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• Wait Is Over For Improved Officers’ Waiting Room At Courthouse

  19-06-2018 23:47
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A welcomed gift to North Texas police officers who spend a lot of time waiting to testify in criminal trials.
  A truck full of new sofas, chairs and tables arrived at the Dallas County Courthouse Tuesday morning.
  Weir’s Furniture made the donation and Blue Line Moving Company offered free delivery to the officer waiting room on the tenth floor of the courthouse.
  new furniture for officers’ waiting room at Dallas County Courthouse (J.D. Miles – CBS11)
  
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• Rep. Cummings on Family Separation: 'We Are Better Than That!'

  19-06-2018 23:41 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) slammed the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday in an emotional speech during a House Oversight and Government Reform...
  
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• Dad’s Viral Video Of Son Climbing Pool Ladder Warns Parents About Pool Safety

  19-06-2018 23:41
  (CBSNEWS) – A dad from Attleboro, Massachusetts is using a video of his 2-year-old son to give other parents a warning. Keith Wyman’s video of his son, Cody, shows just how easy it is for kids to get into pools by themselves — even when there are seemingly child-safe measures in place. In Wyman’s case, a pool ladder with a locked cover was no impediment for a determined toddler.
  A Massachusetts dad filmed his 2-year-old son climbing up a locked pool ladder by himself. (CB
  
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• Warning About Fake James Avery Jewelry

  19-06-2018 23:39
  
  Before you buy your next piece of James Avery jewelry, here's a warning for customers.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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• Woman's Body Found in Fort Worth Neighborhood: Police

  19-06-2018 23:26
  
  Fort Worth police are continuing to investigate the mysterious death of a woman whose body was found partially undressed in a TCU neighborhood early Tuesday morning.Photo Credit: Tim Ciesco
  
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• Person Shot, Killed After Returning to Fight With Handgun

  19-06-2018 23:18
  
  A person was shot and killed Monday afternoon after returning to the scene of a fight armed with a handgun, police say.
  
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• Person of Interest Sought in Sexual Assault Investigation

  19-06-2018 23:13
  
  The Denton County Sheriff's Office released a sketch of a man they say may have information on a possible sexual assault.Photo Credit: Denton County Sheriff's Office
  
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• Land Deal Ties Interior Secretary’s Family, Halliburton Boss

  19-06-2018 22:43
  HELENA, Mont. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s family is involved in a land deal in his Montana hometown with the head of an Houston-based energy services giant that does business with the Interior Department, according to records and interviews Tuesday.
  The Zinkes’ dealings with Halliburton chairman David Lesar, which were first reported by Politico, raise questions of the appearance of a conflict of interest between Zinke and Halliburton, critics said.
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• Man Arrested For Shooting At Bedford Police Officers

  19-06-2018 22:37
  BEDFORD, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A suspected shooter is in Bedford Police custody after being released from a hospital.
  Police said Manuel Gonzalo Castillo shot at officers who were responding to reports of gunshots Friday night on Burr Oak Court.
  Manuel Gonzalo Castillo (Bedford PD)
  Officers said they found Castillo hiding under a car with his gun pointed at them.
  Castillo was in the hospital since Saturday for a gunshot wound to his hand.
  No officers were hurt.
  Castillo was arrested at his
  
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• Authorities Searching For Person Of Interest In Possible Sexual Assault At Lake

  19-06-2018 22:27
  DENTON COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – Authorities are searching for a person of interest in a possible sexual assault at a park at Lake Ray Roberts in early June.
  The Denton County Sheriff’s Office released a sketch of a person who may have information on a sexual assault at Jordan Moore Park, located at Lake Ray Roberts.
  The person is described as a white male with dirty blonde hair, a goatee and in his late 20’s. Authorities also say he smokes Camel cigarettes and goes by the name &ld
  
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• Man Who Shot at Police Re-Arrested After Leaving Hospital

  19-06-2018 22:09
  
  A man who slipped out of a hospital after injuring his hand in a shootout with police is back in custody Tuesday, police say.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Twin Brothers Reunited 74 Years After WWII Death At Normandy

  19-06-2018 22:06
  COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred.
  Today, he has recovered his identity — and was being reunited with his twin brother in Normandy, where the two Navy men died together when their ship shattered on an underwater mine while trying to reach the blood-soaked D-Day beaches.
  Julius Heinrich Otto “Henry” Pieper and Ludwig Julius Wilhelm “Louie” Piepe
  
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• 5 Charged In ‘Smuggling Scheme’ After Fatal Crash In Texas

  19-06-2018 22:00
  DALLAS (AP) — Five people have been charged in a “smuggling scheme” following the fatal crash of an SUV that was fleeing Border Patrol agents and sheriff’s deputies in South Texas, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the western district of Texas said the charges were filed in connection to the Sunday crash that killed at least five people . Investigators have said the vehicle was carrying 14 people and traveling more than 100 mph when i
  
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• Extra Highway Enforcement Coming To Dallas County To Ensure ‘Safer Summer’

  19-06-2018 21:58
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – With highways becoming more congested and potentially more dangerous due to vacation and summer fun-related travel, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department is going to have more deputies out to try to get people to reduce speed, wear their seatbelts and drive without distractions.
  The Sheriff’s Department will provide extra enforcement on IH20 and IH30 from the city of Grand Prairie, Dallas County line to the city of Mesquite, Dallas County line.
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• ‘Don’t Leave Me, Mom’: Detainee Tells Of Separation From Son

  19-06-2018 21:53
  SEATTLE (AP) — The call came at mealtime — an anonymous threat demanding $5,000 or her son’s life.
  So Blanca Orantes-Lopez, her 8-year-old boy and his father packed up and left the Pacific surfing town of Puerto La Libertad in El Salvador and headed for the United States.
  Two months later, she sits in a federal prison south of Seattle. The boy, Abel Alexander, is in custody at a children’s home across the country in upstate New York. She has no idea when she might see him
  
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• Ken Foote’s Summer Songs: Steve Winwood And ‘Roll With It’

  19-06-2018 21:39
  (CBS11) – What can one say about Steve Winwood? As for me, a talented and versatile musician who could manage the volatility of music trends as well as anyone. Someone who knew R&B, pop/rock, soul, and album rock and could rock the house better than anyone!
  Steve Winwood in 1985 (Getty Images)
  Born in Birmingham, England on May 12, 1948 (he just turned 70 about five weeks ago), he is a musician that can play many instrument. His early musical interests started in jazz, performing with
  
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• Trump Jr Cancels Appearance At Bush Fundraiser

  19-06-2018 21:12
  NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A dispute between two political families escalated Tuesday as Donald Trump Jr. canceled plans to raise money for the eldest son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
  Donald Trump Jr. decided to withdraw from a fundraiser for Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush in New York City next week after Jeb Bush criticized President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the border, according to two people with direc
  
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• TDMN: Rent-a-Center, GameStop Put Up for Sale

  19-06-2018 21:08
  
  Rent-a-Center and GameStop are both selling their companies. Dallas Morning News Retail Reporter Maria Halkias joins us to talk about the sales. Both companies have been around a while and expanded, but have had...Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Son Of Former Cowboys Player Arrested For Mesquite Double Murder

  19-06-2018 20:38
  MESQUITE (CBDFW.COM) – Cassius Shakembe Williams, the son of Dallas Cowboys legend Erik Williams, is behind bars today charged with Capital Murder.
  Cassius Williams and Rozman Rah-saan Shannon Jr. are both charged in connection with the shooting deaths of two men on June 12.
  Cassius Williams (credit: Dallas County Sheriff’s Office)
  According to police, officers in Mesquite were called to an area near Gus Thomasson Road and Whitson Way after reports of gunfire
  
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• Bucks’ Sterling Brown Sues City Of Milwaukee Over Stun-Gun Arrest

  19-06-2018 19:34
  MILWAUKEE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Milwaukee and its police department, claiming unlawful arrest and excessive force when officers used a stun gun on him during his arrest for a parking violation.
  Brown’s attorney Mark Thomsen filed the lawsuit in federal court.
  Brown had been talking with officers while waiting for a citation for illegally parking in a disabled spot outside a Walgreens on January 26, when offi
  
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• Willie Nelson To Trump: ‘Let’s Go Down To A Border Detention Center’

  19-06-2018 19:31
  NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Country music icon Willie Nelson has extended an offer to meet President Donald Trump at one of the detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border to better understand what’s happening there.
  In a tweet posted on his wife’s account, Annie Nelson, Nelson tweeted, “@realDonaldTrump Hey Donald this is @WillieNelson Let’s go down to the border detention center together to better understand what’s happening down there?! Let’s talk!&rdq
  
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• The Longest Day Event for The Alzheimer's Association

  19-06-2018 19:24
  
  Sarah Ethridge from the Alzheimer’s Association is the Special Events Coordinator for the Longest Day for the Alzheimer’s Association of North Central Texas. She's here to talk about a fundraiser...Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Survey: Wedding Registries Morph Into Broader Range

  19-06-2018 19:24
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wedding registries remain popular and the nature of gifting has morphed into a broader range of options, including cash registries, that are being embraced by friends and family, a new survey shows.
  The average wedding registry was valued at $4,835 last year, featuring 125 items, according to the survey by the wedding site TheKnot.com of nearly 7,000 engaged or recently married couples. Nearly 9 in 10 couples, or 88 percent of the American couples who responded, set up regi
  
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• Arrests Made in Mesquite Double Murder

  19-06-2018 19:17
  
  Two men face capital murder charges following fatal shootings last week in Mesquite that police believe were drug related.Photo Credit: Mesquite Police Department
  
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• Texas Speaker Urges Trump To End Zero-Tolerance Policy

  19-06-2018 18:37
  AUSTIN (AP) — Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is among the GOP lawmakers coming out against the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has resulted in children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  Straus sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday. The legislator from San Antonio said there’s no federal law requiring separating children from parents and doing so adds to the trauma that they have often faced in their countr
  
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• Woman's Body Found in Fort Worth

  19-06-2018 18:25
  
  Fort Worth police have confirmed they found the body of a woman, but have not released additional information, such as how and when she died. Officers were at the crime scene in the 4900 block of Bellaire Drive...Photo Credit: Tim Ciesco
  
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• 1 Year Since Girl Went Missing From Fort Worth

  19-06-2018 18:00
  
  The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is asking for assistance from the public to help locate a missing 16-year-old girl.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• CVS Now Delivers Prescriptions & Other Items To Your Home

  19-06-2018 17:46
  NEW YORK (AP) – CVS Health will make prescription deliveries nationwide to accommodate the heightened expectations of convenience from consumers.
  The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain says it also will make home deliveries of other items, like allergy medicines, vitamins or household products. The service will cost $4.99 for deliveries made in one or two days.
  The drugstore chain said Tuesday that it’s expanding same-day deliveries, for a higher fee, to Boston, Miami, Phi
  
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• Family To Receive Remains Of WWII Soldier From Texas

  19-06-2018 17:40
  WEST, Texas (AP) — The remains of a Central Texas soldier killed in 1945 during a World War II battle in Germany have been identified and are being returned to his family.
  The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says 21-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Leo J. Husak of West was accounted for in February. Burial will be Saturday in his hometown.
  Husak was with Company A, 1st Battalion, 309th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division, when he was killed in January 1945. Other soldiers were unable to re
  
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• 7 Guatemalans Treated At Texas Burn Hospital After Volcano

  19-06-2018 17:15
  GALVESTON (AP) — A seventh Guatemalan child severely burned when a volcano erupted this month was transferred to a Texas hospital.
  A spokesman for Shriners Hospital for Children-Galveston said Tuesday that one child was in critical condition, three were listed as fair and three others were in good condition. Mel Bower says the children range in age from 1 to 16 years old. Further details on them weren’t released.
  The Volcano of Fire erupted June 3. Guatemalan officials this week conf
  
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• Verizon To End Some Sale Of Phone-Location Data

  19-06-2018 17:11
  NEW YORK (AP) – Verizon is pledging to stop selling data through intermediaries that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned.
  It is the first major U.S. wireless carrier to step back from a business practice that has drawn criticism for endangering privacy. The data has allowed outsiders to track wireless devices without their owners’ knowledge or consent.
  Verizon, the nation’s largest mobile carrier measured by subscr
  
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• Marriott On Board As Amazon Launches Alexa For Hotel Rooms

  19-06-2018 17:08
  NEW YORK (AP) – Alexa has a new job: hotel concierge.
  Amazon has launched a version of Alexa for hotels that lets guests order room service through the voice assistant, ask for more towels or get restaurant recommendations without having to pick up the phone and call the front desk. Marriott has signed up for the service, and will place Amazon Echo smart speakers in 10 hotels this summer, including its Westin and St. Regis brands.
  It is another way for Amazon to sell its voice assistant an
  
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• Circus Bear Attacks Handler As Audience Watches In Horror

  19-06-2018 16:42
  RUSSIA (CBSNEWS.COM) – Shocking video from a Russian circus shows a bear turn on its handler and viciously attack him during a show. The audience watched in horror as the bear jumped off a skateboard it had been riding and leaped towards the humans in the circus ring.
  Video from the circus in Russia’s Volgograd region, posted by the Daily Mail, shows the bear sliding down a ramp on the skateboard while a handler holds on to its leash. At the end of the ramp, the bear gets r
  
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• Dallas Judge: County Can Be Ready For Immigrant Children In 2 Weeks

  19-06-2018 15:33
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Today President Trump is scheduled to meet with house republicans to discuss what steps to take next when it comes to immigration. That meeting is scheduled as children continue to be separated from their families.
  Those separations at the border are nothing new, but according to the New York Times since the “zero-tolerance” policy began in early April the number of children taken from their families’ number in the thousands, opposed to the h
  
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• Dallas Kids Learning How To Pilot Drones At Summer Camp

  19-06-2018 15:25
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – There are all sorts of fun camps that North Texas children are enjoying this summer, and one of them is drone camp. Elementary school students in Dallas this week are taking the controls and getting a head start on science learning.
  Gleeful outbursts from 7-year-old boys and girls are not unusual during summer break, especially inside of a gym. But the students at Alcuin School in Dallas are not shooting hoops. They’re piloting actual drones. The camp is pu
  
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• Police Investigate Shooting Death In Southwest Fort Worth

  19-06-2018 14:37
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Fort Worth are investigating a shooting death in the 4900 block of Ranch View Road, near Bellaire Drive in the southwestern part of the city. Authorities were called at about 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday after a man spotted a woman’s body in a public grassy area.
  Authorities arrived at the scene to find the woman dead outside with gunshot wounds. Her name has not been released.
  (credit: CBSDFW.COM)
  Detectives blocked off a large area of the Overton Wo
  
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• TMSG: 'Jobs for Life'

  19-06-2018 14:12
  
  A group of students in Hood County recently completed and graduated from the "Jobs for Life" program, which is aimed at ending poverty and helping people find their confidence.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• On A Big Night For ‘Black Panther,’ Boseman Honors Real-Life Hero

  19-06-2018 13:44
  SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The MTV Movie & TV Awards gave “Black Panther” its first taste of awards glory, with Marvel’s blockbuster taking home four honors including two awards for its star, Chadwick Boseman.
  Boseman quickly handed off his best hero award to James Shaw Jr., the man who wrestled an assault-style rifle away from a gunman in a Tennessee Waffle House in April. “This is going to live at your house,” Boseman told Shaw, giving him the show&rsqu
  
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• DFW Economy Growing at a 'Blistering Pace'

  19-06-2018 13:44
  
  The story of Dallas-Fort Worth has been one of rapid growth for the better part of the past decade. And new figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas prove that story is not likely to change anytime soon.
  
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• Fort Worth Police Using Social Media To Help Fight Crime & Educate

  19-06-2018 13:29
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – One North Texas police department is using a different kind of tool to fight crime… a digital approach to law enforcement.
  The Fort Worth Police Department has been live tweeting as they patrol and enforce laws. Call it policing in 2018: a live play-by-play of police enforcement by officers on Twitter.
  Way too fast (white SUV far left lane)….64 mph past the first emergency vehicle; supposed to slow down to 45 mph (20 below limit).#Awareness #SafetyFi
  
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• Adam Levine, Behati Prinsloo Share Baby Photo

  19-06-2018 13:08
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine spent his first Father’s Day as a dad of two.
  Supermodel Behati Prinsloo shared a photo on Instagram of the 39-year-old holding their second daughter, Gio Grace, who was born in February. Their first daughter, Dusty Rose, is nearly 2 years old.Prinsloo wrote the “girls are so lucky to call you dad and I’m so lucky to have you as a husband.”
  The 29-year-old also saluted her father.
  The couple married in July 2014.
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• Shooting at Sachse AutoZone Lot Leaves 1 Hurt

  19-06-2018 13:05
  
  Sachse police are investigating a late night shooting in a shopping center parking lot that sent one man to the hospital.Photo Credit: MetroThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• U.S. Could Back 1st Pot-Derived Medicine, And Some Are Worried

  19-06-2018 13:04
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A British pharmaceutical company is getting closer to a decision on whether the U.S government will approve the first prescription drug derived from the marijuana plant, but parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are feeling more cautious than celebratory.
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide by the end of the month whether to approve GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex. It’s a
  
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• Mesquite Council Implements Stricter Enforcement on Nuisance Parties

  19-06-2018 06:57
  
  The ordinance provides officers called to a nuisance complaint with new tools of enforcement.
  
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• Colon Passes Marichal for Most Wins by Dominican Pitcher

  19-06-2018 06:30
  
  Bartolo Colon earned his 244th win, passing Hall of Famer Juan Marichal for the most by a pitcher born in the Dominican Republic, and the Texas Rangers beat the skidding Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Monday night.Photo Credit: Brian Davidson/Getty Images
  
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• Newy Says The Mavs Should Only Draft One Of Three Names

  19-06-2018 06:23
  
  The Mavs better not draft Michael Porter, Jr. and focus on these three name for their 2018 first round draft pick.Photo Credit: CSNPhilly.com
  
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