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August 18, 2015 – Today, attorneys for a gay couple that sued Hood County, Texas over a same-sex “marriage” license, have announced that they cut a deal in which the County agreed to give nearly $44,000 of taxpayer dollars to LGBT attorneys.

The Hood County Republican Party announced in a statement this weekend that it would boycott the City of Austin in response to the city's resolution to boycott Arizona.Austin City Council passed a measure last Thursday, boycotting city employee travel to Arizona in response to the state's new immigration law. The law requires law enforcement to determine the immigration status of anyone a law enforcement official suspects of being in the country illegally.Council members said the law condones racial profiling and said they want to make sure city employees aren't unfairly detained while on official business.Hood County Republican Chairman Randy Shelton...

The tinderbox that is North Texas erupted Tuesday into wind-blown grass fires that torched homes in Tarrant and Hood counties and blackened thousands of acres across the region. In Hood County, flames destroyed 20 to 30 homes, displacing 50 to 75 people, officials said. Five homes in Arlington and three in Kennedale were seriously damaged or destroyed, officials said. Near Gainesville, a woman died trying to protect a home from fire, authorities said. "I can't tell you how fast these fires have ignited," said Traci Weaver, a spokeswoman for the Texas Forest Service. "It's just crazy." Gov. Rick Perry issued...

According to one of the many colored stripes on many map posters, Hood County may have a heavy vehicle route of the Trans-Texas Corridor in the distant future. The stripes presently designating possible routes are so broad they cover half the county on the map. According to the posters in another “public hearing” held in Granbury Thursday night the preliminary environmental studies will be finished this year or early next year. After a study of the collected information, proposed routes from the Red River to the border with Mexico and Gulf of Mexico will be selected in 2006. More intense...