Oak Cliff News

Gladys Johnson didn't allow drinking. If a liquor bottle or beer can was found inside a room, the landlady wouldn't issue a warning.

Ramona O'Brian finds her seat in the green gymnasium of St. Cecilia Catholic School every Sunday at 11 a.m. It's the Spanish-language Mass for a church whose building was pierced by a bolt of lightning and swallowed in flames two years ago.

More than two years after a fire destroyed St. Cecilia Catholic Church, the time has come to rebuild the revered house of worship.

Traffic was backed up for miles in Dallas because of a fatal incident on Stemmons Freeway near Hi-Line, in front of American Airlines Center.

If you like watching stuff being torn down, and if you want to witness a pivotal event, get on out to Fort Worth Avenue in Oak Cliff at 9 a.m. Saturday and see the growling bulldozers work.

A 31-year-old Dallas man was shot while his apartment was being robbed early this morning, police said.

A toddler was killed after his older sister accidentally backed over him with a SUV Sunday at an Oak Cliff apartment complex in the 700 block of North Marsalis Avenue.

Insured residents of Dallas County who are at high risk for swine flu complications will have their first chance Saturday to get a flu shot from the county health department.

It's been a year since the city council's Transportation and Environment Committee got word that Dallas had plans -- and $300,000 courtesy the Regional Transportation Council -- to update The Greater Dallas Bike Plan , created in 1985 and updated, barely, only a few times since.

Dallas police are investigating a shooting this morning inside Umphrey Lee Elementary School in South Oak Cliff.

It's been more than two years since fire destroyed St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Oak Cliff.

The Garland schools' administration recommended at last week's school board work session that the district end its GED program to save money.

Hundreds of photographs posted by the University of North Texas from the Dallas Police Department investigation of JFK's assassination won't solve any of the conspiracy questions that have endured for 46 years.

Because we can all use a palate cleanser now and then--and, also, because there's never a wrong time to listen to RTB2 --check out the clip above, featuring Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Sandlin performing their song "Whistle" in the still-under-reconstruction Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.

The noise is louder than a rock concert and is supposed to save lives, but some Dallas residents don't want a tornado siren in their backyard.

A shooting in a residential neighborhood of southeast Oak Cliff left one man dead and another injured Saturday afternoon.

A Seagoville man was murdered late Friday night at a bus stop in Oak Cliff. Friday, just before midnight, police said four suspects got into an argument with the 19-year-old man in the 1800 Block of Ledbetter Dr.

Carol Lucky, CEO of the Child & Family Guidance Center, and Andy Wolfskill, COO, eagerly anticipate the impact the clinic can make on the community.

Dallas City Hall needs to make some decisions - and fast - about how to design the Continental Avenue pedestrian bridge over the Trinity River and whether to include a streetcar line that would run from downtown to West Dallas and Oak Cliff.

By BRUCE TOMASO / The Dallas Morning News btomaso@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News Michael E. Young contributed to this report.