By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX –
Grief counselors are on hand today at The Colony after a 9-year-old boy was found hanged in the bathroom in an apparent suicide. Police say the fourth-grader was found by school staff at Stewart's Creek Elementary School yesterday afternoon.
Lt. Darren Brockway said the boy "had reportedly hung himself in a bathroom" and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Autopsy results are pending with the Tarrant County medical examiner's office.
Police in The Colony, about 20 miles north of Dallas, are investigating the circumstances of Montana Lance's death -- but say they don't expect any criminal charges.
The school district confirmed the basics of the incident but declined further comment out of respect for the family's privacy. The school is sending a broad letter about the incident home with students today. The Colony is about 20 miles north of Dallas.
Man in custody after firing shots at Texas Capitol
State troopers tackled a man who allegedly fired several shots into the air while standing on the Texas Capitol's south steps. Nobody was hurt in yesterday's incident. The Capitol reopens today.
DPS says 24-year-old Fausto Cardenas faces felony charges of deadly conduct and was being held in the Travis County Jail.
Many lawmakers were away from Austin because the legislature is not in session. Gov. Rick Perry was not in the building. State Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston says his staff called security after a man entered his Austin office "acting strangely."
Patrick's chief-of-staff, Logan Spence, described the man as a "shy, nervous guy" who raised suspicions after asking to meet with one of the senator's female aides.
Spence said the suspect had apparently spotted the aide in the hallway before entering Patrick's office.
Astronauts finally get Internet access in space
In a high tech first - really, really high - astronauts in space finally have Internet access. Space station resident Timothy Creamer has been working with flight controllers to establish Internet access from his orbital post ever since he moved in last month. On Friday, his effort paid off.
He posted the first live tweet truly from space. "Hello Twitterverse!" he wrote. Before, astronauts had to send Twitter updates by e-mail to Mission Control in Houston. Then controllers posted the tweets.
The International Space Station crew can now use an on-board laptop to see a desktop computer at Mission Control, and thereby browse the web. This remote Internet access is possible whenever there is a solid high-speed communication link.