Self-Driving FedEx Truck Testing + HVAC Trade School Fraud

Hey, neighbors! Nicole Fallon-Peek here with today's issue of the Dallas Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 86 Low: 61.

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Here are the top stories in Dallas today:

1. As part of a new pilot program, FedEx has started using a small number of self-driving trucks to haul goods between Dallas and Houston. The program is a partnership between FedEx, autonomous vehicle startup Aurora, and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturer Paccar. Aurora's co-founder Sterling Anderson believes the program will evolve and extend beyond the handful of trucks on the Dallas-to-Houston route as the company gets "closer to a driverless capable product."(Yahoo! News)
2. A Dallas HVAC trade school owner has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for fraud. Jonathan Dean Davis, 43, was convicted by a federal jury of seven counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering in connection with his for-profit school, Retail Ready Career Center. Davis misled student veterans and fraudulently charged $72 million of their tuition and fees to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. (Free: CBS DFW; Subscription: The Dallas Morning News)
3. Dallas police officers responded to a shooting Wednesday night in the 1500 block of North Beckley Avenue, which killed one and injured another victim of an armed robbery. (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)
4. A Dallas home on Midway Road that was under renovation was destroyed in a devastating fire early Thursday morning. (FOX 4 Dallas)
5. The City of Dallas seeks food purveyors who can provide healthy meals for catered city events. (CultureMap Dallas)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.