The Latest Breaking News from Uvalde

Uvalde girl loved to dance, hoped to have viral TikTok video

Tess Marie Mata created more than 150 short videos for TikTok and saved them to her mother’s account

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

In Texas, Moms Demand Action got more than 20,000 new supporters after Uvalde

"My own historically Republican mother told me she looked up her senators and called them for the first time in her life," Liz Hanks, who leads the Texas chapter of Moms Demand Action, told NPR.

WEKU · Jun 13, 2022

Breaking down the provisions in the tentative gun legislation deal emerging in the Senate

WASHINGTON — The group of senators led by Texas Republican John Cornyn and Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy describe the bipartisan federal gun proposals they released Sunday following the Uvalde school shooting in Texas as “commonsense” measures.

Tribune News Service · Jun 12, 2022

Saturday’s funeral in Uvalde remembers 10-year-old Alexandria ‘Lexi’ Rubio

DALLAS — A service was held in Uvalde on Saturday for one of the students killed in the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Tribune News Service · Jun 11, 2022

Thousands rally, take to streets to demand action on gun laws in the US

March for Our Lives rallies and marches were held at an estimated 300 locations across the U.S. — including in Chicago’s Loop — as demonstrators called for action on gun laws.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 11, 2022

Thousands rally for action on US gun violence after mass shootings

Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, that activists say should compel Congress to act.

France 24 · Jun 11, 2022

Slain Uvalde girl remembered as caring and opinionated

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

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2022

Rekha Basu: As Congress debates gun measures, NRA money distorts the arguments

On March 15, 22-year-old Eden Montang of Ames, Iowa, made an Instagram post about red flags, a topic that, uncannily, is now being debated in Congress. "Stop treating red flags as challenges instead of warning signs," she wrote, framing it as "Unsolicited relationship advice."

Tribune News Service · Jun 11, 2022

Experts stunned by Uvalde police defense

In interview, he says he hadn’t spoken out sooner because he didn’t want to compound his hometown’s grief

Salon · Jun 10, 2022

Off-duty deputy who responded to Uvalde shooting is fired following arrest for public intoxication

The deputy was sent from Brazoria County to Uvalde as part of a team of eight patrol deputies and two dispatchers

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022