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How a Dallas grandmother discovered a $65,000 yarn heist

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Meet the Waco reporter who covered the Twin Peaks biker shootout, from Day 1 to dismissal

Nine were killed, 20 injured. Now all charges are dismissed. And one reporter stayed on the story from start to finish.
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CART is doing what DART can’t

“Our goal is to connect folks to livable wage jobs,” Corbins said.
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They dream of sleeping on a concrete floor: How Habitat for Humanity is changing lives in India

For the last decade, one community in India has endured famine while living in grass huts.
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How to be a bad axe: Craze or not, axe throwing finds a following in Dallas

“It’s different," on customer said. "You can hang out here, and it’s a lot better than bowling or a movie."
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Video: How a Dallas woman went True Detective on an attempted Craigslist scammer

Amy Glover was just trying to sell a couple lamps on Craigslist. She nearly ended up getting scammed out of hundreds of dollars.
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What's the reality of teen pregnancy? A North Texas film contest wants you to know

The winners get cash prizes. The audience gets increased knowledge about the complex social, economic and developmental web entrapping teens who have children.
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Frisco to downtown Dallas in 8 minutes? That's the promise of Bell's Uber of the sky

Ten years from now, you may be as comfortable with flying to your job from say, Frisco, to downtown Dallas, as you are with commuting by car now.
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If you think Texas cowboys are tough, meet one from the Australian Outback

Here, men like Grant Miles, who oversees the care of 2,300 cattle on this "station," are called stockmen. But if toughness, self-sufficiency and grit are the definition of a cowboy, Miles is that and more.
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What's a Viet Cong grass hut doing south of Fort Worth? Veterans want you to know why

A mock-up of the Viet Cong prison camp is there to tell the story what began on the night of Jan. 5, 1968, when Frank Anton, Robert Lewis and James Pfister flew their Huey gunship into enemy fire in Vietnam.
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A shower on the street: How 16 minutes 'can turn a life around'

In the last year, he's turned up the faucet. Streetside Showers 2.0 has three stalls, including an easy access ramp for people with mobility problems can shower seated if they have to.
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What this new non-profit is doing could cut Dallas poverty by half

"Poverty-wise, Dallas looks more like a TV dinner than a melting pot," says Alan Cohen, the head of a brand-new non-profit which has the goal of reducing poverty in the city by half in the next twenty years. The Child Poverty Action Lab, CPAL, was unveiled by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings this week.