Edgar Sandoval

Language and other barriers are hobbling the flow of assistance to hard-hit communities where affordable housing drew growing numbers of Hispanic migrants.

Investigations have singled out Pete Arredondo for the delayed police response to a 2022 school shooting in Texas. He is expected to appear in court for the first time on Monday.

A report by the federal border agency on the school shooting in 2022 found that its agents lacked adequate training and authority to respond to active shooter situations.

The suit is the newest front in an escalating conflict over elections between the Republicans who dominate state government and the Democrats who control the state’s major cities.

Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the purge, but the numbers were in line with routine culling from the past. Democrats said some removals sent a chilling message to Latino voters.

The organization said many of those targeted by the raids, conducted by a unit created by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, were Democratic leaders and election volunteers.

The move to raze the church in Sutherland Springs, which had served as a memorial to the victims of the 2017 massacre, came over objections from some in the community.

A grand jury charged the officers with abandoning and endangering the children who were left holed up with a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Texas.

Currently a tropical storm after smashing through the Caribbean, Beryl is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane early Monday.

Beryl is predicted to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday. But forecasters warned that it could rapidly intensify, and officials said not enough people were evacuating.