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• Rudy Giuliani To Join Trump Legal Team In Russia Probe

  19-04-2018 23:55
  Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and then-president-elect Donald Trump before their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, November 20, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining the legal team defending President Donald Trump in the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
  That’s according to a statement from Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow. The addition of Gi
  
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• Weekend Storm System Means Good News and Bad News

  19-04-2018 23:48
  
  Let’s start with the bad news…it’s going to be a soggy Saturday. Yep, the timing is terrible. Expect several hours of rain Saturday afternoon.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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• Girl Tells Bus Driver She Was Assaulted Walking to School

  19-04-2018 23:45
  
  A 13-year-old girl says a man physically assaulted her as she walked to school Thursday morning.
  
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• Firefighters Discover Woman's Body in Burned Home

  19-04-2018 22:34
  
  Arlington firefighters discovered the body of a woman inside a home damaged by fire Thursday morning.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Arlington ISD Helmet Art to Be Featured During NFL Draft

  19-04-2018 22:31
  
  The Dallas Cowboys are preparing for next week's NFL Draft, besides evaluating draft picks, they're decorating their war room, and asking for the public's help with choosing the art.Photo Credit: Dallas Cowboys via FacebookThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Thursday Traffic Pressure Points

  19-04-2018 22:14
  
  There are a number of traffic pressure points that are sure to slow the afternoon rush Thursday evening. Samantha Davies breaks them all down.
  
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• Dallas Teacher Accused of Relationship With Student, 17

  19-04-2018 21:19
  
  A Dallas teacher is under arrest Thursday, accused of having an improper relationship with a student.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Southwest Airlines Sought More Time For Engine Inspections

  19-04-2018 20:57
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Southwest Airlines sought more time last year to inspect fan blades like the one that snapped off during one of its flights Tuesday in an engine failure that left one passenger dead.
  The airline opposed a recommendation by the engine manufacturer to require ultrasonic inspections of certain fan blades within 12 months, saying it needed more time to conduct the work.
  Southwest made the comments last year after U.S. regulators proposed making the inspections mandator
  
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• Robert DeNiro Pens Student Excuse Letter For National School Walkout

  19-04-2018 20:56
  LOS ANGELES (CNN) – Friday is the day of the National School Walkout, an event conceived by a 16-year-old Connecticut student after the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At 10:00 a.m. in each time zone, participants are going to walk out of their classes and observe a moment of silence for school shooting victims.
  It is always a touchy subject when schools and protests mix, but participating students have the support of one of America’s b
  
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• Software Glitch Causes Water Bill Outrage In White Settlement

  19-04-2018 20:08
  WHITE SETTLEMENT (CBSDFW.COM) – A group of residents in White Settlement are expressing their frustration after receiving water bills from the city for hundreds of dollars more than what they have been used to paying.
  Tiffany Gravelle is one of those residents, and said that her usually $60 bill went up to $400 this past month.
  When she and her husband opened the bill, Gravelle said that they were stunned. “I think he was blown away,” she stated. “I asked him, &
  
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• Dallas ISD Teacher Arrested For Improper Relationship With Student

  19-04-2018 19:46
  GARLAND (CBSDFW.COM) – Garland police arrested a Dallas ISD teacher Thursday for an improper relationship with a student.
  Police arrested 49-year-old Robert Lee Edgin of Dallas who is a teacher at W.T. White High School.
  According to police, the victim is a 17-year-old Garland ISD student.
  Edgin is currently at the Garland Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.
  Police say additional charges may be filed based on his admissions and speaking with detectives. They believe there may be other vict
  
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• Fort Worth Zoo’s African Savanna Offers New Ways To See Favorite Animals

  19-04-2018 19:22
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating the grand opening of the first new exhibit in its $100 million renovation project. The African Savanna is 10 acres of mixed-species space. It includes habitats, dining areas, a special event area, restrooms and new ways for visitors to learn about the animals.
  “We are so thrilled with these amazing new habitats,” stated Ramona Bass, co-chair of the Fort Worth Zoological Association’s board of directors. “I
  
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• Hear From Heroic Texas Firefighter On Southwest Airlines Flight 1380

  19-04-2018 19:01
  CELINA, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The world has been hearing stories of true heroism from the Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing after a jet engine explosion and one of those stories comes from here in North Texas.
  CBS 11 News was there when Celina firefighter Andrew Needum spoke for the first time. Needum and his family were among the 149 people onboard Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 as it left LaGuardia Airport in New York bound for Dallas Love F
  
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• Minnesota Prosecutor Won’t File Charges In Prince’s Death

  19-04-2018 18:54
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince thought he was taking a common painkiller and probably did not know a counterfeit pill he ingested contained fentanyl, a Minnesota prosecutor said Thursday as he announced that no charges would be filed in the musician’s death.
  Carver County Attorney Mark Metz said Prince had suffered from pain for years and was addicted to pain medication. While some of the superstar’s associates might have enabled his drug habit and tried to protect his privacy, &ldq
  
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• Target Offering Car Seat Discounts For Trading In Your Old One

  19-04-2018 18:38
  MINNEAPOLIS (CBS Local) – Target’s annual car seat trade-in event starts Monday, April 22 and runs through May 5.
  Parents can bring an old car seat into any Target and get a coupon for 20 percent off the price of a new one. The coupon can be used to buy car seats, booster seats, car seat bases, travel systems, or strollers. Customers will get one coupon per item brought into Guest Services. The coupon expires on May 19 and purchases can be made in store or online.
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• Is It Ever Ok to Cry at Work?

  19-04-2018 18:23
  
  Is it okay to cry at work? And what do you do if you can't hold back the water works? Experts talked with NBC News and shared these ideas.
  
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• Diaz-Canel Replaces Raul Castro As Cuba’s President

  19-04-2018 17:55
  Cuban first Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel (R) attends the opening of the XXVII Havana International Book Fair in Havana, on February 1, 2018. (ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)
  HAVANA (AP) — Fifty-seven-year-old Communist Party official Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez replaced Raul Castro as the president of Cuba on Thursday, pledging to preserve the island’s communist system while gradually reforming the economy and making the government more responsive to the people.
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• Police: Fort Worth Teen Assaulted While On Her Way To School

  19-04-2018 17:13
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A teenager on her way to school Thursday morning was assaulted while walking to a school bus, police say.
  Police say the incident happened just before 7 a.m. near the corner of Calmont Avenue and Laredo Drive.
  According to police, the 13-year-old girl was physically assaulted by an unknown suspect. She was able to get away and get help.
  The suspect fled the scene. Police provided a brief description of the suspect: white or Hispanic male, 30 to 40 years old and we
  
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• Fort Worth Teen Injured In Abduction Attempt On Way To School

  19-04-2018 17:13
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A teenager on her way to school Thursday morning was injured after an abduction attempt in west Fort Worth.
  Police say the incident happened just before 7 a.m. near the corner of Calmont Avenue and Laredo Drive.
  According to police, the girl — between 13 and 15 years old –was physically assaulted by an unknown suspect. She was able to get away and get help.
  The suspect fled the scene. There is currently no description available.
  The girl was taken to a
  
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• Gas Prices Jump 7 Cents This Week Across Texas & Nationwide

  19-04-2018 17:09
  COPPELL (AP) – Texas and nationwide retail gasoline prices have jumped 7 cents per gallon this week.
  AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump statewide was $2.52 per gallon. Drivers across the country are paying an average $2.74 per gallon.
  The association survey found Midland has the most expensive gasoline in Texas this week at an average $2.72 per gallon. The Sherman and Denison area has the state’s cheapest gasoline at an average $2.37 per gallon.
  AAA experts
  
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• Men Arrested At Starbucks Say They Feared For Their Lives

  19-04-2018 17:06
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer.
  He thought nothing of it when he and his business partner, Donte Robinson, were approached at their table and were asked if they needed help. The 23-year-old entrepreneurs declined, explaining they were just waiting for a business meeting.
  A few minutes later, they hardly noticed when the police walked into the coffee s
  
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• New York’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Is Moving To New Location

  19-04-2018 16:39
  NEW YORK (CNN Money) – ‘Fearless Girl’ is getting a new home at the New York Stock Exchange. The popular statue will be moved from the spot where it was installed last year, opposite from the ‘Charging Bull’ sculpture in Lower Manhattan. The statue will move about three blocks away, to outside of the stock exchange and facing the building.
  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and State Street Global Advisors, the financial firm that installed the ‘Fear
  
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• American Teachers Use Social Media In Uprisings, Fight For Funding

  19-04-2018 16:20
  PHOENIX (AP) — The public education uprisings that began in West Virginia and spread to Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky share similar origin stories.
  Teachers, long tired of low wages and a dearth of state funding, begin talking to each other online.
  Their Facebook groups draw tens of thousands of members. They share stories of their frustrations and then they demand change.
  Kentucky public school employee Nema Brewer co-founded the KY120 United Facebook group that drew more than 40,000 mem
  
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• First Saudi Movie Theater Opens With Popcorn And ‘Black Panther’

  19-04-2018 16:01
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The lights dimmed and the crowd of men and women erupted into applause and hoots as Hollywood’s blockbuster “Black Panther” premiered in Saudi Arabia’s first movie theater.
  Though it was a private, invitation-only screening on Wednesday evening, for many Saudis it marked one of the clearest moments of change to sweep the country in decades.
  It’s seen as part of a new era in which women will soon be allowed to drive and people in the
  
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• CBS Announces 11 Series Renewals For 2018-2019

  19-04-2018 15:56
  Demonstrating strength, stability and depth across the schedule, CBS has announced the renewals of 11 more primetime series for the 2018-2019 season.
  Combined with previously announced pickups, CBS has now renewed 17 series for next year, including its entire Tuesday and Friday night lineups.
  Wednesday’s announced renewals featured the following shows: Blue Bloods, Bull, Hawaii Five-0, Madam Secretary, MacGyver, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Survivor, The Amazing Race, 48 Hours and
  
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• FAA Orders Fan Blade Inspections After Jet Engine Explosion

  19-04-2018 15:40
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was partially blown out a window.
  The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement late Wednesday comes nearly a year after the engine’s manufacturer recommended the additional inspections, and a month after European regulators ordered their airlines to do the work.
  Pressure for the
  
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• More Illnesses In E. Coli Outbreak Linked To Romaine Lettuce

  19-04-2018 15:33
  WASHINGTON (CNN) – The number of people hospitalized due to a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to chopped romaine lettuce continues to grow, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
  About 53 people have been reported sickened in 16 states since March 13, the CDC stated. Of those who got ill, 31 have been hospitalized. Five of them developed a type of kidney failure associated with an E. coli illness, called hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can be life-threatening.
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• Cost of LBJ East Project Could Impact Local Residents

  19-04-2018 15:23
  
  The backup plan to pay for toll lanes for LBJ East could impact residents in Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.
  
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• Some Male Sexual Assault Victims Feel Left Behind By #MeToo

  19-04-2018 15:03
  LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – For some male victims of sexual assault and abuse, #MeToo can feel more like #WhatAboutMe?
  They admire the women speaking out about traumatic experiences as assault and harassment victims, while wondering whether men with similar scars will ever receive a comparable level of public empathy and understanding.
  “Because the movement happened to get its start with women only, in a way it furthers my loneliness as a past victim,” said Chris Brown, a Uni
  
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• Houston Pizzeria Owners Consider George & Barbara Bush Family

  19-04-2018 14:51
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – To Fuzzy and Rita Hajjar, former First Lady Barbara Bush and former President George H.W. Bush were more than just their favorite customers at Fuzzy’s Pizza and Café. Fuzzy said that he and his wife considered them family.
  “I lost my parents five years ago, and I considered them my second parents,” Fuzzy said. “I loved them so much and admired them.”
  (credit: CBSDFW.COM)
  The couple were among the millions of people across the
  
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• Former President George H.W. Bush Touched By Tributes To Wife

  19-04-2018 14:28
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — In his first public comments since his wife’s death, former President George H.W. Bush said Wednesday that he used to tease his spouse of 73 years that he had a complex about how much people liked her.
  That fact, he said, is buoyed by stories about Barbara Bush’s warmth and wit following her death. Tributes have rolled in from around the world, from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to a U.S. Navy commander, who recalled Mrs. Bush handing out cook
  
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• Fort Worth Plant Now Hiring Hundreds

  19-04-2018 14:14
  
  One year ago, a Fort Worth company went through layoffs, but today, thanks to perseverance and some "engine-uity" on their part, they're now hiring.
  
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• Homeowner Finds Naked Intruder In Bathtub, Eating Cheetos

  19-04-2018 14:07
  MONROE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say a woman came home to discover a naked stranger in her tub, eating her Cheetos while taking a bath.
  A Monroe police affidavit says 29-year-old Evelyn Washington was arrested on burglary and property damage charges.
  The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that a responding officer found “a full tub of water and a plate of food along with half eaten Cheetos belonging to the victim on the toilet next to the tub.”
  Washington told the homeowner
  
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• Study Says Couples Are Happier When They Share The Chores

  19-04-2018 14:04
  AUSTIN (CNN) – It’s Friday night. You’ve just enjoyed a nice meal at home with your significant other, and they’re giving signs that they want to move things to the bedroom. But one glance at the kitchen sink dampens any desire that you might have felt. It’s stacked full of dirty dishes. One of you will be stuck cleaning them sooner or later.
  If this scenario resonates with you, it’s no wonder. Not only can household chores be a major source of resentment and
  
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• Southwest Airlines Pilot Lauded As Hero For Handling Crisis

  19-04-2018 13:53
  BOERNE, Texas (AP) — The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet’s damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.
  Tammie Jo Shults, one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, was the captain and piloting the Dallas-bound Flight 1380 when it made an emergency landing Tuesday in Philadelphia, acco
  
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• Babies Of Senators Now Welcome In Senate Chamber

  19-04-2018 13:46
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Who doesn’t like babies?
  No one in the Senate, apparently — at least not enough to block a historic rules change that passed Wednesday allowing the newborns of members into the chamber. Its passage without objection came despite plenty of concern, some privately aired, among senators of both parties about the threat the tiny humans pose to the Senate’s cherished decorum.
  “I’m not going to object to anything like that, not in this day and age,
  
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• 2 Years After Prince’s Death, Prosecutors To Update Investigation

  19-04-2018 13:42
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in the Minnesota county where Prince died will announce a decision on criminal charges following a two-year investigation into the music superstar’s death from an accidental fentanyl overdose.
  Carver County Attorney Mark Metz scheduled a late morning news conference Thursday to announce whether anyone would be charged.
  Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate in suburban Chanhassen on April 21, 201
  
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• Amazon Says It Has More Than 100 Million Prime Members

  19-04-2018 13:28
  NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/CNN Money) – Amazon has more than 100 million Amazon Prime subscribers around the world, Jeff Bezos revealed in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday.
  Bezos has always been a little cagey about sharing Amazon statistics. This is the first time that he’s publicly stated how many Prime members the company has signed up. Previous estimates by outside analysts pegged the number at 90 million in 2017.
  Launched 13 years ago, Amazon Prime is the company’s monthly
  
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• Residents Critical Of Program To Repair Harvey-Damaged Homes

  19-04-2018 13:22
  HOUSTON (AP) — Several Texas homeowners who have participated in a state-run, quick hit program to repair homes damaged during Hurricane Harvey said Wednesday their houses are worse off than before they were fixed because of incomplete or shoddy work.
  The program is run by the Texas General Land Office and uses mostly federal funding to provide up to $20,000 in temporary repairs so families whose homes were damaged during Harvey can live in their houses while long-term, more permanent repa
  
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• Bureaucrat Set To Replace Raul Castro As Cuba’s President

  19-04-2018 13:14
  HAVANA (AP) — A 57-year-old bureaucrat will take Raul Castro’s place as the president of Cuba on Thursday as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the long-term survival of one of the world’s last communist states.
  Members of the National Assembly voted Wednesday on Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez’s nomination as the sole candidate for president. The result won’t be officially announced until Thursday morning but it’s already cle
  
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• Calif. Governor Says Deal Reached On National Guard Mission

  19-04-2018 12:57
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state’s National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov. Jerry Brown said. The announcement comes after a week of uncertainty in which President Donald Trump bashed the governor’s insistence that troops avoid immigration-related work.
  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote on Twitter that final
  
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• Dallas Leaders Criticize Atmos Gas Line Replacement Plans

  19-04-2018 06:37
  
  Dallas City Council Members complain Atmos Energy gas line replacement is too slow. New promises for investment and communication came Wednesday after a fatal February explosion brought new attention to...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Slow Start to Severe Weather Season, But Stay Aware

  19-04-2018 06:21
  
  So far, 2018 is off to a slow start for tornadoes. Through April 18, North Texas has had five tornadoes: one each in Dallas, Navarro and Hopkins counties, and two in Johnson county.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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• Father Fights For Justice Years After His Son Was Killed

  19-04-2018 06:11
  
  A father is fighting for justice for his little boy, four years after the medical examiner ruled the child was beaten to death. Tarrant County prosecutors believe they know who is responsible but they have...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Hurst Couple Loses Home, Suffer Serious Injuries After Explosion

  19-04-2018 05:53
  HURST (CBSDFW.COM) – New video shows police rushing towards a house as an explosion forces them back.
  Dazed and shell-shocked, Hurst Police Officer Travis Hiser keeps moving toward a house that has just exploded and is now on fire.
  “We could hear her yelling and when I heard her yelling, it let me know that she’s alive and if she’s alive, then we need to anything that we can to get her out of there,” said Officer Hiser.
  Officer Hiser and another Hurst police officer
  
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• Two Years Later: Terri “Missy” Bevers Murder Still Unsolved

  19-04-2018 05:52
  MIDLOTHIAN (CBSDFW.COM) – The sun still rises in the small town of Midlothian, and yet the unsolved murder of Terri “Missy” Bevers, is like a cloud that refuses to clear.
  “Nobody’s forgotten,” says Debbie Hunt, “we think about her every day.”
  It’s been two years since Bevers, a mother of three and a local fitness coach, was found murdered in the Creekside church. No one has been arrested for her murder. No suspect named.
  “If you would h
  
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• FAA Will Order Enhanced Inspections Of Engine Model That Blew Up

  19-04-2018 05:50
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The FAA is preparing to issue an order requiring enhanced inspections of the engine model involved in Tuesday’s fatal explosion on Southwest Airlines flight #1380.
  The agency said the airworthiness directive would be released within the next two weeks.
  NTSB investigators almost immediately focused attention on a missing fan blade that separated from its hub.
  “Our preliminary examination of this revealed there’s evidence of metal fatigue where the bla
  
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• Parenting Law Coming to Texas?

  19-04-2018 05:47
  
  Late last month, law makers in Utah passed a law that changed the state's definition of neglect, to protect parents who allow their kids to play outside unsupervised, among other things.Photo Credit: Rick Bowmer/AP
  
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• Houstonians ‘Proud’ To Call Barbara Bush A Neighbor

  19-04-2018 05:46
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Barbara Bush certainly has a unique place in history.
  She’s only the second First Lady to also become the mother of a President.
  But Houston residents say they’re proud the could also call her a neighbor.
  Near the Houston neighborhood where the former First Couple have lived for more than 25 years, the memories of seeing Mrs. Bush around town are what people are talking about.
  Crystal Todd said, “I actually lived down the street from her for at leas
  
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• Fellow Pilot Praises 'Hero' Southwest Pilot for a Job Well Done

  19-04-2018 05:44
  
  Wednesday night, the crew of Southwest flight #1380 issued a statement saying their "hearts are heavy" and they are appreciate the "outpouring of support". Captain Tammie Jo Shults was a former Navy fighter...Photo Credit: Kevin Garber, Director of alumni relations MidAmerica Nazarene UniversityThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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