Travel ban stands, statue removal's final cost, Sherin Mathews and CPS: Your Monday evening roundup

December 04,  2017 By Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's here. Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin talks to reporters on May 15 outside a federal courthouse in Seattle, where a lawsuit was filed to halt enforcement of President Donald Trump's travel ban. (The Associated Press/2017 File Photo) U.S. supreme court Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban affecting residents of six mostly Muslim countries The U.S. Supreme Court [will allow full enforcement of President Donald Trump's travel ban]( on six mostly Muslim countries. In a legal order Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the president's travel ban to take effect while legal challenges move forward. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the two dissenting votes. Trump's ban restricts entry by people from six mostly Muslim countries, including Iran and Syria. Lower courts have ruled that people with a "bona fide" relationship with a family member or institution may not be banned from the country. But Monday's decision means that Trump may bar people from those countries, even if they have a relationship with someone in the U.S. Texas case: The high court [declined to take up a Texas Supreme Court ruling]( that prevented same-sex spouses from having the same workplace insurance benefits as heterosexual couples. special offer [limited offer digital access]( Workers load a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee onto a trailer on Sept. 14 at Lee Park in Uptown. The final cost to taxpayers for the statue's removal will approach half a million dollars. The park has since been renamed. (Staff Photographer/Jae S. Lee) confederate monuments Bringing down Robert E. Lee cost Dallas taxpayers hundreds of thousands The fall of Gen. Robert E. Lee's statue from an Oak Lawn park [will cost taxpayers more than $450,000.]( The final bill comes next week when council members will vote on an agenda item to approve the spending of no more than $375,000 on the September removal and storage. City officials have already approved more than $85,000 in statue-related expenses through administrative actions. Those types of expenditures do not require council approval. Equipment and Building Services Director Errick Thompson said that the costs reflect "all that coordination and logistics and planning and equipment and labor" needed to move the statue into storage at Hensley Field. Thompson said the cost was significantly increased by a saga of stops and starts and threats and a deadly accident. Also: SMU police [are looking for a crew of five people]( after white supremacist banners, fliers appeared on campus. Bikers for Trump rally in support of Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore on Sunday at the Jackson County Courthouse Square in Scottsboro, Ala. President Trump on Monday for the first time explicitly endorsed Moore in the special election to fill the seat vacated when Jeff Sessions became attorney general. (The Associated Press/Bob Gathany) roy mooore Trump endorses Senate nominee accused of sexual assaults: 'We need Roy Moore to win in Alabama' President Donald Trump explicitly endorsed Roy Moore on Monday, [shedding any hesitation about backing an Alabama Senate nominee]( who has been accused of forcible sexual assault on a 16-year-old and trying to have illegal sex with a 14-year-old decades ago. Trump has previously spoken out forcefully against Moore's Democratic opponent, and two weeks ago he used his bully pulpit to weigh in on the credibility of the accusations against Moore, saying he's inclined to believe the nominee over his accusers. But until Monday morning, the White House insisted that Trump would refrain from stumping for Moore. Hours after Trump's endorsement, Mitt Romney, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee, implicitly rebuked the president by reiterating his view that Moore's character falls short of the threshold for high office. And: Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold on Monday [vowed to repay taxpayers $84,000 for a sexual harassment settlemen](t but said "I didn’t do anything wrong." [Sign up for breaking news alerts]( (Staff Photographer/Nathan Hunsinger) Photo of the Day Newly hired Texas A&M football coach Jimbo Fisher shows off a new pair of cowboy boots presented to him [at his introductory press conference Monday](in College Station. “Your expectations will never be greater than mine, I promise you that,” said Fisher, who coached Florida State to a national title in 2013 and recorded six seasons with 10 or more wins with the Seminoles. Around The Site - DWI suspect: A 19-year-old [was arrested following a wrong-way crash Sunday night]( on Highway 175 in southeastern Dallas. - Firefighter injured: [A firefighter was hospitalized]( after responding to a fire at a vacant house in southeast Dallas. - Package store: Target’s first small-concept store in D-FW [will sell beer and wine and serve as a pickup point]( for online shoppers. - Fun and games: "Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp" [is the game we need in these stressful times](, says Hannah Wise. A makeshift memorial of flowers, stuffed toys and written messages stands near where the body of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews, 3, was found in October, weeks after she was reported missing by her adoptive parents. (Staff Photographer/Rose Baca) Finally... The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board weighs in on what Sherin Mathews’ death tells us about the state of Child Protective Services. It was just a year ago that we were writing editorials almost weekly about the dumpster fire that the Child Protective Services operation had become. Just a year ago that we published the names of dozens of children whose deaths were investigated by CPS and deemed to be related to abuse or neglect. Just a year ago that we challenged Gov. Greg Abbott and the Legislature to devote the money, time and effort necessary to protect these youngsters. This year seemed to mark a turnaround as lawmakers mandated a major overhaul of the dysfunctional CPS system that included funding for hundreds of new hires and pay raises. But the Sherin Mathews story [is a heart-wrenching reminder that CPS is far from fixed](. While we appreciate that CPS can't reveal all the details of its dealings with the Mathews family, what we know doesn't look good. Advertisement 👋 That's all for this evening! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. 💖 Share the love! 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