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The Lubbock City Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution backing a fountain to commemorate a man who died in prison before he was cleared by DNA testing of the crime that sent him there.

At least 2 people were killed in central Oklahoma in an outbreak of tornadoes, while other funnel clouds were reported near Dallas and Fort Worth.

A fire early Sunday at a home in northeast Fort Worth sent three children and their grandfather to the hospital -- two of the children with severe burns.A smoke detector was found in the house -- which is located in the 2600 block of Chenault Street -- but it was not in working order, said Lt. Kent Worley, Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman.A 3-year-old girl suffered third-degree burns, and a 1-year-old boy suffered second-degree burns, Worley said.