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Fernando Montes de Oca narrowly escaped a house fire in his Texas home thanks to his four-legged friend Rocky. Rocky, a three-year-old bull terrier mix, is the reason Montes de Oca is alive today, because of his life-saving bark. Montes de Oca fell asleep on the couch in his detached garage when he heard Rocky barking loudly around 2:00 a.m. “I thought I was dreaming. I woke up, and all I could see was flames,” he told WFAA. Nobody else was around, and his garage was engulfed in flames. He was able to escape in time to get alive, but not without suffering deep second-degree burns to his hand that he used to push the door open. “My sisters and my dad tell me, ‘God gave you a second chance, dude. I don’t know how you made it out of there’,” Montes de Oca recalled. Rocky was rewarded with a big T-bone steak for his life-saving actions. Rocky, the bull terrier, is not the only dog to save his owner’s life. In October 2019, a dog saved a veteran owner’s life by waking … [Read more...] about Dog Saves Owner’s Life by Alerting Him to Texas House Fire

A former teacher at a Texas intermediate school is accused of sexually abusing a student under the age of 14 for three years. Police arrested former Tomball Intermediate School teacher Marka Lee Bodine, 31, on Saturday, charging her with continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, the Tomball Police Department said in a statement. Bodine was released from the Harris County Jail after she posted $100,000 bond, KRIV reported . The victim told the police that he began exchanging text messages with Bodine after they played an online video game together, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KPRC. He claimed that they later exchanged sexually explicit photos and he had sex with her at the age of 13. The sexual abuse, which included encounters in the classroom and in her car, went on for three years, the victim said. Bodine initially told the school principal that a former student obtained private pictures of her as a means of harassing her before confessing … [Read more...] about Former Texas Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing a Student Under 14

Residents in Aledo, Texas on Monday discovered racist flyers that promoted the "Great Sale of Slaves" one week after school officials disciplined some students who were promoting a "slave trade" of Black classmates on social media. The Dallas Morning News reported that Aledo school district officials said a group of ninth grade students were disciplined for creating a Snapchat group called "Slave Trade" in which they spoke about buying other Black students. School officials did not specify how the students were specified, the Morning News reported. ADVERTISEMENT Several members of the community who discovered the flyers cleaned the area, according to a resident. During a school board meeting on Monday evening, one of the students targeted in the social media post, Chris Johnson, said, “If you think that this has affected you and your job, just imagine how we actually feel,” Johnson said, according to the newspaper. “This is what happened in our community … [Read more...] about Racist flyers promoting ‘Sale of Slaves’ found in Texas neighborhood

close Video Health experts claim coronavirus variants could prolong pandemic Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden tells 'Fox News Live' that COVID-19 variants 'really are problematic.' Texas A&M researchers have found a new coronavirus variant, called BV-1 for the surrounding Brazos Valley area, though there are still many unknowns, according to a university release posted Monday. The variant was detected in a saliva sample from just one student who had "mild cold-like" symptoms through the school's testing program, the university said, but given genetic similarities in the strain to other variants that have shown to reduce neutralization power from antibody treatments, the researchers wanted to share the news globally. The variant is "related" to the U.K. B.1.1.7 variant , which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now the "most common lineage circulating in the U.S." UK … [Read more...] about Texas A&M researchers spot new coronavirus variant

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/ KTVT ) — Minnesota Vikings cornerback Jeff Gladney has turned himself into the Dallas County Jail after the NFL player posted a $10,000 bond on a charge of third-degree felony assault. Gladney was a North Texas football star at TCU before becoming one of last year’s first-round draft picks for the Minnesota Vikings. READ MORE: All-In-One Guide To The 2021 Minnesota Vikings NFL Draft The NFL cornerback now faces from two to 10 years in prison if convicted following an incident that happened last Friday. A 22-year-old woman, who says she was in a relationship with Gladney, told police she got into an altercation with the 24-year-old man while in a vehicle heading to an apartment complex in southeast Dallas. Sources told KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth that Gladney became upset over the woman’s text messages and demanded to see her phone. READ MORE: Vikings Re-Sign Guard Dakota Dozier At one point, sources say the accuser threw her phone out of the … [Read more...] about Vikings Cornerback Jeff Gladney Surrenders To Police In Texas, Charged With Felony Family Violence Assault