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KXAS-TV
Santa Fe High School had conducted active shooter drills, armed police officers patrolled the hallways and students went through a scare in February after a false report of a campus gunman. But in the aftermath of the deadliest public school shooting in Texas history, early witness accounts and recordings from emergency dispatch describe a near-30-minute nightmare as the real thing unfolded last week.
While officials continued to keep many details of the deadly rampage close, Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset responded Monday to criticism of the nearly half an hour it took officers to capture Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old student who authorities say opened fire on an art lab with a shotgun and .38 caliber handgun shortly after the first bell Friday morning.
A school resource officer responded to the scene within four minutes of the shooting beginning and engaged with the shooter, Trochesset said at a Monday afternoon news conference.
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The Associated Press via Houston Public Media
A South Texas sheriff says the discovery of 86 immigrants in the back of a tractor-trailer represents one of the largest cases of human trafficking he’s encountered in more than 30 years. Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence told The Monitor Wednesday that some inside the trailer punched a hole in the roof to escape when the rig was pulled over. The U.S. Border Patrol says a Texas trooper stopped the tractor-trailer late Tuesday near Raymondville, about 40 miles from the border, following a call about suspicious activity.
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The Post and Courier
Accused of killing someone in Texas and torching the victim's body, an MS-13 gang member's run from federal authorities ended Tuesday in the Charleston, South Carolina, area, local officials said. Franklin Platero-Rodriguez, 21, was found with a 9 mm pistol when he was arrested while leaving a Subway restaurant on U.S. Highway 78 in Ladson, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office said.
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Austin American-Statesman
Special stipend pay that was restored to Austin police after the police union's city contract expired is set to end Thursday, removing hundreds of dollars monthly from the paychecks of some officers. The pending expiration of the special pay, given for such attributes as foreign language proficiency or college degrees, left a police union leader calling on City Council members to act, but some council members said the officers chose to forgo specialty pay when they declined an interim labor contract.
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Critical task model policies available to all county law enforcement operations through the TAC Risk Management Pool help reduce liability risks and lower claims exposure. MORE
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UPI
A Texas sheriff's office shared a photo of a deputy "grabbing the bull by the horns" to escort a wandering longhorn back to its home. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office posted a photo to Twitter showing the deputy holding onto one of a longhorn's horns while escorting it down a road.
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times
The Corpus Christi Police Department kicked off the Special Olympics Summer Games with a symbolic torch run Wednesday morning. The police department and the Texas Department of Public Safety joined local athletes who participate in the Special Olympics to show their support for the program.
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From telephones and video visitation to tablets and kiosks, NCIC looks forward to supporting you with all of your Inmate Communications needs.
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Fox News
Police officers in Texas were so tickled by a 10-year-old boy's handwritten thank you letter that they decided to share it on social media.
“We received the letter last Friday from a young man who attends Huggins Elementary School in Fulshear,” Captain Mike McCoy with the Fulshear Police Department told Fox News. “During National Police Week, students from this school write us many letters of support. This one, obviously, stood out.”
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KREM-TV
Reports of threats and suspicious behaviors to local law enforcement and the FBI spiked after the shooting at Freeman High School in September 2017 and again in February after the shooting in Parkland, Florida. Law enforcement officials said it is good that people are reporting these things. It also makes it even more difficult to figure out which ones are just talk and which ones are a legitimate threat.
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Homeland Security Today
A GAO report has found that the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), law enforcement agencies and the public health sector need to better assess efforts to combat illicit opioids. As Congress is currently considering a bill to reauthorize ONDCP, GAO was asked to discuss federal agencies' specific opioid-related strategies and the extent to which each agency is measuring its performance, and federal agencies' efforts to enhance collaboration and information-sharing to limit the availability of illicit opioids, ongoing challenges to doing this, and ONDCP's role in enhancing such collaboration.
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