In November, North Texas made it clear that it didn’t want longtime U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions wandering the halls of the capitol anymore, at least not on its behalf. Thursday, Sessions returned the favor, announcing that he’s running for Congress again, just, you know, not here. Sessions is moving about…
Dominique Alexander clarified that currently, the Next Generation Action Network has no plans to shut down the State Fair or the Texas-OU game.
Mark Washington tried to make the best of a bad night in downtown Nashville Tuesday night. Confronted by Nashville police in a Shell station at which he’d been arrested multiple times for refusing to leave, Washington decided to try on a new identity. According to WKRN-TV, Washington told police officers…
The Dallas Police Department is launching an internal affairs investigation following allegations of evidence tampering during the murder trial of former DPD officer Amber Guyger. Jurors convicted Guyger Tuesday and sentenced her to 10 years on Wednesday. “Dallas today is different than it was yesterday and definitely different than it…
The scent of burning sage and the sounds of Jamaican dancehall legend Buju Banton wafted down the steps of the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts Building on Wednesday night as protesters gathered to react to the sentencing of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger. By the end of the night, one…
In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids into college. But a story based right here in Dallas reminds us that stupid Hollywood tricks…
Following less than two hours of deliberation Wednesday afternoon, a Dallas County jury sentenced former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison for the murder of Botham Jean. Guyger killed Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, after she entered his apartment in the Cedars, believing it was her…
Would it have been nice for the Amber Guyger story to have unfolded in the community without reference to race? Do those words, as you read them, sound as absurd to you as they do to me as I write them? Nothing is not about race. Not at the local…
Sentencing of Dallas ex-cop Amber Guyger began Tuesday afternoon, hours after a jury found her guilty of murdering her upstairs roommate, Botham Jean, in a shooting last September. She faces five to 99 years in prison Prosecutors presented additional evidence, including Guyger’s application for employment at the Dallas Police Department…
Amber Guyger is guilty of murder. After about four hours of deliberation, that’s the decision made by Dallas County jury Tuesday morning. She’ll be sentenced to between five to 99 years in prison by the same jury that convicted her later this week. Following the verdict, Guyger sat at the…
Last week, the comment period for changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) closed. Members of the public had 60 days to express their opinions about the federal government’s proposed changes, which if implemented could take away benefits from as many as three million U.S. residents, including 300,000 in Texas, many of whom are already vulnerable to food insecurity.
Former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger’s trial, the object of local and national media’s fixation for the better part of a week and a half, has moved in fits and starts. Before the trial proper even started, it took attorneys on both sides more than a week to cull…
Friends and family, politicians both foreign and domestic, as well as supporters of every stripe, all donned the color red and converged on the Renaissance Dallas Hotel on what would have been Botham Jean’s 28th birthday. Red was his favorite color. “He lived his life in such a way that…
For months, Dallas has debated the fate of former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger. On Sept. 6, 2018, she shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Jean, believing, she said, that Jean was an intruder in her apartment. Instead, Guyger had entered Jean’s apartment, which sat directly above hers. As of…
Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas and reliable Donald Trump toady, made a bit of news over the weekend when he predicted on Fox & Friends that the impeachment process could plunge the United States into civil war. Responding to a question about evangelical Christians’ response to impeachment efforts…
Protesters gathered outside the Dallas Police Association building near sunset Friday, holding signs reading “Mata Gotta Go” and “Resign Mata,” calling for the firing of the DPA president. The activists say Mike Mata broke police protocol after one of the department’s former officers, Amber Guyger, shot and killed Botham Jean,…
Saturday at Frank Crowley Courthouse had a vibe easily recognizable to anyone who’s ever worked the weekend shift in an office building. Head to any floor in the building except the seventh, and Dallas’ hub of criminal courts activity was bereft of action. Get off the elevator on the seventh…
The Dallas ISD board of trustees voted Thursday night to close a struggling alternative high school and replace it with satellite programs at three campuses. Patton Academic Center, in Oak Cliff, is an alternative school for students who either are over-age or behind in class credits needed to graduate. It’s…
Friday morning, the world finally heard from Amber Guyger. In as few words as possible and frequently through tears, the former Dallas Police Department officer described the night she shot Botham Jean. She shot and killed the PriceWaterhouseCoopers accountant, she said, because she said she feared that Jean was going…
First, there was the unfamiliar skyline on the fourth floor of the parking garage. Typically, Amber Guyger parked on the third. Then, there was the bright red mat conspicuously marking the foreign door. And, finally, the stench of marijuana emanating from the apartment that Guyger claimed she mistook for her…
A group of photojournalists is challenging a Texas state law that restricts how they can use drones, arguing the law represents a violation of the First Amendment. The law imposes fines and possible jail time for photographers caught using drones to shoot photos of people or private property, regardless of…
Yesterday, a Senate special committee held its first meeting to discuss gun violence and prevention and address the eight executive orders issued by Governor Greg Abbott. Discussion centered around mental health, social media, shooters who self-radicalize online; many panel members repeated concerns about impinging on second amendment rights and due process of the law.
