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• Woman Dies After Firefighters Rescue Her From 2-Alarm Fire

  16-03-2018 23:54
  
  A Bedford woman pulled from her home by firefighters and resuscitated has died after being hospitalized Friday.Photo Credit: Kerry Smith - NBC 5 News
  
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• Big Changes Coming to Dallas' Bishop Arts Neighborhood

  16-03-2018 23:47
  
  Big apartment construction is underway in the popular Bishop Arts District neighborhood. About 1,000 new units are coming soon to the retail and restaurant district of older restored buildings.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Texas Trucker Charged In Crash That Killed Man, Young Daughter

  16-03-2018 23:40
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Texas truck driver has been charged in a Michigan crash that killed a man and his young daughter, and critically injured another.
  Thirty-four-year-old Dalibot Sakotic of Wylie, was arraigned Friday in a Flint court on charges of manslaughter and reckless driving. He’s jailed on a $500,000 cash bond.
  Prosecutors say his tractor-trailer slammed into a car Wednesday on Interstate 69 that was carrying members of a Davison family.The two rear-seat passengers, 27-year
  
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• St. Patrick's Day Preparations Begin In Dallas-Fort Worth

  16-03-2018 23:32
  
  Prepare to get pinched or kissed this weekend. North Texas will turn green, not with envy, but with the luck o’ the Irish!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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• LOCASH To Perform At Billy Bob’s Texas Ahead Of CMA’s

  16-03-2018 23:30
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – LOCASH’S ascent in country music continues, having been nominated for vocal duo and new vocal duo or group of the year. Honors, they hope to bring home from the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards.
  But first, it is all about Friday night’s performance at Billy Bob’s Texas!
  “First time at Billy Bob’s,” Chris Lucas said, “and we’re so excited…We’ve seen it in movies; we’ve seen other artists tal
  
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• Small Retailers in Denton Say Success Means Being Different

  16-03-2018 23:25
  
  With the demise major retailer Toys R Us, mom-and-pop shops say they have to set themselves apart in order to survive.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Millennials Move to the Suburbs And Add to Traffic

  16-03-2018 23:21
  
  According to Zillow, millennials are the largest group of home buyers and they're moving to the suburbs for their growing families and to escape the busy city, and that means more people on North Texas roads.
  
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• U.S. Rep Barton Reflects on Career: "Don't Do Stupid Things"

  16-03-2018 23:19
  
  U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, joins Lone Star Politics, talking about the decision not to run for reelection and what will happen to the district he served for more than 30 years.
  
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• FAA Grounds Doors-Off Flights Without Quick-Release Harness

  16-03-2018 23:15
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding all "doors off" helicopter operations that involve restraints that cannot be released quickly in an emergency.
  
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• Police: Sunday School Teacher Arrested For Sexually Abusing Child

  16-03-2018 23:12
  MESQUITE (CBSDFW.COM) – Investigators arrested a Sunday school teacher and volunteer at Parkside Baptist Church in Mesquite for sexually abusing a child.
  Benjamin Baldiviez, 23, of Dallas
  Benjamin Baldiviez, 23, of Dallas was charged for offenses police said happened between March of 2017 and October of 2017 on church property and at other places during church events.
  On March 15, 2018, Investigators arrested Benjamin Baldiviez, 23, of Dallas. He was charged with one count of Con
  
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• 3D Printed House Debuts at SXSW

  16-03-2018 22:59
  
  The Austin-based startup, Icon, debuted its 3D model at the annual South by Southwest conference.
  
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• First Victim of Florida Bridge Collapse Identified

  16-03-2018 22:46 via nbcdfw.com
  
  College freshman Alexa Duran died Thursday in the Miami bridge collapse, officials have confirmed. Duran was killed as she was driving home from a doctor’s appointment and the bridge collapsed on top...
  
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• Trump’s Possible China Tariffs Bring Protests In US

  16-03-2018 22:31
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is considering sweeping tariffs on imports from China, with an announcement possible as early as next week.
  And that has industry groups and some lawmakers scrambling to prevent the next front in a potential trade war that could reverberate across the U.S. economy.
  Early indications from the White House have officials braced for tariffs across a wide variety of consumer goods, from clothing to electronics, and even on imported parts for products mad
  
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• Bridge Collapse Puts Spotlight On Rapid Building Technique

  16-03-2018 22:08
  MIAMI (CBSDFW.COM) – As the 950-ton concrete bridge section was swung into place over a highway last weekend, Florida International University officials were beaming with pride.
  The pedestrian bridge on the edge of the Miami-area campus was a signature achievement of the school’s Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center, a research group set up with federal funding a few years ago to show how spans could be built faster and cheaper in the U.S.
  “FIU is ab
  
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• Woman, Dog Rescued From Fire by Good Samaritan, Firefighters

  16-03-2018 21:59
  
  A woman pulled from her home by firefighters and resuscitated outside is alive and receiving treatment in Dallas after a 2-alarm fire damaged her Bedford home Friday.Photo Credit: Kerry Smith - NBC 5 News
  
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• Random Act of Kindness at Dollar Tree Leads to Friendship

  16-03-2018 21:46
  
  A chance encounter at a Dollar Tree store in Abilene led to an unlikely friendship between an elementary school teacher and a man who picked up her tab as she was buying supplies to remind her students...Photo Credit: KTAB
  
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• Cashier's Quest to Return Change Leads to Friendship

  16-03-2018 21:46
  
  When a Chick-fil-A customer forgot $3.00 in change from his order, the employee kept it, knowing the customer was a regular and that he'd be back. He held on to that change for a month and when he saw the...Photo Credit: KLBK
  
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• 'Flash Mob' Drops Bikes at Dallas City Hall

  16-03-2018 21:41
  
  A small group of people upset with rental bikes scattered around Dallas dropped some off at City Hall Friday afternoon.An online invitation for the so-called "flash mob" stated that they want...
  
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• 3D Printed House Debutes at SXSW

  16-03-2018 21:34
  
  The Austin-based startup, Icon, debuted its 3D model at the annual South by Southwest conference.
  
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• Search Resumes Friday for Missing Plant Worker

  16-03-2018 21:32
  
  The search for a man who is missing after an explosion and fire destroyed the Texas chemical plant where he worked is underway again Friday.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News/Mitchell FamilyThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Aretha Franklin Cancels Concerts Due To Doctor’s Orders

  16-03-2018 21:29
  NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin is canceling two upcoming concerts on doctor’s orders.
  The Queen of Soul’s management team says in a statement Friday that Franklin will not perform March 25 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey. That show would have taken place on her 76th birthday.
  Franklin also won’t appear April 28 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
  The legendary singer didn’t have an tour dates in North Texas.
  The statement s
  
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• Governor Abbott Visits Homes Being Rebuilt After Hurricane Harvey

  16-03-2018 21:16
  DICKINSON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Governor Greg Abbott on Friday joined volunteers helping to rebuild homes in Dickinson, Texas damaged after Hurricane Harvey.
  Abbott worked with volunteers from the Rebuild Texas Fund, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, 4B Disaster Response Network and Eight Days of Hope.
  Governor Abbott spoke with volunteers from the various organizations to thank them for helping their fellow Texans in need.
  Governor Greg Abbott visits homes rebuilt after Hurricane Ha
  
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• How Working Solutions built a network of 110,000 home-based customer service agents

  16-03-2018 20:55
  Plano-based Working Solutions provides home-based customer service and sales agents. The company, founded before Google and Facebook existed, has grown from one of the nation’s first virtual workforce companies into an industry leader with about 110,000 agents nationwide.
  
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• Fort Worth Woman Champions Others in Biotech

  16-03-2018 20:28
  
  Women's History Month highlights the contribution of women and celebrates our role in American history. The 2018 theme of Nevertheless She Persisted can also be the story of a business owner in Fort Worth.
  
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• DSO's 2018-19 Season Features Rachmaninoff & 'Hamilton' Star

  16-03-2018 20:13
  
  As Jaap van Zweden, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, wraps up his tenth and final season with the orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced a diverse line-up for 2018-2019.Photo Credit: Mark and Tracy Photography
  
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• Form D Friday: Plano homebuilder seeks $25 million from investors

  16-03-2018 20:02
  A home builder in Plano is raising money from investors despite concerns the industry is facing from higher tariffs on building materials.
  
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• Wildflower Forecast: Typical, Still Terrific

  16-03-2018 19:20
  
  While last year, a warm and wet winter made for an early wildflower season, but this year is expected to be perfectly average but no less beautiful, that's according to Texas wildflower experts.Photo Credit: Brian
  
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• Dr. Brown Issues Pacifier Recall Citing Choking Hazard

  16-03-2018 18:27
  NEW YORK (CBSNEWS.COM) – Handi-Craft is recalling more than 600,000 “Dr. Brown’s Lovey” pacifier and teether products sold in the U.S. and Canada because of a choking hazard.
  According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a snap on the items can detach from the pacifier’s ribbon, posing a choking hazard for young children. Handi-Craft, which also makes baby bottles and other accessories, has received 67 reports of the ribbon fraying and the snap detaching
  
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• Dr. Brown Issues Pacifier Holder Recall Citing Choking Hazard

  16-03-2018 18:27
  NEW YORK (CBSNEWS.COM) – Handi-Craft is recalling more than 600,000 “Dr. Brown’s Lovey” pacifier and teether products sold in the U.S. and Canada because of a choking hazard.
  According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a snap on the items can detach from the pacifier’s ribbon, posing a choking hazard for young children. Handi-Craft, which also makes baby bottles and other accessories, has received 67 reports of the ribbon fraying and the snap detaching
  
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• Fort Worth Officer Accused of Beating Arrestee, Lying

  16-03-2018 18:13
  
  A Fort Worth police officer was booked into jail Thursday afternoon, accused of beating a man he was arresting and lying about it.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• People Thrown Off Ski Lift After Serious Malfunction

  16-03-2018 18:07
  REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA (CBSDFW.COM) – Skiers in the Republic of Georgia jumped for their lives and others were flung off a ski lift at a resort after a serious malfunction.
  According to local media, at least eight people were injured after they were forced off the ski lift. There were no reports of any deaths.
  Skiers were traveling downhill at the Gudauri ski resort when the lift got out of control and started picking up speed and moving backwards.
  Video of the incident showed onlookers shout
  
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• Search Expected to Resume Friday for Missing Plant Worker

  16-03-2018 18:02
  
  The search for a man missing since an explosion and fire destroyed the chemical plant where he worked is expected to continue sometime Friday.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News/Mitchell FamilyThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• DFW office space demand among strongest in the nation

  16-03-2018 17:52
  Long a magnet for corporate relocations and expansions, Dallas-Fort Worth ranks among the top 10 metros nationwide with a strong demand for pre-leasing office space.According to a March 14 report by CBRE Group, about 1.1 million square feet of roughly 3.75 million square feet of local office space expected to deliver between 2018 and 2022 has been pre-leased. That represents a pre-lease rate of 41 percent.Robert Kramp, director of research and analysis with CBRE, says the figures show the region
  
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• Texas Accuses More Schools Of ‘Unlawful Electioneering’

  16-03-2018 17:51
  AUSTIN (AP) — Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has ordered two more school districts to stop “unlawful electioneering activities,” accusing them of using state funds to endorse a political candidate.
  Ken Paxton – Texas Attorney General (TX AG’s Office)
  Paxton’s office said Friday that it had issued cease-and-desist letters to school districts in Elgin and Galena Park. Last month, similar letters were sent to three other school districts.
  At issue t
  
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• Court Backs Texas Activist Who Challenged County Gun Ban

  16-03-2018 17:42
  DALLAS (AP) — A Texas appeals court has ruled in favor of a gun-rights activist who complained county officials were unlawfully barring firearms from being brought into a public building.
  The Court of Appeals for the 1st District of Texas found in favor of Terry Holcomb Sr. by ruling, in part, that Waller County had no standing to sue Holcomb in 2016 because a complaint he lodged should have been heard by the state attorney general’s office.
  Thursday’s finding reversed a lower-
  
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• Dallas Roads Crowded for St. Patrick's Day

  16-03-2018 17:31
  
  As per usual, traffic will be a problem on St. Patrick's Day in Dallas. NBC 5's Samantha Davies tells you what to watch out for and how to avoid getting stuck.  Additionally, DART is adding Red and...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Body of Missing Man Found in Backyard Pool: Arlington Police

  16-03-2018 17:28
  
  The body of a North Texas man who had been missing for three days was found Thursday evening, police said.Photo Credit: Butler Family / NBC 5
  
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• Florida Bridge Collapse: Emergency Crews Expect To Find More Victims

  16-03-2018 17:14
  MIAMI (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Authorities said Friday that the cables suspending a pedestrian bridge were being tightened after a “stress test” when the 950-ton concrete span collapsed over traffic, killing at least six people only days after its installation was celebrated as a technological innovation.
  And officials expected to find more bodies in the rubble. “We’re not even going to talk numbers anymore because we expect to find other individuals down there,&
  
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• SEC's Fort Worth office investigating publicly-traded tech company amid questions about revenue reporting

  16-03-2018 16:45
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's office in Fort Worth has launched an investigation into San Antonio-based Globalscape Inc., a technology company that sells secure online file transfer services to businesses and governments, records show.The SEC's investigation comes nearly a year after Globalscape's management became aware that so-called "side agreements" were being made with customers by undisclosed employees of the company. Those side agreements resulted in inflated revenue and&h
  
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• Rescuers Back At Plant Explosion Site Searching For Missing Worker

  16-03-2018 16:45
  CRESSON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Hazardous materials crews and firefighters have resumed the search for a North Texas worker who is missing and presumed dead after an explosion at a chemical plant that injured two co-workers.
  Texas Department of Public Safety Staff Sgt. Earl Gillum says recovery crews are using heavy equipment Friday to clear burned debris at the Tri-Chem Industries plant in Cresson, about 25 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
  The search resumed Friday for the missing worker who Gill
  
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• Louise Slaughter, Veteran New York Congresswoman, Dies At 88

  16-03-2018 16:29
  Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) speaks during a committee meeting July 29, 2014 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran Congresswoman Rep. Louise Slaughter died Friday days after falling in her residence, her top aide said. The 88-year-old lawmaker had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and was her party’s top member on the panel when she died.
  The New York Democrat died at George Washington University Hos
  
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• News Now: Plant Explosion, Bridge Collapse & TCU March Madness

  16-03-2018 15:34
  The search for a missing Texas worker continues after a chemical plant explosion yesterday. At least six people have been confirmed dead after a pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami. And the TCU Homed Frogs are hoping to win their first game of the 2018 NCAA Tournament tonight at 8:40 p.m.
  
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• Cattle Industry Has Beef With Plant-Based ‘Meats’

  16-03-2018 14:17
  (CBSNEWS.COM) – The nation’s largest cattle industry lobby group is fighting to defend the traditional meaning of the word “meat.” The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association filed a petition last month with the Department of Agriculture arguing that “lab-grown and plant-based products should not use the terms ‘meat’ or ‘beef'” on their labels.
  Kelly Fogarty, whose family has raised Black Angus cattle for five generations, represents hundreds of r
  
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• Rihanna “Shames” Snapchat For Ad, Then Their Stock Drops

  16-03-2018 13:55
  LOS ANGELES (CBSNEWS.COM/AP) – An ad on Snapchat asking users if they’d rather “Slap Rihanna” or “Punch Chris Brown” has spawned widespread outrage online and brought profuse apologies from the company behind the visual-messaging app.
  Rihanna performs during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards show on January 28, 2018, in New York. (credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
  Snapchat said it is investigating how the ad for a mobile video game called “Woul
  
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• What's in Your Garage? Local Porsche driver manages 'man caves' for a living

  16-03-2018 13:50
  Jack Griffin, a partner with Garages of Texas, operates one of the most sought-after “man-caves” in North Texas. Essentially,Garages of Texas is a collection of self-storage units, only with tricked out garages for high-end rare vehicles.
  In one of Jack’s personal garages at the Plano location, he keeps four Porsches from different eras. For first-time visitors, this garage is a study in the evolution of federal safety standards. Jack’s older Porsches, built long before t
  
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• Southwest Airlines gets a big thumbs-up from Consumer Reports readers

  16-03-2018 13:48
  Consumer Reports readers — more than 52,000 of them that fly regularly — have voted. And the respected consumer magazine’s new survey of the nation’s best and worst airlines will make at least three of the nation’s carriers quite happy.Dallas-based Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) was ranked the best carrier in the survey for its economy class product, which is the only product it offers, of course. Southwest scored an 85 for its economy cabin, just ahead of Alas
  
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• U.S. airlines to see record-breaking travel this spring

  16-03-2018 13:47
  A projected 150.7 million people will fly in March and April this year on U.S. airlines, according to Airlines for America.The industry trade group, also known as A4A, represents the major airlines. The estimate represents a more than 4 percent increase over last spring, when 145 million people took to the skies."An expanding economy, employment gains and surging household net worth are also contributing to the growth in demand for air travel," said John Heimlich, A4A vice president and chief&he
  
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• Dallas' Airbnb activity jumps with March Madness, expected to have $2M impact

  16-03-2018 13:47
  As basketball fans flock to Dallas for March Madness, Airbnb estimates a 49 percent spike in local guest arrivals from the previous week. The influx is expected to have a roughly $2 million economic impact on the city. Airbnb said more than 4,700 guests will arrive in Big D between March 12 and March 18. Most of those visitors will come from states with teams participating in games held March 15 and 17 at Dallas’ American Airlines Center. The match ups being held on March 15 are:
  
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• How two Dallas hospitals are bypassing insurers to disrupt employer-funded health coverage

  16-03-2018 13:46
  When it comes to employer-funded health insurance, Dallas Medical Center CEO J.T. Barnhart believes in cutting out the middle man. In this case, the middle man is the health insurance companies.
  
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• St. Patrick's Day Preps Begin In Dallas

  16-03-2018 13:18
  
  St. Patrick's Day Preps Begin In Dallas. 125,000 expected to attend attend parade and festivities this Saturday.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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