DISD faces tough issues with student wellness, Texas Instruments cancels Dallas event: Your Wednesday Evening Roundup

Dallasnews.com to provide free coronavirus articles  [Evening roundup]( [NEWS]( | [BUSINESS]( | [SPORTS]( | [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS]( | [ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT]( | [FOOD]( | [THINGS TO DO]( | [OPINION]( 03/04/2020 By Todd Davis Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( North Texas hospitals are actively preparing for the first possible COVID-19 cases. (Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) CORONAVIRUS [Dallasnews.com to provide free access to articles about the coronavirus]( Dallasnews.com will now provide unlimited access to its most important articles about the coronavirus outbreak, starting Wednesday. Editor Mike Wilson said the public health implications of the fast-spreading virus dictated The News’ decision. Coronavirus articles will be prominently displayed on Dallasnews.com and a newsletter is now available to deliver coronavirus news to your email inbox. You can sign up for the newsletter [here](. Also: Dallas is ready for coronavirus, [health experts say](. And: Texas Instruments canceled its [international conference]( planned for next week in Dallas. ADVERTISEMENT  POLITICS [Bloomberg quits, backs Biden after former VP wins Texas in Super Tuesday breakout]( Joe Biden, his campaign left for dead just weeks ago, roared back to the top of the Democratic field with a narrow win in Texas and decisive wins across the Super Tuesday battle map, as Democrats closed ranks in anointing him the centrist counterweight to Sen. Bernie Sanders. [Billionaire Mike Bloomberg was the latest to fall in line]( dropping out on Wednesday morning, $500 million poorer, and throwing his support to Biden.  Also: [Takeaways]( Texas’ congressional primaries]( include that incumbency matters, Trump matters, and runoffs are plentiful.  And: [Who pays attention to the Railroad Commission]( A Republican upstart surprised some in Tuesday's primary.  BUSINESS [Home Depot plans to rebuild its tornado-damaged North Dallas store]( Home Depot said it plans to rebuild its Dallas store that was damaged by last October’s tornadoes. The store on Forest Lane located just east of North Central Expressway is planning to reopen this fall, said Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes. [After the tornado displaced the store’s 160 employees]( the company found jobs for them at other local stores.  Also: [Southwest Airlines]( didn’t have the 737 Max for nine months in 2019, but it still boosted its on-time rankings.   And: [Howard Hughes Corp.]( puts its largest North Texas property up for sale.  ADVERTISEMENT (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) PHOTO OF THE DAY Former Texas Rangers catcher Ivan 'Pudge' Rodriguez poses with his larger than life statue outside the new Globe Life Field in Arlington on Wednesday. [He discussed the statue]( in an appearance with media outside the new stadium, which will make its debut this season. The statue of the Baseball Hall of Famer is located on the south side of stadium. EDITORS' PICKS - Crime: [A gunman is at large]( after killing his ex-girlfriend at her job in Tarrant County, authorities say. - Sports: The family of an [ex-SMU football player]( seeks $1 million in a lawsuit against the NCAA over concussions. - Education: Dallas will put cameras in all special education classrooms but [some worry about privacy](. ADVERTISEMENT FINALLY... [Dallas ISD mourns the loss of one teen to suicide and finds more concerns]( Metro columnist Sharon Grigsby writes: Don’t let the low number of students lost to suicide within Dallas ISD -- one this school year and one the year before -- fool you into thinking that these tragedies are mostly confined to the suburbs. The statistics keeping DISD leaders up at night are not only the two most recent deaths but [numbers from last academic year’s student wellness survey](. Among the high school students who responded: - 36% said they felt so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more that they stopped doing some of their usual activities. - 44% said they don’t have a sense of — or are unsure of — feeling welcomed or belonging within their school community. 👋 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 2020 - [The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States](