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Edinburg CISD kicked off a series of mass casualty trainings last weekend that focus on what to do in the event of a shooting or overdose and will continue through February. The district has trained on responding to a school shooting before, but the emphasis on a tactical medical response — basically battlefield-style care — is new. He said that in the event of a school shooting or mass casualty event, time is precious. He said personnel in the district’s nursing department and sports trainers have gotten medical training as well. The district’s police department will be better equipped to respond to a potential shooting, a release said, having received a $365,000 grant to purchase 50 ballistic shields.

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From fentanyl to Texas gun laws, there was a lot that needed explaining this year

San Antonio Area law enforcement cadets are being trained on how to take illicit drugs off the streets without coming in contact with them and becoming ill, things like fentanyl and carfentanyl are among the deadliest and most popular on the streets.

Bluebonnet Trails Community Services partners with school districts in rural areas to provide counseling and support to students and families facing addiction.

The CDC says the most recent cases of fentanyl-related harm, overdose, and death in the U.S. are linked to illegally made fentanyl.

A state lawmaker who introduced a bill to make fentanyl test strips legal to save lives says the issue should be revisited during the upcoming legislative session.

Danica Kaprosy was found lying face down, unresponsive, on her bed last July. Her family blames her death on a fentanyl-laced pill.

A Texas Department of Public Safety tooper was hospitalized after being exposed to fentanyl during a vehicle search in Bexar County, state officials reported Tuesday.

While treatment experts say education and prevention is key to saving lives. Governor Greg Abbott declares criminal organizations in Mexico as terrorists in a fight against fentanyl deaths.

Abbott directed the Department of Public Safety to boost efforts to collect intelligence on cartels and investigate gangs in Texas that support drug and human smuggling.

The small town of Floresville is seeing a rise in fentanyl deaths as five overdoses this year have resulted in three deaths.

Pills that can kill -- two suspected distributors have been arrested in charged in San Marcos. Hays County authorities now warn communities in the area to be vigilant of counterfeit Percocet pills.

San Marcos police arrested a 20-year-old man accused of supplying fentanyl pills in the community after finding hundreds of them during a search of a residence.

Another Hays Consolidated Independent School District student death has been attributed to fentanyl.

Although the Selma Police Department is still awaiting the toxicology results from the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, a mother is warning other parents as she suspects her 17-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose.

At first glance, the pills look like candy. However, inside is a substance 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin.

Two females are dead and one male is hospitalized after police found them Sunday in an apartment in Del Rio where cocaine and traces of fentanyl were found.

At least three Hays Consolidated Independent School District students have died in just one month due to suspected fentanyl overdoses.

A small, rural county just west of Florida’s capital is stunned by an unheard-of spike in deadly drug overdoses believed to be caused by fentanyl mixed with other illegal drugs.

Tennessee authorities are warning the public after folded dollar bills found in public places contained fentanyl.

Overdose deaths in the U.S. have officially hit the highest record ever, according to new data released by the CDC. DEA agents report a main culprit is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is dangerously addictive and deadly. That trend is unfortunately tracking in San Antonio too.

Los Angeles police say three men were found dead of suspected drug overdoses involving fentanyl.

Community activists in South Florida sprang into action after West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a house party.

Alyssa Pastrana was 21 years old when she died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at her home in Abilene.

Thirteen people were arrested this week on charges of distributing fentanyl in the Austin area.

Bexar County deputies and DEA agents uncovered a fentanyl operation at a Best Western hotel in the Northwest Side of San Antonio, according to Sheriff Javier Salazar.

A San Antonio was charged and criminally indicted for distributing a controlled substance containing fentanyl, which ended in a fatal overdose of another person last October.