Beto sings with Willie, Cowboys win, DeSoto family brutalized: Your Monday morning roundup

October 01,  2018 By Dom DiFurio and Tommy Cummings Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌤️Weather: Cloudy skies early will become partly cloudy later in the day. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 87 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Willie Nelson and Rep. Beto O'Rourke wave to the crowd during the Turn Out for Texas concert and rally at Auditorium Shores in Austin. (AP Photo) ELECTIONS 2018 Nelson, O'Rourke sing together as Nelson unveils new 'Vote 'em out' election song When country music living legend Willie Nelson took the stage on Saturday night at the outdoor concert he was headlining, [hundreds of people started filing out of the venue to get home.]( Turns out, those people weren't there to hear Willie sing. They came to hear Beto O'Rourke speak, and the Democrat from El Paso had just finished delivering his remarks. Nelson, along with Grammy-nominated soul singer Leon Bridges, a Fort Worth native, and other Texas artists Joe Ely, Carrie Rodriguez and Tameca Jones, performed at the packed free concert in Austin in support of O'Rourke's challenge to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. O'Rourke, a former punk rock musician, briefly joined Nelson on stage — sans guitar — to sing the hit song "On the Road Again," [a nod to his visiting all 254 counties in Texas to meet with voters of all stripes.]( Nelson closed the night by unveiling a new song inspired by the election. "If you don't like who's in there, vote 'em out," he sang. Editorial: Show up or be shut out? We can do better, so [let’s create a culture of voting in Texas.]( Commentary: Not all votes are equal — and [here's how to make yours count more, writes Elizabeth Souder](, assistant editorial page editor. cowboys Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on Brett Maher's game-winning kick: 'He really should be applauded' For the first time in his NFL career, Brett Maher ended a game in the middle of the field with his teammates surrounding him in celebration. The first-year Cowboys kicker [nailed a 38-yard field goal as time expired Sunday afternoon](, giving Dallas a 26-24 victory over the Detroit Lions. "It's a big moment for me, personally, for my family as well," Maher said. "Just to have the trust of the team and Coach Garrett to put me in that situation, it gives me a lot of confidence going forward." Also: The Cowboys asked a lot of Ezekiel Elliott against the Lions — [and he proved a lot with his career day](. And: When Jerry Jones strutted out of the Cowboys locker room, he wanted to discuss a specific play — [and it probably isn't the one you're thinking of](. police A DeSoto mom sought help from the police. Instead, they brutalized her family, she and witnesses say Sammie Anderson says she taught her four sons to trust DeSoto police and to stay out of trouble. They got to know officers based at their schools, and joined the Dallas suburb’s police ride-along program. One evening in August, her two oldest boys, now in their 20s, got into a heated argument, with one picking up a tool and throwing it in his truck. Anderson, fearing they might hurt each other, turned to the police. “[It was the worst decision I’ve ever made as a mom](,’’ Anderson said. High-profile addition: New arrival [JetSuite ditched California for Dallas to grow its private jet business.]( And: A Denton man proposed to his girlfriend on a Colorado peak, [then the couple promptly got lost](. EDITORS' PICKS - Boykin indicted: Former TCU quarterback [Trevone Boykin is indicted on an assault charge]( after his girlfriend says he broke her jaw. - Street touchdown: No one is injured when [a small plane makes an emergency landing on a Farmers Branch street.]( - Shooting incident: A Fort Worth [man accidentally shot himself and his young son while cleaning a handgun]( early Sunday. - Awaiting results: A surf park in Waco has closed for testing after [a New Jersey man died from a rare brain infection]( caused by an amoeba. - Body found: Rescue crews [recovered a man's body from Lake Ray Hubbard on Sunday](, hours after the man went into the water and didn't resurface. - 'Sorry': A bank robber in Fort Worth [included an apology in his note demanding money from a bank teller](, documents say. Illinois-based Ricky Rockets is set to open its first location outside its home state later this year in Garland. (Shaban Athuman/Staff photographer) Finally... Four things to know about Ricky Rockets as it rises in post-Raytheon Garland The newest wave of the North Texas service-station market is Ricky Rockets, a space-age themed business due to open in Garland late this year. Ricky Rockets is set to be a key part in Garland's plans to redevelop its industrial hub, which lost Raytheon and its thousands of employees more than two years ago. [Here are some things to know about the development]( — which is entering a market known for the likes of Buc-ee's and Fuel City — taking off at Jupiter and Miller roads. 👋 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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