One of human evolution’s oft-ignored benefits is a man’s ability to conveniently piss on whatever tree, shrub, brush pile, patch of concrete, patch of grass, building facade, or garbage can happens to be at hand. It’s liberating. But with great freedom comes danger. One potential pitfall was made clear to…
I’ve got a really tough day ahead…not looking forward to the decisions I will have to make on some officers careers— David O. Brown (@DPDChief) March 1, 2013 If you follow Dallas Police Chief David Brown on Twitter, you were greeted this morning with the ominous announcement above. We’re still…
SMU still hasn’t released many details about what happened at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on the night of February 10, just that a student was “assaulted and held against his will” and that the fraternity, which also counts 19-year-old John David Mahaffey as a member, had been temporarily suspended…
In the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook, Don Dunn, the superintendent at Van ISD, 70 miles southeast of Dallas, sent a memo to parents explaining what the district was doing post-Sandy Hook to ensure students’ safety. These included adding school resource officers, brushing up on emergency drills, locking…
Gentlemen. Let’s get really real for a moment, shall we? It’s very unlikely that a woman on Craigslist wants to have sex with you. Or rather, it’s very unlikely that a woman on Craigslist wants to have sex with you for free. And when two women from Craigslist are proposing…
For about four months in 2007, Lakeith Fowler had a good con going. That May, the 32-year-old had hooked up with a supplier who began shipping case after case of the latest Nike sneakers at dirt-cheap prices. Fowler marked them up and sold them from his retail store, The World…
Yesterday morning, Highland Park High School was evacuated after school officials found a threatening note in a boys’ bathroom. It was the same boys’ bathroom where three similar notes had been found the month before. In all four cases, a search of the school revealed nothing. The danger became a…
When Mike Edwards opened a Condom Sense at Parker and Independence in Plano last month, he touted it as a way to pump new life into an aging strip center and help reinvigorate local retail. But as CBS 11’s J.D. Miles so, um, artfully put it, neighbors and religious leaders…
On Tuesday afternoon, shortly after hearing journalist Laura Ling address the Dallas chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women in Far North Dallas, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell was pulled over by Dallas police. We know this because he Tweeted about it: Just got stopped by a Dallas…
Yesterday morning, a man walked into the Victoria’s Secret at Mockingbird Station, grabbed $2,000 worth of shirts, sweatshirts and sweatpants, then ran from the store into a waiting Dodge Durango. It was, the Morning News noted, the fourth such theft from the location in about as many months. They are…
Adrelos Sanchez Waters drew suspicion as soon as the woman at the baggage check-in counter in McAllen, Texas, all of seven miles from the Mexican border, checked in his two pieces of luggage. They were heavy, much too heavy to just contain clothes and toiletries. She contacted McAllen police, who…
Last Sunday, a man was out checking his hog traps in a pasture in rural Erath County, some 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, when he stumbled upon 43-year-old Ricky Stephens. Stephens was alive, but barely. He had been severely beaten and was covered in severe burns, the Stephenville Empire-Tribune…
As Texas’ prison population has declined in recent years and criminal justice advocates and fiscal conservatives alike have questioned the wisdom of locking people up for minor, non-violent drug and property offenses, Dawson State Jail has become a prime target for closure. Last month, a couple dozen sentencing reform and…
The Texas Department of Public Safety got itself in a bit of a public relations mess last October when state troopers in a helicopter tracking a red pickup suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants opened fire, killing two Guatemalans and raising inevitable questions about the appropriateness of a law enforcement agency…
Last summer brought us the story of Anson Chi, a Plano man who’s accused of trying to detonate a bomb next to a gas main on West Park Road. The bomb did go off, perhaps earlier than Chi was hoping; police believe it detonated while he was “tampering” with the…
An appeals committee at City Hall on Thursday upheld Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s decision to fire a 911 call-taker over her mishandling of a call last August. Angelia Herrod-Graham answered the 911 call from the mother of Deanna Cook, saying she hadn’t seen her daughter in two days and…
A week before Christmas, Cedric Dewayne Caddell, Jr. and a friend went to the Denny’s at Stemmons Freeway and Walnut Hill. Their goal: to score some weed. To that end, Caddell had gotten in touch with a dealer, later identified by police as 20-year-old Dangelo Dewayne Wilhite, who showed up…
It wasn’t a run on baked souffle that kept the phones ringing off the hook at two Panera Bread locations in Dallas yesterday morning. It was one guy — an especially creepy one — who apparently enjoys harassing female crew members at fast-casual bakery/cafe chains. According to two police reports,…
On November 14, the New York Post broke news that FC Dallas CEO Doug Quinn had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a luxury hotel room in New York City, where he was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife, Elizabeth. As the Post described it, a “hulking” 6’5″,…
On January 16, President Obama, flanked by family members of some of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary the month before, laid out his plans to curb gun violence. These included 23 executive orders that tweak the system for background checks, lift a ban on federal funding for…
Deyfon Pipkins has spent a lot of time in the Dallas County jail over the past decade, having been arrested a half dozen times on theft charges since 2003. Police say he was back at it again at 4:15 p..m. on Monday afternoon, when he targeted a house in the…
In yet another piece of bad publicity for SMU’s fraternities, the university’s police department reports there was a “hazing incident” at Sigma Alpha Epsilon over the weekend. Two reports were filed from the Sigma Alpha house on February 17, one around 9:30 a.m. for the hazing, and another at 10…
