Attorneys for Adrian Gonzales, the former Uvalde school police officer who was first on scene at the Robb Elementary massacre in 2022, have rested their case Tuesday afternoon, in a trial where prosecutors say he failed to delay or stop the shooter.  Prosecutors rested Tuesday morning after calling 35 witnesses over eight days, which at times included heated testimony. The defense called only two witnesses over the course of two hours. Jury charges will be read Wednesday morning, followed by closing arguments.   view article

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Nexstar) — The ninth day of the trial against former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officer Adrian Gonzales continues in the Nueces County courthouse on Thursday.  On Wednesday, the courtroom was still tense after Tuesday’s outburst from Velma Lisa Duran, the sister of Robb Elementary teacher Irma Garcia, who was killed in the shooting.  “Y’all are saying she didn’t lock her door,” Duran shouted as she was removed from the courtroom by deputies. “She went into the fatal funnel!” The fatal funnel is a tactical term used by law enforcement to describe an area, like a doorway, where a police officer does not have cover and can be shot. view article

A scheduled talk by a late term abortionist on Monday will no longer proceed at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. “Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center evaluated the request and determined that it is not in the best interest of the university to host this event on campus,” TTUHSC told Texas Scorecard in a statement.  The decision follows several days of behind-the-scenes activism by the Turning Point USA chapter at Texas Tech, in collaboration with pro-life activists Mark Lee Dickson and Jim Baxa. Baxa is currently a candidate for Lubbock County clerk. view article

A fatal shooting Thursday afternoon at a Dallas park near Woodrow Wilson High School put hundreds of students on lockdown, district officials told The Dallas Morning News.  A police call log showed 10 units were dispatched about 3:45 p.m. to the 100 block of South Glasgow Drive, near Willis C. Winters Park. Yellow crime scene tape blocked off almost two blocks, which were surrounded by officers, students and parents. Lines of school buses drove past, stuck in traffic caused by street closures. view article

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says an 11-year-old Magnolia ISD student died after suffering a medical emergency on a school bus Tuesday. The incident happened Tuesday morning at 7:38 a.m. when deputies got a call about the unresponsive student aboard the bus. view article

Officials have confirmed 171 measles cases across nine states so far in 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated on Jan. 14.  Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia have confirmed cases, the CDC said in an update on its website.  The case count does not include probable cases, officials said.  The number of measles cases in the United States in 2025 was also revised upward, to 2,242, the highest total since 1991. view article

Critical care team will be able to fly as far as Waco, Brownwood, San Antonio and College Station.  A new helicopter will take to the skies over Central Texas on Tuesday. Texas Children's Hospital has added a helicopter to its Kangaroo Crew intensive care transport team, which previously used only ambulances to bring patients to its Austin facility. The team will be able to travel 120 nautical miles to pick up a patient. The hospital, which opened almost two years ago, has launched programs that are attracting patients from across Texas and around the country, said Dr. Jeff Shilt, the president of Texas Children's in Austin. "Having a helicopter for a pediatric hospital is really a differentiator for us."  view article

A Spring ISD mother says her four-year-old daughter was slapped twice in the face by a substitute teacher inside her Pre-K classroom, an allegation now under investigation by the district. “Messed with the wrong mama that’s all I gotta say I will not back down until this is figured out and until this is done,” Braughton said. Marissa Braughton says the incident happened Tuesday afternoon at Smith Elementary School. She says her daughter was screaming and crying when she picked her up. view article

Emotions ran high Tuesday during opening statements and testimony in the trial of Adrian Gonzales, the former Uvalde school district police officer facing 29 counts of child endangerment for what prosecutors say was his failure to act during the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that led to the deaths of 21 people, including 19 students. view article

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — There were hours of testimony in the trial of former Uvalde CISD officer Adrian Gonzales Thursday.   Gonzales is the first person to face charges with how authorities responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in May 2022. Defense attorneys began the day by cross-examining the teacher whose testimony was thrown out. A day earlier, attorneys for Adrian Gonzales had asked for a mistrial, arguing they were blindsided by new information in the teacher's testimony that had never been disclosed as required by law.  view article

Austin ISD has provided an update following a recent social media threat that named three district campuses. District leaders say the threat mentioned 14 schools statewide, including Andrews, Baranoff and Barrington elementary schools in Austin. view article

Texas joins 17 other states that are making it easier for foreign medical graduates to work as doctors here. About a quarter of the state’s licensed doctors were trained outside the U.S. view article

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is again warning Texans about mysterious packages of seeds being sent from China.  Unsolicited packages of unidentified seeds began arriving in 2020 and continue to be sent to people across the state. The Texas Department of Agriculture is urging Texans who receive unsolicited seeds not to open the package, not to plant the seeds, and not to throw them into the trash, where they'll end up in a landfill.  Since February 2025, the TDA said it has collected 1,101 seed packages sent to more than 100 locations across the state. The TDA said the seeds could pose a serious threat to the state's agricultural and environmental safety. view article

The Trump administration has taken a new approach to the food pyramid.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidelines on Wednesday with an updated, inverted pyramid. The top of the pyramid, which is now the wider part of the structure, is built on meat, fats, fruits and vegetables, while whole grains are at the narrow bottom.  T  his follows HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA), aimed at addressing chronic disease, childhood illnesses and ultraprocessed foods. view article

The district told families at Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School that an online video that originated outside the U.S. threatened several schools in North Texas. view article

Austin ISD leaders say they're working with the FBI to investigate a social media threat that named three AISD campuses. District leaders say the threat mentioned 14 schools statewide, including Andrews, Baranoff and Barrington elementary schools in Austin. The threat included a photo of someone in a mask with firearms but didn't mention a time or date. view article

On Tuesday, a former Austin ISD elementary school teacher pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ said 51-year-old Carl David Innmon was a fifth-grade teacher in AISD when he was arrested in April 2025. Innmon had also worked as a substitute teacher at about 20 other schools within the district. view article

Odem-Edroy ISD has terminated one coach and placed two others on paid administrative leave following a reported sexual assault aboard a district school bus returning from a basketball game in Hebbronville, Superintendent Yolanda Carr told 3NEWS Wednesday. Carr said the personnel actions were taken as the district conducts its own internal investigation into the incident and that they want to remain as transparent as possible. view article

CORPUS CHRISTI — In the crucial, chaotic minutes before a gunman in Uvalde began firing inside an elementary school, a police officer now accused of failing to protect the children stood by without making a move to prevent the carnage, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.  School officer Adrian Gonzales arrived at the scene of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history while the teenage assailant was still outside the building. But he did not try to distract or engage him, even when a teacher pointed out the direction of the shooter, special prosecutor Bill Turner said during opening statements of a criminal trial. view article

Azle ISD is hoping to get a lawsuit against them dismissed as a former student seeks damages for alleged sexual abuse by a district coach. The attorney for the victim told FOX 4 he believes the evidence in the case will be enough for a judge to deny the motions made by Azle ISD and other officials, and allow the case to move forward to trial. view article

Former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales faces 29 counts of child endangerment for those killed and hurt in the 2022 shooting.  CORPUS CHRISTI — A Texas judge seated a jury Monday in the trial of a former school police officer in Uvalde who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history and has been charged with failing to protect children from the gunman.  Adrian Gonzales, one of the first officers to respond to the 2022 attack, is charged with 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment in a rare prosecution of an officer accused of not doing more to save lives. Authorities waited more than an hour to confront the teenage shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. view article

Three Austin ISD elementary schools receive social media threat  AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Independent School District said Tuesday afternoon that the FBI warned them that a social media user made threats against 14 Texas schools, three of which are within the district.  Those schools were Andrews, Baranoff and Barrington elementary schools, according to a letter shared by the district. The district didn’t provide the names of any other Texas schools included in the FBI’s warning.  The FBI sent a statement to KXAN saying it’s aware of the online threats directed to the AISD schools.   view article

CORPUS CHRISTI — A Texas judge seated a jury Monday in the trial of a former school police officer in Uvalde who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history and has been charged with failing to protect children from the gunman.  Adrian Gonzales, one of the first officers to respond to the 2022 attack, is charged with 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment in a rare prosecution of an officer accused of not doing more to save lives. Authorities waited more than an hour to confront the teenage shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary.  Gonzales has pleaded not guilty, and his attorney has said the officer tried to save children that day. view article

A jury has been selected in the trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer charged in connection with the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.  On Monday, more than 400 potential jurors were questioned about their knowledge of the failed police response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. From that pool, 12 jurors and four alternates were selected for the trial. Opening statements are set for Tuesday morning.  The trial was moved from Uvalde to Nueces County, where it is being held in Corpus Christi, after a judge determined it would be difficult to seat an impartial jury in Uvalde. view article

An 18-year-old Odem ISD student is charged with indecency with a child after police say a juvenile was assaulted on a school bus returning from Hebbronville. view article

Months after public health officials say they caused the nation’s largest measles surge in 30 years, some West Texas Mennonites have grown more skeptical of the mainstream medical system. view article

One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman view article

Dallas is the second Texas county to sue over public health cuts after a judge ordered the Trump administration to return $20 million to Harris County last summer. view article

HOUSTON — Texas ranchers and hay producers are being urged to take a hard look at their pastures after state officials confirmed a highly destructive new pest has arrived in the Lone Star State.  Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on Wednesday issued an urgent alert about the pasture mealybug (Helicococcus summervillei), an invasive species never before reported in North America that is already damaging pasture acreage in multiple Texas counties. view article

McALLEN — As Mexican officials battle the spread of New World Screwworm, Texas officials are still working to finalize a response plan that would be enacted should the parasitic fly spread into the state.  Texas lawmakers questioned state and federal officials on plans to combat screwworm during a Texas House committee hearing Tuesday. They also heard from industry groups on their concerns over how screwworm could affect their livestock and wildlife.  However, a response plan being formulated by the Texas Animal Health Commission with the U.S. Department of Agriculture is facing pushback from industry groups. view article

Immigrant families held at a detention facility in Texas describe prolonged stays, despondent children, limited access to potable water and agents offering money for families to voluntarily leave the country, according to new court declarations filed early Tuesday morning.  The filings paint a portrait of the inside of the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility where, as of November, there were around 160 families who had either crossed the US-Mexico border or been picked up by authorities in the United States as part of the administration’s sweeping crackdown. view article

ATLANTA — A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee voted to eliminate a recommendation that all newborn babies receive a vaccine against hepatitis B, ending a policy that has been in place since 1991 to protect Americans against an incurable liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis, cancer and liver failure.   The current three-dose series for hepatitis B includes one vaccine administered to infants within 24 hours of birth, and subsequent booster shots given one month and six months after the initial dose. The universal vaccination policy is credited with a 99% drop in serious infections among American children between 1990 and 2019.  In its updated guidelines, the agency will continue to recommend that babies born to mothers who test positive for hepatitis B receive a vaccine at birth. However, in all other cases, the decision will be left to “individual-based decision-making,” a change that experts say will lead to an increase in chronic hepatitis B infections. The new recommendation also suggests that parents delay the first dose of the vaccine until at least two months after birth. view article

A substitute teacher won't be allowed to return to Almeta Crawford High School after assaulting a 14-year-old student on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. Cell phone video shows the teacher picking up the boy and slamming him into a countertop as other students attempt to intervene. view article

A teacher from Aldine ISD has been released on bond after being arrested on charges of child sexual assault, according to court records. Aldine ISD says Derrick Banks, 39, is an agriculture teacher at Eisenhower High School. Court records show he had two warrants for the first-degree felony offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14 for the past two years. view article

KFOX14/CBS4 has been trying to get in contact with Socorro ISD to learn if it complies with Texas House Bill 3, which mandates an armed peace officer at every school campus. The law, effective in 2023, was updated by House Bill 121 during the most recent legislative session, which now allos the Texas Education Agency to commission officers to enhance school safety. view article