By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – Search teams have recovered the bodies of two men missing in Texas floodwaters, bringing the death toll caused by remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine to six.
Authorities on Friday found the bodies of a 28-year-old Louisiana man swept away in the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, and a 57-year-old father who drove into a swollen San Antonio creek despite his wife telling him not to risk it.
At least one woman who disappeared in heavy flooding still remains missing. Authorities in Austin were still searching for a woman who drove around a police barricade and into a fast-moving creek Tuesday night.
Hermine caused relatively few problems when it made landfall as a tropical storm Monday night, but its drenching remnants led to more than 100 high-water rescues.
Perry: First Amendment rules Sept. 11 disputes
Gov. Rick Perry says he doesn't condone a plan to build an Islamic center near ground zero in New York or a Florida pastor's threat to burn the Quran on Sept. 11 but supports their First Amendment right to do so.
Perry said Friday on the eve of the ninth anniversary of 9/11 that private property rights override the objections people have about building a mosque so close to the place where 2,752 died in terrorist attacks.
Florida pastor Terry Jones has backed off on his threat to mark the anniversary of the attacks by burning copies of the Quran but says he is reconsidering.
Perry was speaking at an Austin firehouse as he accepted the endorsement of the Texas Association of Fire Fighters.
Texas threatens for-profit college with closure
A state regulatory agency is moving to revoke the licenses of three Texas campuses of for-profit Westwood College.
The Texas Workforce Commission is citing reports of misleading admissions practices and other problems.
Commission spokeswoman Ann Hatchitt says Denver-based Westwood College can either make corrections, appeal or shut down.
Westwood College CEO George Burnett says the college disagrees with commission's steps but is working with the agency and confident its licenses will be renewed.
Homeless man questioned after search for Bush home
Police say the Secret Service questioned a homeless man who was knocking on doors near the Dallas home of George W. Bush in search of the former president.
Dallas police said Friday the man was picked up last Saturday several streets away from Bush's home in the upscale neighborhood of Preston Hollow.
Police spokesman Kevin Janse says police detained the man until a Secret Service agent determined he was not a threat. Police then gave him a ride to a Dallas homeless shelter.
Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley says the man never reached Bush's home. The street is protected by a security gate monitored by federal agents.
The Bushes moved into the home a month after the president left office in January 2009.