Two of the three teens arrested in carjacking/robbery case
Three teenaged males have been arrested in connection with an armed carjacking and robbery of a resident at the Beacon Hill Apartments near Skillman and LBJ. The Dallas Morning News crime blog reports that the youths, in a hurried escape from the crime scene, rammed the stolen Jeep into a police patrol car before being apprehended.
Lake Highlands resident James Ragland, a Morning News columnist, wrote this week about race, mentioning the city’s recent 40-year-late apology to Santos Rodriguez and the recent Lake Highlands shooting of DJ Maiden, a black child whose family suspected a hate crime. The central focus of the column is Dallas’ Conversations About Race series. A couple months ago, Advocate columnist Ellen Raff attended and wrote about an early installation of the program.
All of us Target shoppers at best received a fright upon learning about a glut of stolen credit card information that wound up on the black-market. The Dallas Business Journal reported last week that Target’s CEO is apologizing and attempting to make amends in the form of free credit monitoring.
Children with chronic asthma could benefit from a new Children’s Medical Center project, the Business Journal reports.
More intimidating than Santa: New York Times/video
Is Santa too nice for our own good? Countries with children who perform better in core subjects have scarier Christmas icons. In this funny video from the New York Times, Drew Christie argues— satirically, that is (look to the comments section for evidence that we sadly must point this out; better still, don’t look at the comments section because it is depressing)—for a Christmas representative more like the fear (and discipline) -inducing half-goat, half-demon German Krampus or Japanese Namahage a full demon.
