Former stripper Jana Weckerly's lawsuit against Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has been dismissed by the judge.

Weckerly's suit accused Jones of sexually assaulting her at a hotel in Dallas in 2009. She had been seeking more than $1 million in damages from Jones and the Cowboys.

A note posted on the Dallas County website stated two scheduled hearings in the case had been canceled after the case was settled out of the court. But, attorneys for the former stripper later clarified that the suit was dismissed by the judge.

Fort Worth-based accounting firm Whitley Penn has acquired Dallas' JonesBaggett LLP, which provides specialized professional services to private and public financial institutions.

According to the terms & conditions of the acquisition deal, JonesBaggett's managing partner Cecil Jones and his team will join the Dallas office of Whitley Penn.

Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle's father has defended his son, saying his son is not a thief. Randle was on Monday arrested by police on Monday evening for shoplifting a perfume bottle and a pack of underwear at the from a suburban Dallas department store called Dillard's at Stonebriar Mall.

But, his father argued that Randle was just trying to get his baby out of the department store because she was fooling around pretty bad.

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles allegedly used police force to physically remove a trustee from a school campus.

Trustee Bernadette Nutall said she wanted more explanation on Miles's order of reassigning of the principal of Billy Earl Dade Middle School and 12 others.

The Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) admitted missteps in handling the country's first Ebola case. CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that he wished the federal agency had sent a team of infectious-disease specialists to Dallas immediately after Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with the deadly disease.

Dr. Frieden added that a health worker might not have been infected with Ebola virus if a special response team had been deployed immediately.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has claimed that it provided the highest possible level of care to Thomas Eric Duncan - a Liberian man who recently died of Ebola at the hospital

Hospital authorities also denied concerns that Duncan had likely been provided with substandard care at the hospital.

The hospital said in a statement, "Our care team provided Mr. Duncan with the same high level of attention and care that would be given any patient, regardless of nationality or ability to pay for care."

The ill-fated death of Ebola-stricken Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas has fueled alarm over the deadly disease.

Mr. Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, breathed his last at 7:51 a. m. on Wednesday in a hospital in Dallas.

Confirming Mr. Duncan's death, hospital spokesperson Wendell Watson said, "It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 a. m."

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson on Tuesday paid a visit to Dallas to show his support for Ebola-stricken Thomas Eric Duncan and his family.

Rev. Jackson said Duncan's family had asked for his help, and he was in the city to make sure that Duncan, the first Ebola patient in the United States, was receiving the best medical care possible.

He stressed that the patient should be provided the best possible care. The medical teams are working effortlessly to better the plight of Duncan, who was earlier not admitted at the medical facility.