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• Police: UberEATS Driver Charged With Killing Customer

  19-02-2018 23:52
  ATLANTA (AP) – Police say an Atlanta food delivery driver accused of fatally shooting a customer is in custody.
  LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 16: An Uber Eats rider cycles through central London on February 16, 2018 in London, England. Millions of part-time and flexible workers in the so-called gig economy are to receive new rights including sick and holiday pay under a new government reform. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
  Local media report 36-year-old Robert Bivines turned himsel
  
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• Man Shot By Texas Trooper Dies, Wounded Officer Recovering

  19-02-2018 23:43
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) – Authorities say a man who shot and wounded a Texas state trooper before a trooper shot him has died.
  Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Deon Cockrell says 33-year-old Ernest Manuel Montelongo, of San Antonio, died Monday at a hospital. He says the trooper who was wounded Sunday should recover.
  Authorities say a trooper stopped Montelongo’s car in Guadalupe County for a traffic violation, and he gave a false name and sped away.
  A DPS helicopter located him i
  
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• DWI Suspect Arrested After Falling Asleep

  19-02-2018 23:27
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas DPS troopers lost him once, but ultimately got their man.
  Daniel Duffy, 22, was first arrested by troopers after a traffic stop for possibly driving while intoxicated on Northwest Highway overnight.
  Daniel Duffy
  But while troopers were searching Duffy’s vehicle, the DPS said a handcuffed Duffy managed to get out of the cruiser and ran off.
  The DPS said Duffy went home to his Uptown apartment and went to sleep.
  That’s where troopers found him and arre
  
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• Fatal Crash Closes Ramp to 121/360 in Grapevine

  19-02-2018 23:23
  
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• Boy Scouts Get ‘Thank You’ Shout Out From Southlake DPS

  19-02-2018 22:51
  SOUTHLAKE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Some North Texas Boy Scouts stayed busy on Presidents’ Day, doing something positive in the community.
  They planted American flags around Southlake Town Square.
  Southlake DPS took notice on Twitter and thanked them.
  The City of Southlake Department of Public Safety tweeted, “A special thank you to the local Boy Scouts for placing U.S. Flags around Town Sq. for President’s Day. Flags have also been lowered to half-staff on City bldgs. in hon
  
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• Thieves Target Wallets at a La Madeleine in Grapevine

  19-02-2018 22:33
  
  Police say a man was caught stealing credit cards to make fraudulent purchases on Friday around noon at a La Madeleine in Grapevine.
  
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• Trump Offers Support For Limited Effort On Background Checks

  19-02-2018 21:32
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump offered support for a limited strengthening of federal background checks on gun purchases Monday while staying largely mum in the last few days about the victims of the Florida school massacre and the escalating debate about controls on weapons.
  One side of that debate was represented outside the White House as dozens of teens spread their bodies across the pavement to symbolize the dead and call for stronger gun controls, a precursor to
  
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• Caraway Wants to Ban Assault Weapons, Asks NRA for Help

  19-02-2018 20:17
  
  Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is calling on President Donald Trump, and elected officials at all levels, to begin working laws that would ban assault weapons while at the same time asking the National...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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• Grapevine Police Say Suspected La Madeleine Purse Thieves Are Back

  19-02-2018 20:15
  GRAPEVINE (CBSDFW) – Grapevine police say a suspected purse thief is back to her stealing ways after laying low for several months, this time with accomplices. 
  Know this woman? She using stolen credit cards across north Texas. Victims are targeted as they eat lunch.https://t.co/DrulkfCvFl pic.twitter.com/4h9Uc36BrE
  — Grapevine Police (@GrapevinePolice) October 25, 2017Officials say a woman that is suspected in a string of thefts last summer may be linked to a new crime this mon
  
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• State Fair Of Texas Theme Is ‘Celebrating Texas Innovation’

  19-02-2018 19:46
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The theme of the 2018 State Fair of Texas will be “Celebrating Texas Innovation.”
  Officials with the fair announced Monday the theme for the event scheduled to begin September 28 and run through October 21 at Fair Park in Dallas.
  (credit: Jason Hays/State Fair Of Texas)
  Authorities say the annual state fair and exposition has been a breeding ground for Texas education and innovation over the past 132 years. Education remains a main focus of the Sta
  
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• Financial Benefits of Getting Married

  19-02-2018 19:14
  
  Consumer Reports looks at what you need to know financially before tying the knot.Photo Credit: Consumer Reports
  
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• News Now: Dallas Leader Faces NRA, Oklahoma Wildfires Rage & Giant Toy Fair

  19-02-2018 19:09
  Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is asking the NRA to stay away from North Texas. And video captures some tense moments as firefighters in Oklahoma battle a wildfire. The CBS 11 Weather Team has a look at your soggy forecast and one of the nation’s biggest toy fair’s includes hot new items and some nostalgic throwbacks.
  
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• People Squawking About KFC Problem – Restaurants Running Out Of Chicken

  19-02-2018 17:47
  (CNN Money) – KFC is running out of … chicken?
  The fast food chain has been forced to temporarily close hundreds of restaurants in the United Kingdom after a logistics snafu stopped chicken deliveries.
  About 800 of the company’s roughly 900 locations in Britain were closed as of midday on Monday. Some had opened for business by the afternoon, according to the company’s website.
  KFC, which is owned by Taco Bell and Pizza Hut parent Yum!, said the chicken shortage had been
  
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• News Now: USPS Driver Killed, Rain This Week, Fergie’s National Anthem

  19-02-2018 16:56
  We’re still following the shooting death of a USPS driver on a Dallas highway, and tracking storms expected in the DFW area this week. Plus, have you seen Fergie’s rendition of the national anthem?
  
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• Fergie’s National Anthem At NBA All-Star Game Gets Mixed Reaction

  19-02-2018 16:24
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Fergie tried something different with her national anthem at the NBA All-Star Game, and not everybody was cheering.
  The Black Eyed Peas singer’s slow, bluesy rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Sunday night wasn’t particularly well received at Staples Center or on social media before the 67th edition of the NBA’s annual showcase.
  A low chuckle rumbled through the sold-out arena after Fergie finished the first line of the song with a t
  
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• White House: President Supports Improving Gun Background Checks

  19-02-2018 16:07
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – The White House says President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve the federal gun background check system after a school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead.
  Florida HS shooting victims (credit: CBS News)
  Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that the president had spoken to Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, about a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen the FBI database of prohibited gun buyers.
  The Press Secretary’s m
  
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• Watch: Texan Justin Olsen's Final 2-Man Bobsled Run

  19-02-2018 15:30
  
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• Doctors Remind That It’s Not Too Late To Get The Flu Shot

  19-02-2018 14:16
  CEDAR HILL (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County Health and Human Services has reported that two more people have died from flu-related illnesses. That brings the total number to 69 flu-related deaths in Dallas County this season, and the season is not over yet.
  The most recent Dallas County patients were 92 and 78 years old with high-risk health conditions. This joins with 29 deaths in Tarrant County, 15 deaths in Collin County and eight deaths in Denton County to show just how severe the flu
  
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• Consumers Say Auto Shop Holding Cars, Ripping Off Consumers

  19-02-2018 14:15
  
  Two consumers call NBC 5 after "getting the run around" from an auto shop owner. They say their cars have been stuck in the shop for more than a year and the owner refuses to offer refund.
  
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• High Court Asked To Iron Out Polling Place Clothing Dispute

  19-02-2018 13:51
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A “Make America Great Again” hat. A tea party T-shirt. A MoveOn.org button.
  Wear any one of those items to vote in Minnesota, and a poll worker will likely ask you to remove it or cover it up.
  Like a number of states, Minnesota bars voters from wearing political items to the polls to reduce the potential for confrontations or voter intimidation. But that could change. The Supreme Court on Feb. 28 will consider a challenge to the state’s law, in a case th
  
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• Woman Waits Months to Claim Car from Shop

  19-02-2018 13:48
  
  Two consumers call NBC 5 after "getting the run around" from an auto shop owner. They say their cars have been stuck in the shop for more than a year and the owner refuses to offer refund.
  
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• Postal Truck Driver Killed After Shooting on I-30

  19-02-2018 13:46
  
  Several lanes are closed as police investigate an incident where a truck driver was shot while driving on Interstate 30 in Dallas Monday morning, police say.
  
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• 'Time to Put Heat' on NRA: Mayor Pro Tem Caraway

  19-02-2018 13:38
  
  Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway says, "We have got to take on the NRA."Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Original Picasso Print Stolen From Milwaukee Art Gallery

  19-02-2018 13:35
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — An original Pablo Picasso print worth up to an estimated $50,000 was stolen from a downtown Milwaukee art gallery.
  According to a Milwaukee television station, appraiser Bill DeLind says his business partner noticed the original 1949 print was missing from DeLind Fine Art Appraisals on Friday. Picasso only did 30 of the prints and signed each with a green crayon in the lower right corner.DeLind says someone could have walked in the unlocked door unnoticed because he and hi
  
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• State Fair Announces 2018 Theme

  19-02-2018 13:13
  
  Officials with the State Fair of Texas say the theme for this year's fair will be "Celebrating Texas Innovation."Photo Credit: State Fair of TexasThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway Says “We Have Got To Take On The NRA”

  19-02-2018 13:13
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The National Rifle Association is currently scheduled to hold their annual meetings at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas this May. But one Dallas leader is now calling for the organization to stay away from the Texas city.
  Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is urging the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits to find a new home, saying that the gun event is inappropriate following last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
  
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• Trump Stays Quiet On Shooting Victims, Fumes Over Russia

  19-02-2018 13:03
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump spent the holiday weekend hunkered down at his Florida estate, watching cable television news, grousing to club members and advisers and fuming over the investigation of Russian election meddling.
  In a marathon series of furious tweets from Mar-a-Lago, Trump vented about Russia, raging at the FBI for what he perceived to be a fixation on the Russia investigation at the cost of failing to deter the attack on a Florida high school. He made
  
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• Texas 26 Work Causes Temporary Traffic Trouble

  19-02-2018 12:03
  
  Progress comes at a price in Tarrant County as the widening of Texas 26 is set to cause some closures on the road to completion.
  
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• Best President's Day Sales

  19-02-2018 12:03
  
  NBC 5's Samantha Chatman scopes out some of the best President's Day deals.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• U.S. Postal Service Driver Shot & Killed On Dallas Highway

  19-02-2018 11:40
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker, driving along Interstate-30 in Dallas, was shot and killed early Monday morning.Dallas police received a call reporting a shooting just before 2:30 a.m. Officers went to the scene and found a truck in the eastbound lanes of I-30, on the ramp to southbound Interstate-35. The 18-wheeler had crashed against the guardrail.
  Two other postal service trucks pulled up shortly after the shooting. A USPS worker at the scene tol
  
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• One Killed In Dallas Freeway Shooting

  19-02-2018 11:40
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – One person has been killed after a shooting along I-30 in Dallas involving a postal service truck.
  Photo: Tim Lavow/CBSDFW
  Dallas Police got the call around 2:20 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-30 on the ramp to southbound I-35.
  Video from the area showed a USPS big rig and two post office box trucks on the scene.
  The ramp from eastbound I-30 to southbound I-35 was shut down so police could investigate.
  The Dallas County Medical Examiner was called to the scene.
  
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• I-30 Lanes Closed as Police Investigate Shooting

  19-02-2018 11:38
  
  Several lanes are closed as police investigate an incident where a truck driver was shot while driving on Interstate 30 in Dallas Monday morning, police say.
  
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• City Councilman Accused of Standing in the Way of Progress

  19-02-2018 07:59
  
  A Dallas City Councilman is facing accusations that he's "standing in the way" of economic progress. The fight between the councilman and his constituents is happening in Dallas District 7. Kevin Felder says hisPhoto Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Two Texans Have Work Cut Out for Them in Bobsled

  19-02-2018 07:52
  
  The U.S. men’s two-man bobsled teams have their work cut out for them after the first two runs Sunday. Brian Curtis talked to the athletes after the races.Photo Credit: Wong Maye-E/AP
  
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• Texas Rangers Reporter Writes Children's Book

  19-02-2018 07:16
  
  Texas Rangers Dugout Reporter Emily Jones recently wrote a children's book called "A Place for Everyone" that teaches kids to be kind to one another.A portion of the proceeds from the...
  
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• Finding Joy at Society Coffee

  19-02-2018 06:58
  
  What brings you joy? If you lose it, how do you get it back? NBC 5's Kristin Dickerson spent a morning with some really happy people at Society Coffee in Euless to explore the topic of happiness.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Former President of Mexico Talks Politics and President Trump

  19-02-2018 05:53
  
  The former president of Mexico was in Dallas Sunday night. Vicente Fox has been among the most vocal opponents of President Trump and his plan to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.
  
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• At Least 4 Shot, Including 6-Year-Old, At Texas Roadhouse In San Antonio

  19-02-2018 05:40
  SAN ANTONIO (CBSNEWS) – Police in San Antonio said four people were shot, including a 6-year-old boy, outside a Texas Roadhouse restaurant Sunday on the city’s westside. The San Antonio Police Department said they received multiple reports of a shooting
  All three of the adult victims were in their 20s. Two of the three adults suffered life-threatening injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital where they remain in stable condition, police said in a news conference Sunday. The
  
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• Ennis Police Say Threat To School A Hoax

  19-02-2018 05:33
  Police said a social media post about a threat to Ennis High School was a hoax.
  
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• Cities Pitching Diversity In Efforts To Lure Businesses

  19-02-2018 05:11
  (AP) – Some cities and regions are highlighting racial diversity along with positive business climates, competitive tax rates and available land in pitches to lure tech companies and high-paying jobs to town.
  Places such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Detroit are touting their populations of people of color to chief executives and other corporate officials as part of being open for business.
  “For Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania, ethnic and racial diversity has been an integ
  
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• Hippo Calf Dies During Birth at Dallas Zoo

  19-02-2018 05:02
  
  The Dallas Zoo says it's female hippo gave birth to a hippo calf early Saturday morning, but the calf did not survive.Photo Credit: Dallas Zoo
  
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• Burning Blue: Meet Dallas’ Newest Professional E-Sports Team

  19-02-2018 01:45
  (Source: MLG Network)
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Dallas Fuel is the newest professional sports team in Dallas/Fort Worth.
  What makes the Fuel different is that they are a professional e-sports team. That’s right, they play a video game. And they are paid to do it.
  Dallas is one of 12 franchises that is participating in the inaugural season of the Overwatch League. Some of the other “homes” of Overwatch League teams include Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, Shangh
  
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• Plano Councilman Will Not Resign Following Anti-Islam Facebook Post

  19-02-2018 01:00
  PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – A Plano city councilman at the center of controversy over a Facebook post will not resign after the city council held a special session Sunday.
  On Tuesday, Tom Harrison shared a Facebook post which read: “Share if you think Trump should ban Islam in American schools.” The post had a picture of a girl wearing a head covering.
  Plano city councilman Tom Harrison. (CBS11)
  City council members voted seven to one to censure Harrison. A censure is like a public re
  
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• Hundreds Come Out to Support Family of Fallen Richardson Officer

  19-02-2018 00:36
  
  Jeep clubs, officers, and people from all over North Texas came out to Shady’s Burgers in Richardson on Sunday to show their support for fallen Police Officer David Sherrard.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Plano Council Votes to Censure Councilman Over Facebook Post

  19-02-2018 00:33
  
  The city council in Plano held a special meeting Sunday to address concerns over a councilman's social media post that has some calling for his resignation.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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