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Phil Jordan, a former CIA operative and one-time leader of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center, claims that the Obama administration is running guns to the violent Zetas cartel through the direct commercial sale of military grade weapons: Jordan, who served as director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center in 1995, said the Zetas have shipped large amounts of weapons purchased in the Dallas area through El Paso. Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot, told the Times he supported Jordan’s allegations, adding that the Zetas have reportedly bought property in the Columbus,...

Not an actual photo ​Every once in a while, amid the stacks of semi-literate, pro se habeas corpus petitions, trademark suits and product liability complaints, there comes a federal filing so disturbing, so completely awful, that it leaves the reader with nothing but questions. This week, it's Danny Cantu v. The City of Dallas and a whole passel of named and unnamed police officers. According to the complaint, which made its way to Courthouse News yesterday, Cantu, a diesel mechanic, was making his lunch January 22, 2010, when he saw a few cops streaking across his yard. A deafening...

The Dallas County Commission made a last-minute agenda change concerning a controversial appointment to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. John Wiley Price nominated a man named Aaron McCarthy, also known as Aaron Michaels, to the council. However the vote to approve the appointee has been postponed. The nomination infuriated civil rights groups - because McCarthy founded "New Black Panther Party for Self Defense." The Anti-Defamation League says the group is the "largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in America." The original Black Panthers call the group a "black racist hate group." Aaron Michaels is best known nationally as...

An off-duty police officer is among the injured and one person is dead after a shooting at Union Station in Dallas. Charles Bassett is at the live crime scene at the corner of Houston & Wood with these details so far: Dallas police are investigating the shooting which occurred between 3:30 and 4:00 pm at Union station. The shooting happened on board an Amtrak train stopped at the station. DART officials are on the scene as well, along with a lot of stranded passengers still trying to get to their destinations. Trains are once again running at the station. DART...

Their sign warns those who are "Drunks, homosexuals, abortionist, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, witches, idolators" that "Hell awaits you." Their hearing will be in Houston Municipal Court, which is run by Barbara E. Hartle, who, according to the Dallas Voice, is listed by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund as "one of only a few out members of the Texas judiciary." She was appointed to the position by Houston Mayor Annise Parker, identified by the Los Angeles Times as "the first lesbian to head a major American city." Allen told WND that no matter what happens, the fact that...

Immediately after the assassination and ever since, the right has tried to deflect any connection between its fevered Kennedy hatred and Oswald’s addled psyche with the fact that the assassin had briefly defected to the Soviet Union. America’s violent culture wars had started before JFK was shot. They were all on display in Oswald’s Dallas. At least in 1963, polling showed that only 5 percent of the country—a fringe—subscribed to the radical anti-government views championed by the John Birch Society and other militants of the right. These days, that fringe, whether in the form of birthers or the tea party...

ORIGINAL POST: At noon today, WFAA reported that a hazardous materials team was inside a mansion on the far eastern end of famed Swiss Avenue investigating what appeared to be explosives inside. Federal marshals were taking possession of the house at 6102 Swiss from owner Bernard J. Dolenz, who owes $1.6 million in restitution after he was convicted of medical billing fraud. Dolenz, who was both a doctor and lawyer before both licenses were stripped of him after his conviction, had been locked in a battle with the government over the house for years, and a federal judge finally ordered...

Rush started off his show stating that he was in a foul mood.

On the day when people across the country are moving their money out of big banks, eight protesters outside a bank in Dallas were arrested. The national movement is called Bank Transfer Day, a response to plans by Bank of America and other large financial institutions to add fees to debit card users. But it was Occupy Dallas protesters creating the scene on Saturday, where an estimated 150 people joined in, marching from bank-to-bank in downtown Dallas. Police officers were close behind, watching every move. "We had the banks that we wanted to go to, and from what happened at...

Do Aliens Love Football? Two UFO Sightings Explained By Benjamin Radford, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor 03 November 2011 10:23 AM ET Who knew extraterrestrials were football fans? -SNIP- About a week earlier, a bright light was spotted by a television viewer of "Sunday Night Football". The viewer, identified only as by his "reedickyaluss" YouTube profile name, had noticed something odd during the broadcast: During an intro shot of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, a bright light streaked across the night sky. He replayed the scene a few times on his TiVo, and posted the video on YouTube.

...The bank's index jumped to 2.3% in October from -14.4% in September...

Could it be at last that Americans have it with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and now are saying in their own way, “enough is enough?” With reports from a number of locations where Occupy Wall Street in a number of American cities, according to a number of news reports in the last few days: From CBS Boston:”BOSTON (CBS) – A man and woman were arrested in Dewey Square for allegedly selling heroin to an undercover police officer.Thirty-four-year-old Isaac Bell and 31-year-old Charlene Dumont both face drug charges. The two were living in a tent with Occupy Boston protesters on...

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The anti-Wall Street protests happening across the country are about to spread to North Texas. A group is planning a huge march and demonstration in downtown Dallas Thursday and they’re willing to go to jail to get their point across. The group called Occupy Dallas is an offshoot of a group staging a protest in New York City called Occupy Wall Street. Groups are demonstrating and protesting government bailouts of big Wall Street institutions, joblessness, global warming and the influence of corporate money in politics among a host of other issues.

MESQUITE -- President Barack Obama came to Mesquite. But all some guests saw was a mess. About 200 VIPs, Eastfield College students and staffers with tickets were turned away from Obama's speech Tuesday "I want to see a competently run office, not this. The way we were treated is a total surprise. Here were all the people who spent hours organizing this event locally, and we're suddenly told nobody else gets in." Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/04/3420131/vips-got-second-class-treatment.html#ixzz1ZuHyS9oh Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/04/3420131/vips-got-second-class-treatment.html#ixzz1ZuHk5KRT

<p>The production index—a key measure of state manufacturing conditions—rose from 1.1 to 5.9, suggesting growth picked up this month after stalling in August.</p> <p>Positive readings in the survey generally indicate expansion of factory activity, while readings below zero generally indicate contraction.</p>

A non-profit group in liberal Silicon Valley is seeking to register 5 million new Christian conservative voters from across the country, who according to its research, can decide the 2012 presidential election and bring the biblical worldview to the forefront of American life and politics. Of the estimated 60 million Christians in the United States, only 30 million vote in any given election. The rest do not realize the power they hold in one single vote, says United in Purpose, a group backed by a few Silicon Valley venture capitalists that is running a project caklled “Champion the Vote.” The...

A coalition of civil rights groups will file documents with the Department of Justice tomorrow accusing Texas Gov. Rick Perry of intentionally discriminating against black and Hispanic voters by backing and signing a strict new voter identification law earlier this year. Voter ID has emerged as an increasingly hard-fought partisan issue, with Republicans across the country pushing laws they say will combat possible vote fraud, while Democrats say their real effect will be to keep voters who don't have ID - mostly the poor - away. The new law requires voters to show drivers licenses, passports, or other federal or...

A truck loaded with pyrotechnics prompted a security incident at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport just after one o'clock Sunday afternoon. Police said a stunt performer picking up a passenger left his Penske rental truck unattended outside Terminal B.

DALLAS (AP) — A 22-year-old mother was facing child abuse charges Friday after police say she glued her toddler daughter's hands to a wall, kicked her in the stomach and beat her over a potty training issue. Joselyn Cedillo, 2, was on life support with multiple internal injuries at a Dallas hospital Thursday, The Dallas Morning News reported (http://dallasne.ws/pKJtEb ). A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press she had no information on the girl Friday. The newspaper, citing police records, said glue and paint were stuck to Joselyn's palms, and that skin had torn away in places.

It was an ordinary night, August 26, at the Exxon Tiger Mart at South Polk Street and Interstate 20 in Dallas. C.J. Thomas, the store's clerk, was behind the counter when a rush of customers came through the door at 10:12 p.m. "There was more coming in than going out," Thomas said. "Once they realized how many were in there, one of the students started throwing stuff and screamed out. Everything after that went crazy." Store surveillance cameras from different angles show bottles being thrown. Seconds later, Thomas ran to the front door. He tried to close it, but he...

The Dallas Fed's manufacturing general business index remained negative for the fourth month in a row and fell from -2 in July to -11.4 to August. Short article, more from the Dallas Fed release: The general business activity index remained negative for the fourth month in a row and fell from –2 to –11.4. The change in the index was largely due to a notable increase in the share of firms noting worsened activity. The company outlook index stayed positive but edged down from 11 in July to 7.2 in August. Still, the great majority of respondents said their outlooks...

Dallas is closer to a new heat record, now that it has registered the second-most hundred-degree days in a year, with 57. KERA's Bill Zeeble has more.

DALLAS - Dallas police have arrested a man who they said kidnapped his children and may have drowned them on Monday.Naim Rasool Muhammad, 32, allegedly never dropped the children off at school... Police said Muhammad's girlfriend reported ... that he took his children by force and assaulted her.... officers were called to the Singing Hills Drive and East Ledbetter to an unconscious person. That is the area where the children were found.CPR was performed on the children according to Dallas Fire-Rescue. Sources tell News 8 that the children did not survive....

Time Magazine’s Andrew Rotherham professed to being “confused” over Arne Duncan’s attack on the performance of Texas schools — and his ignorance over the performance of the Chicago school district Duncan actually ran. The Dallas Morning News’ editorial writer Rodger Jones isn’t confused at all. He’s irate. In a column that appeared in yesterday’s newspaper, Jones prints the response to Duncan from Robert Scott, Texas’ education chief, but not before getting in a few shots himself at Duncan’s “lies”: Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s insult to Texas public education was a politically motivated distortion that doesn’t become a federal official in...

The Princeton Review recently released a list of the most gay-unfriendly universities in the nation, and the University of Dallas clocked in at #9. Other Texas schools make appearances on the list of 20 schools--Texas A&M University at #10 and Southern Methodist University at #12. The ranking comes from surveys in which students were asked: "Do students, faculty, and administrators at your college treat all persons equally regardless of their sexual orientations and gender identify/expression?"

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DALLAS — Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price physically accosted WFAA reporter Brett Shipp while Shipp was trying to gain access to Price's county office Wednesday morning. Price struck Shipp with an open palm to the throat during a News 8 investigation of county equipment and purchases. The incident occurred when Shipp was asked by Commissioner Maurine Dickey to accompany her to Price's Langdon Road office to gain access to storage sheds located on the county complex. The News 8 video shows Brett Shipp, WFAA producer Mark Smith and photographer Billy Bryant following Commissioner Price and others as they attempted...

Pee-wee Herman made a surprise appearance at Dallas Cowboys training camp on Thursday night and posed for pictures with various front office members, coaches and players. No reason was given for the visit, so we'll assume it's because he was invited by Dez Bryant(notes).

DALLAS — A multimillion dollar whitewater course along the Trinity River in Dallas is complete, but the park isn't open. And it won't open until a major problem is fixed. Kayaker Justin Blake is one of the few who dares ride the rough water at The Dallas Waves park. Officially, it's closed; too dangerous, city leaders say. Blake now understands why after riding it for the first time this week. "You could get seriously injured if you're not careful," he said. The city spent millions of dollars adding concrete dams to create the whitewater rapids.

TNT has given the greenlight to DALLAS, an all-new series based upon one of the most popular television dramas of all time, about the bitter rivalries and family power struggles within a Texas oil and cattle-ranching dynasty. Famous for its ratings-grabbing cliffhangers, the original series was known for its wealth, seduction, scandal and intrigues. Set in the big state of Texas, TNT's new DALLAS — from Warner Horizon Television — also lives life large and in the fast lane and brings a new generation of stars together with cast members from the original drama series. The new DALLAS stars Josh...

DALLAS — At least eight people were hurt when thousands of housing voucher applicants rushed the doors at the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex in Dallas, Texas. An estimated 5,000 applicants waited for hours to receive applications for one of the 3,800 available vouchers. The waiting applicants became a frenzied stampede when officials opened doors to the housing voucher offices earlier than expected. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoiegq52y8

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/14/Stampede-for-housing-vouchers/UPI-81121310685190/?spt=hs&or=tn DALLAS, July 14 (UPI) -- Thousands of people seeking housing assistance gathered at a field house in Dallas Thursday morning and stampeded when the gates opened, rescue workers said. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/14/Stampede-for-housing-vouchers/UPI-81121310685190/#ixzz1S8JdfM5N

At least five people required medical attention, including one pregnant woman who was trampled, after hundreds of people began running to apply for housing assistance vouchers early Thursday morning. Dallas County residents hoping to secure a Dallas County Health and Human Services housing voucher began lining up on Polk Street outside of the Jessie Owens Memorial Complex at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The vouchers provide up to $1,000 each month to put toward rent for low income families. By 5 a.m. Thursday, that number had grown substantially and as many as 15,000 applications were expected, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue's Jason Evans....

Beck is moving to the Big D Former Fox News Channel personality Glenn Beck is bound for Texas. Beck confirmed Monday that he's relocating his family to Dallas, where his media company is building a new television and radio studio. Beck is starting a new online network, GBTV, on which he will beam a two-hour program each evening starting in late summer. He's continuing his syndicated radio show.

It’s official: TNT is bringing back Dallas, and with original series stars Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. The 1980s hit will get a modern makeover on the cable network, which just gave its new version of Dallas a 10-episode series order (full official description below). But you don’t have to wait until next summer, when the series debuts, to get a look at the show: TNT will give viewers a preview of the pilot on Monday night during the season premieres of The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles. “TNT has explored the possibility of an updated version of...

<p>A Dallas police officer was arrested on domestic violence charges Wednesday, accused of striking his girlfriend as she held their baby.</p> <p>Officer Victor Esparza, 26, was taken into custody on charges of family violence assault, a misdemeanor, and family violence endangering a child, a felony.</p>

With 16 surveillance cameras inside and out, he has the video to prove it. Last week, a mob of people descended on his store all at once after midnight . "They start trashing the store [and] eating," Farah said while watching surveillance video of the incident. "It's like they're robbing the store." While several paid, the rest ate, drink and stole before police could get there, Farah said. "We had to clean up for two hours," he said. "Plus, merchandise is gone. A bunch of merchandise is gone." ... Part of Farah's problem, officers said, is that three large apartment...

FBI agents armed with federal search warrants swarmed the homes and offices of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, his top assistant and a political consultant Monday. Agents were seen coming and going and searching vehicles at the county administration offices in the Texas Schoolbook Depository, at Price’s home in Oak Cliff and several other locations. Price’s attorney, Billy Ravkind, released copies of search warrants issued for the commissioner’s person and two vehicles — but not copies of other warrants for his home and office. The warrants said agents sought all electronic data from 2001 to the present related to...

Dallas Tea Party Leader Ken Emanuelson spoke to Tea Party Leaders at the Liberty Rising Meeting by American Majority. Emanuelson talked about good ways to run tea parties and political guerilla warfare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF5yRHiJ3qE Conservative film activist Andrew Breitbart spoke in Little Rock on Friday June 24th at the Best Western Hotel. Breitbart talked about dealing with the liberal media in the context of Weinergate. Breitbart talked about how the media and Weiner's staff (of people) prepared a propoganda campaign against Breitbart and how Weinergate unfolded over Memorial Weekend. Breitbart also recommended a book called The Secret Knowledge: On the...

A 19-year-old man has died in Dallas after an overnight rave party ended in chaos, a spokesman for the Texas city's fire department said Sunday. Rescuers responded to a series of 911 calls from the Electric Daisy Carnival event for emergencies related to drugs, alcohol and excessive heat, spokesman Jason Evans said. Some 20 to 25 people were taken to local hospitals for treatment, with one reported to be in critical condition. The cause of death for the man who died is not yet known. The emergency calls had begun as early as 9 p.m. Saturday with at least 10...

Staff Writer Michael A. Lindenberger had a front-page story this morning about the harrowing ride that some DART passengers had after Thursday's parade for the Dallas Mavericks. The northbound train, packed with people going home from the parade, got stuck for almost an hour in the tunnel near Cityplace. No one ever told the passengers what was going on. "People were hitting the little button to talk to the conductor," one passenger told WFAA-TV (Channel 8). "No information was coming back whatsoever. Nobody was talking to us." He added that when he tried to use an emergency phone to reach...

So apparently Mavericks fans don't know how to properly celebrate a championship. They're dancing in the streets, cheering, and generally just having fun. No reports of violence, no cars burning, in short tens of thousands of fans and no riots. Do have some idiots parking on I35 to look over the parade. That's about the worst of it. C'mon, Dallas. Haven't we learned anything from LA about how to celebrate a championship or Vancouver about how to riot? Man, these Texans... /HEAVY sarcasm!

Hundreds of Dallas police officers will be watching an anticipated 250,000 Mavericks fans during Thursday’s parade — along the route, in the air, on rooftops and even from behind desks. Police Chief David Brown says his department is ready for anything along the roughly 1.25-mile parade route. If there’s trouble, hundreds of additional officers will be ready to sweep in, some with riot gear.

Looking for advice...Those of us in Texas have no experience in Rioting. There is a really good chance that the Mavs will finish off the Heat tomorrow night and I'm really worried that us Texans will just look foolish trying to Riot with no experience at it. I'm afraid it will be embarrassing, most of us will try to buy Flat Screens, storm a Wal-Mart with coupons, pick up trash instead of dumping it on the streets, and the minute the cops tell us to disperse we're all going to do it...It will just be silly, if we start any...

I just caught a story on WFAA-TV News about the Westboro loons coming to Dallas on Sunday June 5, 2011 from 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM. The site of their event is the American Airlines Center, timed to occur just prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks. Their claim is: GOD HATES THE NBA! Fred Phelps and his crew go on to claim: WBC will picket the NBA game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat to warn this nation that they need to tear down their idols and worship...

Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston continue to lead the nation's largest metro areas in new jobs and the rate of job growth compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday.

Mavs back in the NBA FInals!!!! That means in the same year Dallas has hosted The World Series, The Super Bowl, and now the NBA Finals. This is for Dirk!

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Crane counting is an economic indicator that works anywhereAt the height of the 2005-06 boom you could see 11 of them from the windows of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In the recession that followed, they all vanished. Look out at downtown Dallas today and you will count six cranes. There is a recovery under way in this city at the heart of Texas, at the heart of America. William Noakes is a partner in Ockleshaw, Noakes & Stares, a Dallas-based consultancy that helps big retailers to design their shops. After three years in the doldrums, he says, the...