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• Seagoville Officer’s Body Cam Shows Heroic Actions At House Fire

  27-08-2018 23:25
  SEAGOVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Seagoville police officer’s body camera video showing how he helped rescue a family from a burning home, was released Monday.
  Over the weekend Officer Sam Click described the moment he entered the burning home.
  Seagoville Officer Sam Click (CBS11)
  “I’m going inside the house,” you can hear Click say as he arrives at the burning house.“It takes a special kind of person to realize you may die to help protect somebody and not a
  
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• Former Balch Springs Officer’s Fate in Hands of Jury

  27-08-2018 23:12
  
  After eight days of hearing testimony and evidence, jurors deciding if Roy Oliver is guilty of murder began deliberations shortly before noon on Monday.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Fallen Officer’s Daughter Welcomed To Preschool By Dallas Police

  27-08-2018 22:11
  ALEDO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The young daughter of fallen Dallas Police officer Patrick Zamarripa, got a memorable welcome to her first day of preschool.
  Aledo ISD tweeted a photo of Lyncoln Zamarripa with seven Dallas Police officers who were there to support her.
  Patrick Zamarripa was one of five police officers shot and killed after a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas in July 2016.
  The tweet said, Very special moment today at Coder as seven Dallas Police officers came to support &
  
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• Uncle Arrested in 1981 Murder of 5-Year-Old Mansfield Boy

  27-08-2018 21:57
  
  The uncle of a 5-year-old Mansfield boy reported missing in 1981 has been arrested and charged with the boy’s murder.Photo Credit: Tarrant County Jail & National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  
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• Man Arrested in 1981 Murder of 5-Year-Old Mansfield Boy

  27-08-2018 21:45
  
  The uncle of a 5-year-old Mansfield boy reported missing in 1981 has been arrested and charged with the boy’s murder.Photo Credit: Tarrant County Jail & National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  
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• Flags At White House Lowered Again To Half-Staff After McCain’s Death

  27-08-2018 21:45
  UPDATE: Flags at the White House are lowered back to half-staff Monday afternoon.
  Flag atop White House lowered again to half-staff. Pres Trump was urged by GOP and Dem Senate leaders to honor @SenJohnMcCain until his day of interment on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/Org0ZgPXge
  — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 27, 2018WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Flags at the White House were back at full-staff Monday, even as objections mounted and Senate leaders of both parties formally requeste
  
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• Iran’s Ex-President Tweets In Defense Of Serena Williams

  27-08-2018 21:39
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tennis star Serena Williams has received support over her recent catsuit controversy from the unlikeliest of sources — the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
  Concerns were raised this week when the French Tennis Federation’s president said that the full-length outfit Williams wore at this year’s French Open would no longer be allowed. Williams, who said she wore the outfit for health reasons, appeared to shrug off the decision.
  “Why i
  
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• McCain’s Final Message Before Death Released: ‘Thank You For The Privilege Of Serving You’

  27-08-2018 21:26
  PHOENIX (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – In a farewell letter, John McCain encourages Americans not to “despair of our present difficulties.”
  In his final message, read aloud in Arizona, the late senator says the United States is weakened “when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries” and “when we hide behind walls rather than tear them down.”
  Family spokesperson Rick Davis, McCain’s former presidential campaign manager, choked up as he read the letter al
  
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• Woman Shot in Head During Road Rage Incident in Haltom City

  27-08-2018 21:23
  
  A woman has died after she was shot in the head during a road rage incident in Haltom City Saturday evening, police say.Photo Credit: Haltom City Police Department
  
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• Trump Ignores Questions About McCain’s Death

  27-08-2018 20:58 via nbcdfw.com
  
  President Donald Trump didn’t respond to shouted questions about John McCain’s death following a call with Mexico’s president.
  
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• Body Left To Rot In Funeral Home 3 Years Leads To Charges In S.C.

  27-08-2018 20:51
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Two funeral home workers have been charged with desecration of human remains after authorities say they left a body to rot in an unrefrigerated room surrounded by air-fresheners for nearly three years in South Carolina.
  Lawrence Robert Meadows and Roderick Mitchell Cummings, both 40, were indicted Friday by a state grand jury. A conviction on the charge carries a sentence of one to 10 years in prison.
  They were supposed to cremate 63-year-old Mary Alice Pit
  
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• Body Left To Rot In Funeral Home 3 Years Leads To Charges

  27-08-2018 20:51
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Two funeral home workers have been charged with desecration of human remains after authorities say they left a body to rot in an unrefrigerated room surrounded by air-fresheners for nearly three years in South Carolina.
  Lawrence Robert Meadows and Roderick Mitchell Cummings, both 40, were indicted Friday by a state grand jury. A conviction on the charge carries a sentence of one to 10 years in prison.
  They were supposed to cremate 63-year-old Mary Alice Pit
  
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• Uncle Arrested In Child’s 37-Year-Old Cold Case Murder

  27-08-2018 20:45
  MANSFIELD (CBSDFW) – Police have arrested a 64-year-old man in connection to his nephew’s murder 37 years ago.
  An indictment says Terry L. Woodson struck the child, Anthony Tyrone Woodson, with “an electrical cord” or some other item, killing the little boy.
  Initial reports about Anthony’s disappearance on August 29, 1981 said he was kidnapped by a stranger. On that day he went to the store with  Terry Woodson. Woodson told police that he left the child as
  
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• Judge Blocks Online Plans For Printing Untraceable 3D Guns

  27-08-2018 20:08
  (AP) – A U.S. judge in Seattle blocked the Trump administration Monday from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns, agreeing with 19 states and the District of Columbia that such access to the plastic guns would pose a security risk.
  The states sued to stop an agreement that the government had reached with Austin, Texas-based Defense Distributed, saying guidelines on how to print undetectable plastic guns could be acquired by felons or terrorists.
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• Dog Days of Summer - Aug. 27, 2018

  27-08-2018 19:13
  
  Franz and Charlie were featured during the Dog Days of Summer segment on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018.
  
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• State Committee Examines Contractors After Natural Disasters

  27-08-2018 18:59
  
  One year ago in the wake of Hurricane Harvey there were issues with contractors who, per state law, did not need to be licensed. Committees investigated the state's current consumer rights and protectionPhoto Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Detroit Saying Farewell In Royal Fashion To Queen Of Soul

  27-08-2018 18:54
  DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin had admirers the world over, but there’s no doubt the flame burned brightest in Detroit — the place she was raised and remained for most of her life.
  It’s difficult to separate the singer from the city, so you better think that her town is saying farewell in royal fashion to its Queen of Soul, with a concert, public viewings and a funeral that’s expected to be attended by at least one former president, civil rights leaders and many oth
  
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• Arrests Made After 50 Keller ISD Buses Vandalized: PD

  27-08-2018 18:47
  
  Four people were arrested after 50 school buses at Keller ISD were vandalized, police said. Some buses were unable to pick up students Monday morning, police said.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Irving energy firm’s merger to create $1.4B natural gas giant

  27-08-2018 18:41
  Irving energy company Blue Ridge Mountain Resources is merging with another natural gas driller based in Pennsylvania, Eclipse Natural Resources, in a deal that is expected to create a $1.4 billion company.
  
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• Roaming Raccoon Interrupts First Day of Classes at UNT

  27-08-2018 18:36
  
  An unusual visitor interrupted the first day class for some students at the University of North Texas.Photo Credit: UNT College of Music via TwitterThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Dallas' CyrusOne closes on $442 million purchase for new effort in Europe

  27-08-2018 18:36
  Dallas’ CyrusOne just closed on a hefty acquisition for a big push into Europe with the data center developer and operator.The company has wrapped up the more than $440 million purchase of Zenium Data Centers, providing what it calls the two largest markets in the industry for Europe, it said in a statement on Monday.
  The deal, disclosed at the end of last year, had been set to close during the first quarter of this year. It faced approval delays amid legal changes in Germany, Chief Execut
  
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• Overnight Fire Spreads to 3 Dallas Businesses

  27-08-2018 18:34
  
  A fire at a Dallas restaurant spread to two other businesses Sunday night and no injuries were reported.Dallas Fire-Rescue crews found smoke about 11 p.m. at the back of a building within a shopping center...
  
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• Texans Star JJ Watt’s Hurricane Harvey Effort Raises $41.6M

  27-08-2018 18:30
  HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Houston Texans star J.J. Watt says he has distributed the $41.6 million his foundation raised to help rebuild the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey.
  An online fundraiser Watt launched after the storm hit Texas last year quickly went viral. Watt began the campaign for the Justin J. Watt Foundation in the days after the storm, with the goal of raising $200,000.
  The three-time Defensive Player of the Year routed the money to eight groups actively involved
  
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• Haltom City Police Say Woman Shot, Killed After Road Rage Incident

  27-08-2018 17:42
  HALTOM CITY (CBSDFW.COM) – A road rage incident over the weekend ended with a woman shot and killed and another taken into custody.
  It was around 4:00 p.m. on August 25 when Haltom City police responded to reports of a shooting in the 4600 block of Roxie. When officers arrived they found a woman sitting in the passenger seat of a white Fiat — she had been shot in the head.
  The woman, later identifed as Claudia Sanchez, was treated at the scene and then rushed to John Peter Smith Hosp
  
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• Haltom City Police Say Woman Shot & Killed After Road Rage Incident

  27-08-2018 17:42
  HALTOM CITY (CBSDFW.COM) – A road rage incident over the weekend ended with a woman shot and killed and another taken into custody.
  It was around 4:00 p.m. on August 25 when Haltom City police responded to reports of a shooting in the 4600 block of Roxie. When officers arrived they found a woman sitting in the passenger seat of a white Fiat — she had been shot in the head.
  The woman, later identifed as Claudia Sanchez, was treated at the scene and then rushed to John Peter Smith Hosp
  
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• Jurors Hear Closing Arguments In Roy Oliver Case

  27-08-2018 17:39
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Jurors in the murder trial of former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver listened to closing arguments from attorneys Monday.
  Oliver is accused of killing Jordan Edwards, 15, as he sat unarmed in the back of a friend’s car driving away from a house party in April 2017.
  A photo of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. The teen was shot and killed by a Balch Springs police officer on April 29, 2017. (credit: Edwards Family)
  Jurors today received instructions t
  
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• Police: Woman From Watauga Dies In Rollover Crash In New Mexico

  27-08-2018 17:02
  LUNA COUNTY, N.M. (CBSDFW/AP) — New Mexico State Police say a woman from Watauga has died in a rollover accident in Luna County.
  They say Ariel Llerenas, 27, of Watauga was a front-seat passenger in an SUV that crashed in Interstate 10 about 5 a.m. Saturday.
  State Police say she was transported from the scene to the University Medical Center in El Paso where she died from her injuries.
  They say the driver and another passenger in the SUV weren’t seriously injured.
  State Police say th
  
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• Hundreds Mourn At Funeral For Slain 20-Year-Old Iowa Student

  27-08-2018 16:29
  BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The father of Mollie Tibbetts, whose body was found last week in a central Iowa cornfield, asked hundreds of mourners to remember the 20-year-old by “celebrating something wonderful” rather than focusing on how she died.
  Mollie Tibbetts (credit: KCCI via CBS Newspath)
  Tibbetts was memorialized Sunday afternoon at a ceremony in the gymnasium of Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom High School in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa.
  Rob Tibbetts urged congregants to remember
  
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• Tesla Shares Slip After Company Decides To Stay Public

  27-08-2018 16:17
  NEW YORK (AP) – Shares of Tesla slipped on the first day of trading after the electric vehicle maker said it won’t consider going private after all.
  In morning trading Monday, Tesla Inc. was trading at $315.40, down $7.42, or 2.3 percent.
  Late Friday, founder Elon Musk said that after consulting with shareholders, the Palo Alto, California, company will stay public.
  That followed a surprising tweet two weeks earlier when Musk said he had secured funding for a deal at $420 a shar
  
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• Game Warden Investigating Reported Drowning

  27-08-2018 16:11
  
  Authorities in Denton County are responding to a reported drowning on Lake Lewisville.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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• Raw: Buses Vandalized, Put Out of Service at Keller ISD: PD

  27-08-2018 15:46
  
  Fifty school buses at Keller ISD were vandalized and some were unable to pick up students Monday morning, police said.
  
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• Flags At White House Back At Full Staff After McCain’s Death

  27-08-2018 15:46
  WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The flags at the White House, which were lowered over the weekend to mark the death of Sen. John McCain, are back at full-staff.
  Flag back at full staff atop WH. Pres Trump did not issue proclamation on the death of @SenJohnMcCain, which usually calls for flags to remain at half-staff through the day of interment, which is Sunday at the @NavalAcademy. pic.twitter.com/NGasNPT0VB
  — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 27, 2018The flags at the U.S. Capitol, me
  
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• 50 Buses Vandalized, Put Out of Service at Keller ISD: PD

  27-08-2018 15:46
  
  Fifty school buses at Keller ISD were vandalized and some were unable to pick up students Monday morning, police said.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• TMSG: Richardson School Poster 'Welcomes All'

  27-08-2018 15:02
  
  One week into the school year, a student at Forest Meadow Junior High created a poster that reads, "FMJH Welcomes All." It includes all the languages spoken at the school -- more than 17 at last...
  
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• Aspirin Disappoints For Avoiding First Heart Attack, Stroke

  27-08-2018 15:00
  BOSTON (AP) – Taking a low-dose aspirin every day has long been known to cut the chances of another heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in people who already have had one, but the risks don’t outweigh the benefits for most other folks, major new research finds.
  Although it’s been used for more than a century, aspirin’s value in many situations is still unclear. The latest studies are some of the largest and longest to test this pennies-a-day blood thinner in peopl
  
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• Mind-Altering Breast Milk? New Pot Study Poses That Question

  27-08-2018 14:23
  CHICAGO (AP) — Marijuana’s main mind-altering ingredient was detected in nursing mothers’ breast milk in a small study that comes amid evidence that more U.S. women are using pot during pregnancy and afterward.
  Experts say the ingredient, THC, has chemical properties that could allow it to disrupt brain development and potentially cause harm, although solid evidence of that is lacking.
  The new study involved 50 nursing mothers who were using pot and provided breast milk samples
  
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• Competitor: No One Deserves To Die Over Playing A Video Game

  27-08-2018 14:11
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Marquis Williams and Taylor Poindexter at first thought they heard a balloon popping. When the loud bangs kept coming, the Chicago couple and fellow video gamers attending a weekend tournament recognized them as gunfire and began scrambling for an exit.
  As he fled, Williams, 28, said, he could see the back of the gunman’s head as the attacker appeared to be walking backward as he fired.
  “We didn’t see like a face,” Poindexter, 26, told repo
  
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• Services For McCain Set For Phoenix, Washington, Annapolis

  27-08-2018 13:51
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain’s service to his country began more than six decades ago at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and will end there in a cemetery overlooking Maryland’s Severn River.
  A private burial service next Sunday will conclude nearly a week of events honoring the Navy aviator, prisoner of war, congressman, longtime senator and presidential contender. The Arizona Republican died of brain cancer Saturday at 81 at his ranch near Sedona.
  Senator John McCain
  
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• Crystal Lagoons to open with public access near retail spaces across Texas

  27-08-2018 13:46
  The locations of the retail-centered lagoons will be announced by the end of the year.
  
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• Check Out a Person? Coppell to Debut 'Human Library'

  27-08-2018 13:39
  
  A local library is thinking outside the box – and outside the books, for that matter – in an effort to bring stories to life in a whole new way.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• TRE Trains Back On Regular Schedule Days After Deadly Crash

  27-08-2018 13:31
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) trains are operating on a regular schedule this morning — two days after a deadly crash involving a dump truck.
  At 5:30 a.m. Monday there were no passengers onboard the TRE, but at the time of the crash on Saturday there were more than 30 people on the train.
  The crash happened around noon on Calloway Cemetery Road, right at the border of Fort Worth and Arlington.
  Railroad crossing lights begin to flash about 47 seconds
  
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• 2018 Torch Awards for Ethics finalists announced

  27-08-2018 13:30
  The Dallas Business Journal is pleased to announce 14 finalists and two category winners for the second annual Better Business Bureau's Torch Awards for Ethics.Selected for spots in six categories, North Texas organizations were evaluated on the integrity and ethics behind business dealings as demonstrated by their policies, education, business-to-business recommendations, customer reviews and financial track-record, among many other criteria.The finalists are in the running to become winners&he
  
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• American Airlines president talks of 'hot, hard summer' and hope for the future

  27-08-2018 13:28
  American Airlines President Robert Isom was blunt in a town hall meeting this month with employees.He called the past three months a “long, hot, hard summer” as he tried to explain why American’s on-time performance has suffered so badly.
  Isom also hinted at what the future holds for the airline and how $75-a-barrel oil will affect that future for better and worse.The Chicago Business Journal obtained an audio copy of a key portion of Isom’s town hall meeting.Just how bad
  
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• Trailer Hauling 135 Head of Cattle Flips in Mesquite

  27-08-2018 12:59
  
  An 18-wheeler hauling more than 100 head of cattle overturned in Mesquite early Monday morning, police said.Photo Credit: Tim Ciesco
  
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• Frisco Man Says 'Out of Line' HOA Wants Shutters Changed

  27-08-2018 12:35
  
  A man in Frisco called NBC 5 after his HOA demanded that he stain his shutters. He says the HOA is out of line, and believes his shutters are just fine.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Programs Research, Treat Mental Illness in Students

  27-08-2018 11:49
  
  Doctors from UT Southwestern will continue their program, going inside of North Texas schools to research and treat mental illness among teens.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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