Texas briefs: School employees in Childress will have access to guns

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School employees will have access to guns

CHILDRESS -- Selected employees of the Childress school district will have access to firearms kept in secured locations, school trustees agreed this week.

The employees won't be allowed to regularly carry the guns. A security company will train employees during the summer and fall, but further plans are in preliminary stages, Superintendent Rick Teran said. -- The Associated Press

Federal agent charged with soliciting minor

AUSTIN -- A federal agent who worked at Austin's airport has been accused of using the Internet to try to arrange a sexual tryst with an underage girl.

Forrest William Johnson, 50, of Austin faces a charge of felony online solicitation of a minor, according to the Texas attorney general's office.

Johnson worked for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

Authorities say Johnson posted an explicit online advertisement and was contacted by an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old girl. He was arrested Wednesday when he arrived for the encounter.

He was released on $20,000 bail.

-- The Associated Press

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