Storms, Dallas ambush lawsuit, blue-collar #MeToo: Your Thursday evening roundup

July 12,  2018 By Holly Rusak and Todd Davis Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Weather Showers, high winds roll into North Texas and won't let up until Friday [Expect gusty winds, heavy downpours and lightning through Friday afternoon](. The National Weather Service on Thursday afternoon issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Tarrant County, and meteorologists say scattered summer storms are expected to continue throughout North Texas for one more day. Dennis Cain, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said that the thunderstorms are expected to move over Dallas and Collin counties, with the bulk of precipitation moving northwest by Friday afternoon. In this 2016 file photo, activist Mark Hughes poses for a portrait. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer) dallas ambush Protester mistakenly identified as suspect in July 7 ambush sues Dallas police, city [After Mark Hughes was named by Dallas police as a suspect in the shooting deaths of five police officers downtown](, he said he and his family got death threats and went into hiding. He'd already been cleared and released by police, but he says the damage was already done. Hughes, who was carrying an assault rifle in public on the night of the July 7, 2016 shootings, and his brother, Cory Hughes, on Monday sued the City of Dallas and its police department in federal court. They're alleging that their civil rights were violated. The lawsuit claims police suppressed Mark Hughes' right to bear arms and free speech. And he alleges he was subjected to unlawful arrest and detention. Standoff: [How the Dallas SWAT team cornered and killed the July 7 police shooter](. Fresh look at old case: The federal government has [reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till](, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. Amber Johnson of Grand Prairie at "Prayer Mountain", a hilltop lookout point in far southwest Dallas where she often goes to pray. The prayer has helped her with the anxiety she developed after her workplace sexual harassment experience. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) workplace Blue-collar sexual harassment: The price some women pay to earn a paycheck Most women who suffer sexual harassment on the job, who lose work because they refuse a supervisor’s advances, who silently endure lewd comments and groping, aren’t famous and never will be. Headlines have largely moved on from the stories that exposed high-power men and the women who came forward against them, but the problem of workplace sexual harassment persists, especially for those who have no voice and everything on the line. [The Dallas Morning News]([ recently spoke to three women in blue-collar industries]( — industries often dominated by men — who say they suffered persistent sexual harassment and were punished for speaking up years before the #MeToo movement began. In sports: The Dallas Mavericks, [stung earlier this year by allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior in the front office](, are forming a new advisory council designed to help the team set "the standard for inclusion and diversity in the NBA." Editorial: Why transparency is critical as [Texas A&M deals with its own sex-abuse scandal.]( Michalene Busico is the new restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News. (September Dawn Bottoms/Special Contributor) Restaurants Meet our new restaurant critic, an experienced journalist with a well-trained palate Michalene Busico, who has spent most of her career in the world of food, serving as food editor for publications such as as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Robb Report, [is the new dining critic ofÂ]([The Dallas Morning News](. Busico grew up in Southern California in a family that worked in the grocery business. Her father was a butcher and supermarket executive. Her grandmother, in Busico’s words, "foraged for dandelion greens in her suburban Orange County neighborhood and cured olives she grew and did a million other things like that." Busico’s career is made up of ingredients not unlike those in an elaborate gourmet dish. Hers is a broad range of expertise, including food, fashion, home design, real estate and travel. Even sports. As full-time dining critic, she will replace Leslie Brenner, who left The News in September 2017. Busico will begin her job at The News in mid-July. Welcome to Texas: Our new restaurant critic Michalene Busico has just one question for you: [Where should she eat?]( Coming soon: H-E-B's Central Market says it will see [Bluffview, Devonshire and Greenway Parks customers]( in September. [Sign up for breaking news alerts]( (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Day Lead vocalist Jared Leto and drummer Shannon Leto, his brother, perform in concert at Dos Equis Pavilion at Fair Park in Dallas on Wednesday. [Thirty Seconds to Mars delivered a socially charged, crowd-pleasing concert in Dallas](. Around The Site - Immigration: The Trump administration says [all eligible small children separated from their families]( have been reunited with their parents. - 'Sky-dive in your own country': A North Texas sky diving company's [rules barring customers who are in the country illegally]( are being called "racist" in a flood of social media posts, but defended by the business owner. - Crime: Police have arrested a man in connection with a [nearly six-hour vandalism spree this week at a Mesquite school](. - New address: Why are Americans making [more million-dollar home buys](? - Build-a-riot: [After crowds swarmed Build-A-Bear stores on Pay Your Age Day](, the company emailed customers this morning, alerting them that they "cannot accept additional guests at our U.S. Build-A-Bear Workshop locations due to crowds and safety concerns." - Editorial: [Give immigrants with the courage to serve in the military]( a shot at citizenship. Finally... Pop of Color: Dallas stories with a multicultural perspective Welcome to [Pop Of Color, where readers can see and be seen in stories as diverse as they are](. This is an effort to showcase the work we already do in one spot and engage our readers on what we should be doing next. Too many times, the representation of people of color in all media — in Dallas or anywhere across the country — comes from the latest crime. The stories that are front and center are ones where reporters parachute into a crisis. But it's not fair when those stories take the spotlight and cast a shadow on our diverse cultures. There are many other stories, especially in the arts, that we will focus on in Pop of Color. Read about actress [Irma P. Hall](, hometown HGTV stars [Andy and Ashley Williams]( and groundbreaking talk show host [Gaby Natale](. North Texas has a rich, vibrant community of color doing amazing things. Advertisement [Subscribe to our Real Estate newsletter]( 👋 That's all for this evening! 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