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• Judge Approves Dallas County Schools' Payment Plan

  22-05-2018 23:52
  
  Embattled Dallas County Schools received some good news Tuesday - court approval of DCS' plan to pay off more than $100 million in debt.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Man Charged With Wife's Murder in Dallas County

  22-05-2018 23:26
  
  A man was charged Monday with his wife's murder after her burning body was found in southeast Dallas County Sunday night, officials say.Photo Credit: Dallas County Sheriff's Department
  
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• Texas Gov. Abbott Holds First Series Of School Safety Discussions

  22-05-2018 23:24
  AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott convened the first in a series of discussions on school safety Tuesday, declaring in response to last week’s shooting at Santa Fe High School, “We all want guns out of the hands of people who would try to murder our children.”
  The governor called the meetings after the attack at the school located about 35 miles southeast Houston, where eight students and two teachers were slain Friday in an art classroom. The initial gather
  
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• Private Jet Crashes In Honduran Capital, All Aboard Survive

  22-05-2018 23:20
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A private jet crashed off the end of the runway of the international airport in Honduras’ capital Tuesday, but the crew and passengers were rescued and reportedly out of danger, the government’s emergency management agency said.
  Photographs posted by the agency showed a white Gulfstream jet broken in half near the center. Firefighters sprayed foam onto the wreck and part of the plane appeared to lie across a street.
  Video showed what appeared to be area resid
  
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• Texas School Shooting Suspect’s Father Calls Son ‘Victim’

  22-05-2018 23:13
  SANTA FE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The 17-year-old student accused of shooting and killing 10 people at Santa Fe High School near Houston last Friday, should be seen as a “victim” because he may have recently been bullied, causing him to lash out, his father said.
  In a phone interview over the weekend with Greece’s Antenna TV, Antonios Pagourtzis said he wished he could have stopped the killing Friday at Santa Fe High School. His voice cracked as he described how he told p
  
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• Teens Arrested On Capital Murder Charge After Botched Burglary

  22-05-2018 22:57
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A phone, money, and maybe a game… sources tell CBS 11 News that’s what a couple teenagers were after, in a burglary that turned into a murder.
  Police said two boys, aged 13 and 14, were arrested on a capital murder charge in the fatal shooting of a woman in her Fort Worth apartment.
  The family of victim Yesenia Gutierrez posted online she was home with her 3-year-old boy Friday, around noon, when the break-in happened.
  Her family said she fought
  
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• Lawsuit Filed: Woman Accuses R. Kelly Of Sexual Battery, Giving Her Herpes

  22-05-2018 22:54
  NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — R. Kelly sexually abused and demeaned a woman, locked her in rooms and vehicles for punishment and infected her with herpes, according to a lawsuit that furthers a string of misconduct accusations against the platinum-selling singer.
  Faith Rodgers said in the suit filed Monday in New York that the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer “mentally, sexually and verbally” abused her during a roughly yearlong relationship.
  Kelly’s management team
  
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• Donor Gives School District $10,000 To Pay Off Student Lunch Debt

  22-05-2018 22:42
  (CBSNEWS) – A school district in Maine has received a generous donation from an anonymous donor to help pay off students’ school lunch debts. Westbrook schools superintendent Peter Lancia said he received a $10,000 check from an anonymous donor on Monday, which would erase a big chunk of the $17,000 owed by families in the district for student lunches.
  School officials say the three elementary schools in the district have about $10,000 in lunch money debt, the middle school has aroun
  
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• Stolen City Of Dallas Truck Found, Nearly $100K Of Equipment Recovered

  22-05-2018 22:20
  DeSOTO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – DeSoto Police, working with Dallas Police, tracked and located a stolen city of Dallas vehicle along with nearly $100,000 worth of tools and equipment stolen from the city of Dallas Tuesday.
  Police did not say where the truck was found.
  stolen city of Dallas truck recovered (DeSoto Police)
  DeSoto Police said in a Facebook post “several subjects are in custody.”
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• Darling Ingredients signs full-building HQ lease in Las Colinas

  22-05-2018 21:52
  Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE:DAR) is expanding its global headquarters with a new office lease in Irving’s Las Colinas area.
  The food, feed and fuel ingredients company is trading in roughly 59,000 square feet in The Overlook at 251 O’Connor Ridge Blvd., where it has been for 30 years, for 95,322 square feet in MacArthur Center I at 5601 North MacArthur Blvd.
  Fast-growing Darling on Tuesday also acquired substantially all of the assets of Kruger Commodities Inc., including protein
  
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• Man Charged With Killing Wife, Setting Body On Fire

  22-05-2018 21:48
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested a man for allegedly murdering his wife.
  Gerald Troup, 54, was booked into the Dallas County Jail around 11:00 a.m. Tuesday and no bond has been set.
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  The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office said on Sunday, May 20, shortly after 7:30 p.m. authorities were called to Bilindsay Rd. between Malloy Bridge Rd. and Beltline in Dallas County where something was burning and someone had just driven awa
  
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• Contractor Damages Natural Gas Line In Downtown Dallas

  22-05-2018 20:46
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A contractor unrelated to Atmos Energy damaged a natural gas line while doing work for a building at 3130 North Harwood in downtown Dallas.
  Technicians with Atmos Energy responded and turned off the gas but not before the building and another were evacuated. They’re continuing to make repairs, and as of 1:20 p.m. people were allowed to return to the buildings.
  Atmos Energy wanted to remind both customers and contractors to call 811 three busi
  
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• High Schoolers Hold Football Game For Students With Special Needs

  22-05-2018 20:45
  HIGHLAND PARK (CBSDFW.COM) – This was one of the Facebook posts that the parents of students with special needs began posting early Sunday morning.
  Cole busts in this morning at 6:30 AM and proclaims, “Mom wake up! It’s the best day of the year! It’s our Buddy Bowl and I get to be a Highland Park football player.”
  Within hours, this woman’s son was headed to Highlander Stadium in Highland Park, where he rushed to be a part of the second annual HP Buddy Bowl, a
  
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• From bullet trains to bathroom bills: One incoming CEO's plan for tackling North Texas' toughest issues

  22-05-2018 20:35
  The North Texas Commission has tapped Chris Wallace, president and chief operating officer of the Texas Association of Business, to be the organization’s next president and CEO.
  
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• Police Searching for Missing Arlington Teen

  22-05-2018 20:17
  
  Arlington police are searching a missing teenager.Photo Credit: Arlington Police Dept./NBC 5 News
  
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• Detainees Unsuccessfully Escape Texas Juvenile Center

  22-05-2018 20:06
  SAN ANGELO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Multiple detainees who escaped a Central Texas juvenile detention center following a riot were returned to the facility.
  Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Monica Schniers tells the San Angelo Standard-Times that the riot at the Tom Green County Juvenile Justice Center on Sunday started when two detainees got into a fight.
  She says a juvenile broke into the control room during the physical altercation and opened all doors to one wing of the facility.
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• Dallas DA Seeks Death Penalty For Home Depot Shooting Suspect

  22-05-2018 20:00
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County District Attorney Fatih Johnson announced today that her office will seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting two Dallas police officers and a loss prevention officer at a Home Depot store last month.
  A grand jury returned five counts — including Capital Murder and Attempted Capital Murder – against Armando Luis Juarez.
  Police in Dallas are searching for 29-year-old Armando Juarez in connection to an officer involv
  
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• Former Topgolf CEO comes out of retirement to lead indoor entertainment company

  22-05-2018 19:56
  Coming out of retirement for a second time, former Topgolf CEO Ken May is taking a new leadership position with Urban Air Adventure Park.May will take the role of executive chairman, effective immediately, with Dallas-based Urban Air, an entertainment company offering trampoline and indoor adventure parks. With the job, he will lead the company’s exponential growth.Urban Air has 209 parks open or under construction nationwide, and averages five new leases per month. At its current growth r
  
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• Elections Officials: Double Check Polling Location

  22-05-2018 19:48
  
  As you head out to vote in Tuesday's primary runoffs, local elections officials say it's important to double check your polling location -- because it may not be the location you normally go to.
  
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• Girl, 3-Months, Undergoes Heart Transplant

  22-05-2018 19:44
  
  The Solis family has been waiting for more than two months to hear whether their infant daughter would receive a heart transplant -- that news came Monday.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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• Arlington Police Ask For Public’s Help Finding Missing Teen

  22-05-2018 19:37
  ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Arlington have reached out to the public for help finding a missing teenager who was last seen on Friday.
  They said Michael Nguyen, 17, was possibly driving a black 2017 Toyota Yaris 4-door with TX LP/JBR-7648 that day.
  Anyone with information is urged to please call 911.
   
  
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• Behind the deal: How Berkshire Hathaway ownership will keep Ebby Halliday growing

  22-05-2018 19:35
  HomeServices of America plans to make the Dallas real estate firm a statewide brand.
  
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• Jordanian Man On Trial In Houston For Killing Iranian Woman

  22-05-2018 19:12
  HOUSTON (AP) — Jury selection has started in Houston in the capital murder trial of a Jordanian-born man accused in two slayings driven by his daughter’s decision to marry a Christian.
  Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the 2012 shooting death of a 30-year-old Iranian women’s rights activist, Gelareh Bagherzadeh. She was best friend of Irsan’s daughter, Nesreen, and encouraged her to marry Coty Beavers, a Christian.
  The 28-year-old Beav
  
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• 'Circumstances changed': Deal between $1.8B Dallas company and major retailer falls through

  22-05-2018 19:03
  The deal that would have let Interstate Batteries sell its batteries at nearly 4,900 Advance Auto Parts stores has fallen through, both companies confirmed.
  
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• New Dallas bank raises $90M with boost from wealthy family offices

  22-05-2018 18:54
  Dallas’ MapleMark Bank has closed a $90 million round of funding, marking one of the largest initial capital raises to help a firm get off the ground in the U.S.
  
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• These North Texas companies made the latest Fortune 500 list

  22-05-2018 18:51
  Nearly two dozen North Texas companies made the 64th Fortune 500 ranking.Fortune released its annual list of the largest publicly-traded companies in the U.S., ranked by revenue. The firms listed this year make up two-thirds of the country’s gross domestic product with a combined $12.8 trillion in revenue, $1 trillion in profits, $21.6 trillion in market value and 28.2 million employees globally.Leading the 22 Dallas-Fort Worth area companies on the 2018 list is Irving’s Exxon Mobil
  
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• Are We Growing Numb To The Opioid Epidemic?

  22-05-2018 18:45
  By Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, author of The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs (out now on Simon & Schuster)
  It’s clear to me, as a public health doctor and journalist, that there have been fewer news stories on the opioid epidemic in recent months, in print, online, and on the radio and TV. While I don’t have a major survey to point to, my work demands that I pay attention to this epidemic and the stories written about it — and that I en
  
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• Candidates Hoping For Big Turnout In Texas Runoff Elections

  22-05-2018 18:13
  RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) – Tuesday is the runoff election for Democratic challengers looking to face incumbents in two big Texas races. The winners will be on the ballot this November in the races for Governor and the 32nd Congressional District, facing Gov. Greg Abbott and Rep. Pete Sessions, respectively.
  The runoff elections are being held because no candidate won at least 50 percent of the vote during the March primary.
  The polls opened at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday eve
  
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• Dallas ISD Trustee's Daughter Undergoes Heart Transplant

  22-05-2018 17:45
  
  The Solis family has been waiting for more than two months to hear whether their infant daughter would receive a heart transplant -- that news came Monday.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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• Frisco School Bus Crash Closes Street; Minor Injuries

  22-05-2018 17:41
  
  Minor injuries were reported in a Frisco school bus crash that closed Hillcrest Road while officials investigate and clean up the scene, Frisco police tweeted.Photo Credit: Frisco Police
  
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• Study Says An Egg A Day Might Reduce Heart Disease Risk

  22-05-2018 17:37
  BEIJING (CNN) – Eating an egg a day might reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, a study of more than 400,000 adults in China has suggested.
  Daily egg eaters had an 18 percent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, which manifests as heart attacks and strokes, compared with adults who avoided eggs, according to the research published Monday in the journal  Heart.
  Commonly called heart disease, cardiovascular disease includes heart failure, arrhythmias and heart valve p
  
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• Baby Boom: Firefighter Dads Show Off Their Newborns

  22-05-2018 17:37
  GLENPOOL, Okla. (CBSNEWS.COM) – There’s a baby boom at a firehouse in Oklahoma. Seven of their bravest not only battle blazes, but also perform daddy duties — and there are adorable photos to show for it.
  Seven firefighters at the Glenpool Fire Department pose with their babies. The children, five girls and two boys, were all born within the year. (credit: Melanie Todd)
  Several firefighters at the Glenpool Fire Department have become fathers over the last year. Their wives
  
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• Police Say Man Beat Dog Because It Ate His Whopper

  22-05-2018 17:21
  DARTMOUTH, Mass. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Prosecutors say a Massachusetts man hit his dog in the head with a baseball bat because he was angry the animal ate his Burger King Whopper sandwich.
  Gregory Ostiguy was held on $5,000 bail after pleading not guilty Monday to animal cruelty.How To Report Animal Cruelty In DallasOfficers responded to a Dartmouth street at around 7 p.m. Friday after witnesses reported seeing a man hitting and screaming at a dog in his car.
  The 50-year-old Ostiguy, of New Be
  
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• Agents In South Texas Seize $16M In Counterfeit-Label Items

  22-05-2018 17:20
  LAREDO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Federal agents in South Texas have seized nearly 80,000 bogus-label clothing, electronics and other items at a public storage facility in an estimated $16 million counterfeit cargo bust.
  Investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say the trademark-infringed merchandise was shipped from China to an international cargo terminal in Laredo.
  Authorities on Monday said no one has been arrested in the investigation of items with fake tags representing Her
  
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• Donald Glover Cool With His Lando Calrissian Being Pansexual In “Solo”

  22-05-2018 17:11
  LOS ANGELES (CNN) – It makes perfect sense to Donald Glover that his Lando Calrissian character in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is pansexual. “How can you not be pansexual in space?” he asked SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio program. “There are so many things to have sex with.”
  Glover stars as Lando in the forthcoming movie, but the character was originally made famous in other “Star Wars” films by actor Billy Dee Williams.
  
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• CyrusOne exec on the data center builder's outlook south of Dallas

  22-05-2018 16:56
  Dallas-based CyrusOne Inc. is bullish on San Antonio's future for data centers though noncommittal on when it might further expand its considerable presence here, its chief commercial officer told the San Antonio Business Journal.CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE) already operates four San Antonio data centers with just under 50 megawatts of capacity and customers from midmarket to Fortune 1000 businesses, said Tesh Durvasula, chief commercial officer for the company.Durvasula said the company expects to&h
  
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• Driver Charged in Crash That Killed Skateboarder in Dallas

  22-05-2018 16:16
  
  Sheriff's deputies in Dallas arrested the man who drove his pickup truck over a curb, fatally striking a skateboarder before crashing through the side of a gas station Monday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Amber Alert Discontinued for 3 TX Children

  22-05-2018 16:14
  
  An Amber Alert issued for three children reportedly abducted by a 29-year-old woman has been discontinued, authorities announced Tuesday morning.Photo Credit: Texas DPS
  
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• JC Penney Shares Plunge After CEO Ellison Departs For Lowe’s

  22-05-2018 16:04
  MOORESVILLE, N.C. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — J.C. Penney CEO Marvin Ellison, a former Home Depot executive, is leaving the department store chain after less than four years to become the top executive at Lowe’s.
  The announcement Tuesday, just days after the company reported a first-quarter, but stronger than predicted revenue, sent its shares down more than 3 percent.
  Ellison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of J.C. Penny Co. Inc., right, talks to Greg Sandfort, Chief Executive
  
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• Summer Learning Can Be Fun With The Proper Planning

  22-05-2018 16:00
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Studies show that, during summer break, students lose between 25-30 percent of what they learned during the school year. Parents can avoid this summer slide and help kids hold onto that knowledge, but it requires some planning.
  Daily learning can be incorporated into the vacation without sacrificing summer fun.
  The Wells family recently spent a night at home, making dinner and memories together. But there was a purpose behind it all, greater than just cooking a meal.
  
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