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Grayson Countys longest serving death row inmate has won another reprieve, though it might not be a long one. Lester Bower was scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the murder of four men near Sherman back in 1983.

For more than a century, the name Denison has been associated with the wine industry, thanks to the legacy of T.V. Munson. In the past several years, the city has taken steps to build a new legacy, expanding its focus to all parts of alcohol production.

Shouts of excitement and joy filled the gyms as special needs athletes competed in the first Special Olympics basketball tournament at Denison High School.

A collaboration of the Denison and Sherman Police Departments lead to a drug bust Wednesday in Denison.

Sherman Police responded to an unusually high number wrecks Thursday morning, many of which were caused by icy conditions on the roads.

BELLS Eight small words squeezed into the middle of the Bells City Council agenda caused much discussion Tuesday night at the Council meeting.

A runaway success in its first year last year, the Red River Mardi Gras and Jazz Festival will return to downtown Sherman this Saturday, boasting an expanded slate of performers, as well as a condensed venue for the action. In all, more than a dozen acts will play on the Courthouse Square from Saturday afternoon into the night.

SAN JOSE, Calif. It sounds like something from a science fiction plot: So-called three-dimensional printers are being used to fashion prosthetic arms and hands, jaw bones, spinal-cord implants and one day perhaps even living human body parts.

GUNTER The city of Gunter will have to do without an elected city leader for some time, as the Gunter city Council voted to have the mayor removed from his office.

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U. S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren does not have to announce anything.

All the Massachusetts Democrat freshman senator has to do is just stand there and wait for Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democrat Party nominee for president, to blow it.

And Hillary just might do that, just as she did in 2008, when Barack Obama came out of nowhere to humiliate her when he snatched the party nomination away. Back then, like now, Clinton was also the prohibitive favorite.

Warren, the darling of the progressives, has become a national figure "taking on" Wall street and the big banks, as well as for standing up to President Obama on issues dear to their hearts.

Apparently the days when Warren swooned over the president are over. That was back in 2011 when she was ushered into the Oval Office where Obama praised her for helping create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which she had proposed.

"He held both my hands in his and scrutinized my face," she later wrote.

"Then he flashed his ten-thousand kilowatt smile and maneuvered me over to the seating area," she said just before he would not appoint her to head the agency because she made the bankers "nervous." "After a perfunctory hug, I was back in the hallway."

While Warren has repeatedly insisted she is not a candidate for president, her remarks have fallen on deaf ears as far as the progressives of Moveon.org and other leftist Democrat Party groups are concerned.

MoveOn.org and Democracy for America, which launched a RunWarrenRun signature campaign, have opened a Warren campaign office in Des Moines, Iowa, and a campaign effort in New Hampshire. The organizations claim to have already gathered 200,000 signatures urging Warren to run.

She has also received unsolicited support from the Hollywood liberal elite, support that traditionally had gone to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Oscar nominated actor Mark Ruffalo recently co-hosted an Artist for Warren party in Manhattan at the home of Julie Pacino, actor Al Pacino's daughter.

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By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Dozens of New Democrat MPs, including Leader Tom Mulcair, have been ordered to reimburse taxpayers $2.75 million in salaries paid to aides who worked in satellite party offices.

The secretive, multi-party Board of Internal Economy, which polices House of Commons spending, has sent bills to 68 MPs, including several who no longer sit as New Democrats, ordering them to personally repay the money.

The board ruled last August that the MPs had inappropriately used their House of Commons budgets to pay for 28 employees in satellite party offices in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.

On average, sources say the MPs are being asked to pay back about $30,000.

But for some MPs the tab is more than $100,000; sources say the leader's office is being asked to reimburse about $400,000.

The NDP is challenging the board's ruling on the satellite offices in Federal Court, as well as an earlier ruling that found New Democrat MPs had wrongly used $1.17 million worth of free parliamentary mailing privileges to paper 26 ridings with almost 2 million partisan missives.

In the case of the mailings, the board ordered the MPs to repay $36,000 to the Commons and urged Canada Post to recover the rest.

It emerged Tuesday that lawyers for the board and the NDP have been discussing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement of both matters and jointly asked the court last November to suspend proceedings pending further negotiations.

Those negotiations are still in progress.

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OTTAWA Dozens of New Democrat MPs, including Leader Tom Mulcair, have been ordered to reimburse taxpayers $2.75 million in salaries paid to aides who worked in satellite party offices.

The secretive, multi-party Board of Internal Economy, which polices House of Commons spending, has sent bills to 68 MPs, including several who no longer sit as New Democrats, ordering them to personally repay the money.

The board ruled last August that the MPs had inappropriately used their House of Commons budgets to pay for 28 employees in satellite party offices in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.

On average, sources say the MPs are being asked to pay back about $30,000.

But for some MPs the tab is more than $100,000; sources say the leaders office is being asked to reimburse about $400,000.

The NDP is challenging the boards ruling on the satellite offices in Federal Court, as well as an earlier ruling that found New Democrat MPs had wrongly used $1.17 million worth of free parliamentary mailing privileges to paper 26 ridings with almost 2 million partisan missives.

In the case of the mailings, the board ordered the MPs to repay $36,000 to the Commons and urged Canada Post to recover the rest.

It emerged Tuesday that lawyers for the board and the NDP have been discussing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement of both matters and jointly asked the court last November to suspend proceedings pending further negotiations.

Those negotiations are still in progress.

The NDP maintains its MPs have done nothing wrong and that both decisions are the result of a partisan gang-up by Conservatives and Liberals on the board.

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