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• Profiling GOP Primary Candidates In State Senate District 8: Angela Paxton

  26-02-2018 23:45
  DALLAS (CBS11) – CBS11 is taking a closer look at some of the key races in the Texas primary.
  One race that’s heated up is the Republican battle in State Senate District 8, which is largely in Collin County, but some of Dallas County as well.
  The Republicans are well-known conservative brand-names: Angela Paxton, wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Phillip Huffines, the former Dallas County Republican Party Chairman, whose twin brother Don is a State Senator in Dallas.
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• McKinney Avenue Tavern in Uptown Dallas has Closed

  26-02-2018 23:45
  
  McKinney Avenue Tavern -- known for its turtle races, karaoke nights and sports-bar vibe -- has closed in Uptown Dallas on Friday because of lack of business.Photo Credit: Jerry McClure / Special Contributor / Guide Live
  
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• Profiling GOP Primary Candidates In State Senate District 8: Phillip Huffines

  26-02-2018 23:43
  DALLAS (CBS11) – As we enter the second week of early voting for the Texas primary, we continue to highlight some of the key races in North Texas.
  CBS11 is profiling the GOP primary in the State Senate District 8 race between two powerful conservative brand names: Angela Paxton, whose husband is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Phillip Huffines, the former Dallas County Republican Party Chairman, whose twin brother Don is a state senator in Dallas.
  The war of words in TV attack ads er
  
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• DCS' Budget Shortfall at $16M is Double Expectations

  26-02-2018 23:31
  
  Big buses, bigger money troubles for the committee that's working to shut down Dallas County Schools.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• ‘One In A Million’ Yellow Cardinal Spotted In Alabama

  26-02-2018 23:30
  CBS Local — Biologists say a woman in Alabama has a “one in a million” house guest as an extremely rare yellow cardinal has been filmed snacking at the homeowner’s bird feeder repeatedly.
  “I thought ‘well there’s a bird I’ve never seen before’,” Charlie Stephenson said, via AL.com. “Then I realized it was a cardinal, and it was a yellow cardinal.”
  Auburn University biology professor Geoffrey Hill says the rare find is d
  
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• About 100 Shepton High Students Walk Out In Support Of Gun Legislation

  26-02-2018 23:28
  PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – Students at Shepton High School in Plano walked out of class on Monday to show their support for stricter gun laws.
  Approximately 100 students gathered on the tennis courts for the demonstration.
  Shepton High School walkout (Chopper11)
  In a statement, Plano ISD said, “Since students felt resolved to host a demonstration, the Shepton High School administration worked with them to create an opportunity for a student-led gathering, which was conducted peacefully and
  
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• Elderly Woman Robbed in Grocery Store Parking Lot

  26-02-2018 23:20
  
  An elderly woman was robbed while in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store in Fort Worth Thursday.
  
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• Town of Highland Park Implements Text to 911

  26-02-2018 23:17
  
  The town of Highland Park implements the ability to text 911 in case of an emergency if calling is not an option.Photo Credit: Frank Heinz, NBC 5 News
  
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• Arlington Reveals Texas Live! Construction Progress

  26-02-2018 23:09
  
  Texas Live!, Arlington's 200,000-square-foot entertainment, dining, and hospitality venue, is on track to be completed by late summer or early fall.Photo Credit: Eric Kreindler
  
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• Plano Students Walk Out Following Florida Shooting

  26-02-2018 22:50
  
  About 100 students in Plano walked out of class Monday to draw attention to gun policy concerns following the school shooting in Florida.
  
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• Body Found in Dallas' White Rock Creek

  26-02-2018 22:46
  
  Dallas police have confirmed that one person was found dead Monday at White Rock Creek near the spillway.
  
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• Mavs to Announce New CEO Amid Front Office Controversy

  26-02-2018 22:42 via nbcdfw.com
  
  The Dallas Mavericks are expected to name former AT&T executive Cynthia Marshall interim CEO Monday.
  
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• Bill Cosby’s Daughter Ensa, 44, Dies From Renal Disease

  26-02-2018 22:23
  BOSTON (AP) – Bill Cosby’s 44-year-old daughter Ensa Cosby died in Massachusetts from kidney disease, a spokesman for the comedian said Monday.
  Spokesman Andrew Wyatt did not immediately offer other details about her death on Friday.
  “Please keep the Cosby family in your prayers and give them peace at this time,” he said.
  Bill Cosby (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
  Bill Cosby lost another of his five children in 1997 when his 27-year-old son, Ennis, a graduate st
  
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• Hero Dog Who Saved Teen Goes Home After Successful Surgery

  26-02-2018 21:57
  CBS Local — A heroic dog in Washington state, who fought off armed burglars to save his 16-year-old owner, finally got to go home after recovering from surgery.
  Rex, a 2-year-old German Shepherd, was beaten and shot at least three times while fighting two suspects inside his Des Moines home on Feb. 21. “I could hear them getting closer and closer through the creak in the floor. Then one of the guys screamed, ‘Get the dog, the dog bit me, the dog bit me!'” Javier Mercado s
  
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• Trash Collector Injured In Crash With Train Out Of Hospital

  26-02-2018 21:55
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – A trash collector who was injured when his truck was hit by a train carrying Republican congressmen through rural Virginia has been released from a hospital after weeks of treatment.
  A spokesman for the University of Virginia Medical Center said Monday afternoon that the man had been released.
  The other trash collector who was aboard the truck was killed in the collision Jan. 31. The truck’s driver sustained minor injuries.
  The lawmakers were on their way
  
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• House Speaker Straus: Managing growth will be state’s biggest challenge

  26-02-2018 21:55
  Managing growth will be the biggest challenge the state faces over the next decade, retiring Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Joe Straus said Monday in Irving.“The business community is wanting to know whether the state is confronting and solving the problems caused by rapid growth,” the San Antonio Republican said at a meeting of the North Texas Commission.
  “The concerns that business people have are really not partisan," he said. "They know that there are no Repu
  
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• Dallas museum getting new name, multi-million-dollar upgrade

  26-02-2018 21:49
  Construction is underway on a multi-million-dollar upgrade to the Crow Collection of Asian Art in the Dallas Arts District. The project will bring a new gallery, retail shop and interactive street-level art studio to downtown Dallas by the end of the year.
  The upgrade will also increase the museum's footprint along the southwest corner of Harwood and Flora streets in the Arts District.
  "The plan is to complete the museum with spaces that fulfill the visionary spirit of co-founders Margaret and&h
  
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• Main Event names restaurant veteran to CEO role

  26-02-2018 21:45
  Main Event Entertainment has named a former restaurant executive as its president and CEO.Chris Morris will take over the Plano company’s top job effective March 26. He succeeds Charlie Keegan, who stepped down in November after nearly a decade in the role.Morris most recently served as president of California Pizza Kitchen, where he helped the restaurant chain undergo a turnaround that led to positive comparable store sales.Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and chief fi
  
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• 50 Arrested In Houston-Area Cock Fighting Operation

  26-02-2018 21:22
  PEARLAND, Texas (AP) — Authorities in a suburban Houston county say they’ve arrested 50 people and have seized 165 birds in the bust of a large-scale elaborate rooster fighting operation.
  Brazoria County sheriff’s officers say they also found as many as 50 dead birds believed to have been killed in the fights.
  Sheriff’s Lt. Varon Snelgrove says deputies responded Sunday to a call about a possible cock fighting operation in an unincorporated area of Pearland, immediately s
  
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• CPS Energy CEO named to board of Dallas Fed's San Antonio Branch

  26-02-2018 21:15
  CPS Energy CEO Paula Gold-Williams has been named to the seven-member board for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' San Antonio Branch.Gold-Williams will serve a three-year term on the San Antonio branch's board, the Dallas Fed announced. She is expected to provide input on regional economic conditions as part of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy functions.The Dallas Fed's San Antonio Branch board members are from business and academia, with four appointed by the Dallas Fed and three a
  
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• Three Individuals Charged With Capital Murder of Ahmed Omar

  26-02-2018 21:10
  
  Three individuals are arrested and charged with capital murder in connection to Ahmed Omar’s homicide by Plano police.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• BBVA Compass CEO shrugs off Trump talk on NAFTA

  26-02-2018 20:20
  BBVA Compass CEO Onur Genç told the Dallas Business Journal he isn't worried about negotiations to amend the free trade agreements between the U.S. and its neighbors Mexico and Canada despite a fresh round of threats by the administration and pessimism among officials.
  
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• Three Mesquite Residents Jailed For Murder Of Plano Businessman

  26-02-2018 20:18
  MESQUITE (CBSDFW.COM) – Three suspects have been jailed in connection to the Valentine’s Day murder of a Plano businessman.
  Plano police have arrested three suspects from Mesquite for the Valentine’s Day shooting of businessman Ahmed Omar.
  Omar was found shot to death in front of his home on McAlice Drive. Investigators in Plano still don’t know why he was targeted, but they think the suspects are behind it.
  Police Officer David Tilley says officers have booked
  
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• 3 Mesquite Residents Jailed For Murder Of Plano Businessman

  26-02-2018 20:18
  MESQUITE (CBSDFW.COM) – Three suspects have been jailed in connection to the Valentine’s Day murder of a Plano businessman.
  Plano police have arrested three suspects from Mesquite for the Valentine’s Day shooting of businessman Ahmed Omar.
  Omar was found shot to death in front of his home on McAlice Drive. Investigators in Plano still don’t know why he was targeted, but they think the suspects are behind it.
  Police Officer David Tilley says officers have booked
  
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• Kids Use Tech So Much They Can’t Hold A Pencil Anymore, Doctors Say

  26-02-2018 20:15
  CBS Local – After previous studies claimed that children who overuse mobile devices struggle learning to speak, a group of doctors are now saying young children in the digital generation can’t even hold a pen or pencil anymore.
  “Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago,” pediatric occupational therapist Sally Payne told The Guardian. “Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly
  
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• AT&T partnering on platform that predicts car problems before they happen

  26-02-2018 19:59
  AT&T (NYSE: T) is teaming up with CarForce to predict and fix car issues before they happen.The Dallas-based technology giant announced at Mobile World Congress 2018 that it’s partnering with connected car company CarForce to launch an Internet of Things solution set to roll out in the first quarter of this year. The platform will help car dealerships, fleet managers and repair shops get real-time data on the health of their customers’ vehicles. Based on that data, machine l
  
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• Police: Body Recovered From White Rock Lake

  26-02-2018 19:54
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police say a body was recovered from White Rock Lake around noon on Monday.
  Officials from the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire & Rescue are at White Rock Lake investigating after a man’s body that was pulled from the water.
  The body was recovered near the south end of the lake, near the spillway.
  Officials say the body has been taken to the medical examiner’s officer.
  Police say early indications are that foul play was not involved
  
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• Lake Levels After Recent Rains

  26-02-2018 19:21
  
  An updated drought map, released on Thursday still shows a moderate to severe drought across much of the region.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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• Fort Worth Police Looking For Man That Stole Purse From Elderly Woman

  26-02-2018 18:46
  FORT WORTH (KRLD-AM) – Police in Fort Worth are looking for a thief preying on the most vulnerable.At 6:45 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Kroger on Beach St. at Western Center Blvd., a man stole a purse from an elderly woman as she was loading her groceries into her car.“The 75-year-old victim was standing at the driver’s door (of her Toyota Camry) two feet away during the offense,” says Fort Worth police officer Jimmy Pollozani.
  Pollozani says the man was loiter
  
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• Dallas Love Field set to receive nearly $6M in funding for runway project

  26-02-2018 18:42
  The Dallas City Council is set to approve spending nearly $6 million for the relocation and construction of a crucial component at Dallas Love Field Airport.
  
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• Following Brainspace acquisition, Cyxtera Technologies expands its DFW footprint

  26-02-2018 18:34
  A Coral Gables, Florida-based technology firm has significantly expanded its Dallas-Fort Worth operations in Addison to accommodate its growing operations. The expansion comes after the firm acquired Brainspace, an investigative analytics firm, last May.
  Cyxtera Technologies has leased an additional 30,913 square feet of office space in Addison Circle One, giving the company a total footprint of more than 45,000 square feet at the office building along the Dallas North Tollway.
  The Dallas area&h
  
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• CDC Researcher Vanishes After Leaving Work Sick

  26-02-2018 18:19
  CBS Local — A CDC researcher in Atlanta who called out sick two weeks ago has reportedly vanished without a trace. The parents of Timothy Cunningham are now offering a $10,000 reward for help finding their son.
  Cunningham, a commander in the United States Public Health Service and epidemiologist with the CDC, was last heard from on Feb. 12 after leaving work early and filing for a two-week sick leave. “He sounded not like himself,” Tiara Cunningham, the commander&rsqu
  
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• DallasCIO announces 2018 ORBIE Award winners

  26-02-2018 18:09
  The Dallas CIO Leadership Association announced the winners for its 2018 Dallas CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards at a breakfast event Feb. 23 at the Westin Galleria Dallas.The ORBIE Awards honor chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. Nominated CIOs and those in equivalent positions are evaluated on innovation, leadership, business value creation and community involvement.This year's Leadership Award recipient is Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO of AT&T Business
  
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• Americans Say Congress Is Listening To All The Wrong People

  26-02-2018 17:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking for common ground with your neighbor these days? Try switching subjects from the weather to Congress. Chances are, you both agree it’s terrible.
  In red, blue or purple states, in middle America or on the coasts, most Americans loathe the nation’s legislature. One big reason: Most think lawmakers are listening to all the wrong people, suggests a new study by researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-Santa Barbara with the Assoc
  
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• President Trump Says He Had Lunch With NRA leaders

  26-02-2018 17:48
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he had lunch during the weekend with key leaders of the National Rifle Association as he seeks to address gun violence and school safety.
  US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state and local officials on school safety in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
  Trump is telling the nation’s governors that he had lunch with the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre
  
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• Spared Ex-Texas Death Row Inmate Loses Supreme Court Appeal

  26-02-2018 17:15
  HOUSTON (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from spared former Texas death row inmate Thomas “Bart” Whitaker that questioned whether the state’s use of a compounded version of the powerful sedative pentobarbital for executions would cause unconstitutional pain.
  The high court Monday offered no comment on its decision refusing the civil rights lawsuit filed by Whitaker and another condemned prisoner, Perry Williams.
  Whitaker last week won a rare c
  
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• Wounded Florida High School Student Says She’s Recovering

  26-02-2018 17:06
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A tearful student who was wounded in the shooting rampage at a Florida high school thanked the doctors and first responders who helped her and said Monday she is making a full recovery.
  Speaking at a hospital news conference, Maddy Wilford, 17, said “it’s times like these when I know that we need to stick together.”
  “I'm so grateful to be here & it wouldn't be possible without the officers & 1st responders & amazing doctors. Especia
  
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• VIDEO: Dramatic Rescue Of Children From Texas Apartment Fire

  26-02-2018 16:33
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – It was a narrow escape for a mom and her three kids in Houston. The family’s home was one of several at the Cornerstone Village Apartments that caught fire after midnight on Monday morning.
  Video shows firefighters bringing the family down a ladder perched against the back balcony while flames raged behind. A neighbor tweeted that that balcony collapsed just one minute after everyone was rescued.
  In all, the fire destroyed 16 apartments in the complex.
  Fir
  
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• 1 Dead in Domestic Dispute: Police

  26-02-2018 16:12
  
  Police are searching for a suspect who they believe fatally shot a victim in a domestic dispute, police say.
  
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• Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Appeal Over DACA

  26-02-2018 15:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is rejecting the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.
  The justices on Monday refused to take up the administration’s appeal of a lower court order that requires the administration to continue accepting renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. What made the appeal unusual is that
  
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• Naked Man On ATV Leads Police On Chase In Missouri

  26-02-2018 15:21
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a naked man has been arrested in Missouri after fleeing on an all-terrain vehicle and driving the wrong way on an interstate.
  Police say the man is suspected of being under the influence of drugs during the Sunday afternoon chase in northern Kansas City.
  The chase began with the man eluding officers in a field. After finding a break in a fence, the man made his way onto Interstate 435, where he occasionally drove into oncoming traffic. He was capture
  
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