Money flowing in mayor race, Planned Parenthood ruling overturned, Arlington police release footage from fatal shootout: Your Friday morning roundup

 [Morning roundup]( 01/18/2019 By Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌦️ Weather: Mostly cloudy and warmer with a 40% chance of showers in the evening. High of 70. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( Early signs show that the mayoral race in Dallas could be a multimillion dollar race well before the May election arrives. (Irwin Thompson/DMN File) DALLAS [Here's an early look at who has the most money in Dallas' mayoral race]( Candidates could begin to officially file to run for Dallas mayor this week, [but the money is already flowing into the race](. With no clear favorite among the nine announced contenders — and with many of them sporting deep pockets and deeper connections — early signs show that this could be a multimillion dollar race well before the May election arrives. Despite all but one candidate launching their campaigns within the past 50 days, semi-annual campaign finance reports filed on Tuesday show that six of the candidates have raised a total of $757,026 from July 1 to Dec. 31. Transportation: Now that the underperforming D-Link could soon be shut down, [what will become of its fleet of zero-emission buses]( Also: The Dallas County Sheriff's Department is warning residents of [scammers posing as court staff to ask for payment for outstanding court costs or fines](. ADVERTISEMENT POLITICS [Appeals court overturns judge's ruling that blocked Texas from ousting Planned Parenthood from Medicaid]( A federal appeals court issued a decision Thursday [overturning a judge's 2017 ruling that Texas could not remove Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider](. U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks wrote in that ruling that the state had acted "without cause" in terminating the reproductive health care organization from the program that provides health care to low-income Americans. But a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Sparks did not use the correct standard in making his decision. The case now returns to Sparks for further consideration. The case involved an eight-hour, secretly recorded video released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress in which Planned Parenthood employees at an abortion clinic in Houston discussed the collection of fetal tissue for research projects. Also: [Rep. Brian Babin]( to block Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s trip to West Bank]( calling her trip a 'dangerous' signal. And: Dallas city officials worry that [hundreds of millions of dollars in flood control funding for the Trinity River corridor]( be siphoned off to build a border wall]( if President Donald Trump declares a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico line. Meanwhile: Richardson ISD announced Thursday that it had settled a lawsuit [alleging that its at-large system for electing board trustees was in violation of the Voting Rights Act](. CRIME [Arlington police release footage showing fatal shootout during traffic stop]( Arlington police have released dash-cam and body-cam footage of the moments leading up to the shootout [during a traffic stop last week that left one man dead and an officer seriously injured](. The shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. Jan. 11 when an Arlington officer attempted to stop a car that failed to use a turn signal, police said. The car, which was occupied by four people, pulled into a Tom Thumb parking lot in the 1700 block of West Randol Mill Road. The officer called for backup after smelling marijuana in the car, police said. When additional officers arrived, the driver and front-seat passenger were asked to step out of the car. The passenger, 20-year-old Treshun Miller, took off running after he exited the car, police said. An officer chased after him and Miller shot the officer, according to police. Another officer returned fire and fatally wounded Miller, police said. And: A Texas man has been [indicted on 20 counts stemming from allegations of raising more than $500,000 from fraudulent political committees]( for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Also: The state has suspended a Dallas agency from accepting new foster children [after an infant died last month at the home of a foster mother verified by the contractor](  Become a D-FW real estate insider. Get expert Steve Brown's [Real Estate Update]( newsletters delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. [SIGN UP HERE]( EDITORS' PICKS - Weather: Friday will start off mild, with high temperatures expected to reach 70 degrees in Dallas-Fort Worth, [but then a storm system will move through North Texas in the afternoon](. - Deja brew: Here's how you can get[free coffee every day for the next two weeks](. - Editorial: [Protect Dreamers and build the wall, and we can all win](. People swim at the Texas Pool on the Creek on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Plano, Texas . (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer) FINALLY [What's the history behind Plano's Texas Pool? Curious Texas investigates]( Soon you’ll be able to take a dip into Texas’ geography -- literally. [Plano’s Texas-shaped pool will open with a new addition this summer]( tiles that spell at least nine Texas cities’ names at the bottom of the pool. But this isn’t the first time its had city names, and one of our readers, who goes by May, knew this. That’s why they asked Curious Texas: Did the original Texas-shaped pool in Plano have names of nearby cities at one point? Their question is part of Curious Texas, an ongoing project from The Dallas Morning News that invites you to join in our reporting process. The idea is simple: You have questions, and our journalists are trained to track down answers. 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletters@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). STAY CONNECTED WITH US [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Tumblr]( [Google](dallasnews) [Reddit]( [OTHER FREE NEWSLETTERS]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Dallasnews.com]() | [Subscribe to The Dallas Morning News]() | [Subscriber login]() | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( You received this message because you signed up for this Dallas Morning News newsletter or it was forwarded to you. Copyright 2019 - [The Dallas Morning News]() | [1954 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75201](#) Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States