Some Texas cities that held municipal elections last weekend aren’t quite finished. In Dallas and Fort Worth, where no mayoral candidates were able to pull past the 50-percent mark, will hold runoffs in June. Dallas will choose between businessman Mike Rawlings, the front-runner, and former police chief David Kunkle. On the same day in Fort Worth, Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector Betsy Price will face former councilman Jim Lane.

Feral hogs should watch for copters. A bill permitting hunters to shoot them from helicopters got final passage in the House and was sent to the governor’s desk. Under the pork-choppers' bill, licensed hunters will be allowed to contract with landowners and pilots to shoot the animals, which are increasingly encroaching on residential communities — and even some urban areas. The bill passed the House with only one dissenting vote.

Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by politically connected Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, scored a victory with the passage of a House bill that would authorize the company to set the rates it charges for radioactive waste imported into Texas for disposal. The company’s facility in Andrews County will begin accepting low-level radioactive waste later this year, and the legislation allows it to accept waste from states other than Texas and Vermont, whose rates are already set. Attempts to amend the bill were unsuccessful, and it eased through the House. The Senate has already passed its own version of the bill.

Conference committee members trying to craft a final budget are planning to recommend closing a state prison to save an estimated $50 million in the budget cycle. City leaders in Sugar Land have wanted the prison closed for years, and the lawmakers’ decision to close the Central Unit there frees up the real estate for business development. It would be a first for Texas, which has never closed a prison.

Three Texas death row inmates' appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing the way for their executions. The court didn't comment in rejecting the appeals of Guadalupe Esparza, Richard Vasquez and Steven Woods. Esparza and Vasquez’s appeals centered on their troubled upbringings and mental capacity; Woods’ attorneys alleged that his trial attorneys weren’t diligent enough at presenting evidence that would have prevented a death sentence in the case.