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Office Gunman Dies & Nightly Roundup
The 60 year old disbarred attorney who shot his financial advisers Monday is dead.
Green Cab Plan Has Drivers Seeing Red
Taxi-cabs powered by natural gas get to go to the front of the line at Dallas Love Field. The "green" cabs would be the first to be dispatched to pick up fares. Some 200 cabbies, including Harvey Hassan, came to Dallas City Hall to complain.
Happy 99th To A Dallas Icon
Dallas City Council members sang Happy Birthday to Ebby Halliday Wednesday morning at City Hall.
Massieu Loses Accreditation
Arlington's Jean Massieu Academy charter school has lost its accreditation from the Texas Education Agency. KERA's Bill Zeeble has more.
Dallas Snags Big Cycling Event
The winner of the "Super Bowl" of cycling will be crowned in Dallas this year. In September, the city will host the Texas Tough Grand Prix bike race. It is the last of nine high-speed, city-street bike races in the USA "Criterium" Championship Series.

Disaster Experts Praise Chile Quake Response
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck central Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital for a minute and a half and setting off a tsunami.
Expert: House, Senate Democrats Have Trust Deficit
The divide on Capitol Hill is commonly depicted as Democrats versus Republicans and for good reason — the greatest rift in Congress is indeed partisan.
But there’s also a cleft between members of the same party, Democrats specifically, with a split between House and Senate members.
Obama: Time To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud
The president denounced waste, inefficiency and downright fraud in the government’s health care system on Wednesday as he sought to rally public support for his revamped overhaul plan.
Arab League Considers Dropping Support For Talks
The league’s peace initiative committee said if Israel pursues new settlement building in east Jerusalem, the proposed indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians would be irrelevant. A final decision on whether to support the process must be made by the foreign ministers of the Arab nations.
Obama Would Hike Medicare Taxes On Wealthy
If President Obama’s proposal to apply a Medicare levy to investment income had been in place in 2008, the Obamas would have paid roughly $75,000 more in taxes that year.

Flickr Photo of the Week
Congratulations to Sarah Philipson of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!
Filmanthropy and Torey
Torey Harrah is one of three kids followed in the remarkably moving, Texas-made documentary Torey’s Distraction. Each child has Apert Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. But how the film got made also makes it noteworthy. Jerome Weeks reports on ‘filmanthropy.’
Art&Seek on Think TV: Monologist Mike Daisey
Addison’s Out of the Loop Festival presents comic monologist Mike Daisey tonight in perhaps his best-known stage show: How Theater Failed America. It’s Daisey’s rebuke to the corporatized state of the stage. After the show, he’ll be joined in a panel discussion by a group of area directors and actors — and KERA’s Jerome Weeks.
What Our Homes Say About Us
How does the way you decorate your home influence the way people think about you? A photography exhibit at Richland College merges sociology and art to try and answer that question. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports:
This Week in Texas Music History: Bob Wills
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a poor farm boy who became a “king.”

OK Go Fights For Its Viral Video
Damian Kulash, singer-songwriter-guitarist with OK Go, talks about the group’s split with its label as the result of a label policy that kept a popular video the band made from being embedded on YouTube. “This Too Shall Pass” is a viral video that took a month to make; it displays an elaborate two-story Rube Goldberg device timed to the song.
The Soft Pack On World Cafe
Tired of the new-wave explosion in their hometown of San Diego, The Soft Pack’s Matt Lamkin and Matty McLoughlin got their start after deciding to revive old-school grunge. Later joined by Dave Lantzman and Brian Hill, the group found a knack for writing simple and catchy tunes that hint at the New York underground and subtle ’60s California surf-rock.
Midlake: In Tune With Nature
“If all that grows starts to fade, starts to falter / Oh, let me inside, let me inside not to wake,” Midlake’s Tim Smith sings in “Acts of Man,” which surrounds his meditation on man and nature with dense harmonies and the rich sounds of a folk-pop orchestra.
Voice From The Darkness: Johnny Cash’s Final Record
Seven years after the death of Johnny Cash, producer Rick Rubin has selected 10 more songs among the many he produced for Cash late in the singer’s life. Rock critic Ken Tucker examines the end result, the album American VI: Ain’t No Grave.
Peter Sagal And Ira Glass In A 1999 OK Go Video, Seriously
A very public radio Easter Egg in OK Go’s first video.