Women in jail, OU to Rose Bowl, DISD buses: Your Monday morning roundup

December 04,  2017 By Holly Rusak Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌦️ Weather: Cloudy with a 20 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. High: 80 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? [It's here.]( Inmate Beth Wesner, 25, (lower left) sketches on her bunk on Oct. 25 at Burnet County Jail in Burnet. The jail has had one of the largest increases in female population in the state. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer) criminal justice More women are jailed in Texas, even though arrests have dropped. Why? When The Dallas Morning News analyzed inmate populations at Texas county jails, we discovered an alarming trend: [The number of women filling county jails has increased 48 percent since 2011](. These are pre-trial inmates, meaning they have yet to be convicted. So what is going on? We visited one of the jails with the largest increase, Burnet County, to find out. We met women who couldn’t afford their bail or got caught up in drug addiction and kept getting arrested. One sold candy to an undercover cop, pretending it was drugs. [Read what we learned about the reasons behind this trend](, and how jailers handle an increasing population of women (including inmate love letters). Savior or bust: Can Dallas County Sheriff [Lupe Valdez be a credible candidate for governor](? Health care: Bích-Thu "Lisa" Pham considers it her [duty to help Vietnamese immigrants get insurance](. SPECIAL OFFER [special offer unlimited digital access]( Members of the OU Pom Squad celebrate after the Oklahoma Sooners defeated the TCU Horned Frogs 41-17 in the Big 12 Championship AT&T; Stadium on Saturday in Arlington. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) college football playoff Oklahoma ranked No. 2 in final poll, headed to Rose Bowl Oklahoma officially qualified for the College Football Playoff Sunday morning, a day after defeating TCU, 41-17, in the Big 12 championship game. [The Sooners finished No. 2 in the final rankings and will play Georgia in the Rose Bowl]( on New Year's Day. This will be Oklahoma's first-ever meeting with Georgia. Oklahoma was ranked No. 4 in the playoffs in 2015, the first year with Baker Mayfield at the helm. The Sooners fell to eventual runner-up Clemson, 37-17, and did not score in the second half. This is Georgia's first appearance in the College Football Playoff. No. 1 Clemson will face No. 4 Alabama in the Sugar Bowl in the other semifinal. Cotton Bowl: Despite not playing host to the College Football Playoff semifinals or national championship game, [AT&T Stadium got its hands on a heavyweight bout anyway](. Texas Rangers: The race for Shohei Ohtani took a significant turn Sunday when [two major East Coast contenders were told they would not make the cut]( for a face-to-face meeting with the Japanese two-star, according to multiple reports. A school bus drops off students off at W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy in Dallas. (Nathan Hunsinger/Staff Photographer) Dallas school buses Dallas ISD will run its own buses next year, but doesn't know the price tag The cover page of the presentation was drab gray, a stock illustration of a bus on a smoky background, as if "on a rainy day," as described by trustee Lew Blackburn. It wasn't exactly an eye-catching way for [Dallas ISD to pitch its new transportation plan for the upcoming school year](, a plan prompted by the forced closure of busing operator Dallas County Schools by voters last month. "It's a dreary looking picture," Blackburn said during Thursday's board briefing. "It makes me worry what's coming next." What comes next is as murky as the cover art, and a slide during deputy superintendent for operations Scott Layne’s presentation said as much: "We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know..." Previously: Dallas County Schools [bus drivers want to know what agency's shutdown means for them](. Previously: Voters shut down Dallas County Schools bus provider. [Now what](? Advertisement (Jae S. Lee/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Morning Obscured for much of the evening by clouds, a supermoon, or perigee syzygy as it is officially called, rises behind the arch of the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge in Dallas on Sunday. [The one and only supermoon of 2017 made its big appearance Sunday night](, which occurs when the moon is both at its fullest and closest to earth. Around The Site - Obituary: Dallas entrepreneur and philanthropist [Al G. Hill Jr. died in his sleep at home](, family members said. - Human trafficking: A Chicago man was charged with [transporting undocumented immigrants after 12 people were found]( inside the tractor-trailer truck he was driving near Laredo. - Sixth time's a charm: St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth has [been burglarized ... again](. - Location location location: Want an area of North Texas on the rise for the next decade? [Here's a spot for you](. The exterior of the newly completed Dallas Morning News building in the old Dallas Public Library. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) Finally... After 68 years on Young Street, [The Dallas Morning News starts work in its new home across downtown at 1954 Commerce Street today](. The newsroom's new chapter begins in a piece of Dallas that is familiar to many — the old downtown public library building. The library building, like the "Rock of Truth" at 508 Young Street, was designed by famed architect George Dahl. While the new space is smaller, the ideas remain big and our journalists are excited to create new traditions in our new home. AdVERTISEMENT 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. 💖 Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. 📧 Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). STAY CONNECTED WITH US  [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Tumblr]( [Google]( [Reddit](  [OTHER NEWSLETTERS]( [SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS]( [Unsubscribe](  |  [Manage Preferences](  |  [Privacy Policy](  |  [Contact](  |  [Advertise]( You received this message because you signed up for this Dallas Morning News newsletter or it was forwarded to you. Copyright 2017 - [The Dallas Morning News]( | [508 Young St., Dallas, TX 75202](#)