Our transportation overlords at the North Central Texas Council of Governments have been accused of massaging numbers to justify letting a company called the Texas Turnpike Corp. build a tollway from Dallas to Greenville that no one who lives in the ...
ICE officials attempting to deport a family from a church. If you hear the word "sanctuary" and think of the scene in The Hunchback of Notre Dame in which Esmeralda pleads with the cathedral priest for shelter (or, be honest, you think of Loga...
This was an honest to God, no equivocations, good win. Let's enjoy it. It happened again. The Cowboys dominated the first two-thirds of a game, just as they did against Tennessee and Houston, and found themselves in a fistfight to the finish. This...
For what it's worth - not much, probably - nobody's sadder than me about the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund and the saga about to unfold around it. I know the history. It was one of those crumbs that poor black South Dallas had to wrench from a f...
Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus According to reports from multiple news outlets and the Centers for Disease Control, a healthcare worker -- reportedly a nurse -- who was in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive fo...
W.A. Parrish Coal Power Plant As Brantley Hargrove extensively reported for Unfair Park over the previous two years, Energy Future Holdings, the largest electricity generator in Texas, is a mess. Facing $40 billion in debt, the company filed for C...
Thomas Eric Duncan. Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., had a fever of 103 degrees during his first visit to Presbyterian Hospital, The Associated Press reports. The Centers for Disease Control lists a fev...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...