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A fourth former student at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas has filed a lawsuit alleging he was abused by priests when he was a student there.  [Evening roundup]( 10/25/2019 By Wayne Carter and Mallorie Sullivan Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Rachel Ellis-Piantanida collects belongings recovered from her demolished car in the parking lot of the Planet Fitness at Marsh and Walnut Hill lanes. She took shelter in a restroom in the gym when a tornado hit while she was working there Sunday. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) TORNADO RECOVERY [Survival, hope and opportunity along a NW Dallas intersection ravaged by the tornado]( From city columnist Robert Wilonsky: This was, at first, going to be about the shopping centers at Marsh and Walnut Hill lanes, once a highly coveted intersection over which political wars were waged at Dallas City Hall. It’s also the place where, as a kid, I bought comics and ice cream and records, got my hair cut and went grocery shopping with Mom. Much of it was shredded to pieces by last Sunday night’s tornado and will have be to be torn to the ground. And my neighbors, many of whom are also northwest Dallas lifers, are wondering what happens now to the stretch of dollar stores and pawn shops and small family-owned businesses where, decades ago, a local grocery store chain fought to build its brightest gem. But first, because this is far more important, [I will tell you about two of the people who almost died inside Marsh Lane Plaza.]( Shows go on: Here’s how KNON-FM [got back on the air]( one day after storms destroyed its North Dallas studio. Mystery solved: Hours after 10 tornadoes tore through North Texas, [meteorologists gathered to start piecing together evidence]( to determine where the storms hit. ADVERTISEMENT CRIME & COURTS [Jesuit Prep sued again over sex abuse, this time accusing a priest and coach]( A fourth former student at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas has filed a lawsuit alleging he was abused by priests when he was a student there. The plaintiff, a Dallas lawyer in his 50s, filed the lawsuit this month against the school and the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, among others, [saying he was sexually abused in the early 1980s by two Jesuit Prep priests.]( The priests named in the suit are the Rev. Peter Callery, a teacher and wrestling coach, and the late Rev. Patrick Koch, a former president of the school. The lawsuit, filed under the pseudonym Richard Roe, says he was molested by Koch during a confession and by Callery in a hotel room when the school wrestling team traveled to a match.   Also: The man who admitted to selling drugs at northwest Dallas' Han Gil Hotel Town [was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison.](   And: An innocent man was held for nearly three weeks on a ‘dubious’ case by the DPD. He sued, but [it went nowhere](.  FOOTBALL WEEKEND [How some Dallas-area districts have suffered from 5A being split into two divisions]( Eleven plays from scrimmage. That’s all Mansfield Timberview had during its 84-0 rout of Sunset last week. Ask Timberview coach James Brown about it and he probably won’t complain about winning — Timberview, which is 4-0 in District 6-5A I play, has all but locked up a playoff spot with three weeks to go in the regular season. But when it comes to preparing for a grueling final stretch, one that includes critical games against Lancaster and Highland Park, lopsided matchups can pose plenty of issues. At the most recent realignment, prior to the start of the 2018-19 academic year, the UIL chose to separate Class 5A into Divisions I and II before the playoffs. The hope was that by dividing 5A in half, like it had done previously with smaller classifications, there would be more parity for smaller schools. Unintended consequences of that decision, however, have shown themselves in each of the last two seasons, as multiple 5A districts in the Dallas-area [highlight significant gulfs between the top and bottom teams.]( Galloping along: It wasn’t the best performance, but [SMU was still good enough to beat Houston and remain undefeated.]( Film room: Here’s what defensive lineman Michael Bennett [brings to the Dallas Cowboys.](  ADVERTISEMENT (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer) PHOTO OF THE DAY A truck passes by downed power lines and a damaged house on Northhaven Road on Friday. Dallas property owners with uninsured homes damaged by Sunday’s tornado likely will not qualify for disaster relief aid from the federal government based on a preliminary assessment, city officials said Friday. [But the city is in the ballpark to meet the threshold for federal disaster aid to public agencies.]( EDITORS' PICKS - Technology: Verizon just switched on 5G wireless coverage [in these Dallas neighborhoods.]( - Politics: Could transgender kids' care [be the next 'bathroom bill']( for Texas Republicans? - Education: A Dallas ISD principal who turned her school around [is being honored as one of the nation's best school leaders.]( FINALLY... [Highland Park’s iconic 150-year-old pecan tree is gone, but town plans Christmas lighting with ‘sister tree’]( It took just three days for a crew to cut down a tree in Highland Park that was more than 150 years old. The Big Pecan Tree was famous for the 5,000 Christmas lights strung across its branches around the holidays. The 75-foot-wide tree [was chopped down starting on Monday]( though its days had been numbered for more than a year. Mayor Margo Goodwin says the tree had "died of old age" and that members of the Highland Park Town Council had been monitoring it for years with the advice of Preservation Tree Services. They put off plans to take the tree down in 2018 at the request of neighbors. The timing of its demise is bittersweet, as aging trees in nearby Preston Hollow were uprooted after tornadoes ripped through Dallas on Sunday night. The axing of the Big Pecan Tree was not related to Sunday’s storm. D’Andra Simmons, a Real Housewives of Dallas cast member who was raised in Highland Park and is still a resident, calls the removal of the tree "heartbreaking." "The Highland Park tree lighting has always been a very special event for me and my family because it meant the Christmas season had officially begun — and with it came a spirit of love, peace, joy, gratitude and Santa," she says. "It’s been an endearing and enduring piece of Highland Park’s history that people from all around the world experienced year after year. It feels like a piece of my joyful past has been chopped down." 👋 That's all for this afternoon! 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=). STAY CONNECTED WITH US [Unsubscribe]( | [Free newsletters]( | [Dallasnews.com]( | [Subscriber login]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact us]( Copyright 2019 - [The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States](