When I read an op-ed piece in The New York Times last week by William H. Webster (the only person ever to have been director of both the FBI and then the CIA), I wanted to believe every word, because essentially he was calling President Donald Trump an idiot, which…
For over a decade, Genaro Garcia Luna was in charge of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s violent crackdown on the country’s cartels. But instead of hunting drug traffickers, Luna allowed them to operate with impunity in exchange for multimillion-dollar bribes, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Tuesday. Luna was arrested…
So the mayor has changed his mind. After ducking crime and a soaring murder rate in his election campaign last summer, after handing it all off to a study commission when he got elected, now all of a sudden Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson sees a murder crisis in the city…
Nineteen months after former Cowboy Terrance Williams’ head-over-handlebars performance, another of Jerry Jones’ finest has taken a star turn in a Frisco Police Department video. This time around, it’s injured defensive tackle Antwaun Woods, busted by FPD for pot possession, tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia. The story,…
This weekend, the Dallas County will hold its third Expunction Expo and ceremony in which Dallas Criminal County District Attorney John Creuzot grants eligible individuals the removal of qualifying criminal offenses from their records.
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted community activist Dominique Alexander on family violence charges, according to court records. Alexander was arrested in April, following accusations that he injured his longtime domestic partner, Keyaira Saunders. Saunders called Dallas activist and pastor Jeff Hood after the alleged assault. The pair then…
While the internet was worried about a cop who looked like he might have been taking a bottle of tequila from a liquor store in the aftermath of Dallas’ October tornado — a story that turned out not to be true — two Dallas County Sheriff’s Office deputies really were…
The Bryan Pergola at the top of the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza has always struck me as an ugly monument to everything depressing in the history of Dallas. Built in the “early commercial style” of the early 20th century, it looks like a public restroom. It’s named for a…
A Dallas County grand jury indicted Austin Shuffield, the bartender accused of a brutal, caught-on-video assault in Deep Ellum this spring, on four counts Thursday, according to county records. Shuffield, 31, faces one count each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, obstruction or retaliation, assault causing bodily harm and unlawfully…
Dallas saw a massive spike in hate crimes in 2018, according to FBI data released Tuesday. The Dallas Police Department reported 31 such incidents to the FBI last year, more than double the previous year’s number. Angela Hale, acting CEO of Equality Texas, attributed the rise to hateful rhetoric by…
The main lawyer in an upcoming Dallas City Council corruption trial is also an important player in impeachment. And quid pro quo, by now the best known Latin phrase in Washington, meaning this for that or what for what, also is at the center of our local imbroglio. Washington A-Team…
The Dallas Police Department plans to address crime problems at convenience stores it’s identified as some of the toughest in the city with an extensive package of new technology, according to the department. Three gas stations — a 7-Eleven in Oak Cliff, a Texaco in East Dallas and a 7-Eleven…
Cyber criminals struck again in Texas last month, this time in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, where officials have grappled for weeks with the impacts of an attack that took out the city’s website and paralyzed some municipal services. The attack took the city’s website and email servers offline, disabled…
The city of Fort Worth is interviewing six finalists for the job of diversity director. The city will pay whoever gets the job between $125,820 and $207,604 a year. I know how they can get this done for free. Find out why Joel Fitzgerald got fired. I’m serious. All the…
Former Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton turned himself in to Tarrant County authorities Wednesday afternoon following charges that he injured one of his three daughters. Hamilton, according to an arrest warrant affidavit, threw a chair at his daughter, injuring her when it shattered, before dragging her to her bedroom where…
You know what else we can do about Saturday’s gun massacre related to a homecoming celebration at Texas A&M University-Commerce? Two young people died and six more were shot. I mean what we can do in addition to the terrible grieving we must bear for the dead, the injured and…
The DWI Dude would’ve gotten away with it, if not for those meddling kids at the FBI’s Dallas field office. Tuesday afternoon, a federal jury in Sherman convicted Austin-based attorney James Balagia of five federal charges related to his scamming of hundreds of thousands in cash from Colombian cocaine traffickers. Balagia’s…
The Dallas Morning News editorial page took a blindfolded backward step off the diving board Monday in an editorial asserting that police have an “obligation of deference” to armed homeowners in terms of who may shoot first. As its predicate for this insane suggestion, the paper exploits the horrible case…
Heritage Auctions, a Dallas-based auction house, was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday that took its website offline through the weekend. Many auctions were rescheduled and some Friday bids were lost, but customer data was not leaked, according to updates posted on the company’s website. The website was back…
A Dallas County jury closed the books on one of the county’s highest profile cases of the year Monday afternoon, convicting Edward Thomas of simple assault. Thomas, 29, beat up Muhlaysia Booker in April. The attack, caught on cellphone video, went viral. Thomas and Booker started fighting after getting into…
The video making social media rounds, the one that shows a Dallas Police Department officer carrying two liquor bottles in front of a tornado-damaged liquor store in North Dallas, has an innocuous explanation, according to the department. The officer, who has yet to be identified, was actually trying to prevent…
Help me keep track of The Dallas Morning News editorial page here. I guess I’m just confused. First, let’s look at murders. The paper’s editorial page last week said the killing of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her own home by a Fort Worth police officer was one of those important…
