 31, 2012, was that 25-year-old Michael Vincent Allen had led police on a high-speed chase through Garland and Mesquite before being herded into a cul de sac. In a last-ditch attempt to escape, he rammed…
Open Carry Texas has two main reasons for existing. One is to advocate for the open carry of firearms, which it does primarily by marching around in public wielding rifles and shotguns. The other is to troll liberals, which it does by marching around in public wielding rifles and shotguns…
By most accounts, local Anonymous hacktivist Barrett Brown has a loving mother. In its detailed profile of Brown from a few years ago, D Magazine reported that Karen McCutchin had paid to get the carpet in his messy Uptown apartment shampooed before reporters visited. And before FBI agents raided McCutchin’s…
This weekend, heavily armored police, SWAT teams, bomb squads, and paramedics will descend upon 20 sites in North Texas–Irving’s Stipes Elementary, Tarrant County College’s Northwest Campus, Baylor hospital in Dallas, and some barns in Duncanville among them–for the region’s inaugural Urban Shield training exercise. It’s funded by the Department of…
Last night in Oak Cliff, at about 8 p.m., two Dallas police officers watched a dark-colored Cadillac speed through a red light. The car did stop at the next red light, at Hampton Road and Illinois Avenue, which is where the cops caught up with it. At first, it seemed…
Jennifer Gerson, a 2007 SMU graduate and rape survivor, passed along her response to the Daily Campus’ recent victim-blaming alcohol-and-rape op-ed, which she sent to SMU president Gerald Turner and other school officials. We’re running it here in full. President Turner: Today I am ashamed to call myself a graduate…
The armed robbery yesterday afternoon of the the Oak Lawn headquarters Trivie wasn’t a random holdup. The app-maker’s office is on the third floor of a plain retail-and-office building between Hall Street and Rawlins, hardly an obvious target, and the robbers were methodical. According to police, three of them, all…
When federal prosecutors announced yesterday that Refugio “Cuco” Ramirez-Garcia will spend the next 20 years in federal prison for helping run a pair of heroin-distribution conspiracies, they gave a shout-out to the local law enforcement agencies who helped bring him down. That’s standard practice. What’s unusual about Ramirez-Garcia’s case is…
Even for the most financially and technologically challenged, receiving a personal email from Dallas Police Chief David Brown asking for cash sets off all sorts of alarm bells, alarm bells like He’s not the NSA — how did he get my email address? and Wouldn’t it be easier to shake…
Werner Eric Brauss is long gone. The real estate dealmaker fled the country in 2009 as the market collapsed, leaving behind a pile of unpaid debt to investors and Las Vegas casinos and the feds’ hopes of an easy prosecution. The chance that Brauss will leave the Brazilian coast, where…
At the end of September, researchers at Sam Houston State University’s Crime Victims’ Institute compiled a study of sexual assault resources offered by 74 Texas colleges and universities for the state legislature. The results were underwhelming. On the bright side, most of the schools had on-campus clinics offering pregnancy testing…
Arthur Dawson left his Oak Cliff apartment at 9:45 p.m. on Halloween night, headed for the MS Express convenience store around the corner at Chaucer Place and Camp Wisdom Road. He didn’t make it back to the apartment complex until 11 p.m., when a neighbor spotted him staggering on the…
