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• Massive Brush Fire Burns In Palo Pinto County

  02-07-2018 23:29
  PALO PINTO (CBSDFW.COM) – Chopper 11 flew over the scene of a brush fire in Palo Pinto County this afternoon.
  Winds whipped flames as helicopters flying overhead dumped water on the fire.
  Small planes were seen dumping bright red fire retardant from above, the powdery concoction slowly falling onto flames licking upward.
  On the ground, the scene was just as hectic with large truck hauling heavy equipment, including bulldozers to help battle the blaze.
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• Bridal Shop Closed After Ebola Scare Wants Lawsuit Revived

  02-07-2018 23:16
  
  A shuttered Ohio bridal shop is asking the Texas Supreme Court to revive its lawsuit claiming a local hospital chain was negligent in handling care for an Ebola patient in 2014 and caused the store to go out of...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• After Cannabis Drug Approved For Epilepsy Patients, North Texas Families Still Waiting

  02-07-2018 23:08
  GARLAND, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – As Oklahoma wrestles with how to implement medical marijuana approved by voters, and a federal agency approved a new treatment, some North Texas families are hoping for their own opportunity to utilize the drug.
  “It might not work,” said Manolo Banda. “But I think as a parent you want to exhaust all options.”
  At his Garland home Monday, Banda’s daughter Valentina chewed on cereal, and pawed happily at her mother’s iPhone. Th
  
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• What to Know About Fourth of July Weather in North Texas

  02-07-2018 22:59
  
  The Fourth of July has brought some summertime weather extremes to North Texas.Photo Credit: Getty ImagesThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• July 4: Show Your Patriotism

  02-07-2018 22:56
  
  Independence Day is full of fireworks, music, food, family and friends -- and of course, red, white and blue. Send us pictures of your patriotism to [email protected]
  
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• Yay! First Gorilla Born In 20 Years At Dallas Zoo Is Healthy And Strong 

  02-07-2018 22:52
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Dallas Zoo has welcomed its first baby gorilla in 20 years; a precious primate that’s healthy and strong.
  “Welcoming a critically endangered gorilla into our family is one of the most significant animal announcements we can make, and we’ve waited patiently for 20 years for this moment,” said Gregg Hudson, Dallas Zoo’s President and CEO. “We’ve dedicated years of conservation field work to saving gorillas in the wild a
  
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• Police Search for Occupants of Vehicle That Struck Woman

  02-07-2018 22:51
  
  Police are searching for the driver and the passenger of a car that struck and killed a woman whose car was broken down on the side of a North Texas interstate.
  
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• White Rock Lake Reopens After Raw Sewage Leak

  02-07-2018 22:33
  
  The North Texas Municipal Water District says crews have been working nonstop throughout the weekend to stop the spread of untreated waste from flowing into White Rock Lake. They're hoping to finish Monday...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• CDs No Longer For Sale At Best Buy Stores

  02-07-2018 22:29
  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Best Buy has pulled CDs from its shelves, according to Billboard.com.
  Even though digital is on the upswing, physical is still performing relatively well on a global basis — if not in the U.S. market, where CD sales were down 18.5 percent last year.
  Sources told Billboard that the company’s CD business is nowadays only generating about $40 million annually.
  While it says it’s planning to pull out CDs, Best Buy will continue to carry vinyl for th
  
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• Pair Wanted In Deadly Grand Prairie Hit-And-Run

  02-07-2018 22:26
  GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Grand Prairie woman waiting for a friend to arrive to help with a flat tire was struck and killed on westbound IH-30 at the Belt Line Rd exit in Grand Prairie early Monday.
  Police said the victim’s vehicle was stopped on the right shoulder of the freeway with a flat tire around 3:55 a.m.
  The driver, Troylynn Berkley, 29, had called a friend for help and was waiting near the back of the vehicle when she was struck by a Dodge Charger that had drift
  
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• 2nd Suspect Arrested In Murder Of Burleson Man In Moving Vehicle

  02-07-2018 22:02
  BURLESON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Burleson Police have made a second arrest in the murder of Todd Neal, Jr. on June 11.
  Fort Worth Police and Burleson Police investigators arrested Evrick D. Johnson, 29, during a traffic stop on Friday, June 29.
  Evrick D. Johnson
  Neal was shot and killed while riding passenger in a vehicle that was being chased by two vehicles, a black Chevrolet pickup and a maroon Chrysler 300. Police said that deadly shooting was over drugs instead of a random act of road r
  
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• Dallas college, aviation company team up for drone industry training

  02-07-2018 21:59
  With historic planes as a backdrop, the deal was made official inside the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas.Monday, the Department of Labor entered into an agreement with a North Texas based aviation company, RMS Aerospace.The new program will offer first-of-its-kind training to drone pilots in the civilian world. Dallas County Community College will facilitate the training, and the program will be geared toward veterans, many of whom never imagined their experience could transition
  
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• Bobsled/Skeleton Team Searches for Texas Talent

  02-07-2018 21:57
  
  Texas isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of winter sports. But don’t tell that to the U.S. Bobsled/Skeleton Team.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Accessibility, diversity among priorities for new dean of UNT Dallas College of Law

  02-07-2018 21:57
  Low cost, high bar passage rates, broad accessibility and an abundance of diversity were on the priority list for Angela Felecia Epps as she started as dean of the four-year-old University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law on Monday.
  
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• Sabre is getting is Silicon Valley CFO with data chops

  02-07-2018 21:39
  Sabre is getting a new chief financial officer from a Silicon Valley company that's a leader in managing data.
  Doug Barnett will join the travel industry tech company after more than two years at Redwood City, California-based Informatica, Sabre said in a statement issued Monday. He replaces Rick Simonsson, who announced in January he would step down. As part of the transition, Simonsson will become a senior advisor to CEO Sean Menke.Sabre (Nasdaq: SABR) is showing surging results as it looks&he
  
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• What the world is saying about Dell's $21.7 billion plan to go public again

  02-07-2018 21:26
  The $21.7 billion deal announced early Monday that will return Dell Technologies Inc. to the stock market is an attempt to increase cash flow as it pays off massive debt and consolidates control of VMware Inc.That's the early read from news media around the world covering one of the biggest technology stories of the year — one sure to have a global impact, although it's effect on Round Rock, where Dell is based, and the rest of Central Texas is less clear.The move is seen as a way to "boos
  
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• Boy Rescued After Dangling From Balcony

  02-07-2018 21:13
  PINGTUNG COUNTY, Taiwan (CBSDFW.COM) – A 4-year-old boy whose head got stuck between metal bars jutting out from a balcony ledge was rescued by firefighters in southern Taiwan after hanging for more than 30 minutes, according to local news reports.
  Video shot on June 23 shows firefighters attempting to reach the boy, who was stuck on the fifth floor with nobody at home.
  The video shows rescuers rappelling from the floor above as the boy holds on to the rails with his arms and struggles to
  
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• Sigel's Beverages sells to Austin-based competitor

  02-07-2018 21:05
  An attorney has confirmed that Sigel’s Beverages, a North Texas institution for more than a century, has sold to an Austin-based competitor.In a deal that was approved in April and closed on Friday, Austin's Twin Liquors has purchased all of the operating assets for Sigel’s out of bankruptcy, Melanie Goolsby, an attorney with Pronske Goolsby & Kathman PC, told the Dallas Business Journal. Those assets include eight shops around North Texas.Goolsby did not know Twin Liquors’
  
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• Defunct Ohio Bridal Shop Wants Texas Ebola Lawsuit Revived

  02-07-2018 21:01
  DALLAS (AP) — A shuttered Ohio bridal shop says in a court filing that its lawsuit against a Dallas hospital should be revived because the facility was negligent in its care of a nurse who contracted Ebola before visiting the store.
  Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal of Akron, Ohio, is asking the Texas Supreme Court to hear the case after an appeals court in May determined the shop hadn’t substantiated its claims and dismissed the lawsuit.
  The Dallas Morning News reports that the
  
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• Dallas Awarded Baseball Team In SWL’s Inaugural Season

  02-07-2018 20:43
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Baseball is coming to Dallas. The Southwest League of Professional Baseball announced that it has awarded a franchise to Dallas. It is an independent league which plans to open its inaugural season with six franchises next year.
  “The Dallas franchise in the Southwest League will be the largest city that has not had professional baseball until now,” said league president Mark Schuster in an emailed news release.
  Other teams in the league will be located in
  
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• DFW Airport opens two video game lounges

  02-07-2018 20:25
  Travelers have another way to pass the time at DFW Airport with two recently opened video game lounges.The location at Gate 16 in Terminal E opened on Friday, June 30, and the other location at Gate 42 in Terminal B opened three weeks ago, said Jordan Walbridge, president of Gameway, the company who built the lounges.
  DFW is the first airport Gameway has opened a lounge in, and, to the best of Walbridge's knowledge, these are the first-ever gaming lounges in an airport."Gameway’s purpose&h
  
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• Facebook: 800K Users May Have Had Bug Unblock Blocked People

  02-07-2018 20:11
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says more than 800,000 users may have been affected by a bug that unblocked people they previously had blocked.
  The company said Monday that the bug was active between May 29 and June 5. While the person who was unblocked by this bug could not see content users shared with their friends, they could have seen things that were posted to a wider audience. Facebook says the problem has been fixed.
  It’s the second software bug in less than a month that the company
  
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• 12-year-Old French Skipper Sails Into The Record Books

  02-07-2018 20:03
  FRANCE (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) – At just 12 years old, French sailor Tom Goron crossed the North Sea last week on a one-person boat in less than 15 hours and set record time.
  Followed and watched by his father from a bigger boat, Goron travelled 60 miles in 14 hours 20 minutes, averaging 4.19 nautical miles per hour.
  Goron started his voyage in Isle of Wight and landed in Cherbourg in northern France, to the delight of French media awaiting his arrival.
  Goron began sailing at eight-years-old and
  
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• Texas law firms pledge lawyers, resources for families at the Texas border

  02-07-2018 19:55
  Thirty-four large corporate law firms – half of them with offices in Texas and two firms based in Texas – have signed a pledge to provide legal support and resources for immigrant families who are separated from their children when crossing the border to seek asylum.Two Texas-headquartered law firms – Dallas' Haynes and Boone and Houston's Vinson & Elkins – signed the pledge to help reunify parents and children separated by federal officials after they crossed the U.S
  
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• Plano, Irving rank as top cities for millennial credit card debt

  02-07-2018 19:42
  Millennials are in the hot seat once again, this time for their staggering credit card debt.Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 owe more than $56 billion in total credit card debt, about $1,808 on average, according to a recent Credit Karma Analysis.
  Both Plano and Irving are listed as two of the top cities in the United States where millennials have the most credit card debt, with an average of $2,795 and $2,462 respectively. Irvine, California, made the top of the list, with an average&hel
  
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• Authorities In Texas Seize Nearly $114,000 In Fake World Cup Jerseys

  02-07-2018 19:37
  EL PASO (AP) – Law enforcement agents in Texas have seized nearly $114,000 in counterfeit World Cup jerseys labeled to represent Mexico, Germany and Brazil.
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso on Monday announced officers intercepted hundreds of fake jerseys meant for retail sales. Authorities didn’t immediately announce any arrests.
  CBP officers on Thursday stopped four shipments of counterfeit Mexican national team soccer jerseys worth an estimated $66,390. The shipments
  
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• Dallas rents are rising, but at a lower rate than other North Texas cities

  02-07-2018 19:33
  Don’t look now, but rents are on the rise in Dallas, up 0.3 percent this past month, according to a recent report by Apartment List. It's the fifth straight month of rent increases since a decline in January.But compared to other cities in the North Texas metroplex, Dallas has the least expensive rates, with a two-bedroom median of $1,110. Plano has the most expensive rents, with a two-bedroom median of $1,420.
  Meanwhile, McKinney is the only city in the Dallas metro to see rents fall year
  
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• Police Say Protestor Elbowed, Cut Officer’s Nose During Arrest

  02-07-2018 19:30
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Five people were arrested Saturday outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Dallas, police say. This came on the same day as a protest in downtown Dallas of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  Protestors Christopher Goode, 30, Savanna Batten, 25, Alexis Estrada, 32, Robert Helmick, 27 and Lauren Bourdignon, 29, went to jail for Obstruction of a Highway.
  Officers gave an audio warning on the loud speaker multiple times to all five
  
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• Dust From Africa Brings Hazy Skies to DFW

  02-07-2018 19:28
  
  Texans are used to winds stirring up dust — but how about when those winds blow in from Africa?A large plume of brown dust from the Sahara desert made its way into the state over the weekend, reaching as...Photo Credit: Tom Fox The Dallas Morning 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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• Organization Helps Veterans Start Businesses

  02-07-2018 19:15
  
  An organization called Honor Courage Commitment in Farmers Branch is working to help veterans become entrepreneurs. It wants to help veterans start their own businesses after leaving the military.
  
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• Watchdog: Kidnapper Scheme Targets NTX Couple

  02-07-2018 18:56
  
  The fake kidnappers called a couple saying they were with Rockwall County Sheriff’s Department. They called the husband saying they had his wife. The scammers wanted $400 in gift cards.
  
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• Ones For Texas: Rodney Smith Jr.

  02-07-2018 18:40
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – As we celebrate the Fourth of July this week, one man is making an impact in all 50 states.
  He’s on a cross country journey to do a simple good deed, and Rodney Smith, Jr. already left a positive impression on one North Texas veteran.
  “It’s a blessing. It makes it a little easier,” says Emmett Pryor, who watched Rodney Smith, Jr. mow his lawn one recent morning in June.
  Smith was there to care for the yard the Iraq war veteran can no longe
  
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• New Sexual Assault Charges Filed Against Harvey Weinstein

  02-07-2018 18:21
  NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been accused of a forcible sex act by a third woman in an updated indictment, Manhattan’s district attorney said Monday.
  The new charges involve allegations against the Hollywood mogul from 2006. Previous charges allege forcible sex acts in 2004 and 2013.
  A representative for Weinstein had no immediate comment.
  Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein enters Manhattan criminal court June 5, 2018 in New York. (credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Gett
  
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• Soccer Team Found Alive In Cave After More Than A Week

  02-07-2018 18:15
  MAE SAI, Thailand (CBS NEWS) — Rescue divers on Monday found 12 boys and their soccer coach alive in a cave after they went missing more than a week earlier in northern Thailand. The rescue teams spent much of Monday making preparations for what was hoped would be the final push in their search for team. It was, and hours later Chiang Rai provincial Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn confirmed that all of the 13 missing individuals had been found alive.
  The divers had concentrated o
  
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• Cruise Ship Worker Rescued 22 Hours After Going Overboard

  02-07-2018 18:00
  MIAMI (AP) — A cruise ship worker who went overboard and apparently treaded water for some 22 hours was in stable condition Monday, a day after being rescued by a crew from another passing cruise ship.
  “It was nothing short of miraculous,” Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said in a statement.
  According to the U.S. Coast Guard the 33-year-old crew member went overboard around 3:20 p.m. Saturday from the Norwegian Getaway, some 28 miles northwest of Pinar del R
  
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• Authorities Seek Suspect In Fatal Lime Bike Hit-And-Run In Dallas

  02-07-2018 17:54
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police are looking for the driver who fatally struck a woman riding a Lime Bike across the intersection of Northwest Highway and the entrance ramp to S/B IH-35 in the cross walk last month.
  It happened between 10:20 and 10:30 p.m. on June 20.
  The victim, Ashley Nicole Ahlawat, 36, was thrown from the bike to the ground. Ahlawathe was transported to Parkland Hospital where she was pronounced deceased a short time later.
  A witnesses stopped to h
  
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• Study Says You’re Probably Washing Your Hands All Wrong

  02-07-2018 17:31
  WASHINGTON (CNN) – Handwashing seems pretty simple, but a recent study showed that people are still doing it wrong 97 percent of the time, which can lead to contamination of food and surfaces and result in foodborne illness.
  The study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed that most people failed to wash their hands and rub with soap for 20 seconds. That is the amount of time that is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says that washing for sho
  
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• Rangers Sign Two International Prospects, Per Report

  02-07-2018 17:28
  
  The Rangers kicked off July by singing 2 international prospects from Venezuela.
  
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• Professor Fiona? Famed Baby Hippo An Educational Force

  02-07-2018 17:23
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Just call her Professor Fiona.
  The Cincinnati Zoo’s famous premature baby hippo does more than delight social media fans and help sell a wide range of merchandise. She’s also an educational and literary force, heroine of a half-dozen books so far and a popular subject for library and classroom activities.
  The latest book is “Saving Fiona,” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) written by the zoo’s director, Thane Maynard.
  “She has taught us
  
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• SpaceX Delivers AI Robot, Ice Cream, Mice To Int’l Space Station

  02-07-2018 17:06
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station got its first robot with artificial intelligence Monday, along with some berries, ice cream and identical brown mice.
  SpaceX’s capsule reached the station three days after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Station astronaut Ricky Arnold used a large mechanical arm to grab the Dragon capsule as the spacecraft soared above Quebec, Canada.
  The nearly 6,000-pound delivery includes the round robot Cimon, pronounced Simon. S
  
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• Doctors Prescribing New Breakthrough Migraine Medicine Aimovig

  02-07-2018 16:56
  Kansas City, KS (CBS Local)- Migraine sufferers may have new cause for optimism after the FDA recently approved the new drug Aimovig, which is specifically designed to treat migraines.
  The drug works by targeting a protein in the body that researchers say is involved in migraine attacks. Despite having been available for just a few weeks, doctors are already calling it a “big breakthrough”. Neurologist Deetra Ford spoke to KCTV 5 in Kansas City, Kansas about the drug saying that it h
  
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• Federal court dismisses Pier One shareholder suit – again

  02-07-2018 16:35
  A Dallas federal judge this week dismissed a shareholder class action that alleged Fort Worth-based Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR) and two former executives committed securities fraud when they misrepresented the company’s financial health to investors.The ruling is a significant victory for a team of Bracewell lawyers that have been defending Pier 1 in this case, one that has now survived two different rounds of motions to dismiss from two different judges. The opinion is also notable because
  
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• Mexican Leftist Lopez Obrador Gets Big Presidential Win

  02-07-2018 16:20
  MEXICO CITY (CBSNEWS.COM) – Angry and frustrated over corruption and violence, Mexican voters delivered a tidal wave presidential election victory to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, giving him a broad mandate to upend the political establishment and govern for the poor. An official quick count from electoral authorities late Sunday forecast that Lopez Obrador would win with between 53 percent and 53.8 percent of the votes, a remarkable margin not seen in the country for many year
  
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• Armed Robbers Smash North Dallas Costco Jewelry Cases

  02-07-2018 16:15
  
  Armed robbers smashed the glass of a Dallas Costco jewelry counter and took an undetermined amount of merchandise Sunday afternoon, police say.Photo Credit: Twitter: @fooschThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Texas Game Wardens Stressing Lake Safety This Summer

  02-07-2018 16:04
  GRAPEVINE (CBSDFW.COM) – If the Fourth of July holiday takes you out on the water, know that Texas game wardens will be out there too, watching over the lakes and stopping boaters to make sure that people are practicing safety while having fun outdoors.
  Texas game warden Angel Miller jetted across Grapevine Lake, her eyes on foucsed on the water. “I think that when people get on the lake and start having fun, they forget about the safety aspects,” she explained. “They for
  
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• Mesquite Dog Ordinance Goes Into Effect

  02-07-2018 15:57
  
  A city ordinance goes into effect Monday for unattended tethered dogs in Mesquite.
  
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• Housing Extended For 1,700 Puerto Rican Hurricane Evacuees

  02-07-2018 15:49
  BOSTON (AP) — A judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, saying ending the program could cause irreparable harm.
  Saturday night’s decision came shortly after civil rights group LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a lawsuit seeking relief for the Puerto Ricans, whose federal housing assistance vouchers were set to expire at midnight Sunday, meaning the evacuees could have been evicted from the hot
  
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• Border Patrol Arrests Drop Sharply In June

  02-07-2018 15:26
  MCALLEN (AP) — Border Patrol arrests fell sharply in June to the lowest level since February, according to a U.S. official, ending a streak of four straight monthly increases.
  The drop may reflect seasonal trends or it could signal that President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute every adult who enters the country illegally is having a deterrent effect.
  The agency made 34,057 arrests on the border with Mexico during June, down 16 percent from
  
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• Residents Begin Cleaning Up After Flooding In Iowa

  02-07-2018 15:18
  DES MOINES, Iowa (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Residents in the Des Moines area are cleaning up after deadly floods destroyed homes and submerged cars, and more damage could be revealed as the floodwaters recede.
  Heavy rains over the weekend forced the evacuation of numerous homes and businesses in Des Moines and surrounding suburbs. Drake University broadcaster 66-year-old Larry Cotlar was killed when he was swept away by floods on Saturday.
  According to witnesses, Cotlar was swept away as he got out
  
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