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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.

Five stories that have North Texas talking: drop in Hispanic teen birth rate doesn’t completely apply to Texas, solar plane glides to a landing early this morning at DFW, the speech JFK never gave will live on in Dallas and more.

Update:  The Solar Impulse project says all of its scheduled open houses for Saturday at DFW are full.  If they add other open houses the information will appear on their website solarimpulse.com

Solar Impulse touched down at DFW International early this morning at 1:08 a.m.  

The Phoenix-Dallas flight of more than 800 miles is the longest yet for the aircraft which is on a coast-to-coast trip to raise awareness about the capabilities of renewable energy.