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The Associate Press reports: The NBA on Wednesday approved the sale of controlling interest of the Dallas Mavericks from Mark Cuban to the families that run the Las Vegas Sands casino company. The deal was approved just shy of a month after the families of Miriam Adelson and Sivan and Patrick Dumont announced their intention to buy the club. The …

The Texas Tribune reports: Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a longtime Democrat, is now a Republican — turning Dallas into the largest city in the country with a GOP mayor. “Today I am changing my party affiliation,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Wall Street Journal. “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary. When my …

Yahoo News reports: The firing of Meghan Mangrum, a former education reporter for The Dallas Morning News, comes after she spotted a Feb. 11 tweet from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson [photo] that alleged the local media had “no interest” in reporting on a drop in violent crime numbers in the city. Johnson wrote the tweet despite multiple media outlets – …

Dallas-Fort Worth’s CBS affiliate reports: The president of the Prosper ISD school board has been arrested and charged with indecency with a child/sexual contact. Drew Wilborn, 43, was arrested late Wednesday afternoon by the Dallas Police Department. There is no bond set as of Wednesday night. Dallas police said they received information on April 14, 2022, regarding a 16-year-old being …

NBC News reports: A search is underway for a clouded leopard that escaped from its habitat at the Dallas Zoo Friday morning, officials said. The incident, described as “a serious situation,” prompted the zoo to shut down for the rest of the day. The leopard, named Nova, likely escaped through a tear in the mesh enclosure the feline shares with …

The Associated Press reports: Flash floods struck the Dallas-Fort Worth area overnight into Monday, with flooded roads requiring rescue efforts as images showed abandoned cars floating down inundated streets. In some areas, the rainfall totals would be considered a 1-in-1,000-year flood. Rain continues to fall in and around Dallas; some rainfall gauges in the area have recorded more than 10 …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Dallas police are investigating reports of a shooting at Dallas Love Field airport. “We don’t have confirmed information. We have reports of a shooting. We are investigating,” Dallas police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman told The Dallas Morning News. Rockwall Chief of Police Max Geron tweeted the following after being evacuated: “Just got evacuated out of Love …

Dallas’s ABC News affiliate reports: After hearing from parents, the Dallas Independent School District has decided to make clear backpacks mandatory for its students. On Monday, it was announced that DISD students in the 6th-12th grade will be required to use clear or mesh backpacks starting this school year. According to the district website, the backpacks have to be completely …

The Houston Chronicle reports: More than 200 days after they first gathered in Dallas last November, QAnon cult leader Michael Brian Protzman [above left] has once again ordered his followers to return to Dallas this weekend for the true culmination of his prediction that JFK will return to the site of his 1963 assassination. Protzman told his followers in a …

The Dallas Voice reports: While a huge crowd was gathering in Fair Park for the first day of Dallas Pride weekend and the Miller Lite Music Festival, right-wingers hit The Strip on Cedar Springs today (Saturday, June 4) to protest …. well, something. Activist Cannon Brown, who was at the scene, said the protesters were there to rally against a …

Raw Story reports: WBAP news director Eric Bushman posted some video footage of the QAnon faithful gathered in Dealey Plaza, which is the location where the late President Kennedy was shot in 1963. Among other things, one supporter drove a red QAnon truck that featured messages painted on the side that included statements such as “Trump won 2020” and “WWG1WGA,” …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Hundreds of QAnon believers have gathered in Dallas to await the arrival of John F. Kennedy Jr. The group is there because of a popular QAnon theory that JFK Jr. will make an appearance before midnight today, November 2, at the infamous grassy knoll to declare Donald Trump as president. The QAnon theory says that JFK …

The Independent reports: QAnon supporters are gathering for an event in Texas on Tuesday at which they falsely believe JFK junior will reveal he is not dead and announce a 2024 presidential run with Donald Trump, the former president. Pictures posted on social media appear to show scores of people outside the AT&T Discovery Plaza in downtown Dallas overnight on …

The Dallas Morning News reports: A Dallas salon owner will spend a week in jail after she was found in contempt of court Tuesday for violating an order to close her salon during the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, Shelley Luther was fined $7,000 for continuing to operate her business, Salon à la Mode, in violation of a judge’s temporary restraining …

Nashville’s ABC News affiliate reports: An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Nashville took over eight hours to take off and was delayed three times after a man reportedly joked about having coronavirus. The man, who has not been identified, reportedly wouldn’t lift his tray table up before the plane took off at which point he claimed he had coronavirus. …

The New York Post reports: He could drive the snakes out of Ireland, but not the plague out of Manhattan. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade became the latest victim of the coronavirus on Wednesday, as the beloved annual fete was canceled over contamination fears. The parade, set for next week, will not proceed, City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera (D-Manhattan) told The …

Three if you count the Proud Boy who showed up late. The Advocate reports: A Straight Pride event at Dallas City Hall plaza attracted three supporters on Saturday. The march was hosted by the anti-LGBTQ group Protecting Our Next Generations (PONG). On its Facebook, the group promised the event would include discussions of abortion (“it is murder”), marriage values (“one …

NBC News reports: Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting her neighbor, Botham Jean, after thinking he was an intruder when she mistakenly entered his apartment. She faces a maximum of life in prison. The jury was tasked with deciding whether or not Guyger, 31, acted reasonably when she used deadly force, and if the …

The Dallas Morning News reports: A man in a mask, combat gear and glasses was shot and killed Monday morning after he opened fire outside the Earle Cabell federal courthouse in downtown Dallas. No one else was injured. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno identified the shooter as Brian Isaack Clyde, 22 at a news conference on a street …

Courthouse News reports: The Dallas City Council approved a $650,000 settlement Wednesday of a free-speech lawsuit filed by a pornography convention organizer that was kicked out the city-owned convention center three years ago on moral grounds. The 15-member council unanimously approved the settlement without debate. Interim City Attorney Christopher J. Caso told the council before the vote that “it is …