What Had Ryan Evans So Worried

So here’s the crime-stats story Dallas First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans warned the city council about Friday evening. Looks like he had good reason to want to get ahead of Steve Thompson and Tanya Eiserer, who looked at a single week’s worth of police reports — July 1 through…

So, Where Was That Crime-Stats Story?

That’s probably what Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council are wondering this morning, because, on Friday, Dallas First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans sent to council a memo warning them that The Dallas Morning News would “against present an article this upcoming weekend critical of an aspect of…

Geek Squad to the Rescue

Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Ruff, a bio-medical engineer, interned last year at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal child pornography charge, which will result in at least a few years in federal prison, lifetime supervision and up to a $250,000 fine should the court accept his…

Craig Watkins: O.J. Simpson Was Guilty!

Aside from that unsolicited non sequitur intended to illustrate Americans’ lack of faith in the judicial system, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s tête-à-tête with Stephen Colbert last night was notable only for how relatively straight it played. Colbert tried to draw Watkins offside early with a comment about his…

DPD’s On the Lookout For One Tony Romo

No, not that one. The one featured in this video the Dallas Police Department just posted, in which a Big C convenience store at 2240 Irving Boulevard is robbed at gunpoint by two men, one of whom is a 21-year-old named Anthony Romo. (His accomplice is, thus far, unidentified by…

Judge Says Unh-Unh to New Hill Trial

For all those Friends of Unfair Park who were convinced juror Nedra Frazier’s interview with Sam would get Don Hill and the others convicted in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case a new trial, per a motion filed by Sheila Hill’s attorney, guess again. U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn…