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• Cowboys WR Terrance Williams Suspended After Arrest

  18-10-2018 23:35 via nbcdfw.com
  
  The Dallas Cowboys confirmed Thursday wide receiver Terrance Williams has been suspended without pay for three games for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse.Photo Credit: Frisco PD
  
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• Risk of flooding Remains in Central Texas

  18-10-2018 23:25 via nbcdfw.com
  
  More rain is expected in already-saturated parts of West and Central Texas as the flooding risk continues.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Voter Fraud Charges Against Women Are Political: DA

  18-10-2018 23:23 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Four Fort Worth women who were indicted on voter fraud charges last week were simply trying to help people vote, a defense attorney said Thursday.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• O’Rourke Gets CNN Town Hall In Bitter Texas Senate Race

  18-10-2018 23:10
  AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke is getting to make his case for ousting Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during a nationally televised, solo town hall on CNN.
  The event Thursday night comes two days after the El Paso congressman scrapped his usual optimistic, bipartisan message and criticized Cruz sharply during their last scheduled debate in San Antonio.
  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) shake hands after a debate at McFarlin Auditorium at SMU on
  
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• Dallas Zoo Moves Two Elephants to Fresno Zoo

  18-10-2018 22:45 via nbcdfw.com
  
  The Dallas Zoo has moved two of its African elephants to California to allow the mother and daughter pair to form their own family herd.Photo Credit: Dallas Zoo
  
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• Fort Worth's waterfall puts on a show after heavy rains - Fort Worth Star Telegram

  18-10-2018 22:44 via star-telegram.com
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  Fort Worth's waterfall puts on a show after heavy rains
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  Lake Worth filled up and spilled over at about 10:30 this morning, according to the National Weather Service. The water flowed through Airfield Falls Trailhead and Conservation Park near the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in west Fort Worth ...
  
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• The Foote Files: Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Mad Dogs & Englishmen

  18-10-2018 22:29
  (CBS 11 NEWS) – How about a #1 song from 1967 originally done by the American pop-rock group The Box Tops, but was also a hit in 1970 for an Englishman named Joe Cocker?
  Cocker was born May 20, 1944 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. At age 26, after releasing a song performed originally by The Beatles (“She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”), he recorded “The Letter” on March 17, 1970 during rehearsals for his upcoming “Mad Dogs And Englishmen” t
  
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• PHOTOS: Home Where Salem Witch Trials Victim John Proctor Lived Up For Sale

  18-10-2018 22:19
  (CBS Local) — A house where a victim of the Salem witch trials once lived is on the market for $600,000 just in time for Halloween.
  The outside of the Proctor house. (Photo credit: J Barrett & Company)
  The nearly 4,000-square-foot (371-square-meter) home built in 1638 was once the home of John Proctor, who was convicted of witchcraft and hanged in 1692. The six-bedroom, two-bathroom home is in Peabody, which at the time was part of Salem.
  The Proctor house kitchen (Photo credit: J Barr
  
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• 22,000 Baby Carriers Sold At Target Recalled Because Buckles Can Break

  18-10-2018 22:12
  PITTSBURGH (CBS Pittsburgh) – A recall has been issued for an infant carrier sold exclusively at Target.
  According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Eddie Bauer fabric infant carriers are being recalled because the buckles can break, which could lead to a child falling.
  Roughly 22,000 units are included in the recall.
  (Photo Courtesy: CPSC)
  So far, eight incidents of broken buckles have been reported, but none have resulted in an injury.
  They were sold at Target stores nationwide
  
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• TxDOT Postpones US 75 Closure Until Sunday

  18-10-2018 22:01 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Due to weather, the Texas Department of Transportation is postponing Thursday's planned full closure of US Highway 75.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Eeek! Monster Spider Appears To Crawl Up To Cop

  18-10-2018 21:57
  FULSHEAR, TX (CBSDFW.COM) – Dashcam footage from a town near Houston last week shows a surprising and spooky sight.
  A spider crawled across the windshield of a squad car and the perspective of the video makes it look gigantic. It also made is look like the arthropod was stalking the officer as he conducted a traffic stop. The creature seems to creep behind the officer from the left side of the clip, advancing across the street in stages behind the officer’s back.
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• Risk of Flooding Remains in Texas With More Rain

  18-10-2018 21:47 via nbcdfw.com
  
  More rain is expected in already-saturated parts of West and Central Texas as the flooding risk continues.
  
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• Grapevine, Heritage Games Moved Again Over Stadium Delays

  18-10-2018 21:24 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Construction at Grapevine ISD's Mustang-Panther Stadium has fallen so far behind schedule the remainder of the football games scheduled at the stadium for this season have been relocated.Photo Credit: Grapevine-Colleyville ISDThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Bi “Killer Bee” Nguyen On Her ‘Survivor’ Experience: ‘If I Came Back I Think That I Could Win’

  18-10-2018 21:00
  Bi Nguyen aka Killer Bee was one of two Survivor players to leave the island this week. Nguyen, an MMA fighter by trade, suffered an MCL sprain during the game and decided to withdraw from the competition in order to protect her body from further damage.
  CBS Local’s Matt Weiss spoke to Nguyen about her knee injury, her time on the island and being a positive representative for the MMA community.
  MW- Hello Killer Bee, how are you doing?
  BN- Hey Matt, I’m good how are you?
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• Mercedes Star Lewis Hamilton Chases History At U.S. Grand Prix

  18-10-2018 20:59
  AUSTIN (AP) — From New York to Texas, Lewis Hamilton returned to the United States this week with yet another Formula One championship ready for the taking.
  Finish off Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel once and for all at the U.S. Grand Prix this weekend and the British driver would climb another step among racing’s greatest drivers. A fifth season championship would tie him with Argentina’s Juan Manuel Fangio for second all-time behind only Germany’s Michael Schumacher, w
  
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• Texas District Lays Off More Than 100 Amid Financial Crisis

  18-10-2018 20:46
  CROSBY, Texas (AP) — A Houston-area school district has laid off more than 100 assistant principals, teachers and other employees to resolve a financial crisis due in large part to the district spending $15 million more than it had in the bank.
  An announcement Wednesday by the Crosby Independent School District that 72 employees have been dismissed came just two days after the district said approximately 30 workers were initially laid off.
  The layoffs were the latest steps taken by distric
  
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• WATCH: Mom Whips Son With Belt After He Stole Her BMW

  18-10-2018 20:20
  EL PASO, Texas (CBS Local) — A Texas mom chased her 14-year-old son down and whipped him with a belt last week after he apparently took her new BMW for a joyride.
  In a series of now-viral tweets posted Friday, Liza Campero of El Paso detailed what happened with her brother, Aaron Campero.
  It apparently began when Aaron disconnected the WiFi in his home to disable his mother’s access to security cameras while she was at work.
  Aaron then called his mother, Liza Martinez, at work to tel
  
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• Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  18-10-2018 20:16
  About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Even though death rates have been decreasing since 1989, more than 41,000 women in the U.S. are expected to die from breast cancer this year. Breast Cancer is #UNACCEPTABLE.
  During October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Parkland Hospital is offering events throughout Dallas County to promote breast health and breast cancer awareness. Events will present breast health education (ages 16 and up) and provi
  
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• ‘Survivor’ Player Natalia Azoqa: ‘Bring Me Back’

  18-10-2018 20:00
  Another Survivor Tribal Council has came and went and this time it was Natalia Azoqa’s flame getting extinguished. Azoqa seemed to be coasting along in the game until the David and Goliath tribes were broken down into the smaller Jabeni, Tiva and Vuku tribes. Separated from her original tribe, things quickly went south for the industrial engineer from Irvine, California.
  CBS Local’s Matt Weiss spoke to Azoqa about being voted out, what she felt went wrong on the island and delivering
  
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• Man dies near homeless shelter east of downtown Fort Worth - Fort Worth Star Telegram

  18-10-2018 19:53 via star-telegram.com
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  A man died Wednesday evening on East Lancaster Avenue and police are investigating it as a homicide, a spokesman said. Chad Young, 44, was pronounced dead at John Peter Smith Hospital just before 5:30 p.m. after an incident in the 1300 block of East ...
  
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• House Ordered From Sears Catalog In 1920s Now ‘Haunted,’ Many Believe

  18-10-2018 19:50
  ESTANCIA, N.M. (CBS Local) — An abandoned house in a small town southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico, attracts people from across the region.
  Many think it’s haunted.
  “If you drive by, sometimes you can see ghosts standing in the window,” Raul Zubia told KRQE.
  “It’s kind of a ghost house,” Michelle Jones said. “People love it for this time of year, for Halloween.”
  The now doorless house is fenced off from public on Highway 55 in Estancia.
  Est
  
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• Big 12 Releases 2019 Football Conference Schedule

  18-10-2018 19:28 via nbcdfw.com
  
  The Big 12 revealed the 2019 conference football schedule Thursday.Photo Credit: Big 12 Conference
  
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• Report: G-League To Offer 125K To Elite Prospects As Alternative To College

  18-10-2018 19:16
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  The “one-and-done” rule has been a hot topic of conversation in basketball over the past several years.
  There is even more scrutiny being placed on it as the fraud trial involving several NCAA schools, coaches and shoe companies has played out over the past several weeks. That FBI investigation and ongoing trial got the attention of NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who said earlier this year that the league was considering its options in altering the rule.
  Today, a report fro
  
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• Weekend Picks Oct. 18 - Oct. 21: Halloween Festivities

  18-10-2018 18:56 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Tiney Ricciardi from The Dallas Morning News and GuideLive joins us with festivities this weekend, including Pug-o-ween, haunted houses and more.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Bob Newhart Returns On A New Episode Of ‘The Big Bang Theory’

  18-10-2018 18:46
  Bob Newhart returns on an all-new episode of The Big Bang Theory called “The Planetarium Collision.” When Amy doesn’t have time to work on super-asymmetry, Sheldon goes to great lengths to ensure she’s available to work with him even it if means accidentally sabotaging her career in the process. As a result the couple has their first fight and Newhart appears to counsel Sheldon on how to move forward.
  “I’m kind of Obi-Wan – whatever that means,” sa
  
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• John Schriffen: There Is Legitimately Nothing Like Army-Navy

  18-10-2018 18:44
  Ryan Mayer
  The annual Army-Navy football game is one of college football’s greatest traditions, stretching back to the late 1800’s. In recent years, following the trend of the rest of the college football world, the teams have put together specialized jerseys for their annual meeting. This year is no different. Yesterday, the Midshipmen released their threads for December’s game, and they are, in a word, fire.
  ARMY-NAVY UNIFORM RELEASE
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• 73rd Tony Awards To Be Broadcast Live From Radio City Music Hall

  18-10-2018 18:04
  The 73rd Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 9, 2019  from 8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT, only on CBS. The Tony Awards honor theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway and has been broadcast on CBS since 1978.
  The nominations for the 2019 TONY Awards will be announced on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss of White Cherry Entertainment will return as executive producers. Weiss will
  
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• WWE’s Charlotte Flair Ready To Be ‘Last Woman Standing’

  18-10-2018 17:52
  By Chuck Carroll
  For all of us, life is a series of firsts. Whether it be our first steps, our first words, first kiss, or first job, we all have them. It just seems that the women in WWE have more of them.
  For the female Superstars in the locker room, breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings has become the norm. But there is no complacency with these norms. There is no numbness to what continues to unfold in the ring. Nobody is dismissively saying, “Oh, that’s nice.”
  No
  
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• Charlotte Flair On ‘Last Woman Standing; WWE’s Saudi Arabia Issues

  18-10-2018 17:52
  By Chuck Carroll
  For all of us, life is a series of firsts. Whether it be our first steps, our first words, first kiss, or first job, we all have them. It just seems that the women in WWE have more of them.
  For the female Superstars in the locker room, breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings has become the norm. But there is no complacency with these norms. There is no numbness to what continues to unfold in the ring. Nobody is dismissively saying, “Oh, that’s nice.”
  No
  
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• Pillsbury Introducing ‘Buddy The Elf’ Sugar Cookies For Holiday Season

  18-10-2018 17:28
  (CBS Local)— It’s never too early to get in the holiday spirit. Or at least that’s what Buddy The Elf would say.
  Pillsbury is introducing a Buddy The Elf sugar cookie this holiday season.
  Each cookie is emblazoned with Buddy’s iconic green and yellow hat from the movie “Elf.”
  The cookies aren’t available just yet but keep an eye out as the holidays draw closer.
  With 24 cookies in a package, that’s more than enough to cram the VCR full.
  
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• Texas Poised To Elect Its First Two Latina Congresswomen

  18-10-2018 17:20
  TEXAS (CBSNEWS.COM) – At a tender age, Sylvia Garcia picked cotton and hacked hay in the fields of south Texas to help her low-income family make ends meet. Veronica Escobar grew up in the border city of El Paso, waiting tables and taking fast food orders during her teenage years.
  In a few months, both women could become the first Latinas to represent the Lone Star State in Congress. The two Democratic nominees are running in deep-blue, majority Latino urban districts and are poised to cru
  
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• The 2018 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is Here

  18-10-2018 17:17 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A sure sign of fall, luxury retailer Neiman Marcus unveiled its annual Christmas Book on Thursday.Photo Credit: NBC 5This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Pizza Shop Makes Surprise Delivery To Terminally Ill Man 225 Miles Away

  18-10-2018 16:48
  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (CBSNEWS) – Steve’s Pizza in Battle Creek, Michigan, doesn’t make deliveries — usually. But special circumstances led to a very special exception this past weekend, reports CBS Indianapolis affiliate WTTV.
  Julie and Rich Morgan lived in Battle Creek more than 20 years ago, but never forgot how much they loved Steve’s Pizza. In a Facebook post, Julie wrote that it’s the “gold standard” they compare other pizzas to (though no other
  
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• Bullets Fall Out Of Florida Man’s Amazon Package

  18-10-2018 16:44
  MELBOURNE, Fla. (CBS Local) — A Florida man recently ordered some supplies on Amazon and got a big surprise when the package arrived at his home.
  Kurt Mullins, an actor based in Melbourne, went on Amazon to find a video production green screen and some supplies for his career.
  “I initially took the green screen out of the box, and I felt something else rattling around,” Mullins told News 13. “The box was damaged and had a lot of excess tape on it.”
  What was inside s
  
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• TMSG: Groom's Twist to Rainy Wedding

  18-10-2018 16:29 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Chivalry lived Saturday afternoon when the groom came to his bride's rescue in the middle of a rainy outdoor wedding in Johnson County.Photo Credit: Lanelle Farmer
  
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• Trader Joe's Recalling Salads Over Contamination Fears

  18-10-2018 15:35 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Trader Joe's announced Wednesday a recall affecting three types of salads that may have been contaminated with listeria or salmonella.Photo Credit: Trader Joe's
  
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• End Of An Era: Sandy Lake Amusement Park Closes After Nearly 50 Years

  18-10-2018 14:53
  CARROLLTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s the end of an era for an iconic North Texas establishment. Sandy Lake Amusement Park announced on Facebook it has closed its gates for good after 48 years.
  In the post, the park said that owners sold the property, and it will no longer be open.
  “Sandy Lake Amusement Park has been a special place for families to visit for almost five decades,” the park said.
  According to the park, the historic swimming pool was established in the 1930s
  
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• Man Faces Assault Charge After Disruption On Flight To Dallas

  18-10-2018 14:47
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Federal authorities say a man accused of touching a woman’s leg and trying to play “footsies” with her on a flight has been charged with simple assault.
  A criminal complaint also accuses Justin Riley Brafford of trying to intimidate flight crew members on the Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday from Los Angeles to Dallas.
  According to authorities, Brafford, of Denton, sat next to the woman, and inched closer to her even as she leaned away
  
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• Ex-USA Gymnastics Head Indicted In Texas On Tampering Charge

  18-10-2018 14:25
  HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny was arrested Wednesday after a Texas grand jury indicted him, alleging he tampered with evidence in the sexual assault investigation of now-imprisoned gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
  In a statement issued late Wednesday night, the Walker County district attorney’s office in Huntsville said Penny was arrested by a fugitive task force in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and awaits extradition to Texas.
  The third-degree felony is punis
  
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• Woman Seen Abandoning 2-Year-Old On Stranger’s Doorstep Near Houston

  18-10-2018 14:07
  SPRING, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Authorities in the Houston area are searching for a woman who was seen leaving a child on a stranger’s doorstep and running away.
  Authorities say deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home in Spring, Texas Wednesday evening. The 911 caller said she heard a knock on her door, and when she answered it, she found a two-year-old child standing at the door.
  Surveillance video captured a woman arriving in a white car and runn
  
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• More Rain Expected As Central Texas Flooding Continues

  18-10-2018 14:06
  LLANO, Texas (CBSDFDW.COM/AP) — A continued threat of flooding is forecast in parts of Central Texas as more rain is expected in the area and dams along the swollen Colorado River release water downstream.
  Forecasters with the National Weather Service say the already-saturated area is expected to get an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain Thursday and Friday, with some isolated areas getting as much as 4 inches of rain — that means a strong probability that more flash flooding and river
  
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• Man Fatally Shot by Deputy After Allegedly Stabbing 3 People

  18-10-2018 13:58 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A man was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy after authorities say he allegedly stabbed three people in Quinlan and led authorities on a chase in Hunt County, according to the Greenville Herald Banner.
  
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• Sewage Overflows Continue Across North Texas

  18-10-2018 13:51 via nbcdfw.com
  
  If you have been saying to yourself, “This rain stinks,” over the several days of downpours in North Texas, you may have been more right than you realized.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Dallas ISD Officer Fires At Suspected Robber At Whole Foods

  18-10-2018 13:19
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police are trying to track down a robber involved in a Dallas ISD officer-involved shooting. It happened just before 1 p.m. Wednesday outside a Whole Foods off Gaston and Abrams Road.
  Dallas police said a woman was putting groceries in her car when a man tried to rob her. They said the woman spotted a Dallas ISD officer, on duty, and called out to him. They said as the officer came to help her, the man tried to run him over with his gray Infinity.
  Police said the offi
  
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• Walmart and Kroger top Dallas-Fort Worth grocery market share, but all are taking risks, innovating - Dallas News

  18-10-2018 13:00 via dallasnews.com
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  Walmart and Kroger top Dallas-Fort Worth grocery market share, but all are taking risks, innovating
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  Grocery shopping is a $17.5 billion-a-year industry in Dallas-Fort Worth, marked by fierce competition and consumer-driven change that forces chains and independents to constantly evolve. In the last year, the region's Gen X and millennial moms proved ...
  
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