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Gubernatorial Candidate Bill White Releases Tax Returns & Midday Roundup

By KERA News & Wire Services

Dallas, TX – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White is releasing his tax returns for the years he served as Houston mayor.

Republican Gov. Rick Perry has been hounding White for weeks for not giving more detail about his income and business relationships. The returns released Tuesday show White made more than $1 million a year during his tenure as mayor of the state's largest city, from 2004-2008.

White reported $4.6 million in adjusted gross income in 2005, the highest earnings in the six-year period. His lowest income came in 2009, when White reported $660,000 in income.

Officials investigating deadly Texas gas explosion

Authorities are investigating a natural gas explosion in rural north Texas that killed one utility worker.

Officials are trying to find out how a utility crew hit a large natural gas line Monday afternoon, sending a massive fireball into he area.

Johnson County's emergency management coordinator, Jack Snow, says officials want to know if the gas line was marked before the blast. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is among numerous agencies at the scene.

The lone utility worker missing after the blast was found dead Monday night, once searchers could safely walk through the entire charred area. Authorities had hoped the missing man had left the scene on his own, like some of his colleagues who drove themselves to hospitals.

5 injured in gas explosion at restaurant

A natural gas explosion at a Gainesville restaurant has left one person in critical condition.

Parkland Memorial Hospital officials said Tuesday that four people also are in serious condition after the explosion a day earlier in the kitchen of a Mexican restaurant. Three women, a young girl and a toddler were flown to the hospital with burns.

Hospital officials would not say which victim remained in critical condition.

Fire officials told The Dallas Morning News that they have not determined the cause of the explosion, but most of the damage occurred inside the building.

FBI: Texas man called al-Qaida his 'brothers'

Court documents say a Texas man accused of trying to help al-Qaida referred to members of the terrorist group as his "brothers" and wanted to die fighting alongside them.

Barry Walter Bujol was set to be in court Tuesday for arraignment on charges he tried to help al-Qaida by trying to supply the terrorist organization with personnel, currency and other items.

He was arrested last week after a two-year investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

A recently unsealed application for a search warrant in the case describes Bujol as a person who used at least 14 e-mail addresses to hide his activities from authorities and advocated attacking U.S. facilities where military weapons were manufactured.

If convicted, Bujol faces up to 15 years in prison.