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Trial of former Uvalde CISD officer recesses early Thursday due to family emergency of jury member by: Dylan McKim
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.
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A stabbing was reported at a Conroe Independent School District high school Monday morning. Around 9 a.m., Conroe ISD police said a student was stabbed three times during a fight at Grand Oaks High School.
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Student hospitalized after high school stabbing in Spring, according to Conroe ISD
A student was rushed to the hospital on Monday after being stabbed at Grand Oaks High School, school district officials said. According to Conroe ISD, a student suffered three shallow stab wounds after an altercation with another student occurred at 9 a.m. on campus at Grand Oaks High School, which is located at 3800 Riley Fuzzel Road in Spring.
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The cases come amid renewed nationwide scrutiny of the facility following the transfer there of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy who federal agents arrested along with his father in Minneapolis.
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Texas jails have more than 400 pregnant inmates monthly. The state is trying to understand what happens to them.
As a part of a yearlong study, Texas county jails are collecting data about pregnant inmates’ prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. In May 2018, Ruby McPeters was eight months pregnant when she was booked into Hood County jail on a probation violation. Just a month later, the 33-year-old North Texas woman was dead.
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Galveston man sues California doctor under new Texas law allowing lawsuits over abortion pills
Under House Bill 7, a private citizen who successfully sues an abortion pill provider can receive up to $100,000 from the defendant. A Galveston County man has filed a lawsuit against a California doctor he accuses of providing abortion-inducing pills to his partner, leveraging for the first time a new Texas law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for up to $100,000.
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Midland ISD has expanded its partnership with Baylor College of Medicine to offer a summer opportunity for rising seniors wanting a career in medicine and health sciences.(
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Humble man arrested after allegedly waiting for female students at Humble ISD school bus stop
Harris County Constable Precinct 4 deputies arrested 18-year-old Nicolas Guillory on January 26 in relation to an incident on December 17, 2025. What we know: Deputies with Constable Mark Herman’s Office say they responded to multiple calls of an unknown man who allegedly exposed his genitals to several students while they were waiting at a bus stop to go to school in the Humble area.
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Abbott’s declaration comes after close monitoring by both Texas and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the northward spread of the parasitic screwworm in Mexico. Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a statewide disaster declaration over the continued northward expansion of the New World screwworm, which has been labeled by state officials as a threat to Texas’ wildlife and livestock industries. “Although the New World screwworm fly is not yet present in Texas or the U.S., its northward spread from Mexico toward the U.S. southern border poses a serious threat to Texas’ livestock industry and wildlife,” said Abbott. “State law authorizes me to act to prevent a threat of infestation that could cause severe damage to Texas property, and I will not wait for such harm to reach our livestock and wildlife.”
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The Northside Independent School District (NISD) said a student was found with an unloaded gun on Thursday at Harlan High School.
The student is expected to be arrested on a charge of places weapons prohibited, according to the district.
The district said the student will also face “serious disciplinary consequences.”
In a letter sent to families, Harlan High School Principal Richard Yzaguirre said staff and NISD police officers “acted immediately” to locate the student after a report surfaced about a gun in the individual’s possession.
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An attorney representing a McKinney student’s family revealed new allegations Thursday surrounding the arrest of a high school athletic trainer. Personal injury attorney Paul Herz met with reporters in his Dallas office, sharing additional details about the arrest of a McKinney Independent School District athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting a student. Herz also raised concerns about whether the trainer was properly licensed in Texas at the time of the alleged incidents.
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Southwest ISD bus overturns with 33 students on board, no major injuries reported
A Southwest Independent School District bus overturned during the ride to school early Tuesday morning. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. along Southwest Loop 410 and Old Pearsall Road on the Southwest Side. Authorities said the bus barely struck a curb while entering the highway before flipping onto its left side and skidding a short distance. About 33 students were on board and were headed to Legacy High School.
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Judge dismisses Klein ISD sex trafficking case against former teacher for insufficient evidence
A Harris County judge has dismissed the case alleging a Klein ISD cosmetology teacher operated a sex trafficking ring with her son, after prosecutors said they did not have sufficient evidence. Kedria Grigsby, 43, a former cosmetology teacher at Klein Cain High School, was arrested in 2024 and charged with three counts of compelling prostitution of a minor and three counts of trafficking a child. Grigsby was accused of assisting in her son's efforts to recruit teen runaways from the school district for prostitution.
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Cancels Late-Term Abortionist Speech Following Public Outcry
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.
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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.
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11-year-old Magnolia ISD student dies after suffering medical emergency on school bus
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.
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Defense rests in former Uvalde school officer’s trial, closing arguments begin Wednesday
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.
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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.
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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."
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‘Messed with the wrong mama’: Mother says substitute teacher slapped her 4-year-old daughter; Spring ISD investigating
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.
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Witnesses to Uvalde school shooting give emotional testimony in first day of ex-officer’s trial
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.
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Emotional testimony delivered by teachers and staffers Thursday in trial for Uvalde CISD officer Adrian Gonzales
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.
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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.
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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.
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Texas AG collects 1,100+ mystery seed packages from China, issues another warning
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Odem-Edroy ISD fires coach, places two others on leave after bus assault investigation
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.
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Officer did nothing until it was too late during Uvalde school shooting, prosecutor says
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.
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Former Azle ISD student sues district, officials over alleged sexual abuse by coach
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.
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Jury seated in trial for ex-officer accused in police response to Uvalde school shooting
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.
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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.
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Jury seated in trial for ex-officer accused in police response to Uvalde school 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. Gonzales has pleaded not guilty, and his attorney has said the officer tried to save children that day.
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