The November issue of Texas Monthly features a piece by Michael Hall titled “The Exonerated,” which offers testimony from the 37 men who spent a combined 525 years in Texas prisons for crimes of which they were later cleared. Actually, not all the men spoke to Hall: Michael Blair, convicted…
Red Woof Inn, based in Rockwall, is one of them fancy-schmancy doggy-daycare joints; its Web site touts 7,200 square feet of free-range fun, along with other boarding and boutique-ing options available for your pup. Red Roof Inn, based in Columbus, Ohio, is a 325-locations chain of discount hotels, with no…
Josephine Davis used to work in the Dallas office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of General Counsel — used to. Now, she may very well end up in prison for the next decade. Lesson learned? Do not use a government-issued credit card to spend $10,000…
Sarah, left, and Amina, right, were sisters and best friends. Earlier this month, the FBI added Yaser Abdel Said to its list of “Featured Fugitives,” his crime: “UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION – CAPITAL MURDER – MULTIPLE.” No doubt you recall he’s accused of killing daughters Sarah and Amina, who…
A 2005 traffic accident in Dallas certainly has gotten a lot of national attention in recent months. That’s because In Re Volkswagen of America Inc. et al appears to be the case that will empty the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, heretofore known as…
Hell of a time for Avi Adelman not to have his video camera handy: The Barking Dog reports that at about 1:30 yesterday morning, a Dallas police officer got the call that he was needed to subdue a drunken patron at the Sugar Shack on Greenville Avenue. But the collar…
Patrick Michels To Swerve and Protect Sarah Palin’s visit last Friday drew nearly about as many fans as protesters to the Fairmont downtown, and it was a charged atmosphere. Slogans were hurled across the barricades and signs were thrust high into the air — but thankfully, with the Dallas Police…
Kirk Bloodsworth Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted, twice, of raping and killing a Maryland 9-year-old girl in 1984 — a crime for which he was to be put to death. But in the early 1990s, he was released from prison and became, as CNN put it in 2000, the “first prison…
On Saturday, “FloMoDad” posted to the YouTubes the video below, in which a banana chases a gorilla across the football field during Flower Mound’s homecoming game Friday night. But, you’ll see some cops initially didn’t find Curtis Patton and Sean Kight’s senior prank terribly funny, as one of the guys…
Ghassan Elashi With federal prosecutors making a second run at Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development officials, after their first attempt last year ended up in a more-or-less mistrial, the daughter of one of the defendants today writes about Part II for The Huffington Post. Noor Elashi’s a…
Daniel Rodrigue No, this was not the buffet spread at today’s drug-bust announcement. Yesterday, 300 law enforcement agents were involved in the largest one-day seizure of drugs and cash in North Texas — ever. They arrested 22 alleged members of drug trafficking cells associated with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. Officers seized…
As expected, Shared Hope International released today its 10th and final report dealing children being trafficked as sex slaves — and, fittingly, the report about Dallas was released in Dallas, where the organization’s wrapping up its conference. It’s a 149-page document, and for the most part it’s got good things…
The Dallas police updated the city council’s Public Safety Committee on crime stats again today — and, once more, crime’s down in Dallas, save for residential burglaries. Those have increased from 9,686 in year-to-date 2007 to 9,739 thus far in ’08. Homicides are down too, from 142 to 106 year…
View Larger Map Anyone who’s spent a split second on Lower Greenville has dropped plenty of coin at the 7-Eleven perched right next to the Whole Foods. Well, about 10 hours ago, it was the site of a hold-up during which at least two gunmen “pointed their weapons at the…
For those so interested, the agenda for today’s Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting includes the county’s contract with Touch Productions, which will produce a documentary series for the Discovery Channel about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and efforts to exonerate innocent prisoners using DNA evidence. The county’s all for…
Just a few months after we launched Unfair Park, we profiled Dallas public defender Mike Howard, then running the tell-all site Wretched of the Earth, on which he’d write about counseling the indigent on the county’s dime. But Howard yesterday sent out a virtual change-of-address notice: He has left the…
Say what you will about Avi Adelman, but far as one employee at the Kroger’s on Mockingbird Lane and Greenville Avenue is concerned, the man is a bona fide hero. Guess it’s what happens when you grow up the son of grocers, as the Barking Dog did. Jump for the…
It’s been mentioned a couple of times on FrontBurner, including today: Folks wake up in the morning, only to find their car or SUV is missing all four wheels. The D boys have mentioned a few locations — Preston Hollow, University Park, Abrams Road and Northwest Highway, Lovers Lane and…
From the sheriff to the police commissioner, who really, really likes his gig. But that’s not the question. This is quite the star-studded infomercial and fund-raiser for Operation Oasis, the local nonprofit that, among other things, works to integrate ex-offenders back into society. There’s Dallas police chief David Kunkle, Safer…
Just a tip: The best time to get yourself killed in the City of Dallas is between 6 p.m. and midnight on a Wednesday, if I’m reading my January-July YTD homicide statistics right, and I’d like to think that I am. (So you can forget what I wrote in May,…
For a man about to spend at least the next 40 years of his life in prison, Roy Arredondo hardly seemed nervous. Arredondo, the reputed leader of a Dallas-based cell of the Texas Syndicate prison gang, was sentenced this morning in Dallas federal court to life for his role in…
A picture of Don Hill we never, ever get tired of running When last we heard from former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, he was insisting that the U.S. government’s case against him — you recall, has to do with low-income housing — was racially motivated, politically charged and…
