Federal circuit fight! Monday morning word came down from on high, or wherever it is the Supreme Court proclamations come from, that the court would not hear any of several same-sex marriage cases it could have this term. In turning down cases fr...
Is it just me? Am I totally alone, nuts, or what? Isn't it a bad thing that everybody agrees Dallas City Hall racially discriminates? The Lockey/MacKenzie federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Dallas of deliberate racial segregation, dismisse...
Logan Michael Drumm This guy is wanted for shooting two people at a Seagoville trailer park Sunday afternoon. If you have seen him or know where he is, we apologize. You should also contact Seagoville police.
Get caught with a joint in Dallas this afternoon and you'll find yourself being chauffeured to Lew Sterrett in the back of a squad car. Get caught with a joint in Dallas this January and you may well escape with a ticket and a stern admonition to sho...
Prepare for more of the same. After each of the Cowboys last four games -- all wins, sending the team to 4-1 and its best start since 2008 -- we've heard it: The team is winning because it's running DeMarco Murray early and often. Even in the thir...
An Ebola health worker in Monrovia. DISD custodians wore similar attire when cleaning the schools this week. How much does it cost to care for a single case of Ebola in the United States? Between specialized treatment, identifying and tracking d...
The site of Jason Harrison's death. David Harrison, whose mentally ill son Jason Harrison died at the hands of Dallas police in June, filed a lawsuit on Friday claiming two officers used excessive force when they shot his son six times within minu...
Dallas Weekly, one of the city's main black-owned newspapers, just published its latest issue online. The issue date suggests the cover was designed pre-ebola, but the timing of the email blast they just put out is ... unfortunate.
For now, the occupants of the Vickery Meadow apartment where patient Thomas Eric Duncan was staying are hunkered down in their ebola-tainted quarters while a Hazmat team scrubs the unit and the rest of Dallas preps for the end times. Dallas County J...
One of eight. Thursday night, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay that allows Texas to fully enforce House Bill 2 -- the anti-abortion measure passed by the state in 2013. As of this morning, there are eight healthcare facilities ...
A man possibly got into an argument here and then was punched, police say. A man died last weekend after a confrontation outside a bar on Cedar Springs Road. Detective Derick Chaney said video from JR's Bar & Grill shows that Joseph Chase was punc...
Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus Since concluding our coverage yesterday, the situation hasn't changed much. The apartment in which Thomas Duncan stayed at The Ivy in Vickery Meadows is still under quarantine, but has received a...
The absolute worst public image you can have is being dead. There has been much more talk in Dallas the last few days about the dangers of panic than about the dangers of Ebola. In the meantime if we are paying attention we must notice by now tha...
One student at Conrad High School has been possibly exposed to the ebola virus. Many parents kept their kids home from Conrad, and other DISD schools yesterday. As a rule, high school sucks. Now imagine going to high school thinking you could get ...
Coming soon to Preston Center, give or take a little grandeur. Earlier this week, we spent some time examining why Preston Center, the aging shopping center floating on a sea of Park Cities/Preston Hollow riches, sucks so hard. Little did we know ...
It sounds like a lot of money, but $9 million will likely only help a lucky few Dallas unaccompanied immigrant kids this year. On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced an initiative to allot $9 million to help unaccompanied Central America...
The scene of an officer-involved shooting. Dallas Communities Organizing for Change, which has been largely critical of the Dallas Police Department, hopes to set a higher bar for the department in how it identifies incidents when officers fire th...
Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus Newest updates will appear at the bottom of this post. Yesterday's updates can be found here: Ebola in Dallas: What We Know So Far October 2: Morning Links: Emily Mathis on the atmosphere at ...
Meet Zoe, a 4-year-old Equest client with spina bifida, and her therapy horse Crunchie. Now imagine a highway bursting through the walls. Equest CEO Patrick Bricker couldn't have designed a better spot for a new headquarters. The land, 238 sprawli...
This is the face of Dallas. A major theme -- a very dangerous one -- in the reaction here to the arrival of Ebola is the notion that we are protected by our cultural and economic superiority from the kind of contagion now in Africa and that all w...