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Party with DISD's Teachers from Abroad
Snubbed again: A lot of times people have parties and they get so darned busy, they forget to invite Buzz.
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$1 million park remains off limits to public
A Dallas city park has locks on the gate but fences kids climb over. The playground cost taxpayers $1 million to build and it's all but off limits to the public.
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Picketers Make Their Way To Hinojosa's Home
Nov 15, 2008 9:10 pm US/Central Dozens of people upset with the current state of Dallas ISD's financial problems took their message to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's house Saturday.
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Is DISD illegally extending trustees' terms?
After overseeing a financial train wreck inside the district recently, the Dallas Independent School District's Board of Trustees now want to stay in office longer and will vote Thursday to extend their terms ...
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Fat-Cat Automakers Beg for Taxpayer Money While Flying in Private Jets
Posted by Steve Benen , Washington Monthly at 11:33 AM on November 19, 2008. If they had flown first-class it would have been embarrassing.
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Why Eric Holder is an Alarming Pick for AG
For starters, he called for the firing of any "petty bureaucrat" who might dissent from the expansion of government powers after 9/11. Quick! ...
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Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales Indicted By Grand Jury
A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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Man wielding bat takes cat from Dallas Animal Shelter
Call him the feline felon. Dallas police are searching for a man who marched into the Dallas Animal Shelter Monday morning and took a cat while fending off employees with a baseball bat, authorities said.
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The Knucklehead of the Day award
Today's winner is the Dallas Independent School District. They get the award for the following - Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide ...
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Social Security Administration looks at Dallas schools' practice of issuing fake numbers
The Social Security Administration is looking into DISD's practice of issuing fake Social Security numbers to employees hired from foreign countries and will determine whether a formal investigation is needed, Wes Davis, the agency's spokesman in Dallas, said Friday
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Editorial: Getting real with DISD's culture of chicanery
OK, let's see if we understand this. The Dallas school district knowingly used faked Social Security numbers to make the paperwork for some foreign-born hires go through more smoothly.
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New mini serving cast iron set is great for appetizers
We love cast iron's even heating, strength and durability so we loved the new mini serving pieces from Lodge - perfect fun for appetizers, small entrees or desserts.
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Withheld evidence frees Texas man jailed for life
A man serving a life sentence for two sexual assault convictions while he was in high school was freed Monday because prosecutors withheld evidence that might have cleared him.
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Shootings near club in downtown Dallas kill 1, hurt 4
One man was killed and four others were injured in a gunfight outside a downtown Dallas club early Sunday.
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Rowlett mom on death row Darlie Routier granted DNA testing
By STEVE McGONIGLE and DEBRA DENNIS / The Dallas Morning News Convicted child killer Darlie Lynn Routier won the right from the state's highest criminal ...
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Illegal immigrants some CONVICTED child molesters, rapists, freed from Texas jail 4:03 p.m.4
Published November 16, 2008 at 2:50 p.m. Updated November 16, 2008 at 4:03 p.m. HOUSTON - Federal immigration officials let thousands of inmates in the nation's third-most populous county walk out of jail ...
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Illegal immigrants some CONVICTED child molesters, rapists freed from Texas jail: Update
HOUSTON - Federal immigration officials let thousands of inmates in the nation's third-most populous county walk out of jail ...
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DC Auto Bailout Ideas Involve US Equity Stakes, Turn into an Early Christmas Tree
Can I have permission to utter the S-word ? Ken Thomas's Associated Press report today on auto industry bailout ideas emanating from Washington includes these items, all of which expand soc- ... soc- ... ...
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Dallas Family Grieves Over Unexplained Murder of Single Mother
Family members say 32-year old Wyshina Harris was a real self-starter. The veteran of Operation Desert Storm and single mother, was raising a 12-year old daughter and 7-year old son.
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Armed robbers target man in Dallas
A North Texas man's night out with friends ended with him being held at gunpoint and robbed of money and a special memento.