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Dallas School Warns of Possible Abduction Attempt

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 09 Mei 2013 | 12.13

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A Dallas school is warning parents about a possible attempted abduction at a nearby restaurant.

According to a letter from St. Monica Catholic School, a mother said a man approached her 10-year-old son Tuesday afternoon outside La Madeline French Bakery & Cafe at Northwest Highway and Midway Road, about a mile from the school.

She and her son had been sitting together, and the man in a gray Toyota Corolla pulled up and repeatedly tried to lure him into the car when she went inside for a brief moment.

The boy ran inside to tell his mother what happened.

By the time they went back outside, the man was gone.

The boy couldn't remember many details but said the man had white hair and his Corolla had a spoiler on the back.

St. Monica on Wednesday sent a letter home to parents about the incident.

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Duncanville ISD Student's Teacher Rant Goes Viral

A student in the Duncanville Independent School District is seen ranting about teaching in a video that is quickly going viral.

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Cellphone video of a Duncanville school district student's rant at a teacher is making rounds on social media.

The video was taken off YouTube but a posting on another video site has been viewed more than 300,000 times.

"If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freaking packet, yo," the student says in the video. "There's kids in here that don't learn like that. They need to learn face to face."

"As a district with a motto of engaging hearts and minds, we focus on building positive relationships with students and designing engaging work that is meaningful," the school district said in a statement late Wednesday night. "We want our students and teachers to be engaged, but the method by which the student expressed his concern could have been handled in a more appropriate way."

The district said it would continue to be open to listening to students.

The school district declined to identify the teacher or student in the video.

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No-Show Dresses Dash Prom Dreams

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 08 Mei 2013 | 12.13

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Some North Texas teenage girls ended up in tears this prom season because the dress they ordered online either never arrived or arrived looking like a cheap impostor of the designer dress they thought they ordered.

W.T. White High School senior Dashya McCuin has been dreaming about prom since she was a freshman, but the 17-year-old's dreams were dashed when the dress she ordered online never arrived.

She had her sights set on a baby blue, strapless high-low gown embellished with ruffles and sequence from a website called fabpartydress.com.

"She wanted that particular dress and, if you know my daughter, she has to have what she wants or she's not going to leave you alone," said Leslie McCuin, her mother.

Like many moms sending their princesses to prom, McCuin caved, allowing her daughter to buy her dress online. Dashya McCuin ordered it in March, weeks before her big day so that she'd get it in time. She even told the website her prom was two weeks before the actual date to make sure there was plenty of cushion.

But as prom inched closer, the dress was a no-show.

"It never came," McCuin said.

McCuin was heartbroken and empty-handed and the clock was ticking. To add insult to injury, McCuin got an email from fabpartydress.com in April that read, in broken English, "I am sorry the dress still not shipped yet, I am afraid the dress can't arrive you Saturday, maybe you can keep it for your next function?"

"I didn't think people would do that," said McCuin. "Like, proms and weddings are, like, so serious, so why would you play with people's emotions like that?"

The American Bridal and Prom Industry Association said plenty of companies are playing with young ladies' emotions. Two of the large local prom retailers, Terry Costa and Whatchamacallit, hear the same sad sob story time and time again.

"I'm tired of little girls coming through here at the last minute and they're almost in tears when they walk through the front door," said Tina Loyd, the CEO of Terry Costa, which has both a brick-and-mortar and an online store. "That's not what it's about."

Loyd said the problem has been prevalent for the past three years, and 2013 is no different. In fact, she orders more dresses at the end of the season for what she called those "last-minute horror stories."

ABPIA said more than 2,500 websites rip images of dresses off of legitimate designers' websites and use them on their own websites without permission. They lure girls in so they think they're buying designer dresses with a cheaper price tag. Instead, they sell knockoffs.

ABPIA's head and CEO of Mon Cheri, Steve Lang, told the NBC 5 Investigates Consumer Unit about 300,000 knockoffs came into the United States from abroad, costing the industry $120 million.

And families end up paying the price, when the online order goes south by never arriving or looking like a cheap imitation. The girls then have to go buy another dress and spend even more money.

The industry is so concerned about the issue that 12 major manufacturers filed a lawsuit aimed at shutting these websites down.

In Whatchamacallit's Dallas location, owner Gary Graham keeps a knockoff of a Sherri Hill dress next to the real deal as a cautionary tale of an online order gone wrong.

Sherri Hill is an A-list designer among teen girls heading to their big dance. The Sherri Hill hanging in Whatchamacallit's window is a turquoise short gown with elegant gold beading and fancy feathers. It retails for around $730. The imitation, bought online, cost about half, and is ice blue, looking more like an ice-skating costume gone wrong.

"Fake feathers versus real feathers; the stones aren't even correct. The color is way off. The design, the style, is completely off," Graham said.

White Settlement mother Teresa Davis can relate. Her daughter looked online for a dress to save money, and she found a beautiful sea-foam green dress with gorgeous beading on the bodice on a website called dreamprom.com. It's the exact same image of the same dress as on the website of the legitimate designer, Night Moves by Allure, so she ordered it, spending more than $200.

But what arrived was a dramatic departure from the dreamy dress. It was a baby-blue gown with plastic beading in a connect-the-dot pattern and a skirt made of a mesh material. It came in a 10-by-12 envelope postmarked from China.

"The dress didn't look anything like the one on the site; just a cheap knockoff," Davis said.

Davis sent numerous emails to the company complaining about the quality and asking for a refund. Via email, the company told her the dress was "beautiful" and that there could be a "5 percent difference" between the product pictured and the product she received. She did not get a refund and bought her daughter another dress, which cost $500.

"I still cannot believe we spent that much money," Davis said, adding that her daughter's grandmother chipped in as part of her graduation present.

The NBC 5 Investigates Consumer Unit reached out to dreamprom.com, based in Hong Kong, and fabpartydress.com, based in China. We never got a response from either company.

Neither the Davis family nor the McCuin family ever got a refund.

Experts advise when buying a prom dress online, call the company to ask if it's an authorized dealer. Look for the "Top Prom" logo on the website. It was created by the industry to help identify websites, which are authorized to sell designers.

And if the discount is too deep, it's a red flag.

"I wasn't going to miss prom, so I had to find a new dress," said McCuin, who finally settled on a bright pink high-low dress with golden beading that cost about $200 at Terry Costa. She paired it with matching jewelry and sparkling platform heels.

"It was fun. It was bright, so I was just like, 'This is it,'" she said. "When I saw myself in it, I really liked it."

"She kept saying, 'Say yes to the dress, mom. Say yes to the dress,'" her mother said. "It was yes to the dress because she's beautiful in it."


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Mother Recalls Carjacking That Nearly Killed Her

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A North Texas mother who spent eight months in the hospital after she was attacked outside her children's school says she never saw the crime coming.

"I was sitting in my car, the window down, the radio playing," Nina Cherry recalled in an interview Tuesday -- exactly one year after she was carjacked and dragged across the parking lot at Pantego Christian Academy.

She was waiting for her son, Ryan, to finish football practice when a man suddenly approached.

"All I remember is him opening the door, and I looked at his face, and I knew. I screamed, 'No,' and tried to kick him," she said.

He dragged Cherry out and sped off, but she was caught in the door, she said.

"He dragged me for 30 to 40 yards and then it released," she said. "And when it released, I got run over."

Cherry hit her head. Her pelvis was crushed. Her skin was so scraped, she would need several skin grafts and still needs to sit on a special cushion and sleep on a special mattress.

She was in the hospital from May 7 to Jan. 16 -- eight months -- and underwent 19 surgeries.

"It's so strange, because I feel like I have a whole year taken out of my life," she said.

Benjamin Rowell, 33, was arrested after a police chase. He remains in jail on $207,500 bond. His next trial date is June 3.

Cherry said she is not bitter and does not judge him.

"I want to focus my energy on making my life better," she said.

Cherry said she is grateful for the support of family, friends and even strangers. Anonymous donors contributed money for her medical bills.

Her husband, Mike, and teenage twins have stood by her through the ordeal.

"Nobody deserves what has happened to her," Mike Cherry said. "Our goal is to get her off the walker."

Meanwhile, she has made huge progress.

She can now take steps with the help of a walker.

Her next challenge is to learn to walk again on her own and return to work as a pharmacist.

"I'm more appreciative of the things I have in my life," she said.

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Gas Customers Charged 10 Times Amount of Their Bills

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 07 Mei 2013 | 12.13

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39,000 Atmos Customers Wrongly Billed

Atmos Energy says most of its customers' accounts should be back to normal in the next 24 hours after a major billing mistake charged 39,000 people ten times the amount of their bill.

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Tens of thousands of Atmos Energy customers were charged 10 times the amount of their bill on Monday.

The billing glitch affected 39,000 customers signed up for automatic payments in seven states, including Texas.

Atmos withdrew $646.40 from Melissa Alexander's account instead of the actual amount of $64.64. The error led to an overdraft on her account.

"My bank says, 'We're getting calls from other Atmos customers with the same problem,' and there's nothing they can do, so that's where my frustration was," she said.

In a statement, Atmos Energy apologized for the error and said it would reimburse any overdraft fees caused by the error.

Atmos sent Alexander an email at about 5 p.m. that said it would reimburse her for the overcharged amount, as well as any overdraft fees, within 72 hours.

"I put my faith in them doing automatic billing," she said. "They entice you to do that because it's convenient and all that. This is not convenient."

Alexander said she does not plan to continue to pay with automatic withdrawals.

"No, I'll log on and pay my bill myself," she said.

Alan Driggers said $347.40 taken out of his account Sunday night, instead of 34.30, the amount of his actual bill.

"I've seen some other folks, their bill might have been $80 or $100, and they were charged $800 $1,000, so I guess, in the scheme of things, $347 is better than 1,000," he said.

Atmos Energy said the glitch was an isolated error caused by one of its vendors.

Most of its customers' accounts should be back to normal in the next 24 hours, the company said. As of 3 p.m., all but 668 of the overcharges had been reversed.

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Zavala Found Safe After Amber Alert

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Amber Alert Canceled for 14-Year-Old

14-year-old Ruby Zavala was found safe Monday afternoon and the man police say abducted her is in custody, 24 hours after the search for her began.

Mount Pleasant Teen At Center of Amber Alert

An Amber Alert is issued for 14-year-old Ruby Zavala. Police say she was taken a knife-point by 23-year-old Jesus Ramirez.

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A missing 14-year-old girl was found safe Monday in a field in Winfield, and the man accused of kidnapping her is in custody.

Ruby Zavala, 14, was taken to a hospital after she was found at about 3 p.m. She sustained minor injuries and dehydration, police said.

Police are questioning Jesus Ramirez, 23, the man suspected of abducting Zavala, her mother and her sister from a Mount Pleasant church at knifepoint on Sunday afternoon.

Zavala's family said they are happy she is safe.

"I was just relieved, just relieved," said her aunt, Jessica Palacios. "You've always heard 'hope for the best but expect the worst.' I'm really glad it was for the best and not the worst -- so very, very, very relieved and happy."

Investigators believe Ramirez used Zavala's mother's truck to take the three from St. Michael's Catholic Church in the 1400 block of East First Street at about 1 p.m.

Edgar Zavala said his mother and 3-year-old sister left church services Sunday afternoon and discovered Ramirez holding Ruby Zavala at knifepoint in the parking lot. The Zavalas said Ramirez threatened his mother and sisters and ordered them into the family's truck.

"She went to church. The dude was in the truck already with my sister with her throat and a knife," he said. "She was trying to scream. She said he said, 'Shut up, or I'll kill you. I'll stab you.'"

Edgar Zavala said Ramirez later let his mother and 3-year-old sister go after catching his mother on the phone with her husband, warning him to call police.

The truck Ramirez was believed to have been driving was found wrecked and abandoned in a wooded mining area early Monday morning.

Police got a call at about 1 p.m. about a sighting in the same field where the truck was found. Using cellphone technology, police were able to track down Ramirez and Zavala.

Investigators said Ramirez surrendered and admitted to throwing the knife somewhere in the woods. Police are searching for the knife.

During the search for Ruby Zavala, police said that they did not believe she was with Ramirez willingly.

Her family told NBC 5 that the two had dated but broke it off after Zavala's mother found out about the relationship. The breakup changed the relationship into a violent obsession, Edgar Zavala said.

"He got so mad. He didn't like it, so he was begging my sister, begging my sister," he said. "She got hit by him. It hurts me like it hurts my mom. I never thought it was going to happen right here."

Mount Pleasant Police Chief Wayne Isbell said Ramirez has a criminal record involving children.

"The suspect has already previously been charged with sexual assault of a child before," he said. "We have reason to believe he may be mentally unstable and suicidal."

Ramirez pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony, in 2007. He was given deferred adjudication and spent five years on probation.

He is expected to be charged with aggravated assault and three counts of kidnapping.

NBC 5's Ray Villeda and Kevin Cokely contributed to this report.

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Marchers Demand Reform

Written By Unknown on Senin, 06 Mei 2013 | 12.13

Ray Villeda, NBC 5 News

Thousands walk the streets of Downtown Dallas on Cinco de Mayo, demanding citizenship and rights for undocumented immigrants.

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One Dallas family with both legal and illegal immigrants marches to fight for the right to stay together.

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Immigration rally organizers hope for a repeat of massive turnout for the 2006 immigration march.

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About 5000 people marched for immigration reform in Downtown Dallas Sunday.

The procession started at 1:30 p.m. at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe and ended at Dallas City Hall, where a Cinco De Mayo celebration took place.

As they marched, they chanted: "El pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido!"  In English, that translates to "People united will never be defeated!"

The immigration march was organized by attorney and former State Representative Domingo Garcia.

Many of the younger marchers want The Dream Act passed. It essentially would have provided legal status to those between the ages of 16 and 31 if they graduated high school or college or were currently in school.

"I want for humans to be classified illegal to stop," said Cassandra Guerra of Dallas. "We are humans not illegal aliens. We should judge people by the things they do, their character not if they own a birth certificate or not."

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Amber Alert Issued For 14-Year-Old Girl

Ray Villeda, NBC 5 News

Police are looking for Ruby Zavala, 14, and Jesus Ramirez, 22, who police say is believed to be mentally ill and dangerous.

Amber Alert Issued For 14-Year-Old Girl

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Law enforcement across North Texas are looking for a 14-year-old girl and 22-year-old male suspect as part of a statewide Amber Alert.

Abducted Child

The missing girl is 14-year-old Ruby Zavala. She is 5 feet tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white top, blue jeans and tan shoes.

Suspect

The suspect is 22-years-old Jesus Ramirez. he is 5 foot, 9 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap.

Both were seen in the Mt. Pleasant area, about 100 miles east of Dallas around 2:00 p.m.

KETK, the NBC affiliate in Tyler reported Ramirez is said to be armed, dangerous and mentally ill. "He is known to have an obsession with the victim," police told KETK.

Mount Pleasant Police said this all started around Sunday at 1:00 p.m. A mother and her two children were kidnapped from Saint Micheal's Catholic Church at 1403 E. First St. in Mount Pleasant.

Police said the three were then driven to a county residence where the mother and one child were released. However, the suspect drove off with Zavala. 

At this time, police do not have a vehicle description. 

If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Ruby please call 903-575-4004.

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Orb Wins Kentucky Derby on "Perfect Trip"

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 05 Mei 2013 | 12.13

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Odds-on favorite Orb won the 139th Kentucky Derby on Saturday, lingering in the back of the pack for much of the race before dashing through the mud to take the lead down the final stretch.

The winning colt, ridden by Joel Rosario, entered the Derby as the morning-line favorite, fell in early betting and then returned at the last minute at 5-1. With the win, he becomes an automatic early favorite for the Preakness, and a potential contender for the Triple Crown, which culminates with the Belmont Stakes.

Orb finished the 1 1/4 mile race in 2:02.89, followed by Golden Soul, a long shot, and Revolutionary, Orb's top rival, who entered the race at 6-1.

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"Oh my God, this is awesome, you know. This is like a dream to me," Rosario said after claiming his first Derby victory. "He was so far behind, and I just let him be calm and let him be relaxed, and he was able to do it all. He was very relaxed, which was exactly what I wanted.

"It was the perfect trip."

Orb was the first morning-line favorite to win the Derby since Big Brown in 2008, and only the seventh since 1974.

The race began at a torrid pace despite sloppy conditions created by a daylong rain. Palace Malice led for most of the race but faded on the final turn. Normandy Invasion took a brief lead down the stretch, but Orb surged ahead as he made his move from the back of the pack.

Orb's trainer, Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III, won his first Derby in 34 years in the business.

"I'm thrilled to death for (the owners), thrilled to death for the people who put so much time into this horse, and, of course, I'm thrilled to death for me," he said, according to the Associated Press.

Orb is owned by Stuart Janney and Dinny Phipps.

The total purse for the Derby was more than $2 million, $1.4 million of it for Orb.

Saturday's steady rain in Louisville turned the Churchill Downs dirt track into a muddy glob, and the stands into a sea of colorful ponchos—and, of course, hats.

Revolutionary had been bettors' favorite for much of the day, but in the moments before the race a seven-figure surge of wagers pushed Orb to 5-1.

Verrazano, who'd been touted as a top contender for weeks, finished 14th. Another highly admired horse, Goldencents — whose jockey, Kevin Krigger, was trying to become the first black to win the Derby in over a century — came in 17th.

A second jockey running for history was Rosie Napravnik, who lost her chance to be the first woman to win the Derby. She ended up in 5th aboard Mylute. Even still, that finish was the best ever by a female jockey.

Josh Kleinbaum and Patrick Hickey Jr. contributed reporting.

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Wrong Way Crash Kills 2 In Denton

Mark Schnyder, NBC 5 News

Two die in North Texas crash caused by wrong-way driver.

Wrong Way Crash Kills 2 In Denton

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Wrong-Way Driver Causes Deadly Crash in Denton

Two die in North Texas crash caused by wrong-way driver.

I-30 Reopened After Wrong-Way Crash Kills Two

A fatal wrong-way crash killed two people and closed down Interstate 30 at Beach Street early Monday morning.

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A wrong-way driver caused a deadly head-on collision on I-35W in Denton early Saturday morning.  Two people were killed.  Two others were injured.

It happened along I-35W between Crawford Road and FM-2449 near mile marker 81.  The northbound lanes of I-35W were shut down for about four hours.

The person driving the Toyota Highlander could not avoid the Honda Accord coming straight on.  Police say both drivers died on impact.

The Denton Police Department identified the driver of the Honda Accord as 25-year-old Juan E. De La Cruz, Jr. of Illinois. The driver of the Toyota Highlander was Amy Lynne Morrow, 55, Rhome in Wise County.

"Around 6:20 this morning the Denton Police dispatch started receiving several 9-1-1 telephone calls about a driver going southbound in the northbound lanes of traffic on I-35 W," explained Officer Orlando Hinojosa.   "Soon after that, they started receiving telephone calls of a crash, a major crash, involving four vehicles."

An Inifiniti G 35S and Ford Mustang also wrecked trying to avoid the cars in the head-on crash.  Two people were treated and released at a local hospital for minor injuries. The driver of the Infiniti G 35S is Wanda Sue Carter, 41, of Arlington.  The driver of the Ford Mustang is Najwa Francisca Lucre, 33, of Ada, Oklahoma.

A crash reconstruction team spent four hours taking photos, measurements and gathering evidence. Police kept northbound I-35 West between Crawford Road  and FM 2449 closed until around 10:30 this morning.

Officer Hinojosa said it's too early to know if alcohol was a factor in the driver going the wrong way on I-35 W.

The names of the victims have not yet been released to the public.
 

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