Author: Todd C. Frankel
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One roadblock to arming teachers: Insurance companies
Kansas has a problem: It has a law allowing teachers to carry guns in the classroom, but almost no schools are using it because insurance companies refuse to provide coverage if they do. As EMC Insurance, the largest insurer of schools in Kansas, explained in a letter to its agents, the company “has concluded that…
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Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died.
SANTA FE, TEX. — They, like so many others, thought they had taken the steps to avoid this. The school district had an active-shooter plan, and two armed police officers walked the halls of the high school. School district leaders had even agreed last fall to eventually arm teachers and staff under the state’s school marshal…
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What happened to Bella? A Texas family waits to learn a horse’s fate in Harvey flooding
PORT ARTHUR, Tex. — The last time she saw the family horse, the floodwaters were rushing in. It was after midnight Wednesday. Dark. The storm was fierce. Two feet of standing water turned into four in just a couple of hours, and it was starting to invade the house. Their cars were nearly submerged. They needed…