Perry addresses supporters at a rally in Perry, Iowa
Republican presidential hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to supporters at a campaign rally on January 2, 2012 in Perry, Iowa. Iowa holds their first-in-the-nation caucus for the 2012 election on Tuesday. UPI/Brian Kersey
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West, Texas, site of a fertilizer plant explosion in April that killed 15 people, will not receive Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, the agency said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry ceremonially signed landmark legislation designed to ensure the state has adequate water supplies for the next 50 years.
Texas legislators restored cuts made two years ago in education and healthcare and sent a $197 billion, two-year budget to the governor, they said.
The National Weather Service Tuesday upgraded the tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., to an EF-5 as Gov. Mary Fallin pledged, "We will get through this."
U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday told a crowd of 400 at a Texas high school not to listen to all the "doom and gloom" coming out of Washington.
There's a disconnect between state needs and U.S. regulations that inhibits offshore energy development, U.S. governors said.
The National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston is designed to be a conference about issues and not a victory celebration, its spokesman said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced he and his wife, Anita, will soon become grandparents.
The Czech foreign minister said while on a trip to Brussels his country will donate $200,000 to West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant explosion killed 15.
Residents of a town in central Texas were allowed to return to their homes after being evacuated due to an explosion at a fertilizer plant, officials said.
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