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A former sheriff’s detective is accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife, his daughter and a high school student. Austin police, SWAT and medical personnel respond to an active shooter situation located Great Hills Trail in Northwest Austin, Texas, on Sunday. Emergency responders say several people have been fatally shot in Austin and a former sheriff’s detective is in custody. (Brontë Wittpenn/Austin American-Statesman via AP) AUSTIN (CN) —  A 41-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting three people in Austin, Texas, on Sunday surrendered without incident to police who found ...

3 people were killed in a shooting in Austin, Texas. The suspect, a former sheriff's deputy, was arrested after a daylong manhunt. INSIDER 2 hrs ago insider@insider.com (Connor Perrett,Ashley Collman) © AP Photo/Jim Vertuno Police and emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal shooting in Austin, Texas, on April 18, 2021. AP Photo/Jim Vertuno Three people were killed in a shooting in Austin, Texas, Sunday morning. The suspect, former sheriff's deputy Stephen Broderick, has been arrested, per local reports. One of the victims has been identified as college football r...

Alyssa Broderick was named along with her boyfriend, Willie Simmons III, as two of the former cop’s victims. Alyssa was still in high school and Willie had graduated and was in college. They were named by their school district, Elgin ISD. The third victim is believed to be Stephen Broderick’s estranged wife, Amanda Broderick. Broderick was a cop until June 2020, assigned as a sheriff’s detective with Travis County in Austin, Texas, when he was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child. The Statesman reports that the victim was identified as a family member.    Shortly...

How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse Copy Link Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.  (Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report) April Wells grew up west of Chicago, a bright and avid bookworm in a low-income family. Her district, U-46, had gifted classes, but most of the students in them were white, and no one suggested that Wells, who is Black, might benefit from them. Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Bl...

PORTLAND — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Friday, March 5, she will issue an executive order mandating that all K-12 public schools provide universal access to in-person learning by the month’s end for students up to fifth grade and by mid-April for older students. The state’s coronavirus case numbers have fallen sharply in recent weeks. Oregon put teachers ahead of older residents in the line for the COVID-19 vaccine — a decision that angered many people 65 and older. As teachers get vaccinated, Brown has been under tremendous pressure from parents and local elected official...