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• Dallas Police Officer Recovers After Flipping His Squad Car

  09-07-2020 15:34 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Dallas police officer was released from the hospital after he lost control of his squad car and flipped several times Wednesday night.
  The South Central patrol officer was driving to an assist officer call when it happened at about 10:30 p.m.
  Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to the intersection of Polk Street and Camp Wisdom Road and took him to the hospital.
  No other people were injured in the crash.
   
  
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• Collin County Health Officials Report 3 More Deaths, 123 New Cases

  09-07-2020 15:15 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – Health officials reported 123 new cases of the coronavirus in Collin County, including 30 in Plano.
  The total number of positive cases in Collin County is 3,948, including 1,090 in Plano. The county has 794 active cases, including 172 in Plano.
  Collin County Health Care Services reported three new COVID-19 deaths. A 69-year-old Dallas man with no known health conditions died June 23 at a Plano hospital. A 73-year-old man from McKinney with underlying healt
  
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• Texas Inmate Put To Death As State Resumes Executions After 5-Month Delay Due To COVID-19

  09-07-2020 14:11 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The Texas five-month delay on executions has come to an end. An inmate received a lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago.
  Billy Joe Wardlow was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the June 1993 killing of Carl Cole at his home in Cason, about 130 miles east of Dallas in the East Texas piney woods, near the Louisiana and Arkansas borders.
  The U.S. Supreme Court declined to sto
  
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• Robber Shoots, Critically Injures Dallas Convenience Store Clerk

  09-07-2020 13:52 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A clerk at a North Texas convenience store was shot and critically wounded during a robbery attempt early Thursday morning.
  The incident happened just before 3:00 a.m. at a 7-Eleven store off the LBJ Freeway at Audelia Road.
  According to police, customers who had walked into the store found the injured clerk.
  Officers were able to review surveillance video and confirmed a robbery had also taken place.
  So far investigators have released no information about the suspect
  
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• Dallas Police Officer Recovering After Being Injured In Rollover Crash

  09-07-2020 13:30 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — An officer with the Dallas Police Department was injured overnight after flipping a squad car.
  According to officials, it was around 11:15 p.m. when the officer was traveling south on Polk Street, heading to assist police at a scene. The officer, whose name has not been released, was riding with lights and sirens on when control of the cruiser was lost near Camp Wisdom Road.
  The squad car left the road, went through a a fence, and landed upside down in a parking lot.
  
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• Dallas 7-Eleven Clerk Shot During Violent Robbery

  09-07-2020 13:30 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A 7-Eleven clerk is in critical condition after being shot early Thursday morning during a robbery, police say.
  
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• Dallas Police Car Flips During Emergency Call, Officer Hurt

  09-07-2020 13:25 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A Dallas police officer was taken to an area hospital with serious head injuries after an accident Wednesday night, according to the Dallas Police Department.
  
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• Garland Police Warn of Suspected Thieves Posing As Utility Workers

  09-07-2020 13:17 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Garland police received a report of a theft where alleged thieves told a resident her water might be contaminated with COVID-19.
  
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• Little North Texan Becomes Sanitation Worker for a Day

  09-07-2020 13:05 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Beckham waits outside to see Republic Services crews stop by, just so he can see them hard at work.
  
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• Mass Testing Shows Spike in COVID-19 in Dallas PD

  09-07-2020 11:32 via nbcdfw.com
  
  It has been a week since hundreds of Dallas police officers and their spouses were tested for COVID-19 at Dallas Police Association Headquarters. Most of the officers and their families have received their test results.
  
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• Mass Testing Shows Rise in COVID-19 Among Dallas PD

  09-07-2020 11:32 via nbcdfw.com
  
  It has been a week since hundreds of Dallas police officers and their spouses were tested for COVID-19 at Dallas Police Association Headquarters. Most of the officers and their families have received their test results.
  
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• Father-Son Duo Beat COVID-19

  09-07-2020 10:41 via nbcdfw.com
  
  COVID-19 cases continue to climb in North Texas, but it’s also important to note the recoveries. A father-son duo accounts for two of them and they are now sharing their story of beating the virus, together.
  
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• Thousands of Books Free Online for Texas Students

  09-07-2020 10:35 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Now, Texas students have access to thousands of titles online for free.
  
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• Texas Nurses Association CEO Weighs In On Why State Might Move Residents Out Of Nursing Home

  09-07-2020 04:41 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – While there’s no official word on what prompted the state of Texas to move residents out of the Lake Worth Nursing Home, Texas Nurses Association CEO Cindy Zolnierek told CBS 11 it likely meant they faced a degree of danger had they stayed.
  “Generally states will intervene if there’s an immediate danger to the residents,” she explained. “So immediate risk of harm would require immediate intervention.”
  Nursing homes do have train
  
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• North Texas Clinic Received $1.26 In Federal Coronavirus Relief While Big Hospitals Got Millions

  09-07-2020 04:05 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  Watch Brian New’s report on CBS 11 at 10. It will be posted here after it airs.
  GARLAND, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Even now that stay-at-home orders have been lifted, most rooms at the Our Family Medical Clinic in Garland, Texas remain empty.
  Owner Mac Okwah said many of their patients, especially seniors, are staying away from the clinic, fearful of getting ill.
  “It’s been rather difficult few months,” Okwah said. “We’ve used up all of our savings, tapped in
  
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• Federal Prosecutors Seek To Keep Dozens Of Guns Seized From Lubbock Home After West Texas Mass Shooting

  09-07-2020 03:57 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Prosecutors are seeking to keep dozens of guns and firearm accessories seized from a man whose home was searched last year following a mass shooting in West Texas that left more than 20 people injured and seven dead.
  Lawyers for the Justice Department have asked a federal court to grant the government permanent possession of 29 pistols, rifles and gun parts taken from the Lubbock home of Marcus Anthony Braziel.
  Court records value the guns at more $11,000.
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• 98 Coronavirus Deaths Reported In Texas Wednesday, A Single-Day Record

  09-07-2020 03:34 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Texas reported its deadliest day of the pandemic with nearly 100 new deaths on Wednesday as newly confirmed cases continued soaring and Austin began preparations to turn the downtown convention center into a field hospital.
  The 98 reported deaths in Texas set a record one-day high, surpassing the record 60 deaths reported a day earlier.
  Texas is now reporting a total of 2,813 deaths.
  The state also reported 9,979 new coronavirus cases Wednesday after hitting
  
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• Comet Visible to the Naked Eye Above North Texas for Next Few Weeks

  09-07-2020 02:52 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A comet called Neowise is visible across North Texas for the next few weeks. What makes this one unique is that it is visible to the naked eye.
  
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• Summer Camps Struggle to Keep Out COVID-19

  09-07-2020 02:44 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Keeping COVID-19 out of summer camp is proving to be a challenge. Cases are climbing at camps in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri where dozens have caught the virus.
  
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• Texas Executes Inmate After 5-Month Delay Due To Coronavirus Pandemic

  09-07-2020 02:21 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  Billy Joe Wardlow was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the June 1993 killing of Carl Cole at his home in Cason, about 130 miles east of Dallas in the East Texas piney woods, near the Louisiana and Arkansas borders.
  Billy Joe Wardlow (TD
  
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• Texas Parents Still Struggling With School Plans Despite TEA Guidance

  09-07-2020 02:12 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBDSFW.COM) – Parents in Texas will have both classroom and online options for their children when classes resume in the fall.
  Still, some say the much-anticipated guidance from the Texas Education Agency released Tuesday, doesn’t necessarily make the decision any easier.​
  “I don’t want my children at home. I want them in a structured environment,” says Samantha Tisnoi, a Birdville ISD parent.
  Tisnoi says she will still opt for virtual classes in the f
  
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• Parents Say TEA Guidelines Don’t Make Decision On Sending Kids Back To School Easier

  09-07-2020 02:12 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBDSFW.COM) – Parents in Texas will have both classroom and online options for their children when classes resume in the fall.
  Still, some say the much-anticipated guidance from the Texas Education Agency released Tuesday, doesn’t necessarily make the decision any easier.​
  “I don’t want my children at home. I want them in a structured environment,” says Samantha Tisnoi, a Birdville ISD parent.
  Tisnoi says she will still opt for virtual classes in the f
  
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• Collin, Denton Counties Report Combined 246 New Cases of COVID-19 Wednesday

  09-07-2020 02:02 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Health departments in Denton and Collin counties reported a combined 246 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday along with three deaths.
  
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• ‘I Almost Lost My Life' – Plano Couple's Warning After Battle With COVID-19

  09-07-2020 01:59 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A North Texas couple have a message for anyone that will listen about the coronavirus. "Just wear a face mask."
  
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• Federal Government Sending Medical Teams To DFW Hospitals During Coronavirus Hospitalizations Spike

  09-07-2020 01:56 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) -The federal government is sending medical teams to hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio areas amid a spike in coronavirus cases and related hospitalizations.
  During an interview with CBS 11 Wednesday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the government is acting on a request made by Governor Greg Abbott.
  Secretary Azar said while Texas hospitals have enough total and ICU beds and ventilators, the biggest challenge is not having enough personn
  
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• Dog Found Seriously Injured By Arrow In Dallas

  09-07-2020 01:38 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police are trying to track down whomever seriously injured a brindle pit bull-type dog.
  Police said someone found the dog on Monday, July 6 around 8:00 a.m. in the 2300 block of Harding Street.
  The dog was found with severe, life threatening injuries caused by an “arrow-type object.”
  Injured dog (Dallas PD)
  Police did not say how the dog is doing now.
  The Dallas Police Department is requesting any witnesses that saw who injured the dog to please con
  
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• COVID Patient Develops New Symptoms Months Later Likely Tied to Virus

  09-07-2020 01:38 via nbcdfw.com
  
  It’s been about three months since TCU graduate student Will Horn walked out of JPS Hospital after a five-day stay being treated for COVID-19, and he’s still trying to find his strength.
  
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• Social Distancing ‘Becomes Challenging' If Most Students Choose On-Campus Learning, Arlington ISD Superintendent Says

  09-07-2020 01:23 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Arlington ISD is promising parents at home learning will be vigorous, high-quality, and a strong option to keep their children safe from the coronavirus. The school district is concerned about Texas' mandate that anyone who wants to learn on campus is welcome.
  
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• Activists Say Public Officials Are Paying Attention to Reform Requests

  09-07-2020 00:44 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Dallas activists seeking police reform tell NBC 5 they’re getting new attention from public officials about complaints they’ve been raising for years.
  
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• Dallas ISD Nurses Preparing For Return To School In The Fall Despite Pandemic

  09-07-2020 00:31 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – At this point, it looks like Dallas ISD parents will have the option of sending their students back to school ​in the fall and school nurses are now having to ​prepare for a number of things. ​
  “Our nurses will have a huge job come when the schools do open,” Alliance AFT President Rena Honea said. “It’s a daily flow and so they are in contact with students every day. With the cases going up, we should ​not be entert
  
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• Dallas ISD Nurses Preparing For Return To School Despite Coronavirus Pandemic

  09-07-2020 00:31 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – At this point, it looks like Dallas ISD parents will have the option of sending their students back to school ​in the fall and school nurses are now having to ​prepare for a number of things. ​
  “Our nurses will have a huge job come when the schools do open,” Alliance AFT President Rena Honea said. “It’s a daily flow and so they are in contact with students every day. With the cases going up, we should ​not be entert
  
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• North Texas Cities Holding Off On Testing Raw Sewage For Coronavirus

  09-07-2020 00:25 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  Watch JD Miles report on CBS 11 at 6 p.m.  It will be added here after it airs.
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Some cities around the country are testing samples of raw sewage to look for COVID-19 faster than human lab testing can.
  So far, no North Texas cities are doing this.
  Studies are finding that what goes down everyone’s toilet could hold vital clues to detecting and tracking outbreaks of COVID-19, days or even weeks before patients show up in emergency rooms.
  The sewage, also call
  
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• Texas Hits Record With 98 New COVID-19 Deaths Reported

  09-07-2020 00:12 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Texas reported its deadliest day of the pandemic with nearly 100 new deaths on Wednesday as newly confirmed cases continued soaring and Austin began preparations to turn the downtown convention center into a field hospital.
  
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• Texas Attorney General Sues San Antonio-Based Student Loan Debt Relief Company

  08-07-2020 23:40 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – College students are drowning in uncertainty right now, but COVID-19 may not be their only concern.
  While they question if they will return to class in the fall, they may also be asking how will they pay for it.
  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is warning college students to beware of loan debt relief companies.
  Paxton is suing San Antonio-based My Education Solutions.
  On its website, the company states its experts provide federal loan forgiveness advice and &
  
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• East Texas 2-Year-Old Safe Following Amber Alert; Father Arrested

  08-07-2020 23:21 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  CENTER, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – An East Texas 2-year-old girl is safe after allegedly being abducted by her father on Tuesday, leading to a statewide Amber Alert.
  Zamaya Whitaker and her father, Zenas Whitaker, went missing around noon.
  Zimia Whitaker and Zenas Whitaker (credit: @TX_Alerts)
  According to police reports, Zenas handed Zamaya over to authorities in Alto, about an hour from Center, on Wednesday morning, Bryan CBS affiliate KBTX-TV reported.
  Zenas was then arrested and taken into c
  
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• Arlington to Accept Applications for Housing Voucher Program Starting July 15

  08-07-2020 23:19 via nbcdfw.com
  
  The Arlington Housing Authority will begin accepting applications for its Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program beginning July 15, the city of Arlington announced Wednesday.
  
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• Houston Cancels In-Person Texas GOP Convention Due To Surge In Coronavirus Cases

  08-07-2020 22:55 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Officials in Houston on Wednesday canceled the Texas Republican Party’s in-person convention, saying the spread of the coronavirus made it impossible to hold the event as scheduled.
  Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city’s lawyers exercised provisions in the contract that the Texas GOP signed to rent the downtown convention center for a three-day event to have started July 16, with committee meetings earlier in the week.
  “The public health concerns
  
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• Activewear Company Teams Up With Ezekiel Elliott To Donate $85K To North Texas Food Bank

  08-07-2020 22:42 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  PLANO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott helped hand over an $85,000 check to help feed approximately 400,000 North Texas families in need.
  In April, he announced he we working with CentreTX, a local clothing and footwear company to sell exclusive merchandise and donate 100% of the proceeds to the North Texas Food Bank.
  CentreTX posted a photo and sincere thanks on Instagram Wednesday.View this post on InstagramWe’re proud to be able to give back to the
  
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• Lawn Tending Business Born in Pandemic Is Example of How to ‘Mow With the Flow'

  08-07-2020 22:30 via nbcdfw.com
  
  When COVID-19 limited Gavin Mogan's ability to work as a fitness trainer for people with physical limitations, the Parkinson's patient started "Mow with the Flow"
  
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• Man And Woman Shot In Arlington Shopping Center Parking Lot, Suspect In Custody

  08-07-2020 22:21 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Two people were shot outside an Arlington shopping center Wednesday afternoon.
  It happened around 1:45 p.m. in 4600 block of S. Cooper St. outside the Ross Dress For Less store.
  Officers found a man and women had been shot.
  Both were taken by ambulance to a hospital.  They’re both expected to survive.
  Witnesses told officers they saw the victims having an argument with a man on a motorcycle before they were shot.
  Arlington double shooting (Alexis
  
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• Children Make Up Small, But Increasing, Number of COVID-19 Cases in Dallas County

  08-07-2020 22:18 via nbcdfw.com
  
  According to Dallas County Health and Human Services data, in June, 1,534 children under the age of 17 tested positive for the coronavirus, that's about 10% of cases in Dallas County. That was up from 682 cases among kids in May.
  
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• State Investigates Lake Worth Nursing Home, More Than 60 Residents Moved

  08-07-2020 22:15 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – MedStar is relocating about 63 residents from the Lake Worth Nursing Home, which is currently under investigation.
  At least 20 of the residents have COVID-19, although it’s not yet clear if that’s why MedStar is moving them.
  “About half the patients are going to one facility. There are other patients that are going to different facilities so we will use individual ambulances to take those patients to singular facilities,” said MedStar spoke
  
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• Brakes Slammed On Fort Worth Auto Show Due To Health Concerns During Coronavirus Pandemic

  08-07-2020 22:01 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  IRVING, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Another major North Texas event has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The North Texas Automobile Dealers announced Wednesday the 2020 Fort Worth Auto Show set for November 6-8 will not happen.
  The plan is to bring back the event in November of 2021.
  “Mitigating the spread of COVID-19 continues to be our highest priority,” said Jim Hardick, Chairman of the North Texas Automobile Dealers. “After extensive communication with our many p
  
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• COVID-19 Mixers: Doctors Agree They're a Bad Idea

  08-07-2020 21:45 via nbcdfw.com
  
  In at least one North Texas social media parent group, some questioned whether they should allow their healthy children to play with a child who has tested positive for the coronavirus in hopes of building antibodies.
  
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• Woman In 20s, Man In 40s With No Underlying Health Conditions Among 16 New Coronavirus Deaths In Dallas County

  08-07-2020 21:38 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 1,029 additional positive cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 29,160.
  The county also confirmed 16 more deaths, bringing the total to 426.
  Among the latest victims, a Grand Prairie woman in her 20s who had been critically ill in an area hospital, but did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
  Also a Grand Prairie man in his 40s who been critically ill in an area ho
  
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• Millennial Sounds Alarm as COVID-19 Cases Rise: ‘Coronavirus Is Not a Joke'

  08-07-2020 21:30 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A North Texas millennial recovering from the novel coronavirus sounded the alarm for her generation to take COVID-19 seriously.
  
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• 27-Year-Old Sounds Alarm as COVID-19 Cases Rise: ‘Coronavirus Is Not a Joke'

  08-07-2020 21:30 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A North Texas 27-year-old recovering from the novel coronavirus sounded the alarm for her generation to take COVID-19 seriously.
  
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• 3 Juveniles, Already In Custody For Capital Murder In Dallas, Charged With 2nd One

  08-07-2020 21:17 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police homicide detectives determined during a murder investigation, three juveniles suspected of killing a man, were already in the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center for the capital murder of another victim.
  Police charged the trio with the June 16 murder of 24-year-old Adarryl Toriano Chaney.
  They had already been charged with the murder of 43-year-old Thomas Dewayne Scott.
  Chaney was found shot to death inside a vehicle in Dallas just before 11:50 p.m.
  
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• ‘I Feel Like Something In Me Has Been Unleashed’: Joy Osmanski On The CW Network’s ‘Stargirl’ & Luke Wilson

  08-07-2020 21:14 via dfw.cbslocal.com
  
  (CBS Local)– “Stargirl” on the CW Network has been one of the breakout TV hits of 2020 and actor Joy Osmanski is a big reason why.
  The series has already been renewed for another season and Osmanski has been one of the most talked about performers in the show alongside Luke Wilson, Amy Smart and Joel McHale. Osmanski plays Paula Brooks/Tigress and she’s fully embraced the duality of her character and how this show is perfect for 2020.
  “I’ll be honest, it was k
  
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• Dallas Animal Services Joins Coalition to Keep Pets in Homes

  08-07-2020 21:10 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Dallas Animal Services joined a national coalition of animal shelters called Human Animal Support Services (HASS) that aims towards recognizing pets and people as family units and works to keep them together. In the HASS model, shelters assist the majority of pets without separating them from their owners or community, according to the organization’s website. The Dallas animal shelter will...
  
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