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Four-and-a-half years ago, Mayor Tom Leppert stood overlooking the old Trinity River channel, now a forlorn muddy course that snakes through the Design District, and unveiled Turtle Creek Plaza, a handsome semi-circle of concrete adorned with a red w...
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It's a cliche, sure, but in the case of West, Texas' high school football team, it appears to be true.
"The old saying is, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," says David Woodard, West High School's head football coach. "Our kids have gotten m...
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Before I get on my high horse, I usually check back upstream to see what sort of feet of clay I may have myself on an issue. Great thing and terrible thing about the Internet. It's all still there. So this morning before leaping to the saddle to whac...
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Last week, the Ivy was just one of many Vickery Meadow apartment complexes that housed immigrants from all over the world. Now, the complex has an entirely different connection.
Two weeks ago, the Vickery Meadow neighborhood was known as the Unite...
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Pretty much always, Americans have found ways to get the scoop on what's really going on.
One great service Dallas could render to the rest of the country, should the dust ever settle on the local Ebola story, would be a thorough, no-holds-barred...
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According to conflicting reports yesterday, Monnig may have told workers at Care Now one of the following things: he had in contact with Duncan; he had entered his apartment; or he'd been in contact with Duncan's family.
Out of what Frisco Mayor Mah...
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C.J. Spillman
C.J. Spillman, the Cowboys defensive back named in connection with a September 20 sexual assault allegation in Grapevine, was accused of attempted rape in December 2013 while he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
According to ...
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Adiel Fuentes is one of 24 suspects ensnared in a meth ring bust.
Adiel Fuentes was a cog in a much bigger machine. He started working for Gerardo Cisneros halfway through 2012, according to court documents, and he took quite well to the type of w...
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The envelope, addressed to Police Chief David Brown, arrived at Dallas PD headquarters at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
"The letter pretty much gave him some names, apparently [of] people who were dealing drugs, and it had some crystal substance," says DPD spok...
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The fleet is being readied for settlement delivery.
Red Bull is giving consumers $13 million dollars to settle false advertising claims. The settlement is unsurprising. Not once in all the times Unfair Park has consumed the horrid tasting energy d...
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Twenty women in Dallas County were killed in domestic violence situations last year.
Life just got a little bit worse for women in Texas -- and particularly for women in Dallas County. The Texas Council on Family Violence released a study on Tu...
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Not from The Onion, we promise.
Baker Hughes, a Houston-based fracking concern with three offices in Dallas, cares about breast cancer research. Just enough, in fact, that they've made 100 pink drill bits to increase awareness this month, accordin...
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Frisco firefighters set up an isolation tent inside an ambulance.
A man currently being taken from a Frisco Care Now Clinic to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is reportedly experiencing Ebola-like symptoms.
The city of Frisco release...
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We were assured Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital could not have been better equipped to treat Ebola. Still, Thomas Eric Duncan died.
The death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan on Wednesday morning comes as a shock, despite his infection wit...
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Wonder what this could mean?
Mike Rawlings has hired Laurey Peat + Associates, a Dallas-based public relations firm to handle media relations for the mayor's office. The firm replaces Sam Merten, the mayor's previous manager of public affairs and ...
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THE COG! is coming for you. You are powerless to escape. THE COG! never stops cogging.
The weird shadow government nobody knows about but that runs everything, called "THE COG!," headquartered near Six Flags amusement park in Arlington, is cooki...
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Thomas Eric Duncan
Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national being treated for Ebola at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital died this morning at 7:51 a.m..
Presbyterian issued the following statement:
"It is with profound sadness and hea...
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Doctors say the flu and other vaccine-preventable illnesses are a much greater health threat than Ebola, and should be emphasized in Governor Rick Perry's new infectious diseases task force.
On Monday, Governor Rick Perry announced he will form ...
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Clay Jenkins does not have Ebola.
This week, Highland Park school district's "Nurses's Corner" is an attempt to assuage parents' fears about the Ebola risk at HPISD schools. There is no risk, the letter says, despite Armstrong Elementary parent C...
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Commissioner Price is right about one thing anyway. Something or someone is missing from this picture.
The commenters are already whetting their knives on Stephen Young's piece here a bit earlier reporting that Dallas County Commissioner John Wi...
