A Story You Don’t Really Need to Read. Seeing as yesterday was a holiday, quality news is in short supply. For instance, I’m not sure this story about a cat hiding under a car would have made it to the NBC 5 site had most of the news team not been perfecting their cannonball splash radius yesterday. Spoiler alert: rescue workers took a tire off the car to reach Fluffy, at which point, the feline successfully booked it for the underbelly of another vehicle. (Suckers.)
Stories You Do Need to Read (Or At Least Be Aware Of). There were a couple key updates in the news, however. The case of the North Dallas High teacher and her husband found dead in New Mexico, both with gunshot wounds to the head and a gun in the husband’s lap, was not surprisingly, officially ruled a murder-suicide. Also, the DMN is trying to make sense of the complicated, tragic story of Shavon Randle, the 13-year-old whose body was found in an abandoned house on Sunday. The girl had nothing to do with the 22 pounds of stolen marijuana that seems to have led to her death, but her cousin’s boyfriend does. And finally, on Monday, a judge ordered two capital murder suspects to be released on house arrest because prosecutors have failed for more than a year to send DNA out for testing, an issue that likely won’t be resolved anytime soon because Dallas County DNA kits are on the fritz. (Good God.)
