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Panic buttons, locked doors could be required in Texas schools

DALLAS — Texas schools would need silent panic buttons in classrooms and two-way emergency radios on campus under a new proposed state rule.

Tribune News Service

In wake of the Uvalde shooting, hoax active-shooter calls keep parents and police on edge

An increase in fake active-shooter reports since the beginning of the school year has intensified parents’ anxieties and required an additional law enforcement response.

The Texas Tribune

Día de los Muertos takes on new meaning in Uvalde

Día de los Muertos, honors loved ones who have passed, the holiday resonated in Uvalde, Texas with a deeper degree of tragedy this year after the community lost 19 children and two teachers last May.

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Four Uvalde shooting victims left classrooms alive. Investigators are reviewing whether a faster response could have saved them.

The inquiry will help determine whether criminal charges should be brought against responding officers.

The Texas Tribune

Photos: In the wake of tragedy, Uvalde residents look to murals for healing

Murals of the victims give the community a positive outlet to process their grief and celebrate their loved ones’ lives.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde’s state senator proposes lawmakers create a $300 million fund for victims’ families

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez is urging the Legislature to create a $300 million victims compensation fund for families of Robb Elementary School students and teachers killed and wounded in the May 24 massacre.

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Uvalde shooting: Girl, 10, trapped with gunman frantically called 911 over and over

Khloie Torres pleaded with law enforcement for help as her classmates lay dead and dying around her. Shooter Salvador Rolando Ramos was allowed to carry on killing indiscriminately for a further 40 minutes before finally being stopped

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Uvalde school shooting: Heartbreaking 911 call from 10-year-old girl pleading with police to help released

‘I’m in classroom 11. Please hurry. There is a lot of dead bodies,’ she is heard whispering on the call

Evening Standard

Heartbreaking Uvalde 911 audio released

Audio shows just how long police likely knew that children and teachers were in danger before taking action

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One student repeatedly called 911 during the Uvalde shooting, reports say

A series of miscommunications from nearly 400 members of law enforcement led to long wait times for those stuck inside Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers died.

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Girl, 10, trapped with Uvalde shooter repeatedly called 911 while police failed to act, report says: ‘I don’t wanna die’

Khloie Torres was recorded saying: ‘Please get help. I don’t wanna die. My teacher is dead. Oh, my God’

The Independent UK

Uvalde families gather at Texas Capitol for Day of the Dead

Families of some of the 19 children killed in the Uvalde school massacre commemorated the Day of Dead with a rally, procession and decorated altar outside the Texas Capitol on Tuesday night

The Independent UK

“I’m so scared”: 911 recordings reveal fear and urgency of those trapped in Uvalde elementary school

Audio obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica shows just how long police and dispatchers likely knew that children and teachers were in danger before taking action at Robb Elementary School.

The Texas Tribune

New Uvalde video shows officers talking about fears of getting shot outside as gunman killed children inside

‘I’m not trying to get clapped out,’ one Texas DPS trooper says in the footage

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Uvalde families make last push for shakeup on Election Day

The Uvalde school massacre has cast a long shadow in the midterm elections in Texas, intensifying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign against Democrat Beto O’Rourke and driving a blitz of television ads

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Will Bunch: Why St. Louis hero teacher Jean Kuczka did what 376 Uvalde cops couldn’t

There were two stories out of the American heartland this week that mostly got lost in a frenetic autumn of political anxiety and baseball joy (or sorrow), but demand a few moments of our attention for what they say about what we value in this country — and what we…

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Greg Abbott, Texas Republicans shift millions to fund border security, school safety

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP legislative leaders on Thursday shifted nearly $775 million into border security and school safety, plus $100 million to cover bills from Texas’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Texas Women’s Basketball Hosting Exhibition Game to Help Uvalde

The entirety of ticket sales for the Sunday game will be donated for the Uvalde school district to build a new elementary school.

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Dark-money group features Uvalde shooter footage in ad criticizing Abbott’s gun policies

The ad drew swift pushback from Republicans criticizing its use of the gunman’s image.

Texas Observer

The Uvalde Parents Won’t Back Down

Alongside diligent media members, and despite local divisions, these families aren’t letting Texas move on from the Robb Elementary tragedy.

The Texas Tribune

Tony Gonzales becomes first major Republican to call for DPS Director Steve McCraw to resign

The representative called for McCraw’s resignation after the Department of Public Safety director said in a meeting that the agency had not failed the city of Uvalde.

The Independent UK

Criminal probe of botched Uvalde shooting response will be finished by year-end, Texas state police say

Texas' state police chief says a criminal investigation into the hesitant police response to the Uvalde school massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers will be finished by the end of the year

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Texas police: Uvalde officers' probe to be over by year-end

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Uvalde survivor, 10, terrified by ‘racial profiling’ police stop on way home from Beto rally

‘She knew the police took 77 minutes to confront the gunman at Robb and, like many people in Uvalde, Caitlyne deeply resented them for it’

The Texas Tribune

Texas DPS chief Steve McCraw says his agency “did not fail” at Uvalde school shooting

At a public meeting where families that lost children in the school shooting said he should resign, McCraw said members of the Department of Public Safety made mistakes. But he said he’ll step down only “if DPS as an institution failed the families.”

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