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• DFW Moments: Toyota Moves North American Headquarters To Plano

  20-12-2017 23:46
  In May 2014, Plano officially welcomed Toyota to North Texas. The automaker decided to move its North American headquarters and thousands of workers to Collin County.
  
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• Al Franken To Officially Leave US Senate On Jan. 2

  20-12-2017 22:58
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Sen. Al Franken plans to officially leave the U.S. Senate on Jan. 2.
  Minnesota Senator Al Franken (credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
  The announcement Wednesday from a Franken spokesman should put to rest questions surrounding the timing of the Minnesota Democrat’s departure and concern that he might reverse his planned resignation.
  Franken announced earlier this month that he would leave “in the coming weeks” amid several sexual misconduct alleg
  
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• Zeke Returns to Practice, Putting Suspension Behind Him

  20-12-2017 22:36
  
  Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott returned to practice Wednesday, happy to put the past six weeks behind him.
  
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• Houston Baby Still Missing After Mom Stabbed To Death

  20-12-2017 22:06
  HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police have searched a woman’s apartment for clues in her fatal stabbing and the disappearance of her 6-week-old daughter.
  Police say the search continued Wednesday for Shanally Flores, who’s the subject of an Amber Alert.
  Shanally Flores (Houston PD)
  Authorities began looking for the baby after her mother’s body was discovered around midday Tuesday in her north Houston residence.
  Police initially said they believed the baby was with the child&rsquo
  
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• AT&T says it will invest $1B, give employees bonuses after tax reform

  20-12-2017 21:43
  AT&T (NYSE: T) said Wednesday that it will invest an extra $1 billion in the U.S. once the president signs a tax reform bill passed by Congress earlier in the day.That amount of investment leads to about 7,000 new jobs on average in the telecom industry, the company said.AT&T will also give $1,000 bonuses to 200,000 U.S. employees, it announced. Those bonuses will go to union-represented, non-management and front-line managers, and could arrive before the holidays if President Donald Tru
  
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• With Tax Reform, AT&T To Increase U.S. Capital Spending $1 Billion, Provide Employee Bonus

  20-12-2017 21:31
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – AT&T announced Wednesday, once the tax reform bill is signed into law, it plans to invest an additional $1 billion in the United States in 2018 and pay a special $1,000 bonus to more than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees — all union-represented, non-management and front-line managers.
  The Dallas-based telecommunications company said if President Trump signs the bill before Christmas, employees will receive the bonus over the holidays.
  “Congress, wo
  
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• That's a big grocery bill — U.S. government awards $180M to Dallas produce company

  20-12-2017 21:31
  In this edition of DFW Defense, Brothers Produce of Dallas Inc. received a $180 million payment from the U.S. government for fresh fruits and vegetables.
  
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• Deion Sanders' Former Home Back on the Market at $14.5M

  20-12-2017 20:59
  
  The former Prosper home of NFL Hall of Famer and Dallas Cowboy Deion Sanders is back on the market after being pulled from an auction shortly before bidding was to begin.Photo Credit: Mike Richard, NBC 5 News
  
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• Pride & Joy: Dallas native Stevie Ray Vaughan's music comes to life, with help from his older brother

  20-12-2017 20:56
  It doesn't take long for Jimmie Vaughan to be overcome with emotion when talking about a museum exhibit.It's no wonder, considering the exhibit is all about his younger brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the wunderkind blues guitarist who for many fans embodies the real spirit of Austin music and is still revered nearly 30 years after his tragic death in a helicopter crash in 1990 at age 35.Jimmie Vaughan, who along with Stevie Ray, was born in Dallas, curated the traveling exhibit that will run March
  
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• Best Feel-Good Stories To End 2017 On A Bright Note

  20-12-2017 20:54
  CBS Local – There’s been a lot of negativity in 2017. It can be hard, as a news organization, to not get wrapped up in reporting on just the bad news. But while many are more than ready to say goodbye to 2017, and hello to the uncertainty of 2018, let’s take a look back at some news stories that made us smile.
  12-Year-Old Michigan Boy Rescues Toddler From PoolBrayden Armstrong was at a wrestling tournament when he went to the hotel pool to get some of his clothes. That’s
  
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• Dallas firm buys Northeast San Antonio medical center

  20-12-2017 20:48
  The Class A building is currently 95 percent occupied by by eight medical practices.
  
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• The Most Personalized Drink Ever — Meet The Selfieccino

  20-12-2017 20:40
  LONDON (CBSDFW.COM) – If you really like taking selfies there’s a café you need to check out.
  They’re doing something different at the Tea Terrace café in London — the baristas there are making selfieccinos. What’s that you ask? A selfieccino is a hot chocolate or cappuccino made with a frothy selfie pic of the purchaser (or whatever pic they want) on top.
  (credit: CBS News)
  Customers send in a picture, via a messaging app, that is uploaded into a
  
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• Fog causes cancellations, delays at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

  20-12-2017 20:31
  Heavy fog Wednesday morning at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to order a ground stop on early flights and caused cancellations and delays throughout the morning.Airport officials urged travelers to stay in contact with their airlines for more information.“We don’t like delays/cancellations either,” @DFWAirport tweeted at 10:53 a.m. “Please be sure to stay in contact with your airline for any updates.”As of 1 p.m.
  
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• GOP Tax Bill Clears Congress, Heads To Trump’s Desk

  20-12-2017 20:07
  (CBSNEWS) – The House on Wednesday approved the GOP tax plan — for a second time — with President Trump’s desk as its next and final stop.
  Lawmakers approved the bill in a 224-201, a day after they approved it a first time. Due to procedural issues that arose in the Senate a day earlier, the House had to vote a second time.
  Besides confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice, this marks the first major legislative achievement of the Trump presidency. President
  
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• Rangers Pitcher Cole Hamels Gives Away $10M Mansion

  20-12-2017 19:54
  
  Rangers pitcher Cole Hamels and his wife, Heidi, are donating their $9.75 million dollar mansion in Branson, Missouri to charity.Photo Credit: Hilton Realtors/Getty Images
  
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• Mother Of Chris Bosh Arrested For Exploiting Disabled Person

  20-12-2017 19:13
  DESOTO (CBSDFW.COM) – The mother of NBA player Chris Bosh was arrested in North Texas Tuesday for exploiting a disabled person.
  On Monday, DeSoto police obtained arrest warrants for Frieda Bosh and Johnathan Brown. Brown previously lived with Frieda Bosh at 902 St. George Place in DeSoto, which was raided by police on December 8 for suspected drug distribution activity.
  Frieda Bosh (DeSoto Police Department)
  The arrest warrants charged Bosh and Brown with exploitation of a disabled person,
  
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• Private equity firm takes stake in Carrollton hospital gift shop empire

  20-12-2017 19:07
  Atlantic Street Capital has acquired a majority stake in Carrollton retailer Lori’s Gifts, which runs more than 350 gift shops in hospitals across the U.S. The deal is an interesting twist on a growing interest among private investors for health care companies.
  
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• Woman Says Hotel Charged $350 For Giving A Negative Review

  20-12-2017 18:52
  CBS Local — A customer at an Indiana hotel is claiming that she was charged $350 and threatened with a lawsuit in retaliation for the negative review that she posted online.
  Katrina Arthur and her husband stayed at the Abbey Inn & Suites in March of 2016 and allege the room they stayed in was less than stellar. “It was a nightmare,” Arthur said, via WTVR. “The room was unkempt, and it looked like it hadn’t been cleaned since the last people stayed ther
  
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• Texas Rangers Investigating Officer-Involved Shooting In The Colony

  20-12-2017 18:34
  THE COLONY (CBSDFW.COM) – The Texas Rangers and members of the The Colony Police Department are investigating a burglary that ended with officers firing their weapons and a suspect dead.
  A CBS 11 News crew spoke with the homeowner who said she and her daughter were home when burglars broke in by smashing a cinderblock through the back patio door. The woman, who did not want her name released, said they ran outside after seeing a man grab a kitchen knife from the counter.
  Police say it
  
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• Former Dallas Maverick Charlie Villanueva Rants About Stolen Toilet

  20-12-2017 18:07
  DALLAS (AP) — A former NBA player has taken to Twitter to complain that a toilet was among the items stolen from his Dallas home during a burglary.
  Thirty-three-year-old Charlie Villanueva, a former first-round pick who most recently played with the Dallas Mavericks, posted a photo of the space in his bathroom where his toilet once stood.
  I’m still in shock of the things they stolebut the one that stand outthe most is a toilet…… Bro a toilet, can’t get my mind off
  
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• TPG part of $4.1B purchase of Kindred Healthcare

  20-12-2017 17:44
  Kindred Healthcare Inc. — which has nearly two dozen locations in North Texas — will be acquired by Humana Inc. and two private equity firms in a $4.1 billion deal.The companies will pay $9 in cash for each Kindred (NYSE: KND) share. That's a 27 percent premium compared with Kindred's 90-day weighted average price, according to the Tuesday announcement.The deal is expected to close this summer and will include the assumption of Kindred's debt. The company has $3.3 billion of long-ter
  
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• Mexico: 8 Americans Killed In Tour Bus Crash

  20-12-2017 17:44
  CANCUN, Mexico (CBSNEWS/AP) – Eight Americans, two Swedes and one Canadian were among the fatalities of a bus crash in eastern Mexico, state officials said Wednesday.
  The Quintana Roo state government said in a statement that the injured also include three Canadians, four Brazilians and four Americans. Two other Swedes were wounded and transported to the United States for treatment.
  Officials had said Tuesday that seven others who were slightly injured had returned to their cruise ship aft
  
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• Owner Shoots Suspected Burglar Dead At Dallas Meat Market

  20-12-2017 17:37
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A man believed to have been burglarizing a meat market in Dallas was shot and killed this morning.
  According to police, the owner of the Tienda Mi-Mexico Meat Market on Northwest Highway saw two people inside the store when he went to open up around 6:30 a.m. The owner told police that he pulled his gun and opened fire when one of the men charged at him.
  (credit: CBSDFW.COM)
  The victim, whose name has not been released, died at the scene. The second suspect
  
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• Yes, Dallas Police Have A Elf On The Shelf Holiday Video

  20-12-2017 17:28
  DALLAS (KRLD) – A little man in a red suit caused some big problems for police in Dallas.
  “Everyone be on the lookout for him,” said Officer Gonzalez while holding up a wanted poster with a drawing of the Elf on the Shelf.  “He’s a white male, approximately six inches tall and he’s wanted for holiday mischief.”The elf makes a mess with black fingerprint powder in the evidence room, gets into a candy dish on a detective’s de
  
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• Woman Pleads Guilty To Shooting Boyfriend Dead In YouTube Stunt

  20-12-2017 17:22
  Monalisa Perez and Pedro Ruiz III (Valley News Live via CBS News)
  HALSTAD, Minn. (CBSNEWS/AP) – A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend in a videotaped stunt they planned to post on YouTube. Monalisa Perez, 20, pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter in the June death of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III, The Star Tribune reported . Perez, who was pregnant at the time of the shooting, has two young children with Ruiz.
  Perez told investigators that Rui
  
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• How do Dallas and Fort Worth stack up for diversity in STEM?

  20-12-2017 17:20
  While some cities have thriving science, technology, engineering and math sectors, the local workforce may be lacking in diversity.Personal finance company SmartAsset identified the cities with the best diversity in STEM fields. SmartAsset analyzed data from the 50 cities with the largest STEM workforces and compared them across racial and gender diversity metrics.Philadelphia ranked No. 1 and scored high in both categories. Women make up 33 percent of the STEM workforce, the fourth-highest in&h
  
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• Grandma Johnye Makes Hats for Cancer Patient

  20-12-2017 17:12
  
  A woman in Grand Prairie is a reminder that you're never too old to make a difference in someone's life.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Fort Worth Police Looking For Dracula/Zombie Bank Robber

  20-12-2017 16:07
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Fort Worth say they are actively searching for a Dracula or zombie looking robber! The unidentified masked man held up a credit union in the city on December 1.
  (credit: Fort Worth Police Department)
  Police say the man walked into the EECU on Clifford Street showed the bank clerks a pistol in a holster on his right hip and announced “this is a robbery.” The man demanded that the clerks hand over all of the money and walked away
  
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• Global law firm consolidating DFW offices into new Richardson hub

  20-12-2017 15:18
  A San Francisco-based law firm plans to consolidate two of its North Texas offices — one in Uptown and one in Richardson — to ultimately create its biggest office in the firm's 18-office network in the next few years.
  
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• Someone Stole Ex-Dallas Mav Player's Toilet

  20-12-2017 14:16
  
  A former Dallas Mavericks player says someone broke into his house and stole several items, including a toilet.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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• Delta Wants Someone To Pay For Its Losses In Airport Outage

  20-12-2017 14:00
  ATLANTA (AP) — The CEO of Delta Air Lines says the company will seek compensation for its losses after a fire in an underground electrical facility knocked out the Atlanta airport’s power supply and also its backup electricity for about 11 hours Sunday.
  The blackout stranded thousands of passengers and led to the cancellation of more than 1,500 flights just ahead of the frenzied holiday travel period.
  Stranded passengers relax near baggage claim at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Internat
  
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• Amtrak Didn’t Wait For System That Could’ve Prevented Wreck

  20-12-2017 13:37
  DUPONT, Wash. (AP) – The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost — critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active before the train set off on its maiden voyage.
  Work to install the sophisticated, GPS-based technology known as positive train control isn’t expected to be completed until next spring on the newly opened 15-mile span where the train derailed, according to Sound Transit, the
  
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• One hundred sixty-four acres in Central Texas to become an Italian-style village

  20-12-2017 13:36
  A 164-acre mixed-use development unlike anything in Central Texas will break ground early next year, bringing a slice of Italy to the area near I-35.
  
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• Cardinal Law, Central Figure In Church Abuse Scandal, Dies

  20-12-2017 13:19
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.
  Law had been sick and was recently hospitalized in Rome.
  Law was once one of the most important leaders in the U.S. church. He broadly influenced Vatican appointments to American dioceses, helped set priorities for the nation’s
  
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• Prosecutors Seek 15 Years For 2nd Man In Beheading Plot

  20-12-2017 13:04
  BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for a man who admitted to participating in a plot to behead a conservative blogger on behalf of the Islamic State group.
  Nicholas Rovinski is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston. Rovinski pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy for his role in a plot to kill Pamela Geller, the blogger who angered some Muslims when she organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland i
  
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• Hot Holiday Gifts for Pre-Teens and Teenagers

  20-12-2017 12:19
  
  Teens can be hard to shop for when it comes to gifting, but NBC 5's Samantha Chatman found items that your older kids will love.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Study Suggests Fort Worth Becoming 'Dallas Suburb'

  20-12-2017 12:10
  
  If Fort Worth doesn't make significant changes on the economic front, Cowtown is on the path to becoming a Dallas suburb, a new study shows.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Study Suggests Fort Worth Becoming "Dallas Suburb"; City Working to Change Course

  20-12-2017 12:07
  
  If Fort Worth doesn't make significant changes on the economic front, Cowtown is on the path to becoming a Dallas suburb, a new study shows.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• 18-Wheelers Collide, Close I-45 in Southern Dallas County

  20-12-2017 12:02
  
  A collision between two 18-wheelers closed Interstate 45 in far southern Dallas County Wednesday morning.
  
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• Soaking Rain Provides Much Needed Drought Relief to North TX

  20-12-2017 06:39
  
  A steady, soaking rain brought much needed drought relief to North Texas on Tuesday. In fact, the rainfall set a new record for the day at D/FW Airport.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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• Police Search for Suspects in String of 40 Car Burglaries

  20-12-2017 06:35
  
  Police in Rowlett are looking for two men they believe are responsible for at least 40 car burglaries in the northwest side of the city this month.
  
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• DeSoto First Responders Honored for Saving Baby's Life

  20-12-2017 06:34
  
  Five first responders from DeSoto Fire Rescue were honored at Tuesday evening's city council meeting after their training and relentless effort saved a life last month.
  
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• Simple Blood Test May Have Saved North Texas Teen's Life

  20-12-2017 05:39
  
  No one knew the secret genetic condition wreaking havoc on Zoey Zalusky's body until it was too late. Now, her mother shares her story in hopes it saves the lives of others.Photo Credit: Zalusky Family
  
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• Whooping Cough Confirmed in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD

  20-12-2017 05:15
  
  A second case of whooping cough in as many weeks has been confirmed in the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, officials say.
  
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• 1 Dead, Officers OK in The Colony Officer-Involved Shooting

  20-12-2017 05:14
  
  A person is dead after being shot by police Tuesday evening in The Colony, officials say.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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