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• Woman Douses Bank Lobby in Gasoline Then Demands Cash

  18-07-2018 22:45
  
  Murphy police arrested a woman Wednesday after they say she poured gasoline and lighter fluid on the floor of a bank lobby, then demanded cash.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• North Texas Woman Arrested After Using Child As Shield Following Attempted Bank Robbery

  18-07-2018 22:40
  MURPHY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A woman went into the Bank of America branch Wednesday at 113 E. FM 544 in Murphy, Texas and poured lighter fluid and gasoline on the lobby floor and demanded cash.
  Murphy Police said alert tellers and office personnel called 9-1-1 at around 1:25 p.m., and when Murphy officers arrived on the scene, the 36-year-old suspect ran out of the building toward her car.
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• Fort Worth Hires New Fire Chief

  18-07-2018 22:13
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – An assistant fire chief in Columbus, Ohio, has been named the new Fort Worth fire chief.
  Earlier this year, Jim Davis was named assistant fire chief in Columbus, a city with a population only slightly larger than Fort Worth.
  Jim Davis was hired as the new Fort Worth Fire Chief (City of Columbus, Ohio)
  “I am confident that we have found the right person for the job,” said Fort Worth City Manager David Cooke. “Jim has the right mix of experience an
  
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• Despite cooldown, Dallas is nation's second hottest apartment building market

  18-07-2018 21:56
  Dallas-area apartment construction has cooled slightly this year, but the area remains the second hottest market in the nation, behind New York City.Apartment building permits issued in the Dallas-Plano-Irving metro area declined 1.5 percent during the 12-month period ending in May, according to data released Wednesday from Richardson-based RealPage Inc.
  A total of 20,191 multi-family homebuilding permits were recorded in the Dallas area.That's second only to New York-Jersey City, with 30,562&he
  
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• Done Deal: Leonard Goes To Raptors, DeRozan Goes To Spurs

  18-07-2018 21:55
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) – The Kawhi Leonard saga in San Antonio is over. So is DeMar DeRozan’s time in Toronto.
  An NBA summer blockbuster got pulled off Wednesday, with the Spurs sending Leonard to the Raptors as part of a four-player deal that has DeRozan heading to San Antonio. The Spurs also got center Jakob Poeltl and a 2019 protected first-round draft pick, while the Raptors acquired sharpshooter Danny Green.
  For Leonard and the Spurs, there’s finally closure to a relationship th
  
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• This small business next to DFW Airport just got $400M from the U.S. government

  18-07-2018 21:51
  A small aerospace supplier located next to DFW Airport was awarded a $403 million contract from the U.S. government.
  
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• Truck Driver Arrested In Connection To Vicious Attack On 13-Year-Old

  18-07-2018 21:37
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police have arrested Terry Wayne King II and charged him with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony in connection to an attack on a 13-yr-old girl walking to her bus stop.
  “This was a senseless, violent act,” a detective said at a news conference Wednesday.
  King, a truck driver, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma City on Tuesday morning.
  The victim remains in a hospital in serious condition, p
  
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• Truck Driver Arrested In Connection To Vicious Attack On 12-Year-Old

  18-07-2018 21:37
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police have arrested Terry Wayne King II and charged him with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony in connection to an attack on a 12-yr-old girl walking to her bus stop.
  “This was a senseless, violent act,” a detective said at a news conference Wednesday.
  King, a truck driver, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma City on Tuesday morning.
  The victim remains in a hospital in serious condition, p
  
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• Man Arrested In Connection To Vicious Attack On 13-Year-Old

  18-07-2018 21:37
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police have arrested Terry Wayne King II and charged him with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony in connection to an attack on a 13-yr-old girl walking to her bus stop.
  “This was a senseless, violent act,” a detective said at a news conference Wednesday.
  King was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma City on Tuesday morning.
  The victim remains in a hospital in serious condition, police said.
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• President Trump Interviewed By CBS Evening News’s Jeff Glor Following Helsinki Summit

  18-07-2018 21:17
  (CBS Local)– Tonight, President Donald J. Trump will sit down for his first interview since returning from Helsinki with CBS Evening News’s Jeff Glor. This will be part two of the interview after Glor and President Trump discussed a wide range of topics a few days ago.
  Prepping for POTUS interview in our new DC bureau pic.twitter.com/MlqYlu2r9t
  — Jeff Glor (@jeffglor) July 18, 2018Tonight’s interview comes on the heels of President Trump’s remarks about misspea
  
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• Texas Waiter Shares ‘We Don’t Tip Terrorist’ Meal Receipt On Social Media

  18-07-2018 21:09
  ODESSA, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa, Texas has banned a customer after the customer left no tip on a $108 bill and wrote on it “We don’t Tip Terrorist,” and circled the server’s name, Khalil according to the Odessa American.
  Khalil Cavil posted what happened last Saturday on Facebook.
  “I was sick to my stomach,” upon seeing the receipt he said in his post. “I share this because I want people to understand that this racism
  
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• Federal Prison For Former Dallas Housing Nonprofit Executive

  18-07-2018 20:56
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A former executive with a Dallas County nonprofit housing agency created in 1965 to combat poverty must serve five years in federal prison for defrauding homeowners.
  Prosecutors say 46-year-old Francisco Javier Gonzalez of Duncanville must also pay more than $610,000 in restitution. Gonzalez pleaded guilty last year to mail fraud and was sentenced this week.
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  Authorities say Gonzalez, as vice president of the Dallas County Community Action Committ
  
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• $1.6 billion Interstate 35W construction wraps up Thursday

  18-07-2018 20:51
  Officials today announced the “substantial completion” of the $1.6 billion Interstate 35W reconstruction project — a stretch that was named by the Texas Department of Transportation as one of the most congested highways in the state.The 10-mile North Tarrant Express Project runs from the Interstate 30 interchange with I-35W near downtown Fort Worth to North Tarrant Parkway at the U.S. 287 interchange.North Tarrant Infrastructure and the Texas Department of Transportation announ
  
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• Texas Instruments' new CEO is trying to put the resignation behind the company, and he just might succeed

  18-07-2018 20:50
  Texas Instruments just stared down one of the most sudden and surprising announcements in its history. That doesn't mean it's about to lose its way.The company is back in the hands of its longtime chief executive officer, Rich Templeton, after the semiconductor company revealed Brian Crutcher had resigned from the post after less than two months on the job. The reason: violations of the company’s code of conduct that were related to personal behavior, though not tied to strategy or financi
  
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• Cha Cha Changes: No More Passenger Pickup At DFW Airport

  18-07-2018 20:47
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A perk that has long separated Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport from the country’s other 20 largest airports will soon longer exist.
  The bustling airport is the only one that has allowed people to park outside the doors in passenger pickup to wait for someone. As long as people stayed in their cars, there wasn’t a time limit either.
  One woman waiting to pick up family, Diane Adamec, said she will miss the convenient perk.
  “I go
  
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• NBC 5 & Telemundo 39 Share Pet Love Stories

  18-07-2018 20:44
  
  NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 will join together to #ClearTheShelters on Saturday, August 18, 2018. Staff members from both stations shared photos of their pets and, for some, why adoption was so important to them.Photo Credit: Brian Curts
  
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• Texas Woman Approaches City Council Dressed As Cockroach

  18-07-2018 19:36
  CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — A South Texas woman showed up to a recent City Council meeting dressed as a cockroach.
  The Caller-Times reports that its Patricia Polastri’s latest attempt to bring attention to the influx of roaches and rodents near a major Corpus Christi road after new vegetation was planted. The Texas A&M University-Kingsville professor brought a bag of dead cockroaches to a City Council meeting last month to complain about the new vegetation planted along Ocean Drive.
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• Missing 9-Year-Old Boy Found OK

  18-07-2018 19:27
  
  A 9-year-old boy reported missing Tuesday has been found OK, the family says.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• More Asian investors buying Texas oil and gas properties to catch record production

  18-07-2018 19:22
  The deals come as drillers in the U.S. are racing to become the world’s largest producer of crude.
  
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• No Winner! Mega Millions Swells to $422 Million Jackpot

  18-07-2018 19:20
  
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• Dog Days of Summer - July 18, 2018

  18-07-2018 19:13
  
  Louie, 16, and Maxwell, 10, have been around long enough to know floating in the pool is a good way to spend the day.  The pair were featured during the Dog Days of Summer segment on Tuesday, July , 2018.
  
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• North Texas Companies Benefiting From Growth in Texas Economy

  18-07-2018 19:08
  
  The Texas economy is in a big growth spurt and North Texas companies are benefiting. The Dallas Morning News' Aidan Quigley discusses how the region's top 150 companies performed, how the energy sector...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Dozens Of Bodies Exhumed In Texas Likely Those Of Black Inmates

  18-07-2018 18:48
  FORT BEND COUNTY (CBSNEWS.COM) – Forty-eight sets of remains believed to have been buried between 1878 and 1910 have been exhumed from an unmarked cemetery in Fort Bend County. Bodies at the site, which construction crews discovered in April, likely belonged to African-American prison inmates who were forced to work on plantations.
  Artifacts, including chains, have also been uncovered.
  (credit: CBS News)
  “Some of these chains, especially the ones that date prior to the Industria
  
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• What Keeps the Suicide & Crisis Center of North Texas Going

  18-07-2018 18:29
  
  Suicide and Crisis Center volunteers undergo 10 weeks of training that include 30 classroom hours and 12 hours of supervision and observation. That's after submitting an application, providing references...Photo Credit: Michael Hogue - Dallas Morning News Staff Artist
  
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• Traffic Delays In Garland After Major Motorcycle Crash

  18-07-2018 17:52
  GARLAND (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Garland are working a major crash involving a motorcycle at Buckingham and Yale Drive.
  Eastbound Buckingham is shut down.
  Police are asking drivers to use alternate routes.
  Delays are expected as they clear the scene.
  No word on injuries for either the motorcycle driver or driver of the car.
  Working major accident involving a motorcycle at Buckingham and Yale Dr. Eastbound Buckingham is shut down. Please use alternate routes. Expect delays. pic.twitter
  
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• Street Closures & Evacuations After Gas Leak In Denton

  18-07-2018 17:33
  DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Officials in Denton closed down streets and evacuated children from a church after a construction crew hit a natural gas line.
  The crew hit the line outside First United Methodist Church in the 200 block of South Locust Street.
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  Workers and first-responders were concerned natural gas could escape into the sewer system and make its way inside the church, so some 200 pre-school children and staff were evacuated to a nearby bank.
  Police also shut
  
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• Denton Church Evacuated Due to Gas Leak, Situation Resolved

  18-07-2018 17:30
  
  Denton police have shut down Locust Street between the streets of Sycamore and Hickory due to a gas leak.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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• Big Rig Crash Snarls Traffic In Denton

  18-07-2018 17:24
  DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – There are massive backups on I35W in Denton after a FedEx 18-wheeler crashed.
  Crawford Road is completely closed under I35W.
  The driver was transported with non-life threatening injuries. Multiple heavy wreckers are on scene. Clean up is expected to take at least a couple of hours.
   
  
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• TMSG: Swimming Lessons in McKinney

  18-07-2018 17:20
  
  Lots of kids are jumping into the pool to keep cool. These kids are a part of Halos, a program for special needs children sponsored by the kiwanis club of McKinney. Frances LaRue says the city reserves the pool...Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Denton Church Evacuated Due to Gas Leak

  18-07-2018 16:45
  
  Denton police have shut down Locust Street between the streets of Sycamore and Hickory due to a gas leak.Photo Credit: NBCDFW.comThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Marriott Hotels Eliminating Plastic Straws By 2019

  18-07-2018 16:34
  DETROIT (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Marriott International plans to remove plastic straws and drink stirrers from all of its 6,500 hotels and resorts worldwide by next year.
  The world’s largest hotel company said the move will eliminate approximately 1 billion straws and 250 million stirrers by July 2019.
  Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott says the year-long timeframe will let hotels deplete their existing supplies and identify alternatives to plastic straws. Customers will be given alternative
  
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• Ford Recalls 550K Vehicles That Can Roll Away Unexpectedly

  18-07-2018 16:12
  DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling about 550,000 cars and SUVs in North America to fix a gearshift problem that could cause the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly.
  The recall covers certain 2013 through 2016 Fusion sedans and some 2013 and 2014 Escape small SUVs.
  Ford introduces the 2013 Ford Fusion during the North American International Auto Show on January 9, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan. (credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
  Ford says a bushing that attaches the shifter cable to the transmissi
  
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• Yep, Cowboys Are Still The World's Most Valuable Franchise

  18-07-2018 15:33
  
  In case you weren't aware, the Dallas Cowboys are essentially printing money.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Immigrant Children Describe Treatment In Detention Centers

  18-07-2018 15:29
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Wet and muddy from their trek across the Mexican border, immigrant children say they sat or lay on the cold, concrete floor of the immigration holding centers where they were taken.
  It was hard to sleep with lights shining all night and guards kicking their feet, they say. They were hungry, after being given what they say were frozen sandwiches and smelly food.
  Younger children cried in caged areas where they were crammed in with teens, and they clamored for their
  
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• Missing 9-Year-Old Boy Found With Family In Dallas

  18-07-2018 14:55
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Dallas have found missing 9-year-old Oscar Briceno.
  His stepmother says he was with staying with family near Cliff Park.
  Briceno was last seen early Tuesday afternoon in the 600 block of West 12 Street, near the Dallas Zoo before being found today.
  CBS 11 News reporter Steve Pickett spoke with the Briceno family who told him Briceno was diagnosed as bipolar, combined with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).
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• MGM Sues Vegas Shooting Victims In Push To Avoid Liability

  18-07-2018 14:10
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — MGM Resorts International has sued hundreds of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in a bid to avoid liability for the gunfire that rained down from its Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas.
  The company argues in lawsuits filed in Nevada, California, New York and other states this week and last that it has “no liability of any kind” to survivors or families of slain victims under a federal law enacted after the Sept. 11 terrorist at
  
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• I-35W Construction to be Finalized Thursday

  18-07-2018 14:07
  
  Construction on the $1.6 billion North Tarrant Express Project, which has slowed and frustrated millions of drivers along Interstate 35W through Fort Worth for the past several years, is all-but complete.Photo Credit: TXDOT
  
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• Report: Texas Saw Increase In Student Arrests For Threats

  18-07-2018 13:03
  AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A new report shows a sharp increase in arrests of Texas students for threatening violence in the wake of the deadly high school shooting in February in Parkland, Florida.
  It was three months after the Parkland shooting when a deadly mass shooting took place at a high school just south of Houston. In all, eight students and two teachers were gunned down Santa Fe High School.
  The report was released by Texas Appleseed, a social justice advocacy group, and other
  
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• Elon Musk Apologizes For Calling Rescue Diver A Pedophile

  18-07-2018 12:44
  BANGKOK (AP) — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has apologized for calling a British diver involved in the Thailand cave rescue a pedophile, saying he spoke in anger but was wrong to do so.
  There was no immediate public reaction to Musk’s tweets from diver Vern Unsworth, who in colorful language in a TV interview had accused the Tesla founder and SpaceX engineers of orchestrating a “PR stunt” by sending a small submarine to help divers rescue the 12 Thai soccer players
  
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• Missing 9-Year-Old Boy May Be Danger to Himself

  18-07-2018 12:40
  
  Dallas police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 9-year-old boy who was last seen Tuesday and may be a danger to himself, police said.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Suspect Arrested In Deadly Grand Prairie Hit-And-Run

  18-07-2018 06:55
  GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Grand Prairie Police have arrested the woman wanted in a deadly hit-and run accident from over the weekend.
  Kallie Wright is now in custody, according to police, but there were no immediate details on how or when she was arrested.
  Yesterday police told us they had located the vehicle wanted in connection with the deadly hit-and-run that happened Sunday, July 15 around 6:00 a.m. at S. Belt Line Rd at the IH 20 eastbound frontage road and had a warran
  
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• Suspect Arrested In Deadly Grand Prairie Hit & Run

  18-07-2018 06:55
  GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) – Grand Prairie police have arrested the woman suspected of being the driver involved in a deadly hit & run accident that happened over the weekend.
  Kallie Wright is in custody, being held at the Grand Prairie Police Detention Center, after voluntarily surrendering.
  On Tuesday police said they had located the vehicle wanted in connection with the deadly hit & run that happened on July 15 around 6:00 a.m. on South Belt Line Road, at the Inte
  
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• Softball Teams Beat the Heat at Plano Tournament

  18-07-2018 05:40
  
  More than 70 softball teams are in Plano for a week-long tournament during the hottest stretch in North Texas this year.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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• McKinney Residents Rally Against Concrete Plant Expansion

  18-07-2018 05:40
  
  Armed with masks and evidence of the dust they say has invaded their home, people who live near McKinney’s concrete plants on Highway 5 rallied outside of city hall Tuesday night.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Warrant Issued in Fatal Hit-and-Run After Car Found: Police

  18-07-2018 05:36
  
  An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman believed to have been behind the wheel when a 42-year-old cyclist was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash Sunday morning, Grand Prairie police say.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Baseball May Be Returning to Fort Worth's LaGrave Field

  18-07-2018 05:36
  
  On Tuesday, the Tarrant Regional Water District made a deal to put historic LaGrave Field in the hands of investors who want to bring it back to life.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Fort Worth to Introduce New Fire Chief

  18-07-2018 04:17
  
  Fort Worth will introduce its new fire chief in a Wednesday press conference, the city said in a press release Tuesday.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Earl Thomas Could Still Be in Play for the Cowboys

  18-07-2018 02:51
  
  Earl Thomas is still out there, hoping to either get a new deal with the Seahawks or move on to a new team. NBC 5’s Paul Jones and Cowboys Insider Jean-Jacques Taylor take a look at the latest moves in the...Photo Credit: NBC 5 Sports
  
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