UVALDE, Texas — The Uvalde County Sheriff has agreed to testify before the Texas panel investigating the mass shooting at Robb Elementary school. Sheriff Ruben Nolasco originally refused to testify, but agreed to do so after being issued an official notice. Nolasco will testify via video teleconference to speak on the shooting Monday. The Texas
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With a punishing heat wave across Texas driving record high power demand, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas late Sunday sent out a request that Texans cut back on their energy use on Monday. ERCOT, the state’s power grid operator, asked Texans to turn up their thermostats and postpone running major appliances between 2 p.m.
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After receiving an HOV violation, a pregnant woman in Texas argued her unborn baby should count as a vehicle passenger in light of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Brandy Bottone tells CNN’s Pamela Brown why she plans to fight the ticket in court.
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Routific investigated gas price changes in Texas during the last year using data from AAA.
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EL PASO, Texas — The Army Times reported that the case of a Fort Bliss soldier not prosecuted for an accusation of rape in the winter of 2017 will be reviewed by Army officials following the soldier’s guilty plea to multiple sex crimes years later. According to The Army Times, Staff Sgt. Randall S. Hughes
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Uvalde’s mayor on Friday denied a recent report that said a city police officer had an opportunity to shoot the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers inside Robb Elementary School last month before the gunman entered the school building. [Uvalde officer asked permission to shoot gunman outside school but got no answer,
Continue Reading Family members of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims react to a new report concluding that the 19 students and two educators killed in massacre might have been saved if the officer who spotted the gunman prior to him entering the school had taken action. CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz has more.
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EL PASO, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Thursday which allows state authorities to “return” any migrants apprehended to the border. The order allows the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to apprehend any migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and send them
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it is moving to discipline agents involved in a confrontation last year with Haitian migrants trying to cross the border while unauthorized to do so Friday. One of the agents involved in the incident was accused of using his saddle as a whip while the agents
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Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that the state will spend an additional $30 million on his border mission, Operation Lone Star, to provide grants to cities and counties seeking financial assistance to combat criminal activity related to border crossings. The announcement comes after frustrated local officials, including those in border counties, called on Abbott on
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Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday cleared state authorities to return migrants they apprehend to the border, setting up a potential clash with the federal government. Immigration law enforcement is a federal responsibility. Abbott appears to be testing the limits of state authority by empowering state law enforcement to bring migrants to the ports of entry
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Stacker compiled a ranking of the highest-earning counties in Texas.
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The Department of Justice is investigating alleged civil rights violations under Operation Lone Star, a multibillion-dollar border initiative announced last year by Gov. Greg Abbott, according to state records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. The Legislature last year directed more than $3 billion to border measures over the next two years, a bulk
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An Uvalde police officer asked for a supervisor’s permission to shoot the gunman who would soon kill 21 people at Robb Elementary School in May before he entered the building, but the supervisor did not hear the request or responded too late, according to a report released Wednesday evaluating the law enforcement response to the
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s City Council recognized El Paso college baseball star Ivan Melendez for being the 35th recipient of the Dick Hauser Trophy Wednesday. Melendez’s long list of accomplishments in college baseball, including receiving the 2022 Dick Hauser Trophy, prompted the Council to designate the month of July 2022 as ‘Ivan Melendez
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EL PASO, Texas — Annunciation House will host a vigil for the victims who died in a trailer near San Antonio last week. The vigil will acknowledge the lives lost and call for an end to policies like Title 42. Annunciation House says policies like Title 42 lead migrants to risk their lives trying to get into
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EL PASO, Texas — The University of Texas at El Paso announced Tuesday a 1.7 million-dollar gift from the Hector and Gloria López Foundation to benefit 15 UTEP students to be selected prior to the Fall 2022 semester. The Hector and Gloria López Foundation’s first-ever grant, administered by the University of Texas Foundation, will provide
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UPDATE: A resolution to deprioritize abortion investigations by the El Paso Police Department did not pass, El Paso City Council voted 5 to 4 against the item. Mayor Oscar Leeser cast the tie-breaking vote. City Representatives Alexsandra Annello, Henry Rivera and Peter Svarzbein voted in favor. While representatives Joe Molinar, Isabel Salcido, Claudia Rodriguez, Cissy
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told CNN he’s lost faith in Texas leaders investigating how law enforcement responded to the shooting at his town’s elementary school that killed 19 children and two adults. “I’m not confident, 100%, in DPS because I think it’s a cover-up,” he said of
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Texas can enforce its abortion ban from 1925, the state Supreme Court ruled late Friday evening, a decision that exposes abortion providers to lawsuits and financial penalties if they continue to perform the procedure. The court overruled a district judge in Houston, who on Tuesday had temporarily blocked the state’s old abortion law from going
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Fire department and Police department responded to a two vehicle crash near the state line. It happened at Stan Roberts Sr Ave and Martin Luther King Blvd around 5:00 P.M. Fire officials say one person was transported with non-life threatening injuries to a local hospital. Check back with
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Holly Yan, CNN Houston police are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever opened fire on a car overnight, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring an 8-year-old. Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, officers received calls about a shooting in the 13300 block of Northborough Drive, Houston Police Asst. Chief Chandra
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A gunman in Texas killed two people and injured another person Saturday before fatally shooting himself, police in the Fort Worth area said. The shooting in Haltom City also left three officers with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police Sgt. Rick Alexander said during a news conference. The officers were
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Rosa Flores and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo has resigned his separate position on the Uvalde city council in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in May, according to a resignation letter he sent to the city. “After much consideration, it is in
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Texas students’ standardized test scores in reading and math moved closer to pre-pandemic levels after falling to levels not seen in a decade the year before, according to results released Friday by the Texas Education Agency. Each spring, Texas students take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR test. In math, 40%
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AUSTIN, Texas — This fall, Texas public schools will be subjected to random inspections to detect weak access points in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting — but a state school safety leader says these reviews will not resemble potentially traumatizing intruder simulations. Texas School Safety Center plans to start randomly checking school buildings
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EL PASO, Texas — Various El Paso organizations awarded scholarships to local students that have made efforts in the fight against cancer. “When I was going through my cancer journey the community lifted me. And so this was a great opportunity to give back that way,” said Estela Casas, former ABC-7 anchor who established the
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, Chris Boyette and Michelle Krupa, CNN The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53 migrants this week in San Antonio didn’t realize the truck’s air conditioning unit had stopped working, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the investigation into the deadliest human
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A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction. The group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man received 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a child into sexual activity. Officials say, Lawrence Allen Schmidt, 53, thought he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl via social media. Unbeknownst to him, he was actually communicating with an undercover FBI employee. Investigators say the
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