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• Denton Guyer Students Walk Out, Protesting Gun Violence

  20-04-2018 23:38
  
  Students at one Denton high school say their anti-gun protest Friday was more of a teach-in, than a walkout. It was part of a nationwide demonstration by high school students.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Classmates Step Up to Help Arlington Student Battling Tumor

  20-04-2018 23:29
  
  An Arlington High School student is fighting for his life -- and is in need of help. Now, his classmates are trying to rally the community to give him a boost.
  
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• North Texas Students Join National Walk-Out Protest Friday

  20-04-2018 23:26
  
  Students from several North Texas high schools walked out of class Friday, taking part in a national walk-out supporting gun control activism.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Pot Politics: Schumer Joins Politicians Rethinking Marijuana

  20-04-2018 23:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Democrat is using marijuana’s informal holiday to announce a change of heart about the drug, another sign of the growing political acceptance of pot.
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Friday he’ll introduce a bill taking marijuana off the federal list of controlled substances — in effect decriminalizing its use.
  His bill would let states decide how to treat marijuana possession. Under the measure, the federal government
  
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• Poll Suggests Texans Support Legalizing a Little Weed

  20-04-2018 23:08
  
  According to a new Quinnipiac University poll, 61 percent of Texas respondents are favor of legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use.Photo Credit: APThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Watch: Bear Spray Used in Irving Bitcoin Heist

  20-04-2018 22:53
  
  Thieves breaking into a Bitcoin machine at an Irving convenience store used bear spray to blind the clerk, sending him to the hospital last month, police say.Photo Credit: Irving PD
  
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• Woman Suspected In Minnesota, Florida Deaths Caught In Texas

  20-04-2018 21:56
  SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (AP) — A tip-off in a Texas resort town led to the arrest of a woman who investigators believe killed her husband in Minnesota then fled to Florida, where she fatally shot her doppelganger with the intention of assuming her identity, police said Friday.
  Two federal deputy marshals arrested Lois Riess, 56, about 8:30 p.m. Thursday at a restaurant in South Padre Island, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement. South Padre Island is a beach resort community 27 miles f
  
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• RealPage acquires electronic payment platform in $218.5M deal

  20-04-2018 21:51
  RealPage Inc. (Nasdaq: RP) is growing its electronic payment platform with a $218.5 million purchase of ClickPay.Richardson-based RealPage, which offers software and data analytics for the real estate industry, said the transaction will add nearly $1 billion to its total addressable market by extending its reach in the homeowner association real estate sector.ClickPay, which is based in New York City, offers an electronic payment platform to 2.3 million units in the multifamily, HOA, condominium
  
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• Karolyis To NBC: ‘No Way’ They Knew About Doctor’s Behavior

  20-04-2018 21:43
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former USA Gymnastics women’s national team coordinator Martha Karolyi and husband Bela tell NBC they were unaware of the abusive behavior by a former national team doctor now serving decades in prison.
  Martha Karolyi led the national team for 15 years before retiring after the 2016 Rio Olympics. She tells Savannah Guthrie in “no way” did she suspect Larry Nassar was sexually abusing athletes under the guise of treatment.
  “The whole gymnastics commun
  
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• A DFW Airport restaurant doubles sales after getting smart glass

  20-04-2018 21:42
  In an effort to increase passenger comfort, DFW Airport installed glass at Terminal A last year that makes its surrounding area cooler and reduces glare.
  
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• Survivor Castoff Libby Vincek Speaks Out

  20-04-2018 21:31
  “Survivor: Ghost Island” is down to 11 contestants as Libby Vincek got voted out a Tribal Council this week. Libby had many strong friendships and was seen as a threat to win by some some of the other contestants. In the end, those things and a few other circumstances ultimately were the reason why her torch was extinguished.
  Libby talked with CBS Local about why she got voted off, her Survivor experience and who she wants to win.
  Why do you think you were voted off?
  Libby Vincek: I
  
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• Southwest Airlines offering $5,000 checks to passengers aboard flight 1380

  20-04-2018 21:31
  Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is offering $5,000 checks and $1,000 travel vouchers to passengers aboard flight 1380, which experienced deadly engine failure Tuesday while en route to Dallas.As reported by Bloomberg, the airline is offering the financial compensation and assistance with other “necessities” like finding lost luggage.“We value you as our customer and hope you will allow us another opportunity to restore your confidence in Southwest,” CEO Gary Kelly sai
  
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• Southwest Airlines mechanics very worried about safety in weeks before Flight 1380

  20-04-2018 20:57
  Correspondence obtained by the Chicago Business Journal shows a number of Southwest Airlines mechanics had maintenance concerns prior to a Tuesday flight in which an engine on a Southwest Boeing 737-700 exploded mid-flight en route from New York to Dallas.In an email dated Feb. 26 from Bret Oestreich, the national director of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, to Southwest Airlines Chief Operating Officer Mike van de Ven, Oestreich states that some 2,300 Southwest mechanics who are me
  
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• Form D Friday: TPG launches third real estate fund targeting $3B

  20-04-2018 20:51
  TPG is launching a $3 billion third real estate fund and has attracted the Texas Municipal Retirement System as an investor.
  
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• Texas Adds 32,000 Non-Farm Positions in March

  20-04-2018 20:47
  
  Texas adds 32,000 non-farm jobs in March adjusting the unemployment rate to a steady four percent.Photo Credit: Marcus Calderon/Flickr
  
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• Texas Appeals Court Says ‘Revenge Porn’ Law Is Unconstitutional

  20-04-2018 20:25
  AUSTIN (AP) – A Texas appeals court has ruled unconstitutional a state law that punishes those who post intimate images from previous or current relationships online without consent.
  The 12th Court of Appeals in Tyler dismissed the revenge porn law Wednesday, saying it violates the First Amendment by restricting expression based on the content of photographs and videos shared online.
  The court also ordered a revenge porn charge to be dropped against Jordan Bartlett Jones. Court records sho
  
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• AT&T's CEO announces new product, driving home testimony in Time Warner merger case

  20-04-2018 20:13
  As AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson sought to sway a U.S. District Court that his company’s planned merger with Time Warner won’t raise prices, he punctuated his remarks by announcing a new, cheaper service.Stephenson revealed that AT&T (NYSE: T) will soon unveil a $15-per-month online video package that doesn’t include sports, Bloomberg reported. The announcement seeks to blunt arguments by the U.S. Justice Department that an $85 billion deal between AT&T and Ti
  
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• Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Sells For World Record $2.88 M

  20-04-2018 19:42
  
  A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card, in brand new condition, sold for a world record $2.88 million in a public auction on Thursday, April 19.Photo Credit: Heritage Auctions
  
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• Music Producer & EDM Artist Known As Avicii Found Dead At 28

  20-04-2018 19:39
  NEW YORK (AP) – Avicii, the Grammy-nominated electronic dance DJ who performed sold-out concerts for feverish fans around the world and also had massive success on U.S. pop radio, died Friday. He was 28.
  Publicist Diana Baron said in a statement that the Swedish performer, born Tim Bergling, was found dead in Muscat, Oman.
  “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii,” the statement read. “The family is devastated and we ask
  
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• Flower Mound working with developer on speculative office project

  20-04-2018 19:35
  The city of Flower Mound has green lighted a speculative office project that will bring 120,000 square feet of space to the suburb.As first reported by the Dallas Morning News, developer FM 2499 Office Ventures LLC plans to construct an office building in Flower Mound’s Lakeside Business District. The property will be located near FM 2499 and Grapevine Lake.The developer will invest a minimum of $25 million in the project, and in return, Flower Mound will provide a debt service guarantee t
  
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• Online pet retailer expanding Dallas presence, workforce

  20-04-2018 19:21
  North Texas’ labor market and accessibility have been touted as reasons why the region landed Toyota’s North American headquarters, and why it would be a good fit for Amazon’s HQ2.Those factors also led online pet retailer Chewy to continue growing its presence in the market. The Florida-based company plans to open a customer service call center in Dallas next month.The hub will occupy 50,000 square feet in Infomart Dallas, located at 1950 N. Stemmons Freeway. Chewy is acceptin
  
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• Construction Worker Injured at Plano Site

  20-04-2018 18:54
  
  A construction worker has non-life-threatening injuries after falling at a site in Plano, officials said.
  
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• Students Protest For Tougher Gun Laws In National School Walkout

  20-04-2018 17:58
  COLLEYVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Another wave of student protests disrupted classes Friday across North Texas and the country as part of the National School Walkout. Young activists at thousands of campuses left their classrooms to press for tougher gun laws.
  The date of the protests was chosen to line up with the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, which left 13 people dead in Littleton, Colorado. Students on Friday gathered for moments of silence honoring the victims of
  
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• Texas flood-mitigation, green space project finishes first phase

  20-04-2018 17:39
  The first phase of a Clear Lake City flood-mitigation project is complete, and construction on the second phase will begin soon. Exploration Green — which is redeveloping a roughly 200-acre golf course — finished the first of five detention ponds and park area in March, a spokesperson for the project said. To celebrate, a grand opening event will be held April 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to the project’s website. Above, check out photos of the project.
  “The
  
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• Walmart Employees May Soon Get More Relaxed Dress Code

  20-04-2018 17:23
  NEW YORK (CNN Money) – Walmart employees could soon be getting a little more wiggle room in their work attire. The discount giant is testing a new dress code that would allow workers to wear any solid-colored shirt, and adds blue to the mix of approved pants colors.
  That would make blue jeans work-appropriate attire, a spokesperson said.
  “We are always testing new ideas and concepts in a small number of our stores,” spokesperson Justin Rushing explained in an email stateme
  
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• Traffic Stop Leads To Drug Seizure

  20-04-2018 17:23
  
  The Department of Public Safety pulls over a man for a traffic violation and ends up discovering 40 kilograms on methamphetamine in the vehicle on Tuesday evening.
  
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• Semi Catches Fire on I-20

  20-04-2018 17:15
  
  A semi catches fire Friday morning at approximately 2:09 am shutting down all westbound lanes of I-20.Photo Credit: Metro Video Dallas / Fort Worth
  
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• Owls Born Outside Office Window Now Staring In At Workers

  20-04-2018 16:52
  LOS ANGELES (CBSNEWS.COM) – Desks by the window are often considered the holy grail of office real estate. But at one California office seats by the window have gotten a bit, shall we say, awkward.
  According to urban planner Michael Lens, a parliament of owls was recently born on his coworker’s windowsill at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Then, instead of flying away, the birds hung around to stick their beaks into office business.
  Owls were born on my colleague&r
  
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• I-20 Semi On Fire

  20-04-2018 16:46
  
  A semi catches fire Friday morning at approximately 2:09 am shutting down all westbound lanes of I-20.Photo Credit: Metro Video Dallas / Fort Worth
  
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• Wells Fargo Hit With $1 Billion Fine For Mortgage, Auto Lending Abuses

  20-04-2018 15:36
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo is being fined a combined $1 billion by two federal regulators for abuses tied to its mortgage and auto lending businesses.
  The bank will pay $500 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, its main bank regulator, as well as $500 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  This is the first fine that Mick Mulvaney, appointed as acting director of the CFPB by President Trump, has imposed since he took over the bureau in late November
  
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• As Prince’s Health Waned, Alarm Grew In Inner Circle

  20-04-2018 15:24
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Some of Prince’s closest confidants had grown increasingly alarmed about his health in the days before he died and tried to get him help as they realized he had an opioid addiction — yet none were able to give investigators the insight they needed to determine where the musician got the fentanyl that killed him, according to investigative documents released Thursday.
  Just ahead of this weekend’s two-year anniversary of Prince’s death, prosecutors
  
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• Newy's 2018 NFL Mock Draft

  20-04-2018 14:56
  
  Here is my 2018 NFL mock draft. I have one trade in the first round and of course we will see more than that.Photo Credit: CSNPhilly.com
  
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• Public Viewing Of Former First Lady Barbara Bush To Begin

  20-04-2018 14:37
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — As the outpouring of tributes continues for Barbara Bush, the general public can pay its respects to the former first lady at a viewing today.Photo Gallery: Barbara BushMrs. Bush’s body will lie in repose from noon to midnight Friday at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church at 717 Sage Road in Houston, the nation’s largest Episcopal church. The public must go to the Second Baptist Church at 6400 Woodway Drive to park and pass through security. The parkin
  
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• Public Viewing For Former First Lady Barbara Bush

  20-04-2018 14:37
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A spray of flowers covered the closed silver casket of former first lady Barbara Bush in the sanctuary of the Houston church as mourners paid their final respects.
  People were waiting in line hours early for security screening before boarding shuttle buses to attend a public viewing at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, where Bush and her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, regularly attended services.Mrs. Bush’s body will lie in re
  
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• Main Street FW Arts Festival Will Go on Despite Forecast

  20-04-2018 14:17
  
  Upwards of 400,000 people are expected in Downtown Fort Worth this weekend as the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival takes over Cowtown.
  
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• Students To Protest For Tougher Gun Laws In National School Walkout

  20-04-2018 14:06
  COLLEYVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Another wave of student protests will disrupt classes Friday as part of the National School Walkout. Young activists at hundreds of campuses across the country will press for tougher gun laws. The walkouts are planned for 10:00 a.m. in each time zone.
  The date of the protests was chosen to line up with the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, which left 13 people dead in Littleton, Colorado. Students on Friday will gather for moments of sile
  
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• Bono Gets New George W. Bush Medal For Leadership

  20-04-2018 14:02
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Rock star Bono, frontman for the band U2, has been presented with the first of what the George W. Bush Presidential Center intends to be an annual medal for individuals who change the world in some way.
  The former president presented the George W. Bush Medal for Distinguished Leadership to Bono on Thursday at the center. It was in recognition of Bono’s humanitarian work against poverty and preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
  At the event Bono told the form
  
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• Grandmother Linked To Murder Of Husband, Woman Caught In Texas

  20-04-2018 13:25
  SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (AP) — A woman suspected of killing her husband in Minnesota, then fleeing to Florida and killing a woman who resembled her in order to assume a new identity, was captured Thursday night at a South Texas resort.
  Two federal deputy marshals arrested Lois Riess, 56, about 8:30 p.m. at a South Padre Island restaurant, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement. South Padre Island is a beach resort community 27 miles from the crossing into Mexico.
  Riess had been on the ru
  
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• Senate Confirms Non-Scientist As NASA’s New Administrator

  20-04-2018 13:07
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA’s latest nail-biting drama was far from orbit as the Senate narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump’s choice of a tea party congressman to run the space agency in an unprecedented party-line vote.
  In a 50-49 vote Thursday, Oklahoma Rep. James Bridenstine, a Navy Reserve pilot, was confirmed as NASA’s 13th administrator, an agency that usually is kept away from partisanship. His three predecessors — two nominated by Republicans — were a
  
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• Group Vows to Patrol Streets After Girl Attacked

  20-04-2018 13:06
  
  Fort Worth Police are following leads to find the man who attacked a 13-year-old girl while she was walking to the bus stop.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Pacino, De Palma Remember ‘Scarface’ At Tribeca Reunion

  20-04-2018 12:57
  NEW YORK (AP) — Old “Scarface” friends said hello again at a 35th anniversary screening Thursday that reunited stars Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer and filmmaker Brian De Palma for an evening full of reflection on how the ferocious and garish gangster epic — like Tony Montana’s rise from dishwasher to drug lord — has grown in stature.
  The reunion, held at New York’s Beacon Theatre, was one of the main events of the just kicked-off Tribeca
  
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• Arizona Teachers Vote For Statewide Walkout To Protest Pay

  20-04-2018 12:45
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona teachers have voted to walk off the job to demand increased school funding, marking a key step toward a first-ever statewide strike that builds on a movement for higher pay in other Republican-dominant states.
  A grassroots group and the state’s largest teacher membership group said Thursday that teachers will walkout April 26.
  Arizona jumped into a movement for higher teacher pay that started in West Virginia, where a strike garnered a raise, and spread to Okla
  
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• Earth X Opening at Fair Park

  20-04-2018 12:04
  
  Earth-X will open at Fair Park, just in time for Earth Day this weekend. It runs through Sunday.
  
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• Judge Orders No Bond For Alleged Deep Ellum Domestic Abuser

  20-04-2018 06:30
  UPDATED: April 20, 2018  6:30 PM
  With the blessing of the survivor’s family, a GoFundMe page was set up to help with medical, dental and counseling costs during her recovery.
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police have arrested a man accused in a vicious attack in Deep Ellum.
  Dallas police have charged Jarod Lennis Broussard, 36, with a felony family violence assault.
  It happened Thursday morning shortly before 2 a.m. on the 2700 block of Canton Street.
  A witness at the Adam Hats Lof
  
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• Frisco Students Prepare for School Walkouts

  20-04-2018 05:57
  
  Students across North Texas plan to walk out of class Friday to protest gun violence.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Texas Groups Show 'Displeasure' Over Trump Plan

  20-04-2018 05:42
  
  Grassroots groups in Texas wrote a letter of "displeasure" over President Trump's infrastructure plan.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Men Vow to Patrol Fort Worth Streets After Girl is Attacked

  20-04-2018 05:34
  
  Fort Worth Police are following leads to find the man who attacked a 13-year-old girl while she was walking to the bus stop.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Houston Honors Former First Lady Barbara Bush: “A Strong Texas Woman”

  20-04-2018 05:26
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – More than 100 Houston residents came to city hall to honor former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of their most beloved residents.
  Linda Harding-Harvey was among those who wore the color blue and pearls, Mrs. Bush’s trademarks. “That is one of my favorite ladies right there, Barbara Bush.”
  Everyone had a different reason for being here. “She happened to be a twin of my mother, so everywhere we went with my mother, they thought she was Barbara Bus
  
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• Blast Rocks Southeast Texas Refinery; No Injuries

  20-04-2018 04:09
  TEXAS CITY (AP) — An explosion and fire struck a refinery in Southeast Texas, home to the biggest concentration of petrochemical plants in the country.
  The blast shook the Valero refinery in Texas City just before 5 p.m. Wednesday. Flames flared about 100 feet into the air and a column of black smoke towered over Galveston Bay.
  Valero officials reported that all of its personnel were accounted for with no injuries among them.
  City officials said there were no effects to the general public
  
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