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An administrator at The Oakridge School in Arlington who called high-profile attorney Michael Avenatti “a f------ douche bag” is suspended indefinitely, according to the private campus’ head administrator. Butch Groves, … Click to Continue »

The attorney for a man accused of running a large-scale human trafficking ring has asked a Dallas County judge to lower the man’s $500,000 bond. Omar Nawaz, who is representing … Click to Continue »

A woman filed a lawsuit this week saying she was body-slammed and arrested by a security guard and Fort Worth police in March while volunteering at a T.D. Jakes Ministries … Click to Continue »

Manila, Philippines — A dog that acts as a seeing-eye dog for a blind dog is taking social media by storm, according to WJW. According to their Facebook page, Ginger and Kimchi have been “ambassaDOGS” for three years now. Ginger, an 11-year-old Golden Retriever, reportedly serves as a seeing-eye dog for blind rescue Kimchi, who is a Spaniel-type breed and believed to be between nine and twelve years old. A Facebook post says that the dogs’ owners, a husband and […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Four little girls recently reunited for one very special photo shoot in Florida. McKinley, Chloe, Ava and Lauren, all between the ages of 4 and 5, beat cancer together at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, WTVT reports. Ava, Lauren, and McKinley had acute lymphoblastic leukemia, while Chloe had a rare form of lung cancer. Two years ago, the girls took a photo together during active treatment, and it was a much different photo. ”It’s amazing to […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied an allegation Sunday made by a second woman accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for an immediate postponement of Kavanaugh’s confirmation proceedings in a letter to the committee’s chairman, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, and asked that the new allegation be referred to the FBI for investigation. Grassley’s spokesman, George Hartmann, told CNN that the chairman […]

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Amber Guyger, the Dallas police officer accused of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of her neighbor Botham Jean earlier this month, has been fired by the Dallas Police Department.The department announced on Twitter that Guyger was "terminated for her actions" by Chief U. Renee Hall during a hearing Monday morning. Why Hasn't Amber Guyger Been Terminated? "An Internal Affairs investigation concluded that on September 9, 2018, Officer Guyger engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for Manslaughter," the department said."As a police chief, my job is to ensure the integrity of the highest level," said Hall. "That is what I did, and I waited until the critical portion of this investigation was complete." New Search Warrants in Amber Guyger, Botham Jean Case Hall said that happened over the weekend. Guyger had a hearing at police headquarters Monday morning, which was followed by her firing.Guyger, 30, told investigators she returned home at the end of her shift Sept. 6 and found the door ajar to what she believed to be her apartment. Demonstrators March With Casket to Protest Jean Shooting In an arrest warrant affidavit, investigators have said Guyger described seeing a "large silhouette" in the apartment and that she gave "verbal commands that were ignored" prior to firing the shots that killed the 26-year-old Jean, her upstairs neighbor. Guyger told investigators she mistakenly believed the apartment was her own and that Jean was a burglar.Jean's family and their attorneys dispute those accounts and said information they gathered from witnesses will contradict Guyger's statements."We're not sure why it took so long, but we're glad the chief of police made the decision to fire this officer," said Jean family attorney Daryl Washington. On Monday night, Guyger's attorney released a statement saying "What happened on September 6th was a tragic mistake and words can never express our sorrow for the pain being suffered by those who knew and loved Botham Jean.  Amber Guyger is completely devastated by what happened. Unfortunately, today Chief Hall bowed to pressure from anti-police groups and took action before all of the facts had been gathered and due process was afforded.  That’s not the way our system of justice should work.  It is important for all parties and the integrity of the justice system that a full and fair investigation be allowed to reach its conclusion before decisions such as this are made."When asked last week why Guyger hadn't been terminated, Hall said she wasn't able to terminate the officer. She elaborated Thursday with the following statement:"There is one overriding reason that I have not taken any administrative or employment action against Officer Amber Guyger. I don't want to interfere with the on-going criminal investigation into her actions. Here's why. As an employer, DPD can compel Officer Guyger to provide a statement during a DPD administrative investigation and those statements given to DPD could potentially compromise the criminal investigation. That is not a risk I am willing to take. We cannot let the criminal case be determined on a 'technicality' rather than the facts. An exhaustive and thorough criminal investigation is essential, and as soon as we are assured that conducting an administrative investigation will not impede on the criminal investigation, we will proceed."Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said in a statement Monday that firing Guyger was the right move."I have heard the calls for this action from many, including the Jean family, and I agree that this is right decision in the interest of justice for Botham Jean and the citizens of Dallas. The swift termination of any officer who engages in misconduct that leads to the loss of innocent life is essential if the Dallas Police Department is to gain and maintain the public trust. I know Chief Hall agrees with me on that and I appreciate her leadership. Once again, she’s made the right call," Rawlings said.Washington, one of the three attorneys representing Jean's family, commented on Guyger's firing Monday morning while at an unrelated "use of force" trial in Dallas County."The Dallas Police Department has now stepped in and made a decision which is contrary to the decision Chief Hall said was going to be made just a few days ago," Washington said. "Obviously there has been enough information presented to the Dallas Police Department that would justify termination, so we're hoping that now that this has happened, it's our belief that perhaps the district attorney's office should have enough information to move forward with an indictment."Attorney Lee Merritt said the chief called the attorneys and Jean's parents last night and explained she intended to fire Guyger."She had to answer some tough questions from the family, specifically about why it took so long and she tried to explain the employment process could, in fact, impact the criminal investigation. In other words, if she's faced to give a statement in protection of her job, that can infringe on her Fifth Amendment right and can affect the criminal investigation. It's a complicated question," Merritt said.Merritt said the family sees Guyger's termination as a victory -- especially on Monday, the same day Jean is being buried in St. Lucia. A memorial was held for Jean Sept. 13 in Dallas before his remains were flown to his native St. Lucia."The nation of St. Lucia, has turned its attention to that burial service. This comes as a welcome relief, however there's still a long way to go," Merritt said.During a meeting with the Dallas City Council's Public Safety Committee Monday morning, Hall recommended suspending the department's 72-hour cooling off period following an officer-involved shooting. The current cooling-off period gives the officer three days before being compelled to make an official statement on the shooting.Hall's proposal said those statements should immediately follow an incident and that they should include mandatory drug testing. She also said she wanted to make sure there was communication with the community within five days of an incident and to expand citizen review power.Lastly, Hall said she wants to expand the department's fairness and bias training to include every officer and not just sergeants and new recruits.The Dallas Police Association offered no statement on Guyger's termination and said they will withhold comment until the ongoing investigation is complete.Guyger was arrested and faces a manslaughter charge, though Dallas County prosecutors have said they will conduct their own review to determine if a murder charge or other charges are more appropriate.Online -- Public Safety and Criminal Justice21st-Century Policing Best Practices for Dallas Police DepartmentImplicit Bias PresentationNBC 5's Noelle Walker, Maria Guerrero, Ken Kalthoff, Scott Friedman and Cody Lillich contributed to this report.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

A booming demand for luxury cars in China, and tactics used in the United States to accommodate those demands, have forced car dealers to, at times, investigate their own customers, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.Federal authorities have grappled with how to deal with the “grey market” export schemes, where high-dollar SUVs – primarily Mercedes Benz and Land Rover – are purchased in Texas and then taken to the West Coast to be shipped overseas. We Are All Accountable for Missing TRE Deadline: DART Chair At the Port of Los Angeles, agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency showed the expensive vehicles they had seized before they made it onto ships to China, where they could fetch far more than their U.S. sticker prices.“They double and triple their money easily, or quadruple it,” said Lou Koven, an investigator with the National Insurance Crime Bureau, an organization that works alongside U.S. Customs to prevent theft and fraud. New Safety Technology Delayed on North Texas Commuter Line The reason for the huge markup?Prestige … even more than what these types of vehicles convey in the car-loving United States. Kissing Bugs Attack Central Texas Woman: Report “This would be the pinnacle of a status symbol … all over the world,” said U.S. Customs chief Victor Todorov, pointing to a Mercedes SUV limo.Koven added: “You have a lot of millionaires, or even billionaires, over there, and they want something high-end, and they want something nice to drive.”Criminals, using stolen identities, will buy these vehicles from U.S. dealerships.“They will have someone go in and fraudulently obtain a loan and then the vehicle disappears” overseas, Todorov said.In other cases, organized groups or companies recruit straw buyers to purchase the vehicles – a process that can be done lawfully, if the vehicle is paid in full, with no loan attached, when it’s shipped.But if the straw buyer finances the vehicle, then it disappears to China without paying off the loan, then that amounts to theft from the bank or finance company.“If it leaves through this export warehouse, and gets on a ship and it goes, it’s gone,” Todorov said.Chris Lauritzen knows how straw purchases work from the inside, and it’s not a pleasant feeling.At his home in Spring, near Houston, Lauritzen told NBC 5 Investigates he was attracted by a job posting saying he could make money helping an export company purchase luxury cars.“Went through maybe 30 minutes of training on the Internet and I was off buying cars,” Lauritzen said.He said he did business with Texas dealerships, buying Mercedes and Range Rovers, initially with the company paying for them up front, and then sending a truck to his house to pick them up.Lauritzen was paid between $1,000 and $3,000 for each purchase – pretty good money, he said, especially since “it didn’t take long.”Later, the company told him he would make more money if he financed the vehicles in his own name, with the promise he would be reimbursed before each vehicle was shipped overseas.But with the last Mercedes he financed, he said the company, apparently unable to find an overseas buyer, stopped making the car payments.“And April comes along (and) no payment. So I’m starting to get worried. The bank is starting to call,” Lauritzen said.He finally located the vehicle, using a Mercedes tracking app, in the Los Angeles area, and is working with the bank and Homeland Security investigators to try and get it back.Lauritzen said he is hoping he can sell the pricey SUV for the amount he owes on it.If not, he’s stuck with a vehicle he said he can’t afford.“You know, it’s killed our credit,” Lauritzen said, adding, “Our credit scores before this were incredibly good.”For others who might be considering going into such a straw-buying business, he had a piece of advice: “Don’t do it.”Automakers are now trying to stop the practice by placing customers under greater scrutiny.NBC 5 Investigates has learned Mercedes Benz now tell its dealers to run more extensive background checks, especially on customers interested in buying certain models, such as the GLS class of SUVs.Those checks include looking to see if potential customers’ names show up on a “known exporter list,” and “to look for indications that the customer does not have the financial wherewithal to purchase a luxury vehicle for cash.”One red flag, Mercedes dealers are told, is if “the customer’s home value is equivalent to the purchase price of the vehicle.”In a statement, Mercedes told NBC 5 Investigates it is working hard to eliminate the exports, but “that said, no policy is perfect … so some vehicles do slip through. This is something we are working with our dealers to address.”Photo Credit: NBC 5 News

Major problems with busing students to and from school have resulted in the firings of six transportation managers at the Dallas Independent School District, and the re-assignment of another manager, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.Thousands of complaints have poured in as DISD begins its new role of running school buses, a big task inherited from Dallas County Schools, the bus agency that shut down amid widespread corruption that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. DISD Hiring More Bus Drivers After 'Hiccups' in First Week “I don’t want to make excuses. We have to deliver. But if it’s not working, you can’t just keep going that direction,” DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa said in an exclusive interview with NBC 5 Investigates.“So we have made some drastic changes in personnel and systems,” Hinojosa said. Crossing Guard Missing, Dallas Parents Worried About Their Kid's Safety He said the managers who were let go all worked previously for DCS, a mistake he said was due to the district just following the “playbook” of the now-closed bus agency.Problems were the most severe, the superintendent said, during the first couple of weeks of school, rooted mainly in the scheduling and routing of buses, responding to complaints, hiring the right personnel and adequately maintaining the fleet. Dallas ISD Responds to Bus Overcrowding, Delays Hinojosa advocated for the shutdown of DCS, and promised that school bus service would improve under DISD control.Now that that’s happened, he said, service is getting better, but much more needs to be done, with buses still running late, causing kids to miss classes.Among those fired were managers responsible for overseeing entire sections of the city.Hinojosa declined to identify the six people who were fired.Photo Credit: NBC 5 News

Record-setting rainfall drenched the Dallas-Fort Worth area throughout Friday night while flooding dozens of homes, and causing tough driving conditions where in a few places, water was as high as the cars on the road.        

He survives off social security and the money he gives to feed those kids comes out of his retirement. Don says it's worth every penny.        

A large wave overcame Nikki Lewis and slammed her headfirst into the sand, breaking her neck and partially paralyzing her.