Leaders of Greece's third largest political party, the extreme right Golden Dawn, go on trial Monday on charges of operating as a criminal organization that allegedly carried out a campaign of violence against immigrants and left-wing opponents.
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A pit bull attacked and killed a Dallas toddler Sunday afternoon, after the dog was left along with the child for a few minutes, according to the parents.
Police responded to the 6800 block of Beechnut Street, shortly before 5 pm on Sunday, to reports of an animal attack.
Police say the father told them he had stepped outside to turn off the sprinkler system and returned to find the dog attacking the child in his bouncing seat. The child’s mother was also bitten twice by the dog while trying to free the child from the dog.
Police say the father grabbed the dog by the neck, took it outside and shot it twice.
No word on the mother’s condition.
ARLINGTON (CBS 11 NEWS) – Pam and Mike Philley aren’t fancy folks. Not usually.
“It’s difficult with our four kids,” says Mike.
Mike is a Plano police officer.
Pam works for Plano 911.
Sunday, the hard-working high school sweethearts checked into the Ritz-Carlton, Dallas and caught a chauffeured ride to the ACM Awards.
They even got a $1,000 gift card to Cavender’s, spending it Friday on outfits for the big event.
“I was blown away. I couldn’t believe I’d won all that,” said Mike.
The grand prize winners in a CBS11/Cavender’s ticket give-away almost missed out on it all.
It was their youngest daughter, 15 year old Mary, who signed them up to win tickets for the show.
But, being a police family, well…
“Everything is suspicious,” said Mike.
That includes calls from CBS11, trying to let them know they’d won!
“She was leary about it because it was an unknown number,” said Pam.
It took several days and several calls before Mike called the “suspicious” number back, just in time to claim the prize.
“It’s just been a whirlwind ever since,” said Mike.
Even their daughters made it to the show, making it a family night to go down in history.
Luke Bryan won his first Entertainer of the Year award at the ACM Awards in 2013, and though George Strait took the honor last year, it was Bryan’s to take back two years later.
Bryan scored the Entertainer nod at Sunday night’s ACMs, held in Arlington, Texas on April 19. Bryan, who released his last full-length studio album Crash My Party in 2013, was also one of the co-hosts of the evening, along with Blake Shelton.
He had to beat Miranda Lambert, Florida Georgia Line, Garth Brooks and Jason Aldean for the award.
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Bryan won one other award in the evening: Vocal Event of the Year, doing so as part of his “This Is How We Roll” duet with Florida Georgia Line.
For the first of two big collaborations on the ACM Awards that connected pop and country, Christina Aguilera and Rascal Flatts traded off on
It began with Aguilera’s “Shotgun.” Unfamiliar? It’s a new one; it comes from Aguilera’s Nashville guest-starring role from earlier this month. Aguilera took the lead on the song, joined by Rascal Flatts in harmony before a white backdrop.
Related: The 2015 ACM Awards Live Blog
Afterward, Rascal Flatts took on new single “Riot,” a slow burner on which Aguilera assumed lead vocals on the second verse before she and lead vocalist Gary LeVox harmonized on the chorus.
For the finale, they were joined by a black-clad gospel choir.
Miranda Lambert is becoming quite the force to be reckoned with when it comes to the ACM Awards’ Song of the Year honor.
Sunday night (April 19), Lambert scored the win for Song of the Year with her song “Automatic,” the titular track from her 2014 album that’s also nominated for Album of the Year.
And in doing so, the country singer has now won the award three of the last five years, dating back to 2011.
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It dates back to 2011, when Lambert won for “The House That Built Me,” though the song was not written by Lambert, instead penned by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin.
