The gunman who killed seven people in West Texas over Labor Day weekend was hospitalized nearly two decades ago at a psychiatric facility, where he punched a hole in a wall and menaced security staff with a piece of pipe pried from a toilet before being arrested, according to police. Seth Ator was being treated
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T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91. Pickens was surrounded by friends and family when he died of natural causes under hospice care at his Dallas home, spokesman Jay Rosser said. Pickens suffered a series of strokes in 2017 and
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A federal appeals court has put on hold a ruling that blocked a Trump administration policy that would prevent migrants from seeking asylum along the entire southwest border. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay overnight that puts the ruling by U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar on hold for now. That means
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A Texas death row inmate was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a 61-year-old grandmother at her north Texas home nearly a decade ago during an eight-day spate of crimes that included thefts and another killing. Mark Anthony Soliz, 37, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the June 2010 slaying
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Houston health officials say three teenagers have been hospitalized with serious lung illnesses following electronic cigarette use and vaping. The Houston Health Department announced Tuesday the hospitalizations took place within the past month. Dr. David Persse, who is health authority for the Houston Health Department and EMS medical director, says all three teenagers are doing
Continue Reading The recent mass shooting in the Odessa-Midland area is shining new light on an old problem: In some states, a person barred from owning a gun under the law can still buy one in a private sale, without a background check. The west Texas shooter, Seth Ator, 36, failed a background check when he tried
Continue Reading After seven states passed sweeping abortion bans this year, speculation soon arose about the potentially onerous travel burdens the laws could someday impose on women seeking to end unwanted pregnancies. Across a huge swath of west Texas and the Panhandle, there’s no need for speculation. The nearest abortion clinics are more than 250 miles away,
Continue Reading A new Texas state law that took effect this month wants to help some college students save time and money. Senate Bill 25 was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott this summer. It seeks to make the state’s core curriculum clearer to prevent transfer students from taking classes that won’t ultimately transfer over. “Transfer
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Fifty U.S. states and territories, led by Texas, announced an investigation into Google’s “potential monopolistic behavior.” The Monday announcement closely followed one from a separate group of states Friday that disclosed an investigation into Facebook’s market dominance. The two probes widen the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies beyond sweeping federal and congressional investigations and
Continue Reading The U.S. Department of Defense is diverting an estimated $3.6 billion in military construction funds to help build President Donald Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, some of it from Texas and New Mexico. The Pentagon has now released the full list of 127 military construction projects that will lose funds in order to help
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Ezekiel Elliott’s workload in the opener didn’t matter much after the Dallas Cowboys running back missed the entire preseason in a holdout. Now there are more questions about how soon quarterback Dak Prescott will get the big payday his backfield mate enjoyed just four days before the season started. Prescott tied his career high with
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A gain for Elizabeth Warren and a slip in support for Kamala Harris place Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Warren atop the field in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, days in advance of the Sept. 12 Democratic debate in Houston, sponsored by ABC that will air live on ABC-7 and be streamed here on
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is ready to work on restricting gun sales in his state between strangers without a background check in the wake of last weekend’s second mass shooting in Texas — even if it means opposing the National Rifle Association. “That gap of stranger to stranger we have to close, in my
Continue Reading Country singer Kylie Rae Harris caused a three-vehicle crash in New Mexico that left her and a 16-year-old girl dead, authorities said Friday. Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told the Taos News that investigators believe Harris caused Wednesday’s crash and that speed appeared to be a contributing factor when she clipped the back of another
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Texas Tech feels like it can pick up the pace even more in its up-tempo offense. “We can definitely go faster,” running back Armand Shyne said. The goal for the Red Raiders with new offensive coordinator David Yost, who came with head coach Matt Wells from Utah State, is to get lined up and snap
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The jury selection process is beginning in the trial of a white former Dallas police officer charged with killing an unarmed black man in his own apartment. Amber Guyger faces a murder charge in the slaying of Botham Jean. Guyger told authorities she mistakenly entered Jean’s apartment thinking it was her own and fatally shot
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Kylie Rae Harris, a rising country singer from Texas, died in a car accident in New Mexico, Alex Torrez, the CEO of her management company, Torrez Music Group, said Thursday. She was 30. “We are heartbroken to confirm that Kylie Rae Harris passed away in a car accident last night,” a statement from Torrez read.
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For some, being far away from home can be tough, but for three educators living in Garland it was especially hard following the mass shooting at an east El Paso Walmart. The Garland Independent School District is one of the Dallas-area’s largest school districts. Mariel Maese graduated from Eastwood in 2001, and currently is a
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Minutes after media outlets identified the gunman who killed seven people in west Texas, a Twitter account that may be automated began spreading baseless information linking the shooter to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. “The Odessa Shooter’s name is Seth Ator, a Democrat Socialist who had a Beto sticker on his truck,” said the post,
Continue Reading Federal law enforcement officials say ATF agents have executed a search warrant at the Lubbock home of a man they believe was involved in the “transfer” of an AR-style rifle to the gunman who killed seven people in a Labor Day weekend mass shooting. The officials familiar with the investigation spoke on condition of anonymity
Continue Reading Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday issued eight executive orders in response to the El Paso and Odessa-Midland mass shootings that happened just weeks apart. “Texas must achieve several objectives to better protect our communities and our residents from mass shootings,” Abbott said in a statement. “I will continue to work expeditiously with the legislature on
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A Texas death row inmate was executed Wednesday evening for fatally stabbing an 89-year-old woman and her daughter more than 16 years ago in their Fort Worth home. Billy Jack Crutsinger, 64, received a lethal injection for the 2003 killings of Pearl Magouirk and her 71-year-old daughter Patricia Syren. Authorities say Crutsinger killed the women
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday afternoon rejected calls made by Democratic lawmakers earlier in the day for immediate votes on new gun safety measures in Texas following a violent August that began and ended with mass shootings that left 29 people dead and injured dozens more. The Texas Legislature doesn’t meet again until 2021.
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The Eastwood High School football team has arrived in Dallas ahead of their game Thursday. The Troopers will take on the Plano Senior High Wildcats. Here is what we know about the game, and how the two schools are working in unity to support each other… Eastwood High fan busses along with the band and
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It’s game on for the Eastwood Troopers as they go up against the Plano Senior Wildcats next week. Just a day after the Plano School District announced it had canceled Plano Senior’s game against Eastwood — Plano ISD had a change of heart. Plano’s reason for cancelling the game was because of safety concerns following
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott held the first meeting of his new Terrorism Task Force Friday in Austin. The task force was created in the wake of the El Paso shootings on Aug. 3 which killed 22 people and left nearly two dozen injured. Abbott was in El Paso on Thursday with his new Safety Commission,
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The Ysleta Independent School District has announced that tickets for the upcoming Eastwood High vs. Plano Senior High football game are on sale at two YISD locations. All tickets will be general admission, $4 for students and $6 for adults. They can be purchased at Eastwood high school, 2430 McRae Blvd . from 9 a.m.
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Texas Governor Gregg Abbott is back in the Borderland to talk safety measures with law enforcement officials, as well as with survivors of the August 3rd shooting. You can watch a recap of the governors closing remarks below. You can watch a recap of the opening remarks below. Governor Abbott arrived late to the meeting
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Homeowners in a Lower Valley neighborhood near the Old Ysleta Mission are claiming a victory now that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) denied a proposed medical waste facility permission to operate. Commissioners with TCEQ held a public hearing Wednesday morning to hear from both sides of the issue. City representative, Claudia Ordaz-Perez, was
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