If your New Year’s weekend plans include a destination in Tarrant County and you have a nasty and terribly irresponsible habit of driving drunk, your boozebaggery and bad decisions can make you famous — which is to say, infamous. The Tarrant County District Attorey’s Office will publish the names of…
Forthcoming: Anna’s account of a morning presser with Dallas PD Chief David Brown about a crime-ring bust-up and Leslie’s chitchats with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and a Tarrant County ADA about drunk-driving initiatives over the holiday weekend. Happy New Year! But first, the most … ineffective, let’s say,…
In 1989, two years after the attack that left her in a vegetative state, People described Peggy Railey’s existence as “death-in-life.” Our Mark Graham documented as much years later when he visited her in the Tyler nursing home where she has spent the last two decades; today, he told me,…
In the death penalty debate, Texas has a long-standing reputation for abiding by one guiding principal: an eye for an eye. But the state has increasingly chosen to holster its lethal-injection needles in recent years, with death-penalty sentences decreasing by more than 70 percent since 2003, according to an annual…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent word: It’s looking for two men who, over the course of the past few weeks, have been hitting the 7-Eleven at Walnut Hill and Marsh. There are videos, of course; they follow. In both it’s hard to tell what’s happening, but per the…
Way back in April 2009, you may recall, FBI agents raided Core IP Networks, an enormous Internet service provider HQ’d out of 2323 Bryan Street downtown. It made national news, in part because the feds’ raid temporarily disabled some 50 clients’ Web sites. At the time, the FBI would only…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now: Joey Dauben, publisher of the Ellis County Observer and several other small-town papers and websites throughout North Texas, has been indicted and arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. The 30-year-old Dauben, who Patrick Michels profiled in an Observer cover story earlier this…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have chimed in with the results of Travel+ Leisure’s Top New Landmarks readers’ poll. And while we’re no doubt just one year away from making the Top New Bridges list … sorry, Schutze is saying, “No.” Anyway. Like I was saying, while we’re no doubt…
Seems like forever ago, but it was just last month that Stephen Benavides spent a few days in county lock-up on charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest during that Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America. But then, a few days and one YouTube clip…
No doubt you’ve heard by now that former Dallas Cowboy Sam Hurd’s in federal custody, having been popped by authorities in Chicago last night for trying to buy “five to 10 kilograms of cocaine, at $25,000 per kilogram, and 1,000 pounds of marijuana, at $450 per pound, per week for…
For eight years Youlanda Rochelle Wright worked for Radio Shack as a customer service rep in its Fort Worth call center. Day after day she fielded complaint after complaint about a defective this and a busted that and how do I return an oversized item and what do you mean…
No doubt you’ve seen the signs like the one at right; they’ve been around since 2004. The Dallas Police Department was among the first in the country to launch the Auto Theft Tracking Program, which involves putting monitoring devices in bait cars that the DPD can track and control after…
Two days after 22-year-old hairdresser Elizabeth Lightfoot was found dead inside her burning car along Preston Road between Keller Springs and Arapaho, her tragic tale became international news. Yet close to a month later, save for a few horrific revelations Dallas Police are still no closer to solving the case…
Remember back in August of last year, when 48-year-old carjacker Michael Browne led police on a slow ride through Dallas before landing on the Love Field Airport runway? Sure you do. Passed right by Unfair Park HQ, matter of fact. Then, in November of last year, a federal grand jury…
The Dallas Police report says, simply, “TRAFFIC FATALITY #78.” There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it’s asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck…
A few years back, Lt. Max Geron was one of the Dallas Police Department’s spokespersons, but he’s quick to remind in his missive to The Atlantic that what he has to say on the subject of Lt. John Pike’s pepper-spraying of peaceful demonstrators on the UC-Davis campus last week are…
After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy’s Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been…
Just a couple of weeks back some Brits asked Dallas County for the okee-doke to film a 3D programme in the county jail for a couple of days, to which the commissioners courts said: Sure, fine. But the request going before Dallas County higher-ups today is much, much bigger –…
Denton County Judge Bruce McFarling declared a mistrial Friday when it was found that Seth Winder of The Colony — who is accused of allegedly murdering and dismembering his lover in the man’s Far North Dallas apartment — hadn’t been taking and/or receiving his meds. In fact, defense attorney Derek…
His family, defense attorneys — even the bailiffs and the transport drivers — noticed something was different about Seth Winder, who is standing trial in a Denton County court for allegedly murdering his 38-year-old lover Richard Hernandez in 2008, dismembering his body and disposing of him in a dumpster at…
As if this case wasn’t already weird enough, it got weirder on Wednesday in Denton County court. According to prosecutors, in September 2008 Seth Winder murdered his lover, a beloved, longtime Walmart employee named Richard Hernandez. Then he allegedly dismembered him. Why? Haven’t gotten there yet. Winder apparently has a…
Earlier this morning, Occupy Dallas posted to its website an item headlined: “OccupyDallas supporter assaulted.” That supporter: Glynn Wilcox, who was among those who helped hash out the agreement between City Hall and the protesters that allowed them to camp out behind Dallas City Hall.And according to the account, written…
