Granbury News

Right now, the number stands at $250 million. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, that is the amount of insured damage caused by the multiple tornadoes that moved across North Texas on the May 15.

With a deadly tornado bearing down on Rancho Brazos Estates near Granbury last week, Arlena Sherman’s options were limited.

Members of the Hillsboro Historic Preservation Commission held informational meetings last week at Historic City Hall on locally designated historic districts.

Thirty veterans of the armed forces taking part in the Brookshire's/Super 1 Foods World War II Heroes Flight departed Thursday morning for their trip.

A local emergency response team will spend Memorial Day weekend helping help those who lost everything in the Granbury tornado.

The home of brothers Trystan and Dylan Hulsey in the Granbury area is part of North Texas tornado damage that the Insurance Council of Texas roughly estimates at $250 million.

Public schools could designate an employee as a school marshal, empowered to use a handgun to deal with potential crises on campus, under a bill the Senate gave final approval to Wednesday - one of the few major gun bills to pass the Legislature this year.

Damage from tornadoes that struck Cleburne, Granbury and surrounding communities in North and Central Texas last week could cost $250 million in losses, according to an insurance industry group.

Gov. Rick Perry hasn't yet said whether he's running for re-election - but Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn't appear to be waiting for him to make up his mind.

Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said Friday.

Coyote Drive-In in Fort Worth brings alfresco movie viewing back to the Metroplex.

Preliminary reports from the National Weather Service say tornado was that hit Grandbury was an EF-4, meaning winds were between 166 mph to 200 mph.

Federal funding of $1.395 is approved to help subsidize storm shelters for some residents in Dallas, Denton, Collin and Tarrant counties.

Lauren Lanmon llanmon@cbs7.com May 22, 2013 Odessa - The tornado that ripped through Granbury a week ago today, hits home for a couple here in Odessa who lost two family members during the tornado and has a sister-in-law still in the hospital in critical condition.

A day earlier, a deadly EF5 tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.

Residents in both Granbury and in Moore, Oklahoma received advance warning of the storms from the tornado sirens in their cities, but here in Lubbock, it is still unclear whether or not we will get sirens in place.

Our local Red Cross is on standby to be deployed Oklahoma if needed. Many of the North Texas Region volunteers are in Granbury and Cleburn helping with the cleanup from those tornadoes.

BY BETTY WARERS blw@tylerpaper.com PALESTINE - On a tract in the old Palestine City Cemetery, nine Confederate soldiers are buried in a row and two more are nearby.

Scores of people sifted through debris, examined damaged buildings and searched for scattered belongings Monday in the Rancho Brazos neighborhood in Granbury.

The 16 tornadoes that dropped down on North Texas last week, ripping homes off their foundations and killing six people, was a prelude.