Southwest

Two local governments in Texas suspended construction contracts after an FBI raid.

May 10--Voters in the Andover school district on Tuesday approved two bond issues that will pump more than $188 million worth of projects into the district.

Stillwater, Okla., Public Schools is one step closer to a new Westwood Elementary school.

Webb County, Texas, commissioners on Monday approved a resolution to go on the November ballot for voters' approval: a $96 million bond to fund a new county jail.

Leading up to the May election deciding on a new jail for Wichita County, Kan., no one knew which way the winds of change were blowing. By Saturday night the future was clear -- Wichita County will have a new jail as residents voted in favor of a bond for the jail 58 percent to 42 percent.

Andover High School, Kan., which opened in 1984, is hardly an antique.

Voters approved a $24 million bond package for the Van Alstyne, Texas, Independent School District that will add a new elementary school to the city and upgrade the existing one.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas -- With about 64 percent of the vote in unofficial returns, Carroll school district voters approved a bond package which will raise $208 million without increasing the tax rate.

Oklahoma lawmakers remain divided about how to fill a $900 million shortfall.

The Kansas House on Tuesday approved legislation extending the Sales Tax Revenue bond financing program for five years in what Rep. J.R. Claeys described as an "overwhelming yes" voice vote.