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Editorial: Dallas City Council should let go of the Trinity tollway
A park? A tollway? For a long time, Dallas has been trying to build both.
But over the past decade, changing circumstances, including unsubstantiated transportation claims and shifting politics around the Trinity River, have made that dual focus no longer practical.
It's time now for the city to come together to build a magnificent park.
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council has an opportunity to put that divisive debate over what to do with the Trinity River floodway behind us. We urge members, all 15 of them, to vote to officially withdraw support for the Trinity toll road.
Division: The Trinity River park plan was supposed to unite, but instead draws the Dallas City Council's scrutiny.
Break out the shovels: It's all over but the voting. The Trinity River toll road is dead, writes City Columnist Robert Wilonsky.
Toyota and Mazda want to partner on a $1.6 billion U.S. factory
Toyota and Mazda are joining forces to build a new $1.6 billion factory in the United States. There is no decision yet where the plant will be, but Toyota's North America CEO Jim Lentz told The Dallas Morning News that it will create about 4,000 jobs when it is ready in 2021.
The news of the shared production facility is likely to start a courting spree by state leaders who would want to land the factory and those 4,000 jobs.
The proposed plant would build about 300,000 cars, Lentz said — 150,000 crossover sport utility vehicles for Mazda and 150,000 Toyota Corollas.
Toyota recently moved its North American headquarters to a massive new campus in Plano.
Economy: Job growth surged for a second straight month, with U.S. employers adding 209,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3 percent.
Future of Billy Bob's: The partners who own a stake in Billy Bob's Texas are embroiled in a bitter dispute over the 127,000-square-foot honky tonk. Dallas Mavericks president Donnie Nelson says he is willing to make a bid to buy out the other investors if they can't break the deadlock.
Whataburger shirts, skateboards led police to DART beating suspects
Two brothers have been arrested in a brutal beating on a DART train that was caught on cellphone video last weekend. Police say Jakobi Darion Hendrix, 21, and Remon Hendrix, 23, were given away by the shirts they were wearing.
After seeing on the video that two of the attackers were wearing Whataburger shirts, detectives went to the Whataburger on Haskell Avenue, where the brothers work. A manager there identified Remon and Jakobi Hendrix in the video, according to police records.
Detectives also say surveillance footage of the brothers arriving at work about 12:40 a.m. Monday, shortly after the attack, with the same skateboards that were used in the assault.
Charges in Rylie slaying: Dallas police have made an arrest in a deadly beating and shooting at a Rylie home this week. According to police, a witness saw the suspect in the home with a gun in one hand and a club in the other.
Indecent exposure reports: Police are looking for a man who himself to three women near White Rock Lake in less than 10 minutes earlier this week.
Gunman kills himself: A man suspected of shooting a woman in Euless killed himself and crashed near downtown Dallas after fleeing the crime scene late Thursday, police said.
Photo of the day
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant sticks his tongue out during warmups before the Hall of Fame Game against the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday. The first preseason game wasn't exactly a stellar debut for the Cowboys' rookie class. None of the nine draft picks turned in a standout performance in their first NFL action against Arizona before a crowd of 21,126 at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
Around the site
Fatal crash: Charges are expected in a crash that killed a motorcyclist and injured a child and several adults in Far East Dallas Thursday night.
Commentary: Eight jaw-dropping lines from President Donald Trump's phone calls with Mexico and Australia.
Allergic reaction: Two American Airlines flight attendants have filed a federal lawsuit against garment manufacturer Twin Hill over claims that new uniforms delivered last year are making thousands of employees sick.
Party time: Plan a fun weekend with our list of the top 20-plus things to do.
Commentary: Dallas' Confederate memorials scream "white supremacy," write the North Texans for Historical Justice.
What's next? Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says he does "not anticipate a suspension" to be levied against running back Ezekiel Elliott.
Finally
Hell hath no fury like a high school band mom scorned — or a band dad or teen band member, too.
Now 200 families across the U.S. are scorned and irate. They were ripped off by a Georgia-based travel company that promised exclusive band trips to Europe. One-fourth of the victims are from North Texas.
Harmony International's husband-and-wife owners took families' money while they were meeting with bankruptcy lawyers. Parents say they've seen no evidence owners Bradley R. Matheson and his wife, Margaret L. Matheson, even bought airfare or hotel tickets as they claimed.
The company filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy and lists that it owes more than a million dollars.
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