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A bus driver for Coppell ISD was arrested this week, accused of aggravated sexual assault of a student, the district announced Tuesday. Paul Russo was arrested Monday by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Coppell ISD superintendent Dr. Brad Hunt said in a statement. Russo worked for Durham Transportation Services, a third-party contractor that provides transportation services for the district. Hunt …

From culinary and barbering classes to getting a GED or college degree, inmates serving time in Collin County Jail can make good use of their time while there, thanks to Sheriff Jim Skinner, who initiated a new life-skills program. Collin County Jail is the first in Texas to launch IGNITE (Inmate Growth Naturally and Intentionally Through Education), a program facilitated …

Lingering showers this Wednesday morning will quickly fall apart, leaving behind mostly cloudy skies. There’s a slight chance for an isolated shower or storm to redevelop later today. Highs will be in the upper 70s to low 80s. One more opportunity for thunderstorms is in the forecast tonight into Thursday morning. These will develop to the north and move southward …

AUSTIN – Roland Gutierrez is stuck. He’s stuck in a very specific moment. The San Antonio state senator who represents Uvalde is watching videos for the first time of the horror that unfolded at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022. Gutierrez watches as the attacker comes into frame, tosses his hair and enters two classrooms. The gunshots ring out. He …

Liz Mulroney felt like it was 1999 all over again. A gunman had killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde. The North Texas teacher had flashbacks to watching teenagers jumping out of windows on TV during the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, where two gunmen killed 13 people. As an English teacher who has taught in Colorado and …

AUSTIN – Texas Republicans have only a few days left to hash out disagreements over whether the state should funnel public money toward private schools. Late on Tuesday, the Senate approved legislation tying a voucher-like program to a larger bill targeting teacher pay raises and school finance reforms. But whether this proposal has legs in the House remains to be seen …

SUNLAND PARK, N.M.— The scrawny teenager boasted he was the best option for migrants heading north from Mexico to this small border city just west of El Paso. He was a self-described old-school coyote, a smuggler of human beings benefiting from a surge in popularity in a decades-old trade. “Here we do things the old-fashioned way: We run like hell,” …

While system breakdowns pile up throughout City Hall — most recently, tech and data meltdowns and garbage collection calamities — the Park and Recreation Department gives taxpayers our money’s worth. Today comes news of another big win by that team and its partners. Dallas jumped 10 spots, from 53 to 43, in a respected national index of local park systems in …

AUSTIN – A House ethics panel is investigating the circumstances of a $3.3 million whistleblower settlement Attorney General Ken Paxton reached with four former employees who accused him of corruption, the speaker’s office announced on Tuesday. The panel “is conducting a thorough examination of the events tied to the firing of the whistleblowers in addition to Ken Paxton’s alleged illegal conduct,” said Cait …

Authorities in Prosper have found the 18-year-old woman reported missing earlier this week, city officials said Tuesday. Aylin Figueroa was last seen Thursday at her home in the 400 block of North Coleman Boulevard, city officials had said in a news release. She was reported missing Monday. Prosper is about 38 miles north of Dallas. On Tuesday, city officials said …