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• Gorilla Statue Will Return To Park Without Cage Despite Complaints

  01-03-2018 23:52
  CORSICANA (CBSDFW.COM) – City leaders in Corsicana responded to protests from its community after they removed a gorilla statue that had sat inside a cage on a playground there for almost 20 years.
  The structural integrity of “Dobby” the gorilla was assessed and, according to Mayor Don Denbow, with some modifications it will be placed back at Community Park for children to play on and around.
  Dobby will no longer sit in a cage though.
  “Dobby” the gorilla was so
  
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• Related Men Charged in Murder of Teenage Girl

  01-03-2018 23:38
  
  Two men are under arrest, accused of murder in the fatal shooting of a teenage girl Feb. 12 as she sat in a parked car near a Dallas city park.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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• Brother, Uncle Of US Presidents Passes Away

  01-03-2018 23:24
  MIAMI (AP) – William H.T. “Bucky” Bush, a wealthy investor and the brother and uncle of presidents, has died. He was 79.
  William H.T. “Bucky” Bush (Bush O’Donnell Investment Advisers)
  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush confirmed Thursday in an email to The Associated Press that his uncle died. He did not describe the cause.
  Jim McGrath, a spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush, said the president’s younger brother died Tuesday.
  The brother of the elde
  
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• Doctors: More People Want Nose Jobs To Make Selfies Look Better

  01-03-2018 23:06
  CBS Local — A picture may be worth a thousand words, but according to a new report a selfie is worth thousands of dollars in plastic surgery to a growing number of patients.
  A study published in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery found that selfies make a person’s nose appear to be 30 percent larger than it actually is. “Despite the ease with which selfies are taken, the short distance from the camera causes a distortion of the face owing to projection, most notably an inc
  
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• Winter Rain Nearly Erases North Texas Drought

  01-03-2018 22:41
  
  According to an updated drought map was released by NOAA Thursday, recent rain has almost erased the drought in North Texas.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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• Pair Arrested In Deadly Drive-By Shooting Of 14-Year-Old Girl In Park

  01-03-2018 22:40
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police have arrested two brothers for the murder of a 14-year-old Samuell High School student on February 12.
  George Salazar, 22, and Ernest Salazar, 25, are in custody for the murder of Natalie Hernandez.
  Police did not release any other information, including a possible motive for the deadly shooting.
  George and Ernesto Salazar
  Hernandez was a victim in a drive-by shooting in the 1800 block of Ormond Street, near Umphress Park.
  Natalie Hernandez – shoot
  
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• Doctors Rule Menstrual Cramps Can Be As Painful As Heart Attacks

  01-03-2018 22:36
  CBS Local — After years of debate, doctors are publicly acknowledging the severity of pain linked to some women’s periods. With physicians admitting the pain can rival that of a heart attack, some are now questioning why more research hasn’t been done to stop the menstrual agony.
  Dysmenorrhea, better known as cramps, is a painful menstruation that can be severe enough to interrupt the daily routine of one in five women, according to the American Academy of Family Phys
  
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• Report: Alleged Richardson Cop Killer Was Setting Up Ambush

  01-03-2018 22:15
  DALLAS (1080 KRLD) – According to KRLD’s L.P. Phillips, the man accused of killing Richardson police officer David Sherrard was prepared to ambush arriving officers.
  Affidavits that had been sealed until Thursday afternoon, paint a picture of Richardson police walking into a tactical ambush on February 7.
  Officers went to the Breckinridge Point Apartments near Renner Road and North Star Road around 7 p.m. in response to a disturbance call. Officers entered the apartmen
  
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• Mansfield Timberview Girls Basketball Team Heads To Semi-Finals

  01-03-2018 21:24
  MANSFIELD (CBS 11 SPORTS) – This moment in time should be savored forever.
  That’s the message Mansfield Timberview girls’ basketball coach Kit Martin plans to share with her team as they make their way to San Antonio for the 5A state semis this week.
  Timberview (36-2) takes on Corpus Christi Flour Bluff (29-9), 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Alamodome in the UIL Class 5A state semifinals.
  The Lady Wolves received a major send-off from school with hopes of having the outcome be much d
  
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• American Airlines offering its cheapest no-frills fares on transatlantic flights

  01-03-2018 21:20
  Starting in April, American Airlines Group Inc. will introduce its basic economy fares on some transatlantic flights.Fort Worth-based American (Nasdaq: AAL) did not disclose what routes the no-frills fares will be available on initially or how quickly they might be phased across the airline’s international network.The carrier is making the fares available in conjunction with its transatlantic partner carriers British Airways, Iberia and Finnair.
  “We're following the same playbook in
  
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• Irving company sees stock rise after landmark Trump decision

  01-03-2018 21:16
  In a landmark decision, President Donald Trump said Thursday his administration will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.The decision to slap a 25 percent tariff on steel in particular is sure to have ramifications across the economy. One company expected to prosper from the decision is Irving-based Commercial Metals Co. (NYSE: CMC).Commercial Metals was among the companies that lobbied Washington to impose a tariff on steel imports. The new president and CEO of the $4.6 billion steel&h
  
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• Ex-State official: Trump tearing up NAFTA growing less likely

  01-03-2018 20:33
  "The chance of that is less than it used to be. There was a moment about a year ago…that the president was on the verge of withdrawing," said Matthew Rooney, a former official in the State Department under both political parties who helped with regional economic policy between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
  
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• Southwest Airlines raises prices on beer, wine, cocktails

  01-03-2018 20:25
  Southwest Airlines passengers who appreciate their high-altitude alcohol will have to dig a little deeper.Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) is raising the price of alcoholic beverages on its flights starting March 1 by $1 or $2 per drink.Under the new prices, a glass of wine costs $6 and liquor costs $7. Beer costs $6 for Miller Lite or Dos Equis, or $7 for premium beer like Fat Tire, Lagunitas and Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy. Non-alcoholic beverages remain free.In most cases, th
  
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• Dallas Judge Deletes Lawsuit by Man Seeking to Wed Computer

  01-03-2018 20:18
  
  Three polygamists and a serial litigant walked into a courtroom.Photo Credit: Getty Images/Cultura RF, File
  
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• Manufacturing is booming both in the U.S. and Texas, here's why

  01-03-2018 20:10
  Manufacturing is booming. That's true both on a national, and a Texas level according to new industry data.
  
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• American Airlines names a new supplier for pilot uniforms

  01-03-2018 20:05
  More than 15,000 pilots flying for the world's largest airline soon will be suited in Murphy and Hartelius uniforms.Fort Worth-based American Airlines (Nasdaq: AAL) is introducing the new uniforms as part of the effort to replace Twin Hill-manufactured outfits that were supplied to some 70,000 airline employees in September 2016. Those Twin Hill uniforms are believed to be tied to symptomatic reactions experienced by thousands of AA employees. The reactions have ranged from rashes and hives
  
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• Dallas Elementary School Affected by Atmos Gas Outage

  01-03-2018 19:52
  
  Officials say Atmos Energy's planned gas outage will affect one elementary school in Northwest Dallas. However, classes will be able to continue there while that work is being done.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Small Plane Crashes In Field In Ellis County

  01-03-2018 19:47
  FERRIS, TX (CBSDFW.COM) — A twin engine plane made what was described as a ‘hard landing’ today in a field in Ellis Co. near Ferris, TX.
  Kyle Bradford with the Texas Department of Public Safety said one pilot was on board and was not injured.
  Small Plane Crashes In Field In Ellis County (CBS 11)
  According to FAA records, the plan is a Beech fixed wing multi-engine craft.
  Bradford said the plane experienced engine failure and the pilot attempted to make a safe landing in an
  
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• Facebook's Fort Worth, U.S. data centers contributing nearly $6B in GDP growth, study says

  01-03-2018 19:22
  Social media giant Facebook Inc.'s (Nasdaq: FB) growing data center presence in North Texas is helping produce some major moolah to the nation's bottom line, with a recent study by RTI International attributing nearly $6 billion of GDP growth to the company's ever-growing data center presence.
  Facebook has been adding to its $1 billion data center campus profile in Fort Worth, with two additional data center halls to accommodate the Menlo Park, California-based company's growing demand for data.
  
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• Gunshot At Georgia School Ignites Debate On Arming Teachers

  01-03-2018 19:16
  ATLANTA (AP) — Police say they don’t know why a popular teacher allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed.
  As officers arrested Dalton High School social studies teacher Jesse Randal Davidson, his students spoke their minds on social media.
  “My favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceede
  
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• Two Teens Indicted For Murder Of Plano Teen On Christmas Eve

  01-03-2018 18:41
  IRVING (1080 KRLD) – Two teens arrested for the murder of 17-year-old Brett Adkins have been indicted on capital murder charges. 
  Areon Trevon McDade (left), Damarcus Antwon Williams (Right)
  Officials say 19-year-old Areon Trevon McDade and 18-year-old Demarcus Antwon Williams of Irving were indicted Thursday in the shooting death of the Plano teen.
  Officers responded to a shooting call in the 200 block of Red River Trail shortly after 9:00 p.m. on December 24 and found Adkins sh
  
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• Putin Unveils Russia’s New ‘Invincible’ Nuclear Weapons, Blames U.S. For Withdrawing From Treaty

  01-03-2018 18:35
  CBS Local — Vladimir Putin had an ominous message for the rest of the world while unveiling Russia’s newest line of nuclear missiles. The Russian leader boasted that his country’s new weapons were “invincible” to U.S. and NATO defenses.
  In a nationally televised speech on Mar. 1, Mr. Putin showed off a wide array of underwater drones, cruise missiles, and ICBMs he claims were developed in response to the U.S. withdrawing from the 1972 anti-ballistic missile tre
  
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• Lincoln Property sells Yeti's headquarters building to another Dallas investor

  01-03-2018 18:27
  Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. has decided to sell a newly-developed office complex in southwest Austin for an undisclosed sum after fully leasing the property to Yeti, a maker of outdoor and recreational products.Lincoln Property has sold Lantana Ridge, a two-building office complex totaling 168,923 square feet at 7601 Southwest Parkway. The building was completed last year before Yeti moved its headquarters into the property, becoming its sole tenant.
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• Texas University Fires Baseball Coach For Colorado Marijuana Email

  01-03-2018 18:14
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A North Texas university has fired a baseball coach there for telling a high school player from Colorado that the team doesn’t recruit from the state because players there fail drug tests.
  Texas Wesleyan University President Fred Slabach and Athletic Director Steve Trachier made the announcement about baseball coach Mike Jeffcoat during a morning press conference.
  President Slabach started a press conference saying, “Mike Jeffcoat is no longer an em
  
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• Texas University Fires Baseball Coach For Colorado Marijuana Comment

  01-03-2018 18:14
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Texas university has fired a baseball coach there for telling a high school player from Colorado that the team doesn’t recruit from the state because players there fail drug tests.
  Texas Wesleyan University President Fred Slabach and Athletic Director Steve Trachier made the announcement about coach Mike Jeffcoat during a morning press conference.
  President Slabach said, “Mike Jeffcoat is no longer an employee with Texas Wesleyan University.
  
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• Atmos Energy to stop gas service for three weeks; 2,800 homes affected in 'extraordinary event'

  01-03-2018 17:51
  Atmos Energy will be conducting a planned outage of its natural gas service starting at noon on Thursday, affecting 2,800 homes in the northwest Dallas area.In what the Dallas-based company is calling a "truly extraordinary event," the affected neighborhoods will be out of service for 3 to 4 weeks.The company says weather conditions over the past several weeks was the cause of sudden and extreme leaks in several gas lines.Starting Thursday at noon, for 4 to 5 hours, Atmos will begin shutting&hel
  
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• Frisco health care provider expands New Mexico presence with $40M acquisition

  01-03-2018 17:14
  Addus HomeCare Corp. continues to expand its presence in New Mexico. The Frisco-headquartered home health care provider announced Wednesday its plans to purchase New Mexico's Ambercare Corp. Inc.Addus expects to close on the $40 million acquisition in the second quarter of 2018."We are particularly excited to supplement our service offering with hospice services through this acquisition, consistent with our strategy of providing an expanded range of home-based health care services," Addus CEO&he
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Multiple Envelope Issues At Oscars

  01-03-2018 16:47
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel is coming into his second year as Oscar host with the confidence of knowing he had nothing to do with last year’s historic envelope malfunction.
  “That part of the show is one I have no influence over whatsoever,” he said, “and I’m very glad I don’t.”
  The 50-year-old entertainer talked with The Associated Press about his plans for what he can control at Sunday’s show.
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• AAA: Texas, U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices Up 2 Cents This Week

  01-03-2018 16:32
  COPPELL (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Retail gasoline prices in Texas and across the country rose an average 2 cents per gallon this week.
  AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump statewide was $2.28 per gallon. Nationwide gasoline prices are at an average $2.54 per gallon.
  The association survey found El Paso has the cheapest gasoline in Texas this week at an average $2.18 per gallon. Drivers in Midland face the most expensive gasoline statewide at an average $2.54 per gallon.
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• Atmos Plans Gas Outages for Approximately 2,800 Homes

  01-03-2018 15:05
  
  Approximately 2,800 homes will have planned gas outages for up to three weeks as Atmos Energy crews work to replace the gas line system in an area where a 12-year-old girl was killed in a gas explosion at...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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• Collin County School Warns Visitors Staff Is “Armed And Trained”

  01-03-2018 14:46
  MELISSA (1080 KRLD) – One Collin County school district is warning visitors that members of their staff are ‘packing heat.’
  Signs that staff members “are armed and trained” have started popping up at the entrances and exits of Melissa schools this week. The policy that allows staffers to carry a gun on campus has been around since 2016.
  Any staff member in Melissa Independent School District can request to carry a firearm on campus, but must have a concealed ha
  
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• Trump Says Some Lawmakers Too Fearful Of NRA To Act On Guns

  01-03-2018 14:10
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Putting fellow Republicans in the hot seat, President Donald Trump is calling for quick and substantial changes to the nation’s gun laws even as he criticizes lawmakers for being too fearful of the National Rifle Association to act.
  Trump held a freewheeling, televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House that stretched for an hour Wednesday, and he rejected both his party’s incremental approach and its strategy that has stalled action on gun legislation.
  
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• TX Couple Considers 2nd Bankruptcy to Survive Medical Debt

  01-03-2018 14:02
  
  NBC 5 has seen how crushing medical debt can be for North Texans. Some of the lengths people are willing to go to avoid this financial epidermic are jaw-dropping.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Texas Man Sentenced For Hate-Crime Assaults On Gay Men

  01-03-2018 13:38
  DALLAS (1080 KRLD) – A north Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for hate-crime assaults on gay men.
  On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced Chancler Encalade to 10 years in prison for his role in several beatings of gay men.
  Chancler Encalade
  Court records show another defendant in the case was previously sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the crimes.
  Officials say two other suspects are set for an April 13th trial in federal court in Plano.
  Prosecutors say the fou
  
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• Walmart, Dick’s Expand Corporate Rift With Gun Lobby

  01-03-2018 13:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — The rift between corporate America and the gun lobby is growing.
  Retail heavyweights Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods have taken steps to restrict gun sales. That follows moves by several other major corporations, including MetLife, Hertz and Delta Air Lines, that have cut ties with National Rifle Association following last month’s school massacre in Florida.
  Dick’s said Wednesday it will immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of a
  
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• Frustration Growing as More Residents Told to Evacuate

  01-03-2018 12:40
  
  Residents in a northwest Dallas neighborhood say they never received notification to evacuate their homes Wednesday morning as Atmos crews investigate a deadly home explosion and replace miles of gas lines.Photo Credit: Metro
  
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• Atmos Shutting Down System In Area Where Gas Explosion Occurred

  01-03-2018 12:14
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Atmos Energy announced this morning that they are shutting down the natural gas system in an area of Dallas where a house explosion, several fires and gas leaks have occurred.
  Officials say residents in the area will be without natural gas service for approximately three weeks.
  Atmos Mid-Tex Division President John Paris said, “Over the last 24 hours, as we continued to try and stabilize this system, we reached the conclusion…. from a performance sta
  
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• Showers and Storms Moving Across North Texas

  01-03-2018 07:01
  
  Showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for Wednesday in North Texas.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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• Tarrant Medical Examiner Remembers Branch Davidian Carnage

  01-03-2018 06:50
  
  Perhaps nobody knows in more gruesome detail about how the 85 people died at the Branch Davidian compound than Tarrant County Medical Examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani.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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• Frustration Growing Over Evacuated Dallas Neighborhood

  01-03-2018 06:27
  
  Residents in a northwest Dallas neighborhood say they never received notification to evacuate their homes Wednesday morning as Atmos crews continue to investigate a deadly home explosion and replace more...Photo Credit: Metro
  
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• Investigation into Coach's Controversial Email

  01-03-2018 05:44
  
  Texas Wesleyan University says it is investigating a controversial email sent to a possible recruit from the school's head baseball coach.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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• Atmos Expands ‘Safety Boundaries’ Due To Gas Leaks

  01-03-2018 05:10
  DALLAS (CBS11) – Hundreds of people remained evacuated from their homes on Wednesday and several roads were shut down in Northwest Dallas as Atmos Energy crews tried to figure out the source to recent gas leaks and problems.
  Atmos expanded the “safety boundary,” where it now stretches north and south from Northwest Highway to Forest Lane to east and west from Midway Road to Webb Chapel.
  Atmos Energy crews work on gas leaks (Jeff Paul – CBS11)
  Work trucks and Atmos personn
  
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• Customers Say They’re Out Thousands After Hiring Pool Builder

  01-03-2018 05:00
  NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – A Burleson woman called Consumer Justice after she says a local pool builder took her money and dug a hole but never finished the job. That’s when we found several customers with similar complaints.
  Kandy McCorkle was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis four years ago. She says the disease hit hard and fast. “I was taking 13 medications… I was struggling just to hold silverware to eat.” Her doctors suggested she swim to help maintain and i
  
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• Eighth Grade Boy Allegedly Threatens To Kill Two 13-Year-Old Girls

  01-03-2018 04:49
  IRVING (CBSDFW.COM) – Thirteen-year-old Britney Holstein’s phone lit up two nights ago with increasingly hostile messages.
  “It just kept going off,” she said.
  The messages, she said, were sent by a 12-year-old boy from her school to her and her best friend.
  “Get some money to come to me,” he wrote. “And when you get here just know you gonna be dead by the time you arrive.”
  The 8th grader at Irving’s Austin Middle School showed CBS 11 News the
  
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• Texas Man Gets Prison For Hate-Crime Assaults On Gay Men

  01-03-2018 04:08
  PLANO (AP) — A Texas man was sentenced to federal prison for hate-crime assaults on gay men.
  A federal judge sentenced Chancler Encalade to 10 years in prison Tuesday. Previously, Nigel Garrett was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the crimes. Cameron Ajiduah had pleaded guilty but withdrew it and chose not to accept his plea deal. He and co-defendant Anthony Shelton are set for an April 13 trial in federal court in Plano.
  Encalade and Garrett have said the four of them used
  
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• TWU Baseball Coach Turns Down Recruit From Colorado: ‘You Can Thank Your Liberal Politicians’

  01-03-2018 03:12
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Wesleyan University head baseball coach Mike Jeffcoat is in potential hot water with the university over the email he sent a recruit from Colorado.
  Jeffcoat said he would not recruit him because marijuana is legal in the student’s home state.
  Mike Jeffcoat (Texas Wesleyan University)
  The email read:
  “Thanks for the interest in our program. Unfortunately we are not recruiting players from the state of Colorado. In the past, players have had troubl
  
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• Fear And Unrest In Northwest Dallas As Gas Leak Evacuations Expand

  01-03-2018 02:33
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Few answers; but, plenty of unrest in a Northwest Dallas community rocked by fires and a fatal house explosion. More evacuations were ordered Wednesday.
  “We are in a hurry!” breathed Olga Pena in a rush, standing in a doorway only partly opened. “They said quick! Get out!”
  Atmos Energy crews had just knocked on her door, warning her and others in the 3800 block of Cortez to evacuate because of a suspected gas leak.
  “Obviously I’m co
  
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• 'First Ladies' Exhibit to Open at The Bush Center

  01-03-2018 01:38
  
  From Martha Washington to Melania Trump, the role of America’s First Lady has evolved dramatically over time. The Bush Center is opening a new exhibit called, “First Ladies: Style of Influence,” which opens...
  
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