The Dallas-Fort Worth area has the lowest rate of children’s health insurance coverage among the 25 largest metro areas in the United States, according to new census data released Thursday. Across the area, 11.7% of children are uninsured, continuing a multiyear slide that reflects statewide trends. Adults in Dallas and…
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, as a parade of witness talked about the scene at the South Side Flats apartments, the forensic results of Amber Guyger’s decision to shoot Botham Jean and investigative procedure, prosecutors’ case came into clearer focus: Guyger might not be a cold-blooded murderer, but she was…
The Dallas City Council made what had to be one of the easiest decisions its members will ever make Wednesday afternoon. All 15 council members voted to rename the stretch of road that fronts American Airlines Center in Victory Park for the greatest player in Dallas Mavericks history, Dirk Nowitzki…
DeSoto will become the first North Texas city to offer paid family leave to all city employees, beginning next month. Candice Quarles, the DeSoto City Council member who spearheaded the law, is a mother herself and saw an opportunity to use her 12 years of human resources experience to help…
The state’s lead investigator in the Amber Guyger case, David Armstrong, said today in court that he didn’t think she committed a crime in the shooting of her neighbor, Botham Jean. But the judge, Tammy Kemp, didn’t allow the jury to hear that part of Armstrong’s testimony, ruling that his…
Any time City Hall plays with the facts, there’s a reason. It should raise a red flag. A case in point right now is a new plan to turn over the baseball field at Reverchon Park to private interests. Think of it this way: This is about $20-$30 million worth…
The story on Tuesday, the second day of former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger’s murder trial, was one of the mundane and the visceral. Cops and apartment managers talked for hours about procedures, floor plans and door locks, drawing the outline of a picture that’s yet to come fully…
U.S. House Democrats, even the most recalcitrant among them, are moving on impeachment, they made it known Tuesday, because of allegations that President Donald Trump leveraged potential foreign aid to Ukraine in exchange for potential damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi…
The second day of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s murder trial focused on the 911 call Guyger placed after shooting Botham Jean and body camera footage from the Dallas Police Department officers who responded to the scene. First on the stand was the 911 dispatcher who answered the call…
Nearly everyone involved, including Dallas ISD officials, trustees, parents and students, agrees that something needs to be done about John Leslie Patton Jr. Academic Center. Exactly what should be done is another matter. District officials want to shutter the school and move its students and the services it offers them…
The story of Day 1 of former Dallas Police Department Officer Amber Guyger’s murder trial was one of flash and substance. Those tuning in to the trial hoping they’d get something different, or maybe a little salacious, were treated by the prosecution. Those looking for answers to some of the…
A single phone call made all the difference the night former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, Assistant Dallas County District Attorney Jason Hermus said Monday during opening statements in Guyger’s murder trial. Before it, Hermus said, Guyger was having a normal commute home from…
For decades, Dallas cops didn’t go on trial. From 1973, when a Travis County jury convicted Dallas Police Department Officer Darrell Cain of murder after Cain shot 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez in the head in the back of a patrol car during an interrogation, to April 2014, when a Dallas County…
North Texas Giving Day reached $50 million in donations last week, surpassing the previous year’s total for the 10th straight time. This year, it had a little help from Dirk Nowitzki. The 18-hour event, which wrapped up at midnight Thursday, supported nearly 3,000 organizations, from animal shelters to food banks. Those…
In a ruling a week ago, 44th Judicial District Judge Bonnie Lee Goldstein found that the Dallas City Council violated its own rules and passed an illegitimate ordinance last February in a bizarre proceeding starring former Dallas City Council member-turned-hired-gun Angela Hunt and real estate person Ralph Isenberg, who married…
Let’s start by giving credit where credit’s due. For the last seven years, the Cowboys front office has performed spectacularly on draft day. The team’s 2019 roster, arguably the Cowboys’ most talented of the salary cap era, has been built almost exclusively through the draft, with the exception of Amari…
Parts of north and east Texas are expected to see thunderstorms, heavy rainfall and possible flooding Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda make their way into the area. The tropical storm battered Houston and Galveston on Thursday, flooding homes, swamping roadways and knocking out power to thousands of…
Monday, one of Dallas’ biggest trials of the 21st century is set to begin at the Dallas County Courthouse on Riverfront Boulevard. Amber Guyger, a former Dallas Police Department officer, is charged with murdering Botham Jean, a 26-year-old PriceWaterhouseCoopers employee. Guyger shot Jean, who lived in the apartment immediately above…
Texans of color are saddled with medical debt at disproportionately high rates. One big reason: They lack insurance. It’s a problem that’s particularly bad here in Dallas. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. It found that…
The talking point Wednesday at City Hall, for almost everyone, was unity. The Dallas City Council, fractured as it’s been presented in recent years, signed off unanimously on the city’s budget, allocating Dallas’ resources to the city’s parks, libraries and social programs. The biggest chunk of the budget, as it…
So far The Dallas Morning News podcast on the Botham Jean/Amber Guyger murder trial has all the stylish podcast elements — spooky theme music, random sound bites, breathy voice-overs — with the exception of one big one. Suspense. In the best podcasts I have listened to (“Buried,” the disappearance of Carey Mae Parker), you…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has charged 58 Texans as part of an interagency crackdown on illegal opioid distribution and insurance fraud. The “strike force operation” resulted in 21 cases, including one against a Dallas medical device company that made millions of dollars in false Medicare…
