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• Cheerleaders Potentially Exposed To Mumps At National Competition In Dallas

  07-03-2018 23:42
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Health and Human Services has confirmed a person with mumps was in attendance at the National Cheerleaders Association’s All-Star Championship, which took place February 23 – February 25 in Dallas.
  “As far as we are aware, this is an isolated situation and only one case of the mumps has been reported,” said the Vice President of Public Relations For Varsity Spirit in a statement. “We are working with the Texas Department of State He
  
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• Tanker Crash Closes I-20 in Fort Worth

  07-03-2018 23:40 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A crash involving an 18-wheeler has closed Interstate 20 in Tarrant County Wednesday morning, authorities say.Photo Credit: Fort Worth PDThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Florida School Shooting Suspect Indicted On 17 Counts Of Murder

  07-03-2018 22:57
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was formally charged Wednesday with 17 counts of first-degree murder, which could mean a death sentence if he is convicted.
  The indictment returned by a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale also charges the 19-year-old with 17 counts of attempted murder for the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in which 17 people died and more than a dozen others were wounded.
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• Bikers Help Primary Opponent Defeat Texas Prosecutor In Waco

  07-03-2018 22:19
  WACO (CBSDFW.com/AP) — Voters have routed the Texas prosecutor pursuing charges against more than a hundred bikers in cases stemming from a fatal 2015 shootout involving bikers and police outside a restaurant in Waco.
  Local bikers heartily campaigned for Abel Reyna’s Republican opponent in Tuesday’s primary election. The result means attorney Barry Johnson will run uncontested for McLennan County district attorney in November.
  Abel Reyna and Barry Johnson (photo credit: Waco Tr
  
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• South Texas Officer Accused Of Human Smuggling On Leave

  07-03-2018 22:08
  BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Prosecutors say a South Texas police officer was charged with human smuggling after he was caught among the dunes at Padre Island National Seashore during a Border Patrol search for immigrants.
  Brownsville police Officer Valerie Rivas on Tuesday appeared in federal court in Corpus Christi and was released on a $20,000 unsecured bond. Brownsville police put Rivas on paid administrative leave.
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• Here's how the trucking industry can attract more women drivers

  07-03-2018 21:40
  Today, just under 7 percent of truck drivers are women, said Ellen Voie, president and CEO of the Women In Trucking Association.
  
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• Southwest Debuts 'Louisiana One'

  07-03-2018 21:22
  
  Southwest Airlines debuted its latest state-themed aircraft, honoring the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. Southwest's first served New Orleans in 1979, marking the first destination outside...Photo Credit: Southwest AirlinesThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Water Main Cut in Southlake

  07-03-2018 21:19
  
  A water line was cut in Southlake, causing several inches of water to flood the road.Photo Credit: Southlake DPS
  
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• Money woes remain as Frisco's $3B Wade Park evades foreclosure auction

  07-03-2018 21:15
  The proposed $3 billion Wade Park mixed-use development was granted a stay from foreclosure auction on Tuesday, but one analyst said the high-profile project could be posted for foreclosure again in the near future.The stalled development was up for foreclosure auction on Tuesday after lenders behind Wade Park foreclosed on construction loans made to Wade Park Land LLC, an affiliate limited liability company of Atlanta-based Thomas Land & Development"It was crazy to see that Wade Park was po
  
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• Remains Found in Anna Possibly Human

  07-03-2018 20:55 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Human remains have been found in Anna, according to the Collin County Sheriff's Department.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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• National Restaurant Association Keeps Getting Mistaken For The National Rifle Association

  07-03-2018 20:45
  CBS Local — In an embarrassing case of mistaken identity, many Americans are reportedly confusing the highly criticized NRA with an organization in the restaurant industry.
  The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has apparently been drawn into the national debate on gun control after several people, including politicians, have had to clarify the difference between this NRA and the National Rifle Association.
  U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) distanced herself from a report that claimed
  
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• Marrying A First Cousin Not That Harmful To Family Tree, Study Says

  07-03-2018 20:29
  CBS Local — With online genealogy companies growing in popularity, a new study is suggesting that marrying a cousin should not be considered a bad thing for your family tree.
  Data scientists at Columbia University have published a report in the journal Science that examines the DNA of a 13 million member family tree and data found in online genealogy profiles. The research found that first cousins share about 12.5 percent of the same DNA. Second cousins share just over six percent of
  
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• Former First Lady Michelle Obama Participating In Events Across Dallas

  07-03-2018 20:19
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Former First Lady Michelle Obama is in North Texas. Mrs. Obama is attending and participating in the closing session of the “Women’s Foodservice Forum” in Dallas.
  At the forum Mrs. Obama will take part in a conversation on the importance of supporting the advancement of women in the workplace. For the last three days, foodservice workers have had a chance to attend more than 30 leadership development workshops and hear dozens of best-s
  
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• News Now: Election Results & Bully’s Punishment

  07-03-2018 20:02
  We’re looking at the results of last night’s Texas primary elections, and talking about a Virginia father who punished his son for bullying on a school bus by making him run to school.
  
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• Dallas private equity firm among bidders for significant amount of Weinstein assets

  07-03-2018 20:01
  Dallas private equity firm Lantern Asset Management is among the bidders for assets of the Weinstein Co. after a previous deal led by a former Obama administration official fell through.The movie studio is reportedly heading toward a bankruptcy in the wake of sexual assault allegations leveled at Harvey Weinstein, allowing firms to pick off movie libraries and projects in development, according to a report from Deadline Hollywood. A group of investors that included Lantern and was led by Ma
  
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• Babies Who Look Like Their Dads Are Healthier, Study Says

  07-03-2018 20:01
  CBS Local — A new study has concluded that babies who look like their fathers tend to be healthier than other children. Researchers at Binghamton University added that dads who see themselves in their child’s face were also more active in raising the baby.
  “Fathers are important in raising a child, and it manifests itself in the health of the child,” Prof. Solomon Polachek said in a press release. “Those fathers that perceive the baby’s resemblance to the
  
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• Missing 15-Year-Old Has Been Found

  07-03-2018 19:55
  UPDATE: Dallas Police said shortly after 8:00 p.m. Russell has been found.
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas police are asking the public to help them locate a teenager that went missing around 12:00 a.m. Tuesday morning.
  Tia Russell (Dallas PD)
  Police say 15-year-old Tia Russell was last seen on foot in the 7200 block of Marvin D. Love Freeway in Dallas.
  She was wearing a black top with a gold New Orleans symbol, and black pants.
  Tia is 5-foot-five, weighs 150 pounds and has black hair and bro
  
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• New vision for Uptown dims neighborhood nightlife

  07-03-2018 19:36
  The chatter on McKinney Avenue in Uptown is that nightlife is slowing down to eventually transition into a more residential neighborhood.Dallas City Councilman, Philip Kingston has been listening to the concerns of people who live in the area.Throughout the years, residents have filed several noise complaints about nightlife.Kingston states McKinney Avenue should represent the people who live there."We have had people run over, we have had shootings and it really looks a lot like Greenville&hell
  
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• Opioids No Better Than Over-The-Counter Pain Meds, Study Finds

  07-03-2018 19:32
  CBS Local — A yearlong study offers rigorous new evidence against using prescription opioids for chronic pain. In patients with stubborn back aches or hip or knee arthritis, opioids worked no better than over-the-counter drugs or other nonopioids at reducing problems with walking or sleeping. They also provided slightly less pain relief.
  Opioids tested included generic Vicodin, oxycodone or fentanyl patches although few patients needed the most potent opioids. Nonopioids included generic T
  
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• DART App Lets Passengers Discreetly Report Safety Concerns

  07-03-2018 19:23
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is using a smartphone app to try and help keep their passengers safe.
  The DART Say Something Safety and Security App gives passengers a way to report concerns directly to DART Police. DART spokesman Morgan Lyons said, “This is a way to provide us some additional information, to take pictures and some video, of what’s going on and to do it discreetly.”
  For 15 years Stacey Lewis has been commuting an
  
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• Former Search Volunteers Hoping Remains Bring Morris Family Closure

  07-03-2018 19:21
  ANNA, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Law enforcement in Collin County responded to a wooded area on Wednesday morning after the discovery of human remains. This happened shortly before 10:00 a.m. near the intersection of Taylor Boulevard and Black Willow Trail in Anna.
  According to the Collin County Sheriff’s Office, construction workers were clearing brush in the area when they stumbled across the remains. The workers then contacted the authorities. Nic Bristow with the Collin
  
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• Anna Police Investigating Body Found In Wooded Area

  07-03-2018 19:21
  ANNA, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Law enforcement officials in Collin County responded to a wooded area on Wednesday morning after the discovery of human remains. This happened shortly before 10:00 a.m. near the intersection of Taylor Boulevard and Black Willow Trail in Anna.
  According to the Collin County Sheriff’s Office, a couple of men were clearing brush in the area when they stumbled across the remains. The workers then contacted the authorities. Nic Bristow with the Co
  
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• Video Of Smoking Orangutan Lands Zoo In Hot Water, Again

  07-03-2018 19:00
  JAKARTA, Indonesia – An Indonesian zoo infamous for mistreatment of animals is being slammed again by activists after a video emerged of one of its orangutans smoking.
  Activist Marison Guciano said Wednesday the smoking great ape is further evidence of a lack of supervision and education at Bandung Zoo, about 75 miles southwest of the capital, Jakarta.
  In the video shot Sunday, a young man flicks his half-smoked cigarette into the primate’s enclosure. It’s picked up by the
  
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• Exclusive: Dallas-based developer to invest $100M in revitalizing former Exxon campus

  07-03-2018 18:46
  "We’re going to give you a lot of bang for your buck."
  
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• Confirmed: GateHouse to buy Austin American-Statesman for nearly $48 million

  07-03-2018 18:30
  GateHouse Media Inc. is buying the Austin American-Statesman for $47.5 million.The deal, announced Tuesday afternoon, was expected — Austin Business Journal reported Feb. 23 that the sale was imminent.Cox Media Group LLC put Austin's daily newspaper up for sale last year. It has owned the Statesman for more than four decades.The deal is expected to close in the second quarter. It includes the Ahora Si Spanish-language weekly and the Austin Community Newspapers group, with news outlets in&h
  
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• Live Video: Tanker Crash Closes I-20 in Fort Worth

  07-03-2018 18:17 via nbcdfw.com
  
  A crash involving an 18-wheeler has closed Interstate 20 in Tarrant County Wednesday morning, authorities say.Photo Credit: Fort Worth PDThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Chicago private equity firm buys biggest Jiffy Lube operator

  07-03-2018 18:17
  Chicago private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has acquired the largest franchisee of Jiffy Lube oil change centers, Irving's Heartland Automotive Services.
  
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• Best Buy’s Geek Squad Techs Search Customer Computers For The FBI, Reports Claim

  07-03-2018 18:14
  CBS Local — A child pornography case against a California doctor has revealed that Geek Squad technicians have worked with the FBI to uncover data on customer’s computers for years. One non-profit is now saying that the nature of the FBI’s relationship with the techs may have violated the U.S. Constitution.
  Digital rights non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit last year after it was discovered that the FBI allegedly pai
  
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• Missing 15-Year-Old Girl Last Seen in Dallas

  07-03-2018 18:08
  
  Dallas police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teenager who was last seen Tuesday.
  
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• Missing Woman From Dallas

  07-03-2018 17:55
  
  Dallas police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 69-year-old woman who was last seen Tuesday.
  
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• Listen Up J.R. Ewing Fans! You Have A Chance To Spend The Night At Southfork

  07-03-2018 17:42
  PARKER (CBSDFW.COM) – Booking.com is offering four guests the first-time ever (and to date one-time ever) chance to “Live Like an Ewing” and spend the night at Southfork Ranch… but you have to hurry!
  The company has started a “Book the U.S.” list that offers one-time and everyday opportunities, across the country, to stay at famous landmarks, caves, houseboats, castles, treehouses and more.
  To celebrate the 40th anniversary of television show “Dall
  
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• Behind a plan to lay hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable across Texas

  07-03-2018 17:34
  A fiber optic infrastructure business is investing in an expanded network that stretches across the state to meet demand for public-sector and data center clients.
  
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• Colonial Tournament To Be Renamed Fort Worth Invitational For 2018

  07-03-2018 17:20
  FORT WORTH (AP/105.3 The Fan) — The city of Fort Worth has settled on a name for the PGA Tour’s annual event at the Colonial Country Club after the previous title sponsor backed out of its agreement.
  In a news release Wednesday, Fort Worth officials announced that the tournament will proceed as the Forth Worth Invitational for 2018.
  “We are thrilled, and think it very appropriate, that this year’s tournament will be named the Fort Worth Invitational,” said Rob
  
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• How to Conquer Fear of Missing Out at SXSW

  07-03-2018 17:14
  
  Since it was founded in 1987, the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, has grown from a little indie, grassroots event that locals barely noticed to a phenomenon that attracts 400,000 people and...
  
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• News Now: Texas Primary Election Results & DART Security App

  07-03-2018 16:13
  Look at the results of some key races from the 2018 Texas primaries. Also, DART is rolling out a new security app to make transit safer.
  
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• Texas Among States To Begin Surveys For Lesser Prairie Chicken

  07-03-2018 15:30
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Wildlife managers in several states will begin surveys later this month to track the population of a grouse that has been the focus of an ongoing legal battle over whether it warrants federal protection.
  Officials say aerial surveys for the lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas will start March 16 and run through mid-May.
  (credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  The lesser prairie chicken was listed as threatened under the Endan
  
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• Female Beer Brewers Raise A Glass To International Women’s Day

  07-03-2018 15:09
  NEW YORK (AP) – Female brewers worldwide are raising a stein to International Women’s Day.
  Thousands of women in the beer business and female homebrewers are brewing together around the event, which falls on Thursday, seeing it as a way to raise the profile of women in a male-dominated industry.
  “There’s a spot for everybody in brewing and especially in learning about brewing,” said Emily Engdahl, executive director of the Pink Boots Society, a U.S. nonprofit that s
  
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• Grand Jury To Hear From Family Who Took In Shooting Suspect

  07-03-2018 14:38
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A grand jury considering charges against the 19-year-old suspected of killing 17 people at a Florida high school is expected to hear from the family he’d been living with after his mother died late last year.
  Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where he allegedly killed 17 people, is seen on a closed circuit television screen during a bond hearing in front of Broward Judge Kim Mollica at the Bro
  
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• Majority of Texas Businesses Plan to Add Jobs: Survey

  07-03-2018 14:32
  
  A recent survey of more than 350 Texas business executives, conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, shows that a majority of them are planning to increase employment over the next six to twelve months.
  
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• Frisco Using Technology to Reduce Response Times

  07-03-2018 14:12
  
  Real-time data is helping Frisco police officers and paramedics respond to emergency calls at a faster rate.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• See the 23 North Texans who made Forbes' 2018 World's Billionaires list

  07-03-2018 14:10
  Nearly two dozen North Texans boast net worths high enough to land on Forbes' "The World's Billionaires" list for 2018.Walmart heiress Alice Walton remains the wealthiest person in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, with a fortune of $46 billion. That was enough to land her at No. 16 on this year's Forbes' list, a tick above last year's ranking of 17th.In October, Forbes also named Walton the 13th wealthiest American. She was the only woman from DFW to make that ranking and the 2018 billionaires list
  
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• Cresa doubles its North Texas operations with move into new Dallas office

  07-03-2018 14:10
  We sit down and chat with Managing Principal Scott Bumpas about his fast-growing Dallas office and its new office at Pinnacle Tower.
  
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• Huffines Concedes State Sen. Dist. 8 Race to Angela Paxton

  07-03-2018 13:53
  
  Angela Paxton has edged out Republican challenger Phillip Huffines in a hotly contested and very expensive race for the party's nomination for the State Senate District 8 race.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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• Consumers Upset About High Toll Fees From Rental Companies

  07-03-2018 13:52
  
  A Plano woman called NBC 5 Responds after receiving a high toll bill from a rental company. She wants to warn the public about additional fees that others could rake up.
  
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• Runoff Set To Challenge GOP U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions

  07-03-2018 13:40
  AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A former U.S. Department of Agriculture official will join a former professional football player in the May runoff to face U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions.
  Former former Obama administration official Lillian Salerno and former NFL linebacker and a civil rights attorney Colin Allred advanced Tuesday to a May 22 runoff for the Democratic nomination for the 32nd Congressional District seat. The winner will face Sessions in November.
  Salerno said she entered the
  
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• Candidates Colin Allred, Lillian Salerno Face Runoff

  07-03-2018 13:35
  
  The 32nd congressional district seat is held by Pete Sessions (R) but seven democrats campaigned for the chance to unseat him. The race is headed for a runoff between Colin Allred and Lillian Salerno.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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