By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – The Denton County Health Department says there's been no outbreak of tuberculosis at Denton High School.
Health officials have received the results of chest X-rays for Denton High School students and staff, and none show signs of active TB.
Officials tested some 270 at Denton High then ordered about a dozen to have xrays after they showed evidence of being exposed. Concern about a possible outbreak in Denton arose after learning a transfer student from Ellis County had contact with a teacher who became ill.
Dallas Museum of Art names new director
The Dallas Museum of Art has appointed Maxwell L. Anderson as its new director.
His appointment was announced Thursday. Anderson has been director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 2006 and has served more than 20 years as a museum director, serving previously as director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University.
He received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth and a master's and doctorate from Harvard.
Anderson will start his new post in January and succeeds Bonnie Pitman, who retired in June.
Sellout concert raises $725,000 for fire victims
A lineup of Texas legends brought a sellout crowd at this week's country music mega-concert, raising $725,000 for victims of the recent wildfires.
More than a dozen performers, including Willie Nelson, George Strait and the Dixie Chicks, helped sell out the Frank Erwin Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
A check was presented Thursday to the Austin Community Foundation to help with the long-term recovery of the Central Texas communities ravaged by fire.
A fire that started Sept. 4 in Bastrop County destroyed at least 1,500 homes and left two people dead. It was the most devastating of the numerous wildfires that have scorched some 6,000 square miles in Texas in nearly a year.
Flaco Jimenez, Asleep at the Wheel and Lyle Lovett also performed.
Retail gasoline prices jump by dime across Texas
Retail gasoline prices across Texas have jumped a dime this week.
AAA Texas on Thursday reported that the average price statewide reached $3.34 a gallon.
The association's weekly survey found that the nationwide average price at the pump rose 4 cents, to hit $3.47 a gallon.
AAA Texas says Corpus Christi has the state's least expensive gasoline, at an average $3.17 a gallon. Amarillo has the most expensive gasoline, at $3.40 per gallon.
The association says financial uncertainty overseas continues to impact commodities markets.
Mexican president: US dumping criminals at border
Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the United States is dumping criminals at the border because it is cheaper than prosecuting them, and he says that has helped fuel violence in Mexico.
Calderon also says some immigration laws in the U.S. are "absurd" and "irrational" because they hurt the American economy and help allow drug cartels to take over migrant trafficking.
Calderon told an immigration conference Thursday that net migration of Mexicans to the United States is approaching zero, as fewer people leave and more come back.
Leppert takes swipe at opponents in TV spot
Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert is taking a swipe at his opponents.
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate started airing a new ad Thursday.
Leppert tells voters that lawyers and career politicians can't be trusted to go to Washington and create jobs.
He faces Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz and Texas Railroad Commission chairwoman Elizabeth Ames Jones in the Republican primary race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Still more than six months until the March primary, the race to replace Hutchison is living up to expectations that it will be a high-dollar, lively affair.