A defense motion to have Judge Jeth Jones disqualified from handling the Santa Fe mass shooting case was granted Monday afternoon, according to court documents.

At the Imani School in southwest Houston, class is in session.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced Thursday that five school districts in the Houston area were awarded federal grants totaling $1,304,709 to improve school safety measures.

Emotions were high at a press conference Wednesday held almost 24 hours after 21 innocent lives were lost in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The briefing was being held by Texas Governor Greg Abbott when he was confronted by Democratic gubernatorial opponent, Beto O’ Rourke.

The daughter of Eva Mireles, one of the teachers who was shot and killed along with 19 students at an elementary school in West Texas Tuesday, penned a heartbreaking, yet heartwarming, letter to her mother, giving the world a look inside the soul of the woman being hailed a selfless hero.

Des Moines police say they have arrested six teenagers, including a 14-year-old, in a shooting outside a school that killed a 15-year-old boy and seriously injured two teenage girls.