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No school Friday in tornado-damaged Cleburne
CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) - School has been canceled for a second day at a North Texas community where a tornado damaged buildings and cut power.
The Cleburne Independent School District says all campuses remained closed Friday. Officials with the district about 25 miles south of Fort Worth cited electrical outages and road conditions from Wednesday night's tornado.
Dallas-based Oncor (ON'-kor) reported nearly 1,800 customers in North Texas still without power Friday - mainly in Cleburne.
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May 17, 2013, 08:50
Authorities: Crime Not Ruled Out In West Explosion
Investigators working in the remnants of an exploded Texas fertilizer plant sifted by hand through untold kernels of corn, moved tons of debris and conducted more than 400 interviews, while searching for the missing piece to solve what many officials compared to an extraordinary puzzle.
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May 17, 2013, 08:35
Union Grove ISD implements armed staff on campuses
Armed staff is now a reality at one East Texas school district. Union Grove Independent School District in Upshur County decided to allow staff members to carry weapons on campus. School officials say the decision to arm staff was made in response to recent shooting and threats directed towards schools across the nation. The signs are up on every campus, each saying the same thing: 'The staff at Union Grove ISD are armed.' Intended to be exactly what administrators hoped they'd be.
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May 16, 2013, 08:31
Parents furious after Aldine ISD elementary students dropped off near busy road
Some parents were outraged after they said their kids were dropped off by their school bus nearly a half mile from their normal stop.
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May 16, 2013, 07:55
Union Grove superintendent stand behind school signs
An East Texas superintendent still stands behind signs in front of his campuses, warning intruders their staff members are armed. Union Grove ISD is about 12 miles away from the closest law enforcement. That's one of the reasons the signs were put up a few weeks ago, to keep students safe. "Somebody has to protect them," says Gladewater resident Mary Smith.
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May 16, 2013, 07:44
Teacher removes explosive: Heroic or foolhardy?
A teacher removed a suspicious package left inside a northern Colorado school that was later determined to be an active explosive, authorities said Tuesday.
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May 15, 2013, 08:15
Irving teen accused of forcing schoolmate to have sex for money
A 17-year-old Irving boy faces charges of human trafficking in the case of a 15-year-old female schoolmate who accused him of holding her captive and compelling her into prostitution
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May 15, 2013, 07:30
Fort Worth proposes eliminating school buffer zone rule for alcohol sales in mixed-use zoning
The city is proposing to eliminate its 300-foot buffer zone between schools and businesses that sell alcohol in areas that have mixed-use zoning, which would affect a dozen public, charter and private schools around downtown, on the near south side and along Camp Bowie Boulevard.
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May 14, 2013, 08:04
Warning: Union Grove staff armed
A new sign outside the Union Grove schools serves as a warning to would-be disrupters: Employees in the Upshur County school district are armed and trained to “use whatever force is necessary" to protect students in the district.
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May 14, 2013, 07:49
BB pistol seized at Levelland school
Levelland Independent School District officials seized a BB pistol from a student on Monday, May 13. District officials notified parents of middle school students about the incident. The weapon was not loaded and no children were injured.
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May 14, 2013, 07:45
Austin ISD student caught with marijuana, gun on campus
Parents of Paredes Middle School students received a disturbing letter from the principal Monday. The letter said campus police caught a student Monday morning with marijuana and an unloaded gun.
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May 14, 2013, 07:30
Sources: Homicide suspect had knife at school
A 12-year-old California boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister had been suspended from his middle school this year after being accused of bringing a small pocketknife there, according to a fellow student and a school administration source.
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May 14, 2013, 07:30
Interactive: Texas Ammonium Nitrate Facilities
According to Department of State Health Services records, more than 110 facilities across the state store ammonium nitrate in some form. Investigators have said that ammonium nitrate was the source of the explosion at a fertilizer depot that killed at least 14 people and injured hundreds more last month in West.
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May 13, 2013, 08:32
A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise
Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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May 13, 2013, 08:15
House Approves Vaccination Consent Bill After Resurgent HPV Scare
Just an hour before the Legislature’s midnight deadline for passing House Bills out of the lower chamber, as lightning flashed ominously outside the Capitol, tonight’s debate took a brief and sudden turn back to 2007 when the human papillomavirus and its vaccine dominated the state’s business.
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May 10, 2013, 08:31
Lubbock: LISD to offer closed campus lunch, more choices for high school students
Students within the Lubbock Independent School District will have new choices for lunch for the 2013-14 school year. The LISD Board of Trustees voted Thursday morning to approve a restaurant carry-in program that would allow outside vendors to bring their products to LISD high school campuses for lunch.
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May 10, 2013, 07:44
Hill Country school to allow employees to be armed with a gun on campus
A hill country school district approved a policy Thursday that will allow employees to be armed with a handgun. However, the approval didnt come without some parents asking school board members to reconsider. The vote was close, but the Hunt ISD board of trustees approved the policy on a 4 to 3 vote. Clayton Rascoe was a concerned parent that voiced his opinion against the policy.
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May 10, 2013, 07:41
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