AA mechanic charged, Cowboys preview, high school football healing: Your Friday morning roundup

Here is a look at headlines to help you start your morning  [Morning roundup]( 09/06/2019 By Todd Davis Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌞 Weather: Welcome to August 37th, otherwise known as Friday, Sept. 6. The forecast calls for the first of three days in the triple digits with no precipitation — heck, no clouds — in sight. High of 100, low of 75. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( Han Gil Hotel Town is in northwest Dallas, on Dennis Lane, just a stoplight away from Royal Lane and Webb Chapel Road. (Daniel Carde/Staff Photographer) CRIME AND COURTS [How a drug bust in Irving last month led feds back to NW Dallas' notorious Han Gil hotel]( City columnist Robert Wilonsky writes: Most have pleaded guilty by now — the owner, the ringleader, the dealers and enforcers. Again and again in recent months they have confessed in court documents to the crimes and barbarities that occurred inside the Han Gil Hotel Town, located only a few hundred feet from a northwest Dallas elementary school. Only hours ago, on Thursday morning, a woman nicknamed Nina who looks no more than 15 confessed to making, packaging and selling heroin and meth and crack. It's just one more confession placed atop the stack of court filings detailing the shootings and the beatings and the overdoses and the dumping of the dead in faraway places. [The Han Gil horror story began more than a year ago]( well before young men and women from the suburbs started dying. And it reached its seeming end in March, with the feds' seizure and shuttering of the hotel on Dennis Lane, just a stoplight away from Royal Lane and Webb Chapel Road.  Also: A [judge denied Wesley Mathews' request]( for a new trial in his 3-year-old daughter's death.   And: [A TCU professor]( is among those accusing Placido Domingo of sexual harassment.  ADVERTISEMENT BUSINESS [An American Airlines mechanic in Miami is charged with sabotaging plane before takeoff]( An American Airlines mechanic in Miami was charged Thursday with sabotaging the navigation system on a plane before a flight bound for Nassau in The Bahamas with 150 passengers aboard earlier this summer. The criminal complaint filed in federal court in Miami said American Airlines mechanic Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, who works at Miami International Airport, admitted to investigators that on July 17 [he intentionally blocked a sensor on a plane that monitors speed, pitch and other critical data](. Alani was arrested Thursday and was to make an initial appearance Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami.  Also: [Neiman Marcus]( says there's an art to sleeping, and now sells mattresses for that.   Real estate: More apartments are on the way near [Dallas' Knox Street retail district](.  COWBOYS PREVIEW [If talented Cowboys don't make a voyage deep into the postseason, there will be consequences]( Jerry Jones embraces life in a way few can match. Whether it's upping the value of the Cowboys to astronomical heights or downing a Johnnie Walker Blue, the architect behind the world's most valuable sports franchise is constantly on the move. One of his newest possessions, the Bravo Eugenia, will be docked in South Florida for Super Bowl LIV. It won't mean nearly as much if his most-prized possession is unable to make the trip. Jones has acquired much in his 76 years. But for all of the wealth, real estate toys and attention he's accumulated, the accomplishments — or failures — of [his football team resonate in a way nothing else does](.  Also: [There is a familiar, feathery foe]( between the Cowboys and Super Bowl LIV.   Cowboys schedule analysis: [A game-by-game breakdown]( of Dallas' 2019 slate, including the final record.  ADVERTISEMENT Stay up-to-date with everything you need to know on the trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer charged with murder after fatally shooting Botham Shem Jean inside his own apartment. Sign up for this newsletter with just one click on the button below. [SIGN ME UP]( EDITORS' PICKS - Class act: [Highland Park dismissed suggestions]( such as Dirk Nowitzki, Randy Allen and Schooly McSchool Face for its new elementary school name recommendation. - You have the floor: Here's what the Democrats hoping to unseat Sen. John Cornyn said at a Frisco forum, [writes Gromer Jeffers Jr](. - Zeke who? Jerry Jones is one of the few people who could turn an insult, or joke depending on who you are, into [a money-making merchandise item](. Plano head coach Jaydon McCullough (right) and El Paso Eastwood head coach Julio Lopez join their players as they stand for the national anthem at midfield before a high school football game at The Star on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Frisco, Texas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News) FINALLY [It didn't matter who won between El Paso Eastwood and Plano — because hate lost]( Columnist Kevin Sherrington writes: The heroes in the story of Thursday night's game between Plano and El Paso Eastwood are many. Officials at Frisco Lebanon Trail and Fort Worth Arlington Heights agreed to move their game out of the Star to accommodate Plano's insistence on a secure facility. Plano kids designed "Texas Strong" T-shirts that sold for $20, with proceeds going to charities of Eastwood's choice. WFAA's Channel 8 reportedly raised $100,000 for El Paso victims and televised the game live. Dale Hansen even got up off his couch and into the booth. The importance of football in Texas is occasionally overstated, especially by those of us who have anointed it the state religion. [Yet there's also ample evidence to support the notion that football can be a rallying point for communities desperately in need of healing](. And El Paso — a city mourning not just the lives lost at a Walmart but the drowning last week of Eddie Cruz, a star Eastwood receiver last year — needs healing.  👋 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=). 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