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Craig Watkins wants his office to handle all criminal evidence produced on devices such as these.
Ahead of his election day disaster, District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the creation of a new division in his office. He's done this before, mo...
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Virtual currency. Real jail time.
At its peak, Bitcoin Savings and Trust -- Trendon Shavers' Bitcoin business that he purported to be an investment operation -- controlled a full 7 percent of all publicly traded Bitcoin.
Operating out of his McKi...
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We get to vote on it again! Sort of.
Just two days after winning his unopposed re-election bid, state Representative Rafael Anchia has released a survey to gauge Dallas residents' opinion of the proposed Trinity toll road.
The survey was quickly ...
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Obama's new HUD Secretary Julian Castro: Focus on this picture for a while, and you can see him blink.
City Hall announced late yesterday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has caved on the 4-year-old Lockey/MacKenzi...
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My only quibble with Mata so far is this: The school has a disturbingly large dungeon. Yes. A dungeon. It's clearly labeled on the floor plan you see above, which is prominently posted right next to the stairwell next to Mata's library. Insofar as ar...
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BY SEAN CHAFFIN
One morning in 2011, just after sunrise, a swarm of federal agents rolled quietly down a neatly manicured cul-de-sac in Southlake, the city police's SWAT alongside them. They gathered outside the home of their target, a $750,0...
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No we didn't.
Preliminary numbers are out for Texas' midterm election voter turnout from the Election Project, and they are abysmal. Just 28.5 percent of Texans eligible to vote did so, either in early voting or on Tuesday, the lowest percentage i...
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Say what you will about Longhorn Wrecker, one of Dallas' notorious towing companies, you can at least never accuse it of laziness. This is the same company that during the Dallas Gay Pride Parade five years ago descended on a post office nearby and t...
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As in any good tragedy, Craig Watkins' tumble from his perch as Dallas County district attorney was preceded by hubris and stupidity. After badly underperforming compared with the rest of his party in his 2010 re-election win against Republican Danny...
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The Texas Oil and Gas Association and General Land Office are the first, so far, to file lawsuits against the city of Denton.
By the time Denton's city offices opened this morning, officials already had two brand new lawsuits waiting for them. A...
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Everything you need to know about Michael Furrh you can learn from his outgoing voicemail message: Caddie Master at Caddie Club; golf ambassador for Rolling Hills Country Club; Guinness World Record holder.
Hopefully you didn't get bored and hang up...
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City Hall staff shown shortly after least real audit, about 100 years ago.
The city auditor's new bad report on a 27-year-old economic development fund in black South Dallas talks about technical problems with paperwork and mumbles on about the n...
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Thinks, correctly, that he can confuse us with jargon.
So, Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez is making his twice-monthly report to the City Council Wednesday afternoon. This time, he's going to be talking about something called the Dallas Center f...
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Texas' voter ID is back, at least for this election.
In one West Dallas neighborhood, roughly 25 to 30 percent of eligible voters do not have a valid photo identification for voting. This area, along with sections near Fair Park, have the highes...
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Here's another reason hockey is my favorite thing.
See also: Our British Texan Falls in Love With the Stars
Hockey has some real pantomime villains. Soccer, sure, there were some bad guys. Luis Suarez, for instance, is very keen on biting people, a...
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When a Dallas cop shoots someone in the line of duty, you can count on Dallas Police Association leader Ron Pinkston to leap to the officer's defense. The cop who shot a mentally ill man who, as best a surveillance video shows, stood up from a chair?...
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This ain't it.
If you aren't sure of where you're supposed to vote this morning, you're now battling more than just the rain. As of 10:00 a.m., dallascountyvotes.org, the county's guide to all things voting, isn't working.
We called the county to...
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The spill was "immediately contained," a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police told the Wall Street Journal on October 14.The Environmental Protection Agency agreed. "The oil has not reached the lake. The oil is approximately four-tenths to five-t...
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Finally facing a competitor.
In a couple of weeks, people in Dallas running a little short will have access to small loans that aren't accompanied by usurious interest rates -- provided their employer opts in to a new program from a nonprofit call...
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How much does your vote really mean?
For all you Dallasites who skip the midterm elections in favor of the presidential races, you might reconsider that strategy: For Texans, your vote in national and even state races is all but symbolic.It's lo...
