NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

nbcdfw.com — Omar Villafranca, NBC 5 News There's a buzz in the gardening community about a new tool to help make your urban gardens explode with fruits and flowers. The tool? Bees. Beekeeping clubs in Dallas and Collin County are popping up to help newbies get started.

nbcdfw.com — Ben Folds, Darren Jessee, and Robert Sledge -- collectively, Ben Folds Five -- are reuniting for an all-new album and abridged tour of the U.S. and Europe. The group, which hasn't recorded an album together in 13 years, reunited in the studio to finish some tracks for Ben Folds' retrospective collection, which lead to collaboration beyond the three tracks that were featured on the "greatest hits" collection.

nbcdfw.com — A large grass fire is burning out of control in Denton County. The Denton County Sheriff's Department says the fire is believed to have started in wheat and grass fields near Riley Road and Tishler near Pilot Point The fast-moving fire has also crossed roadways.

nbcdfw.com — The Dallas City Manager's office started a review of apartment inspections after an NBC 5 investigation found city records that show hundreds of apartment buildings are past due for code compliance safety checks. "We have no excuse to not do the inspections," Councilman Dwaine Caraway said. "No. 1, it's a concern and, No.

nbcdfw.com — The Fort Worth animal shelter is so crowded officials say they may have to euthanize healthy adoptable animals for the first time in more than two years if people don't adopt some of them. Shelter officials tell the Fort Worth Star-Telegram 560 animals have been brought to the shelter over the past week.

nbcdfw.com — An NBC 5 investigation has discovered that hundreds of Dallas apartment buildings are overdue for safety inspections that are designed to protect people who live in and around the buildings. The city of Dallas Department of Code Compliance is supposed to check apartment buildings at least once every three years to keep neighborhoods from going downhill.

nbcdfw.com — Some Irving residents are about baby ducks that are being eaten by turtles in a canal system in Valley Ranch. People who frequent the canal said they have noticed the turtles outnumber and threaten other wildlife in the area. "There's thousands of turtles out here," said Juan Escobar, who regularly bikes the trail along the canal.

nbcdfw.com — Andres Gutierrez, NBC 5 News Seniors at Mesquite High School will have to wait to pick up their yearbooks because of two errors in the publication. Some of the special needs students in a section recognizing them were labeled "mentally retarded." The school also did not have parental permission to publish their photos.

nbcdfw.com — Nonprofit housing groups asking Dallas to help them reverse the decline in certain neighborhoods say the decline is a roadblock to redevelopment threatens the drag down the rest of the city. While most of North Texas boomed, Dallas saw only 0.8 percent population growth in the 2010 Census.

nbcdfw.com — An 11-year-old girl received an award Monday for calling for help after her mother became unconscious in their north Fort Worth home. One day in December, when An'Jolea Wachowiac was just 10, her mother, Sheresa, passed out with what seemed like a seizure. She called 911.

nbcdfw.com — Bloomberg via Getty Images Plano-based Frito-Lay wants a new stamp of approval from the Food and Drug Administration to move forward on their plans to brand many of their products as "gluten free."