80-Year-Old Thrown to Ground in Violent Purse Snatching

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Police are asking for help in finding a brutal purse snatcher who was caught on camera in East Dallas just days before Christmas.

The female robber threw an 80-year-old woman to the ground at 11:35 a.m. outside a Wal-Mart along Interstate 30 in the 7400 block of Samuell Boulevard on Dec. 20.

Surveillance cameras recorded the entire attack. Photos released by Dallas police show the woman leaving the store just moments before.

Investigators described the attacker as a black woman who is about 30 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 130 pounds and was wearing a red hoodie, blue jeans, plaid shirt and white snow boots.

The 80-year-old victim, who lives nearby, refused medical treatment and told police the robber got away with a $10 purse, a Texas driver license, prescription medication, a credit card and $230 in cash.

The surveillance video shows the attacker leaving in an older model black Mercedes Benz.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Doug Jones at the Southeast Investigative Unit at 214-671-0119 or Crime Stoppers at 214-373-TIPS (8477).

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Man Buys $2 Million Lottery Ticket on Christmas Day

Tammy Mutasa, NBC 5 Rockwall Reporter

Thanks to selecting the Power Play option John Williams of Rockwall won $2 million when his Powerball Quick Pick matched all five numbers but not the Powerball. He bought the winning ticket at a Rockwall 7-Eleven.

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A Rockwall man got a holiday bonus after he bought a $2 million winning ticket.

John Williams bought a Powerball ticket at a Rockwall 7-Eleven as usual on Christmas Day. The day after, he found out that all five of his Quick Pick numbers matched.

"When I looked at his ticket, he got five numbers straight -- $2 million," said Mahabe Yallew, who sold the man the ticket. "We're so happy selling winning ticket."

Williams did not match the Powerball number, but his second-tier prize doubled to $2 million because he selected the Power Play option.

"He's so happy; he's very excited," Yallew said. "He's a nice guy. He comes every day to buy [a] ticket."

Williams told the Texas Lottery that he won't change his routine and plans to continue to try for the Powerball jackpot, which is currently estimated at $70 million.

"I'll still work," he said. "It's not really enough to retire on, but I'm going to take some fabulous vacations."

Yallew said he's never sold a ticket worth that much money in the five years that he has run the store in the 100 block of Kaufman Road.

But people are flocking to the 7-Eleven that sold the winning ticket in hopes of also changing their luck.

"This is definitely the lucky store," Abner Betancourt said. "I've won several hundred dollars in lottery tickets, so I'll always keep coming back."

What would people do with that much cash in their pocket?

"I'd buy a mansion and have parties there and a trampoline, or I'd buy 2 million Slurpees," Emily Ragsdale said.

"We're in college, so we're broke, so anything over $20 is really exciting," Savannah Estes and Katie Bower said.

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Three-Week Delay in AA's Merger Decision

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The board of directors of American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp., was set to vote on a consensual merger with US Airways this week but asked for a three-week delay, a person with knowledge of the high-level negotiations told NBC 5.

The board meets on Wednesday.

The delay to better evaluate US Airways' offer would move the decision to the last week of January, the person said.

"I think they're not going to be able to stop it at this point," said Vicki Bryan, an analyst with Gimme Credit. "Just because American Airlines management team wants to delay it, that doesn't mean they'll be able to delay it."

Bryan was among the first to predict American Airlines' bankruptcy in November 2011.

Pilots, flight attendants and some creditors are already on board with a merger. By some estimates, a merged airline would be worth $1 billion more to creditors than a standalone airline.

Overnight, the new airline would become the world's largest.

"Everyone will be happy to see this process end and the future beginning," Bryan said. "Cobbling together a $40 billion airline is not something you knock together in a garage. It's a tough process."

Bryan said US Airways management would likely win control of the new company. Under this scenario, American Airlines CEO Tom Horton and other top executives would be pushed aside.

US Airways has said it would keep the American brand and keep its headquarters in Fort Worth.

Among the hurdles to a merger -- how much US Airways should pay and how much creditors should get.

US Airways offered creditors 70 percent equity in a new airline with 30 percent going to US Airways shareholders, analysts say. Creditors want 80 percent.

Whatever the final numbers, the growing consensus is a merger will happen soon, setting the stage for yet another battle.

"They've got their work cut out for them because Delta and United are not going to wait around for American Airlines to sort itself out," Bryan said. "They are going to step into a world-class competition on a scale no one has ever seen."

American Airlines spokesman Bruce Hicks declined to comment on the board meeting or even confirm the meeting was taking place.

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Texas Lawmakers Head to Work

Omar Villafranca, NBC 5 News

Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature, but there are still some tussles expected as lawmakers battle over how to spend an expected $101.4 billion in state revenue.

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Texas lawmakers will go back to work Tuesday to start the 83rd session of the Legislature.

The gavel drops at noon, and work starts on the business of governing Texas.

Republicans still control both chambers, but there are still some tussles expected as lawmakers battle over how to spend an expected $101.4 billion in state revenue.

Some lawmakers are pushing for more funding for education, while some want to invest in the state's water needs.

While some of the bills might bore some people, other proposed laws will grab headlines. There's a bill that would require a license to become an exotic dancer. There's also an anti-groping bill aimed at airport security.

NBC 5 will show you the ins and outs of these bills and ask you if the bills should pass or fail.

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Flu Tests in Short Supply

Ben Russell, NBC 5 News

With flu season hitting hard and early this season, one health provider says its supplier is having a tough time keeping flu tests in stock.

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A major regional supplier of flu tests is having a difficult time keeping them in stock as flu season hits North Texas hard and early, a North Texas health provider says.

Ed Sims, the director of Doctors Express, said his supplier told him it went through 600 cases of flu tests in one day last week. That number is typically equal to what it would need to ship out in an entire month.

Doctors Express has had to turn to secondary suppliers to keep its stock in place.

The staff at Doctors Express in Southlake said the clinic has already treated at least double, if not triple, the number of flu patients than it did at this point last year.

"It's classified in the last article I read [as] a severe flu season," Dr. Daniel Melville said. "With their best prediction, it is not going to slow down and will remain probably [at] this same pace all the way through the end of the predicted flu season, which may be early April."

Pharmacies in Denton, Flower Mound, Dallas and Mesquite report that they are stocked with flu shots and have been busy in the past week.

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Creator of Carter Museum of American Art Dies

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The only daughter of longtime Fort Worth publisher and promoter Amon G. Carter and creator of a museum of American art dedicated in his name has died at age 89.

Ruth Carter Stevenson's death Sunday night at her Fort Worth was announced in a statement issued Monday by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The statement says she was instrumental in seeing her father's wish for a museum specializing in Western art to be created. The art collected by the longtime publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram formed the core of the museum's collection when it opened in January 1961.

She was the first woman to be appointed to the board of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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