Crime & Real Estate

Murders in Dallas Up 17% Over Last Year — Could Be Why People Are Buying North?

By Candy Evans / September 1, 2015 /

Major cities, including Dallas, have a problem: murder rates are up in more than 35 major cities, when compared to a year ago. After years of declines — as I recall, the murder rate was horrendously high in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the years of crack-cocaine, pinnacling in 1993 when more than 2,200…

Highland Park Morning Family Tragedy May Have Been Suicide

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2012 /

Update: It was revealed that John Steele was taking Ambien for sleeplessness, a powerful drug that’s been linked to strange behaviors while the patient is asleep but acting in a wake state. A tragically sad and disturbing story in the 3200 block of Cornell Avenue in Highland Park, where bystanders and police are now saying…