Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Tuesday accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about last month’s school shooting to scapegoat local law enforcement and intentionally leaving out details about the state’s response to the massacre. New details emerged this week about the timeline of the shooting based on surveillance video from the school’s hallways and
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HOUSTON A 5-year-old boy has died after being left in a vehicle in the Houston area as his mother prepared for a birthday party and as temperatures soared past 100 degrees, authorities said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the boy died Monday as his family was getting ready to celebrate his 8-year-old sister’s birthday.
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Police Special Traffic Investigators say Cecil Blesh O’Neal III, 48, was hit and killed by a car on Saturday, June 18, just after 10 p.m. at the 9500 block of McCombs. Investigators say O’Neal was crossing the southbound lanes when he was struck. Video surveillance shows a car speeding.
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The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy. The officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary wanted to get inside classrooms 111 and 112 — immediately. One officer’s daughter was inside. Another officer had gotten a call from his wife, a
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UVALDE, Texas — A new photo from inside Robb Elementary shows multiple officers inside Robb Elementary with rifles and at least one ballistic shield nine minutes after the gunman arrived. The video footage was obtained by KVUE and its news partners at the Austin American-Statesman. The 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers with
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Watch the news conference here. With Texas schools restarting classes in less than two months, Texas Senate Democrats renewed calls Monday for Gov. Greg Abbott to bring lawmakers back to Austin this summer to enact legislation that might prevent another mass shooting like the one at a Uvalde elementary school that killed 19 students and
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AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus is asking Governor Greg Abbott to call for a special legislative session to address school safety and mass shootings. State Senator Cesar Blanco, who represents multiple west Texas counties including El Paso, was not present at the news briefing due to a Covid-19 diagnosis. Blanco said there’s
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By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Republican Party of Texas over the weekend adopted a resolution at its state convention that rejects President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, further aligning the state party establishment with former President Donald Trump in pushing false election claims. “We reject the certified results of the 2020
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas A&M sends Ivan Melendez and his longhorns packing from the college world series with a 10-2 win. While the season might be over for Melendez the El Pasoan certainly had a season to remember and gave his city something to smile about. Melendez was a standout at Coronado he then
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Police officials say a body was discovered at The Chimney’s apartment complex just before noon. It happened at the 200 N. Festival Dr. Crime scene units are investigating at this time. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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UPDATE — Fire officials say they recovered a female body approximately in her 20’s from the water and have turned the scene over to law enforcement for identification and investigation purposes. EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Fire Department Water Rescue unit is responding to a report of a body found in a canal
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN For the first time, the world’s rarest species of sea turtle has laid eggs on Magnolia Beach in Texas, experts say. On Monday morning, R.J. Shelly, a Calhoun County Marine Extension Agent, received a call from the county commissioner after maintenance workers noticed sea turtles hatching from a nest on the
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Giggster compiled data on marriage rates in Texas using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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EL PASO, Texas — The bodies of a Guatemalan national and a Mexican national were found dumped on the eastbound on-ramp of I-10 east of Van Horn, according to Homeland Security Investigations. The victims were identified as Rosenda Gomez-Lopez, from Guatemala, and Edgar Vividor-Rodriguez, from Mexico. Investigators say the two may have died from heat
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Stacker compiled a list of cities with the fastest-growing home prices in Texas using data from Zillow.
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Two cities from Texas have been selected among the group of cities that will be hosting games for the 2026 FIFA World Cup which will take place in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. AT&T stadium in Arlington, and NRG stadium in Houston will host multiple games for the World Cup. For the 2026 tournament, the
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El Paso area high school students performed far better on this year’s state standardized math exam than last year, an encouraging sign for educators after 2021 scores revealed significant pandemic-driven learning loss. Results from this year’s spring high school algebra tests released Thursday show that 49% of Region 19 test-takers scored on grade level, up
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EL PASO, Texas – Raising prices are being felt by everyone across the country. Groceries, bills, and of course, gas prices have skyrocketed in the past several months. According to AAA, the national average for regular gas is $5.009 a gallon. In El Paso County, the average price for a gallon of gas is $4.82.
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Stacker compiled a list of counties with the highest unemployment in Texas using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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EL PASO, Texas – The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) arrested a man after he was caught impersonating a TABC agent. 27-year-old Christopher Jacob Contreras of El Paso was taken in on June 13 after being caught in a local bar by the TABC. He was booked into the El Paso County Jail. He is
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EL PASO, Texas – June 15 marks the start of the rainy season in the desert southwest. This is known as the Monsoon. This time of year, weather patterns change with the beginning of the Monsoon. During the spring months, winds are often dry and out of the west, whereas during the Monsoon, the winds
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ANTHONY, Texas — A man wanted for murder in Anthony, Mexico, was caught in Texas, after nearly three months on the run, according to officials. Members of the Anthony, Texas police department assigned to the Lone Star Fugitive Taskforce took Alejandro Salas into custody Wednesday around noon. Officials say he was taken into custody without
Continue Reading By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN Senate negotiators are scrambling to hammer out legislative text for a long-sought bipartisan gun deal, but they are in danger of missing a self-imposed, end-of-the-week deadline due to lingering sticking points. Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chief GOP negotiator, told CNN two key issues — funding
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EL PASO, Texas — The Tigua tribe scored a major victory against Texas over the legality of gambling. The Tigua can legally operate bingo-based games at their Speaking Rock Entertainment Center in the Lower Valley. The Restoration Act of 1987, barred the Tigua tribe from conducting gambling prohibited in Texas. The legal fight between the state and
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More than 165,000 residents in Odessa have gone nearly 24 hours without water as a major water line break occurred in the West Texas town — and may need to boil water once service is restored. The break occurred at 6 p.m. Monday, and Mayor Javier Joven said it was difficult for maintenance crews to
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Stacker investigated the number of dinosaur fossils found in Texas using data from the Paleobiology Database.
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN Texans are cranking on the air conditioning this week amid an unusually early heat wave, setting new records for electricity demand in the state, which surpassed 75 gigawatts on Sunday and smashed the 2019 record. Texas grid operator ERCOT projects it could approach that peak again on Tuesday. But unlike previous
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CLOVERLEAF, Texas (AP) — A 7-year-old boy died after he was struck by gunfire that was shot into his Texas home as he slept in bed, police said. The child was shot about 10:45 p.m. Sunday at his family’s home in the Houston-area city of Cloverleaf, Harris County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jason Brown said. Someone in
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EL PASO, Texas – Police officials say a 20-year-old female Fort Bliss soldier was seriously injured after a hit and run crash. It happened at around 12:35 a.m. while she was crossing Lee Trevino from the west curb to the east curb. A pick up truck traveling south bound struck her and fled the scene.
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Fire Department Water Rescue crews responded to a U.S. Border Patrol report of a body in the water at the Border HWY and Paisano canal on Saturday morning. Divers recovered the body and turned it over to law enforcement officials for identification and investigation purposes. Check back with ABC-7
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