AUSTIN — Before Le Roy and Rosie Torres were befriended by celebrities like Jon Stewart and before they were nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, few elected officials paid much attention to the otherwise modest South Texas couple. Le Roy Torres, a former trooper with the Texas Department of…Read More
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