FRISCO — Straight out of the 2024 Big Green NFL Draft Scouting Notebook, here's who the Dallas Cowboys won't draft this year, but should. With the lack of activity in free agency, the Cowboys have at least nine vacancies on their depth chart. However, they only have seven draft picks, just three of which are in the top 173 selections.So, the hope is that the phone rings and the Cowboys can trade down to pick up additional picks. In this scenario, the Cowboys make a trade with Baltimore, dealing their top two picks (No. 24 and No. 56) to the Ravens...

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to people who purchased Amazon's Ring camera during a time when the devices were potentially being used to violate their privacy.Payments are coming to 117,044 consumers who had certain types of Ring devices, the result of a settlement of allegations Amazon let employees and contractors access people's videos, the FTC said in a statement earlier this week.Recipients will receive a PayPal payment of $150.00 or $47.70, the agency told CBS MoneyWatch. The refund amount depended on several factors, including the type of Ring device owned and when the consumer...

Southwest Airlines is suspending service at some airports across the U.S. as it slows its growth, in part because of Boeing aircraft delivery delays.The airline is set to receive just 20 of the 46 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes it was expecting in 2024, Southwest said Thursday.The delays mean slower growth for the airline, which is looking for ways to cut costs as it reported a quarterly loss of $231 million, or 39 cents per share. "Achieving our financial goals is an immediate imperative. The recent news from Boeing regarding further aircraft delivery delays presents significant challenges for both 2024 and...

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on rape charges has been overturned by the State of New York Court of Appeals, which ordered a new trial. In the 2020 trial, Weinstein, now 72, was found guilty of rape in the third degree for sexually assaulting an actress in 2013 and of committing a criminal sex act by forcing oral sex on a former production assistant in 2006. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison. The court found that the judge who presided over the disgraced movie mogul's case had made a mistake by allowing prosecutors to call witnesses whose accusations were not part...

FRISCO — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will enter Dallas draft headquarters at The Star in Frisco on Thursday with the pending mega-contracts due to Dak Prescott, Cee Dee Lamb and Micah Parsons looming large on his mind.Jones says not a moment goes by that he isn't pondering the possible $600 million cumulative payout to those three players he knows he will make in the not-too-distant future. In fact, this year alone, Prescott and Lamb are entering the final year of their current contracts which count a combined $73 million (29%) against the team's $255 million salary cap.Despite all of...

NORTH TEXAS — We're tracking more showers and storms, even for your weekend.As we move through your Thursday, expect mostly cloudy skies in North Texas. A few isolated showers and storms are possible, but most areas will remain dry for much of this day. It will be warm and breezy with high temperatures in the upper 70s and lower 80s.Then, late tonight, heads up. A few strong to severe storms are possible overnight into Friday.In fact, Friday is a Weather Alert. We're tracking a few strong to severe storms in parts of North Texas Friday morning into the afternoon. Storms that develop...

FORT WORTH — We've spent long hours filling up our Big Green NFL Draft Scouting Notebook searching for the perfect draft prospects that can propel the Dallas Cowboys to greener pastures. In particular this year, the emphasis has been on finding ready-made replacements for the many Dallas departures in free agency.And that has meant spending countless hours scouring through game film and college bios in search of the biggest, baddest, smartest and hardest-working offensive linemen in college football.Well, as it turns out, the Big Green Notebook found one of the best right in our own backyard - on the TCU campus...

Washington — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday appeared open to recognizing some level of immunity from federal prosecution for former presidents as they weighed a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of former President Donald Trump's 2020 election case in Washington, D.C. But the court expressed skepticism toward Trump's argument that he should be absolutely immune from charges related to conduct that occurred while he was in office. Across nearly three hours of arguments, several members of the court's six-member conservative bloc signaled that they believed a former president should be shielded from criminal charges for...

The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year's slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022. This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year.There were already signs in the year before...

GRANBURY — It's called the No School Bond Bus Tour.Opponents of a $161 million Granbury ISD bond package have staged their yellow school bus decorated with a campaign banner at intersections around town.Hood County Republican Party Chairman Steve Biggers leads the effort and is usually driving the rolling billboard. "It was going great," said Biggers. "We're making a difference."That was until Friday when Biggers was pulled over by a Hood County Sheriff's deputy and arrested. The temporary license plate on Bigger's school bus was seized and the 66-year-old was held in jail for six hours charged with a felony...

ARLINGTON — Students spent more time at Bowie High School and away from home than planned on Wednesday. About 10 minutes before school was out, Arlington Independent School District officials said there was a shooting on the grounds.The 18-year-old victim died and police arrested a suspect who faces a charge of murder.Meanwhile, safety protocol put the school on lockdown and delayed release. Parents had to go to the AISD athletic complex to pick up their children, but it was not a speedy process."This process is not easy. Ya'll need something else," one parent said.According to AISD, students and staff were transported...

FOREST HILL — A Forest Hill woman is now missing thousands of dollars after falling victim to a scammer who posed as her favorite singer, Frankie Beverly.  Linda Moore-Evans tells CBS News Texas the scam was so believable, that she is hoping no other North Texan falls victim."I get up in the morning and I listen to Frankie Beverly. I go back and take a nap and I put on Frankie Beverly. I get on Facebook, and I see Frankie Beverly," Evans tells CBS News. She says she is a Beverly "superfan," and knows every song and has posters of him all...

ARLINGTON — A North Texas Palestinian describes the moment he was stabbed following a pro-Palestine rally at the capitol in Austin on February 4. "I felt bubbles coming out of my rib. I asked a guy at a stop sign and I was like, 'Am I stabbed, am I stabbed?' And he was saying yeah, you're bleeding a lot, you're bleeding a lot," Zacharia Doar described.Doar is a 23-year-old Palestinian American from Arlington. He says the alleged attack was filled with racial slurs and describes being pulled from his truck before being stabbed. "[The] door swung open, he opened it,...

AUSTIN —  Rising tensions on school campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas reached university campuses here in Texas.Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class in support of Palestine. Many held up signs calling for a ceasefire or more help for Gaza. "Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses," Gov. Greg Abbott said via social media. "These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."  Protesters...

NORTH TEXAS — Thursday will be like Wednesday, cloudier, warm and windy. Isolated showers will be possible, but NorthTexas should remain capped.The forecast starts to ramp up heading closer to the weekend, and a Weather Alert is issued for Friday. There may be a need for an alert on Saturday and Sunday, as well.  The Storm Prediction Center has North Texas highlighted for the threat of severe weather on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Based on Wednesday, it looks like the timing on Friday would be more of a morning/daytime period with large hail and damaging winds being the main threats. Saturday's...

DALLAS — Nearly one in five Americans are subject to a noncompete clause at work, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).This means employees cannot leave their job to work for a competing employer. The FTC voted 2-3 on Tuesday to approve a ban against new and existing noncompete policies, which will take effect in 120 days. The rule makes all noncompete clauses unenforceable, except for those at a senior executive level.Dallas employment attorney Rogge Dunn said the ban is significant news for employees who lose their leverage when having to sign a noncompete clause."Employees are ecstatic about this because...

ARLINGTON — A student was killed in a shooting Wednesday afternoon on the campus of James Bowie High School in Arlington, Texas, according to the Arlington Independent School District. A suspect is in custody. Bowie High School was placed on lockdown at 2:50 p.m. because of an on-campus shooting outside of the school building. The Arlington Police Department responded immediately.   Responding officers found the victim, an 18-year-old student, on the ground, unresponsive and performed life-saving measures as they waited for paramedics to arrive. He was taken to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Arlington Police Chief Al Jones said the...

Hamas released a video Wednesday appearing to show one of its Israeli hostages delivering an address in captivity. In the video, a man identifies himself as Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin before delivering a long statement clearly crafted by Hamas, which has long been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel. The video may give the young man's family hope, however, as the message he conveys includes a reference to his 200 days in captivity — which suggests it was either filmed on or to mark April 24, exactly 200 days since Hamas launched its attack. CBS News cannot verify...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This past weekend, CBS News Texas' Doug Dunbar traveled with a group of North Texas veterans to the nation's capital to visit memorials some have never seen, to grieve friends lost in war and to hear something they never got to hear when they came home.Honor Flight DFW No. 54 was the first trip, filled with Vietnam veterams. What unfolded over 36 hours was the washing away of over five decades of grief and guilt, topped off with the welcome home they've longed for. "I grew up hearing all the stories with my dad, I joined the Navy, my...

El Paso, Texas — A Texas grand jury indicted more than 140 migrants on misdemeanor rioting charges Tuesday over an alleged mass attempt to breach the U.S.-Mexico border, a day after a judge threw out the cases.No injuries were reported during the alleged breach on April 12 in El Paso, which authorities say began when someone in the group cut through a razor wire barrier. Mass arrests also followed a separate episode in the Texas border city in March. On Monday, a county judge had thrown out the charges against those who were arrested this month, ruling there was insufficient...