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Pot Farm Busted In Dallas
Cops raid a pot farm in Southwest Dallas. The marijuana was spotted last night by a Dallas helicopter. Today officers descended on 5 plots of land near the Duncanville border and destroyed 4100 pot...
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Texas College Turns Football Field Into Farm
DALLAS (AP) The oldest historically black college in Texas is planting the seeds for community change between its fading goalposts. Paul Quinn College in Dallas plowed up its defunct football field...
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7 Big Cats From North Texas Farm Relocated To NJ Zoo
LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – Seven big cats found neglected on a farm in North Texas are settling in their new home at a New Jersey zoo. The lion with bad teeth, a tailless tiger and five cougars...
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Texas Drought Takes Cow Numbers Down By 600K
LUBBOCK (AP) — The worst drought in Texas’ history has led to the largest-ever one-year decline in the leading cattle-state’s cow herd, raising the likelihood of increased beef prices as the number of...
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79-Year-Old Turns Farm For At-Risk-Kids Into Int’l Boarding School
GLEN ROSE (CBSDFW.COM) – He’s 79-years-old and on his own raises $6 million a year to help raise 200 children. His name is Ed Shipman and he lives in Glen Rose, just outside of Fort Worth. For 40...
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Forecast: U.S. Drought Lingering But Leveling Off
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The worst drought in the U.S. in decades may be leveling off or even be easing ever so slightly in some lucky locales, federal weather forecasters announced Thursday in a report of...
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North Texas Farmers Protect Against Freeze
PARKER COUNTY (CBS 11 NEWS) - Cold temperatures that were damaging for North Texas farmers in April, could be devastating in May. Growers in Parker and Wise counties, already dealing with severe crop...
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One Of Last Plano Farms Up For Sale
PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) - Original farm land is vanishing in the city of Plano, and one of the few remaining parcels has just been sold. It’s the passing of an era. “We were 4 1/2 miles outside of town,”...
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Police Search For Trespassers Who Caused Deadly Hit & Run
ELLIS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Waxahachie are baffled by what happened down a dark, dirt road in the Ellis County city. That’s where a man was killed in a hit and run crash. But this wreck...
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South Dallas Neighborhood Growing Food & Jobs
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Finding healthy and reasonably priced food in some Dallas neighborhoods is tough to say the least, so residents in one historic African-American area are taking matters into their...
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Despite Drought, Wet Weather Taking A Toll On Texas Farmers & Crops
http://media.dallas.cbslocal.com/CBSDAL_20150317191742937AA.mp4 Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – The recent ice and snow storms and rains — not the drought — have kept...
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8 Western States Get Drought Aid For Farms, Ranches
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) – Farmers and ranchers in the West’s worst-hit drought regions will receive an additional $21 million to help them save water and soil despite the...
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Rockwall’s Blase Family Farm, Where Blueberries Blossom
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter A farm boy and a city girl put down roots in Rockwall and created a farm in the midst of brick and concrete. The Blase family home looks like any beautiful house...
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USDA: Farmers In 6 States Eligible For Disaster Aid
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter The U.S. Department of Agriculture says 37 counties in Arkansas and 10 in five neighboring states are eligible for disaster aid if they lost crops to rain and...
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Feds To Help Cotton Producers With Costs
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal officials have announced that cotton producers across the country will receive an estimated $300 million as part of a cotton ginning...
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$4.5B Wind Farm To Supply Power For Texas And 3 Other States
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two utilities that supply power to customers in four states say they plan to buy what is being billed as the largest wind farm in the U.S. once the $4.5 billion project is...
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Dallas College Feeding Minds And Bodies
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas’ Paul Quinn college is feeding bodies as well as minds. A few years back the college grabbed headlines for turning its football field into a farm, now the harvest is...
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Flames Sweep Through Barn Killing 5,000 Pigs
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what sparked a barn fire that left about 5,000 pigs dead. The fire started Tuesday afternoon at the Straathoff Swine Farm in Ohio....
View ArticleOne Tank Trip: Velhuizen Cheese Farm In Dublin
DUBLIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – There’s a farm in Dublin, Texas that people from all over the state flock to visit. When you drive up it may look like an average Texas farm, but what’s happening on the...
View ArticleHaltom City Police Ask For Help Identifying Missing Goat’s Owners
HALTOM CITY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The grass is always greener… especially for a wayward goat Haltom City police are calling “Magellan.” The brown billy with a black face and gray horns was found...
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