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• Justice Department Proposes Banning Rapid-Fire Bump Stocks

  10-03-2018 23:56
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Saturday it has taken the first step in the regulatory process to ban bump stocks, likely setting the stage for long legal battles with gun manufacturers while the trigger devices remain on the market.
  The move was expected after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to work toward a ban following the shooting deaths of 17 people at a Florida high school in February. Bump stocks, which enable guns to fire like automatic weapon
  
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• High School Player, Parent Arrested For Assault At Soccer Game

  10-03-2018 22:33
  CARROLLTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A Hebron High School soccer player and a father of a Lewisville High School player were arrested after a fight broke out at the end of a game Friday.
  Police say officers were called to the Hebron High School soccer field in the 4200 block of Plano Parkway at around 9:30 p.m. about an incident that occurred at the end of a soccer game between Hebron and Lewisville High School.
  After investigating video and witness accounts, police arrested 18-year-old soccer player
  
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• 3 Women Killed By Former Patient At California Veterans Home

  10-03-2018 22:12
  (CBSNEWS/AP) – Details are emerging about the three women who were killed by a patient who had been kicked out of their Northern California treatment program. They were identified as The Pathway Home Executive Director Christine Loeber, 48; Clinical Director Jennifer Golick, 42; and Jennifer Gonzales, 29, a clinical psychologist with the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
  A daylong siege at The Pathway Home ended Friday evening with the discovery of four bodies
  
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• US Updates Travel Alert For Tourist City In Mexico Amid “Security Threat”

  10-03-2018 21:50
  MEXICO CITY (CBSNEWS/AP) – The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has narrowed its travel warning for the Caribbean city of Playa del Carmen amid what it calls an unspecified “ongoing security threat” just as the spring holiday season is kicking into high gear. The revised restrictions now say U.S. government employees must avoid five neighborhoods in and around a tourist center filled with hotels, bars and restaurants, but lift a blanket ban that had included several all-inclusive resorts
  
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• Gunman Takes Hostages at Veterans Home

  10-03-2018 09:03 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Four people were found dead following a shooting and hostage situation at a Yountville veterans home, the California Highway Patrol said late Friday.CHP Assistant Chief Chris Childs said three females...
  
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• Dumped Oil Comes Close to Tainting North Texas Water Supply

  10-03-2018 06:50
  
  The Collin County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the person responsible for dumping about 20 gallons of oil and anti-freeze into a creek that feeds into Lake Lavon.Photo Credit: Collin County Sheriff's Office
  
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• Friday Night Lights: The Bond Between a Father & Son

  10-03-2018 05:47
  
  Football is just a game. But it can also change your life. Those Friday night lights, shine bright here in Texas where success is usually measured in yards. But for one family, gains and losses, are measured in...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Armed Civilian Stops Man Accused of Murder, Assault, and Arson

  10-03-2018 05:40
  
  Grand Prairie police arrested a man Friday after he allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend and tried to burn her house down before assaulting another woman. Police credit a concealed handgun license holder...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Gunman, 3 Hostages Dead At CA Veterans Home

  10-03-2018 04:53
  UPDATE: The California Highway Patrol confirms a gunman and three women were found dead hours after he took them hostage inside a veterans home in California.
  Chief Chris Childs says officers entered the room where the hostages were being around 6 p.m. Friday.
  He says they were all found dead inside a room in the veterans home.
  Childs says a bomb-sniffing dog had alerted on the suspect’s car but no bombs were found in the vehicle. He says there is “no threat to public safety.&rd
  
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• Tanks Won’t Roll Down Pennsylvania Avenue For Trump’s Multi-Million Dollar Military Parade

  10-03-2018 04:38
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like President Donald Trump is getting the military parade he wants in Washington — though he may get no tanks for the effort.
  A Pentagon planning memo issued Thursday and released Friday says the parade being planned for Nov. 11, Veterans Day, will “include wheeled vehicles only, no tanks — consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure.”
  Big, heavy tanks could tear up District of Columbia streets.
  But the event wi
  
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• Classmates Honor Memory Of Student-Athlete Killed In Crash

  10-03-2018 04:15
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Friends and classmates gathered at a Jesuit Dallas soccer game Friday to remember a popular teenager, Guy DeLaney, killed in a car crash.
  Guy DeLaney
  “He was like the first real friend I made at Jesuit. It was pretty hard,” said friend Luke Skaggs.
  Friends say the 15-year-old was a sophomore at Jesuit College Prep and a talented soccer player.
  “His grades were always stellar. He was in honors classes,” said friend Marco Orendain.
  This was the f
  
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• NTX School District Paying up for Students in AP Classes

  10-03-2018 03:46
  
  A North Texas school district is shelling out money to a group of students. It's part of a unique set of incentives at Cedar Hill High School to lure students into taking advanced placement classes and part of a...
  
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• UN: Some Rape Victims Of Islamic State ‘Like Living Corpses’

  10-03-2018 03:44
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for sexual violence in conflict who just returned from Iraq said Friday she found “a gross lack” of support for women and girls who were raped and forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State extremists, and survivors she met “were like living corpses.”
  Pramila Patten said the survivors were released early this year and told her they are confined to camps because of the double stigma of being victims of sexual violence and sexual
  
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• Texas Connects Us: Ant Art

  10-03-2018 03:40
  
  The Gleason's are artists, but they'll admit someone else does most of the work. Watch as they use aluminum and a lot of muscle to create and dig up Ant Art. Warning: The ants always fight back.
  
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• Good Samaritans Save Denton County Man

  10-03-2018 03:00
  
  A Denton County couple is thankful, after some good samaritans helped save the life of a Cross Roads man who suffered a near-fatal heart attack.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• NRA Sues State Of Florida Over New Gun Restrictions

  10-03-2018 02:26
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a far-reaching school-safety bill Friday that places new restrictions on guns in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting, cementing his state’s break with the National Rifle Association. The NRA immediately fought back with a lawsuit.
  The new law capped an extraordinary three weeks of lobbying that followed the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, with student survivors and grieving families working to persuade a
  
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• Megyn Kelly Talks About Interview With Vladimir Putin

  10-03-2018 02:19
  
  NBC 5's Kris Gutierrez talks to NBC's Megyn Kelly about her sit down interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Dallas Teachers Help Atmos Evacuees

  10-03-2018 02:13
  
  Three teachers in northwest Dallas came together Friday to hand out supplies and provide a welcome distraction for families displaced by the Atmos gas leak evacuations.
  
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• Construction Labor Shortage Nearly Doubles in North Texas

  10-03-2018 01:34
  
  Construction workers are in high demand across North Texas, and homebuilders in particular are struggling to find enough to get the job done.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Building Christina Morris Murder Case

  10-03-2018 01:31
  
  Investigators are building a murder case after Wednesday’s discovery of human remains ruled Thursday to be those of Christina Morris.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Rare Guitar Named “Jimbo” By Former Owner Stevie Ray Vaughn Up For Auction 

  10-03-2018 01:21
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A piece of blues history is up for grabs to the highest bidder.
  Heritage Auctions in Dallas is getting ready to auction off a very rare 1951 Nocaster guitar.
  Stevie Ray Vaughan used to wail on this guitar as a teenager. (photo credit: CBS 11 News)
  The auction house says the guitar is rare on its own, but what makes it extra special is that it belonged iconic blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan during his teenage years. The American musician, singer, songwriter, and reco
  
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• Rare Guitar Named “Jimbo” By Former Owner Stevie Ray Vaughan Up For Auction 

  10-03-2018 01:21
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A piece of blues history is up for grabs to the highest bidder.
  Heritage Auctions in Dallas is getting ready to auction off a very rare 1951 Nocaster guitar.
  Stevie Ray Vaughan used to wail on this guitar as a teenager. (photo credit: CBS 11 News)
  The auction house says the guitar is rare on its own, but what makes it extra special is that it belonged iconic blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan during his teenage years. The American musician, singer, songwriter, and reco
  
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• Two Fort Worth Siblings Compete In Scripps National Spelling Bee

  10-03-2018 01:05
  
  The Sujoe siblings from Fort Worth have a knack for spelling. Ansun won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2014 and now his younger sister, Hephzibah, will compete at the event in May.
  
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• Cutting Edge Program At Frisco ISD Keeps Students Safe

  10-03-2018 01:00
  FRISCO (CBSDFW.COM) – The walls of the Frisco Independent School District can talk – directly to the authorities. Every school in the district emits a continual live feed, thanks to cameras stationed throughout the buildings.
  “They’re all over the school. They’re in the hallways, in the common areas, outside the school,” says Sgt. Jeff Inmon with the Frisco Police Department.
  In case of emergency – such as an active shooter – dispatchers can pinpoi
  
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• Police: Man Conned Teen Into Letting Him Into House Claiming Gas Leak

  10-03-2018 00:59
  KENNEDALE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Gas leaks in Dallas have made headlines for weeks.
  Now, police in another North Texas city are searching for a man they say conned his way into a house claiming there was a gas leak in their neighborhood.
  A man conned his way into this Kennedale home according to police (CBS11)
  It happened in Kennedale late last week down the street from the city’s police department.
  Kennedale Police (Jack Fink – CBS11)
  Police say the incident proved to be scary
  
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• Dallas Family Says Drug For Peanut Allergies Offers Peace Of Mind

  10-03-2018 00:36
  
  The FDA will soon decide whether to approve a new drug that helps prevent severe allergic reactions in children with peanut allergies. Family of child in drug trial says it's helped them live free of fear.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Travel Agent Scam Costs Mother Hundreds of Dollars

  10-03-2018 00:33
  
  Phony travel agencies are a fast growing scheme designed to get you to pay them money for canceled tickets.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• FW Rapper Who Bragged About Breaking Law Made $500K?

  10-03-2018 00:29
  
  A 17-year-old rapper, who goes by the name Tay-K 47, is accused murderer and he can't bond out -- in part, because of his music.Photo Credit: U.S Marshals/NBC 5 News
  
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• Sir John Sulston, Who Decoded The Human Genome, Dies At 75

  10-03-2018 00:23
  LONDON (AP) — Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died. He was 75.
  The Wellcome Sanger Institute, the successor to the cutting-edge genomic research center he once founded and directed, confirmed Friday that Sulston had died but did not say when or give the cause of death.
  Sir John Sulston (photo courtesy: Cambridge University via YouTube)
  Sulston shared the prize in 2002 for his contribution to work unraveling how genes co
  
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• Keep The Tissue Handy: Pollen Arriving Early, Staying Late

  10-03-2018 00:21
  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Just when you thought we could stop talking about the flu– the sniffling, sneezing misery for many continues.
  Doctors say keep the tissue handy as so-called ‘seasonal’ allergies now arrive early and stay late.
  “It goes from winter trees to spring trees– before pecan is done, Bermuda grass has started,” says Richard L. Wasserman, M.D., Ph.D., an allergist with Medical City Dallas. “With changes in the climate, years ago, f
  
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• Texas Boy, 2, Drowns In Southeast Oklahoma Pond

  10-03-2018 00:04
  SAWYER, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 2-year-old Texas boy has drowned in a pond in southeastern Oklahoma.
  An OHP report says the Whitesboro boy, whose name was not released, was found about 4 a.m. Friday in the pond near Sawyer, about 155 miles (249 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City.
  (credit: CBSDFW.COM)
  The report says the boy’s mother reported she had checked on him about 2:30 a.m. and he was asleep in bed.
  The mother said when she checked again about 3 a.m.
  
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• Pardon the Crow Collection of Asian Art’s Dust

  10-03-2018 00:00
  
  The Year of the Dog is a year of transformation at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The organization is currently expanding its home at the corner of Harwood and Flora Streets in the Dallas Arts...Photo Credit: Haute Dog PhotographyThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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