Texans oppose disaster relief bill, DeSoto grad killed in Dallas, American Airlines HQ hotelYour Tuesday evening roundup

The $19.1 billion package provides aid for several disasters since 2017, including hurricanes Harvey and Maria, which pounded Texas and Puerto Rico, plus earthquakes, wildfires and other storms.  [Evening roundup]( 06/04/2019 By Wayne Carter Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Floodwaters from Addicks Reservoir swamp a Houston neighborhood after Tropical Storm Harvey hit the city in August 2017. (2017 File Photo/The Associated Press) POLITICS [Six Texas Republicans oppose $19B disaster bill that pries loose $4B in overdue Hurricane Harvey aid]( Six Texas Republicans opposed the $19.1 billion disaster relief bill that sailed through the House on Monday night--the package delayed by freshman Rep. Chip Roy of Austin in a move that caused an uproar last month. The $19.1 billion package provides aid for several disasters since 2017, including hurricanes Harvey and Maria, which pounded Texas and Puerto Rico, plus earthquakes, wildfires and other storms. The measure also forces the Trump administration to release $4.3 billion that Congress authorized more than a year ago to help Texans recover from Harvey, which inundated parts of the state with 5 feet of rain. Roy stalled the measure for 10 days by objecting to a voice vote, calling it tawdry for Congress to spend so much with most lawmakers back home for Memorial Day. [But it turned out that addressing such procedural objections wasn't enough for Roy.]( Also: Beto O’Rourke paid the bill for his El Paso rally, [but Donald Trump still owes the city $470,000 for his event.]( Commentary: [Five reasons Nancy Pelosi is absolutely right about impeachment]( writes contributor Patricia Murphy. ADVERTISEMENT CRIME & COURTS [17-year-old recent DeSoto grad shot to death in car in downtown Dallas]( A 17-year-old who just graduated from DeSoto High School [was found shot to death Tuesday morning in a car in downtown Dallas]( police said. Leroy Hawkins was found in the front passenger seat of a 2007 Pontiac, police said. He had been shot several times. The shooting happened about midnight on Federal Street near North Akard Street. Witnesses reported hearing five shots, police said. According to police, two men in the car got into an argument with another man, who fired several times into the car. Hawkins was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, where he died of his wounds, police said.   New charge: "Girl in the Closet" Lauren Kavanaugh, jailed on charges of sexually assaulting a child, [has been accused of spitting in a jailer's mouth]( court records show.   And: Southlake police are searching for two people who went on [an $18,000 spending spree with a woman's stolen credit cards](  BUSINESS [American Airlines is building a $250 million hotel, conference center at the 'heart' of its HQ]( Fort Worth-based American Airlines' new campus will include a $250 million hospitality center complete with a 600-room hotel and a conference and training center to accommodate its growing workforce. [The center will serve as the "heart" of the headquarters]( said Jonathan Pierce, American's director of campus engagement. The 620,000-square-foot building will include office, retail and hotel space as well as dining areas, a tavern and a 131,000-square-foot conference and training center for employees, according to a newly filed building permit application. The building will replace the facilities that served as the airline's flight attendant school since the 1950s and will be built on the same site, said Kirk Hotelling, American's managing director of campus properties. The center will serve as a training and educational space for employees from all areas of the airline.  Get going: Southwest Airlines' fall fare sale is under way [with flights as low as $49 one-way.](   Retail: Men's apparel boutique Robert Talbott has been [locked out of its Highland Park Village store for not paying rent](.  ADVERTISEMENT (Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer) PHOTO OF THE DAY Salaryman chef Justin Holt makes ramen noodles using locally grown yecora rojo wheat. Dining critic Michalene Busico says if there are any doubts that these are glory days for Dallas ramen, one slurp of Holt's chintan shio noodles will put them to rest. And there's more good news ahead: This spring and summer, [a wave of serious ramen shops will open across Dallas-Fort Worth]( each breaking ground in its own way. Tex-Mex lovers, the time has come for us to taco 'bout it. We want to know which Tex-Mex restaurant is the D-FW favorite. Vote for your favorite Tex-Mex restaurant and you'll automatically be entered to win the Best in D-FW: Best Tex Mex sweepstakes. The winner will receive a gift card to the winning Tex-Mex restaurant.  Just in queso you didn't know, you can vote once an hour every hour. [Click here to voteÂ]( EDITORS' PICKS - North Texas talent: The Southlake Carroll dance team [will high-kick onto 'America's Got Talent' tonight at 7 p.m](. - 'He was kind, gentle, and generous': Doyle, [the Dallas Zoo's oldest male chimp]( died at 49. - Planting for a cause: An Oak Cliff gardeners group used their plant skills [to spruce up a home for AIDS patients](. FINALLY... [In historic South Dallas neighborhood, residents are tired of being terrorized by a car wash]( From city columnist Robert Wilonsky: The parade along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard used to begin in the evenings, just before sunset. The tricked-out rides' stereos blasted noise loud enough to rattle windows. Behind the wheels, same as always: visitors from as close as the Bonton neighborhood and as far away as Lancaster, Duncanville, DeSoto. Revving engines. Burning tires. Filling the air with squeals and smoke. [The outsiders' destination is Jim's Car Wash on MLK.]( There, on Sunday around 9:30 p.m., Sheila Sanders, 56, was shot to death, and four others were injured in what cops are calling a "gun battle." On video it looks and sounds like war — blinding muzzle flashes, the incessant pop-pop-pop. Police say they found more than 40 shell casings on the ground. Jackie Abney and Janette Bolden, natives of South Dallas who live a few doors from each other along Park Row, said later they knew it was safe to come out only when they heard the Dallas police helicopter overhead and saw Air One's spotlight illuminating darkened streets. The South Dallas all-clear. Began the 55-year-old Bolden, "We're so used to the shootings, from this direction and that direction ..." "... all we ask now is, 'Where do I need to duck?'" finished the 70-year-old Abney, as we sat in the front room of her well-preserved Park Row home. 👋 That's all for this afternoon! 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