Dallas Crime
Some Dallasites remember the Valley View Center fondly as a place where families bought kitchen appliances at Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the area around what is now LBJ Freeway and Preston Road was made up of cotton fields. Earlier this month, the Valley View Center caught fire. The cause is still reportedly under investigation. …
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Sharmin Ashtaputre’s family has never really felt unsafe in their Oak Lawn Heights neighborhood in the four years they’ve lived there. But early Sunday morning, that sense of safety was shattered as bullets rained down in their daughter’s nursery. “At 5:30 a.m. today, we were woken up by what sounded like fireworks,” Ashtaputre said. “Well,…
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“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague” – Napoleon “The infectiousness of crime reporting is like that of the plague” – Me Crime or rather the perception of crime is of importance to all homebuyers and tenants. Earlier this week, I wrote about crime and security in high-rises. To ensure the rest…
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By Ashley Stanley Special Contributor As the courtroom began to fill up Tuesday morning with pastors, community activists, friends, foes, and citizen onlookers like myself, the media was scrambling with technology issues in the overflow room on the 13th floor. It appeared the connection to the monitors wasn’t working, and media folks like Jim Schutze,…
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By Ashley Stanley Special Contributor FBI Special Agent Allen Wilson was on the witness stand as I arrived in court Tuesday morning, and it immediately became clear that the federal government is on trial in this case as much as Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
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