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• Girl Attacked on Way to Bus Receives Heart Transplant

  31-07-2018 23:45
  
  A 13-year-old Fort Worth girl who was attacked on her way to a school bus stop in April received a heart transplant Monday.Photo Credit: Children's HealthThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Trump 'Looking Into' 3D-Printed Guns After States Sue

  31-07-2018 23:37
  
  President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is "looking into" 3D-printed gun sales, a day after eight states sued his administration over its decision to allow a Texas nonprofit to publish downloadable...Photo Credit: ATF
  
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• FW Family Reunited With Dog Year After She Was Stolen

  31-07-2018 23:12
  
  A Fort Worth family had not seen their dog, Lilo, in nearly a year, but were reunited with her!Photo Credit: Sachse Animal ShelterThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Wraps And Salads Sold At Kroger, Trader Joe’s Recalled Due To Parasite Concern

  31-07-2018 22:51
  UNITED STATES (CBSDFW.COM) – Federal officials are warning consumers to be on guard for signs of intestinal distress if they’ve eaten any of more than two dozen types of salads and wraps sold by several major retailers around the U.S.
  In a public health alert issued Monday night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) cited worries that beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products may be infected by a parasite known as cyclospora cayeta
  
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• 2 Dead, 2 Hurt After Car Hits Ambulance In South Texas Wreck

  31-07-2018 22:38
  ROCKPORT (AP) — Authorities say two men heading to work have been killed when their car struck an ambulance and both vehicles rolled on a rural South Texas highway.
  The Texas Department of Public Safety says both people in the car died at the scene before dawn Tuesday on Highway 35 near Rockport.
  DPS Sgt. Nathan Brandley says the ambulance had dropped off a patient at a Corpus Christi hospital and was returning to Rockport.
  Brandley says it appears the car, carrying two men to work at a ne
  
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• Google Buys Land In North Texas For Data Center

  31-07-2018 22:22
  MIDLOTHIAN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Google has purchased 375 acres in Midlothian for a new data center.
  Larry Barnett, President/CEO of Midlothian Economic Development, told CBS11 the site is in the Railport Business Park.
  A Google spokesperson confirmed the purchase as well.
  “Google has purchased property in Midlothian, TX and while we do not have a confirmed timeline for development for the site, we want to ensure that we have the option to further grow should our business demand it,&
  
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• Last Day For Peanuts On Southwest Airlines

  31-07-2018 22:13
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s the final day for free packs of peanuts on Southwest Airlines flights.
  The airline said it will discontinue giving out peanuts on Wednesday, August 1 to ensure a better experience for people with peanut allergies.
  Southwest Airlines tweeted Tuesday, “Though the peanut has been an important part of our heritage, today is our final day serving them onboard.  While many will miss our peanuts, at the end of the day, we’re most proud of our Peop
  
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• Pest Experts Investigating Reported Invasive Beetle in Texas

  31-07-2018 22:03
  
  Texas A&M Forest Service experts are investigating reports that the invasive Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a beetle, may have been seen in Tarrant County.Photo Credit: Texas A&M Forest Service
  
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• Bear Trashes Living Room, Pantry In Connecticut Home

  31-07-2018 21:52
  BLOOMFIELD, Connecticut (CBSDFW.COM) – A Connecticut woman went on Facebook live to share what happened when she found a bear inside her living room Monday.
  She said she and her daughter had just gotten home, when they walked inside and found black bear in the living room.
  In the video, Melissa McWeeny shows where the bear got in through a sliding door, after ripping down a screen.
  “We learned that the bear knows how to pull the latch down and open the door,” said McWeeny.
  Insi
  
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• Denton Girl Finds Potential Match for Bone Marrow Transplant

  31-07-2018 21:34
  
  A Denton girl in need of a bone marrow transplant learned some exciting news.Photo Credit: Seth Voorhees, NBC 5 News
  
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• ‘Sounded Like A Dumpster Dropped’: Firefighters Search Parking Garage Collapse

  31-07-2018 21:10
  IRVING (CBSDFW.COM) – At least 21 vehicles were impacted when the second story of an office parking garage collapsed in Las Colinas.
  It happened at O’Connor Ridge Office Park’s parking garage on 4545 Fuller Drive.
  While the official cause of the collapse is unknown, OSHA is investigating what they said appears to be “spontaneous collapse caused by volatile soil, swelling between seasons”.
  According to the Irving Fire Department, a preliminary search indicated n
  
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• 12 Indicted For Role In Moving Scam At Center Of Consumer Justice Investigation

  31-07-2018 21:09
  CINCINNATI (CBSDFW.COM) – A federal grand jury has charged 12 individuals with conspiring in a racketeering enterprise to defraud individuals through their moving companies located throughout the United States, including in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois, California, Connecticut, Colorado and Missouri.
  It’s a story the CBS11 Consumer Justice team has been investigating and reporting on extensively during the last six months.
  According to the U.S. Attorney&rs
  
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• Supporting Our Schools Collects $578K for N. Texas Students

  31-07-2018 19:53
  
  NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 in partnership with Communities In Schools (CIS), Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities, Albertsons and Tom Thumb, collected $578,362 in their second annual Supporting Our Schools initiative, over...
  
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• Pleasant with low humidity

  31-07-2018 19:40
  
  Heat relief for a couple days, then hotter by the weekend.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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• WATCH LIVE: Parking Garage Collapsed in Irving

  31-07-2018 19:35
  
  Breaking news from NBC 5. Officials are responding to a parking garage collapse in Irving.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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• Jessica Biel Talks About Second Season of 'The Sinner'

  31-07-2018 19:31
  
  "The Sinner" on USA returns August 1. Executive Producer Jessica Biel, who appeared in the first season, was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a limited series or movie.
  
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• TDMN: Latest Plans to Save Fair Park

  31-07-2018 19:18
  
  Plans to save Fair Park have been in the making and Dallas Morning News City Columnist Robert Wilonsky is here to talk with us about the latest plans.
  
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• Supporting Our Schools Collects $378K for N. Texas Students

  31-07-2018 18:48
  
  NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 in partnership with Communities In Schools (CIS), Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities, Albertsons and Tom Thumb, collected $578,362 in their second annual Supporting Our Schools initiative, over...
  
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• Mansfield Honors Heroes in Gas Explosion 50 Years Later

  31-07-2018 18:39
  
  Mansfield is taking time today to honor the sacrifices of first responders during one of the darkest days in the city's history. Exactly 50 years ago Tuesday, a massive explosion at a gas station killed two...
  
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• Road Rage: Men Fight in I-35 Traffic Near Austin

  31-07-2018 18:29
  
  Two men were caught fighting during traffic on Interstate 35 in Round Rock, near Austin. In the end, nothing happened.
  
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• Bar to Stop Selling Alcohol After 2017 Plano Mass Shooting

  31-07-2018 18:20
  
  A private Plano club can no longer serve alcohol after allegedly serving alcohol to a man who later went to kill eight people, including his estranged wife, in September 2017, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage...
  
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• GOP Campaign Aide Reportedly Trashed Black People On Social Media

  31-07-2018 17:47
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A campaign consultant helping a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia has attacked the NAACP and cities with large African-American populations.
  News outlets report that Rick Shaftan, who is working for Corey Stewart’s Senate campaign, has posted disparaging comments about African Americans on social media in past years. He also said that the NAACP is “more violent” than the KKK.
  Shaftan used an expletive in January when discussing Baltimore re
  
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• US Home Prices March Higher In May, Throttling Sales

  31-07-2018 17:33
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S home prices rose rapidly in May, a trend that is thwarting some would-be buyers and pulling down home sales.
  The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index released Tuesday rose 6.5 percent in May from a year earlier. That’s down slightly from April, but is still more than double the increase workers are seeing in their paychecks.
  Mortgage rates have also increased, pushing up monthly costs for home buyers even further. Sales of existing homes have
  
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• MoviePass Raising Price & Cutting Access To Major Releases

  31-07-2018 17:14
  NEW YORK (CNN Money) – MoviePass is making big changes in a bid to stay alive. The service, which allows subscribers see one movie every day in the theater, is raising the price of its standard plan from $10.00 to $14.95 per month. The new price will take effect within the next 30 days.
  And, some major releases will be “limited in their availability” on the service for the first two weeks that they are in theaters. It is still not clear how “limited” those
  
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• Alex Trebek Can See Life Without ‘Jeopardy’

  31-07-2018 17:08
  LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Alex Trebek can see life without “Jeopardy.”
  Speaking on Fox News, the 78-year-old said the odds are 50/50, “and a little less,” he won’t return to the game show he’s hosted since 1984 when his contract expires in 2020.
  “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek speaks as he is inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame during the NAB Achievement in Broadcasting Dinner on April 9, 2018. (c
  
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• Abandoned Golf Bags Near Rio Grande Yield 50 Pounds Of Marijuana

  31-07-2018 17:07
  BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Border Patrol officers in South Texas have put a wedge between smugglers and $40,000 worth of marijuana stuffed in golf bags found abandoned along the Rio Grande.
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Monday announced the marijuana was confiscated near Brownsville.
  Border Patrol agents on Friday saw several people swim from the Texas riverbank to Mexico. Agents searched the area and discovered the golf bags, some with clubs sticking out, filled with about 50 po
  
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• Apple Is Within Striking Distance Of $1 Trillion Value

  31-07-2018 16:30
  NEW YORK (CNN Money) – Apple is within striking distance of a trillion dollar market value. The iPhone maker is currently worth about $935 billion, and the stock needs to go up more than 7 percent for it to top the mark.
  So, if Apple wows investors when it reports earnings on Tuesday afternoon, there is a chance that it could become the first U.S. company to cross the trillion dollar mark. That’s a one with 12 zeroes.
  Some think that Apple needs a new product to keep its sa
  
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• Customer Says There’s No Ginger In Ginger Ale, Sues Canada Dry

  31-07-2018 16:06
  PLANO (CBSDFW.COM/CBS NEWS) – Ginger has long been touted as a natural remedy for stomach aches. But drinking a glass of ginger ale, it seems, is not quite the same as chewing on a fresh piece of the root, and at least one consumer feels she was misled about the potential health benefits of the carbonated drink.
  Raw, cooked or crystalized — ginger helps blood flow through the circulatory system, which can help increase sexual desire.
  A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month in
  
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• JJT: Cowboys No Longer Need to Hide Truth About Elliott

  31-07-2018 16:01
  
  The Cowboys couldn’t tell the truth about their star runner, who was sifting through a litany of emotions as he dealt with off-the-field issues that ultimately resulted in Elliott serving a six-game suspension...Photo Credit: The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Demi Lovato Having “Complications” After Apparent Overdose

  31-07-2018 15:52
  LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) – Demi Lovato is experiencing “complications” and remains hospitalized following her apparent drug overdose, two sources close to the singer told CNN. Those complications include “nausea, vomiting and a high fever,” the sources said.
  Lovato is expected to “make a full recovery,” but there is “no estimate” as to when she will be released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “Taking it da
  
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• Huge Sea-Life Sculptures Made From Ocean’s Plastic Trash

  31-07-2018 15:13
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Huge sculptures of sea life are dotted about New Orleans’ aquarium and zoo, all of them made from plastic trash that washed ashore. There’s a great white shark made partly of bottle caps and beach toys and a jellyfish made mostly of cut-up water bottles.
  The artwork, part of a project called Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea, is the creation of Angela Haseltine Pozzi, who started making the pieces after seeing plastic heaped by the waves onto Oregon’s
  
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• Actor Alan Alda Reveals That He Has Parkinson’s Disease

  31-07-2018 15:12
  NEW YORK (CBS News) – Alan Alda has revealed that he has Parkinson’s disease. In a “CBS This Morning” appearance on Tuesday, the 82-year-old actor said that he was diagnosed with the disease three and a half years ago.
  “I’ve had a full life since then,” Alda said. “I’ve acted, I’ve given talks, I help at the Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook. I started this new podcast. And I noticed that — I had been on televis
  
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• School Districts in Need of Bus Drivers After DCS Fallout

  31-07-2018 14:52
  
  The demise of Dallas County Schools left each district with a driver shortage. This summer, districts have been brainstorming on how to fill in the gaps.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• TMSG: 105th Birthday

  31-07-2018 14:51
  
  Mattie Hamilton of Grand Prairie is celebrating her 105th birthday with family and friends from around the community.
  
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• Fall Is the Best Time to Travel: Experts

  31-07-2018 14:49
  
  Travel experts call it the shoulder season; the time between the end of summer break and right before the holidays. We’re told this is the best time to travel if you’re looking for an awesome vacation at...Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Fans Share Player Tweets To Expose “Toxic” Baseball Culture

  31-07-2018 14:43
  NEW YORK (AP) – A pair of Twitter users, whose posts exposing offensive tweets by baseball players went viral over the weekend, said that their aim was not malicious, but to give fans a fuller picture of who they’re cheering for, and to expose the sport’s “toxic” culture.
  In exclusive interviews with The Associated Press, both users said that they weren’t looking for the years-old tweets from Milwaukee Brewers reliever Josh Hader or Atlanta Braves pitcher Sean
  
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• States Suing Trump Administration, Texas Company Over 3D Guns

  31-07-2018 14:29
  SEATTLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals and threaten public safety.
  The suit, filed Monday in Seattle, asks a judge to block the federal government’s late-June settlement with Defense Distributed, which allowed the Austin-headquartered company to
  
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• 8 Candidates Vying To Replace Convicted Texas State Senator

  31-07-2018 14:22
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Eight candidates are competing in a bipartisan special election to replace Democratic Texas state Sen. Carlos Uresti, who stepped down in June after being sentenced to 12 years in prison on federal fraud charges.
  Sen. Carlos Uresti (CarlosUresti.com)
  Uresti’s term doesn’t expire until 2020 and his San Antonio district is heavily Democratic. But with such a crowded field, no candidate may win a majority, forcing a runoff.
  Tuesday’s best known hopefuls ar
  
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