O'Rourke holds Dallas town hall, Texans compete to gain national spelling bee spots, short-term rentals: Your Thursday morning roundup

Also, the Buffalo supermarket gunman is indicted on terror and hate charge  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  MORNING ROUNDUP [The Dallas Morning News]( By Carla Solórzano ADVERTISEMENT  TODAY'S TOP HEADLINES [Dallas officials can’t agree whether short-term rentals should be banned in neighborhoods]( The city currently has no rules overseeing how short-term rentals are run [After Uvalde shooting, North Texas faith leaders at Cornyn’s office demand change]( Organizers shared demands with Sen. John Cornyn’s office, including banning assault weapons and... [Buffalo supermarket gunman indicted on terror, hate charge]( Payton Gendron is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Erie County Court. [Dallas-Fort Worth housing market is overvalued by 48%, researchers say]( The metro area’s homes ranked as the 18th-most overpriced in the country. [These parts of I-635 will close for construction this week in Dallas, Garland and Mesquite]( Closures will take place overnight and during the day on I-635 for TxDOT projects. [North Texas spellers fail to advance to Scripps National Spelling Bee finals]( Dhroov Bharatia of Plano and Vivinsha Veduru of Keller had tied for fourth in last year’s finals. [GameStop’s sales rise, but loss widens amid shift to crypto and NFTs]( The Grapevine company became the poster child for so-called meme stocks, seeing volatile swings in... [Arlington’s Texas Live has ‘$1 billion of development under cranes’]( The Spark Coworking center at Choctaw Stadium is the latest offering by the Texas Rangers and... [Prisons agency agrees to pay for first gender surgery for trans inmate]( Cristina Iglesias will become the first inmate in federal custody to get gender-affirming surgery,... [Gun violence is a solvable public health crisis]( Auto safety, tobacco research offer a path to reduce gun violence [MORE NEWS](  ADVERTISEMENT  NEWS  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during a town hall on Uvalde and guns on Wednesday at Thurgood Marshall Recreation Center in Dallas. (Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer) [At Dallas town hall, Beto O’Rourke pleads for ‘accountability’ after Uvalde massacre]( There were two things Alithia Ramirez’s mother wanted Beto O’Rourke to know about her daughter in the days after the 10-year-old girl was gunned down inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. She wanted O’Rourke to know and remember her daughter’s name, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate said during a Dallas town hall Wednesday. And she wanted him to ensure that no mother would feel the way she was feeling in the wake of her daughter’s death. "I thought about that accountability that’s now on me, that’s now on all of us, to fulfill her wishes," [O’Rourke said to a crowd of about 750 at the Thurgood Marshall Recreation Center in the Red Bird area of Dallas](. Some wiped away tears as O’Rourke described meeting Alithia’s family. [READ MORE](  [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Free Newsletters]( | [Account Login]( | [Help Center]( [Terms of Service]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( The Dallas Morning News 1954 Commerce Street Dallas, TX 75201 © Copyright 2022 Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States