Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police Chief Pete Arredondo has been placed on administrative leave amid criticism of his response to the worst school shooting in Texas history. Uvalde CISD Superintendent Hal Harrell announced the move in a news release Wednesday, one day after Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw placed much of the blame of the delayed response to the shooting at Arredondo’s feet.
During the Texas Republican Convention in Houston last weekend, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized the law enforcement response to last month’s deadly school shooting in Uvalde and said he plans to place “highly trained” armed guards in each of the state’s school cafeterias.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is poised to open higher at Thursday’s opening bell a day after the head of the Federal Reserve acknowledged that a recession is possible. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6% and futures for the S&P 500 jumped 0.8%.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The country has long endured a numbing succession of mass shootings at schools, places of worship and public gathering places. None forced Congress to react with significant legislation — until now.
DETROIT (AP) — High gas prices have Wallace Reid looking for a new career. Reid, who drives for Uber and Lyft in New York, fills up his Lexus at least three times a week.
NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s sell-off for Wall Street means stocks no longer look to be in a dangerously overvalued bubble, as some critics had warned. Prices have retreated toward historical norms, when measured against corporate profits. But that doesn’t mean the danger is over for Wall Street. Analysts have so far been maintaining their expectations for corporate profits going forward. If those forecasts fall, stocks would take more jagged turns lower. Some companies have recently made high-profile warnings about how inflation is affecting their bottom lines, both on revenue and on costs.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russia’s military captured two villages in eastern Ukraine and were vying for control of a key highway in a continued offensive on the frontline. The capture of the two villages in the embattled Donbas region came as part of blistering offensive in recent weeks in and around the pivotal city of Sievierodonetsk. Britain’s Defense Ministry issued a new intelligence assessment Thursday saying that Russian forces were advancing towards the southern approaches of Lysychansk which is a neighboring city to the west of Sievierodonetsk since Sunday.
BANGS — An interview with new Bangs High School principal Josh LeMond quickly revealed several pieces of information. He’s disciplined and hard-working.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Prosecutors at the impeachment trial of South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg say he lied to investigators and abused the power of his office after he struck and killed a pedestrian. They are seeking conviction on a pair of impeachment charges that would mean automatic removal from office. Ravnsborg’s attorneys countered in Tuesday’s opening statements that such an action would improperly undo the will of voters for what Ravnsborg has maintained was an accident. Ravnsborg struck and killed 55-year-old Joe Boever in September 2020. Ravnsborg told a 911 dispatcher that he was in the middle of the road and might have struck a deer, and has said he didn’t know he hit a man until the next day. Criminal investigators said they doubted some of his statements.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The attack ads already are airing and campaign fundraising emails are flooding into inboxes as one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country gets rolling in Nevada, where candidates will be juggling persistent concerns about election integrity and inflation that is rising at its fastest pace in decades.