Dallas chief takes leave of absence, Southwest travelers get the Switch: Your Thursday morning roundup

Good morning! Here are the top headlines to start your day  [Morning roundup]( 07/18/2019 By Todd Davis Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌞 Weather: Hot with a high of 98, low should be 78. If you don't like change, you've come to the right month. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( A deceased man's body was covered on a bus stop bench Friday outside the Homewood Suites on Elm Street in downtown Dallas. Johnny Roland Glover was a bystander who got caught in the crossfire of two groups. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) CRIME [How a career criminal wound up shot to death in downtown — as an innocent bystander]( City columnist Robert Wilonsky writes: Among the 120 homicides in Dallas so far during this violent year, Johnny Roland Glover's slaying is a story so unfathomable it feels made-up. Police say Glover was the man shot to death Friday evening while he sat on a bus bench near the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Dallas. He was caught in the crossfire of a brawl where guns were drawn and shots were fired, police said. One man is in custody in connection with the shooting; another remains at large. What makes his story so unimaginable, so inconceivable, is that Glover had survived decades in Texas prisons, and had been released from Dallas County jail only three days before, charged with evading arrest. Authorities had issued another warrant for his arrest, on a new charge of running from the cops, hours before the downtown shooting. [That is how Glover lived most of his 55 years — on the run or behind bars.](  Also: [A Texas woman made a deal]( to avoid the death penalty for fatally shooting her two young daughters.   And: [Four people were injured]( in two drive-by shootings in Fort Worth on Wednesday.  ADVERTISEMENT BUSINESS [A whole plane of Southwest passengers just got free Nintendo game consoles and games]( Southwest Airlines and video game maker Nintendo surprised a whole plane full of people coming from Dallas Love Field with free video games Wednesday. As part of a promotion for the upcoming Super Mario Maker 2 video game, Nintendo and the airline gave every passenger a Nintendo Switch game console valued at about $299 and a digital download code for the recently released game. The flight was conveniently headed to San Diego, the site of the country's largest video gaming and pop culture festival in Comic-Con International, which starts Thursday. [Southwest and Nintendo are doing other giveaways over the next month.](  And: A new market, [Italian shop CiboDivino]( is coming to downtown Dallas.   Also: [Used book seller ThriftBooks]( expects to add 100 jobs in its major Dallas warehouse expansion.  POLITICS [With El Chapo off to prison for life, Ted Cruz reiterates call to use his assets for border wall]( If the U.S. government can ever locate the billions the drug lord known as El Chapo stashed away during his infamous run as a major supplier of cocaine in the United States, Sen. Ted Cruz would love to see it put to use paying for a wall along the Mexican border. A federal judge sentenced Joaquín Guzmán Loera to life in prison on Wednesday, prompting Cruz to revive his calls for devoting seized drug profits for the wall. The only problem: [Federal authorities can't find any of the $12,666,191,704 in assets]( they say Guzmán amassed over nearly three decades in the drug trade. That makes the Texas Republican's plan moot, or at least hypothetical, though it would cure one of President Donald Trump's headaches  And: Here’s what eight Dallas women, [all Republican activists]( had to say about Trump’s ‘go back’ tweets.   Also: There is no unusual rise in [ICE raids across the country]( one Mexican official said.  ADVERTISEMENT EDITORS' PICKS - Police: [Dallas Chief U. Renee Hall is taking a leave of absence]( following major surgery, police say. - New restaurants: Biscuit-loving restaurant [The Biscuit Bar]( announced a major expansion across North Texas. - A sunset of sorts: After 9 years at WFAA (Channel 8), [meteorologist Colleen Coyle]( will say ‘see you later.’ - Public health: [Sewage flowed into Plano's Cottonwood Creek]( after construction crews broke a pipe, resulting in a warning to residents using private wells to boil water. Every bottle sold returns a portion of the proceeds to the University of Dallas Rome Program. (University of Dallas / Michael Housewright) FINALLY [The University of Dallas makes wine? Try this red from vineyards on the school's Italian campus]( The University of Dallas, a private Catholic school, has just released the latest vintage from its Italian estate vineyards. Due Santi is grown on the university's Eugene Constantin campus outside of Rome, where their semester-abroad program is anchored. And, as the saying goes, "When in Rome, make wine." [Named for the two saints (Due Santi), Peter and Paul,]( this area has been the summer home of popes and Romans for millennia. Wine from vineyards in the Alban Hills was renowned from the time before the birth of Christ, and the University of Dallas carries on that time-honored tradition in the modern era. The first result is Due Santi Rosso, a blend of cabernet and merlot. Winemaker Claudia Agrifani shepherds grapes grown organically on ancient volcanic ash beds, lending to the wine layers of flavor, including rich fruit, and an intense vivaciousness.  👋 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 [newsletters@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). STAY CONNECTED WITH US [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Tumblr]( [Reddit]( [OTHER FREE NEWSLETTERS]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Dallasnews.com]() | [Subscriber login]() | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( You received this message because you signed up for this Dallas Morning News newsletter or it was forwarded to you. Copyright 2019 - [The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States]()