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Don't get rid of this guy.
With the Orioles re-signing shortstop JJ Hardy, what was already thin free agent market at the position became threadbare. Beyond Hanley Ramirez, Asdrubal Cabrera and Stephen Drew the cupboard is largely empty, leaving b...
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The National Socialist Movement, which is apparently still a thing, has selected the Aryan paradise of Rockwall for its November 8 rally against immigration and to protect the American way of life. An event notice posted on The White Resister informs...
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Dallas nurses say they wore significantly less protection while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan.
On Tuesday, nurses at Presbyterian Hospital voiced their complaints for the first time -- in so many words. Fearful of ramifications in the workplace, ...
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Maybe now is when we turn this into less of a food fight and something more like an actual system.
Big teachable moment right now in the Dallas school system -- huge! -- and the school board and superintendent should rush to take advantage of it....
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Late Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court cleared the way for reopening 13 abortion-providing health clinics that shuttered following an October 2 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed Texas to begin enforcing the most draconia...
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Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus
Update 12:15 p.m.:Amber Joy Vinson, the second Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse diagnosed with Ebola after helping treat Thomas Eric Duncan, is being moved to Emory University Hospital in...
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But something's changed in the past eight months. In September, Cuban closed on a sixth property, a 78-year-old home at 8601 Jourdan Way, and workers have recently been tearing down fences, including the one shielding the estates from Northwest Highw...
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The scene of an officer-involved shooting in Dallas. According to a recent analysis, black men are 21 times more likely than white men to be shot by police officers.
In the past few months, Dallas activists have been working to raise awareness abo...
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Bentley needs you to buy him a poop scooper if we are going to rid Dallas of Ebola.
Update: DAS wants Observer readers to know that any goods or money donated on behalf of Bentley will, for the most part, go to DAS animals.
"Someone has appar...
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With diverted ER traffic, suspended personnel, and a drop in elective procedures, how much is Texas Presbyterian Hospital business suffering?
As Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital becomes the epicenter of the American Ebola scare, Texas Woman's Un...
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The match.
Dude Perfect, the guys behind the 500-foot basketball shot from the top of Reunion Tower, have a new video out featuring Dallas Stars stalwarts Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn. It's undeniably cool.
The top-line duo bowl a strike with a ho...
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U.S. 75 and Forest, as we speak.
God's reign of terror against the region continues Tuesday afternoon with an all-timer of a traffic jam on U.S. 75. The freeway is closed in both directions at Forest Lane because of downed power lines on 75 proper...
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You feel an itch just looking at this, don't you?
Marquis on Gaston is one of those faux-luxury apartment complexes plopped by one of Dallas' cool neighborhoods (in this case, Deep Ellum), advertising itself with descriptors such as "gated commun...
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Joseph Randle
According to multiple reports, Dallas Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle was arrested by Frisco police after being seen attempting to shoplift underwear and a bottle of cologne on an in-house camera at the Stonebriar Centre ma...
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Proposed venue for next Miles/Nuttall meeting.
Yesterday morning Dallas school district cops forcibly removed school board member Bernadette Nuttall from Billy Earl Dade middle school on Grand Avenue in South Dallas after Nuttall told them, "Go a...
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The problem, according to City Council member Philip Kingston, is that red light cameras seek to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
"[Red light cameras] are based on two fallacies," Kingston says. "The first is that there are a bunch of people out th...
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Tom Frieden
The news Sunday was disturbing. A Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse -- confirmed Monday to be 26-year-old Nina Pham -- had contracted Ebola. Pham was not one 10 people being monitored for close contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, t...
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If you live in Denton, you've probably received one of these anti-ban flyers in the mail.
If you've driven up I-35 to Denton in the last month, you may have seen one of the many billboards popping up around town. The billboards loudly proclaim th...
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Such considerations will be irrelevant come November 4 because her opponent is Democrat George Clayton.
Sane Texans will remember Clayton fondly as the refreshingly mild-mannered, climate-change-and-evolution-believing Dallas ISD educator who improb...
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Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, speaking on 7/31/2014:
"It is not a potential of Ebola spreading widely in the U.S. That i...
