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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The principal of the Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers was placed on administrative leave Monday, her attorney said. Robb Elementary School Principal Mandy Gutierrez was placed on paid administrative leave by Uvalde school Superintendent Hal Harrell, said attorney Ricardo Cedillo of San Antonio in a terse statement to The Associated Press. Cedillo …

Plano’s High Point Tennis Center has earned a 2022 Outstanding Facility Award from the United States Tennis Association. The award recognizes High Point as an exemplary facility with a commitment toward growing and developing tennis in the community. Player and student participation at High Point consistently tops more than 112,000 sessions of play per year, according to an announcement by …

A man is dead after a shooting at a Fort Worth gas station Monday evening, police said. Officers responded shooting call at a Conoco gas station in the 4100 block of Meadowbrook Drive in East Fort Worth about 9:30 p.m. Police found a man who had been shot several times. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No …

Dallas police are investigating a shooting at Dallas Love Field airport Monday afternoon. Here’s what’s known so far. Shooting Dallas police Chief Eddie García said 37-year-old Portia Odufuwa was dropped off at the airport about 11 a.m., where she went to a bathroom and came out wearing a hoodie. García said Odufuwa then pulled out a gun, aimed it at the ceiling …

Union Pacific contractors began cleaning the grain and debris on railroad tracks in Joppa on Monday, 11 days after a derailment on Carbondale Street in the historic freedman’s town left residents demanding answers. Many community members said they were not informed about the derailment or the timeline of its cleanup. Though some said issues with the train are to be …

Operations at Dallas Love Field airport were temporarily suspended Monday after Dallas police shot a woman who opened fire inside the building. Portia Odufuwa, 37, was shot by police after she pulled out a gun at the airport, aimed it toward the ceiling and fired several times, Dallas police said. No one else was injured. Odufuwa was struck in the lower body …

As recently as last summer a Dallas County judge found the woman accused of opening fire inside a terminal at Dallas Love Field airport was not a danger to others, Dallas County records show. Portia Sharlette Odufuwa, 37.(Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) Portia Odufuwa, 37, was shot by police Monday after she pulled out a gun at the airport, aimed it toward the …

A large grass fire spread Monday afternoon into a Balch Springs neighborhood where it burned 26 homes and destroyed nine, displacing families. Some people lost everything. The Balch Springs fire spread at a time when firefighters across North Texas are battling devastating flames as drought and unseasonably high temperatures create dangerous conditions. Neighbors said other grass fires have flared in the area …

Texas Christian University announced Monday that the School of Medicine will be named the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine, honoring the late Fort Worth native and philanthropist who was committed to supporting the future of medical education. “I couldn’t ask for a better individual to name our school, a very impressive woman needless to say,” said Stuart D. Flynn, …

Dallas police wounded a woman who opened fire inside Dallas Love Field late Monday morning, suspending operations at the airport for hours. Dallas Police Chief Eddie García said 37-year-old Portia Odufuwa was dropped off at the airport about 11 a.m., where she went inside the bathroom and came out wearing a hoodie. García said Odufuwa then pulled out a gun near the ticket …