This much we can tell you about the man suspected of robbing Chase Bank and Northern Trust Bank downtown Monday, just before noon: He’s around 25 years old; stands 5-foot-7 to 6 feet tall; wears a goatee that must be so wispy it doesn’t even register in the surveillance photos…
SMU has traditionally handled cases of alleged sexual assault involving students through closed, “non-adversarial” hearings in which a panel of faculty and students, rather than, say, a grand jury, weigh evidence and testimony and render a confidential verdict. That was how the school handled more than 100 such cases over…
Chuck’s Car Wash has long been a fixture on the Morning News’ 10 Drops in the Bucket campaign, the compilation of the eye-soreiest eye sores in southern Dallas that Tod Robberson drives past and tsk-tsks at. Chuck’s, which sits near the corner of Sunnyvale and Ledbetter, does seem to be…
The Joppa Gateway is one of those half dozen parks included in the city’s Trinity River Corridor Project that will provide access to the wetlands and horse parks and other amenities that are being built. Located near the junction of Interstate 45 and Loop 12 … er, ahem … Great…
Imagine for a second that there were no more lists. Nothing to say that a certain city has the best pectoral muscles or the worst selection of vuvuzelas. We obviously would have no idea that Dallas is full of lardassed squares who don’t take showers but nevertheless have great career…
Pamela Kay Cobb was systematic about how she stole. The branch manager of the Bank of America in Red Oak targeted only those customers with whom she had a longstanding relationship. When she took money from their accounts, she would fill out a fake withdrawal slip, sometimes forging a customer’s…
It’s been more than two years now since Laurie Evans stepped down as director of the Dallas Public Library. Since then, the operation has been steered by a pair of interim directors: first Corinne Hill, who set off for Tennessee earlier this year at least in part because the search…
It’s been nearly a year since Texas legislators slashed the state’s family planning funding, diverting $73 million to a variety of other programs. That was about two-thirds of the total family planning budget, and the conservative lawmakers who orchestrated the cuts were vocal about why they’d done it: to harm…
If you’ve ever wondered who controls any given parking lot downtown, the answer is probably either Central Parking Corporation or Standard Parking Corporation. Central owns more than a dozen locations there, according to its website. Standard owns several more, though its website doesn’t say exactly how many. The same thing…
Until recently, Dr. Wayne Soignier worked out of his office on Royal Lane, primarily providing medical evaluations for the Texas workers’ compensation system. At some point, the Texas Department of Insurance became concerned about his professional conduct and called him to appear before a two-member panel of physicians. The meeting…
Jonny Holden would need his sister always, even at the moment he was born in a Houston hospital when she was only 11. His translucent newborn’s skin glowed a livid red. His tiny legs worked spasmodically. His body recoiled as his blood metabolized the last of the opiates he had…
A few months ago, Joan Walne, chair of the city’s Park and Recreation Board, sent a letter to the City Council to let them know that the board was not happy with a rock crushing plant right across the street from the $38 million Elm Fork Soccer Complex, which is…
Anybody who is at all familiar with the Texas Railroad Commission won’t be surprised to learn that the almighty oil and gas regulator isn’t exactly aggressive in its enforcement of the rules. The highly political commission’s contradictory charges are to promote oil and gas development while holding the developers accountable…
The Cowboys nabbed Martellus Bennett in the second round of the 2008 draft with hopes that the 6-foot-6 tight end would be good to have on the other side of the formation from Pro Bowler Jason Witten. That never really came to pass, and Bennett was written off as a…
The record-breaking drought that Texas endured in 2011 wasn’t good for much of anything. Farmers and ranchers suffered, as did the people in towns whose water supplies ran dry. And let’s not forget the owners of lakefront property whose lots fronted an empty stretches of parched earth. See also: A…
Since @barackobama has forgotten how much he’s added to national debt #ForAll our kids to pay off… twitter.com/GovernorPerry/…— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 20, 2012 Rick Perry is so good at Twitter. A few days ago, he posted the gem above, complete with that extremely OG photo. Seems pretty clear, right?…
Via Over at Mavs Moneyball, Andrew Tobolowsky (who, in the interest of full disclosure, I routinely destroyed during pickup basketball when we were at Richardson High) stumbled upon something of a mystery yesterday. The Mavericks, it seems, have set up a bare-bones web page with a floating Dirk bobblehead and…
Joel Schulman is not on the North Texas Tollway Authority’s list of top toll scofflaws. In fact, he lives in Bossier City, Louisiana, three hours east of the nearest NTTA-controlled roadway. That hasn’t stopped the agency from sending notice after notice demanding payment for tolls racked up by a certain…
We haven’t checked in on our favorite congressman, Representative Ralph Hall (R-Antediluvian Era) lately. Not since he dove from a functioning aircraft dressed in nothing but a form-fitting American flag. Turns out, he’s been rummaging through a dusty, cobwebbed steamer trunk stuffed with contraceptives and religious freedom, the war on…
Today, in case you haven’t been on Twitter, is National Voter Registration Day, in which volunteers around the country hit the streets and Internet to get people signed up to vote in November. It’s an admirable effort, particularly seeing as, per organizers, more than 6 million people didn’t vote last…
At first blush, it would appear that Playboy’s annual ranking of the country’s best party schools is completely arbitrary. How else to explain the appearance of the University of Western Ontario in last year’s top 10 or Plymouth State the year before? But no, this is science. “Our methodology?” Playboy…
The Dallas Independent School District has been wrestling with how best to evaluate its teachers for going on forever. In August of 2011, the district unveiled a plan to develop an evaluation system, a lengthy, three-committee process that would take until 2014 to implement. That’s right: just creating the evaluation…
