Officials withhold Botham Jean info, J.C. Penney names new CEO: Your Tuesday evening roundup

October 02,  2018 By Wayne Carter and Todd Davis Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. A mourner holds a program during funeral services for Botham Shem Jean on Sept. 24 in Castries, St. Lucia. (Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer) botham jean case Here's everything the city of Dallas won't tell you about the death of Botham Jean The city of Dallas refuses to release a recording of the 911 call that Dallas police officer Amber Guyger made after she fatally shot Botham Jean in his apartment last month. An attorney for the city said in a letter dated Monday that the Dallas Police Department and Dallas County district attorney's office are asking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to allow them to withhold the 911 recording requested by The Dallas Morning News. The News is asking for the recording to be released so the public can have a better understanding of what happened that night at the South Side Flats apartments, blocks away from Dallas police headquarters. The department and the DA's office [are also seeking to withhold other records connected to the shooting.]( Previously: Activists demanding justice for Botham Jean [won't let leaders off the hook at Dallas panel.]( Complete coverage: [The death of Botham Shem Jean]( Business J.C. Penney names retail veteran Jill Soltau to be its new CEO J.C. Penney's search for new chief executive officer led it to select the first woman to lead the 116-year-old department store chain. The Plano-based retailer Tuesday named Jill Soltau, 51, as chief executive officer.  [She joins Penney from JoAnn Stores](, a fabric and crafts company of 850 locations in 49 states, where she was president and CEO. The 30-year retail veteran takes the reins Oct. 15 at Penney with the company's stock trading at historic lows, under $2 a share. The embattled Penney has been without a CEO since May when Marvin Ellison left to become CEO at home improvement chain Lowe's. Two other C-suite executives have since exited as well. Commentary: What’s worse than going without a CEO? [Ask J.C. Penney](, writes columnist Mitchell Schnurman. Wage hike: Amazon is [raising the minimum wage to $15 for 350,000 employees](, including seasonal and Whole Foods workers. opinion My gut-wrenching flip flop on Brett Kavanaugh Peggy Wehmeyer, formerly of ABC News and WFAA-TV, writes: I had made up my mind before the Brett Kavanaugh hearings that Christine Blasey Ford was most likely set up and manipulated by shrewd partisans hoping to derail Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. Maybe something did happen at a high school party where Kavanaugh and his buddies drank too much. But certainly, I thought, his inappropriate high school behavior shouldn't disqualify him from the Supreme Court more than three decades later. After all, he didn't rape her, and bad boys grow up. I've changed my mind. Maybe because I turned on the hearings while I was rocking my 1-year-old granddaughter, Anita, to sleep in the same oak rocking chair I had rocked my daughter in and my mother had once rocked me. I've never identified with activist feminists, but the symbolism of that rocking chair, which has held three generations of women in my family, [stirred something warrior-like in me](. Editorial: Trump [surprises the world in a good way]( with the new NAFTA. Commentary: What's holding back Latino voting? [Historic neglect by parties and candidates](, writes David R. Ayón. (Carly Geraci/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Day The recipes for the beef and chicken pho Khanh Nguyen serves at his Dallas restaurant Dalat are top secret and took years to develop and perfect. [But he gave Ellise Pierce a pared-down version of his favorite](: the most traditional bowl that's served in Vietnam, with both cooked slices and raw eye of round served on top. editors' picks - Pervy prowler: Rowlett police are looking for suspect [who left explicit notes and photos of his genitals in a woman's home.]( - Express departure: Despite rebranding efforts, a Cafe Express in Dallas [has unexpectedly closed.]( - From the archives: Kroger once opened its aisles [for a singles night in Dallas.]( - Unexplained death: Officials have [identified a man whose body was pulled from Lake Worth]( Monday, but the cause of death remains unknown. - Jailhouse interview: A murder suspect [blamed an alter ego for a North Dallas stabbing]( and urged the state to "put me to death." Finally... Dallas Stars desperately need to find a way to build buzz around the team early this season — for the fans and the players SportsDay's Tim Cowlishaw looks ahead to what lies in store for Stars fans this season: The Stars celebrated 25 years in Dallas last season with regular visits from and recognition of their Stanley Cup stars from nearly two decades ago. It’s the kind of thing you do when you can no longer count on going to the playoffs. If the 2018-19 season that begins Thursday night looks like something less than special, perhaps the club will drum up local interest by celebrating the past one more time. Like last year. [Read the full column on SportsDayDFW.com.]( [Subscribe to our Real Estate newsletter]( 👋 That's all for this evening! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? 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