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• Dallas County Confirms 19th Case of West Nile of 2016

  16-08-2016 23:53
  
  Dallas County health officials confirmed the county's 19th human case of West Nile virus in 2016 on Tuesday.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Parking Garage Proposed for Klyde Warren Park

  16-08-2016 23:46
  
  On Thursday, Jody Grant, the chair of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park Foundation, will go to City Hall to debut the latest iteration of the Klyde Warren Park, which includes a new deck topped by a parking garage.Photo Credit: NBC 5 NewsThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Credit Card Theft Ring Targets Plano Fire Chief

  16-08-2016 23:36
  
  PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – A credit card theft ring has claimed the Plano’s fire chief as one of its victims.
  When Chief Sam Greif’s wife found $6,000 in fraudulent charges on their credit card, the couple immediately notified police. Thus police put surveillance on the chief’s house and waited for one of his deliveries to show up. And when it did, they noticed a man steal the package before it made it to the house. He arrested a short time later.
  
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• Suspect In Car Theft, Dragging In Custody

  16-08-2016 23:19
  
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  DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A man the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department says dragged another man down the street while stealing his car last month is in custody.
  Leedon Ireland, 28, was already in the Dallas County Jail on an unrelated charge for evading arrest when CBS11 broadcast the video of the car theft Tuesday.
  The victim, Terrence Edge, told CBS11 he left his car running while he went to check his mail.  That’s when
  
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• Rare Weather Pattern May Lead to Early End for WNV Season

  16-08-2016 23:15
  
  The wet and cooler weather may lead to an early end for West Nile virus season. Health officials are closely watching the rare August weather pattern to see how it could change the fight against West Nile...Photo Credit: LA Times via Getty ImagesThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Shin-Soo Choo Having Surgery to Repair Arm This Week

  16-08-2016 23:07
  
  The Rangers announced Tuesday that outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, who broke his forearm Monday when he was hit by a pitch, will have surgery on Wednesday to insert a plate into his forearm.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Child Among Latest Zika Cases Confirmed in Dallas County

  16-08-2016 23:00
  
  Two more cases of Zika virus have been confirmed in Dallas County Tuesday, including a 50-year-old Grand Prairie resident and a 6-year-old Dallas resident, health officials say.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Off-Duty Houston Officer Charged In Deadly DWI

  16-08-2016 22:33
  
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  RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — An off-duty Houston police officer has been arrested over what investigators say was an alcohol-related traffic accident that left another driver dead.
  Officer James Combs was being held Tuesday on an intoxication manslaughter count in the death of 36-year-old Brian Manring.
  Online Fort Bend County jail records don’t list an attorney to speak for the 33-year-old Combs, whose bond was $100,000.
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• Officials Search for Person Who Set Donation Building on Fire

  16-08-2016 22:14
  
  Fort Worth Fire Department officials are searching for a man they say set fire to a donation storage building.Photo Credit: Fort Worth Fire Dept.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Gymnasts, How They Get Physically and Mentally Strong

  16-08-2016 21:56
  
  NBC 5 goes to Trevino's Gymnastics School in Lancaster to see how gymnasts get physically and mentally tough.Photo Credit: Kristin Dickerson
  
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• Jerry Jones Named a Finalist for Pro Football Hall of Fame

  16-08-2016 21:52
  
  Jerry Jones, the owner, president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, was named a finalist Tuesday for the National Football League's Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2017.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Emmitt Smith Hosts Cycling Fundraiser

  16-08-2016 21:44
  
  Emmitt Smith is combining his love of cycling with his passion for giving back to his community by hosting the inaugural Emmitt Smith Gran Fondo on Saturday September 17th.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Dallas To Prioritize Roads In Budget

  16-08-2016 21:33
  
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  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas is aiming to fix many of the worst roads in the city, by making it a bigger priority in the budget.
  In a recent survey of residents, the issue that most where concerned with, was the condition of city streets. Councilman Lee Kleinman says that is reflected in next years budget.
  “The number one priority was getting the streets fixed. We’ve made a commitment to that, and this year we have increased
  
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• New Execution Date For Dallas Dad Who Killed 2 Daughters

  16-08-2016 20:51
  
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  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A new execution date has been set for a former Dallas accountant convicted of fatally shooting his two young daughters more than 15 years ago. John David Battaglia, who killed his daughters while their mother, his ex-wife, listened helplessly over the phone, is now scheduled to die in December.
  State District Judge Robert Burns’ Monday order for a December 7 execution date came five months after a federal a
  
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• Fort Worth Arson Investigators Search For Suspect In Donation Center Fire

  16-08-2016 20:18
  
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  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) — Fort Worth police are looking for a suspect who is alleged to have started a fire at the Northside Inter-Community Agency (NICA) at 1600 Circle Park Blvd. on August 4.  The fire occurred in buildings used to collect and store donations for the needy.
  Surveillance video released by the Fort Worth Fire Department shows a suspect — who is accompanied by a small child — go through some donated
  
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• Texas Lawyer Ordered To Watch What He ‘Prays’ For On Facebook

  16-08-2016 20:11
  
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  DALLAS (1080 KRLD) – Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial, and Facebook postings have stirred-up a hornet’s nest in  Ellis County.
  It starts with Waxahachie lawyer Mark Griffith, who  doesn’t mind telling anyone he prays for help before court, during a trial and on Facebook.
  It’s the Facebook part that is at issue, another new twist in the odd world that social media has created.
  Tw
  
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• Man Accused in Car Theft, Dragging Arrested on Other Charge

  16-08-2016 20:07
  
  The Dallas County Sheriff's Office released three surveillance videos Monday they say shows a man being dragged while trying to stop someone from stealing his car in broad daylight.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Sold! New Playboy Mansion Owner Closes Deal For $100 Million

  16-08-2016 19:40
  
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) – The deal is done, and the Playboy Mansion has a new owner.
  Daren Metropoulos, who lives next door, said Tuesday that escrow has closed on his $100 million purchase of Hugh Hefner’s man cave.
  The 33-year-old principal in the investment firm Metropoulos & Co. won’t necessarily be moving in any time soon.Under terms of the deal, Playboy’s 90-year-old founder may stay there for the rest of his life.
  After
  
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• SPCA Of Texas In Dallas To Take In Animals From Louisiana Flood Zones

  16-08-2016 19:29
  
  DALLAS (KRLD) – Homeless dogs from flooded areas of Louisiana will get another chance at life in Texas.
  The Humane Society of the United States says they are transporting more than 50 canines from Companion Animal Alliance in Baton Rouge to the SPCA of Texas in Dallas.
  The Humane Society of the United States: Members of The Humane Society’s Animal Rescue Team are deployed to several counties to assist in transportation of animals during recent floods in Louisiana.
  “The recent f
  
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• Child Injured After Falling From 2nd Story Apartment Window

  16-08-2016 19:22
  
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  FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) – A four-year-old boy falls out of a second-floor window, and his family is blaming the apartment complex management.
  According to emergency responders, the boy suffered a fractured skull after falling out of the window at the Sierra Hermosa Apartments on Las Vegas Trail in west Fort Worth.
  The boy’s uncle says his sister tried getting that window replaced, to no avail.
  Police in Fort Worth say a 4-year-old fe
  
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• North Texans Feeling a Month of Extremes

  16-08-2016 18:11
  
  The month of August has been one extreme to another!Photo Credit: NBC10This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Young Texas Bride To Marry H.S. Sweetheart Before Entering Hospice

  16-08-2016 18:05
  
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  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – In sickness and health – they are marriage vows that many consider sacred and two North Texas high school sweethearts have already taken them… even though they won’t tie the knot until next month.
  The wedding for young bride Sarena Saad will take place as she prepares to go into hospice care.
  Like most brides-to-be, Sarena is beaming and was perfectly giddy about her centerpieces. “I lo
  
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• Johnny Depp And Amber Heard Settle Divorce Case

  16-08-2016 18:05
  
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Amber Heard is withdrawing allegations that Johnny Depp physically abused her and has settled her divorce case with the Oscar-nominated actor.
  A source familiar with the case not authorized to speak publicly says Heard’s lawyers are filing a dismissal of her temporary restraining order against Depp on Tuesday.
  A call to Heard’s lawyer Pierce O’Donnell was not immediately returned.
  Heard filed for divorce in
  
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• H-E-B Announces Plans To Expand Business In North Texas

  16-08-2016 18:04
  
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  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) –  A popular Texas grocery chain is expanding to North Texas.
  San Antonio based HEB Grocery Company LP has announced plans to open several stores around the Metroplex in the coming year.
  H-E-B operates more than 300 stores in over 150 communities across Texas according to the company website. They also operate the upscale Central Market grocery stores.
  A release from the company says that it will b
  
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• Jerry Jones-backed Blue Star acquires another company

  16-08-2016 17:20
  The flood of acquisitions continues for Blue Star Sports, the youth sports management and technology company backed by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.The company announced Monday that it has acquired SDI Camps and Races, LLC, an online host and manager for sports camps across the country. The Lafayette, Indiana-based company provides support for sports camps at college campuses as well as 5Ks, among other events.The acquisition is the fifth since the youth sports payment services and software&
  
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• Trial Set For McQueary Whistleblower Suit Against Penn State

  16-08-2016 16:42
  
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  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) – A judge has set an Oct. 17 trial date for the whistleblower lawsuit filed by former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary.
  McQueary was placed on leave by Penn State in 2011 following revelations he reported that a boy was being sexually abused by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The school president said at the time that it became clear that McQueary “would not be able to function in a coaching role.
  
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• Irving High School Football Players Accused of Package Theft

  16-08-2016 16:41
  
  Police say an Irving woman has accused MacArthur High School football players of stealing packages from her mailbox.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Insurer Aetna Slashes ACA Exchange Participation

  16-08-2016 16:10
  
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  NEW YORK (AP) – Aetna has become the latest health insurer to retreat from the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges by announcing a pullback that will further deplete customer choices in many pockets of the country.
  The nation’s third largest insurer says it plans to leave nearly 70 percent of the counties in which it currently sells coverage as it trims exchange participation to four states in 2017, down from 15 this year.
  
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• 2016 Big Tex Choice Awards To Be Announced

  16-08-2016 15:43
  
  Officials with The State Fair of Texas will announce eight finalists for the 12th annual Big Tex Choice Awards Wednesday morning.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Dick Van Dyke Sings ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ At Denny’s

  16-08-2016 15:34
  
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  SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Dick Van Dyke has treated diners at a Denny’s restaurant in California to a rendition of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
  A post accompanying a YouTube video of the performance says the 90-year-old Van Dyke and the other three members of his quartet, The Vantastix, had just finished an appearance on a local television show before going out for breakfast.
  (credit: Cindy Rohrbough/YouTube)
  The video
  
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• Celebrating Mother-Daughter Moment

  16-08-2016 15:21
  
  It's a tradition at Texas State University - Graduates jump into the San Marcus River. When Rebecca Prather got her diploma last weekend, she was ready to follow tradition - but with one exception.
  
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• 3.5-Magnitude Earthquake Reported Near Oklahoma City

  16-08-2016 15:06
  
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  LUTHER, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma City metropolitan area was rattled by an earthquake early Tuesday morning, but there are no reports of damage or injuries.
  The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 3.5. It was centered 2.3 miles east of Luther, or about 25 miles east-northeast of Oklahoma City. The USGS says it received reports of people feeling the earthquake throughout the Oklahoma City area and as
  
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• Is an iPad with a bendable screen on the way?

  16-08-2016 14:28
  Apple is expected to introduce three new iPads in the next year and a model with a flexible screen in 2018.According to a research note acquired by Mac Rumors on Sunday, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote that he expects the Cupertino company to introduce three new iPads in 2017: a 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2, a 10.5-inch iPad Pro and a low-cost 9.7-inch iPad.Kuo is an analyst from KGI Securities, a subsidiary of China Development Financial, and his Apple predictions are generally considered accurate.&ld
  
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• Twitter stock jumps on report that it might come to Apple TV

  16-08-2016 14:27
  Twitter stock shot up by nearly 7 percent on Monday after a report that it is in talks to bring its app to Apple TV.The New York Times cited unnamed sources in a story on Sunday who said the deal could bring a much wider audience to a deal the social networking business has worked out with the National Football League to stream Thursday night games.Twitter also has live streaming deals with Wimbledon, CBS News, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey Leagu
  
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• Peter Thiel says he'll finance more Gawker-type privacy fights

  16-08-2016 14:23
  Peter Thiel sounded off again on Monday about his decision to finance wrestler Hulk Hogan's privacy lawsuit against Gawker, which led to an ongoing bankruptcy auction of its parent company."I will support (Hogan) until his final victory — Gawker said it intends to appeal — and I would gladly support someone else in the same position," Thiel wrote in an op-ed published in the New York Times.The PayPal co-founder, Facebook board member and prominent venture capitalist has been criticiz
  
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• Louisiana Flooding May Get Worse Before It Gets Better

  16-08-2016 14:05
  
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  SOUTH LOUISIANA (CBSDFW/AP/CBS News) The devastation from the catastrophic Louisiana flooding is becoming clearer.
  Many people here have lost everything, reports CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca. The historic flooding since Friday is responsible for at least seven deaths, and more than 11,000 people are homeless. Thousands of homes are damaged. With flood waters on the move, it may get worse before it gets better.
  “We’re not goin
  
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• Exclusive: The five fastest growing mid-sized technology companies in DFW

  16-08-2016 13:52
  The five fastest growing mid-sized technology companies in North Texas were honored at Tech Titans’ Fast Tech event Monday night at Globe Life Park in Arlington.The companies, who have revenue of at least $2 million, were measured by their revenue growth from 2013 to 2015. In total, 25 companies will be honored at the Tech Titans Awards Gala on Friday night. These five firms were the fastest growing among those 25, and the No. 1 fastest growing company will be revealed Friday. Vance McColl
  
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• Bus Drivers Want Parents & Kids To Get Ready For Start Of School

  16-08-2016 13:50
  
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  DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – School bus drivers are getting ready for the start of the new school year and they’re hoping you will prepare along with them.
  Drivers are taking ‘dry runs’ on the routes they’ll travel from now until May, and they think North Texas commuters should be preparing for walking children and school zones as well.
  School bus drivers working out of the North Dallas Service Center will be
  
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• Developer hones in on Hartlee Field Ranch for massive golf course-anchored project

  16-08-2016 13:38
  Hartlee Field Ranch — a 652-acre ranch with a historic air strip with ties to World War II — could sell to a developer that's been eyeing it for a golf course-anchored mixed-use development and could be the winning plan for the property if conversations with Denton city officials progress.But other investors are also shopping the property, said Angie Nelson, vice president of the ranch and land division of Dallas-based Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty."We've gotten a lot
  
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• Little Elm Home to Most Expensive Apartment

  16-08-2016 13:32
  
  Dallas-Fort Worth continues to lead the country in regards to job growth, with thousands flocking to North Texas every month to take advantage of the robust job market and low cost of living.
  
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• Texas Resident’s Zika Case Linked To Miami Travel

  16-08-2016 13:19
  
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  AUSTIN (AP) – Health officials say a Texas resident who recently traveled to an area of Miami where local Zika transmission occurred has tested positive for the virus.
  The Texas Department of State Health Services said Monday that it’s the first Texas case to be linked to travel within the continental U.S.
  Health officials linked the case to Miami travel after investigating factors such as travel dates and when symptoms appeared.
  The El
  
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• Woman Found Fatally Shot in Idling Car Outside Love Field Motel

  16-08-2016 13:06
  
  Police found the woman around midnight Tuesday slumped over her steering wheel in a running car outside the Love Field Inn, but neighbors said she’d been there since Monday afternoon.Photo Credit: Dennis Holmes, NBC 5
  
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• Democrats Seek Repeal Of Ban On Federal Funding Of Abortion

  16-08-2016 13:04
  
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  NEW YORK (AP) — The law that bans federal funding for Medicaid coverage of most abortions is now in the spotlight some 40 years after it was passed by Congress, emerging as an election issue in the national debate over the procedure.
  First approved in 1976, and renewed annually ever since as part of the congressional appropriations process, the Hyde Amendment makes exceptions in cases of rape or incest, or when a pregnancy endangers a wo
  
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• Polygamous Sect Man Asks To Write Leader Warren Jeffs

  16-08-2016 12:59
  
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  SALT LAKE CITY (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A lawyer for a member of a Utah polygamous sect accused in a food stamp fraud case is pushing back against a condition barring him from writing to imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs. Jeffs was the head of the Utah-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
  Defense attorney Scott Williams said in court documents Monday that his client Preston Barlow believes writing Jeffs is essenti
  
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• Woman Found Shot, Dead in Idling Car Outside Love Field Motel

  16-08-2016 12:58
  
  Police found the woman around midnight Tuesday slumped over her steering wheel in a running car outside the Love Field Inn, but neighbors said she’d been there since Monday afternoon.Photo Credit: Dennis Holmes, NBC 5
  
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• ‘Wire’ Actor Wendell Pierce Loses Baton Rouge Home

  16-08-2016 12:51
  
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) – “The Wire” and “Treme” actor Wendell Pierce’s home was destroyed by flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 11 years after his childhood home was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
  The 52-year-old Louisiana native revealed the news Sunday on Twitter. He says the response to his loss reminded him of “the generosity given to my family during Katrina.” Pierce’s parents’ home was dam
  
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• Elvis Fans Make Pilgrimage To His Gravesite At Graceland

  16-08-2016 12:45
  
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  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Thousands of Elvis Presley fans have made their annual pilgrimage to Graceland for a candlelight vigil marking the 39th anniversary of the singer’s death in Memphis.
  Despite pouring rain, Presley fans from around the world are holding candles and walking slowly through the gravesite of the rock `n’ roll icon, who died on Aug. 16, 1977. Since his death, devotees have come to pay their respects at Presley&rsquo
  
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