Pain & Profit investigation Part 1, Forney's feel-good story: Your weekend roundup

June 03,  2018 By Holly Rusak and Todd Davis Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines of the weekend so far. ⛅ Weather: Partly cloudy and hot. High around 93, low near 69. Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Pain & Profit The preventable tragedy of D'ashon Morris D’ashon Morris was born three months too early, unable to breathe or eat on his own. But after a year of intense care in a foster home in Mesquite, he had grown into a bright-eyed toddler who loved to cuddle and crawl. That was until [a giant health care company wanted to save money but cutting his round-the-clock nursing care in half](. The state knows some companies are skimping on care to make profits but has failed to stop it. The Dallas Morning News spent a year investigating the way Texas treats fragile and ailing residents who rely on Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor and disabled. Over the next four days, our investigation will show you how giant companies have made huge profits despite pervasive failures, which state officials have largely kept from the public. [Read Part 1 of Pain & Profit](. Read Part 2 early: When patients suffer, [companies rack up profits]( Explainer: How does [Medicaid]( work? The documents: How we reported this [special investigation]( Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer) Social Justice Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney on the rise, faces moment of reckoning Lee Merritt, 35, who has been an attorney for five years, has made it his mission to fight police misconduct and racial violence for the people he calls society's "throwaways." Since he moved to North Texas three years ago, Merritt’s career has been on a meteoric rise, with a string of high-profile clients at the center of viral videos. [But now, he faces a moment of reckoning](. Last month, Merritt publicly accused a state trooper of sexually assaulting a woman — only to find out she had made the whole thing up. The police dashcam video exonerated the officer. "What I’m most concerned about is that the families that I represent are not given a great deal of credibility in the first place," Merritt said. "Law enforcement officers are given a presumption of credibility.” Suspects sought: Authorities are searching for [three men accused of trying to burn an abandoned building]( in Richardson last month. Fatal shooting: The victim, identified as 16-year-old [Nathan Rubio, had been shot in the back](, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. A look at the display of whiskeys available at Whiskey Cake restaurant and bar on Regent Boulevard in Irving, Texas, photographed on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer) Food and Drink Whiskey Cake opens second restaurant in another Dallas suburb Dallas-Fort Worth's second [Whiskey Cake has just opened in Las Colinas](, near 635 and Belt Line Road, and it carries the same funky vibe as its original in Plano. Whiskey Cake's influence on the Dallas suburbs proved an interesting shift in dining when it opened in 2010. The comfortable restaurant somehow made a strip mall in Plano feel like a hip spot for brunch or date night. And in fact, Whiskey Cake was one of the earlier restaurants in Collin County making Dallas diners jealous: It forced curious foodies to drive north of 635 for a restaurant they couldn't find closer to home. Whiskey Cake has since been slinging its popular chicken and waffles and OMG Burgers in cool parts of San Antonio, Oklahoma City and two Houston 'burbs. The company's choice to open the sixth Whiskey Cake in Las Colinas and not in larger cities like Fort Worth and Dallas fits the story: Open a trendy restaurant in an area that craves it. Now in theaters: [First Reformed]([bores down into belief with an intensity that puts most faith-based films to shame](, writes Culture Critic Chris Vognar. Out of doors: Why [Arlington's downtown music venue is a hot spot]( for free summer concerts. Advertisement Forney players celebrate after their 4-1 win over Richmond Foster on Saturday in Austin. (Thao Nguyen / Special Contributor) Photo of the Weekend Madison Galiano never thought about quitting softball, even after her twin sister, Emily, was killed in an accident last year that rocked Forney and the softball community. [That perseverance was rewarded Saturday afternoon](, as Galiano stood at home plate and was presented the state championship trophy after Forney won the biggest game in school history to close out a season that was dedicated to her sister. Around The Site - This week in Amazon-o-mania: Raleigh tops a list and [Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston signs a letter](. - Look, it's hot, okay? Texas A&M website takes the guesswork out of [how much you should water your lawn](. - 'It's just devastation': Dallas' landmark [Juanita Craft home severely damaged]( by burst pipe. - Domestic violence: [A woman killed her husband]( because he was beating the cat, police say. - Health spa sued: A family claims a Flower Mound company is to blame after [a 71-year-old woman drowned]( in a flotation pod. - Hot flash: On D-FW's hottest day of the year, [a fire knocks out power at The Bridge]( homeless shelter. - Clergy clarity: Fort Worth's [Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary]( has revealed its reasons for firing Paige Patterson. OPINION ROUNDUP - Humanae Vitae: The church can no longer ignore the [chasm between Catholicism and Catholics](. - Editorial: State ed board, call the Mexican-American studies course what it is and [get it in schools ASAP](. - Stop the violence: We can improve school safety by [identifying kids with severe antisocial behavior and offering help](. - Editorial: To fix homelessness in Dallas, let's start with [permanent, supportive and transitional housing](. - Kayhan Kalhor: The young Iranians at my concerts want a moderate, normal country, and [Trump left them in despair](. - Editorial: [Why the humanities matter now more than ever](. Finally... Dallas civil jury awards millions to boy's family after teacher sexually assaulted him on field trip [A Dallas civil jury found a teacher sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy with autism](. Now the child's father is raising concerns about whether the teacher is still around children at the same school. His son had attended Anderson Private School in Parker County for six weeks when, the civil jury found, Alexander Anderson, now 31, sexually assaulted the boy on an Oct. 31, 2014 field trip to Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Grand Prairie. The teacher lives with his parents in a nearby home that shares the same address as the school. The father of the boy is afraid that Anderson may still have "access to kids," he said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. The News does not typically identify victims of sexual assault or their families. The boy just turned 15. 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=). 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