By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX –
The deadline has arrived as state agencies are asked to recommend cuts as Texas faces a projected budget shortfall in 2011.
Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus in January asked all state agencies to offer proposals cutting 5 percent of their budgets. The deadline was Monday.
Authorities have said the projected state budget shortfall could range from $10 billion to as high as $16 billion next year. Texas corrections officials, looking for perhaps as much as $300 million in cutbacks in the 112-unit system, have not ruled out closing some prisons.
Some schools, including the University of Texas, could be facing possible tuition hikes.
Thousands still without electricity in Texas
Most of the record snowfall in north Texas has melted but thousands of people still lack electricity days after a winter storm struck. Oncor Electric Delivery early Monday reported about 15,000 homes and businesses without power. More than 200,000 Oncor customers lost electricity at the height of the storm.
The Dallas-based utility says all electricity was expected to be restored by late Monday.
The Dallas area was hit with 12.5 inches of snow in a 24-hour reporting period that ended Friday morning. Hundreds of flights were canceled at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport due to snowy conditions.
The National Weather Service says the forecast Monday for the Dallas area was sunny with highs in the mid 40s.
New clip shows JFK arriving in Dallas in 1963
New video footage has been released of President John F. Kennedy arriving in Dallas the day he was assassinated. The amateur video was shot by a Dallas man when he was 15, and he has since donated the 8mm color film to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The museum, which examines the life and death of Kennedy, released the video Monday.
Kennedy was shot to death Nov. 22, 1963, as his motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas. The three-minute video clip shows the plane landing and Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, making their way through a cheering crowd.
The man who shot the film, William Warren, was at the airport because all Dallas students were given the day off for Kennedy's visit.
1 charged, 2 slain in shooting outside Dallas bar
Dallas police say a man has been charged with capital murder over a shooting outside a nightclub that left two women dead.
Police say 20-year-old Stetron Lawrence of Dallas was jailed Monday with bail set at $1 million. Electronic records for the Lew Sterrett Justice Center did not list an attorney for Lawrence, who was arrested hours after the gunfire early Sunday.
Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse says multiple shots were fired in front of the club Ground Zero.
Police said 26-year-old Patricia Brown and 25-year-old Latoya Summerling were pronounced dead at a Dallas hospital. Two other people were wounded.
Police are investigating what prompted the gunfire. Details on what led police to Lawrence were not immediately released.