Yearly Archives: 2018

A Special Needs Student Left Alone On A School Bus For Hours

A Special Needs Student Left Alone On A School Bus For Hours

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A North Texas bus driver and bus attendant have resigned after they overlooked a 5-year-old special needs student who sat strapped in his bus seat for five hours. Fort Worth school district spokesman Clint Bond says the bus stopped at an elementary school on Oct. 15 where the attendant should…MORE

Millions of Texans have early voted

Millions of Texans have early voted

Austin (AP) – More than 4.3 million Texans have cast early ballots for Tuesday’s election in the state’s 30 largest counties alone. That’s within striking distance of the total number of ballots cast statewide during the last midterm elections in 2014. Secretary of State data through Thursday includes counties that are home to nearly 80…MORE

Border wall contract awarded in Texas

Border wall contract awarded in Texas

McAllen (AP) – Federal authorities have awarded a $145 million contract to a Texas company to build six miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Friday that SLSCO will begin construction of an 18-foot reinforced concrete levee wall in February in the agency’s McAllen…MORE

Chris Krok: Serving on the Border

Chris Krok: Serving on the Border

 A Hispanic veteran said it would be difficult to be deployed to the border because those are “his people.” Chris Krok says aren’t Americans your people?MORE