May 14, Kiara Yarbrough was sent to Dallas County jail for a probation violation. Seven weeks earlier, the jail was consumed by an outbreak of COVID-19. While a pair of lawsuits have called for the release of medically vulnerable inmates, the jail has avoided responsibility for what attorneys describe as...
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However a government might seek to restrict abortion, people with pregnancies they don't wish to carry to term are going to seek the procedure out. It's a fact one will hear again and again from pro-choice researchers and activists, and a new study from TxPEP, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project,...
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed suit against the airline, claiming that she caught a pilot watching footage from a hidden lavatory camera in 2017. After she reported the incident, the lawsuit alleges, the airline covered it up. The flight attendant, Renee Steinaker, was called into the cockpit by...
Good times ahead for 2020 as new concert dates roll in to our market. We've got some things lined up for The Granada, The Kessler and some of the bigger sheds, too. If you haven't found your calendar filling up yet, this week might change that. Read on for the...
Dallas County's switch from traditional polling places on election day to vote centers that can be used by anyone registered to vote in the county is a good thing. The Observer is on the record saying as much. The county's transition to the new voting setup, as county commissioners and the...
Texans of color are saddled with medical debt at disproportionately high rates. One big reason: They lack insurance. It’s a problem that’s particularly bad here in Dallas. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. It found that...
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The Dallas County Community College District will seek approval from its accreditor later this year to merge its seven schools into one in an effort to help more students graduate. Joe May, the district chancellor, said he was motivated to pursue the change after realizing that thousands of students were being...
The Pyramid Bar's Pyramid Smoked Old Fashioned is a treat for the taste buds and a trick for the eyes.
There’s a legitimate reason that ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas, the documentary that premiered on Netflix last week, currently boasts a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score: It’s simply fantastic. There’s also a major reason the iconic trio with over 50 years under its belt has long been worthy...
When military veterans come home, many start businesses. Those businesses, from Walmart to FedEx, are some of the largest in the world. And they’re also almost exclusively started by men. Only 3% of businesses led by female veterans have managed to hire an employee, according to research published by the National...
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This year, as in past years, the Dallas Police Department asked revelers to refrain from celebratory gunfire because it's illegal, dangerous and punishable by a fine and jail time. But, between 10:00 p.m. December 31, 2019 and 2:00 a.m. January 1, 2020, DPD recorded 933 calls reporting random gunfire – 16 more than during the same period last New Year's Eve.
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On the evening of June 1, hundreds of protesters left a rally at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, just outside the city's curfew zone, and marched north on Riverfront Boulevard. They carried signs calling for justice for George Floyd, a black man killed last month by a Minneapolis police officer,...
The pandemic has affected almost all forms of business, but it's impact on the entertainment industry has been particularly swift. Throughout the world, productions have been shut down, with major studios like Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros, and Apple closing sets and sending crew members home. Many of the year’s most...
A Dallas teenager's death from a lung injury associated with vaping comes at a time when hospitalizations for the mysterious disease are on the decline nationwide. The teenager is the first person in Dallas County to die of injuries related to e-cigarette use, according to Dallas County Health and Human...
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Two years ago, a chance meeting in Deep Ellum between (now former) Home by Hovercraft member Shawn Magill and local musician Joey Noga resulted in an up-and-coming band: Secrecies. The group has been steadily building buzz since signing with the long-standing homegrown indie imprint Idol Records in 2018. Now the...
If you live in the suburbs, you’ve probably dined at Mi Dia from Scratch. And with locations in Flower Mound, Grapevine and Plano, Mi Dia’s Latin cuisine is worth the drive, even if you live in Dallas proper. Chef Gabriel DeLeon focuses on regional Mexican cuisine, and with Mi Dia,...
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At the very top of the ticket, Texas' primary felt a lot like the other primaries that were held on Tuesday. Former Vice President Joe Biden, thanks to a lot of help, caught Sen. Bernie Sanders as Sanders headed down the homestretch, trying to turn the Democratic Party on its...
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...
As hospitals in Texas and nationwide face a dire shortage of protective equipment, volunteers are stepping in to try to fill the gap. Volunteers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are manufacturing plastic face shields to donate to hospitals, senior centers and healthcare workers who are on the front lines in...
The French M. Robertson Unit, a maximum-security state prison, is located off a dusty farm-to-market road about 20 minutes from Abilene. A couple of tiny hamlets dot the dry West Texas terrain near the prison, but for the most part, its population of about 3,000 inmates is surrounded by nothingness...