LISD introduced the Elementary Rover Patrol Program this year, which rotates officers between elementary schools. A new tip line was also created for elementary school families to report suspicious...
*All statistics from a poll of over 350 students by the Marquee
A key part of Abbott’s change to school safety is the requirement that all outside doors on Texas schools remain locked during school...
LISD currently observes the Standard Response Protocol as its emergency response plan. It refers to five courses of action in an emergency: secure, lockdown, evacuate, shelter or hold.
In the case of...
After the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas last spring, Gov. Greg Abbot mandated school safety measures for districts statewide in a letter to the Texas School Safety Center on June 1.
As...
Fentanyl is highly addictive, but seeking medical help and emotional support can help combat substance abuse.
Nicole Hoffman, the clinical director at Roots Renewal Ranch, works with teen girls and their...
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid originally created to help patients with chronic pain. Because the drug is not found naturally, it latches onto brain receptors more tightly, which can quicken its effects.
When...
Fentanyl comes in a powder form from China, and much of that is sent to Mexico.
There, that powder is pressed into pills and made to look like pharmaceutical drugs — Xanax, oxycodone, hydrocodone, or...
Editor’s note: This story won first place for in-depth news feature package in the 2024 ILPC contest. It also won a Tops in Texas 2024.
Fentanyl is part of the nationwide opioid epidemic that’s...
Let’s be honest, high school is boring. So why on Earth would you spend your formative years studying and sober when you can give into peer pressure? Have the time of your life breaking the law and stunting...
Dallas Police Detective David Roach took down a citywide drug ring in response to Ryan’s death. When the hearings began for the dealers, Tina thought she’d find evil-hearted, malicious individuals....
On the day Ryan died, his anxiety was worsening. His whole family was in California for Christmas while he was alone in Fairview, Texas. When he ran out of his prescribed Xanax, he got a number from a...
Tina was cleaning Ryan’s room one day when he was about 17. She found weed and a pipe and her mind instantly thought of his father, an addict who abused marijauna and spent years addicted to heroin.
“They...
