EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Federal officials are reimbursing organizations that fed, sheltered and transported migrants this year during a spike in crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border. Members of the House announced Friday the first of $30 million in awards to charities and municipal governments. Charities and local governments scrambled to help migrants released into the streets by Border Patrol agents, often in isolated rural towns.

HOUSTON (AP) - A young woman who was the lone survivor of a 2014 shooting in Texas that claimed the lives of her parents and four siblings told the man sentenced to death for the killings she plans to move forward and forget about him. Cassidy Stay gave a victim impact statement after jurors on Friday sentenced Ronald Lee Haskell to death for killings her parents. Stay said she's no longer preoccupied with whether Haskell will ever feel remorse for what he did and she'll live her life with "happiness."

WASHINGTON (AP) - A business executive Energy Secretary Rick Perry recommended as an adviser to Ukraine's government exaggerated his military credentials, according to veterans who examined his record. Robert Joseph Bensh claimed to have been a member of the U.S. military's most elite units: Army Rangers, Special Forces and Delta Force, the hyper-secret counter-terrorism unit. But a summary of his military career shows he spent less than five years in uniform, almost all of it with the Army National Guard.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former Republican Rep. Pete Sessions' road back to Congress was already off to a rough start even before a federal indictment appearing to link him to a campaign finance scheme and the Ukraine scandal at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. Last week, Sessions announced an attempted comeback by running for a Texas seat being vacated by GOP Rep. Bill Flores. But his path got further complicated Thursday when two men with apparent ties to Sessions and linked to the Ukraine scandal were charged.

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