AUSTIN — The narrative surrounding the Uvalde school shooting continued to evolve Thursday with new information emerging that police inside the building were not aware of 911 calls coming from children locked in a classroom with an 18-year-old gunman. That included Uvalde schools police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the incident commander during the shooting. Previous police accounts said Arredondo was aware of the …

Officials in Central Texas said late Thursday that an escaped inmate serving a life sentence for murder was dead. The Leon County Sheriff’s Office, located about halfway between Dallas and Houston, announced about 10:30 p.m. that Gonzalo Lopez was “captured & deceased.” Additional details were not immediately available. Authorities had released additional information hours earlier about the search for Lopez, …

Rain and scattered thunderstorm chances are in the forecast once again today. Today’s rain chances for DFW are dependent on a storm complex out in West Texas. This batch of rain and storms is moving eastward and will likely weaken somewhat. However, there’s a decent chance they make it to the Dallas – Fort Worth area around midday. Storms are …

On one of my last walks through Prague — as an exhilarating but emotionally demanding Central European vacation came to a close — I stopped to watch a gaggle of adults dropping off their young children for the school day. With the tragedy of the 19 children and two teachers gunned down in Uvalde still raw, the Czech Republic families’ …

Garland officers killed a man who fatally shot a bail bondsman Thursday evening, police said. Officers were called about 7:30 p.m. to a motel in the 6200 block of Broadway Boulevard, near Interstate 30, where employees of a bail bond company were serving a warrant for multiple accounts of sexual assault of a child. One of the bondsmen was shot …

HOUSTON, Texas — Houston is a bona-fide car town, but how does it rank for biking? A new survey on bikeability gives Houston a fairly decent – and somewhat surprising – ranking for that cycling life. In a list of the top 50 cities in the U.S., Houston ranks No. 29 and boasts a bikeability score of 49. Drilling down, …

HOUSTON, Texas — By all indications, it’s going to be a scorching summer in Texas. The best way to beat the heat is by floating in a brightly colored plastic tube around a fake German castle on a lazy river, or being propelled through a tube chute at 20 miles per hour into a refreshing pool of blue water. Luckily …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Since last summer, Tamyra Mensah-Stock has brightened things with her beaming grin – and also with her shiny gold medal. At the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, the Morton Ranch High School product became the first Black woman to ever win a gold medal in wrestling. She told that one of the many people who impacted her …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — SkyEye is over a traffic backup after an 18-wheeler struck the guard wall on the Eastex Freeway in northeast Houston. When the 18-wheeler struck the wall on the southbound ramp of the US-59 Eastex Freeway to the eastbound North 610 Loop, it sent debris to the northbound US-59 below. The crash not only caused damage to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Investigators are reviewing traffic cameras along the North Sam Houston Tollway after a passenger in a vehicle was shot to death in what could be a road rage incident. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said it learned of the shooting at about 10:50 a.m. Thursday when the driver of the targeted blue Honda sedan stopped in …