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Parkland Board Hosts Meeting to Name New Interim CEO. Bob Smith, a retired vice president of Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit health care chain, will likely be named interim CEO of Parkland today. The board is having a special meeting this morning to vote on whether or not the 60-year-old Plano resident will get the job, which would pay him $60,000 a month. He doesn’t want the gig full-time. His contract would run for four months.

Trial Begins for Teacher Accused of Having Sex With Students. Sounds like the first day of trial for former Kennedale High School teacher and coach Brittni Colleps was an interesting one. It included testimony from a couple former students who say they had sex with Colleps and a video shot during one such incident. You’ll remember that she’s the married mother of three who resigned from the school after administrators heard about the incidents in May 2011.

It Rained! It did. And there was lightning. And we’ll probably have cooler temperatures later this week. And this makes me happy.

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