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Weather service issues Friday tornado findings The National Weather Service in Norman, Okla. released its preliminary findings on tornadoes that touched down in Wilbarger County Friday. The Lockett community escaped serious damage twice as both confirmed twisters set down nearby. Neither tornado was particularly powerful. The first touched down at 6:15 p.m. west of Lockett and stayed on the ground for seven minutes as it traveled four miles. NWS estimates its track at about 300 yards wide. It's strength was rated at EF-2 on a scale of 1 to 5. This twister may have started in southeastern H...

Democrats worry Biden’s hesitation on health care will doom campaign pledges POLITICO 2 hrs ago By Alice Miranda Ollstein and Susannah Luthi © Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images President Joe Biden listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate in Washington, D.C. Democrats are intensifying their pressure on the White House to include major health care reforms in the next portion of the massive infrastructure package, warning that a refusal to do so will torpedo President Joe Biden’s best chance to follow through on big campaign promises to tackle drug costs and cover the...

Genesee County Jail IGNITE Program Celebrates New Grads Get our free mobile app Like Sheriff Chris Swanson has said, IGNITE has a major role in changing the lives of those inmates at the Genesee County Jail,  IGNITE was designed for, "Eliminating generational incarceration through education, by restoring value, hope, and purpose to our inmate population", and that's just what it has done for 3 men. Joe Flynn Walker, 33, Delante T. Darrough, 32, and Dallas Whiting-Popielski, 30 have now joined a group of fellow inmates, to graduate from the IGNITE program and will have a fresh start going fro...

PUC: Most Texans won't see hike in electric bills Texas' Public Utilities Commission said most Texans will not see a dramatic spike in their electric bills as a result of the recent winter storm. "Because most residential electricity customers are on fixed-price contracts with their power providers, they are not exposed to changes in their rates," the commission said in a statement released Sunday. Some Texans complained on social media and elsewhere they were being hit by exorbitant electric bills, but the PUC said those instances should be rare. "In areas with retail competition, customers ...

Successes and struggles: The stories of how the owners of eight Black-owned restaurants have fared during the pandemic and what they see ahead.