Crime & Real Estate

Reflecting on the Dallas Police Ambush While Outside of Dallas

By Candy Evans / July 12, 2016 /

I left Dallas last Thursday morning, a beautiful, hot, sunny day, to land in Reno, Nevada for a long weekend of R&R with my family. My son lives in Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe is about a four-hour drive for them. We arrived before noon, the western fam arrived at about 5 due to a…

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Great Dog: Dallas Morning News’ Condemnation of Dallas Animal Services Neither Thoughtful Nor Appropriate

By Candy Evans / May 20, 2016 /

This irony escaped most of the mainstream media: while a street woman was mauled by a pack of wild dogs in the bowels of South Dallas in early May, a SECOND store dedicated to teaching dogs manners opened in a Richardson strip mall. WHAT A GREAT DOG! opened a second location at 655 Glenville Drive, just…

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Nancy Carroll Update: At Home in Tarrant County, Wearing an Ankle Bracelet

By Candy Evans / March 18, 2016 /

On Tuesday, March 15, Nancy’s Carroll Spink’s bail was reduced to $50,000 from $1,000,000. She has to wear an ankle monitor, and cannot leave her home from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. She cannot practice law or do title work, she had to surrender her passport, and she must remain in Tarrant County. Late Thursday…

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Nancy Carroll Spinks Booked Into the Tarrant County Jail

By Candy Evans / March 10, 2016 /

Update: Bond reduction hearing Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Nancy Carroll Spinks, the owner of Millennium Title in Southlake, is back in Texas tonight and in the Tarrant County Jail held on a $1 million bond. Carroll Spinks was transported to Texas on a bus with other prisoners from a jail in Lake County, Illinois, just north…

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Man Who Sold Home of Murdered Oak Cliff Man Arrested in Los Angeles

By Joanna England / March 4, 2016 /

Christopher Brian Colbert, the man who allegedly posed as Ron Shumway to sell 725 N. Winnetka, has been arrested in Los Angeles. Colbert, who sold the Oak Cliff home to an investor for $130,000 while Shumway was murdered an encased in concrete in his own backyard, will be charged with money laundering, tampering with a governmental…

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