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  Windstorm Reform Bill Falls One Vote Short in Texas Senate

  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)

  
  

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  Searching for Survivors of North Texas Tornadoes

  

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  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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  Randy Travis Sues To Block DWI Patrol Car Video Release

  

  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)

  
  

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  Texas Tornado Devastation Includes Habitat for Humanity Homes

  

  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)

  
  

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  Crime Not Ruled Out in Deadly Texas Blast

  

  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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  Crime Not Ruled Out in Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion

  

  Posted 4:28 PM 5/16/2013

  WEST, Texas (AP) - Authorities say 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 at least 14 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town. The April 17 blast at West (More)

  
  

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  School Bus Carrying Special-Needs Kids Rolls Over

  

  Posted 4:08 PM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said. Indiana State Police spokesman Rich Myers said a truck was (More)

  
  

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  10 Tornadoes Whip Through North Texas; 6 Dead

  

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  Posted 3:20 PM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

  GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon. The National Weather (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  Texas Tornado Winds Believed to be up to 200 mph

  

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  Posted 11:33 AM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

  GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - Forecasters say the tornado that claimed six lives and destroyed dozens of homes in North Texas is believed to have had winds up to 200 mph. The National Weather Service said the preliminary storm estimate for Wednesday night's tornado in Granbury was an EF-4 (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  At Least 6 Confirmed Dead in Texas Tornadoes

  

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  Posted 10:26 AM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

  GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - A rash of tornadoes slammed into several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens more injured and hundreds homeless. The violent spring storm scattered bodies, flattened homes and threw trailers onto cars. In (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  Inmate Indicted In Murder-For-Hire Plot Of Judge

  Posted 8:11 AM 5/16/2013

  FORT WORTH - A prison inmate has been indicted on a charge that he tried to hire someone to kill a North Texas federal judge.Authorities say a federal grand jury in Fort Worth indicted Phillip Monroe Ballard on Wednesday.Ballard was in federal custody in Fort Worth last (More)

  
  

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  Texas Executes Man For Fatal Shooting Of Officer

  

  Posted 8:09 AM 5/16/2013

  HUNTSVILLE - A Houston man condemned for the slaying of a police officer shot while trying to handcuff him during a car theft arrest 14 years ago was put to death Wednesday evening.Jeffrey Demond Williams, 37, received lethal injection just over an hour after his last-day appeal to (More)