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W P S R news. I'm Ian Fana here with the latest. The FBI will search former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home for more classified material. The Wall Street Journal reports, this search will occur in the coming days as the DOJ is in talks with Mike Pence's legal team. This comes after Pence's attorney recently disclosed several documents with classified markings that were found at his home and later turned over to authorities. Attorneys said the documents were inadvertently packed up and transported to the home. 350,000 Texans are without power due to the winter storm that has hit the lone star state. Many of the outages are concentrated in Travis County home to the capital city of Austin. That's where there are roughly 100 and 50,000 outages. The major storm has snarled travel and kept many at home this week. In Texas. The storm has hit big cities including Austin and Dallas. One Tennessee state representative is filing bills in response to the death of Tyree Nichols at the hands of Memphis police. One bill from Justin Jones would require that police be in marked cars when making non-emergency stops. The Memphis police officers involved in Nichols beating were in unmarked cars. Another bill would allow people to sue police officers in civil court. The Democrat says the proposed legislation is about accountability and making sure people have a right to go after those who abuse rights. House Speaker Kevin mccarthy and President Joe Biden. Both say they had a good meeting over the debt ceiling in a rare instance of bipartisanship. The two met yesterday for about an hour with mccarthy telling reporters they had a good talk this morning. Biden told the national prayer breakfast audience. He and mccarthy had a good meeting and will be treating each other with respect. Congress must act to raise the country's debt limit to avoid default. Mccarthy is rejecting Biden's clean bill that would only raise the debt ceiling without spending cuts attached. The California Republican said he won't pass an increase without reforms for local news. Former President Trump has made his pick in Indiana's US senate race. Trump yesterday endorsed Congressman Jim Banks as the replacement for Senator Mike Braun. Braun is leaving the Senate to run for governor next year. Banks said yesterday that he is grateful for the former president's endorsement. Evansville police have released the list of names of the officers who went inside the West Side Walmart in response to an active shooter on January 19th. They are Captain Brent Hoover, Sergeant Trudy Day sergeant Michael Conde Sergeant Crystal Thomas sergeant Jared la Detective Nicholas Henderson and Officer Michael Rose. Police say less than four minutes after the 1st 911 call, officers were inside the store searching for the shooter as police navigated through the store, several exchanges of gunfire took place. Police say that the suspect Ronald Moseley the second was shot and killed. Police say Moseley had shot a woman in the head. The victim's mother tells us she's 28 year old Amber. Cook Amber lost an eye and has a long road of recovery ahead of her officials with visit Owensboro say their annual barbecue festival is being rebranded starting this year as barbecue and barrels festival. Leaders say the event will now have a focus on not just barbecue but also bourbon. Officials say the barbecue Festival isn't ending, it's being reborn bigger and better with more options to attract more people. The event will continue on Saturday, May 13th with the addition of the barbecue five K backyard barbecue cook off and the bourbon tasting events inside the Owensboro Convention Center. Tickets will go on sale for the bourbon element of the event on March 1st VIP options will be available with the opportunity to try some special offerings from distilleries and food pairings, bourbon classes and a sit down dinner with Green River Distilling Company will also be offered for W P S R news. I'm Ian Tanna. Stay classy. Evansville