Lupe wins and other elections results, accusations against Baptist leader: Your Wednesday morning roundup

May 23,  2018 By Holly Rusak Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Gubernatorial candidate and former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez speaks after her runoff win at a democratic party celebration at Ellen's in Dallas on Tuesday. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer) ELECTIONS 2018 Lupe Valdez becomes first Latina to win major-party nomination for Texas governor [Lupe Valdez defeated Andrew White in Tuesday's Democratic runoff for governor](, making political history in a couple of ways. Valdez, the former Dallas County sheriff, became the first Hispanic female and first openly gay Texan to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination. White, a Houston businessman and son of the late Gov. Mark White, held steady in early returns but was overwhelmed as the evening wore on. She now faces the vastly better-known and more experienced Republican incumbent, Gov. Greg Abbott. - Congress: See how candidates faired in the [2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 21st, 27th and 31st]( Congresssional districts. - 32nd Congressional District: Dallas lawyer Colin Allred, who made it to the NFL before becoming a civil rights lawyer, [easily outpaced Lillian Salerno to win the Democratic nomination](. - Texas House: Voters in the Republican primary runoffs stuck with [traditional center-right candidates over hard-line conservatives]( Tuesday in an election night that held the center for the Texas House. - Texas House 107 and 109: [DeSoto's Carl Sherman and Mesquite's Deanna Maria Metzger lead]( Dallas County runoffs for Texas House seats. - Dallas County judges: Male candidates are [1-for-3 against their female challengers](. - Dallas County Commissioner: [Twenty-five votes decided the race for the District 2 seat asÂ]([J.J. Koch beat Vickers "Vic" Cunningham](, a former judge who drew national headlines over alleged racist behavior and language. Portrait of Seminary President Paige Patterson alongside oil portrait of B.H. Carroll, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's first president, posing in the rotunda of the B.H. Carroll Memorial Complex.(Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram) religion Accusations surface against Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson On the same day that Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees met in a closed executive session to discuss his role at the Fort Worth school, [new revelations have surfaced about Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson](. After the trustees went into a closed executive session, the Washington Post published a story about a woman who claims Patterson encouraged her not to report a rape to police and told her to forgive the man who allegedly raped her after she invited him into her apartment In 2003, just before he moved to Fort Worth, Patterson was president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. The woman, a student at the time, said she was raped by another student and reported it to an administrator. She then met with Patterson. Patterson and other officials did not respond to request for comment, according to the Post. Crime: The embattled former police chief of a small West Texas town [faces allegations of sexually assaulting two men last year](. Crime: [Three men were charged in an attack Saturday]( in Mesquite that left one man hospitalized, police say. Lisa Kelso, who said she had been on the street for more than a year, sleeps on the streets in downtown Dallas. (Ron Baselice/Staff Photographer) COMMENTARY Why pop-up homeless shelters could be coming to your Dallas neighborhood City Columnist Robert Wilonsky writes: On Monday, [a committee of the Dallas City Council sat down for a presentation titled, simply, "Homeless Solutions Proposed Strategy."]( I thought surely there would be a massive turnout for such an occasion. But, nope. No cameras, a handful of spectators. Then again, what's the rush? There will be more meetings about this. And then some more. I used to think this city was very good at talking about homelessness and very bad at doing anything about it. Now I don't think we're even good at talking about it. We do have an Office of Homeless Solutions now. And the woman who runs it, Monica Hardman, has actually proposed homeless giving the homeless permanent places to live. But that will take money, and we have but a fraction of it: $20 million in 2017 bond funding that Hardman and her boss say we need to turn into $200 million before we can build new buildings or adaptively reuse old ones. [Continue reading Robert Wilonsky](. Editorial: Big D isn't perfect, but from the perch of our still-new headquarters on Commerce Street, [what we see is more than a little progress being made in Downtown Dallas](. Building up: An updated vision for Frisco's [Hall Park includes a long-sought-after performing arts hall](. [Sign up for breaking news alerts]( (Nathan Hunsinger/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Day A bartender grabs a bottle of scotch at ABV Establisment in Dallas. [New bars and restaurants mean more change]( for Lower Greenville. We've rounded up five restaurant and bar concepts new to the area, with a nod to what the businesses once were so longtime Dallasites will know exactly where they're located. Around The Site - Murder: Two boys, 13 and 14, [each face a capital murder charge in the death of a Fort Worth mother]( in what they thought would be an easy robbery, police say. - Update: A body found floating in White Rock Creek earlier this month [has been identified as 39-year-old Eric Hall](. A cause of death is pending. - Editorial: After Santa Fe, [ask why so many young people turn to mass violence](. - Movie review: While Solo: A Star Wars Story might not be the brightest light in the Star Wars pantheon, [it's hard to deny that it's a fun ride](. Caption Finally... From the archives: Conjoined twins' Cotton Bowl wedding was a spectacle, but romance was short-lived [Saying that the Hilton sisters were joined at the hip wasn't a figure of speech]( — it was a statement of fact. Born in England to an unmarried barmaid, the conjoined twin girls were placed in the care of Mary Hilton, who immediately saw their money-making potential. By 1936, the girls had been officially emancipated from the Meyers. They struck out on their own, cutting their hair and landing their own gigs. They also started doing something they'd always dreamed of doing: They met, talked to and spent time with men. In 1934, Violet Hilton and her then-fiance, Maurice Lambert, went from state to state attempting to obtain a license to marry. Over and over, their application was refused, on the grounds that such a marriage would constitute bigamy. Eventually, the tension caused the couple to split up before finding a state that would allow them to wed. 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