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Voters like to see a sense of authenticity in candidates, especially in Texas. But cursing and vulgar language in front of children and the elderly more often than not crosses the line.

The announcement​ comes in response to the tragic mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, when a gunman entered the school and killed 19 students and two teachers.

Beto O'Rourke wasn't having it, confronting a heckler laughing over Uvalde. "It may be funny to you, (expletive). But it’s not funny to me."

At a town hall meeting in Mineral Wells, Texas, Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, lashed out at an audience member who was reportedly laughing at O'Rourke's comments about the Uvalde school shooting. "It may be funny to you, motherf***er, but it's not funny to me," said O'Rourke, receiving applause from the audience.

Beto O'Rourke stopped his speech about gun control and the Uvalde, Tex., mass shooting to confront the heckler: "It may be funny to you ... but it’s not funny to me.”

As parents prepare their children for the start of the school year, safety is obviously a major concern.

The firing of Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school police chief, was postponed for a second time due to a scheduling conflict.

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The GOP governor initially said he stopped at the fundraiser “on the way” to Austin to “let people know” he couldn’t stay.

The principal of the Texas school where the nation’s deadliest classroom shooting in a decade happened was reinstated Thursday, three days after she was suspended with pay in the wake of security criticisms leveled by a legislative committee. Mandy Gutierrez, who Uvalde school district officials suspended with pay Monday as Robb Elementary School principal, was reinstated Thursday in a brief letter from Superintendent Hal Harrell. The reinstatement came after Gutierrez, in a letter to the committee members, disputed the key findings that a “culture of complacency” had developed at the school that allowed a gunman to enter the school and kill 19 children and two teachers.

A House panel says some sales tactics make guns look like a sign of manhood. Meanwhile, gun makers blame shooters rather than their weapons.

Gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling the weapons over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity.

Republican lawmakers defended gun rights, while Democrats blasted the manufacturers' marketing campaigns and profits amid a surge in gun violence.

Principal Mandy Gutierrez was placed on administrative leave with pay this week.

A U.S. House investigation has found that gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade.

A U.S. House investigation has found that gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade.

At the Uvalde school board meeting, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was urged to hold a special legislative session to raise the buying age for assault weapons to 21.

The principal of the Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers says the principal was placed on administrative leave Monday, her attorney said. Robb Elementary School Principal Mandy Gutierrez was placed on paid administrative leave by Uvalde school Superintendent Hal Harrell, said attorney Ricardo Cedillo of San Antonio in a terse statement to The Associated Press.

"I care about Pete. I care that he's mentally OK," a friend of Arredondo's told The Associated Press, but also called for "consequences."

In the aftermath of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, families of victims and many residents are navigating mixed emotions as they channel their grief and fury into demands for change.

After the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, Jesse Rizo was worried about his old friend, police chief Pete Arredondo. Blame for the botched police response was being directed heavily at Arredondo when Rizo texted him just days after the shooting: “Been thinking of and praying for you.”

The meeting was scheduled for this morning in the wake of community outrage about the schools police chief's handling of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in May.

Uvalde school officials are pushing back a decision on the future of embattled district Police Chief Pete Arredondo.

Uvalde school officials on Friday canceled a meeting to decide the future of embattled district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was facing the possibility of becoming the first officer to be fired over the slow law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School massacre. Arredondo's job was set to be discussed in an abruptly called school board meeting that was scheduled for Saturday. The reversal comes just two days after Uvalde's superintendent moved to fire Arredondo amid mounting public pressure and growing impatience in South Texas for accountability after police body camera footage and a damning new report revealed how officers waited in the school hallway for more than 70 minutes instead of confronting the gunman inside a fourth-grade classroom.

Former sports superstar Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in the Uvalde school massacre in May.

The mass shooting that left 21 people dead inside Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, has parents there and across the nation demanding safer schools.

Gunmaker's advertising includes "images associated with killing and hunting people," according to gun safety group.

Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of the school district police chief who was central to the botched law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting nearly two months ago that killed two teachers and 19 students.

With a new school year now just weeks away in heavily patrolled South Texas, there are worries the lockdowns will resume and deepen the trauma for scarred students in Uvalde.

Nearly two months after a deadly shooting a Texas elementary school, a Texas House of Representatives committee report found that nearly 400 officers from local, state and federal agencies responded to the 77-minute rampage in which 19 kids and two teachers died.

Still reeling from the murders of 19 children and two teachers at the end of last school year, students and parents are frightened about the prospect of returning for the new school year in Uvalde, Texas.

Tiny police departments offer community connection. But critics say they lack the training, expertise and accountability that bigger agencies can provide.

The report from Texas state lawmakers was sharply critical of law enforcement at all levels. Parents didn't hold back in addressing board members.

The decision was made using a parent and student survey, as well as by the district's internal and external safety task forces.

New bodycam footage is released showing Uvalde police officers responding to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary.

The report issued Sunday blamed all law enforcement agencies at the scene for failing to swiftly rescue those in the school, and said some could have survived had they moved more quickly.

A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — more than the entire police force in a mid-size American city like Fort Lauderdale, Florida or Tempe, Arizona.

The Texas House report into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting charts a massive but uncoordinated and chaotic response from law enforcement.

News4JAX spoke with a local firearms instructor on Monday after an investigative report was released Sunday on the May 24 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers.

City of Uvalde Police Department/ReutersMore than an hour before law-enforcement officials finally confronted Salvador Ramos, a Texas SWAT team chief urged officers to storm the classroom he was in, newly released body-camera footage shows.Uvalde officials published the footage on Sunday evening as part of a sweeping report detailing the police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.The footage came from a device on Sgt. Eduardo Canales,

Texas State Rep. Joe Moody, who helped write the report on the shooting, says he hopes the investigation helps lawmakers improve policy going forward — particularly when it comes to gun control.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Texas State Representative Joe Moody about the report he helped write on the Uvalde elementary school shooting, and what he hopes will come of the investigation.

The investigative committee found law enforcement's response to the massacre involved little coordination and no leadership. School faculty, meanwhile, failed to uphold existing safeguards.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has launched an internal review over the slow response to the Uvalde school massacre.

In the year before the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the gunman purchased accessories, became aggressive toward women online and in person, and was nicknamed "school shooter" by those who knew him.

New body camera footage obtained by CNN was released Sunday from the responding officers in the Uvalde school shooting.

The report was written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives and released to family members Sunday.

A committee of the Texas House has released the initial findings of its investigation into the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The scathing new report by lawmakers in Texas says "systemic failures" created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman at Robb Elementary School was finally confronted.

Nearly 400 law enforcement officers were at the Uvalde school during May 24 shooting and none took the initiative to save those inside, according to the report. It said it was possible lives could have been saved if they had acted more swiftly.

The report was written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives and released to family members Sunday.

A report says nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting that left 21 people dead at a Uvalde elementary school.

Ahead of the first report into the May 24 Uvalde school massacre, officials are feuding and families are quietly facing financial troubles.

Two news outlets’ decision to release an excruciating 77-minute video this week showing police inaction during the Robb Elementary School mass shooting drew a harsh response from residents of Uvalde, Texas, even though they have sought this type of transparency for weeks.

At least $14 million has been raised through multiple sources for the victims and survivors of the May 24 mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says it's “shocking” that newly leaked video of the Uvalde school massacre doesn't match what he had first described to the public as a swift and brave confrontation.

After surveillance video was released from the Uvalde shooting, further questions started to circulate regarding why the Uvalde police didn’t act sooner.

Local elected officials and an attorney for 19 Uvalde families share their thoughts as law enforcement is shown in video footage of the mass shooting.

Many families and city officials are expressing outrage and anger with law enforcement and the media following leaked video from Robb Elementary.

Newly released video of a hallway outside classrooms at a Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers is renewing questions about police accountability.

Families affected by mass shootings across the U.S. protested outside of the Capitol, calling on Congress to ban assault weapons.

On May 24, a gunman fatally shot 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

The video was released on Tuesday by the Austin American-Statesman after a contentious fight by government officials who opposed its release.

The video was released on Tuesday by the Austin American-Statesman after a contentious fight by government officials who opposed its release.

Security footage from inside Robb Elementary School was scheduled to be released to the Uvalde community in the near future, but was leaked Tuesday.

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting entering the building and later showed officers milling the hallway.

Highland Park and Uvalde, Texas mass shootings survivors, families and supporters rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, calling for stricter gun controls.

The video shows the gunman entering the school and how police waited in a hallway.

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.

Almost 50 days later, attention is moving on, but officials still haven’t explained how police failed so badly.

The 77-minute video, which officials say ends before law enforcement finally breached classroom May 24, does not contain images of children.

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with an AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.

The village board gave preliminary support when the plan was informally proposed at a board meeting in May. But once residents got wind of the idea, they mounted an email and phone campaign against it.

As Biden held an event to mark passage of the new gun control law, he was interrupted by the father of a Parkland student upset that more is not being done.

Debate is swirling over the new proposed budget for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office as the debate over policing has resurfaced nationally.

Journalists must make agonizing decisions about which of hundreds of mass shootings get limited reporting resources.

The mayor of Uvalde is disputing a new report alleging missed chances to quickly end a massacre at a Texas elementary school.

The parents of a student who survived the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead and many others injured tell News4JAX sister station KSAT that they’re barely staying afloat financially.

A new report on the Uvalde elementary school massacre in Texas says a police officer had a chance to open fire on the gunman but missed it while waiting for permission to shoot.

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

When children head back to school in August, their safety is top priority.

The last victim of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is being laid to rest.

Almost 300 high school seniors received their diplomas in Uvalde in the shadow of the massacre of 19 elementary school students and two children 5 1/2 weeks earlier.

The sister of a 9-year-old girl killed in the Uvalde school shooting rampage has tearfully pleaded with Texas lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws and questioned why so many security measures failed.

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has been put on leave following allegations that he erred in his response to a mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

The first public hearings in Texas looking into the Uvalde school massacre have centered on law enforcement blunders, school building safety and mental health.

The Uvalde massacre began after the 18-year-old gunman entered the school through a door that could only be locked from the outside and then got inside a classroom that had a busted lock.

The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety says three minutes after a gunman entered a school where he slaughtered 19 elementary students and two teachers there was sufficient armed law enforcement on scene to stop the gunman.

Documents examined by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV show armed police officers stood in a Uvalde elementary school hallway with at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of a gunman arriving at the school, where he killed 21 people, 19 of them children.

Two Uvalde city police officers told a sheriff's deputy that they passed up a fleeting chance to shoot the gunman for fear of hitting children outside an elementary school where the gunman killed 21 people.

Layla Salazar adored Koala bears and loved the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and dancing to TikTok videos.

Some Texas lawmakers and advocates are concerned that law enforcement authorities will use a legal loophole to block the release of further information related to the mass shooting at an elementary school.

Senate bargainers have announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings.

Alexandria Aniyah Rubio was opinionated like her mother, and she played basketball and softball like her father.

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history says in his first extensive published comments that he didn't consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded.

Brown said to expect uniformed and plain-clothed officers all over the area.

As the small Texas city of Uvalde struggles to heal after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school, thoughts have also turned to making sure the school’s legacy as the place that was at the heart of a fight for the equal education of Mexican Americans over half a century ago is carried on.

The Justice Department has named a team of nine people, including an FBI official and former police chiefs, to aid in a review of the law enforcement response to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting.

The House has passed a wide-ranging gun control bill in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.