Urgent alert at Baylor, new lot for old home, Rangers lose opener: Your Friday morning roundup

March 30,  2018 By Nicholas Friedman Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌤️ Weather: Sunny and pleasant with a high of 72 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. A picture of a Baylor University sign on the campus of Baylor University on Nov. 13, 2016 in Waco, Tx. (Irwin Thompson/Dallas Morning News) (Stock) NEWS Baylor University given all-clear after urgent alert warning students to seek shelter An urgent alert Thursday night warned Baylor University students to seek shelter immediately while police searched for a person who they said fled from officers. The all-clear was issued about 45 minutes later when [the university said the person had been apprehended and students could resume normal activities.]( No details about the person or what led to the chase were available late Thursday. Students were alerted to a dangerous situation about 10:30 p.m. via text message and email, and were told the situation was not weather-related. The Rosenfield House — better known as The Blue House — in the days before its move to a nearby lot in the Cedars (Courtesy/Mark Birnbaum) commentary One of Dallas' oldest homes, built in the Cedars in the 1880s, ready for its new life on a new lot From city columnist Robert Wilonsky: It should have been gone by now, torn down and paved over — a cable company's parking lot where, for more than a century, stood one of Dallas' most deluxe homes. Had it been rendered rubble, it would have been mourned for a moment, lamented as a victim of a city that can't or won't protect its past. Then, it would have been forgotten, like every other architectural landmark and meaningful footnote swallowed up by sprawl and disregard. That it survived into the 21st century was a monumental accomplishment — this blue-hued Victorian mansion constructed in the mid-1880s perched atop a highway across from a neon skyline. One of Dallas' oldest surviving homes, its history tethered to the Sanger Bros. and the Jewish community that helped build this city and the Cedars neighborhood, it has borne witness to the city's evolution from way station to metropolis. [Read more from him here.]( Meanwhile: Three North Texas counties have [wound up on a list of the nation's most unaffordable home buying markets.]( Editorial: Why mess with a program [that's turning DISD schools around?]( From left to right: Michael Ruibal, Linda Ruibal and Mark Ruibal, of Ruibal's Plants of Texas, at the Dallas Farmers Market in downtown Dallas. (Ben Torres/Special Contributor) business From dirt poor to blooming business: How the Ruibal family built a $20M gardening empire The Ruibals joke that they love folks with brown thumbs because they make the best repeat customers. In actuality, the family would much rather turn those big digits into green ones — just as it has been doing for more than three decades in the Dallas Farmers Market District. In 1984, a dead-broke Mike Ruibal (pronounced roo-bal) came to Big D and began selling bedding plants with his brother, Ed, from a pickup in the parking lot behind the sheds. A good week that first year was clearing $250 after paying their $30 daily rent for their double-deep, 10 by 20 parking space, any hired help and restocking. Today, Mike and his wife, Linda, own Ruibal’s Plants of Texas, which, with the help of their two eldest sons, [will bring in nearly $20 million in sales this year.]( Meanwhile: Less than two weeks after residents complained about high chlorine levels, the [water provider for much of Collin County and the surrounding area said it met "regulatory standards."]( And: Northwest Dallas residents can return home now that [the latest evacuation over gas leak concerns has ended.]( (Stock Photo) health care What 185,000 North Texans need to know about the contract stalemate between Blue Cross, Texas Health The state's largest health insurer and one of North Texas' largest provider groups [remain stalemated over a contract that could impact about 185,000 consumers if not resolved by Saturday.]( Over 800 clinicians and 29 hospitals, all part of the Texas Health Resources system, could become out-of-network for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas members beginning on April 1. It's not the first time negotiations between the two health care giants have gone down to the wire. In fact, a similar dispute played out in the public eye at the end of 2016. The two reached an agreement on a 15-month contract right before the deadline. But it's déjà vu all over again for local consumers forced back in limbo. Meanwhile: Exxon Mobil Corp.'s attempt to derail a multistate fraud investigation into the [company's public comments about climate change flamed out in a New York court.]( And: Federal officials sought to lay the groundwork Thursday for a key argument in the case against AT&T and Time Warner, attempting to show how the [megamerger could lead to subscriber declines among AT&T's rivals.]( Advertisement (Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News) Photo of the Morning The sun shines through the clouds behind the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge on Thursday's foggy morning. Around The Site - Crime: A man [has been arrested in the shooting at a Plano apartment complex Thursday]( that left one dead and three wounded. - Courts: Maryland's second-highest court ruled Thursday that Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed [should receive a new trial in the killing of Woodlawn High School classmate Hae Min Lee.]( - Evacuation: An Irving Walmart was evacuated Thursday night [after suspicious package was found in the parking lot, police said.Â]( - Watchdog: A man says if only his bank warned him not to withdraw his money one day early, [he would have saved a $16,500 penalty.]( - Elections: On the opening day for Mexico elections, [one candidate’s vast coalition makes him the guy to beat.]( - Retail: President Donald Trump put the spotlight this week on what taxes Amazon pays, but [one beef about sales taxes may soon be erased by the U.S. Supreme Court.]( - Editorial: Abilene Christian University ban on same-sex dating [for some student workers capriciously singles out an unlucky few.]( - Technology: How much of your data does Facebook really have? [You can ask for a copy.]( - Arts: Justine Ludwig, deputy director and chief curator at Dallas Contemporary, [is leaving the Design District museum for New York City.]( Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch (14) and Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister (28) shake hands before the Houston Astros vs. the Texas Rangers major league baseball game at Globe Life Park in Arlington on Thursday, March 29, 2018. (Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News) Finally... Four-man outfields, opening-day homers and other observations from Rangers' loss to Astros The Texas Rangers had a flat season opener on Thursday as they lost to Houston in front of a crowd of 47,532 at Globe Life Park in Arlington. With the season now kicked into gear, SportsDay's Evan Grant took some time to reflect on Thursday's 4-1 loss and offer up some insight into what the Rangers have in store for the rest of this year's baseball season. Let's just put it this way: There have been better season openers. 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