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A new rideshare service featuring armed drivers is launching and Dallas and two other Texas cities. BlackWolf, a small ridesharing startup that gained fame through TikTok, is recruiting drivers in Dallas, Houston and Austin and hopes to launch by the end of this year or early 2025; In other news, at least 78 changes were made to University of North Texas courses in attempts to comply with the stat...

The Dallas Morning News food team is filled with hot takes and quick takeaways from what the first Michelin Guide Texas means for Dallas-Fort Worth. The team also answers reader questions about the restaurant picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that Texas universities should not approve tuition increases for the next two years. In a letter to higher education leaders, citing families’ rising costs of living. Abbott wrote that his office spoke with the Board of Regents at every public university system, and they are in agreement about no tuition increases through the 2027 academic year. He promised college...

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and David Moore open with their take on the Michelin ratings for Texas restaurants and Dallas’ third-place ranking behind Houston and Austin, then dive into the Cowboys’ latest humiliation. [3:49] David tells us when to expect Trey Lance to start over Cooper Rush. The guys also explain why Jerry Jones refuses to budge on curtains for his stadium and...

Of the 52 districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nearly 40% gave employees no raises for this school year. Steven Poole, the association’s executive director said school districts are cash-strapped. The ones who did give raises had to dip into reserves. Some school districts just couldn’t even do that. District leaders say they are working with strained budgets in part because the Legislature ha...

Texas history was made last night, when the star-studded Michelin ceremony in Houston crowned the state’s best restaurants for the first time. Across the state, Michelin handed out 15 1-star awards. No restaurant in Texas received a 2- or a 3-star award. That’s Michelin’s highest honor, saved for the best of the best. In Dallas, just one Michelin star was given: a 1-star honor to Deep Ellum omakas...

After months of disagreement and dispute, the North Texas town of Fairview agreed to participate in mediation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over the proposed McKinney Texas Temple, which has drawn national attention in a debate around religious freedom, zoning laws and the town’s identity; In other news, Proposition U requires Dallas to direct at least 50% of excess yearly r...

A boil water notice in Richardson continues today as the city awaited results of tests on the water supply, while Richardson ISD planned to reopen schools that were closed Thursday. The boil water notice, issued Wednesday evening, affects almost 17,000 customers in the southwest portion of Richardson and prompted five Richardson ISD schools to close Thursday; In other news, Dallas residents planni...

The Dallas Morning News team discusses hopes and fears for the forthcoming announcement of the restaurants that made Texas' first-ever Michelin Guide. Part of the team also talks about a recent dining experience in which they accidentally went to the same restaurant at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has a partial avulsion of his right hamstring tendon. Team officials are trying to determine if Prescott needs surgery for the portion of the tendon that has torn from the bone or if it can heal on its own. The Cowboys are hopeful that pass rusher Micah Parsons and cornerback DaRon Bland can return to the field for this week’s game against Philadelphia; In other ne...

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington and David Moore discuss [1:25] the Cowboys’ abysmal state at 3-5, especially with Dak Prescott’s extended absence looming. David says the season is already over. Instead of spending fourth-round draft picks on the likes of Jonathan Mingo, Kevin says, they should be hoarding assets on a team that will pick eighth or ninth in the draft. [33:15] Kevin lays out the...

Donald Trump greeted supporters onstage at a watch party in West Palm Beach, ahead of a speech where he declared victory over Kamala Harris. The former president won Texas with 56 percent of the vote to Harris’ 42 percent and crossed the 270 Electoral vote threshold this morning; In other news, Texas voters sent Republican Ted Cruz back for a third term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, turning back...

Today is election day and polling locations all across the state will be expecting the last wave of voters to cast their ballots just before polls close. Dallas County voters can find all Election Day polling locations using the county’s “Vote Center Finder” at www.dallascountyvotes.org/vote-centers. Here's the link to the Dallas Morning News Voter Guide. In other news, Intercity bus service Greyh...

We’re sharing “‘Medium Stories” from The Dallas Morning News’ sister company, Medium Giant, a creative marketing agency. In this episode, The News' executive editor Katrice Hardy talks with Medium Giant president John Kiker about: What makes a great story from the perspective of an editor How the multifaceted nature of storytelling formats can be used to meet people where they are The surprising c...

A singer is in stable condition after being shot Saturday while signing autographs at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in downtown Dallas; In other news, Last month the Dallas-Fort Worth area topped the charts as the warmest October since the National Weather Service began record keeping in 1898. The determination comes after a number of days last month were reported as unseasonably warm with...

Arlington nuns at the center of a bitter dispute with the Fort Worth bishop called their dismissal from religious life ridiculous and egregiously false. In a fiery response Wednesday, the nuns said the dismissal, announced this week by the Fort Worth diocese, is a “moot point” because they do not recognize the authority of Mother Marie of the Incarnation, who issued the order; In other news, Austi...

The Dallas Morning Food team discusses things that scare them in restaurants — from QR code-only menus to anxiety while ordering. The group also talks about the latest from Imelda's D-FW Sabores project and a recent item checked off of Sarah's bucket list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas lawmakers provided a behind-the-scenes look at efforts to scuttle in-person testimony from death row’s Robert Roberson, either at the Capitol or at the inmate’s prison. In the end lawmakers were told Roberson would not be permitted to testify in “any form of hearing” before a House committee examining the inmate’s case. In a brief filed with the Texas Supreme Court, Reps. Joe Moody, Democrat...

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and David Moore discuss [2:23] the Cowboys’ latest debacle, a loss on the road to the 49ers. Evan says Trevon Diggs’ complaints about a reporter’s tweet immediately after the game only amplify the team’s misplaced priorities. Kevin says if Dak Prescott can’t run, as Jerry Jones advises, he’s not a good enough passer to justify that enormous contract...

Attorney General Ken Paxton called for state Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Allen, to resign, saying he was making a criminal referral over the North Texas lawmaker’s recent communication with a judge involved in death row inmate Robert Roberson’s appeals; In other news, nearly 68,000 Texans and more than 800,000 people nationwide could be affected by a data breach at a Brownwood-based insurance servicer, acc...

Arlington nuns embroiled in a monthslong feud with the Fort Worth bishop have been dismissed from their Catholic order and religious life. That’s according to an announcement by the nuns’ Vatican-appointed leader. In a statement published Monday, Mother Marie of the Incarnation wrote the nuns are no longer members of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, to which they belonged. The nuns “have reverte...

The Cowboys lost 30-24 at San Francisco last night. No running game. No pass rush. No turnovers forced. Prescott turning the ball over every game. There’s so much to fix with the Cowboys at the moment, it’s hard to imagine they’ll be able to fix enough any time soon to turn things around. The Cowboys travel to Atlanta next Sunday to face the NFC South leading Falcons. In other news, the company be...

There hasn’t been a trace amount of rain in Dallas the entirety of October. The last recorded amount of rain in the area was Sept. 25 with a reported tenth of an inch of rain at DFW International Airport and a little over an inch at Dallas Love Field. The chance for the dry streak ending likely won’t be until at least the end of next week. A pattern change late next week is what will cause a high...

The Dallas Morning News food team discusses a project nearly a year in the making from reporter Imelda Garcia: a quest to find authentic Mexican cuisine in North Texas. They also touch on Texas Monthly's top tacos list and the highly anticipated opening of Le PasSage in Dallas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas AG says Roberson had history of abuse, was not convicted on ‘shaken baby’ theory; In other news, a global tech company is moving its U.S. headquarters to Dallas-Fort Worth. Simply Learn, which provides training for digital skills, has relocated its U.S. hub from San Francisco to Plano near the Dallas North Tollway and 121; the Feb. 11, 2021 collision is frozen in the minds of North Texas as...