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Every school in the Carroll Independent School District, which includes much of Southlake, will have armed officers next year.

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Yahoo! is changing its iconic logo for the first time in almost two decades. For the next 30 days, until its unveiling on Sept. 4, the Internet search giant will feature a different logo on its home page. One o]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:31:50 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/hot+sun+chicago.jpg
North Texas is in for the hottest day so far this year.]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:09:42 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/spartan-rash-lupo.jpg
A number of amateur athletes who participated in an extreme obstacle course race in Marseilles, Ill., more than two weeks ago continue to deal with a severe rash that has spread across their bodies since...

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Three weeks after an 8-year-old Oakland girl was shot to death at a slumber party, a 1-year-old boy was gunned down Wednesday morning, earning him the newest, and most unfortunate, ranking of becoming...

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President Barack Obama gave an unexpectedly serious and wide-ranging interview to Jay Leno on Tuesday night, weighing in on a terror threat, U.S. tensions with Russia and even his recent lunch with...

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Standby attorneys for Maj. Nidal Hasan have filed a motion to cut ties with the accused Fort Hood shooter.

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High-fiber cereals have come a long way. Consumer Reports’ first taste tests 14 years ago found that many of the fiber-rich cereals tasted more like straw than grain. But in Consumer Reports’ latest tests of 26...]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:09:55 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/178*120/Running-of-the-bulls-4.jpg
The event isn't even slated to hit the Chicago area until next year, but already roughly 1,000 thrill-seekers have signed up for the American version of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls.

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Wednesday's Powerball jackpot is now at an estimated $425 million, the third largest jackpot ever. The jackpot began as a $40 million prize on June 26 and rose to the $425 million mark after 12 draws without...

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Denton County deputies are asking for the public's help in finding a 90-year-old woman suffering from dementia.]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:15:26 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/web_preston_hollow_home.jpg
Internal Revenue Service investigators swarmed the multimillion-dollar Preston Hollow home of a Dallas businessman on Tuesday, the agency confirmed.

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Camels love hump day, and so do most American workers. Chances are you’ve seen the Geico insurance commercial starring a camel excitedly interrupting everyone in the office on Wednesday, also known as hump day.

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Sitting in ice water is part of the training regimen for a Dallas man who plans to swim the English Channel next year.

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A Plano, Texas, woman accused of trying to kill her fiance is on trial this week for attempted murder charges. Vicky Renee Miller allegedly tried to kill Paul Dwayne Key in November

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Dallas County has four times the number of mosquitoes than it did last year but far fewer are infected with West Nile virus.

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Fort Worth's Fourth of July celebration along the Trinity River was a huge success. Now the city is coming up with a plan to deal with the larger than expected crowd and the traffic after...]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:30:55 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/MexicanMafiabust3.JPG
In the largest single crackdown on organized crime in L.A. County history, a major drug raid Tuesday netted nearly $20 million in meth, and the arrest of eight gang members, busting up an alliance of...]]> Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:03:00 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/n6pt-p-heat-takes-a-tol_W1MCH37016x9-02.jpg
Dallas has opened citywide cooling stations for residents to keep cool during the intense summer heat.

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Firefighters in Irving had a tough day keeping cool while battling a fire at the Dr Pepper bottling plant.

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A Brooklyn ice cream man has been arrested for selling cocaine and painkillers out of his truck full of treats as children bought frozen sweets just a few feet away. Mina Gatas, 20, is accused of selling drugs t...]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:30:08 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/artemissimpson.jpg
San Francisco hosts the 34th edition of the America's Cup with races officially beginning on July 7.]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:20:56 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/214*120/plane-crash7.jpg
The National Transportation Safety Board says a Southwest Airlines plane's nose gear appears to have failed because of "stress overload" when it collapsed during landing at LaGuardia last...]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:44:24 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/Florida+Powerball.jpg
Wednesday's Powerball jackpot is now at an estimated $425 million, the third largest jackpot ever. The jackpot began as a $40 million prize on June 26 and rose to the $425 million mark after 12 draws without...

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Dallas police said a fetus was discovered in a hospital bathroom Tuesday morning.

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A citrus farmer in Bakersfield, Calif., and his group of "Wall-E Builders" have created a real life, moving and talking Wall-E robot from scratch. In honor of "Geek Week," Tested posted a video on YouTube...

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Tracking the timeline of the case against Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychologist accused of the shooting at Fort Hood in 2009.]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:57:20 -0500 http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/213*120/080613+manuel+marono+michael+pizzi.jpg
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he has suspended Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel Marono from office after they were arrested by the FBI on public corruption charges Tuesday.

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A nurse and a U.S. Marine claim San Diego Mayor Bob Filner abused his elected office when he asked for a date in exchange for helping a wounded veteran solve a problem with Veterans]]>