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1. Miley Cyrus made
how much money?
The 15-year-old Hannah
Montana alter ego raked
in $18.2 million last year.
That’s about $18 million
more than a Georgia
pediatrician, the “What
People Earn” report finds.
Looking for
Mr. Good Enough
Women who spend their
20s and 30s searching in
vain for Mr. Right might
need to settle for
pragmatism over passion.
1P
Dancing dirty
over the ocean
Some major
London stage
productions, Dirty
Dancing
among
them, are
bound for
Fair Park Music
Hall in Dallas. 1E
Fast Hog to Big D
in mock pro draft
Rick Gosselin’s mock pro
football draft has the
Dallas Cowboys taking
speedy running back
Felix Jones from the
University of Arkansas
with the 22nd pick. 12C
Fair Park beauty
hits hard times
Dallas officials hope to
raise $11 million to
transform the Fair Park
Esplanade from a pitiful
fount of disrepair into an
extravaganza of water
and light. Metro
HUD chief Jackson
ignored loan crisis
Alphonso Jackson,
outgoing
federal
housing
secretary,
wanted
more
mortgages
for risky borrowers even
as the market collapse
loomed. 8A
Also: Sen. Barack Obama
says he’s sorry he
described some
small-town Americans as
bitter people “who cling
to guns or religion.” 14A
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The old Federal Aviation Administration
wouldn’t have grounded 300 American Airlines
jets last week. But that agency doesn’t exist any-
more.
In the space of a month, regulators who took
a year to punish Southwest Airlines for grave
flight-safety violations turned unforgiving
about sloppy maintenance work at American
that wasn’t as serious. The “certain latitudes”
that American cited for complying with air-
safety directives were gone.
Some experts believe the FAA was not re-
spondingtoanimmediatedangertopassengers’
lives. Instead, it reacted to embarrassing disclo-
sures that damaged its reputation and called in-
to question the way it oversaw airlines for years.
“When calmer heads were prevailing, they
would have looked at the issue for what it really
is — a nonevent when we are talking about safe-
ty issues,” said John Goglia, an aircraft mainte-
nanceexpertandformermemberoftheNation-
al Transportation Safety Board.
“And they probably would have said some-
AIRLINE SAFETY
Tables
turn on
scrutiny
FAA follows criticism of its slow
response to Southwest sins by
telling American ‘latitudes’ gone
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By DAVE MICHAELS and TERRY MAXON
Staff Writers
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INSIDE
Lottery 2A
Nation 4-6, 8A
World 15-16, 18A
Dateline 21A
Regional
Roundup 2B
Sports 1C
Market Week 5D
Puzzles 1,4,5G
Dear Abby 2G
Movies 2-5
Books 5-7
Travel 1H
Jobs 1J
Homes 1L
Automotive 1M
New Homes 1N
Letters 2-3P
NATION
PARADE
METRO
SPORTSDAY
GUIDELIVE
POINTS
GUIDELIVE
of its statewide staff. Agency leaders say
the situation is under control.
But former child welfare officials and
outsiders who deal with CPS have their
doubts. Since a complete overhaul of the
agencyfouryearsago,CPSstillstruggles
toretainworkersandkeepaneyeonfos-
ter children. Some fear a new operation
of this size could drain the agency’s lim-
ited resources and divert attention from
existing cases.
“Acaselikethishasarippleeffect.It’s
not just caseworkers, but foster parents,
Caseworkers, attorneys and guard-
ians responsible for the hundreds of
children removed from a West Texas po-
lygamist compound last week are now
grasping the reality of their workload —
hundreds of painstaking interviews,
thousands of pages of records and an ev-
er-growing sense that they may be in
over their heads.
Child Protective Services, which has
never had a case this big, has dispatched
close to 700 employees, or about a tenth
POLYGAMIST RANCH | CPS CASE BURDEN
Doubts raised, but agency says it’s ready
ERICH SCHLEGEL/Staff Photographer
Women and children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound
in Eldorado are now in San Angelo. Child Protective Services has taken custody of 416 children.
Raid delivers
daunting task
By EMILY RAMSHAW
and ROBERT T. GARRETT
Austin Bureau
See CPS Page 10A
What is the economic cost when the world’s
largest airline is crippled for most of a week?
American Airlines Inc. officials say they’ve
been too busy trying to get their fleet of 300
MD-80jetsbackintheairtocalculatethecom-
pany’s loss, saying only that it will probably be
in the “tens of millions of dollars.”
Federal aviation authorities on Saturday
gave American clearance to return all its
grounded jets to the air. Today should be Amer-
ican’s first full day of service since Tuesday.
The financial pain suffered by the airline
could be just the tip of the iceberg, experts say,
whenyoutakeintoaccountlostproductivityfor
more than 300,000 displaced passengers, ho-
tel costs, missed meetings and lost sales.
And that’s just for the travelers themselves.
There’s also the time spent by travel agents, col-
leagues, family and friends trying to help all
See LOST Page 12A
Lost flights’
ultimate cost
still unknown
American’s ‘tens of millions’ just
the start; full service expected today
By SUZANNE MARTA
Staff Writer
smarta@dallasnews.com
INSIDE: Q&A on the
sect. 10A
I Texas was fined
$4 million for lax
oversight of foster
children. 10A
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PHOTOS and
video of the
week’s events
in West Texas.
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When it comes to Mango-
Jalapen˜o-Chicken Salad in
Cumin Tortilla Bowls, Frances
Pietsch pretty much has it
nailed. At least the recipe part.
“I have made it and made it
and made it,” she says. “And it’s
very good.”
And yet, a sense of hesita-
tion simmers in her tone. For
the Flower Mound homemak-
er and 99 other contestants in
the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off
who will light up the ovens at 8
a.m. Monday in the Regency
Ballroom of the Fairmont Ho-
tel Dallas, doing it over and
over and over does not neces-
sarily leave anxiety out of the
recipe.
“I fall asleep thinking about
this stuff,” Ms. Pietsch says.
And why wouldn’t she? The
winner will cart away $1 mil-
lion, albeit in 20 annual pay-
ments of $50,000. The grand
PILLSBURY BAKE-OFF
This is pressure cooking
EVANS CAGLAGE/Staff Photographer
Raul De Alva prepares for the contest’s return, starting
bright and early Monday at the Fairmont Hotel Dallas.
100 chefs aim to win
major dough as contest
comes back to Dallas
See CHEFS Page 20A
By MICHAEL GRANBERRY
Staff Writer
mgranberry@dallasnews.com
Dallas firefighters have been on
the scene about 20 minutes when
Car 684 pulls up, a standard-issue
Suburban painted cardinal red. As
usual, the arson squad arrives with-
out fanfare.
Arson investigator Capt. Frank
Drahos throws on a smudged fire-
fighter jacket, slaps on his helmet
and grabs a flashlight and a spiral
notebook. As he walks toward the
burning home, he goes over a men-
tal checklist of questions: What is
the fire telling me? Where is the
point of origin?
Inky smoke churns out of a side
window of the compact wood-
frame home in southeast Dallas.
In his 21 years as a Dallas fire-
fighter and arson investigator,
Capt. Drahos, 52, has responded to
DALLAS FIRE-RESCUE
Arson squad: from the ashes, answers
Anonymity is an asset, but
car fires brought limelight
By DAVID TARRANT
Staff Writer
dtarrant@dallasnews.com
See ARRESTS Page 20A