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5/17/2013
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry will head to a North Texas city devastated by a tornado that left at least six people dead.
Perry on Friday afternoon plans to visit Granbury and survey the destruction. Wednesday night's tornado destroyed much of the Rancho Brazos Estates subdivision of Granbury, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds says the storm killed two women and four men. Several people remain unaccounted amid the recovery effort. County officials say nearly 100 homes in Granbury were damaged or destroyed.
Donations can be made through the Red Cross.
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5/17/2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - 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 lawsuit filed in Austin names the Texas Department of Public Safety and the state attorney general's office.
Travis in January pleaded guilty in Grayson County to driving while intoxicated. A judge sentenced Travis to two years of probation and ordered a 180-day suspended jail term. The judge granted a defense motion asking that the arrest video not be made public.
Media groups have requested the video from DPS. The AG's office ruled May 3 that the judge didn't have discretion to bar release of the video.
DPS and the AG's office didn't immediately respond to messages Friday.
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5/17/2013
CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) - School has been canceled for a second day at a North Texas community where a tornado damaged buildings and cut power.
The Cleburne Independent School District says all campuses remained closed Friday. Officials with the district about 25 miles south of Fort Worth cited electrical outages and road conditions from Wednesday night's tornado.
Dallas-based Oncor (ON'-kor) reported nearly 1,800 customers in North Texas still without power Friday - mainly in Cleburne.
The National Weather Service has rated the tornado that hit Cleburne as an EF-3. Winds were estimated at 135 mph to 165 mph. Officials have said no deaths or serious injuries were reported in the Cleburne.
Cleburne is 25 miles southeast of Granbury, where a tornado Wednesday night killed at least six people.
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5/17/2013
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A tea party group says the Internal Revenue Service asked about its involvement in efforts to verify signatures in the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
The Northeast Tarrant Tea Party of Fort Worth, Texas says IRS officials asked for extensive information about its activities, including an explanation of its involvement with Verify the Recall, which worked to confirm signatures in last year's effort to recall Walker, who eventually retained his position.
Tea Party president Julie McCarty says she thinks her group was unfairly targeted by the IRS. She says they're still waiting for a decision on its tax-exempt status.
The IRS is accused of improperly targeting conservative groups who were applying for tax-exempt status. The IRS in Texas did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
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5/17/2013
DALLAS (AP) - Prosecutors continue to press a North Texas jury to send a man to death row for drowning two of his sons in a creek.
The Dallas County jury is to hear more testimony in the penalty phase of Naim Rasool Muhammad's trial. The jury took less than 10 minutes Wednesday to find Muhammad guilty of capital murder for drowning his 5-year-old son Naim and 3-year-old son Elijah in August 2011.
Jurors must choose between death and life in prison without parole.
Defense attorney Paul Johnson urged jurors to spare Muhammad's life, saying his client drowned the children out of fear that they'd grow up to be just like him. Muhammad told police he drowned the children because he was mad at the children's mother for breaking up with him.
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5/17/2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - A review finds dozens of tea party groups and other conservative groups subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operate with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities.
The Associated Press reviewed public tax filings by 93 such activist groups.
Houston-based King Street Patriots has been waiting since 2010 for a decision on its tax-exempt status for itself and an allied group, True the Vote - a conservative group aimed at confronting vote fraud.
Catherine Engelbrecht of Richmond, who's with both groups, complained that she and her husband are not only wrangling with the IRS but have fielded inquiries from other federal agencies.
She's concerned that tea party groups were targeted by the government.
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5/17/2013
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - The former mayor of a tiny West Texas town has pleaded guilty to stealing about $100,000 from the town treasury.
Former Toyah Mayor Bartolo Sanchez entered his guilty plea in federal court in Midland on Thursday. He admits to filing fraudulent mileage reimbursement claims and personal expenditures to defraud the treasury of the town of about 100 residents.
He could be sentenced to three years in federal prison. He also has been ordered to pay restitution. No sentencing date has been set.
Toyah is 175 miles southeast of El Paso.
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5/15/2013
Lake Granbury Christian Temple Pastor Dean Porter was having a Bible study in the fellowship hall when the hail started coming down.
"It began to suck up debris, and I ran inside and got our people and children into a safer location," he said. "Apparently what happened was, the tornado formed over us and touched down on the other end of our property."
Pastor Porter said the funnel cloud demolished a horse stable and ruptured a pipeline before moving on. He said he is still concerned about parishioners who may have been in the path of the storm.
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5/16/2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The House is set to debate a plan to dramatically expand the number of charter schools allowed to operate in Texas - a sweeping proposal that's cleared the Senate but could face a tougher road in the lower chamber.
The proposal is sponsored by Senate Education Committee Chairman Dan Patrick. He spent months calling for eliminating entirely the current cap of 215 charters issued statewide.
But the bill approved in the Senate is far more measured, increasing the cap by 10 for the 2014-2015 school year. It would then keep rising gradually to 305 by 2019.
Traditionally, House Democrats have opposed charter expansion, as have Republicans from rural areas.
Still, Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, chairman of the House Public Education Committee, says expansion should get bipartisan support this time.
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5/16/2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The House has soundly defeated a proposed referendum that would have let voters decide whether to limit statewide elected officials to two consecutive terms.
The proposal easily cleared the Senate but failed on a 61 to 88 vote in the lower chamber Wednesday. It would not have applied to state representatives or senators.
Some suggested putting the issue to voters would send a message to Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history.
Perry took over in 2000, when then-Gov. George W. Bush left for the White House. He hasn't said if he will seek a fourth full term next year.
Supporters said it was not a referendum on Perry, and that polls showed term limits are overwhelmingly supported by Texans. But that wasn't enough to approve the measure.
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