CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) -- Officials say the mayor of the Dallas suburb of Carrollton has long told stories of her colorful background.

Among Mayor Becky Miller's tales are claims of an engagement to Don Henley of the Eagles and stints as a backup singer for Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne.

However, her opponent in Saturday's mayoral election is questioning all those claims. And family members, school officials and spokesmen for the famous musicians contacted by The Dallas Morning News are saying none of the tales are true.

Miller says she never made some of the claims and attributed other discrepancies to dirty politics by challenger Ron Branson.

But Branson says Miller made the false claims, and that he's most upset by her claim that she had a brother who died in the Vietnam war. Miller's father, Edward Sampson, said his son is alive and never served in the military.

Miller first suggested her 80-year-old father didn't get his facts right and suffers from Alzheimer's disease. She later said the man who died was not her biological brother but a "blood brother" who was as close to her as a real one. She declined to give his name.