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• Aggressive Measures Underway As Flu Arrives Early In North Texas

  13-09-2018 23:38
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s not too early to start talking about the flu. In fact, it could be too late for some. Many have already gotten the flu and it’s only September.
  “Every couple of days we see a child with the flu,” says Preeti Sharma, a pediatric pulmonologist at Children’s Health and assistant professor at UT Southwestern. “I’m starting to get worried about it.”
  Dr. Sharma says it’s too soon to say if the virus’ early arr
  
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• Police Release Sketch Of Rapist Who Forced Homeowner Inside

  13-09-2018 23:31
  HUTCHINS (CBSDFW.COM) – The hunt is on for a rapist in Hutchins who attacked a woman Monday afternoon.
  Officers responded to the victim’s home who said an armed man physically and sexually assaulted her after forcing her inside.
  She described him as wearing all black, a hoodie and carrying a knife.
  Her detailed description resulted in a composite sketch by a police forensic artist.
  Detectives ask anyone who recognizes the man to call Sergeant F. Garcia or Det. Reyes at 972.225.2225.
  
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• NBC 5 Forecast: Rain Chances Continue into the Weekend

  13-09-2018 23:22
  
  Warm and humid with low rain chances today, but increasing 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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• BTS Fans Already Lining Up for Saturday Night Concert

  13-09-2018 23:21
  
  Fans of the Korean boy band BTS started lining up outside the Fort Worth Convention Center Thursday afternoon for a concert that doesn’t happen until Saturday night.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Road Back Open in Arlington After Train Derailment

  13-09-2018 23:17
  
  Westbound and eastbound Division Street is back open after morning train derailment, police said.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Man Arrested After Attempting to Lure Girls

  13-09-2018 23:02
  
  Duncanville Police have arrested a man after he was suspected of trying to lure girls as they walked to school. He is also accused of exposing himself to an underage girl on September 4.Photo Credit: Duncanville Police Department
  
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• North Texas Radio Host Pleads Guilty To Child Abuse, Attempted Capital Murder Of Prosecutor

  13-09-2018 22:55
  McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chilling radio broadcasts with the voices of an admitted pedophile and his victims were played in a Collin County courtroom Thursday.
  Plano syndicated radio host, Dan Steffen, pleaded guilty to abusing four victims.
  “I’m pleading guilty because I am guilty,” said Steffen.
  Dan Steffen (J.D. Miles – CBS11)
  But police believe there are dozens if not hundreds of others.
  Steffen not only admitted to sexually abusing boys, but he also pleade
  
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• Man Who Damaged American Flags At Denton County Courthouse Arrested

  13-09-2018 22:47
  DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – The Denton County Sheriff’s Office has arrested the man who damaged nine American Flags at the Denton County Courthouse the day before 9/11.
  Matthew Emerson Reynolds turned himself in.
  Surveillance video showed Reynolds ripping a flag out of the ground and throwing into a busy intersection on Elm Street.
  On June 22, 1942, Congress passed a joint resolution, later amended on December 22, 1942, that encompassed what has come to be known as the U.S.&
  
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• Get a Yellow Envelope? Don't Throw It Away

  13-09-2018 22:36
  
  RIP Medical Debt is abolishing debt for North Texans using donations from NBC 5 viewers.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Dolphins Receiver Will Continue Kneeling: ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’

  13-09-2018 22:33
  DAVIE, Fla. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Miami Dolphins receiver Kenny Stills says his protests will continue, and that he’s committed to activism “forever.”
  Stills met with reporters on Thursday, after a week that included a Sept. 11 meeting with veterans and a tweet from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida lauding him for his efforts.
  The tweet said, “No @NFL player does more community service than @KStills of the @MiamiDolphins. You don’t have to agree with how or why he
  
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• Teens Build Plane, Learn to Fly in McKinney Schools

  13-09-2018 22:09
  
  Inside a shop, adjacent to an airplane hangar at McKinney National Airport, is a hands-on learning experience for the next generation of pilots, mechanics and aviation professionals.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• ‘This Is A Powerful Storm That Can Kill’: Hurricane Florence’s Onslaught Begins

  13-09-2018 21:50
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (CBS News) — The leading edge of Hurricane Florence has arrived in North Carolina, with tropical storm-force winds carrying drenching bands of rainfall onto some beach communities, meteorologists said Thursday. The monster storm was moving in for a prolonged and potentially catastrophic stay along the Southeast coast that could drench the homes of as many as 10 million people.
  Florence’s top sustained wind speeds dropped from a high of 140 mph to 105 m
  
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• Coppell PD Looking for Woman Using Stolen Credit Card

  13-09-2018 21:40
  
  The Coppell Police Department released surveillance photos of a woman suspected in the robbery of a motor vehicle and using stolen credit cards.Photo Credit: Coppell Police Department
  
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• Highway Patrol Calls Out Driver Using Dummy To Game The System

  13-09-2018 21:26
  CALIFORNIA (CBSDFW.COM) – Drivers may want to think twice before trying to pull one over on the California Highway Patrol.
  After pulling over someone using a dummy in their passenger seat, a patrolman with the Contra Costa tweeted a picture of it.
  “Dummy passenger; can’t fool us. Shame on you,” the tweet read, and went on to say: “Shame on you. Then you try to tell our Officer ’there’s No room‘ for your VENOM look a like doll?! Riiiiiight. We like
  
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• Flower Mound PD Wins Lip Sync Challenge

  13-09-2018 21:21
  
  Who else isn't surprised?Photo Credit: Flower Mound Police DepartmentThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Medstar Switches Ambulances, Changes Look

  13-09-2018 21:12
  
  Starting next month, Medstar will start switching to a new vehicle on a pickup truck chassis.
  
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• Cop Busts Out Slick Moves To Keep Traffic Moving

  13-09-2018 21:10
  BHUBANESWAR, India (CBSDFW.COM) – A traffic police officer in India catches the attention of drivers, using his unique moves to control traffic in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar.
  Pratap Chandra Khandwal developed the technique four years ago to make people obey traffic rules and since then has been using his moves on duty to create awareness and prevent traffic accidents.
  dancing traffic cop in India (Reuters)
  Khandwal said he came up with the idea in order to attract commuters&rsquo
  
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• Sarah's Weekend Picks: Sept. 13-16

  13-09-2018 21:06
  
  GuideLive Editor Sarah Blaskovich is here with all there is to do this weekend, including festivals, food and music.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Man Arrested After Exposing Himself, Attempting To Lure Children to His Car

  13-09-2018 21:03
  DUNCANVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to lure young girls to his car as they walked to school.
  Police said the first time Courtney Darnell Poole tried to lure a child was on September 4. Seven days later, he allegedly tried again in the area of Royal Avenue and Allen Avenue.
  After pulling Poole over on an outstanding traffic warrant, officers arrested him.
  Detectives were able to positively link Poole to both incidents and substantiat
  
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• Parents Of Accused Texas School Gunman Dispute Neglect Allegations

  13-09-2018 20:57
  SANTA FE (AP) — The attorney for the parents of a teen accused in a Texas school shooting that left 10 people dead and 13 wounded is disputing allegations that they were negligent, saying they did what they could for their son.
  Attorney Ron Rodgers filed responses Monday to lawsuits against Rose Marie Kosmetatos and Antonios Pagourtzis, The Galveston County Daily News reported. The lawsuits allege they didn’t teach their son, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, respect for life and fai
  
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• Could Amazon's search for senior recruiters ‘based in Dallas’ foreshadow HQ2 choice?

  13-09-2018 20:48
  Amazon is searching for senior recruiters to be based in Dallas, possibly foreshadowing the location for the e-retailer’s massive second headquarters, which will employ 50,000 people.
  
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• Stars All-Star Center Seguin Signs $78.8, 8-Year Extension

  13-09-2018 20:40
  FRISCO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Five-time All-Star center Tyler Seguin has signed a $78.8 million, eight-year contract extension with the Dallas Stars that goes through the 2026-27 season.
  Stars general manager Jim Nill announced the deal Thursday before the team departed Texas for the start of training camp in Boise, Idaho. Seguin was going into the final season of his contract.The 26-year-old Seguin spent his first three NHL seasons with Boston, and was member of the Bruins when they won the 20
  
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• Dallas’ most heavily shorted company eyes distribution center change

  13-09-2018 20:35
  The chief executive of the Dallas company investors are most heavily betting against, Tuesday Morning, is eyeing a down-the-road change to its local distribution center as the retailer tries to outlast its big-box competitors.
  
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• Florence Brings Wind, Rain as it Approaches Coast

  13-09-2018 20:13 via nbcdfw.com
  
  Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall overnight, but the Carolina coast is already getting hit with intense winds and heavy rains as the storm approaches.
  
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• Drought Conditions Improve for North Texas After Rainfall

  13-09-2018 19:22
  
  Drought conditions have improved but we aren't out of the woods yet.Photo Credit: United States Drought MonitorThis 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: 'A Life Well Lived': Funeral for Botham Jean

  13-09-2018 19:08
  
  Botham Shem Jean, the 26-year-old Dallas resident killed by an off-duty Dallas police officer last week, is being memorialized Thursday at noon.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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• HOA Allows Man to Sell Home After Intense Roof Dispute

  13-09-2018 17:54
  
  For the last six months, a Fort Worth man has been in a heated battle with his HOA. He said the HOA had a problem with the color of the roof. NBC 5's Samantha Chatman stepped in and had his back.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Texas Man Wounded In Iowa Chase Takes Plea Deal

  13-09-2018 17:53
  Iowa (AP) — A Texas man shot by a western Iowa officer during a chase has pleaded guilty after making a deal with prosecutors.
  Pottawattamie County court records say 29-year-old Clifton Wade, of Zavalla, entered the pleas Tuesday to two felony counts of assault on an officer and other crimes. Prosecutors agreed to drop two counts of attempted murder in exchange for Wade’s pleas.
  The records say his plea is contingent on his being sentenced to no less than 12 years and no more than 25
  
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• 200 Oncor Workers Head East to Help With Hurricane Florence

  13-09-2018 17:51
  
  Dozens of Oncor utility workers and contractors are on the way to the east coast to assist local utility companies there with power restoration once Hurricane Florence comes ashore.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• Road Worker Killed After Driver Crashes Into Crane With Overhead Sign

  13-09-2018 17:44
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A construction worker was killed after an early morning crash on Interstate-35 in Dallas.
  According to police, the driver of a pickup plowed through construction barrels near Overton Road and hit a utility door on a parked construction truck.
  (credit: CBSDFW.COM)
  The impact sent the pickup careening into the overhead sign support that was being held off the ground by the crane.
  The crash caused the overhead sign support to fall, hitting and killing
  
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• New Footage Shows Hurricane Florence From Space Station

  13-09-2018 17:43 via nbcdfw.com
  
  The International Space Station captured images of Hurricane Florence as it approached the Carolina coast on Thursday. The Category 2 storm is expected to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday.
  
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• Family and Friends Prepare to Say Goodbye to Botham Jean

  13-09-2018 17:28
  
  Family and friends will prepare to say their final goodbyes to Botham Jean Thursday, one week after the 26-year-old was killed inside of his apartment. Almost 2,000 people are expected to attending Jean’s...Photo Credit: Jean Family
  
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• GM Recalls Over 1M Pickups, SUVs For Power Steering Problem

  13-09-2018 16:50
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than a million big pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. because of power-assisted steering problems that have been cited in a number of accidents.
  GM says the power steering can fail momentarily during a voltage drop and suddenly return, mainly during low-speed turns. Such a failure increases the risk of a crash. The company says it has 30 reports of crashes with two injuries, but no deaths.
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• Construction Worker Killed in Crash on I-35E

  13-09-2018 16:13
  
  A construction worker was killed Thursday morning in a crash at a construction site in southern Dallas.Photo Credit: NBC 5This 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 Charter School Superintendent Abruptly Resigns

  13-09-2018 15:57
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The superintendent one of Dallas’ oldest and largest charter schools stepped down Tuesday, four days after the school released financial records to the CBS 11 News I-Team.
  Laura Mimms’ resignation from A.W. Brown Leadership Academies comes after the publically funded charter school turned over to CBS 11 credit card statements from the school’s top officials in response to the I-Team’s public open records requests.
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• Mobile Food Market Planting “Seeds” To End Dallas Food Deserts

  13-09-2018 15:41
  OAK CLIFF (CBSDFW.COM) – In Dallas communities where food insecurity is common and fresh, healthy options are not: the seeds of change have already been planted.  The Singing Hills Community Garden is one such resource.
  “Locally grown, locally sourced produce is going to be the answer to solving the food desert problem,” says Ples Montgomery IV, with the Oak Cliff Veggie Project, “we can do it ourselves.”
  But, local advocates need not do it *by* themselves&hell
  
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• Train Derailment Causes Road Closure in Arlington

  13-09-2018 15:37
  
  A minor train derailment has caused the closure of westbound and eastbound Division Street, police said.Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• 'The Real Michigan?' Dickerson Shocked SMU Faces Michigan

  13-09-2018 15:23
  
  SMU legend Eric Dickerson joined me on NBC Sports Radio and he was shocked to see the Ponies put Michigan on the 2018 schedule.
  
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• Walmart’s Jet.com To Sell Nike Sneakers Ahead Of Holidays

  13-09-2018 15:06
  NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart-owned Jet.com will soon sell Nike products on its site as it seeks to catch up with Amazon ahead of the holiday shopping season.
  Jet says Nike sneaker, clothing and other gear will be available in October. The deal comes a year after Nike, which has made a push to sell more swoosh-branded products online, started selling some products on Amazon.com. Nike says the deal is exclusive to Jet and doesn’t include Walmart.
  Jet, which Walmart bough in 2016, has been p
  
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• Funeral Today For Botham Jean, Man Killed In Apartment By DPD Officer

  13-09-2018 14:30
  RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) – Today friends and family will gather for the funeral of Botham Shem Jean, the man shot and killed a week ago in his apartment by an off-duty Dallas police officer who said she mistook the unit for her own.
  Hundreds of people are expected to attend the service honoring the 26-year-old’s life and legacy. Jean’s funeral was moved to the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson, to accommodate the anticipated crowd.
  Officer Amber Guyger i
  
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• Funeral Held For Botham Jean, Man Killed In Apartment By DPD Officer

  13-09-2018 14:30
  RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) – Today friends and family have gathered for the funeral of Botham Shem Jean, the man shot and killed a week ago in his apartment by an off-duty Dallas police officer who said she mistook the unit for her own.
  Hundreds of people filed in to the service honoring the 26-year-old’s life and legacy. Jean’s funeral was moved to the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson, to accommodate the crowd.
  The viewing for Jean began at 10 a.m. and t
  
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• Got $1,100? Apple Shows Off Its Most Expensive iPhone Yet

  13-09-2018 13:19
  CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple unveiled three new iPhones on Wednesday, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product’s appeal amid slowing sales.
  CEO Tim Cook showed off the iPhone XS Max, which has a bigger screen than the one on last year’s dramatically designed model, the iPhone X. It’ll cost about $1,100, topping the iPhone X, which at $1,000 seemed jaw-dropping at the time. An updated iPhone X, now called the XS, stays
  
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• NBC 5 Forecast: Lower Rain Chances for Now

  13-09-2018 13:11
  
  Warm and humid with low rain chances lingering.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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• Family Arrivals Surge At U.S.-Mexico Border In August

  13-09-2018 13:09
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. border authorities arrested dramatically more immigrant families at the Mexico border in August compared to previous months in a spike that a Trump administration official said Wednesday was the result of “legal loopholes” allowing children to avoid immediate deportation to their homelands in Central America.
  The number of families arriving at the Mexico border reached 15,955, up from 12,274 in July, according to Customs and Protection. Families accounted
  
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• Construction Worker Killed on SB I-35E; Lanes Closed

  13-09-2018 12:52
  
  A construction worker was killed Thursday morning in a crash at a construction site and the crash has closed southbound Interstate 35E in Dallas.Photo Credit: NBC 5This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Time Nearly Up: Fierce Hurricane Florence Aims At Southeast

  13-09-2018 12:48
  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Time is running short to flee Hurricane Florence, a monster of a storm zeroing in on the Southeastern coast with more than 10 million people in its potentially devastating sights.
  Florence’s top sustained wind speeds dropped from a high of 140 mph to 110 mph as its outer rain bands approached the North Carolina coast early Thursday,reducing the storm from Category 4 to Category 2, but forecasters warned that the enormous wind field has been growing larger, r
  
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• Hurricane Florence’s Winds And Rain Begin Lashing Carolinas

  13-09-2018 12:48
  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The outer bands of wind and rain from a weakened but still deadly Hurricane Florence began lashing North Carolina on Thursday as the monster storm moved in for an extended stay along the Southeastern coast, promising to drench the homes of as many as 10 million people with immense amounts of rain.
  Florence’s top sustained wind speeds dropped from a high of 140 mph to 110 mph early Thursday. That reduced Florence from a Category 4 to a Category 2 hu
  
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