Dwaine Caraway's downfall explained, Cowboys debut, DPS adding staff at 'mega centers': Your Friday morning roundup

August 10,  2018 By Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌦️Weather: Partly to mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of scattered thunderstorms and a high of 92 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. This 2010 photo shows a new Dallas County Schools bus with cameras to catch drivers who fail to stop. (DMN File) News How a Bentley-driving businessman and a bus agency brought Dwaine Caraway down Behind the fall of Dwaine Caraway lurks the[tale of a high-rolling businessman from New Orleans and an obscure (and now defunct) bus agency in Dallas](. It’s a seamy story — and sometimes a glittery one, featuring fancy cars (a Bentley, a Maserati), diamond jewelry, a mansion in Preston Hollow, apartments in the French Quarter. But also thousand-dollar checks cashed at pawn shops and a bribe in the form of new tires, court records show. Caraway, the mayor pro tem, resigned Thursday, shortly after [he pleaded guilty to taking more than $450,000 in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for his support of a school bus safety program]( that turned out to be a $70 million taxpayer boondoggle. The scandal started with the little-known bus agency, Dallas County Schools. Despite the name, it operated no schools and enrolled no students. Its main job was providing transportation for students in several school districts, including Dallas, Irving, Richardson and Highland Park independent school districts. And: Dallas ISD’s administration presented its best guess on what the district’s overall grade will be and also what the grades of its campuses would be [if they were receiving A through F marks this year](. Also: After years of debate, [Dallas ISD prepares to ask voters for a 13-cent tax increase](. 49ers 24, Cowboys 21 What Cowboys' surprise opening drive taught us about the state of offense What the Cowboys would do during the national anthem was never in question. The players stood there, toes on the line, as their owner expects. What the offense did to open the preseason, well, that was the real surprise. Jason Garrett rarely puts his starters on the field until the second week of the preseason. But with the youngest team he's had in his time as Cowboys head coach and with an offense that was far from crisp leading up to Thursday's game, he made an exception. It paid off. [Dak Prescott and the group expected to start the regular season -- minus Ezekiel Elliott -- methodically marched down the field to score on its opening possession against San Francisco](. Look who's talking: [Dez Bryant live tweeted the Cowboys-49ers preseason opener]( and was impressed early by Dallas' rookies. Debutant ball: Ezekiel Elliott made sure [rookie Bo Scarbrough will remember his first NFL TD](. Politics and government Texas to add 100 employees at DPS 'mega centers' to end 8-hour waits for drivers [The Texas Department of Public Safety will fill 100 new positions over the next few months]( to bolster staffing at some of the high-volume driver license "mega centers" across the state. This week additional DPS employees, including state troopers, were stationed at the high-volume centers in an effort to pick out customers who can get out of line to take care of their business online, by phone or by mail. The announcement came days after a Dallas Morning News story about customers at the Carrollton center who reported waiting up to eight hours to complete a simple license renewal or apply for a driving permit. Some of those hours, angry drivers say, are spent lined up outside in the 100-degree heat before they can get a seat inside the air-conditioned building. Meanwhile: State officials have opened an investigation [into the death of a toddler who died after leaving a South Texas immigration detention center](. Pain & Profit update: D'ashon Morris' mother [is suing a managed-care company over the baby's brain damage](. Advertisement Around The Site - Politics: President Donald Trump asked Texas AG Ken Paxton for advice on criminal justice, [and it drew mockery from Paxton's Democratic challenger](. - Courts: A teacher accused of sexually assaulting boys [gets probation in Denton County plea agreement](. - Yikes! [A swimmer survived a shark attack]( near Crystal Beach in Galveston County. - Weather: Pop-up showers [should keep Dallas-Fort Worth cooler into next week](. - Flow it, show it: The [Afrolicious Hair Expo touched down in Dallas]( to teach, inspire and sell. - Real estate: Multigenerational homes are [the newest house on the prairie in North Texas](. Finally... Baylor officials knew of football player's 'predatorial behavior' and did nothing, court filings allege The Dallas Morning News' metro columnist Sharon Grigsby writes: [Once again, the public is getting bits and pieces of the Baylor sexual assault scandal from court filings]( rather than from a full accounting that the school owes students, alumni and donors. It's a haphazard, incomplete way of getting to the truth. And the released documents increasingly paint an ugly picture of the administration's role in this tragedy. In a motion filed Thursday on behalf of a group of former students suing the school under Title IX, [the Jane Does' lawyers accused Baylor of concealing records involving its judicial affairs and police departments](. "Multiple senior Baylor administrators knew about a serial sexual assault assailant" in the fall of 2011, but failed to act, according to the court filings.  There's a strong theme running through the motion that, in fact, the administrators knew long before anyone in the athletics department. "After having engaged in four separate alleged sexual assaults, this predator went on to rape a final Baylor student on April 15, 2012, resulting in criminal conviction and a sentence of 20 years in prison," according to the 38-page motion filed by attorneys Jim Dunnam of Waco and Chad Dunn of Houston. The university said that it's "false and completely absurd" that Baylor concealed documents. 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? 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