Leading Off (8/23/17)

Angela Paxton Considers Run for Texas Senate. The Frisco guidance counselor, noted “Pistol-Packin’ Mama” crooner, and wife of indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton, is considering a challenge to Phillip Huffines, twin brother of Republican Sen. Don Huffines. Jordan Berry, a political consultant and Paxton family friend, said a Collin County candidate would be a welcome change: “Highland Park already has one senator. They don’t need two.”

Reginald Kimbro Faces Two Capital Murder Charges. Kimbro was first indicted on August 10 for the 2014 killing of Molly Matheson, a former college girlfriend, in Tarrant County. Yesterday he was indicted in Dallas County for raping and strangling Megan Leigh Getrum days later in Plano’s Arbor Hills Nature Preserve and then dumping her body in Lake Ray Hubbard, 30 miles away.

Ed Jamison to Lead City’s Unruly Pack. The former chief animal control officer for the city of Cleveland and equal opportunity cat and dog lover—he admittedly once shared his home with four cats named Bertram, Weston, Nestor, and Merwin, in addition to several foster dogs—will take over the Dallas Animal Services department on October 18. The Iraq war veteran will be tasked in part with tackling the city’s rampant loose dog problem.