Posted 11:11 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A classroom curriculum system used by hundreds of Texas school districts will stop offering lesson plans after some conservative groups claimed it was promoting anti-American values. State Sen. Dan Patrick said Monday that officials who created the system known as (More)
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Posted 11:02 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) - A firefighter's body was recovered Monday several hours after he called for help because he was trapped in a condominium complex blaze. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans did not immediately release the name of the man, whose body was pulled from the rubble after a (More)
Posted 8:08 AM 5/20/2013
HOUSTON - Houston police are looking for two or three unknown suspects after one person was killed and two others were wounded in a downtown gunfight.The Houston Chronicle reports a 27-year-old man told police he was returning home from a night club at about 6 a.m. on Sunday when he (More)
Posted 8:06 AM 5/20/2013
COLORADO CITY - Hailey Darlene Dunn was a cheerleader, saxophonist, on the softball and basketball teams, a doer and a leader. But it all ended mysteriously in December 2010 when the 13-year-old West Texas girl disappeared.Through prayers, songs, pictures and shared memories, Hailey's (More)
Posted 5:41 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police say a 1-year-old child left in a locked vehicle in an elementary school parking lot has died. Police say a witness who saw the child in the car at Frank Guzick Elementary School on Friday afternoon broke out a window, removed the child and started CPR. The (More)
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Posted 3:51 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The leader of Democrats in the Texas House says party members are happy with a budget deal that restores $3.93 billion to public education. Dallas Democrat Rep. Yvonne Davis confirmed that lawmakers reached a deal Friday that clears the way for a $2 billion water (More)
Posted 2:56 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - People who were missing in the wake of the destructive tornadoes in North Texas have been found safe, officials said Friday, but they didn't indicate when residents of one hard-hit neighborhood will be allowed to return to survey damage to their homes. The Hood (More)
Posted 11:39 AM 5/17/2013
CORPUS CHRISTI - Be prepared to fight rising premiums on your windstorm insurance after a State Senate bill hoping to control it fell one vote short.
The bill would have given the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association the ability to raise billions of dollars to pay claims in the event of a (More)
Posted 11:32 AM 5/17/2013
DALLAS (NBC News) - Hundreds of families across north Texas are working through the debris left after a string of deadly tornados ripped through the area.
Six people were killed and several are still missing after more than a dozen twisters touched down just outside of Fort Worth Wednesday (More) • Video (1)
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Posted 8:04 AM 5/17/2013
AUSTIN - Country star Randy Travis has sued two agencies to block the public release of patrol car video of his 2012 DWI arrest in North Texas.The Austin American-Statesman on Thursday reported the lawsuit filed in Austin names the Texas Department of Public Safety and the state (More)
Posted 7:56 AM 5/17/2013
GRANBURY - Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 16 tornadoes Wednesday night that killed six people and injured dozens.On Thursday, authorities (More)
Posted 6:03 PM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press
WEST, Texas (AP) - Investigators have completed their scene investigation but not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 15 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town, officials said Thursday. The April 17 blast at West (More)
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