The Texas Civil Rights Project sued the city of Dallas in December over an ordinance that would ban pedestrians, including panhandlers, from standing or sitting on medians narrower than 6 feet wide. Now, the civil rights group is asking for the city to be blocked from enforcing the ordinance until the lawsuit is resolved.
With school shootings having become almost commonplace in the United States, school districts and law enforcement agencies have continued to search for ways to prevent them. A new technological program designed to assist faculty in the event of an active shooter takes the focus away from stopping the shooter by…
The Better Business Bureau is telling people to avoid a Denton-based telehealth company called Doctor Alexa that is allegedly taking customer money but not providing the services they paid for.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first visit to survey the border crisis in El Paso since he became president in 2021. Biden’s opportunity to see firsthand the many thousands of migrants stationed along the southern border comes after U.S. officials say they encountered more than…
A bill filed this week could allow even more Texas school teachers and employees to carry concealed handguns on campus.
Last week, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines made the sort of national headlines no airline wants to make. It’s fair to think that goes double for the more than 1 million travelers affected by last week’s mass flight cancellations. A typical flight schedule for the airline resumed on Friday, Dec. 30, following…
A lot of attention at the beginning of the new year is directed toward the bills that the Texas Legislature will consider in the upcoming legislative session. But what about the bills from past sessions that have finally become law? Jan. 1 welcomed several new laws in Texas, the bills…
A Dallas man was charged on Wednesday for selling Glock “switches,” devices that convert semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic ones, to undercover officers. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Jeremiah Dwyen Ashley, 22, allegedly conducted sales of illegal firearms both…
An audit found issues with how the city tracks the work of the South Dallas Drug Court and South Oak Cliff Veterans’ Treatment Court.
With the 88th Legislative session set to begin in less than a week, one North Texas state representative continues to fill the docket with some rather eye-catching filings. Frisco Republican Jared Patterson, who has already filed bills to abolish the city of Austin and ban minors from social media usage,…
Before he caught the ball, cancer caught him. Last May, Cory Youmans was just trying to climb the ladder at a Dallas financial services company – one day talking business outlooks, the next to an oncologist. “When you’re 35 and your doctor says you have cancer, it absolutely changes your…
With each year, the news in Dallas seems to introduce as many questions as it does answers. Bills filed in the Texas legislature, elections, proposed ordinances, all-day city council committee hearings and things of that nature are all certainly notable in their own way, but for the most part, we…
South Oak Cliff resident Anga Sanders found out the hard way that bringing grocery stores to Dallas’ food deserts was no simple task. A bill filed this week by State Rep. Shawn Thierry, a Houston Democrat, could make it a little simpler.
More than 13,000 previously classified documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released into the National Archive this month. But, thousands remain withheld from disclosure.
There are many traditions associated with the Dallas Cowboys. Some are fun, such as the annual Thanksgiving Day game and halftime show, and some aren’t so great, like the consistent early-round playoff exits. During Saturday’s win against the Philadelphia Eagles at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, another tradition made its unwelcome…
Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa filed legislation to slow institutional purchases of single family homes and create a registry to track the residential property they buy.
On Tuesday morning, you didn’t have to look hard to see plenty of signs that things had not been going well for a certain segment of holiday travelers. Even if one had somehow missed seeing the headlines and social media posts generated by Southwest Airlines’ cancellation of over 2,800 flights…
The city has been working to divert non-emergency services from the Dallas Police Department to other city staff to increase efficiency. Starting next year, the city’s Department of Transportation will begin taking over street blockage enforcement.
The opiate crisis in America is still raging, and it has hit North Texas with a wallop. In Dallas, suspected opioid overdoses have seen a dramatic rise in number over the past three years. And with that number, the amount of Narcan administered by city EMS personnel has also skyrocketed…
We’ve taken a look at the most-read Observer news stories of 2022, which provided a peek into what the year’s most hotly debated topics were. We’ve also looked at the reports we thought were the weirdest and wildest of the year. But there’s more to Dallas than controversy and oddness,…
When it comes to reporting on what happens in and around Dallas, every year is weird in its own way. Perhaps weird is normal for Dallas? Even so, it seems as though each year since 2020 has only gotten weirder in Big D. Not surprisingly, in 2022 elected officials contributed…
Angela Smith says her husband will not be happy about this story. She launched a GoFundMe, too, and he wasn’t too keen on that. “We both have a hard time asking for help,” she says. “He doesn’t want our burdens to become anyone else’s.” But the 55-year-old says she felt…
