The Dallas Morning News
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July 22, 2025 • 80 mins
Cynt Marshall, former CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, talks about the lessons of leadership through her long career at AT&T, the NBA and consulting.
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July 22, 2025 • 7 mins
After a 140-day regular session that he described as the best of his 10 years as governor, Greg Abbott is calling the Texas Legislature back for overtime. While most special sessions are limited in scope with a small number of tasks, Abbott has loaded the agenda for this session with 18 items. In other news, the assigned seating era at Southwest Airlines finally has a precise date. Come January, the Dallas-based air carrier will en...
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At the urging of President Donald Trump, Texas Republicans are once again pushing a mid-decade redistricting process, this time to help the GOP maintain control of the U.S. House in next year’s midterm elections in order for Trump to continue implementing his agenda. Historically the party in power takes losses in midterms, so Trump is using Texas, and perhaps other red states, to hedge against losing control of the House. Also, K...
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July 18, 2025 • 6 mins
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail Thursday morning, roughly a year and a half after he lost control while speeding on a Dallas highway, causing a multi-vehicle hit-and-run. Rice pleaded guilty to collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing serious bodily injury, two third-degree felonies. In other news, remembering the girls and leaders of Camp Mystic lost to...
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July 17, 2025 • 7 mins
A Texas judge scheduled Robert Roberson to be executed Oct. 16, granting the Texas attorney general’s request nearly a year after the death row inmate narrowly avoided lethal injection. This is Roberson’s third execution date in the 22 years he’s spent on death row. In other news, five North Texas mayors are asking Gov. Greg Abbott to revive two bills aimed at reshaping Dallas Area Rapid Transit during the upcoming special legisla...
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July 16, 2025 • 46 mins
SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and Shawn McFarland discuss [00:40] the Rangers’ position at the All-Star break and what Chris Young should do. Do Jacob deGrom and Nathan Eovaldi, plus the imminent return of Jon Gray, change the narrative of a roller-coaster offense? What’s Adolis Garcia’s future with the Rangers? [26:46] As a dyed-in-the-wool New Englander, Shawn gives his take on new Cowboys’ backup QB Joe Milton...
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The field of contenders to lead the Fort Worth Police Department as its next chief has been narrowed to four finalists. The finalists are Robert Alldredge, the interim chief of the Fort Worth Police Department; Eddie García, assistant city manager in Austin who retired as Dallas police chief last fall; Vernon Hale, a former Dallas deputy chief who now works as an assistant chief in Prince George’s County, Md.; and Emada Tingirides,...
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July 15, 2025 • 54 mins
The guys [2:50] break down the Rangers and a potentially encouraging sign as the All-Star break arrived. But let's not bury the lede. [13:10] Josh Hamilton, maybe the greatest single talent to ever put on a Rangers uniform, joins the fellas to reminisce on his 2008 Home Run Derby performance and to catch the guys up on where he is 10 years after his last MLB at-bat. [44:58] In the Archives in Arlington segment, John looks at some n...
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July 15, 2025 • 76 mins
Fred Perpall, CEO of The Beck Group and the first Black person to serve as president of the USGA, talks about golf, development, leadership and the American business climate.
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As Texans rally to support flood victims, state Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating a GoFundMe campaign that his office says may be taking advantage of their generosity. Paxton issued a warning letter on Monday to Tray Coppola, the organizer of an unverified GoFundMe campaign, because of concerns that it may be a scam targeting those affected by recent floods in Texas. In other news, Dallas officials think they can meet th...
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First Baptist Dallas leaders and congregants marked the one-year anniversary of the devastating four-alarm fire that destroyed the downtown church’s historic sanctuary on Sunday. In other news, a woman’s body was recovered from Lake Lewisville early Sunday morning. Texas Game Wardens responded to Lake Lewisville early Sunday on a reported drowning; group of kids in Dallas set up shop in their neighborhood selling what they called,...
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Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton filed Thursday to end her marriage with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, citing infidelity in Collin County court documents. Angela Paxton’s attorney, Charla Bradshaw, alleged in documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News that Ken Paxton “has committed adultery.’ In other news, about 115 animals from Texas’ flood-ravaged Hill Country landed Thursday at a private tarmac in Fort Worth, flown by the...
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July 10, 2025 • 47 mins
SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington and Evan Grant are joined by Joe Hoyt, covering the Cowboys in his return to the staff. [1:10] Kevin and Evan can’t argue with the fact that Jacob deGrom was the only Ranger on the preliminary list for Tuesday’s All-Star Game. Do they also fail to make any ripples at the trade deadline? Evan says he wouldn’t have a problem if Chris Young played the cards in his hand. Kevin says he’d dangle Adoli...
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July 10, 2025 • 6 mins
Nearly a week after heavy rain and flooding hit the Texas Hill Country, the search continued Wednesday for an untold number of missing people. Officials warned that the full extent of the catastrophe had yet to be revealed and unaccounted victims could still be found amid the massive piles of debris in the area that stretch for miles. In other news, office vacancies in Dallas’ downtown core have skyrocketed, prompting business and...
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July 9, 2025 • 42 mins
Nope, it's not a repeat, just sounds like one. The fellas once again discuss a muddling offense that leaves the Rangers on the fringes of the playoff race. They break down the selection of Jacob deGrom to his first All-Star Game since 2021, and Evan muses on Kevin Pillar's take on the Rangers' clubhouse/chemistry. Then Will "The Thrill" Clark joins the guys to discuss joining the Rangers back when it didn't seem like a destination ...
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July 9, 2025 • 5 mins
As the number of people found dead from the July 4 floods in Central Texas grew to at least 109 on Tuesday, state officials revealed that even more people remain missing. In other news, Gaines County, the epicenter of the massive Texas measles outbreak that began in January, no longer has ongoing measles transmission. The Department of State Health Services released its weekly measles update, which included no new measles cases re...
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July 8, 2025 • 78 mins
Ken Hersh, energy entrepreneur and outgoing president and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, talks about the importance of education, pioneering private equity in the energy sector, leading an influential policy center in Dallas, and betting on yourself.
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As search and rescue efforts continued yesterday, Kerr county officials confirmed more than 100 people have been killed by the Texas floods over Fourth of July weekend. In Kerr County, the Sheriff’s office confirmed that searchers have found the bodies of 84 people: 56 adults and 28 children. Twenty-two adults and 10 children have yet to be identified. As of last night, 10 Camp Mystic campers and one counselor remain unaccounted fo...
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July 7, 2025 • 6 mins
Kerr County, where dozens have died, does not have a flood warning system. The first warning came Thursday afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m. Meteorologists for the National Weather Service in New Braunfels predicted up to 7 inches of rain would fall in the flood-prone Texas Hill Country, which includes Kerr County, in the early morning hours on Friday the fourth. As the frantic search limped into a third day, grief-stricken Texans ar...
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Ward Sakeik said Thursday ‘the humanity that I was taught in middle school, elementary, high school and college growing up is not the humanity that I’ve seen' but also said she does not blame the country that has been her home for more than a decade. In other news, a man has been arrested for a shooting that happened on a Trinity Railway Express train headed to the Fort Worth Central Station on Thursday morning. All TRE trains retu...
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