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• Sorry Ladies, Looks Like Jordan Spieth is off the Market

  26-12-2017 23:53
  
  A photo that is making the rounds on social media appears to show Jordan Spieth's new fiance showing off her engagement ring.Photo Credit: APThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Cities Sue Defense Department Over Gun-Check System Failures

  26-12-2017 22:56
  NEW YORK (AP) — Three large U.S. cities filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Defense, arguing that many service members who are disqualified from gun ownership weren’t reported to the national background check system.
  New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia said in court papers that the military’s broken system for relaying such information helped spur the massacre of 26 people inside a Texas church last month.
  “This failure on behalf of the Dep
  
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• Texas added more people than any other state in past year

  26-12-2017 21:17
  Texas added more people than any other state from 2016 to 2017, according to national and state population data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau.Between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, the Texas population increased by nearly 400,000 people, No. 1 nationwide. The Lone Star State's population was about 28.3 million at that time.That 1.4 percent growth rate was the seventh-fastest in the U.S. in terms of percentage growth.Because of its time frame, the data doesn't reflect Hurricane&hel
  
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• Tickets for Fastest Speeding Drivers in Texas Revealed

  26-12-2017 20:52
  
  Hundreds of drivers were ticketed for their "need for speed" in Texas in 2017, with the fastest driver clocked at 181 miles per hour.Photo Credit: NBCDFW
  
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• Morgan Stanley: Bitcoin May Actually Be Worth $0

  26-12-2017 20:23
  CBS Local — A top financial services firm is making the case that, despite soaring stock prices, the popular digital currency Bitcoin may actually be worth nothing at all.
  Morgan Stanley executive director James Faucette has reportedly sent a memo to his group’s clients that suggested the true value of Bitcoin was $0.00. Faucette’s team of analysts argue that not only is Bitcoin hard to equate to real world money, less online retailers are accepting the cryptocurrency
  
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• Army Veteran Reunited With Stolen Dog In Time For Christmas

  26-12-2017 19:27
  CBS Local — An Army veteran in Oklahoma was reunited with his missing dog just in time for Christmas. The dog, found on Christmas Eve, was missing for nearly a week after her owner’s house was burglarized on Dec. 20.
  “It appeared that they were going to steal my valuables, however they ended up only taking my beautiful dog,” veteran Geoff Hoffman wrote on his Facebook page after the crime. A frantic search for Bridget, the three-year-old pit bull, began as local anim
  
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• Man Publicly Shames ‘Grinch’ Who Stole Christmas Display

  26-12-2017 18:11
  CBS Local — A Texas homeowner is getting back at a real life “Grinch” by turning the crook into the main attraction of his family’s Christmas light display.
  Around 3 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Ken Lamkin’s security cameras at his San Antonio home caught the thief unplugging and stealing a fog machine and inflatable reindeer display.
  “He was so slow and methodical, that’s what reminded us of the story of the Grinch,” Lamkin told KENS-TV.
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• Best Friends For 60 Years Discover They Are Brothers

  26-12-2017 18:04
  Two men who have been best friends for six decades recently discovered they are brothers. (CBS News)
  (CBSDFW.COM) – Two life-long friends from Hawaii found out that they have even more in common than they first thought.
  Walter Macfarlane and Alan Robinson have been friends for more than 60 years.
  Macfarlane never knew his father, and Robinson was adopted.
  Both turned to DNA-matching websites to find out more.
  It turns out, they shared the same birth mother.
  “It was an overwhelming ex
  
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• Retailers Celebrate Record $598 Billion In Spending During Holiday Season

  26-12-2017 17:59
  CBS Local — U.S. retailers had a holly, jolly Christmas after taking in a record $598 billion dollars this holiday season. The boost in sales is being hailed as a good sign for both sellers and shoppers, who were willing to spend more this year.
  “This is literally the best season since before the recession,” business owner Craig Johnson told CBS News. Johnson’s retail analysis company credits 2017’s spending boom with lower unemployment and a soaring stock mark
  
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• Minnesota Couple Delivers Christmas Day Baby On Side Of Road

  26-12-2017 17:38
  Poppy was born on the side of the road on way to a Minnesota hospital on Christmas Day. (CBS Minnesota)
  CHISAGO CITY, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota couple delivered their baby on the side of a road while rushing to the hospital on Christmas Day, just two minutes after the mother’s water broke.
  Taylor and Hannah Lindeman told the Star Tribune that they were forced to pull over along Highway 8 at the edge of Chisago City and Wyoming to wait for an ambulance.
  Taylor Lindeman says t
  
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• Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald Writes Tribute To John McCain

  26-12-2017 17:22
  (CBSNEWS) – Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald has written a moving tribute to his friend, Sen. John McCain, who is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer.
  “We’ve become friends since I’ve been playing for the Cardinals,” Fitgerald writes for Sports Illustrated’s website. “I have so much admiration for him, and I wanted to share why that admiration has become so strong.”
  Fitzgerald, widely considered a shoo-in for the NFL Hall of
  
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• Cancer Survivor Hosts Toy Drive for Ronald McDonald House

  26-12-2017 16:29
  
  A North Texas Cancer survivor spent Saturday hosting a toy drive for the Ronald McDonald House, the place he and his family called home for three years while he battled cancer.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Church Stuns Waffle House Workers With $3,500 Christmas Tip

  26-12-2017 14:41
  CELINA, Ohio (AP) — Employees of a Waffle House restaurant have received a huge tip of over $3,500 from Ohio churchgoers whose pastor preached about generosity at Christmas.
  The Dayton Daily News and WHIO-TV report five women working at the Wapakoneta restaurant were stunned when congregants from Grand Lake United Methodist Church in Celina delivered the cash after a Christmas Eve service. The workers were told they could split the money, amounting to over $700 apiece.
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• Tailwater co-founders on this ‘peaking moment’ for oil and gas private equity

  26-12-2017 14:24
  Jason Downie and Edward Herring, co-founders of Dallas oil and gas private equity firm Tailwater Capital, talk about a new opportunity in Wyoming, the growing fleet of electric vehicles, and how equity markets are still wary of debt-heavy energy companies.
  
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• How 7-Eleven is reaching out to its Hispanic customers

  26-12-2017 14:23
  The Irving-based convenience store chain is offering a private brand line of baked goods for Hispanic consumers.
  
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• Large Fire Destroys Businesses on Denton Square

  26-12-2017 13:45
  
  A large fire destroyed several businesses along Denton's historic downtown square Tuesday morning.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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• Firefighters Battling Fire In Denton Square

  26-12-2017 13:14
  DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Firefighters in Denton are battling a fire in the historic downtown square.
  Flames and heavy smoke could be seen from a building on Locust Street near Oak Street early Tuesday morning.
  The fire is four alarms and is affecting at least six businesses along the east side of Denton Square.
  A bulk of the flames has been put out with firefighters dealing with heavy smoke and hot spots.
  There has been no word yet on a cause. There are currently no reported injuries.
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• Firefighters Battle Fire In Denton Square

  26-12-2017 13:14
  DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Firefighters in Denton battled a fire in the historic downtown square.
  Flames and heavy smoke could be seen from a building on Locust Street near Oak Street early Tuesday morning.
  The fire was four alarms and affected at least six businesses along the east side of Denton Square.
  A bulk of the flames was put out with firefighters dealing with heavy smoke and hot spots.
  There has been no word yet on a cause. There are currently no reported injuries.
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• Firefighters Battle 4-Alarm Fire In Denton Square

  26-12-2017 13:14
  Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at Downtown Mini Mall in Denton. (CBS11)
  DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Firefighters in Denton battled a four-alarm fire in the historic downtown square.
  Flames and heavy smoke could be seen from a building on Locust Street near Oak Street early Tuesday morning.
  The fire was four alarms and affected at least six businesses along the east side of Denton Square.
  There has been no word yet on a cause. There are currently no reported injuries.
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• Using Technology to Prevent Bird Strikes at Love Field

  26-12-2017 13:04
  
  New technology will be installed at Dallas Love Field in 2018 that is expected to reduce the number of bird strikes reported there.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• 'Believe in Me' Invests in the Children of Oak Cliff

  26-12-2017 12:59
  
  About two dozen children living in East Oak Cliff wrote their own narrative in a book, titled “Believe In Me.”Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• US Says It Negotiated $285M Cut In United Nations Budget

  26-12-2017 12:46
  (AP) – The U.S. government says it has negotiated a significant cut in the United Nations budget.
  The U.S. Mission to the United Nations said on Sunday that the U.N.’s 2018-2019 budget would be slashed by over $285 million. The mission said reductions would also be made to the U.N.’s management and support functions.
  The announcement didn’t make clear the entire amount of the budget or specify what effect the cut would have on the U.S. contribution.
  U.S. ambassador to the
  
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• Tradition Helps Families Spending Christmas at Hospital

  26-12-2017 11:04
  
  Nurses at Medical City Arlington help families of Christmases past continue a tradition aimed at making the stay a little more joyous.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Volunteers Buy Home For Woman After Paralyzing Car Crash

  26-12-2017 11:03
  
  Inspired to help a new friend, Brendy Kirkland and a team of volunteers spent three months trying to change a woman's life after a car accident left her paralyzed with five young children to take care of.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Top Cop Works Patrol to Give Officers Christmas Off

  26-12-2017 05:19
  
  For a lot of police officers, Christmas Day is like most other days: they put on the uniform and go to work. In Arlington, the highest ranking officer goes back to patrol.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Some Hurricane Harvey Evacuees Still In North Texas On Christmas

  26-12-2017 05:08
  FORT WORTH (CBS11) – Christmas Day never came for some families in DFW who are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey.
  There isn’t a sign of Christmas inside Burnika Fisher’s sparse apartment.There’s no Christmas tree, no tinsel and especially no gifts. Fisher and her four children moved into their Fort Worth apartment in October, after living in the Fort Worth Red Cross shelter for two months.
  Burnika Fisher – Hurricane Harvey evacuee in North Texas on Christmas (C
  
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• Fire Destroyed Dallas Police Officer's Home Christmas Eve

  26-12-2017 02:06
  
  It was a somber Christmas morning for the Guardiola family, after their Forney home was engulfed in flames Christmas Eve.Photo Credit: Gerardo Guardiola
  
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• Firefighters Come Through In Multiple Ways To Help Irving Family After Fire

  26-12-2017 01:41
  IRVING, Texas (CBS11) – An Irving family lost its home on Christmas Day to a devastating fire.
  The family believes a holiday decoration may be to blame.
  The loss of Samuel Castillo’s home in the 900 block of Rindle Street left a void for his family.
  Castillo thinks the fire was started by lights on their artificial Christmas tree.
  The family was at a relative’s house at the time.
  A couple and their four sons were left with nothing for the holidays but Irving firefighters did so
  
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• ‘Sound Of Music’ Actress Heather Menzies-Urich Dies At 68

  26-12-2017 01:15
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film, “The Sound of Music,” has died. She was 68.
  Heather Menzies-Urich (Louisa von Trapp)(Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
  Her son, actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that his mother died late Sunday in Frankford, Ontario. She recently had been diagnosed with brain cancer.
  “She was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest,” Uri
  
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• Community Rallies Behind Dallas Police Officer, Family After Fire Destroys Home

  26-12-2017 01:12
  FORNEY, Texas (CBS11) – Flames rapidly tore through a Kaufman County house while Gerardo Guardiola, his wife, and their extended family were finishing dinner on Christmas Eve.
  Forney house fire on Christmas Eve (Jack Fink – CBS11)
  On Christmas afternoon, all Guardiola could do was look at what’s left of the house he and his wife built 12 years ago. “All of it is gone. Everything is gone. It’s heart-breaking. I built this home in 2005. I moved in on Christmas Eve. I&
  
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