*Copyright KOSA CBS7, reprinted with permission* MIDLAND, Texas — Midland Police shot both a three-year-old girl and a teenage boy during a house search Wednesday night, according to the children’s father. A Midland City spokeswoman would only confirm that there was an officer-involved shooting and that the Texas Rangers were investigating it. The shooting happened
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TOMBALL, Texas — A Texas teacher who authorities say brought a handgun to school and made threatening comments about colleagues has been arrested. Mark Davis, a history and geography teacher at Concordia Lutheran High School in Tomball, located northwest of Houston, was arrested Wednesday. Tomball police say he’s charged with possessing a weapon in a
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MONT BELVIEU, Texas — A black Texas high school student won’t be allowed to return to school or attend his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks, his family says. Deandre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu in Southeast Texas, has had dreadlocks for years and says it’s part of
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AUSTIN, Texas — A new Whataburger opened its doors in Austin this week, and you won’t find any other location like it, ABC affiliate KVUE reported. The restaurant at 1616 East Oltorf near Interstate Highway 35 has a design exclusive to Austin, the fast food chain said. It features outdoor patio seating, a larger dining area that
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A 15-year-old El Paso native was shot and killed by a friend at a San Antonio apartment and police were trying to determine what led up to the shooting. The deadly shooting late last week on San Antonio’s northwest side claimed the life of Danny Hernandez, whom family said had moved
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico’s leading House Republican said he found it “disrespectful” that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham failed to cite the oil and gas industry in her State of the State speech on Tuesday at a time when the industry is providing record revenues to the state’s coffers that will fund some
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HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas family is mourning after their cat was accidentally euthanized during a routine visit to an animal hospital. Michelle Olson and her husband had taken 8-year-old Sophie to Suburbia North Animal Hospital in Houston for her regular checkup and rabies vaccination. Everything seemed fine, until they received a frightening call on
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AUSTIN, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Saturday by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for a missing Austin girl who is believed to have been abducted. Police are seeking the public’s help in finding 12-year-old Avery Reynolds. According to ABC affiliate KVUE, Avery was last seen leaving her middle school earlier this week.
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El Paso, Texas – The Texas Supreme Court handed the City of El Paso a major victory Friday when it declined to hear a case that had stalled the construction of a downtown arena for nearly three years. With this step, the appeals court decision remains the last word, allowing the city to build a
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Whata better time and place to get married than Whataburger? Six lucky couples will have the chance to tie the knot under the big “W” of Whataburger this Valentine’s Day, reports ABC affiliates KTRK and KSAT. If the winning couple is already married, they can renew their vows. Whataburger is offering ceremonies
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A former Texas nurse suspected of murdering dozens of young children decades ago was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after pleading guilty in San Antonio court to killing an 11-month-old boy in 1981. The plea deal helped Genene Jones avoid a trial beginning next month for the murder of the
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(Editor’s note: You can see Biden’s remarks on O’Rourke and Castro beginning at the 10:15 mark of the interview in the video player above.) DALLAS, Texas — Former Vice President Joe Biden says he would consider former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke to be his running mate, or for a spot in his cabinet, if
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Authorities have suspended their search for two fishermen who went missing after their boat collided with a chemical tanker off Galveston, Texas, the US Coast Guard said. Search and rescue crews have been attempting to locate the two men since Tuesday. Their 81-foot vessel, Pappy’s Pride, collided around 3:35 p.m. with the 600-foot chemical tanker
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EL PASO, Texas — The sale of El Paso Electric to a private investment firm cleared a major hurdle on Thursday. The Texas Public Utility Commission approved the proposed sale of the electric company as being in the public interest. Infrastructure Investment Fund, which is a holding group within global financial giant JP Morgan, is
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EL PASO, Texas — Black Hawk helicopters are starting flights over a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border including New Mexico and Texas for border enforcement and search and rescue operations, federal border agency officials said. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations confirmed the U.S. Army transferred three Black Hawk helicopters to
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A Texas school district is taking “corrective action” after a question about rape was included on a ninth-grade biology homework assignment. About 90 students at Klein Collins High School in Spring, Texas, about 30 minutes outside of Houston, got an “inappropriate homework question” on an assignment from one of their teachers, Klein Independent School District
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s a new year and a new decade, which means it is time for another census population count. The county is used to help plan for community services and determine how many seats each state is given in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 2020 Census will cost billions of dollars.
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso city Rep. Peter Svarzbein is taking on a new role as deputy state director in Texas for Democrat Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for president. Svarzbein confirmed the new role with ABC-7 on Wednesday evening, saying “while other candidates are focused on early states, Mike is focused on Texas and Texans,
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A student arrested in the shooting of another student at a Houston-area high school has been charged with manslaughter, authorities said. The alleged gunman, identified as a minor boy, was arrested hours after police responded to reports of a shooting at Bellaire High School about 4 p.m. local time Tuesday, said Lt. Greg Bartlett with
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women was executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage alive. John Gardner, 64, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the January 2005 slaying of Tammy Gardner.
Continue Reading Two former Houston Police officers involved a botched raid that left two people dead were indicted Wednesday by a Texas grand jury, prosecutors said. Gerald Goines, a 35-year law enforcement veteran, was indicted on two charges of felony murder and tampering with a government record, according to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. The second
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — A 16-year-old student mistakenly shot his friend in their Houston-area high school’s ROTC room before fleeing and being arrested several hours later, officials said Wednesday. The two were in a room at Bellaire High School with four other students but no adult Tuesday afternoon when the 16-year-old took a semi-automatic pistol out
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland — President Donald Trump can’t give state and local governments “veto power” to reject refugees from resettling within their borders, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte agreed to block Trump’s executive order requiring resettlement agencies to get written consent from state and local officials in any jurisdiction where
Continue Reading A search for two fishermen missing after a pair of boats collided off the coast of Galveston, Texas, continued Wednesday. The US Coast Guard was notified of four people in the water at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday after an 81-foot fishing vessel called Pappy’s Pride collided with the 600-foot chemical tanker Bow Fortune and capsized, the
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BELLAIRE, Texas — A male student was shot and killed Tuesday at a high school in east Texas and the alleged shooter was taken into custody about four hours later after a police search, local officials told ABC affiliate KTRK. KTRK said the accused shooter was also a student at Bellaire High School, located in
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso drivers are getting toll bills in the mail, even though there are no toll roads yet in El Paso. At least two local drivers received bills from roads operated by the North Texas Tolling Authority, for an area around Dallas that neither had been to. Needless to say, they
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The case against an El Paso judge accused of driving under the influence and weapons violations was dismissed by a judge in New Mexico. Deputies from the Sante Fe County Sheriff’s Office arrested El Paso Magistrate Judge Ray Gutierrez in late September. Gutierrez allegedly backed into another vehicle in the
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday gave Texas’ highest civilian honor to a 71-year-old man who shot and killed an armed attacker at a church in December. Abbott gave Jack Wilson the Governor’s Medal of Courage during a ceremony in Austin, calling him a hero for stopping the shooter at a church in
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HOUSTON, Texas — Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired Monday after the pair were suspended by Major League Baseball for the team’s sign-stealing during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series title and during the 2018 season. In the sport’s largest scandal since the Biogenesis drug suspensions in 2013, Commissioner
Continue Reading LUBBOCK, Texas — A firefighter and a police officer were killed while working at the scene of an icy crash in Texas, authorities said. A second firefighter was hospitalized in critical condition following the incident on Interstate 27 in Lubbock, officials said. Emergency responders arrived at the scene of a single-vehicle accident Saturday morning. While
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