By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX –
A collision between an Arlington police motorcycle and a school bus hauling students to classes left the officer dead.
Police spokeswoman Tiara Ellis Richard says the wreck Wednesday morning killed 34-year-old Officer Craig Gordon Story.
The Arlington Independent School District says nobody on the bus was injured.
Richard says the bus and the motorcycle were moving at the time of the accident near an intersection. Story, who had been with the department seven years, was dead at the scene.
The district says the bus carried the driver plus nine students. Police say the children range in age from 6 to 13.
Counselors were available for the students. Story is survived by his wife and 2-year-old son. Arlington is midway between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Texas battle over social studies textbooks
The State Board of Education is getting an earful from the public as the panel decides how history will be taught to millions of Texas children for the next decade.
The board began taking testimony Wednesday in Austin.
A tentative vote is expected later this week on new social studies curriculum standards that will serve as the framework in Texas classrooms for the next decade.
Early quibbles over the placement of civil rights leaders and the inclusion of Christmas seemed to have been smoothed over in the draft now being considered. Board Chairman Gail Lowe further eased concerns, saying civil rights activist Cesar Chavez and Christmas will not be removed from the standards.
More than 130 people signed up to testify. A final vote is expected in March.
Fraud, ID theft by Dallas-area radio show host
A self-proclaimed investment adviser who hosted a radio talk show in the Dallas-Fort Worth area faces up to 32 years in prison for fraud.
U.S. Attorney John Bales on Wednesday announced 43-year-old Clifford Wayne Robertson of Murphy pleaded guilty to bank fraud and identity theft. No sentencing date has been set.
Robertson, while pitching his services on the radio and at seminars, claimed to be a real estate investment adviser. Investigators say the loss to investors is about $3 million.
Prosecutors say Robertson, starting in December 2007, also used the identity of another person to submit a false financial statement to get money.
A spokeswoman for Bales, Davilyn Walston, says the name of the ID theft victim has not been released. Robertson was indicted in September and arrested in Dallas. He remains in custody.