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• Skeletal Remains Discovered in Gun Barrel City

  29-06-2018 23:59
  
  On June 28, 2018, Payne Springs Police Chief April Meadows was contacted by a citizen in Payne Springs advising of a deceased body located in Gun Barrel City.Photo Credit: Shutterstock
  
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• Fort Worth I-35W Project Nearly Complete

  29-06-2018 23:55
  
  After four years, a massive $1.4 billion construction project along I-35W north of downtown Fort Worth is 97 percent done, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• New City Hall Takes Shape in Roanoke

  29-06-2018 23:54
  
  Another growing North Texas community is building a new city hall. In Roanoke, the modern building also captures the city's past.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Life's a Day at the Beach at the Meadows Museum

  29-06-2018 23:34
  
  At the Beach: Mariano Fortuny y Marshal and William Merritt Chase, a collection of the beach-inspired works of the artists are on display in a summer-themed exhibition at the Meadows Museum, SMU in Dallas...Photo Credit: Meadows Museum, SMUThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Round-Up Saloon Dance Instructor Retires After 25 Years

  29-06-2018 23:20
  
  It’s known as the home of good times and good people, and now Dallas’ well-known Round-Up Saloon is saying “goodbye” to one of its favorites: dance instructor Juanita Bernal.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• North Richland Hills Residents Asked To Conserve Water Due To Supply Line Break

  29-06-2018 23:15
  NORTH RICHLAND HILLS (CBSDFW.COM) – North Richland Hills residents are being asked to conserve water due to a break in a supply line. The supply line serves the northern part of the community.
  Repairs to the water transmission main will extend through this weekend, therefore Friday afternoon, the City of North Richland Hills extended the water conservation notice to all parts of the city.
  Residents are being asked to turn off sprinkler systems and limit unnecessary water use like refi
  
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• Dallas Officers’ Home Burns Down During Family Vacation

  29-06-2018 22:55
  NAVARRO COUNTY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A heartbreaking end to a family vacation for two Dallas Police officers. They arrived home to find their house engulfed.
  The Weisskopf family had lived there for 16 years.
  Now they have only the clothes on the backs after driving home from a vacation to find their house on fire.
  Tony and Michelle Weisskopf are both Dallas Police detectives.
  Their two children are 15 and 12.
  They were in Waco on Wednesday driving back from floating the Guadalupe River wh
  
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• Something Good: Boy, 7, Starts Book Drive

  29-06-2018 22:19
  
  A boy in Fort Worth has a big plan for the summer, and it involves helping others. Miles Umscheid is collecting books for children who don't have them.
  
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• 2nd Worker Dies From Hospital Explosion

  29-06-2018 22:11
  GATESVILLE (AP) — A second worker has died from an explosion at a Central Texas hospital that left more than a dozen injured.
  Police reported the death of 36-year-old Filiberto Morales of Round Rock, who died Thursday after being injured in an explosion Tuesday at Coryell Memorial Hospital in Gatesville. Police say Morales was working at the construction site.
  Authorities have reported that more than a dozen construction workers were hurt from the explosion and that most had burn and blast
  
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• Garland’s Windsurf Bay Park Closed On 4th Of July

  29-06-2018 22:07
  GARLAND, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The City of Garland said it is closing Windsurf Bay Park on the 4th of July holiday Wednesday due to public safety concerns.
  The park will reopen for public access July 5.
  The city said in a news release, the park does not have capacity for the large crowds that typically turn out for the holiday.
  Windsurf Bay Park is closed for the 4th of July (City of Garland)
  “The excessive crowds make it difficult for police to enforce alcohol and fireworks ordinance
  
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• Southwest Airlines, Lyft announce new partnership

  29-06-2018 21:39
  Southwest Airlines and Lyft are new partners in travel on the air and on the ground.  The partnership is a big boost for Lyft, which has been aggressively trying to catch up to its larger competitor Uber for the past couple of years. Southwest (NYSE: LUV) said information for requesting a ride with Lyft should appear in the airline’s mobile app within four hours of a flight that a customer may have booked on Southwest.  The messaging on the app will encourage South
  
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• Video: Man Takes Truck On Destructive Joyride — Through Walmart

  29-06-2018 21:38
  SAN ANGELO, TX (CBSDFW.COM) — During the early morning hours of June 28, 2018, San Angelo Police officers were dispatched to a crash at a south San Angelo Walmart after a driver crashed into the building and drove into the store.
  “A 19-year-old Eldorado man is facing multiple Felony charges after he used his truck to drive through the Walmart Supercenter located at 5501 Sherwood Way in San Angelo,” said San Angelo Police in a report early Thursday.
  Surveillance video shows the
  
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• 10 Months After Harvey, Last Victims Leave Hotels

  29-06-2018 21:27
  AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The last victims of Hurricane Harvey living in federally-funded hotel rooms are heading to other housing arrangements this weekend, more than 10 months after the storm first hit.
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Friday that the final 707 displaced households will move out by Sunday. It said the “vast majority of them have a long-term housing solution” already prepared.
  The agency said that nearly 55,000 Texas households were evac
  
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• TDMN Critic Vognar's Review of 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado'

  29-06-2018 21:14
  
  The Dallas Morning News Culture Critic Chris Vognar reviews the new movie "Sicario: Day of the Soldado."
  
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• Dallas County Deputy Mourned Following Suicide: ‘His Death Is A Shock To Us All’

  29-06-2018 21:14
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department announced the death of Deputy Sheriff Homero Calderon on Friday.
  Deputy Calderon was found deceased Friday morning, while off-duty, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the southern part of Dallas County near Hutchins, Texas, the Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
  Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown expressed her condolences saying:
  “There are no words that can accurately describe the sadness
  
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• Governor Abbott, Toyota voice concern about Trump's tariffs. What now?

  29-06-2018 21:07
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott asked President Trump to reconsider tariffs on steel and aluminum imports because of the harm it will do to the state's economy, the governor wrote in a letter released to the public Thursday.Texas is the top steel importing state in the country, Abbott said, and tariffs could have negative effects for the nearly 500,000 Texans who work in industries that use steel or aluminum, specifically oil and gas. The tariffs would be a boom to steel or aluminum producers, but Te
  
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• 14 Horses, 6 Mini Horses Seized After Alleged Cruel Treatment In Dallas

  29-06-2018 20:59
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Twenty allegedly cruelly treated animals were seized by The SPCA of Texas, Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and the Dallas Police Department yesterday from an equine boarding facility in Dallas County.
  The animals seized include 14 horses and 6 miniature horses. One dead horse was also found on the property, but it was too decomposed to remove. The live animals were transported to an offsite holding facility and two horses were taken to an
  
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• Pic Of Geoffrey The Giraffe Leaving Empty Toys “R” Us Store = Me 😭

  29-06-2018 20:54
  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM/CBS NEWS) – Toys “R” Us mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe has packed up his suitcase — presumably full of toys — and left his toy kingdom for good. A heartbreaking photo of Geoffrey is circulating, on the day that Toys “R” Us is closing all of its remaining stores.
  The photo shows the giraffe in an empty Toys “R” Us, holding a suitcase and waving goodbye. The photo was taken by Rene Johnpiere, who also posted sever
  
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• Woman Falls Through Convenience Store Ceiling Trying To Run From Police

  29-06-2018 20:49
  ALBERTA, Canada (CBSDFW.COM) – A woman in Alberta, Canada learned why hiding in the ceiling doesn’t always work. Surveillance video shows the 29-year-old falling through the ceiling of a convenience store while trying to run from police.
  CTV in Canada reports the owner of Reddi-Mart said he called police when the 29-year-old woman, identified as Brittany Burke, and a man she was with, 28-year-old Richard Pariseau, tried to use a stolen credit card.
  When an officer arrived, the two tr
  
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• Carrabba’s Italian Grill co-founder to list Houston-area home for $19M

  29-06-2018 20:35
  Houston restaurateur Johnny Carrabba, co-founder of Carrabba’s Italian Grill, is looking to sell his Memorial Villages home.Walter Bering with Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty confirmed that he will soon list the Carrabbas' mansion at 526 W. Friar Tuck for $18.95 million. According to the Houston County Appraisal District, two single-family residences sit on the 1.6-acre property: a 12,856-square-foot home built in 2006 and a 980-square-foot residence built in 2008.
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• As North Texas construction slows, so does office space absorption

  29-06-2018 20:09
  As commercial construction slows in North Texas, the region is also seeing fewer tenants moving into available space.According to new statistics released by Cushman & Wakefield, 632,068 square feet of office space was absorbed in the second quarter, down significantly from 1.4 million square feet absorbed during the same period in 2017.For the year, absorption has also seen significant declines. Year to date, office tenants have moved into 963,495 square feet of space. In 2017, the region ha
  
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• Feds: Oklahomans Must Choose Between Medical Marijuana Or Guns

  29-06-2018 20:08
  OKLAHOMA CITY (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Federal officials say Oklahoma residents with medical marijuana cards will be barred from obtaining gun permits after voters recently approved the medical use of the drug.
  State residents voted in favor of the marijuana measure Tuesday. The move puts Oklahoma gun owners in a conflict 25 other states are facing between state and federal laws governing guns and marijuana.
  File photo of marijuana. (credit: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
  Federal law says it’s i
  
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• Dallas commercial brokerage acquired by New York real estate advisory firm

  29-06-2018 20:02
  New York real estate advisory firm Newmark Knight Frank has acquired Dallas-based Jackson Cooksey.Founded in 1982, Jackson Cooksey is a corporate tenant representation company with 70 workers across locations in Dallas, Houston, Austin and Denver. Its clients include Fortune 500 companies, according to a press release announcing the transaction.According to Dallas Business Journal research, Jackson Cooksey is North Texas’ 10th-largest commercial real estate brokerage.With its acquisition,&
  
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• Concern Over Using U.S. Military To Help Border Enforcement

  29-06-2018 19:47
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s request for the Pentagon to house migrants detained at the U.S. southern border and even help prosecute them is prompting concern about strains to the military.
  Some call it an inappropriate mission.
  “We shouldn’t be militarizing border enforcement,” Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, said in an interview.
  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has made it his top priority to improve the military’s fitness for combat
  
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• Woman Critical After Texas Sheriff’s Deputy Shoots Her

  29-06-2018 19:39
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities in Texas say a woman is in critical condition after she was shot by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy.
  Authorities say the Bexar County deputy shot the woman early Friday after he pulled to the side of the road believing she was a stranded driver. The deputy told investigators the woman was agitated when he stopped to help.
  It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the shooting, but the woman was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.
  The Bexar C
  
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• Dog Days of Summer - June 29, 2018

  29-06-2018 19:37
  
  Sibby the Dachshund chills in his swimming pool. Memphis also takes a dip in the pool.
  
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• Form D Friday: TPG opens new healthcare fund

  29-06-2018 19:36
  Fort Worth investment giant TPG has registered a sidecar fund to invest in healthcare companies – its first focused solely on the industry, per a filing.
  
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• TDMN Critic Vognar's Review of 'Sicario: Day of the Solado'

  29-06-2018 19:23
  
  The Dallas Morning News Culture Critic Chris Vognar reviews the new movie "Sicario: Day of the Solado."
  
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• No Boats Allowed as Sewage Spill Could Reach Lake

  29-06-2018 19:16
  
  All water activities are suspended at White Rock Lake as officials plan to clean the raw sewage spill that could trickle in.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Texas Officials Now Say Flyers On Sheriff’s Vehicles Not Tainted With Fentanyl

  29-06-2018 19:15
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Harris County sheriff’s officials say initial test results were wrong and flyers found on patrol cars and other vehicles were not tainted with fentanyl.
  Flyers laced with Fentanyl were found on Harris County Sheriff’s Office vehicles. (HCSOTexas/Twitter)
  Authorities said in a statement Friday that an initial test done on a flyer found Tuesday by a sheriff’s sergeant who later felt ill resulted in a positive finding for the opioid painkiller known
  
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• Forty Five Ten's interior design store to close on McKinney Avenue

  29-06-2018 19:14
  After little over a year, For Home by Forty Five Ten’s stint in Dallas is coming to an end.Forty Five Ten will not renew For Home's lease at its 4510 McKinney Ave. location and plans to close the interior design store on July 31, according to a statement released Thursday.The company, owned by Headington Companies, said the closure boosts its focus on its 37,000-square foot flagship store at 1615 Main St. in downtown Dallas, where its fashion retailer Tenoversix is set to move this fall.&l
  
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• Ketchup And Lawn Mowers On Canada’s Final List Of Retaliatory Tariffs 

  29-06-2018 19:10
  TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. on Friday in a tit for tat response to the Trump administration’s duties on Canadian steel and aluminum.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government released the final list of items that will be targeted beginning July 1. Some items will be subject to taxes of 10 or 25 percent.
  “We will not escalate and we will not back down,” Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said.
  
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• Cook Children’s Urges Parents To #LifeguardYourChild With Powerful Video

  29-06-2018 18:43
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Three families devastated by drowning are the subject of a new video released by Cook Children’s Medical Center.
  Published on the hospital’s social media pages this week, the video is part of the ‘Lifeguard Your Child’ campaign which urges parents, grandparents and caretakers to protect children and teens around water.
  Already in 2018, 41 children were admitted to Cook Children’s for drowning-related injuries. Seven of those chil
  
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• Suspect In Capital Gazette Deadly Shooting Charged With 5 Counts Of Murder

  29-06-2018 18:25
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A man with a long grudge against Maryland’s capital-city newspaper was charged Friday with five counts of first-degree murder after police said he blasted his way into the newsroom with a pump-action shotgun in an attack that left four journalists and a sales employee dead.
  Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, was swiftly arrested as he tried to hide under a desk Thursday afternoon at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, police said. In court papers, authorities describ
  
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• Man Found Shot Dead in Dallas Apartment Complex

  29-06-2018 17:37
  
  Police say they found a male shot dead in a car in the Regal Court apartments in Dallas early Thursday morning.
  
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• Dallas Officer Arrested For DWI

  29-06-2018 17:24
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Dallas police officer was arrested Friday by the department for driving while intoxicated.
  Officer Natalia Garcia has been with the department since 2012 and is assigned to the Northwest Patrol Division.
  There have been no further details released on her arrest.
  She is on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation.
  
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• Paris Jackson Posts Tribute To Grandpa Joe Jackson

  29-06-2018 17:06
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paris Jackson has posted an online tribute to her grandfather, Joe Jackson, who died at the age of 89.
  On Instagram, the 20-year-old shared a photo Wednesday of her and her grandfather holding hands in what appears to be a hospital. The caption reads: RIP The HAWK. Joseph Jackson.
  She wrote “being able to tell you everything I needed to tell you before saying goodbye was such a blessing.”
  Michael Jackson’s daughter wrote “none of us would be anywh
  
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• Judge cuts half-billion-dollar verdict for Richardson software developer in suit against Oculus, Facebook

  29-06-2018 16:40
  The $500 million copyright infringement award issued last year by a Dallas jury against Facebook and its virtual reality subsidiary Oculus was slashed by 50 percent this week by the North Texas federal judge handling the case.U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade issued his final judgment Wednesday in which he rejected pleas from Oculus that the entire $500 million jury verdict in favor of video game company ZeniMax Media be reversed. ZeniMax owns Richardson software developer id Software.But the judg
  
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• Drake Confirms He Fathered A Son On Newest Album ‘Scorpion’

  29-06-2018 16:16
  LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Drake confirms he’s a father on his new album.
  The 31-year-old rapper from Canada released “Scorpion” on Friday. In two songs on his fifth album, he addresses rumors that he fathered a son with a former French adult-film star.In “Emotionless,” Drake raps, “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world, I was hiding the world from my kid.” In “March 14,” he uses a Michael Jackson reference to say, “She n
  
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• Capital Gazette Remembers 5 Colleagues Slain In Shooting

  29-06-2018 16:11
  (CBSNEWS) – Five people were killed Thursday when a suspect opened fire in the newsroom at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. Authorities say 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, armed with a shotgun, intentionally targeted the newspaper.
  Hours after the massacre, police confirmed the identities of the employees who died: Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.
  Winters was the special publications editor. McNamara was a writer. Fischman was editorial p
  
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• Important Tips As You Hit The Road In The Heat This July 4th Weekend

  29-06-2018 15:44
  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – If you’re planning to head out of town this weekend you aren’t alone! In terms of travel, this 4th of July is gearing up to be a record setter.
  According to AAA Texas, some 3.4 million Texans will travel 50 miles or more this Independence Day holiday, which is the highest number since AAA started tracking 18 years ago.
  With record breaking heat and a record number of travelers on the road starting today, Daniel Armbruster, wit
  
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• Invasive Zebra Mussels Discovered At Grapevine Lake

  29-06-2018 15:32
  GRAPEVINE (CBSDFW.COM) – Zebra mussels, an invasive species, have been discovered by officials with the U.S. Geological Survey in Grapevine Lake.
  A juvenile zebra mussel was found on June 22 in the southern end of the reservoir. Officials say it appears it’s a new introduction, and the USGS and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be monitoring the lake closely.
  Zebra mussel (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department)
  Officials say zebra mussels “can have serious economic, re
  
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• The Plan to Deal With Sewage Flowing to White Rock Lake

  29-06-2018 15:19
  
  Officials with the NTMWD confirmed drinking water is not affected and that White Rock Lake is not a water supply for Dallas Water Utilities. The immediate risk to humans and wildlife comes from coming into...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• 74-Year-Old Woman Arrested For DWI After Driving Into Concrete Wall

  29-06-2018 15:05
  PARKER COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A 74-year-old woman was arrested for driving while intoxicated after driving into a concrete wall in Weatherford.
  Authorities say officers responded to the 1000 block of North Main Street for a minor vehicle accident. The caller said a woman went into the store and was possibly drunk.
  The woman, later identified as 74-year-old Bobbie Narramore, then got into her vehicle and drove into a concrete wall.
  Arriving officers investigated and determined Narramore was
  
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• Something Good: Books for Children

  29-06-2018 14:59
  
  Miles Umsheid is working on a summer project that collects books for children who don't have them.
  
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• Autopsy: Texas Church Shooter Had Drugs In System, Died By Suicide

  29-06-2018 14:14
  SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and also had drugs in his system, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.
  Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, opened fire during church services on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs last November, killing more than two dozen people. He was later found dead in a vehicle after he was shot and chased by two men who heard the gunfire at
  
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• U.S. Trafficking Report Highlights Vulnerability Of Children

  29-06-2018 14:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Children removed from their families and placed in institutional care are at greater risk of being trafficked, the U.S. warned Thursday in an annual report.
  The State Department report, which ranks governments in their efforts to combat slavery and the flesh trade, left the Trump administration open to accusations of hypocrisy as the administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy has separated more than 2,000 migrant children from their parents on
  
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• New Federal Student Loans Will Get More Expensive July 1

  29-06-2018 13:58
  
  If you plan on taking out a student loan for the upcoming year, it’ll cost you even more.
  
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• Arlington Officer Goes Into Drain To Rescue Goat

  29-06-2018 13:57
  ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – An Arlington officer went on a rescue mission Thursday – to save a goat.
  Photos tweeted by the department shows an officer going into a drainage ditch on Kelly Elliott near Boles Junior High School with the help of two other people.
  Sometimes we respond to unusual calls including this one at 5500 Kelly Elliott. PSA Hornyak assisted w/corralling this goat. He even went down into a drainage ditch during the rescue. We caught 1 goat but one is still on loose. Kn
  
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• New Federal Student Loans to Get More Expensive July 1

  29-06-2018 13:56
  
  The cost of federal student loans will be more expensive.The government sets annual interest rates on student loans every year, but this year’s increase was bigger than expected.
  
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