By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – Authorities say another suspected pipe bomb has been reported in east Texas, four days after the discovery of a similar device that turned out to be fake.
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Tom Crowley says investigators are working to determine whether the device found Monday outside a Tyler business was an actual bomb.
Crowley says a reported pipe bomb found last week in Troup was fake.
There have been at least a dozen reports of incendiary devices found in east Texas in recent weeks. Most were bottles containing flammable liquid and a wick, and most were at postal facilities.
Tyler is about 90 miles east of Dallas.
Fort Worth Reaches Tentative Deal With Firefighters
Fort Worth and its firefighters have reached a tentative 4-year contact worth more than 10 million dollars in compensation enhancements over the contract's life.
The city calls the agreement fair, and the Firefighters Association says it's a good deal, considering the economy. The contract resulted from collective bargaining, which voters approved 3 years ago.
Firefighters must now vote on the tentative contract and if ratified, it'll go before the Fort Worth City Council for approval in April.
City Considers Singer's Naked Stroll At Dealey Plaza
The Dallas City Attorney's office is looking into a video made by singer Erykah Badu at Dealey Plaza two weeks ago.
Badu took off her clothes as she walked through the Plaza, was filled with families and tourists. She fell naked near the spot where President Kennedy was shot.
The video, shot "guerilla style" - no crew, one take - was released Saturday with her new song, "Window Seat.
On Twitter, the singer says it was a protest against "groupthink", which she defines as an unwritten rule that stifles true opinions.
At Dallas City Hall, officials say what she did was illegal - lacking the required commercial production permit, not to mention clothing. The City Attorney is looking into "possible" action.
Badu could not be reached for comment.
USAF officer to be buried 38 years after war death
The remains of a U.S. Air Force officer shot down during the Vietnam War were buried with full military honors in his native Texas.
Maj. Curtis Daniel Miller of Palacios, 90 miles southwest of Houston, was buried Monday afternoon at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery exactly 38 years after his AC-130 gunship was shot down over Laos.
A formation of C-130s similar to the AC-130 overflew the cemetery as part of the graveside ceremony.
Miller was part of a 14-man crew flying an armed reconnaissance mission.
Days of search and rescue efforts after the crash failed to locate Miller's remains.
In 1986, a join U.S-Laotian search team excavated the crash site and recovered human remains. The team returned in 2005-06 and found more remains, including those identified later as Miller's.