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From our historic coverage of the JFK assassination to highlighting the biggest local stories of each day, WFAA has served North Texas for nearly 75 years.

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(Illegal) beer run! Arlington police are searching for this guy who managed to grab five cases 😯 of beer from a convenience store and flee the scene.
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RAW VIDEO: Our cameras captured the panic after the first shots were fired in downtown #Dallas Thursday night
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Bear smashes car window, eats two dozen cupcakes inside
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REST IN PEACE, UZIYAH GARCIA. The 8-year-old died in the Uvalde elementary school shooting. His grandfather, Manny Renfro, shared this photo of him with AP. "The sweetest little boy that I've ever known," Renfro said. What we know about the victims:
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This one is emotional. John McCaa shares his final thoughts. #ThanksJohn
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REST IN PEACE, ANNABELLE RODRIGUEZ. The 10-year-old's family confirmed to ABC News that she was among the victims who died in the Uvalde school shooting. Her family also said Annabelle's cousin died in the shooting. What we know about the victims:
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"It makes me sick to my stomach" | Dallas police are for looking the man seen here leaving an adult German Shepherd on the side of the road near Dowdy Ferry and Teagarden Road. @KevinReeceWFAA   speaks with the man who captured this video tonight at 6.
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JUST IN: Democrat Beto O'Rourke has won his primary race and has been nominated by his party to run for governor of Texas later in November. Latest updates:
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REST IN PEACE, JACKIE CAZARES The 10-year-old's family confirmed to ABC News that she was among the victims who died in the Uvalde school shooting. Her family said she and her cousin Annabelle were in the same fourth grade classroom. Read more:
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PERSPECTIVE: Five major massacres have happened on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's watch since 2017. His inability to keep Texans safe represents a failure of leadership.
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Deandre Arnold has been suspended and won't be allowed to walk at graduation in three months. Why? Because the school district wants him to cut his hair.
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YouTuber who claimed veganism cured her cancer dies of cancer
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BREAKING: DPD Chief David Brown says 10 officers were shot by 2 snipers in downtown Dallas. 3 are dead, 3 are critical, and 2 are in surgery
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HEARTBREAKING: Guadalupe "Joe" Garcia, 48, the husband of Irma Garcia, has passed away from a heart attack just days after his wife was killed in the Uvalde school shooting. The couple had four children.
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REST IN PEACE, XAVIER LOPEZ. We're learning more about the victims of the Uvalde school shooting, and 10-year-old Xavier's family shared this picture of him. His mother attended his awards ceremony at school shortly before the shooting. Latest updates:
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The ghosts at this supposedly haunted North Texas house reportedly like to talk dirty. They're "sexual," the owner says. "There’s no other way to put it."
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. @dalehansen goes Unplugged: "Kingsbury fits all the criteria to be a head coach in the NFL: He's an offensive genius, he's young — and he's white, and not necessarily in that order."
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Statue of Robert E Lee will come down in #Dallas
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BREAKING: Vote passes 13-1.
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GUYGER INDICTED: Fired Dallas officer Amber Guyger has been indicted on a murder charge in #BothamJean 's shooting death, sources with knowledge of the case confirm to @wfaa MORE:
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On Thursday, the Texas Education Agency released new guidance for schools on how to handle positive COVID-19 cases. More:
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😢 🐶 It was a tough day for @dalehansen , who had to say goodbye to his beloved Basset Hound, Miss Hailey. "I don't think you know the true meaning of the word 'love' until you've been owned by a dog."
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Hey @oncor   @ERCOT_ISO  how many Texas customers have been without power for more than 24 hours? We are getting hundreds of reports of dire situations. Are those part of the controlled outages? When can people expect to have their power restored if they've been out for that long?
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Braylon King is a 4th grade student from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. He stayed home the day of Tuesday's tragic shooting and lost some of his best friends. Here's his message to them ❤️
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POWERFUL WORDS: U.S. senator representing Sandy Hook passionately responds to Uvalde elementary school shooting on Senate floor, repeatedly asking his colleagues, "What are we doing?" and "Why are we here?"
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BREAKING: WFAA has confirmed that the NFL has reached out to AT&T Stadium to check on its availability as a possible backup 2022 Super Bowl venue; Arlington officials say the city is ready to host the game if needed.
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DOLLY 👏 What’d you think of the country legend’s Cowboys halftime performance?
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"Gov. Abbott and our other state leaders have proven again that the rule of law doesn't matter, and court orders can be ignored as long as you are well-to-do and white," says Dale Hansen.
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HISTORY MADE 🏆 South Oak Cliff knocked off Liberty Hill to become Dallas ISD's first state football champion since 1958. Story:
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Meteorologist @ColleenWeather is saying farewell after nine years with WFAA. Here's her announcement about this big life update:
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Extra point: Dale Hansen on school shootings
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One piece of good news: the dog has been rescued and is in the custody of Dallas Animal Services. Police are still looking for the suspect.
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"It makes me sick to my stomach" | Dallas police are for looking the man seen here leaving an adult German Shepherd on the side of the road near Dowdy Ferry and Teagarden Road. @KevinReeceWFAA   speaks with the man who captured this video tonight at 6.
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Dallas is showing its support for Ukraine. The downtown skyline was lit up Thursday night with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. See how more North Texans are showing their support here:
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Nurse captures heart-wrenching photo of parents comforting daughter as she dies of cancer
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Gov. Greg Abbott's new order stripped local officials' ability to limit capacity at businesses or to require vaccines or face masks.
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We're sorry, McKinney 😅 Our heat index map mistakenly said it felt like 101105 degrees in McKinney yesterday. @wfaaweather  handled it the way you might expect - and no, it wasn't @JesseWFAA 's fault 🤣 For the record, the real heat index was *only* 105.
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JUST IN: Fort Worth ISD superintendent says he’s directed staff to add required masks to back to school guidance after getting letter from 100 Cook Children’s physicians. The district joins Dallas ISD and Austin ISD. Read more here:
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RIP 💔 Jacqueline Pokuaa, 45, and Annette Flowers, 63, were the two Methodist employees who died in the Saturday shooting at the Dallas hospital. For more:
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The Omni Hotel's LED façade flashes a @dallasmavs logo and Dirk Nowitzki's iconic number 41 in honor of the beloved basketballer's jersey being retired at the American Airlines Center tonight -- GORGEOUSLY captured by Dallas skyline photographer @josephhaubert . #mffl #41Forever
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WORLD SERIES CHAMPS!!!!! The Texas Rangers have won the 1st championship in their 62-year history! #GoAndTakeIt #WorldSeries RECAP:
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REMEMBER THEM 💔: Here are the faces of the 8 victims who were killed in Allen, Texas, during a busy weekend afternoon at the Allen Premium Outlets. Here's what we know about them:
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Breaking: A district court judge has sided with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins in his dispute with Gov. Greg Abbott. The county's mask mandate can stay in place.
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Texas is currently 20,000 nurses short. O'Rourke's proposal calls for adding 7,500 nurses per year through a state-sponsored apprenticeship program.
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"Why should I get detention because I don't want to die at school?" one Allen High School student asked. "It's only when we do things that will get us in trouble that they will listen to us. Our lives on the line, and I think it's very worth it."
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THE MAVS ARE COMING TO WFAA! 🏀 13 of the Dallas Mavericks' remaining games in the 2023-2024 NBA season will be broadcast over the air on WFAA -- meaning approximately 7 million North Texans will be able to watch the team play for free.
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If Beto O’Rourke decides to run for governor in 2022, a new poll shows the former congressman is within the margin of error and virtually tied with the incumbent, Greg Abbott.
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7-year-old fed up with Cowboys’ season pens hilarious letter to Jerry Jones
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A tribute to @swish41 , from @dalehansen : "We were the lucky ones." 📰:
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CONGRATS, PETE! Here at WFAA, we all generally think that Delkus is pretty great. But there may be no living with him after he was named the top meteorologist in the country 😅😁!
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VIDEO: These Houstonians are having some fun with the flood, going fishing INSIDE their home 🐟
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Hundreds of students at Oxford High School, the Michigan school where four were killed in November, walked out Thursday and formed a ‘U’ on the football field to show support for students and families in Uvalde, Texas.
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GORGEOUS! Here are our #Supermoon pictures from tonight. How'd yours turn out?
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Kyrie Irving arrives at the Mavs' practice facility in Dallas as the team's trade with Brooklyn becomes official. Forward Markieff Morris also joins Irving on the Mavs. Story:
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The Dallas Stars are headed to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 20 years!
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CONGRATULATIONS 🎉!! Plano native Jaskaran Singh just won the Jeopardy! National College Championship tonight! Read more on his journey here:
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Big announcement from @ColleenWeather ! Hint, hint, just like @wfaaizzy 's recent news, it's great! OK, OK, we'll tell you... She's adopting! ❤️
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Frisco ISD board members on Monday voted 7-0 to approve a policy that would make students use bathrooms and changing rooms throughout the district according to the gender they were assigned at birth.
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A family representative has confirmed to WFAA that Aishwarya Thatikonda was one of the victims killed in the shooting in Allen, Texas. She was an engineer, and her family lives in India. More:
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Fort Worth was SHOWING UP for @TCUFootball 's CFP championship sendoff 🐸 Follow along here:
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@ERCOT_ISO Can you please explain what this means? Did more outages occur overnight? What kind of customer restoration numbers can we expect today? Who will be given priority for restoration? These are answers Texans need.
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"I don't care what Jacob Blake did or didn't do, I don't care. He’s unarmed, and that police officer shoots him in the back at least seven times in front of his three young children who were in the car. That cop should go to prison, but I doubt he will."
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Police officers found what appeared to be an "AK-47 style pistol" and a "replica AR-15 style Orbeez rifle" in the suspect's car.
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The former CEO of ERCOT said that his order to keep power prices at the maximum during last year's winter storm was issued at the direction of Gov. Abbott, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.
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Southlake Carroll ISD board president Cameron Bryan this week called for the district to make sure it uses the term "Christmas break" instead of "holiday break" or "winter break" in the future.
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The Dallas Zoo named its newborn giraffe 'Witten'
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Tonight, @DaleHansen went Unplugged – with a touching tribute to @JohnMccaa . "John is not the guy who will tell you about what he has meant to this station...so I'm gonna do it for him."
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Hundreds of students walked out of Irving ISD's MacArthur High School on Wednesday in protest after teachers were allegedly forced to take down "safe space" stickers on their classroom doors that were for LGBTQIA+ students.
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Remembering this sad day in #Dallas history, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in 1963.
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Cockroach crawled inside sleeping woman's ear, tormenting her for nine days
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3 views of Dallas Omni lit in honor of #PrinceRIP tonight. H/T: @rociopat
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NOW: Derrick Chauvin, the ex-cop accused in George Floyd's death has been found guilty of all counts.
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First it was Harlan Crow. Now Jerry Jones, another Dallas billionaire, has been linked to gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in a new report from the New York Times.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, stating that the states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws.
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The City of Dallas orders the closure of all bars, lounges, taverns, gyms and theaters. Restaurants will now be to-go only.
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The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would require public schools to prominently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom starting next school year.
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GOODBYE, DALE! The time has officially come to send off Dale Hansen, as his more than 38-year sports broadcast career ends with one last ‘Unplugged’ commentary tonight at 10. Share your favorite memories in the comments! #Daleretires Read:
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Sometimes you've got to look on the bright side. 🐕 Thanks to Kirsten Lee for sharing this video from Seagoville. STORY:
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Happy Birthday, #Dallas !! This beautiful city was chartered 161 years ago today!
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The Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars say they're not making any changes to COVID-19 protocols and attendance capacities following Gov. Abbott's announcement Tuesday.
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Today was a historic day in Dallas as the city celebrated its first-ever Día de Los Muertos Parade and Festival!
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Dan Crenshaw, ex-Navy SEAL mocked by SNL comic, wins House seat
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New records obtained by WFAA show Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to bus migrants out of the state has cost Texans more than $20 million, as of October.
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TEXAS WINS THE PENNANT! ⚾ RECAP:
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. @dalehansen goes #Unplugged about Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to reopen Texas: "We've come this far; we may well be close to the end of our long national nightmare. This is not the time to let down and give up now."
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Rest in peace: Hester Ford, who was the oldest living American, has died at 116, according to a family statement posted on social media. She had 12 children, 48 grandchildren, 108 great-grandchildren, and approximately 120 great-great-grandchildren.
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NEW TONIGHT: Gov. Abbott's appeal to strike down Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins’ executive order mandating masks in schools and business has been denied by the 5th Court of Appeals Friday evening.
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"4 Uvalde" ♥ In yesterday's game against the Oakland A's, Texas Rangers starting pitcher Martin Perez wrote the inscription on his hat dedicated to the victims of the Uvalde school shooting. (📸: Darren Yamashita, AP)
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Please keep the people of Louisiana and those all along the Gulf Coast in your thoughts. Hurricane Ida, now a category 2 storm, is closing in on the coast and is expected to make landfall as a powerful category 4 storm on Sunday, the same day Hurricane Katrina hit 16 years ago.
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Mexico’s incoming secretary of foreign affairs said that Texas’ deployment of buoys on the Texas-Mexico border to prevent migrants from crossing the Rio Grande are a violation of water treaties between the U.S. and Mexico.
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