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• Man Dies In Shark Attack Off Cape Cod Beach

  15-09-2018 23:48
  WELLFLEET, Mass. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A man was bitten by a shark Saturday in the water off a Cape Cod beach and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years.
  The 26-year-old man from Revere succumbed to his injuries following the attack off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet at around noon, Wellfleet Police Lt. Michael Hurley said.
  Joe Booth, a local fisherman and surfer, said he was on shore when he saw the man and his friend boogie b
  
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• Scattered Showers & Storms Again Today

  15-09-2018 23:26
  
  Warm and humid day ahead with scattered showers and isolated storms expected later todayThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Death Toll Rises To 11 From Florence’s Destruction

  15-09-2018 23:06
  NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — The Marines, the Coast Guard, civilian crews and volunteers used helicopters, boats and heavy-duty vehicles Saturday to rescue scores of people trapped by Florence’s shoreline onslaught, even as North Carolina braced for what could be the next stage of the disaster: widespread, catastrophic flooding inland.
  The death toll from the hurricane-turned-tropical storm climbed to 11.
  A day after blowing ashore with 90 mph winds, Florence practically parked itself over
  
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• Daycare Worker Arrested for Child Endangerment in Mesquite

  15-09-2018 23:05
  
  Mesquite daycare work Rebecca Anderson has been charged with nine counts of endangering a child and faces a $25,000 bond for each charge.Photo Credit: Mesquite Police Department
  
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• Sheriff: US Border Patrol Agent Suspected Of Killing 4 Women

  15-09-2018 22:10
  LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent suspected of killing four women was arrested early Saturday after a fifth woman managed to escape from him and notify authorities, law enforcement officials said, describing the agent as a “serial killer.”
  Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, fled from state troopers and was found hiding in a truck in a hotel parking lot in Laredo at around 2 a.m. Saturday, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar said at a news
  
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• Mesquite Woman Arrested For Endangering Children At Home Daycare

  15-09-2018 21:49
  MESQUITE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A woman was arrested for nine charges of child endangerment at her home daycare in Mesquite, police say. This was after police were notified of possible child abuse at the daycare on Friday.
  Rebecca Anderson, 60, was arrested after police found evidence of child endangerment at her registered daycare in the 4300 block of Tamarix Court.
  After investigators obtained a search warrant, police found nine children in her home when they arrived. The children’s
  
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• Fort Worth Officer Hull: What We Know

  15-09-2018 17:50
  
  Officer Garrett Hull, 40, who was a 17-year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department, died late Friday of a gunshot wound to the head, suffered hours earlier during a gun battle with a group of robbery...Photo Credit: NBC 5
  
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• 'We've Lost a True Hero': FW Officer Dies After Gun Battle

  15-09-2018 08:09
  
  An undercover Fort Worth officer shot in the head during a gun battle with three robbery suspects early Friday has died, police confirmed in a late night news conference.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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• Raw: FW Police, Mayor Announce Officer's Death

  15-09-2018 08:04
  
  An undercover Fort Worth officer shot in the head during a gun battle with three robbery suspects early Friday has died, police confirmed in a late night news conference.
  
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• Fort Worth Police Officer Garrett Hull Has Died 24 Hours After Being Shot In The Head

  15-09-2018 07:05
  FORT WORTH, TX (CBSDFW.COM) — Undercover Fort Worth Police Officer Garrett Hull who was shot just after midnight Friday outside the Los Vaqueros bar in the 400 block of Biddison Street has died.
  Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald along with Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and several members of the Fort Worth Police Department announced the news just after midnight Saturday morning — just about 24 hours after Hull was shot during a confrontation with a group of armed
  
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• Fort Worth Police Officer Garrett Hull Dies After Being Shot By Robbery Suspect

  15-09-2018 07:05
  FORT WORTH, TX (CBSDFW.COM) — Undercover Fort Worth Police Officer Garrett Hull who was shot just after midnight Friday outside the Los Vaqueros bar in the 400 block of Biddison Street has died.
  Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald along with Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and several members of the Fort Worth Police Department announced the news just after midnight Saturday morning — just about 24 hours after Hull was shot during a confrontation with a group of armed
  
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• Plano City Trap Tested Positive for West Nile

  15-09-2018 05:11
  
  The City of Plano reports a test conducted of a pool of mosquitoes in a City trap has come back positive for the West Nile virus.
  
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• O’Rourke At Dallas Town Hall: ‘My Money And My Faith On The People Of Texas’

  15-09-2018 03:47
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke rallied a standing room only crowd of 1,700 supporters at the Good Street Baptist Church, the only church in Dallas where Dr. Martin Luther King once spoke.
  On Friday night, O’Rourke expressed outrage about the deadly shooting of Botham Jean by a Dallas police officer.
  “What is released to the public? That he had a small amount of marijuana in his kitchen,” said O’Rourke. “How can that be just in
  
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• Dallas Detectives Looking At Electronic Door Locks In Off-Duty Officer Deadly Shooting Case

  15-09-2018 03:16
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – According to a search warrant CBS11 obtained Friday, Dallas Police detectives took the electronic door locks from Botham Jean’s apartment and off-duty Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger’s apartment directly below.
  Investigators also downloaded data from the locks showing when the doors were locked or unlocked.
  Dallas Police, the Dallas County DA’s office and the Texas Rangers are investigating.
  An arrest affidavit prepared by a Texas Ranger was relea
  
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• Man Arrested After Driving Truck Into Dallas TV Station Out Of Jail

  15-09-2018 03:06
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The man arrested after driving a truck into Dallas TV station KDFW is out of jail.
  The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department released Michael Fry on Thursday.
  Michael Fry (credit: Dallas County Jail)
  The Sheriff’s Department said Dallas Police haven’t filed a case against Fry, 34, and they can’t hold him indefinitely without a case.
  If Dallas Police do file a case, Fry could be rearrested and face charges.
  It was just after 6:00 a.m. on September
  
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• Surveillance Video Released From Before Officer Shot, Robber Killed

  15-09-2018 03:00
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) –Surveillance video from Los Vaqueros bar shows gunmen with faces covered holding guns to peoples heads.People were pushed down and forced to hand over wallets, purses, cash, anything of value.
  “Just came in the back door and told us to hit the floor,” said Los Vaqueros owner Victor Zepeda. “We hit the floor.”
  Los Vaqueros surveillance image of robberyBartender Carlos Herrera remembers every detail of the July night that he and doze
  
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• Dallas Mayor Praises Deadly Shooting Victim: ‘We Need To Be Like Bo, Sadly Many Aren’t’

  15-09-2018 02:38
  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings spoke Friday about Botham Jean, the young man shot and killed by off-duty Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger, when she said she mistook his apartment for her own.
  He talked about Jean during a speech at the annual Downtown Dallas, Inc. State Of Downtown luncheon.
  “We need to be like Bo. Sadly many aren’t,” said Mayor Rawlings.He went on to talk about the rumors going around on social media about what might have happened on
  
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• September's Wingstop Scholar Athlete - Cierra Hecht

  15-09-2018 02:24
  
  Cierra Hecht, a volleyball player at Prosper High School, is September Wingstop Scholar Athlete.
  
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• 3 North Texas Communities Experience Natural Gas Outage After Pipeline Struck

  15-09-2018 01:52
  HUDSON OAKS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Some North Texans will have to go without natural gas for days after a pipeline break Friday morning.
  A construction crew hit the line in Hudson Oaks, forcing Texas Gas Service to shut off gas to homes in Parker County cities of Aledo, Hudson Oaks and Willow Park.
  The gas company says it can’t fix the problem until everyone’s gas is shut off.
  After that, they will have to restore gas home by home and business by business.
  
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• Vision 2020: Preparing Students for Business World

  15-09-2018 01:39
  
  MacArthur High School in the Irving Independent School District is getting ready to break ground on a School of Business and Entrepreneurship.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Lawsuit Claims Houston Blocking Facility For Migrant Children

  15-09-2018 01:16
  HOUSTON (AP) — A nonprofit sued the city of Houston on Friday, alleging officials are obstructing its efforts to open a facility in the city to house unaccompanied immigrant children as part of an “improper political exercise” that’s “motivated by hostility” toward federal immigration law.
  Austin-based Southwest Key Programs claimed the city improperly invalidated previously issued permits that would have allowed it to open the facility, which was set to house
  
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• University of Dallas Named Among 'America's Top Colleges'

  15-09-2018 00:42
  
  The University of Dallas recently received high marks of excellence in The Princeton Review and Forbes and Money magazines.
  
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• Fort Worth High School to Take Replica GameDay Set to TCU

  15-09-2018 00:36
  
  A Fort Worth high school runs its own GameDay show, hopes to make an appearance during Saturday's broadcast at TCU. Coaches plan to take the replica set there after Friday night's game.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  
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• Family of Botham Jean Decries 'Smear' of His Character

  15-09-2018 00:36
  
  The family of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old worship leader who was shot and killed inside of his apartment, is calling for greater transparency in the investigation.
  
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• Get Used to Paying $50K for Pickup Trucks: Report

  15-09-2018 00:33
  
  New reports state that the average price of a pickup truck will soon cross $50,000 in the United States.
  
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• Robbery Suspect Shot, Killed By Fort Worth Police

  15-09-2018 00:27
  FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Bartender Carlos Herrera remembers every detail of the July night that he and dozens of customers were robbed at gunpoint at a Fort Worth bar, but  it gets worse.
  “One of them started knocking one of my friends down, they put him on the ground and they started kicking him in the floor,” says Herrera. “He started bleeding. So I got scared. I thought I was going to die.”
  In late July, Fort Worth police released surveillance video of the
  
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