Pickup Smashes Through Courthouse

Mola Lenghi, NBC 5 Arlington Reporter

Police say someone drove a truck into the front of the Tarrant County sub-courthouse on Abrams Street in Arlington in an attempt to steal an ATM.

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Someone drove a pickup truck through the glass entrance of the Tarrant County sub-Courthouse in Arlington on Christmas Eve.

Authorities said the driver was targeting an ATM inside the building but left empty-handed.

"When you're that desperate for money, you'll try anything," Tarrant County Sheriff's Office spokesman Terry Grisham said.

"They got away with breaking a lot of glass and making a great big mess, but the ATM matching was well-anchored," Grisham said.

Arlington police, which are investigating along with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, later recovered the truck .

It is not clear how many people were involved in the attempted burglary.

"It was extremely brazen and, coming on the morning of Christmas Eve, they proved there are still grinches out there and they tried to spoil Christmas for somebody," Grisham said.

However, Grisham also said the crime was brazen but not original.

"That M.O. has been something we've seen before -- where someone drives a vehicle through a glass façade and attempts to steal an ATM machine -- and, in the past, it has been successful," he said.

Earlier this year, a vehicle drove through a sub-Courthouse on Grandbury Road in Fort Worth. In that incident, an ATM was stolen.

The sheriff's office is looking into the possible connection between the two incidents.

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 817-469-TIPS (8477) or Arlington police at 817-459-5600.

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Funeral Services Held for Irving Officer

Christine Lee, NBC 5 Irving Reporter

The City of Irving was in mourning Friday as Officer Corey Lee Cooksey was laid to rest. He was admitted to the hospital with low blood pressure on Friday and died on Sunday.

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Hundreds of loved ones and co-workers remembered an Irving police officer who died Sunday.

Funeral services for Officer Corey Lee Cooksey were held at Calvary Church on Friday.

Cooksey died Sunday at the Baylor Medical Center in Grapevine a few days after he was admitted with low blood pressure. His cause of death is unknown.

"I would say 90 percent of the people he wrote tickets to thanked him for the ticket, and it was just one of those things we laughed about," close friend Officer Charles Van Deren said. "It's like, I would get the exact opposite reaction, but with Corey it would be, 'Thank you for the three tickets you wrote me officer. I'll try to be careful in the future.'"

Cooksey joined the Irving Police Department in February 1999. He most recently served as a motor officer with the Special Operations Division.

He is survived by his wife and 9-year-old son.

His family requested that donations be made to the "Corey Cooksey Memorial Fund" at the Irving City Employees Federal Credit Union in lieu of flowers.

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Plano Teen Again Makes Forbes List

Catherine Ross, NBC 5 Collin County Reporter

For the second year in a row, Forbes Magazine has recognized Param Jaggi on its 30 Under 30 list.

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A 18-year-old college sophomore has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the energy field for the second year in a row.

"It made me realize that I'm doing something big, and that I can have a big impact with my research," Param Jaggi said.

The Vanderbilt University student and Plano East graduate has also been featured in Popular Science magazine and has won a national award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for an algae-filled contraption he invented that fits over a car's tailpipe and is designed to turn carbon dioxide emissions into oxygen.

Since then, Jaggi has founded his own company, EcoViate.

He's also started work on a thermovoltaic wind system, another renewable energy product. It is meant to turn energy waste into new energy.

The recognition is a major validation of years of hard work, he said.

"If you think about it, you only know a handful of inventors from history, but you can list off hundreds of celebrities and hundreds of athletes," he said. "It gives a reason to what I'm doing."

Jaggi's father, Pawam, said it's difficult to express how proud he and his wife are of their son.

Even as a child, his son was always captivated by taking things apart and learning how they worked, he said.

"I've seen him at four o'clock in the morning reading," Pawam Jaggi said. "I didn't do that when I was 18 years old. I'm excited about the potential he has to change the world."

But Param Jaggi is more modest, saying he hopes maybe to make a "marginal impact."

"It's something that I love doing, and I don't even realize that I'm doing it. ... You have to be crazy to change the world," he said.

Jaggi currently holds a patent for his algae-based invention.

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Where To Ring In 2013 in DFW

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If your plans for New Year's Eve involve the couch, noisemakers from the dollar store, and a bottle of sparkling apple cider, consider this handy list of where to get silly in the Metroplex.

From gigantic gatherings at Victory Park to fancy dinners at restaurants, you're bound to find something to do in Dallas-Fort Worth to ring in 2013.

Dates of all events are on December 31 unless otherwise noted.

Dallas | Fort Worth 

Dallas Events

Big D NYE
American Airlines Center
2500 Victory Avenue
Dallas, TX
Time: 7 p.m.
Price: Free
Quite possibly one of the most popular New Years Eve celebrations around the Southwest, Big D NYE is very much like our version of New Years Time Square.  The crowds will be large and the entertainment will be nothing less than stellar with food tents, fireworks, and multiple stages for live music from bands Forever the Sickest Kids, LEOGUN, Pentatonix, DJ Ro Parrish and Breaking Southwest. All the anticipation will build to a huge, Stream Energy Fireworks Spectacular at midnight. What's better is that the whole event is free to the public of all ages.
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Maxim Masquerade New Year's Eve Ball 2013 at Zouk
Club Zouk
703 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX 75202
214-295-4644
Time: 10 p.m. - 3 a.m.
Price: $40 - $6000
If "be more glamorous" is on your list of New Year's resolutions, then grab your mask  this is the party for you. Photographer will greet you on the red carpet, once inside the 25,000 square feet of celebration will feature two dance floors, four bars, 12 bartenders, Maxim models, a flipbook photo booth to capture your memories of the night. A champagne toast and balloon drop will mark the beginning of 2013.
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NYE at the Granada Theater
The Granada Theater
3524 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206
Time: 8 p.m.
Prices: $16-70
What are you doing for New Year's Eve? Spending it at the historic Granada Theater with Somebody's Darling, the Quaker City Night Hawks and of course Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights. VIPs will get a complimentary champagne toast and goodie bag, plus plush seats in the Granada's balcony. Snag your tickets below.
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Crossroads at House of Blues
House of Blues
2200 N. Lamar St.
Dallas, TX 75202
214-978–4800
Time: 8 p.m.
Prices: $53 per person | $97 per couple
If fireworks and large crowds aren't your thing, the House of Blues has you covered. Four-course dinner packages were still available as of Friday. Electric Circus will play live on the Voodoo Stage at 10:30 p.m. Beware, the Victory Park festivities for Big D NYE is right around the corner, so plan accordingly.
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Family New Year's Party
Sci-Tech Discovery Center
8004 N. Dallas Pkwy
Frisco, TX 75034
972-546-3050
Time: 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Price: $10 per person for members | $15 for non-members
Sci-Tech is hosting a Family New Year's Eve Celebration. Put on your party attire and ring in the new year at this family friendly event. There will be games, snacks and a show featuring Molecule Man. At 5:00 pm, the group will count down to a neutron ball drop and toast the new year with sparkling cider. Space is limited, so reserve you spot by emailing tamera.hurdle@scitechdiscovery.org.
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Lights All Night NYE Dance Festival
Fair Park
3809 Grand Avenue
Dallas, TX 75210
Price: $99-$190
Time: December 29 - December 31
A New Year's Eve party so massive, it can't be contained in one night. For three days, see Tiesto and Avicii (Saturday), Bassnectar and Calvin Harris (Sunday) and Axwell and Ghostland Obeservatory (Monday) -- and many others --- headline this multi-stage festival that features some of the biggest names in electronic music.
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Sambuca Uptown New Year's Eve Party
Sambuca Uptown
2120 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX 75201
214-744-0820
Time: 7 p.m or 9 p.m.
Price: $49 - $100
Dance your way into 2013 with music from Blue Finger Disco and enjoy a four-course menu inside or on one of the restaurants enclosed heated and covered patios.
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New Year's Eve Bash & Casino
Omni Downtown Dallas
555 S. Lamar St.
Dallas, TX
Time: 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Price: $99 - $3,000
Why not ring in 2013 while attending an event that benefits the American Heart Association? The star-studded event features a silent auction, live music performances, award-winning DJs, a dinner buffet by Chef Jason and a Las Vegas-style casino lounge.
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For other ideas in the Dallas area click here.
 

Fort Worth Events

Fort Worth NYE Bash 2013
The Bottom
3468 Blue Bonnet Circle
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Price: $55
What better way to spend New Year's Even than in Cowtown with Austin country-rock band Waterloo Revival which performs from 10 p.m. to midnight. There will be drinks and small bites through the night and a DJ will ring in 2013 with music from midnight until 2 a.m., and you can dig into some breakfast tacos at 1 a.m.
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Sundance NYE 2013 at Club 515
Club 515 (previously Aqua Lounge/Tru/Avalon)
515 Houston St.
Fort Worth, TX 77379
469-684-2393
Time: 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Price: $20 - $75
Labeled "the official Fort Worth NYE celebration" on its poster, the celebration at Club 515 featured a paparazzi red carpet entrance, four DJs playing hip hop, electro and Top 40 music. The party boasts $10,000 in door prizes, $10,000 in party favors, a midnight champagne toast and a $10,000 cash balloon drop.
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Billy Bob's Texas
2520 Rodeo Plaza
Fort Worth, TX 76164
817-624-7117
Time: 10 p.m.
Price: $20 - $30
The World's Largest Honky Tonk is ringing in the New Year with JB & The Moonshine Band taking the stage at 10 p.m. followed by the headliner Casey Donahew Band.
Website

New Year's Eve: A Night in Vienna
Bass Performance Hall
555 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-665-6000
In an elegant celebration of New Year's Eve the Fort Worth Symphony welcomes back John Giordano, the FWSO's music director from 1972 to 2000. He leads a night of Strauss waltzes and other Viennese classics as well as soprano arias featuring a Fort Worth favorite Ava Pine.
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Four Day Weekend's New Year's Eve Dinner Package Show
Four Day Weekend
312 Houston Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-226-4DAY
Time: Dinner at 8 p.m. and show at 10 p.m.
Cost: $100
Four Day Weekend, Fort Worth's longest running show, is hosting its 16th Annual New Year's Eve Dinner Package Show.  The package includes admission to the show, a cocktail-style dinner catered by Reata, a future ticket to a Four Day Weekend performance, a champagne toast, party favors and dancing to a DJ after the show.
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Several Sundance Square restaurants are celebrating New Year's Eve, click here for info

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No-Refusal Weekend Spurs Liquor Sales

Randy McIlwain, NBC 5 News

Liquor store managers say sales have been up as more and more North Texans opt to ring in 2013 at home.

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Liquor stores across North Texas may owe their local police departments a round of drinks or, at the very least, a thank you.

Alcohol sales normally skyrocket in the days before folks toast the New Year. But sales this year may spike even higher because so many police departments are conducting no-refusal weekends.

During no-refusal periods, special patrols are out on interstates and major streets. The task forces include judges that can immediately authorize the suspension of licenses and force blood testing on drivers who refuse sobriety testing.

Liquor store managers say fear of the patrols is part of what is driving sales.

Managers at Specs in Dallas said 50 percent of their customers are purchasing alcohol for parties they're planning to have at home. Many are professional people who want to toast in the New Year with a few drinks without the risk of an encounter with a no-refusal patrol, they said.

Liquor stores will not have any special hours but expect crowds through closing on Saturday. They also expect sales to pick up again Monday because of last-minute shoppers.

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Frisco ISD Closes Tax Building Over Conn. Shooting

Omar Villafranca, NBC 5 News

Parents going to pay their school tax in Frisco say they are confused about why the collection building is closed.

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The Frisco school district tax building is closed for the winter break -- but not for reasons most parents are used to hearing.

A note taped to the building tells parents: "Due to the recent events in Connecticut, the FISD administration is requiring us to keep this building locked during the winter break."

In a statement sent late Friday night, Frisco Independent School District spokesman Jamie Driskill said the district decided to keep the building locked during the winter break when the building was not fully occupied because of "security concerns heightened by recent events."

The note on the building tells parents they can drop their payment in a drop box and apologized for the inconvenience.

Driskill said payments are collected daily. Payments are noted as being paid that day, and receipts are then mailed, he said.

The building's note caught Sunil Malik by surprise. The parent was coming to pay his taxes and get a receipt. He said he didn't understand why the building, which is near a middle school but not connected to the classrooms, was closed.

"It says it's a security concern, but the shootings were related to the kids, and it's not a school," he said.

Rejesh Chauhan, another parent, drove up to the building to pay his taxes. He read the sign and thought the note perhaps was a show of compassion for the recent tragedy in Connecticut. But he said he wasn't too pleased about having to drop his check into a drop box.

"If they put this note, I wish they would send a little sweet letter at home telling the exact reason, right?" he said.

Driskill said the district agreed that the note on the building was confusing, saying that a better solution would be determined in the future and communicated better.

The office will be open during its regular hours next week Wednesday through Friday and until noon on Monday, he said.

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Classic Cars Torched at Forney Shop

Amanda Guerra, NBC 5 News

A vandal smashed the windows of several classic Mustangs at a Forney shop and then set them on fire on Christmas morning.

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Investigators are trying to find the person who torched several classic cars at a business in Forney on Christmas Day.

Gerald Gauthier, owner of the Mustang Shop, said a friend called on Christmas morning to tell him that several cars parked outside his lot were on fire.

"He said, 'Your business, it looks like a war zone,'" he said.

Gauthier arrived to find three classic Mustangs gutted and several more with smashed windows.

"The first thing he did is, he went to destroy glass on all the vehicles," he said.

The vandal was caught on surveillance cameras installed outside Gauthier's business.

In the video, the person can be seen walking up to the vehicles, smashing the windows and then lighting something on fire. Shortly afterward, several of the vehicles can be seen erupting into flames.

"They're gone; they're completely gone. The '69 is somewhat salvageable, but these two here, they're just plain gone," said Gauthier while pointing to two classic Mustangs that were scorched and gutted by flames.

Gauthier said it has taken years to build up his business. What happened will set him back thousands of dollars, he said.

"I think someone that does this wouldn't hesitate to do it again to someone else," he said.

Now he just wants the person caught before he strikes again.

"I think somebody doesn't have any Christmas spirit," he said. "I don't have any words for it. I couldn't really even explain it."

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Woman Stabbed to Death in Irving Food Pantry

Ellen Goldberg, NBC 5 News

Irving police have arrested the husband of a woman who was stabbed to death inside a food pantry in his wife's death.

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Irving police say a 47-year-old man stabbed his wife to death inside a nonprofit agency on Friday morning.

Roy Lee Gooden is charged with murder and is being held in the Irving city jail.

Police said he stabbed his wife, Sharon Gooden, 55, inside Irving Cares, a nonprofit on South Nursery Drive.

Investigators said the couple came to the food pantry together, but Roy Gooden got angry for unknown reasons and started stabbing his wife.

A security guard detained Gooden until police arrived.

His wife died at a local hospital.

According to court records, Gooden is a convicted felon whose previous crimes include aggravated assault, burglary and driving while intoxicated.

Police said they have not yet identified a motive for the slaying.

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Semi Flips, Catches Fire in Arlington

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A big-rig flipped over and caught fire in Arlington early Saturday morning near the Ballpark in Arlington.

The crash took place before 8 a.m. near the intersection of East Division Street and Stadium Drive, not far from both Cowboys Stadium and the ballpark, where the truck overturned.  The driver was able to escape the fire, but did require hospitalization.

The driver's condition is not known, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

There were no other vehicles involved and no other injuries reported.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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