Southlake schools are under more than half a dozen federal investigations over allegations that include racial discrimination, gender and sex discrimination and violating the rights of students with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has at least eight open investigations into the Carroll school district, a department official confirmed Thursday. Southlake school officials did not immediately …

AUSTIN — The Texas Department of Public Safety will not be disciplining any more of its officers over the botched police response to the Uvalde school massacre, agency officials said Thursday. The remaining four officers who had been under review were cleared of wrongdoing, according to communications director Travis Considine, and the department’s internal investigation is now complete. DPS has …

Tough family conversations and more transparency from Carrollton school officials are needed to protect children, speakers said at a meeting discussing the deadly dangers of fentanyl. Three young Carrollton teens are dead and six other students have been hospitalized after overdosing on fentanyl or experiencing fentanyl poisoning, most of them since December, according to court documents. “We can’t lose another …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A cold front blowing in overnight is going to bring a frigid wind to Southeast Texas on Friday. Temperatures will drop down into the mid 40s around sunrise, but because of the winds and some added clouds in the sky, highs will only make it back into the mid 50s. The northwest breeze will hold steady at …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — And the deal is done! The 2023 NBA trade deadline is behind us with some big names joining a loaded Western Conference and Houston Rockets in the mix. The question is: what did they do? The deadline swaps began picking up days before, with players on the move until the early morning hours of Wednesday and Thursday …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — On Thursday, county officials announced plans to reduce overcrowding at the Harris County Jail. This comes after a record of 27 inmates died in custody in 2022, and four have died so far in 2023. The Investigates team has been covering this issue for more than a year, with Pooja Lodhia as the only Houston reporter …

So much for two seasons of UT vs. UH. The Big 12 announced on Thursday that it was reached an agreement with SEC-bound University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma, allowing them to depart a year earlier from the conference they’ve held membership with since 1996. UT and OU were previously slated to leave on June 30, 2025, but the deal …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A single mother from Humble is struggling to afford bills after her family was hit and injured in an accident. The impact of an accident in northeast Harris County continues to hurt the Humble family. “The car was so bad that none of us should have made it,” Kimberly Orr-Gordwin said. Orr-Gordwin was with her children …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two Houston-area women are trying to figure out their next move after recently learning the nursing diplomas they’ve been working towards are bogus. Twenty-five people, including four from Harris County, have been charged for their alleged part in a scheme that created an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses. “We had classes. We did our …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police have launched an investigation into the death of a man after they say his body was found near a ditch in northeast Houston. The man was found in the 3900 block of Love Street at about 7:05 a.m. on Thursday, according to the Houston Police Department. Police said they responded to a call of a person …