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Texas has its first human case of West Nile Virus this season. 

DISD says  nearly 300 teachers received termination notices today after a school board vote last night.

Seven of the nine board members voted in favor of terminating the teachers and two DISD principles. Trustees Carla Ranger and Bernadette Nutall cast the dissenting votes.

The principles are being fired under a controversial  plan by Superintendent Mike Miles that requires them to meet new benchmarks.

Five stories that have North Texas talking: Tracing the events that led to the Boy Scouts' vote to allow gay scouts, bracing for Perry Power post-session, traveling Texas via Bob Dylan's lyrics, chewing on best practices with Texas Monthly barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn Saturday in Dallas and more.

Seven of the nine Dallas school board trustees voted to terminate the principals of Madison and Roosevelt high schools Thursday night.

The decision follows months of speculation and disagreement over Superintendent Mike Miles’s controversial plan to improve low-performing schools.

The  Boy Scouts of America, based in Irving, will  lift the organization's ban on openly gay members.

KERA reporter Lauren Silverman says 61 percent of the 1,400 national council members meeting behind closed doors in Grapevine have voted in favor of including  gay scouts.

Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders.

The outcome is unlikely to end a bitter debate over the Scouts' membership policy.

Three North Texas counties hit by tornadoes last week won’t get any federal help to clean up and rebuild.

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