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(Illegal) beer run! Arlington police are searching for this guy who managed to grab five cases ๐ฏ of beer from a convenience store and flee the scene.
REST IN PEACE, UZIYAH GARCIA.
The 8-year-old died in the Uvalde elementary school shooting. His grandfather, Manny Renfro, shared this photo of him with AP.
"The sweetest little boy that I've ever known," Renfro said.
What we know about the victims:
REST IN PEACE, ANNABELLE RODRIGUEZ.
The 10-year-old's family confirmed to ABC News that she was among the victims who died in the Uvalde school shooting. Her family also said Annabelle's cousin died in the shooting.
What we know about the victims:
"It makes me sick to my stomach" | Dallas police are for looking the man seen here leaving an adult German Shepherd on the side of the road near Dowdy Ferry and Teagarden Road.
@KevinReeceWFAA
ย speaks with the man who captured this video tonight at 6.
JUST IN: Democrat Beto O'Rourke has won his primary race and has been nominated by his party to run for governor of Texas later in November.
Latest updates:
REST IN PEACE, JACKIE CAZARES
The 10-year-old's family confirmed to ABC News that she was among the victims who died in the Uvalde school shooting. Her family said she and her cousin Annabelle were in the same fourth grade classroom.
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PERSPECTIVE: Five major massacres have happened on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's watch since 2017. His inability to keep Texans safe represents a failure of leadership.
Deandre Arnold has been suspended and won't be allowed to walk at graduation in three months. Why? Because the school district wants him to cut his hair.
HEARTBREAKING: Guadalupe "Joe" Garcia, 48, the husband of Irma Garcia, has passed away from a heart attack just days after his wife was killed in the Uvalde school shooting. The couple had four children.
REST IN PEACE, XAVIER LOPEZ.
We're learning more about the victims of the Uvalde school shooting, and 10-year-old Xavier's family shared this picture of him. His mother attended his awards ceremony at school shortly before the shooting.
Latest updates:
The ghosts at this supposedly haunted North Texas house reportedly like to talk dirty. They're "sexual," the owner says. "Thereโs no other way to put it."
.
@dalehansen
goes Unplugged: "Kingsbury fits all the criteria to be a head coach in the NFL: He's an offensive genius, he's young โ and he's white, and not necessarily in that order."
GUYGER INDICTED: Fired Dallas officer Amber Guyger has been indicted on a murder charge in
#BothamJean
's shooting death, sources with knowledge of the case confirm to
@wfaa
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๐ข ๐ถ It was a tough day for
@dalehansen
, who had to say goodbye to his beloved Basset Hound, Miss Hailey.
"I don't think you know the true meaning of the word 'love' until you've been owned by a dog."
Hey
@oncor
ย
@ERCOT_ISO
ย how many Texas customers have been without power for more than 24 hours? We are getting hundreds of reports of dire situations. Are those part of the controlled outages? When can people expect to have their power restored if they've been out for that long?
Braylon King is a 4th grade student from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. He stayed home the day of Tuesday's tragic shooting and lost some of his best friends. Here's his message to them โค๏ธ
POWERFUL WORDS: U.S. senator representing Sandy Hook passionately responds to Uvalde elementary school shooting on Senate floor, repeatedly asking his colleagues, "What are we doing?" and "Why are we here?"
BREAKING: WFAA has confirmed that the NFL has reached out to AT&T Stadium to check on its availability as a possible backup 2022 Super Bowl venue; Arlington officials say the city is ready to host the game if needed.
"Gov. Abbott and our other state leaders have proven again that the rule of law doesn't matter, and court orders can be ignored as long as you are well-to-do and white," says Dale Hansen.
All but one of the 30 of the Major League Baseball teams are hosting Pride Nights this season, most during Pride Month, which celebrates and supports LGBTQ+ culture and rights. The Texas Rangers are the only team without a Pride Night.
"It makes me sick to my stomach" | Dallas police are for looking the man seen here leaving an adult German Shepherd on the side of the road near Dowdy Ferry and Teagarden Road.
@KevinReeceWFAA
ย speaks with the man who captured this video tonight at 6.
Dallas is showing its support for Ukraine. The downtown skyline was lit up Thursday night with the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
See how more North Texans are showing their support here:
We're sorry, McKinney ๐
Our heat index map mistakenly said it felt like 101105 degrees in McKinney yesterday.
@wfaaweather
ย handled it the way you might expect - and no, it wasn't
@JesseWFAA
's fault ๐คฃ
For the record, the real heat index was *only* 105.
TEXAS HOMECOMINGS HIT DIFFERENT ๐ฅ Allen High School held their homecoming pep rally this morning before their game against Plano and these were the scenes! ๐
๐ฅ: Kim Garner, Allen ISD Athletic Director
JUST IN: Fort Worth ISD superintendent says heโs directed staff to add required masks to back to school guidance after getting letter from 100 Cook Childrenโs physicians. The district joins Dallas ISD and Austin ISD. Read more here:
"What was so very scary is she came very close and not only verbally assaulted us but started physically assaulting us. She started hitting me," said the victim.
RIP ๐ Jacqueline Pokuaa, 45, and Annette Flowers, 63, were the two Methodist employees who died in the Saturday shooting at the Dallas hospital.
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The Omni Hotel's LED faรงade flashes a
@dallasmavs
logo and Dirk Nowitzki's iconic number 41 in honor of the beloved basketballer's jersey being retired at the American Airlines Center tonight -- GORGEOUSLY captured by Dallas skyline photographer
@josephhaubert
.
#mffl
#41Forever
REMEMBER THEM ๐: Here are the faces of the 8 victims who were killed in Allen, Texas, during a busy weekend afternoon at the Allen Premium Outlets.
Here's what we know about them:
Breaking: A district court judge has sided with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins in his dispute with Gov. Greg Abbott. The county's mask mandate can stay in place.
Transgender Texans can no longer change the sex on their driverโs license to align with their gender identity - effective immediately, according to Texas DPS.
"Why should I get detention because I don't want to die at school?" one Allen High School student asked. "It's only when we do things that will get us in trouble that they will listen to us. Our lives on the line, and I think it's very worth it."
THE MAVS ARE COMING TO WFAA! ๐ 13 of the Dallas Mavericks' remaining games in the 2023-2024 NBA season will be broadcast over the air on WFAA -- meaning approximately 7 million North Texans will be able to watch the team play for free.
If Beto OโRourke decides to run for governor in 2022, a new poll shows the former congressman is within the margin of error and virtually tied with the incumbent, Greg Abbott.
#BREAKING
: The superintendent of Itasca ISD, about 45 miles south of Fort Worth, is among seven arrested in an underage sex sting operation, authorities announced.
CONGRATS, PETE! Here at WFAA, we all generally think that Delkus is pretty great. But there may be no living with him after he was named the top meteorologist in the country ๐ ๐!
Power lines were sparking in the severe storms in Dallas early this morning. Widespread power outages have been reported across North Texas.
Damage:
Outage map:
Video: Lauren Campagna Ragan
Hundreds of students at Oxford High School, the Michigan school where four were killed in November, walked out Thursday and formed a โUโ on the football field to show support for students and families in Uvalde, Texas.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Kyrie Irving arrives at the Mavs' practice facility in Dallas as the team's trade with Brooklyn becomes official. Forward Markieff Morris also joins Irving on the Mavs.
Story:
Frisco ISD board members on Monday voted 7-0 to approve a policy that would make students use bathrooms and changing rooms throughout the district according to the gender they were assigned at birth.
A family representative has confirmed to WFAA that Aishwarya Thatikonda was one of the victims killed in the shooting in Allen, Texas.
She was an engineer, and her family lives in India.
More:
@ERCOT_ISO
Can you please explain what this means? Did more outages occur overnight? What kind of customer restoration numbers can we expect today? Who will be given priority for restoration? These are answers Texans need.
Two years ago, Joey Reed bashed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for not doing more to help free his son Trevor, who was being held captive in Russia. Now his son is free, and father and son are working to help kick Cruz out of office.
"I don't care what Jacob Blake did or didn't do, I don't care. Heโs unarmed, and that police officer shoots him in the back at least seven times in front of his three young children who were in the car. That cop should go to prison, but I doubt he will."
Southlake Carroll ISD board president Cameron Bryan this week called for the district to make sure it uses the term "Christmas break" instead of "holiday break" or "winter break" in the future.
The former CEO of ERCOT said that his order to keep power prices at the maximum during last year's winter storm was issued at the direction of Gov. Abbott, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.
In droves, Dallas Mavericks fans are changing their profile to an image of Mavs star Luka Doncic with sunglasses and headphones, but it's not that simple. The photo is a parody of a photo of LeBron James during the 2016 NBA Finals.
A tree landed upside down in a Target parking lot in Lewisville, where wind speeds exceeded 70 mph in this morning's storms.
Highest DFW wind speeds and locations:
Photo via Amanda Capps
Tonight,
@DaleHansen
went Unplugged โ with a touching tribute to
@JohnMccaa
.
"John is not the guy who will tell you about what he has meant to this station...so I'm gonna do it for him."
Hundreds of students walked out of Irving ISD's MacArthur High School on Wednesday in protest after teachers were allegedly forced to take down "safe space" stickers on their classroom doors that were for LGBTQIA+ students.
Miriam Adelson, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and the casino company Las Vegas Sands, is planning to donate as much as $100 million to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, the New York Times reported this week.
First it was Harlan Crow. Now Jerry Jones, another Dallas billionaire, has been linked to gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in a new report from the New York Times.
Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, stating that the states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws.
The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would require public schools to prominently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom starting next school year.
GOODBYE, DALE! The time has officially come to send off Dale Hansen, as his more than 38-year sports broadcast career ends with one last โUnpluggedโ commentary tonight at 10. Share your favorite memories in the comments!
#Daleretires
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