City Sues Ross Avenue Auto Mechanic for Fixing Cars. Hinga Mbogo—the auto shop owner who, for 11 years now, has been battling zoning laws that closed down auto shops and lots in the Bryan Place area—is back in the news. In April, when last we read about about him, Mbogo was denied an extension on the special-use permit that would allow him to stay in business for a couple more years. At that point, the city had already given him several years after other much-loved shops shuttered (such as Woodard Paint and Body, the place that once fixed my crunched-up Hyundai). Now, the city has filed a lawsuit, asking for up to $1,000 a day in fines since Mbogo’s permit expired in August 2015. As DMN‘s Tristan Hallman explains, “The government isn’t taking Mbogo’s property from him. He just can’t run an auto repair shop in that spot.” A libertarian legal group has agreed to fight for Mbogo all the way to the Texas Supreme Court.
Search Continues for SMU Officer now presumed dead. Authorities have yet to release the name of the SMU police officer who was swept away by flood waters early Tuesday morning. His car was pulled from Turtle Creek yesterday afternoon, but there are still no other signs of the officer himself. Rescue crews started today’s search at sunrise.
Local Hero Saves Teen From the Bottom of Samuell Grand Park Pool. The 13-year-old girl followed her cousins into the deep end and didn’t know how to swim. Luckily, Steven Hall of Pleasant Grove noticed her lifeless body and dove in. Let this be a reminder to us all to get those kids signed up for swim lessons. I hope more organizations like the Fort Worth YMCA will begin offering free classes for communities that need them.
Something None of Us Need a Reminder About. It’s hot.
