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• TCU Sues Former Football Player Who Is Suing University

  02-02-2018 23:44
  FORT WORTH (CBS11) – A day before a former football player sued TCU, the school filed its own lawsuit against the player.
  The legal battle surrounds Kolby Listenbee, a former wide receiver for the Horned Frogs.
  AMES, IA √¢ OCTOBER 17: Wide receiver Kolby Listenbee #7 of the TCU Horned Frogs celebrates after pulling in a touchdown pass over running back Nick Leach #27 of the Iowa State Cyclones in the first half of play at Jack Trice Stadium on October 17, 2015 in Ames, Iowa. (Ph
  
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• ‘Missing’ California Woman Spotted On ‘The Bachelor’ TV Show

  02-02-2018 23:37
  HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. (CBSDFW.COM) – A 22-year-old woman was listed on California’s missing persons database and was eventually “found” on the TV show “The Bachelor” two months after being reported missing.
  According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Rebekah Martinez, also known on the show as “Bekah M,” was reported missing on November 18, 2017 by her mother. Her mother told deputies that she had last talked to her daughter on
  
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• Deadline Monday for Voting in March Primary

  02-02-2018 23:14
  
  The last day to register to vote in the upcoming March primary election is Monday, Feb. 5.Photo Credit: NBC 7
  
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• Liukin Steps Down As US Women’s Gymnastics Team Coordinator

  02-02-2018 23:10
  PLANO, Texas (AP) –  The coordinator of the women’s national team for USA Gymnastics has stepped down, the latest departure to rock the embattled organization in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal centered on former team doctor Larry Nassar.
  Valeri Liukin made the announcement on Friday, less than 18 months after taking over for Martha Karolyi in September 2016.
  United States’ Nastia Liukin is huged by her father and coach, Valeri Liukin (L) after the women’s individ
  
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• Settlement Reached In Lawsuit Over Sweltering Texas Prison

  02-02-2018 22:56
  DALLAS (AP) —  A tentative settlement agreement has been reached in a civil rights lawsuit in which attorneys for inmates at a Southeast Texas prison said sweltering summer heat was endangering the inmates’ health, both sides announced Friday.
  The agreement would call for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to guarantee air conditioning for 1,400 inmates of the Wallace Pack Unit covered by the lawsuit, said Jeff Edwards of Austin, the inmates’ attorney. Temporary arra
  
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• The Cowtown Marathon Gives 5,000 Kids New Running Shoes

  02-02-2018 22:54
  
  People from all over the world are coming to Fort Worth later this month to run The Cowtown Marathon, which continues to serve as a fundraiser. Over the course of this season, the nonprofit will deliver shoes to...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Texas Youth Prison Guards Allegedly Choked Teen Unconscious

  02-02-2018 22:43
  GAINESVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two Texas youth prison guards are accused of choking a teenager in custody until he became unconscious and asking him if he was “ready to go sleep.”
  Court documents released Friday also accuse a third correctional officer at the same state-run juvenile lockup in North Texas of walking up to another teenager and punching him in the head and body four times with a closed fist.
  All three were arrested this week and charged with official oppression as part
  
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• Stocks Swoon, Dow Down 665 Points

  02-02-2018 22:17
  NEW YORK (AP) – The stock market closed sharply lower, extending a weeklong slide, as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 600 points.
  Stocks ended their worst week in two years Friday, and the Dow’s drop was its biggest in percentage terms since June 2016.
  (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
  Several giant U.S. companies dropped after reporting weak earnings, including Exxon Mobil and Alphabet. Apple and Chevron also fell.
  Bond yields rose sharply after the government
  
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• Why this Plano developer thinks Legacy is primed for new speculative office towers

  02-02-2018 21:58
  After years of planning, Heady Investments Founder Randy Heady said he's readying a development site in Plano's Legacy Business Park for the real estate investment firm's latest speculative office project: Two 14-story office towers connected by an amenity deck over a parking garage.
  And, in that time, Legacy Business Park has only ripened for development with the addition of Toyota North America and Liberty Mutual Insurance, said Heady, who has spent decades developing multi-tenant office build
  
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• US Women's Gymnastics Coordinator Stepping Down

  02-02-2018 21:40
  
  The coordinator of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team stepped down Friday, the latest fallout from revelations of repeated and long-term sexual abuse of minor gymnasts by their former longtime team doctor...Photo Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP
  
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• The Champ Is Here!

  02-02-2018 21:28
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Grand Champion Steer at the 2018 Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo has been crowned!
  European crossbreed Mufasa won the title.
  2018 Grand Champion Steer Mufasa and Ben Bezner (Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo)
  The steer has been raised by Ben Bezner from Texline, Texas on the Texas-New Mexico border.
  The steer will be auctioned off Saturday morning at the sale of champions.
  
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• Bush Got Contractor Donations After $13M Harvey Contract

  02-02-2018 21:09
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Employees of a disaster recovery accounting firm donated almost $30,000 to Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s re-election campaign days after his agency signed a nearly $13.5 million contract with the company to help manage the state’s Hurricane Harvey response.
  George P. Bush (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
  Bush’s office is overseeing the housing rebuild post-Harvey and agreed to the contract in October with Horne LLP. Three days later, 3
  
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• Dead Goose Falls From Sky, Knocks Hunter Unconscious

  02-02-2018 21:00
  EASTON, Md. (AP) — A waterfowl hunter is in stable condition after a dead goose fell from the sky and knocked him unconscious.
  Robert Meilhammer of Dorchester County was hunting with three other people when one of them fired at a flock of Canada geese overhead in Easton, near the Miles River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
  Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson said a falling goose hit Meilhammer, knocking him out and causing head and facial injuries.
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• Form D Friday: Real estate fund raises ramp up

  02-02-2018 20:57
  Welcome back to Form D Friday, where we take a look at local regulatory filings each week to see who’s raising capital for a new project, a new investment idea, or to simply expand their business.
  
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• Two Texas accounting firms acquire other practices

  02-02-2018 20:50
  A Houston-based accounting firm is entering the Dallas-Fort Worth market with its Feb. 1 acquisition, the same day that a Fort Worth-based accounting firm acquired a Houston tax practice. In the first deal, Houston-based Calvetti Ferguson is opening a Dallas office with the acquisition of Holden & Parker. Ken Sibley, formerly of Sibley & Co. PC CPAs, was named partner in charge of the Dallas office, at 8226 Douglas Ave., Ste. 655. He’s joined by Ken Holding, founding sharehold
  
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• Plano East Students Fight Back Against Cyberbullying

  02-02-2018 20:48
  
  Students at Plano East Senior High School are taking a stand against cyberbullying after learning one of their gay classmates was recently targeted in a Snapchat post.
  
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• Sisters Fight Off Carjacking Suspect In Los Angeles Nail Salon Attack

  02-02-2018 20:31
  LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM) – An attack inside a Los Angeles nail salon was caught on surveillance camera as sisters fought off a carjacker.
  The attack started after the suspect followed the two sisters into Bio Laque Nails in Los Angeles Wednesday morning.
  When inside, the suspect hit a salon employee and then turned on the sisters.
  Surveillance video shows the man punching the two women, who were at the salon to get manicures. They were able to fight back and bashed the man in the head with
  
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• 2 Players in NBC 5's Doggie Bowl Awaiting Adoption

  02-02-2018 20:25
  
  Two dogs that played in the NBC 5 Doggie Bowl last week are still awaiting adoption with Fort Worth Animal Services.Photo Credit: Fort Worth Animal ServicesThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• American Airlines crew zip-ties, duct-tapes unruly passenger in latest airborne altercation

  02-02-2018 20:24
  An American Airlines crew restrained a passenger with zip ties and duct tape after she allegedly bit and kicked flight attendants during the landing of Flight 1033 from Dallas to Charlotte, North Carolina.The passenger, 36-year-old Charlene Sarieann Harriott, was charged on Thursday, one day after the violent incident that occurred while the plane was just 200 feet off the ground.Harriott "knowingly and intentionally" interfered with the operating of the flight by "intimidating and assaulting"&h
  
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• News Now: Attempted Attack On Nassar & Rockwall Coach On Leave After Photo

  02-02-2018 19:32
  A Rockwall varsity soccer coach is on administrative leave after the district learned about a photo making the rounds on social media. The photo shows girls on the team flashing middle fingers to the camera, while the coach is in background posing with the players. A father of three victims in the Larry Nassar sexual assault case attempted to attack the disgraced former gymnastics doctor in court.
  
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• YouTube Begins Flagging Videos Backed By Governments

  02-02-2018 19:18
  MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – YouTube says it has started flagging videos provided by news outlets that receive government backing. The move is part of a commitment that its parent company, Google, made last year when it was hauled before congressional investigators looking into Russian tampering with the U.S. electorate.
  (credit: ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)
  In particular, Google faced numerous questions about RT. The service formerly known as Russia Today used to be a preferred partner, g
  
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• Groundhog Day Report: Flu’s Worsening Shadow Blanketing U.S.

  02-02-2018 19:10
  NEW YORK (AP) — It looks like Groundhog Day for the nation’s flu report, too: It’s gotten worse, and there are weeks of suffering ahead.
  The government’s report out Friday showed the flu season continued to intensify last week.
  One of every 14 visits to doctors and clinics were for symptoms of the flu. That’s the highest level since the swine flu pandemic in 2009. Last week, 42 states reported high patient traffic for the flu, up from 39.
  Hospital stays because of t
  
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• Texas-Based Dell Considers VMware Purchase, Going Public Again

  02-02-2018 18:18
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dell Technologies is considering merging with business software provider VMware as part of several potential strategic options.
  The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker already owns 82 percent of VMware. The company said the board of directors is reviewing the option.
  Detail of a door to a Dell server and storage device tower. (credit: Stefan Zaklin/Getty Images)
  Dell, which went private in 2013, also said Friday it is considering a public offering of stock.
  In a regulato
  
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• White House Declassifies The House Intelligence Committee Memo On FBI Tactics

  02-02-2018 18:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday declassified a partisan and bitterly disputed memo on the Russia investigation, clearing the way for House Republicans to release allegations of what they say is FBI misconduct.
  The move came over the fierce objections of the FBI and Justice Department, which have said the document prepared by Republicans on the House intelligence committee is inaccurate and missing critical context.View this document on Scribd
  The memo alleges that the FBI abuse
  
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• 12-Year-Old Girl Booked After Accidental LA School Shooting

  02-02-2018 17:43
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jordan Valenzuela was in class when he heard the bang, and then the screaming.
  LA middle school shooting
  In a classroom next door, a 15-year-old boy had been shot in the head, a 15-year-old girl was shot in the wrist and several others were struck by broken glass.
  Jordan tells The Associated Press that his 12-year-old classmate at Salvador B. Castro Middle School told him it was an accident.
  The sobbing girl told him: “I didn’t mean to. I had the gun in my ba
  
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• BNSF's 2018 capital investment totals $3.3B

  02-02-2018 17:18
  BNSF Railway announced earlier this week its capital investment plan will total $3.3 billion this year, with the largest component going toward replacing and maintaining the railroad's core network and related assets."Our infrastructure is strong and robust," said Carl Ice, BNSF president and chief executive officer, in a prepared statement. "Our efforts to normalize our maintenance investment have positioned us to replace the right assets at the right locations at the right time."The Fort Worth
  
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• News Now: Shooting On DART Train & Furry Weather Prediction

  02-02-2018 17:10
  One person is in the hospital and another behind bars after an early morning shooting on a DART train in Dallas. And a high school coach in Rockwall is on administrative leave after a pic surfaced showing the team making obscene gestures and this February 2 all eyes were on Punxsutawney Phil – find out the weather verdict.
  
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• Cowboys Fan Uses Obituary to Declare ‘Dez Caught It’

  02-02-2018 17:10
  
  An 86-year-old man in Wichita Falls used his obituary to let the world know that “Dez, did, in fact, catch the ball.”Photo Credit: Frank Heinz, NBC DFW
  
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• Jason Garrett Must Be More Consistent: Moose Johnston

  02-02-2018 15:58
  
  Moose Johnston is sticking by Jason Garrett as the Cowboys head coach. He is demanding one thing from Garrett going forward.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• WATCH: Victim’s Father Tries To Attack Ex-Sports Doc Nassar In Court

  02-02-2018 15:31
  CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A father of three victims of Larry Nassar tried to attack the disgraced former sports doctor Friday during a court hearing in Michigan.
  After two of his daughters spoke, the father, Randall Margraves, asked the judge for “five minutes” in a locked room with Nassar. The judge said she couldn’t do that. He then asked for one minute, and later said he was a “distraught father.”
  The judge cautioned Margraves after he called Nassar a pr
  
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• Judge: Victim’s Father Won’t Be Charged With Attacking Nassar In Court

  02-02-2018 15:31
  CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A father of three victims of Larry Nassar rushed and tried to attack the disgraced former sports doctor on Friday during a sentencing hearing in Michigan, after the judge declined his request for “five minutes” alone with Nassar in a locked room. He was quickly tackled by bailiffs.
  Two of the man’s daughters had just told Judge Janice Cunningham they and another sister had been sexually abused by Nassar under the guise of medical treatmen
  
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• Elton John Farewell Tour Dallas Tickets Go on Sale

  02-02-2018 15:29
  
  Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. for the Dallas stop of his “Farewell, Yellow Brick Road” tour.
  
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• Dallas Ambush Gunman Sang 'Proud Mary' in Standoff

  02-02-2018 15:27
  
  For the first time, an officer who helped take down the shooter in the July 7, 2016 ambush is talking publicly about what happened.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Exxon Mobil Reports $8.38 Billion Profit, But Misses Wall Street Forecasts

  02-02-2018 14:53
  IRVING (AP) – Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported fourth-quarter profit of $8.38 billion.
  The Irving, Texas-based company said it had profit of $1.97 per share. Earnings, adjusted for pretax gains, came to 88 cents per share.
  The results missed Wall Street expectations, but Exxon does not adjust its reported results based on one-time events such as asset sales. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.06 per share.
  The oil and nat
  
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• Police Make Arrest After Shooting On DART Train In Downtown Dallas

  02-02-2018 14:26
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in downtown Dallas are investigating an early Friday morning shooting aboard a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) train. It happened around 5:00 a.m. shortly before the train reached Pearl Station, which authorities briefly shut down in order to investigate the case.
  DART officials say the incident started with two men got into an argument while riding on the Orange Line. That argument then escalated into a fist fight before one of the men pulled a gun and o
  
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• Police In Downtown Dallas Investigate Shooting Aboard DART Train

  02-02-2018 14:26
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in downtown Dallas are investigating an early Friday morning shooting aboard a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train. It happened at about 5:00 a.m. shortly before the Pearl Station, which authorities briefly shut down in order to investigate the case.
  Officials with DART explained that this incident started with two men getting into an argument while riding the Orange Line train. That argument then escalated into a fist fight before one of the men pulled out a
  
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• ER Nurse In Viral Video: ‘Wash Your Stinking Hands’

  02-02-2018 14:12
  PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida nurse’s Facebook rant about the “cesspool of funky flu” in emergency room waiting areas is getting a lot of attention.
  “Wash your stinking hands,” Katherine Lockler says in a six-minute video that’s been viewed 4.9 million times.Lockler told the Pensacola News Journal she recorded the video after a 12-hour shift on Jan. 27 because she’s concerned people aren’t taking the proper precautions during a nasty flu s
  
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• Instant Pot Super Bowl Appetizers You Need to Try

  02-02-2018 14:00
  
  The NBC 5 Today team is in search of the perfect Super Bowl appetizer, and our viewers came through with dishes made using the much-hyped Instant Pot.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Bundle Up! Punxsutawney Phil Sees 6 More Weeks Of Winter

  02-02-2018 13:54
  PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog foresees no early end to winter.
  Punxsutawney Phil’s handlers announced Friday the weather prognosticator saw his shadow.
  Legend has it if the furry rodent casts a shadow on February 2, Groundhog Day, expect six more weeks of winter-like weather. If he hadn’t seen his shadow, the prediction would have been for an early spring.
  Phil’s prediction is decided ahead of time by the group on Gobb
  
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• Federal Judge Knocks Down Florida’s Voting Ban For Ex-Felons

  02-02-2018 13:42
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In a ruling that could have reverberations on this year’s crucial elections, a federal judge Thursday ruled that Florida’s current ban on former felons voting is unconstitutional and needs to be changed as soon as possible.
  U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a blistering ruling that says the state’s current process to restore voting rights — which can take years — is flawed. The lawsuit was filed last year against Gov. Rick Scott b
  
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• Groundbreaking Set for Dallas' Second Deck Park

  02-02-2018 13:37
  
  A groundbreaking is scheduled for the end of this month on what will become the second deck park to be built above a Dallas highway.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Oncor, Sempra woo key holdout on acquisition with energy efficiency aid

  02-02-2018 13:30
  Dallas electricity giant Oncor has agreed to help more low-income customers make energy improvements to their homes in a deal to get a key holdout to sign off on Sempra Energy’s $9.45 billion bid, state filings show.
  
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• Why Kyle Bass' iconic Texas ranch sold in less than a year

  02-02-2018 13:24
  It didn't take luxury ranch broker Bernard "Bernie," Uechtritz too long to get multiple bids on Dallas hedge fund manager Kyle Bass' Barefoot Ranch outside of Dallas-Fort Worth.
  The 2,493-acre ranch — once marketed at $59.5 million — attracted multiple would-be buyers before selling to an undisclosed Texas buyer for an undisclosed sum, said Uechtritz, founder of Icon Global and broker with Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International realty.
  "The sellers were happy and the buyers were happ
  
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• 1st Texas Child To Access Medical Marijuana Inspired By Rockwall Girl

  02-02-2018 13:17
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – On Thursday a six-year-old girl in Central Texas became the first patient in the state to legally access medical marijuana. It happened two and half years after state lawmakers legalized it for patients with intractable epilepsy.
  State Representative Stephanie Klick, from North Richland Hills, is widely credited with pushing through the current law, but she said she wasn’t always in favor of medical marijuana. “Initially I was very skeptical.”&n
  
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• Texas Company is Focus of Consumer Complaints: BBB

  02-02-2018 13:11
  
  The Better Business Bureau says All Things Country has only been around for three years, but the number of complaints it has received is just not normal.
  
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• Google’s AI Push Comes With Plenty Of People Problems

  02-02-2018 13:04
  MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently declared that artificial intelligence fueled by powerful computers was more important to humanity than fire or electricity. And yet the search giant increasingly faces a variety of messy people problems as well.
  The company has vowed to employ thousands of human checkers just to catch rogue YouTube posters, Russian bots and other purveyors of unsavory content. It’s also on a buying spree to find office space for its burgeoni
  
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• Rockwall ISD Soccer Coach On Leave After Offensive Team Photo Surfaces

  02-02-2018 13:00
  ROCKWALL (CBSDFW.COM) – The girls varsity soccer coach at Rockwall-Heath High School is on administrative leave after a photograph surfaced showing the coach and the team making obscene gestures. The picture has been circulating online and the Rockwall Independent School District was quick to take action.
  In the photograph, the coach is joined by several varsity soccer team members who are giving the middle finger to the camera.The school district learned about the picture on Monday and&nb
  
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