Dallas’ strangest and most entertaining legal battle of 2016, the squabble between Cowboys superstar wide receiver Dez Bryant and Texas state Senator Royce West, is over. Late Friday afternoon, Bryant and West decided to drop all claims and counterclaims against each other, dismissing their dueling lawsuits. West sued Bryant in…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government again, this time in hopes of stopping new labor rules that would make 5 million workers eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay in December. The new Department of Labor regulations raise the minimum amount workers can be paid and anyone making…
The ugly fight between the Cowboys’ superstar wide receiver Dez Bryan and his former mentor and attorney, state Senator Royce West, comes down to money. The pair are suing each other, claiming financial harm on both sides. “Royce West is literally out of pocket $66,000 for the damage that was…
After more than three months, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk is retaking her post. Hawk announced Thursday morning that she has returned to her office following recent stints in mental health facilities in Houston and Tucson. Since taking office in 2015, Hawk has sought in-patient treatment for major depressive…
Ahmed Mohamed, better known as the Clock Boy, is back. He filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Irving, Irving Independent School District and Daniel Cummings, the principal of MacArthur High School. The then-14-year-old made national headlines when he was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school last…
The clock is ticking towards five o’clock Thursday evening and the jury is still deliberating about whether or not Daeveion Mangum, 20, should be charged guilty for murdering 60-year-old Michael Castagne in his office on the 500 block of E. Arapahoe Rd on November 17th last year. The question is…
On Thursday a federal court in Ohio unsealed the affidavit of an FBI agent that chronicles the chase of a homegrown, ISIS-supporting terrorist cell during the lead-up to an armed attack on a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland. The documents show that an FBI agent was in touch with one…
Around 9:30 am Wednesday morning, the jury seated to hear the murder trial of Daeveion Mangum files in and finds their seats. This is the second day of the trial. As they settle in, they are told they will be presented with some “graphic and disturbing” evidence — portions of the three…
On Wednesday the University of Texas’ Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis debuted a remarkable online tool that catalogs and documents each of the 6,913 people who have been killed by police or while in the custody of a state law enforcement agency since 2005. The deaths can be parsed…
The Dallas Cowboys first training camp practice is less than a week away and, as has so often been the case during the Jerry Jones era, the biggest story surrounding the team has nothing to do with football. As the Observer and other news outlets reported Friday morning, Ezekiel Elliott, the…
Barring Supreme Court intervention, Texas residents unable to secure photo identification before the November 8 general election will not be prevented from voting, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The state pushed the Texas Voter ID law as the last bulwark against a rising tide of voter…
Dez Bryant has finally responded to Royce West’s claim that the Cowboys’ star wideout destroyed a rent house owned by the attorney and state senator. Bryant didn’t specifically deny West’s charge that he left dog feces, wrecked carpets and a general layer of filth in his wake when he moved…
John Wiley Price’s federal corruption trial has been delayed again, this time until February 2017. This guarantees that Price will be sworn into his seat as Dallas County commissioner one more time before the case’s resolution. Price’s attorneys and federal prosecutors agreed to delay the trial in deference to the…
Thursday afternoon, a Collin County grand jury elected not to indict former McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt, who made national news when video surfaced of him pinning a pool party reveler to the ground last June. Casebolt and 11 other McKinney police officers were called to bust up a pool…
For now, the state of Texas is winning its battle with the federal government over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Obama signed an executive order allowing the parents of U.S. residents brought to the United States as young children to receive the same protection from deportation that their…
Abigail Fisher’s long fight against the University of Texas’ admissions system is over. Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University, didn’t get into UT-Austin, her first-choice school, in 2008. She sued the school, claiming that the system it uses for admitting students who don’t automatically get in thanks…
One of the minor charges against David Daleiden, the self-proclaimed investigative journalist who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood clinics and officials across the country, has been dropped. Late Monday, Harris County Judge Diane Bull ruled that the indictment against Daleiden for attempting to buy or sell fetal tissue, a misdemeanor, should…
A Tarrant County grand jury decided not to indict former Arlington police officer Brad Miller for killing an unarmed 19-year-old man last August at a car dealership on Interstate 20. Miller, his training officer Dale Wiggins and four other officers answered an alarm at the Classic Arlington early on August…
Fifteen Arlington Police Department officers have been placed on leave with pay after a department investigation revealed that they said they made traffic stops that never happened. According to a department spokesman, a random audit revealed officers were reporting stops for which no digital video record existed. “All facts at…
Earlier this month, according to new information provided Wednesday by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, District Attorney Susan Hawk went on vacation. Seeking, as her doctors have recommended, to find balance between her work and personal life, Hawk took off between May 2 and May 13. According to her…
The stakes, no matter who’s argument you believe, are incredibly high. If you take the state of Texas’ side, argued Tuesday in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, requiring specific, high-security photo identification from every voter in the state is essential to preventing widespread chaos and voter…
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk was supposed to be at Solutions Outpatient Services 21st anniversary celebration to present an award Thursday night. She didn’t show up, and the banquet’s attendees were told she was sick. Friday morning, she was slated to be the keynote speaker at the Dallas Public Library’s…
