By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – A fatal shooting in Frisco led to the lockdown of three nearby schools, as a precaution, as police searched for a suspect. Frisco police Sgt. Adam Henderson says the shooting happened Thursday in an alley of a residential area. The suspect ran away.
Henderson says the fleeing suspect did not appear to have a weapon.
Henderson says the victim was transported to a hospital, where he was declared dead. His name wasn't immediately released.
The Frisco Independent School District locked down Gunstream, Wester and Cenntennial schools, but lifted the lockdown after an hour. District officials say the shooting was not related to the schools and no students were in danger.
Frisco is 15 miles north of Dallas.
Senators told losing college students hurts future
Texas senators were warned that proposed cuts to college student tuition grant programs could harm future generations of Texans if they result in fewer people attending college now.
Texas A&M University System officials are testifying Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee. Texas is facing a budget shortfall of at least $15 billion and early spending drafts propose deep cuts to higher education.
Those cuts include slashing financial aid programs that help poor students go to college.
Mike McKinney, A&M system chancellor, says that many of those students are often the first in their families to attend college. If they graduate, they raise the expectation that their children will someday also go to college.
Lose those students and "you change generations to come," McKinney said
Texas recycles 24M pounds of computer items
Twice as much trash is a good thing for Texas.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Thursday announced the state's recycling and reuse program, in its second year, generated more than 24 million pounds of computer equipment.
That's twice the amount of computer items recycled in the initial year of the project.
TCEQ says the program requires computer manufacturers that sell items in Texas to offer consumers convenient, free recycling for their brands of equipment.
TCEQ says 78 manufacturers representing 123 brands took part.