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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Del Monte Foods Inc. is recalling 62,242 cases of Fiesta Corn Season with Red & Green Peppers as a precautionary measure after the food wasnt processed correctly which could lead to deadly contamination. The recall effects 25 states and 12 international locations. Del Monte says in a news release, These deviations were part of the commercial sterilization process and could result in contamination by spoilage organisms or pathogens, which could lead to life-threatening illness if

For the first time, a resident of Sesame Street is experiencing homelessness and the hope is that her story can help sweep the clouds away for the growing number of young children in the United States without homes to call their own. Lily, a 7-year-old bright pink Muppet, was introduced to the world in 2011. She was originally described as being food-insecure because her family lacked consistent access to food. Now, Lily is the first Muppet weve created whose

AKRON, Ohio Police in Akron, Ohio say thieves signed up as volunteers for Toys for Tots, but ended up stealing thousands of gifts meant for kids, according to WJW. Right now, we have over 15,000 children in Summit County and the surrounding areas. It means a lot, for some of the kids, this is all they have, said Traci Higgenbottom-Williams, director. Williams has run the program in Akron for 20 years but what happened late Monday night is a

Apple plans to build a 133-acre campus in Austin, Texas, that will cost $1 billion and employ 5,000 new workers, the company announced Thursday. The company says the move is expected to make it the largest private employer in Austin. Apple already employs more people in Austin, some 6,200 workers, than it does in any other city outside of its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. The company now plans to add substantially to that figure. Its current main site in Austin is an office park roughly 12 miles north of downtown. The new campus will also be in North Austin, less than a mile from the current facilities. And it will have room to grow to 15,000 workers, the company says. Apple is proud to bring new investment, jobs and opportunity to cities across the United States and to significantly deepen our quarter-century partnership with the city and people of Austin, CEO Tim Cook, said in a news release about the plan. The expansion comes six years after Apple signed a 10-year economic

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Im here to raise a warning flag with American students and American taxpayers, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said at a conference about federal student aid in Atlanta in November. We have a crisis in higher education. The cost of college has risen dramatically in recent decades, she told her audience. It has something to do with what one of my predecessors famously pointed out decades ago. When the federal government loans more taxpayer money, schools raise their rates. That predecessor, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, spelled out his idea in 1987. If anything, increases in financial aid in recent years have enabled colleges and universities blithely to raise their tuitions, confident that Federal loan subsidies would help cushion the increase, he wrote in The New York Times . It became the Bennett Hypothesis, and researchers have studied it extensively in recent years. Results and opinions are mixed but theres isnt definitive evidence that federal aid is

The former baseball player tweeted a the President Wednesday night hoping to be considered for the chief of staff position.

A Winter Weather Advisory will go into effect for the western counties of North Texas Thursday afternoon, and those in the DFW Metroplex will be dealing with very strong winds and the possibility of a rain/snow mix.

Apple will build a $1 billion campus in North Austin and establish smaller new locations in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California.

The former baseball player tweeted a the President Wednesday night hoping to be considered for the chief of staff position.

A Winter Weather Advisory will go into effect for the western counties of North Texas Thursday afternoon, and those in the DFW Metroplex will be dealing with very strong winds and the possibility of a rain/snow mix.

Apple will build a $1 billion campus in North Austin and establish smaller new locations in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California.

A new partnership means better meals for students in Garland ISD. Caren Rodriguez tells us every week families at two GISD campuses receive free bags of fresh produce. Brighter Bites was recently...Photo Credit: NBC 5

A police officer and a sheriffs deputy were hospitalized early Thursday after their patrol vehicles collided with each other during a high speed chase in Hunt County, authorities say.Photo Credit: Hunt County SO

Mesquite Police have released video showing Amber Guyger as she was booked into the city jail. The former Dallas police officer is now facing a murder charge in the shooting death of unarmed neighbor Botham...Photo Credit: Mesquite Police Department

Fue dejado a bordo cuando realmente deba ser transportado a un hospital.Photo Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK

Pero segn autoridades, no es la primera vez que la mujer presuntamente hace esto. Mira aqu la manera en la que se les acerca a sus vctimas.

Si t o tu familia busca tener seguro de salud para el 2019, solo quedan unos das para inscribirse.Photo Credit: Shutterstock

Today, Trez Capital announced the closing of financing to an affiliate of Centurion American to facilitate the development of a new residential community called Legends...

HUNTSVILLE, TX Joseph Garcia was executed Tuesday night after participating in the killing of a police officer during an armed robbery. Garcia was serving a...

COPPELL, TXThe Coppell Police Department and the Coppell Municipal Court are hosting a Christmas Giving Tree to collect non-perishable items for donation to Metrocrest Services....

The Boy Scouts of America are considering filing for bankruptcy in the wake of sexual abuse lawsuits and declining membership. The Wall Street Journal reported Boy Scout leaders have hired Click to Continue

Medical City Fort Worth is dramatically expanding its footprint in Fort Worths hospital district with the opening next week of a new, $65 million patient tower. Click to Continue

Ten years ago in a Tarrant County courtroom, James Jay Virtue Robinson was granted a second chance. After months of insisting he was innocent of sexual molestation allegations and casting Click to Continue

FORT WORTH, Texas AP A judge has revoked a former North Texas ministers probation and ordered him to serve 10 years in prison over a 2008 sexual assault conviction involving a teenage parishioner. James Virtue Robinson IV was re-sentenced Wednesday in Fort Worth. A judge determined the 42-year-old Robinson, who in 2008 was sentenced

Former Baylor fraternity member accused of violently raping a drunk woman gets a plea deal and will not have to do jail time or register as a sex offender. Chris Krok wants to know how this happened

WBAP/KLIF- The North Texas Tollway Authority NTTAis putting a brine solution on roadsandbridgesahead of possible wintry weather this week. Brine is a salt water mix used to keep roads from icing over and prevents cars from slipping. We watch and wait for weather updates but by putting this icepreventative on the roads, we get a

A powerful storm system will sweep across North Texas bringing a range of weather conditions to the area.

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In 2015, the Texas Legislature expanded the marshal program to two-year colleges.