Lukas Da Cruz, 21, was standing outside Lolita’s on Lemmon Avenue in the early morning hours of August 16 when a silver Honda drove past. According to a police report and a Facebook account, someone in the car fired a shot from a .40-caliber pistol, hitting him in the back…
Scott McCartney, the Wall Street Journal’s veteran (and Dallas-based) travel reporter, recently offered a word of advice to the literate public: If you or a loved one is considering stepping onto an aircraft in the foreseeable future, make sure it’s not one operated by American Airlines. “American’s operation is in…
In 2008, Rebecca Williams sued DART. She worked in the agency’s human resources department at the time, and said that she had been ordered by her boss to hire only Hispanics, as she told WFAA at the time. She was subsequently fired in what she says was an act of…
Governor Rick Perry, it may shock you to learn, is not such a big fan of abortion. Perry vowed some time ago to create a new, Texas-run version of the Women’s Health Program, one that would ban doctors from discussing or “promoting” abortion with their patients. It would also explicitly…
Last week, Harris County District Attorney Patricia Lykos asked Attorney General Greg Abbott for some advice. County law enforcement has dutifully taken blood samples from suspects in certain intoxication-related offenses (driving drunk with a child in the car, for one) as required by state law. Now, the county’s running out…
The Dallas Cowboys almost snatched up the Cowboys.com domain five years ago. They called in the winning bid at auction but backed out after realizing that the “275” the agreed to was $275,000, not just $275.00, according to a report at the time from Domain Name News. The name was…
Ask someone like Jon Entine, a science writer for Ethical Corporation, to describe the sort of person who claims hydraulic fracturing presents a pollution nightmare in waiting, and you quickly find yourself pummeled with talk-radio invective: “ideological blowhard,” “leftist loony” and “upper middle class lefties.” But none of those descriptions…
Despite what you might think, the Texas government doesn’t just hand out food stamps to whoever holds out a hand. They’re actually debit cards, not stamps, and they come with very strict guidelines. You have to live in Texas, for one, and make less than $14,079 for a single-person household…
Every year, the wealth fetishists over at Forbes compile an exhaustive list of the 400 richest Americans. It’s a rarefied club, whose admittance requires an aggregate worth in the billions. Not surprisingly, a number of Dallasites made the cut — 16 in fact. They range from oldies-but-goodies like Ross Perot,…
Poor Mitt Romney finally says exactly what he’s thinking and the guy gets hammered for it. You wanted specificity and numbers from the man? Well, as you no doubt heard, Mother Jones reported this week that he’s plenty specific when talking to gatherings of his big-money contributors: “All right, there…
Note: The original post said the car was at Coppell High School. It was at Hebron High School in Carrollton. And yes, it was driven to school by a 15-year-old, per Jalopnik’s update, which you’ll find below. The car you see above is a Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale…
When Paul Hardin took over as president of SMU in 1972 after a stint at tiny Wofford College, his youth and frankness made him a favorite of the media. Not so with the school’s well-heeled supporters and alumni. A 1976 article in D Magazine gives an example: One influential SMU…
Suit alleges Dallas police officers and dispatchers failed to react as woman pleaded for her life during a 911 call.
Patriot Tower, the I.M. Pei & Associates-designed skyscraper at St. Paul and Bryan Street that opened in 1979, has not been well loved of late. The property changed hands several times before it was sold at a foreclosure auction last year. There are 30 stories of office space that are…
Back in May, Phillip Jones drove from his home in Frisco eight hours west to Bledsoe, Texas, a tiny town on the New Mexico border. Why? Because Johnson, an IT guy and amateur astrophotographer, wanted to capture the coming annular eclipse in all its glory. As you can see from…
You know the Liberty Institute as the group that has steered Plano’s infamous Candy Cane Case through the courts. More recently, it’s championed the cause of Angela Hildenbrand, the Texas high school student who wanted to pray during her valedictory speech. As part of its work, in 2004 the nonprofit…
Jesus Ventura first made headlines back in March when the then-firefighter walked into Fire Station No. 45 near West Commerce and Sylvan Avenue, removed his pistol from its holster, and began waving it around recklessly, pointing it at at lease one firefighter, according to a police report. The gun went…
The football team at Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders’ charter school, has been struggling to find opponents after a UIL committee barred it from competing against district opponents.That pretty much wiped out their schedule, save for a game against Parish Episcopal at which they endured a 50-6 shellacking and another…
Quick: What day is it today? If you answered Tuesday or September 18, you’re technically right but you’re actually very, tragically wrong, because it’s National Cheeseburger Day which a) exists and b) is a great opportunity to check out a new burger joint. It’s also, perhaps, time to reflect on…
Janet Parker, a 61-year-old waitress, was working the overnight shift at an Irving Denny’s on State Highway 183 this morning when her husband, Thomas Parker, walked in. Without warning, the 54-year-old took out a knife and stabbed his wife several times, according to a release from the Irving Police Department…
A six-year court battle waged by the feds against an ExxonMobil policy mandating the retirement of all corporate pilots at the age of 60 was dealt its second defeat in a Dallas federal court. The challenge, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, characterized the policy as ageist and in…
It was not the scene housekeepers expected to find when they entered the seventh-floor room of the upscale Whitehall Hotel in Chicago: the body of Brianna Gardner, a 22-year-old Dallas woman, fatally shot in the head. Police found a cell phone in the room and, shortly after, brought it’s owner…
