As many as three tornadoes may have hit in Young County on Friday night, according to the sheriff.

The Young County Sheriff Bryan Walls said the tornadoes were near Eliasville. One house that took a direct hit was damaged, the sheriff said.

There are uprooted trees, and one roadway is blocked with debris, he said.

The storms also produced baseball-sized hail in the area after the apparent tornadoes.

No injuries have been reported.

An 82-year-old man is accused of killing his son and grandson in their home in a small Collin County town.

Fairview police found the bodies of Paul Tanner Jr., 59, and Ryan Dawson Tanner, 23, shortly before noon Friday.

Paul Tanner's estranged wife called police after seeing a body slumped over in a chair inside the home in the 1300 block of Red Oak Trail.

The responding officers entered the home and confirmed that the person spotted through the window was deceased. While searching the home, officers discovered another body in a bedroom.

Police said both were shot in the head, most likely early this week.

The Tanners lived in the home with 82-year-old Paul Alexander Tanner Sr., who was later found at an Addison motel and taken into custody.

Police said the grandfather was unconcious when they found him and was treated at an area hospital.

Police said they know of only one domestic call to the home, and that it did not involve the grandfather.

NBC 5's Mark Schnyder contributed to this report.

An elementary school in Carrollton was placed under lock down for about 40 minutes Wednesday morning due to a report of an armed person on campus.

Someone called 911 at about 11:40 a.m. and said they saw a man with a gun coming out of R.E. Good Elementary School and then turning around and going back into the building.

The school was locked down while police officers conducted a room-by-room search of the campus. 

Nothing was found and the lock down was lifted at about 12:22 p.m.

The school, which is in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, is located at 1012 Study Lane in Carrollton.

NBC 5's Ray Villeda contributed to this report.

A Dallas County jury has found Naim Muhammad guilty of capital murder for the drowning deaths of his two young sons.

During a taped confession from an interview with investigators that played in court Tuesday, Muhammad confessed to the murders.

On Wednesday, jurors took less than 10 minutes to convict Muhammad of capital murder. The jury is now deciding whether to sentence Muhammad to life in prison or to death.

Prosecutors say Muhammad is a threat to society and that there is no reason he should be allowed to live.

"I don't have to recall the facts of the case because, although it was not filled with blood or gore, it was a horror unimagined," prosecutor Sherre Sweet said.

Muhammad, who has a criminal record spanning 20 years, killed his sons after their mother began dating someone new, prosecutors say.

"It was the ultimate textbook family violence power and control play -- 'If I can't get you to do what I want you to do through violence, I will go to your very heartstrings,'" Sweet said.

His defense attorneys said there is more to the story. Muhammad's attorney, Paul Johnson, admitted that his client is a murderered and even called him deranged. But Muhammad was failed by everyone in his life, including a father who abandoned him and a mother who was living on the streets, he said.

"Even her own kids will tell you, in the early years of their lives, mom had abandoned the family living on the street as a crack-addicted prostitute," Johnson said.

Prosecutors say Muhammad used a brick to force the boys and their mother into his vehicle as she walked the children to school in August 2011.

The mother escaped from the vehicle and tried to find police, but it was too late.

In his confession, Muhammad told investigators that he told the boys, 5-year-old Naim and 3-year-old Elijah, to pretend they were swimming as he held them underwater in a creek.

On the day of the murders, Muhammad also tried to reach the couple's third child, a 1-year-old. That child was not injured.

Following his arrest, Muhammad told detectives he drowned the boys because he was upset at their mother for breaking up with him.

Sentencing testimony could last into next week.

NBC 5's Lindsay Wilcox contributed to this report.

Arlington police removed a pellet gun from a school bus Wednesday morning.

An Arlington Independent School District student brought the gun aboard the bus in the area of 700 East Arbrook in Arlington.

Arlington police said the driver of the bus saw two students handling what appeared to be a weapon. The driver stopped the bus and talked to the students, who then gave the driver the gun.

The bus driver continued to Workman Junior High School and let students off the bus. The two students were taken by AISD administrators.

Police and AISD officials went to the scene to retrieve the fake weapon.

Police identified the weapon as a "pellet gun or BB gun" and also called it a "toy" in a press release.

AISD officials say the student will be disciplined according to the student code of conduct.

A 17-year-old high school student in Irving was arrested Monday on charges of forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution.

Travis Lekas, a Nimitz High School freshman, is charged with trafficking of a person younger than 18, compelling prostitution and sexual performance by a child.

Police say Lekas brought a 15-year-old girl to his Irving home, gave her Xanax, marijuana and alcohol and coerced her into prostitution with multiple men between April 29 and May 2.

Lekas' grandmother denied the allegations, saying the police are "lying."

"That's not true -- complete lies," Blanca Cameron told NBC 5. "This is a good friend from childhood. It's a complete lie."

Cameron described her grandson as a "good kid" who is "nice and polite," although he spends time with the wrong crowd.

The investigation into the case is just beginning, Irving police said. Investigators said they are looking into how the girl was prostituted and if websites were used.

Police are also investigating if anyone was at the home at the time of the incidents and knew about them.

Cameron said she is always home and never saw any of the allegations. She said the girl visits the home because she is a friend of her grandson's.

According to the arrest warrant, Lekas tried to recruit other girls from Nimitz and even Bowie Middle School.

"Our investigators are currently trying to find those girls and conduct interviews and find out if they are victims," Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said.

News of Lekas' arrest shocked the neighborhood around both schools.

"As a parent, I mean, it's sad -- I mean, things we wish never happened," said Alma Salas, who lives a block from Nimitz and whose nephew attends Bowie.

The Irving school district Superintendent Dana T. Bedden said in a statement Tuesday that the district was treating the matter very seriously.

"It is our responsibility as a school district to enable the Irving Police Department to conduct a thorough investigation and, until they have completed their investigation, we will not be able to share any additional details," he said. "We will cooperate fully with the Irving Police Department and will take appropriate disciplinary action with regard to the student in question."

Bedden said the district would have counseling and other support available to students affected by the investigation. The district also will inform parents as more details about the investigation are released, he said.

Lekas was being held in the Irving city jail on $175,000 bail and was transferred to the Dallas County Jail on Tuesday.

He was previously arrested in March on a possession of marijuana charge. That case is not yet resolved.

NBC 5's Omar Villafranca contributed to this report.

Grand Prairie police are searching for the driver who left the scene of a fatal hit-and-run Saturday evening.

According to police, two vehicles on eastbound Interstate 20 near state Highway 161 collided at about 7 p.m. and veered off of the highway where they struck an occupied parked car.

One of the vehicles from the original collision left the scene.  Two occupants in the other vehicle were transported to Charlton Methodist Hospital where one of them later died.

The people who were in the parked car were treated and released at the scene.

Police have not released a description of the hit-and-run driver's vehicle.

All of the eastbound lanes of Interstate 20 were closed for several hours Saturday night while the crash was investigated. 

The standoff that locked down three schools in the Azle school district because of gunfire in the area is over.

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office said the man, identified as 50-year-old Frank John McKinney, was in custody and the standoff ended at 7:10 p.m. The sheriff's office earlier said the standoff involved a man wanted on felony warrants.

The campuses of Liberty Elementary, Hoover Elementary and Fort Junior High were locked down because of a nearby domestic dispute with gunfire, the superintendent said.

The only way students could leave was if parents picked them up. About 20 students remained at the schools shortly before 6 p.m., the superintendent said.

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office said McKinney reportedly assaulted someone with a broom earlier Friday. He allegedly fired several shots into the air before police arrived.

An emergency official at the scene of the standoff said the suspect threatened to kill people at a nearby convenience store before the standoff began.

Authorities handling the situation told NBC 5 they were pleased the standoff ended peacefully.

"Well we certainly wish we had our teargas back," said Terry Grisham with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department.  "We wish we wouldnt have had to go to that length. We hoped, we gave him many opportunities to come out, just come and give himself up."

NBC 5's Ben Russell contributed to this report.

An emergency volunteer in West was arrested Thursday afternoon by ATF agents on a charge of possession of a destructive device, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday.

Bryce A. Reed, 31, a paramedic who became a spokesperson for the town of West after last month's deadly explosion at a fertilizer facility, which is now the subject of a criminal investigation, appeared before a federal judge in Waco at 10:15 a.m. Friday.

The hearing was closed to the public, but a criminal complaint released Friday afternoon by the Department of Justice said Reed gave an assortment of bomb-making components to a friend on April 26.

KPRC-TV reported the friend eventually looked in the box, saw what he believed to be a pipe bomb, and notified the authorities.

On May 7, members of the McLennan County Sheriff's Department bomb squad investigated and rendered safe the device in the box. In the criminal complaint, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives listed the contents, which had not been assembled into a working bomb, as follows: 

"The components included a galvanized metal pipe that was 3.5 inches in length by 1.5 inches in diameter. Attached to the pipe were two galvanized end caps, one of which contained a drilled hole approximately 1/8 inch in diameter. Additionally, the canisters contained an unknown amount of hobby fuse, a lighter, a digital scale, plastic spoon, six coils of metal ribbon, and several pounds of chemical powders in individual bags.  The powders included Potassium Nitrate, Aluminum powder, Red Iron Oxide, Ammonium Perchlorate, Potassium Perchlorate, Sulfur powder, Air Float Charcoal and Eckart 10890 German Dark Aluminum."

According to the complaint, Reed admitted to possessing the components of the pipe bomb.

A short time after his arrest was announced Friday morning, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced that the Texas Rangers and McLennan County Sheriff's Department were opening a criminal investigation into the explosion. Officials have made no connection between Reed's arrest and the investigation into the deadly blast.

"It is important to emphasize that at this point, no evidence has been uncovered to indicate any connection to the events surrounding the fire and subsequent explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant and the arrest of Bryce Reed by the A.T.F.," the McLennan County Sheriff's Department said in a news release Friday afternoon.

Reed remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing on May 15. If convicted, Reed faces up to 10 years in federal prison and faces a fine of up to $250,000.

Reed's Background

Bryce Ashley Reed is married with one child, according to his posts on Facebook. He posted on May 7 that his wife left him sometime after the explosion in West. Photographs on the page show him working as a firefighter and flight paramedic for Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Children's told NBC 5 that Reed began his employment with them on Jan. 7, but that he went on leave April 3. Per policy, they were not able to say why he went on leave.

On Wednesday, about a day before his arrest, Reed posted the following message on Facebook:

I just wanted to tell everyone thank you for all the prayers and support. I'm going to take a break from Facebook to reflect. I assure you that I'm ok. God bless you all, and please if you heed nothing else I have said, love one another. God bless. Bryce.

 According to statements posted on his Linkedin page, Reed said he worked in a variety of jobs including flight paramedic, SWAT paramedic and as a systems analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Reed listed the U.S. Biological and Chemical Weapons Depot at Fort McClellan and Advanced Field Critical Care at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center among his educational accomplishments. Among his specialties, he included music marketing, Christian ministry and critical care medicine.

Reed spoke at the funeral for West volunteer firefighter and close friend Cyrus Reed, no relation, who was killed in the blast. Video of Reed's memorial can be seen in the video below:

NBC 5's Eric King and Scott Gordon contributed to this report.

The campus of Southern Methodist University and Stonewall Jackson Elementary School in Dallas were both briefly on lockdown Friday morning due to reports of an armed man in the area.

According to the Dallas Police Department, a man called police and said he wanted to harm himself.

Police said officers were dispatched to the 6000 block of Melody Lane and made entry into an apartment, but the caller had already left the residence.  Inside, police found a suicide note that indicated he might be a danger to himself or others.

Meanwhile, as nearby school campuses went on lockdown as a precaution, SMU sent out alerts, including tweets, that there was an "active shooter" on campus near Airline and Dyer.  Some students questioned the school's use of the language which prompted panic and tears for some.

Shooter last seen at @smu airline and dyer.

— SMU (@SMU) May 10, 2013

At 9:10 a.m., police found the man on the 5400 block of East Mockingbird Lane and took him into custody without incident.

With the man in custody, lock downs at both campuses were lifted.

The only weapons on the man were two small pocketknives, police said, and there was no evidence to indicate he was a threat to anyone.

The man was transported to an area hospital for observation, police said.

Two people were killed Thursday when a Cessna 182 out of Spinks Airport in Fort Worth crashed near Fredericksburg, officials say.

Justice of the Peace Louis Rech said both of those aboard, a man and a woman, were killed.

The Texas Department of Public Safety identified the couple as Donald Frosch, 43, and his wife Jeannie Frosch, 41, from Mansfield.

KXAN in Austin reports the plane crashed into a pasture near the 1200 block of Hollmig Lane, just two miles northeast of Gillespie County Airport while the pilot was attempting to land.

According to Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Cessna 172 crashed at about 1:30 p.m.

The couple leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter.

Jeanne Frosch's mother, Janice Streight, was at the Frosch family home in Mansfield Thursday night.  She told NBC 5 she was already staying with her granddaughter because the girl's parents had rented the plane that crashed and were planning a long Mother's Day weekend in Luckenbach.

The Frosch's were active members in their church, St. John Lutheran, according to Pastor Bill Dasch.

"I think if you were to think about a couple, they were like 'Ozzie and Harriet.'   They were that kind of couple.," Pastor Dasch said.  "Jeanne was teaching in our Sunday school department.   Don played on our softball team.  He was a greeter, his wife was a greeter as well.  They were in church almost every week."

Pastor Dasch said Donald Frosch would often talk about being a pilot, and had offered to fly Dasch's son to the St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee a few years ago when the boy was battling cancer.

Students and faculty at Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington evacuated Thursday due to a bomb threat at the school.

According to Arlington police, the threat was received at 12:19 p.m. 

Richie Escovedo, with the Mansfield Independent School District, said the campus was evacuated as a precaution at about 12:30 p.m. 

At 1:30 p.m., students were allowed back in the building after a search was conducted.

All clear at Summit High School @ 1:30pm. Students going back to class. (No credible threat, precautionary evacuation & search.)

— Mansfield ISD (@mansfieldisd) May 9, 2013

Officials have not said how the threat was received.

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A three-alarm fire broke out inside the Fidelity Life Building in Downtown Dallas late Wednesday morning, shutting down traffic in the area while stalling rail service downtown.

Dallas Fire-Rescue said the first alarm for 1025 Elm Street was received at about 11:50 a.m. Firefighters arrived at the scene a short time later to find flames and smoke billowing from the windows of the fifth floor on the north face of the building.

Firefighters entered the building and began attacking the fire from the inside while several other firefighters staged themselves outside, on the roof of an adjacent building.

In all, 65 firefighters responded to the call.  DFR said the fire was escalated to three alarms due to the size of the building and the hot and humid temperature inside.

After noon, as firefighters got the blaze under control, flames and smoke once visible outside retreated.

Fire officials said the fire in the nine-story building was tapped out at about 1:12 p.m. With the smoke cleared, black soot could be seen covering the exterior of at least two floors of the building above the fire.

DFR said the building was vacant and undergoing renovation into a hotel.  Dozens of construction workers were inside the hotel when the fire started, but all were able to escape without injury.

As firefighters battled the fire, several streets in the area, including Pacific and Griffin, were closed by the Dallas Police Department due to falling glass. 

Additionally, Dallas Area Rapid Transit suspended rail service through downtown into the afternoon. 

All DART rail lines resuming service through downtown. It will take time for trains to return to regular schedules. Apologies for delays.

— dartmedia (@dartmedia) May 8, 2013

Shuttle buses are helping commuters make connections, but riders should expect delays Wednesday afternoon, DART said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, DFR said Wednesday afternoon.

NBC 5's Eric King contributed to this report.

A chase that began shortly after 10 a.m. in Terrell ended about 50 minutes later in Mesquite when the driver stopped and surrendered.

The Terrell Police Department said it got a call about a vehicle theft in the 100 block of West High Street. Two witnesses gave police a very accurate description of the vehicle and the driver while one of the witnesses even followed the stolen vehicle and relayed location information to dispatchers.

Terrell police officers began their chase in the 1600 block of West Moore Avenue and followed the flatbed pickup onto westbound U.S. Highway 80.

The chase continued into Mesquite and then onto Interstate 30 and into Dallas. Chopper 5 began following the chase at about 10:45 a.m.  The chase traveled along Scyene Road, Interstate 635 and Galloway Avenue.

Terrell police said the chase reached speeds nearing 100 mph at times. At times, the driver drove into oncoming traffic on city streets while trying to escape.

The Texas Department of Public Safety's helicopter stayed with the fleeing pickup as Terrell police, Mesquite police, Dallas County Sheriff's deputies and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers gave chase.

Police said officers were able to partially disable the stolen vehicle with spike strips.

At about 11 a.m., the driver pulled over and stopped and was taken into custody without further incident.

Police identified the driver as 29-year-old Armando Fuentes of Terrell. Fuentes was taken into custody by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office.

Fuentes has been charged with evading arrest and aggravated assault against a public servant. Terrell Police say he nearly hit an officer during the pursuit.

"Disregarding traffic, not paying any attention to anything he was doing,"  said Mark Howard with the Dallas County Sheriff Department. "He initiated a lot of new charges in Dallas county, fleeing, evading."

No crashes or injuries have been reported in connection with the chase.

NBC 5 Garland Reporter Tammy Mutasa contributed to this report.

Four Mansfield High School students were injured in a crash with a school bus Tuesday afternoon, district officials say.

According to a tweet from the district, the injured students were in a vehicle that collided with the bus. 

One student and the bus driver were on the bus at the time of the crash; neither were injured.

Richie Escovedo, with the Mansfield Independent School District, said the injured students were taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth in unknown conditions.

School bus/vehicle accident @ Matlock/Broad St.(Mansfield) 4 Mansfield HS students in vehicle transported to JPS; Bus: 1 student & driver ok

— Mansfield ISD (@mansfieldisd) May 7, 2013

The crash took place near Matlock Road and Broad Street.

The cause of the crash is not yet known and is under investigation.

We will update this story with more information as soon as it's available.  As this story is developing, elements may change.

The City of Fort Worth says a small aircraft went off the runway at Meacham International Airport Monday afternoon.

Meacham Airport manager James Burris says the Piper Cherokee had landed and then ran off the "1735" runway to the north.

Burris says the nose gear gave out in front which caused the plane to go off the runway when it couldn't properly stop. The pilot was the only person on board. No injuries were reported.

Burris said the runway was closed during the investigation.

School is in session after a gas leak was capped at Hillcrest High School in Dallas.

Dallas Fire-Rescue responders say gas accumulated in the basement of the school on Monday morning.

DFR crews responded to the scene at 9924 Hillcrest Rd. in Dallas around 5:45 a.m. for a gas leak.

Responders called for HAZMAT crews to assist in the issue once they discovered the accumulation of gas in the school's basement.

Jason Evans with Dallas-Fire Rescue says crews were able to stop the leak, but spent additional time working to clear out the gas from the basement.

John Dahlander from Dallas Independent School District says the district expected to have school today.

No one was evacuated.

Five women in their 30s died Saturday night when a stretch limousine burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge over the San Francisco Bay, police confirmed to NBC News.

Four other people in the limo escaped with burn and smoke inhalation injuries, California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel said. The car's driver was unhurt. 

Montiel said the women were "probably killed by the fire," though the cause of death has not been confirmed, NBC News reported.

Witnesses told NBC Bay Area the white Lincoln Town Car was not involved in an accident prior to catching on fire. It was not clear what could have sparked the flames. 

The car was driving from Alameda to Foster City, Montiel said.

When asked if an "explosion" had occurred, Montiel told NBC News it was unconfirmed, however he did say the "vehicle was partially engulfed."'

A viewer named David Solomon sent in the picture above that he said of was of the limo.

The fire was first reported around 10 p.m. in the third lane of westbound state Highway 92, according to the California Highway Patrol. 

The bridge, located about 20 miles southeast of San Francisco, connects San Mateo and Alemada counties. The westbound lanes were closed for several hours.

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On Thursday, the town of West, the Texas City Council and Waco Foundation unveiled the current plan for housing and distributing funds raised since the tragedy that killed 15 and injured more than 200 last month.

On May 1, the Council voted and approved Waco Foundation's West Disaster Relief Efforts Fund as the designated recipient of all charitable donations.

So far, officials said there was about $270,000 in the fund.  The foundation hasn't yet decided how the money will be distributed.

Anyone who would like to donate to the Waco Foundation West Disaster Relief Fund can do so here.  Those making a donation will also have the ability to designate whether the money should go to the general fund, residents or firefighters.

More information on how to help those in need can be found at www.disasterassistance.gov/.

North Richland Hills police say 14-year-old Ruby Contreras and 26-year-old Stephan Cox have been found in Mexico and are OK.

According to police, Contreras and Cox were both taken into custody by Mexican officials, though he wouldn't say where specifically.  Local law enforcement are now working to bring them both back to the United States.

North Richland Hills police gave high praise to Mexican officials for their assistance in the investigation, which officials said is active and ongoing.

"The officials of the government of Mexico have been more than accommodating with our investigation. We owe our gratitude to their efforts in locating these two individuals and working with us to bring them home," said investigator Keith Bauman, with the North Richland Hills Police Department.

Police said they are still working to determine what charges Cox is expected to face.

Contreras was last seen at North Oaks Middle School in Haltom City and has been missing for more than one week. Police suspected she was with Cox, an Ohio man who earlier this year was charged with unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

Police said Contreras and Cox took a Greyhound bus from Fort Worth to El Paso on April 24, stopping in Abilene during the trip. The photo of Contreras and Cox entering a convenience store in Abilene was taken at about 10 p.m. on April 24.

Prior to being located by Mexican officals, Contreras and Cox were last seen when they arrived in El Paso on April 25.

The all-clear has been given at Arlington's Rankin Elementary after the school was locked down due to a suspicious device found inside a dumpster Wednesday morning.

The device turned out to be a charging device for a car battery.

Situation at Rankin is all clear. Resuming a normal school day. No afternoon pre-K.

— Arlington ISD (@ArlingtonISD) May 1, 2013

The call was received at about 9:30 a.m., police said. Children and faculty were moved to a safe area within the school, out of their classrooms. An area near the school was also evacuated, police said.

Even though the school is returning to a normal schedule, parents are being permitted to pick up their children and take them home.  The absence will be an excused absence, the district said.

A missing 11-year-old girl has been found and is safe, the family tells NBC 5.

The family said they talked to the girl on the phone and that she is OK and was at a friend's house.

Fort Worth police began searching for Charleisa Ector Tuesday afternoon after she was last seen Tuesday afternoon near Jean McClung Middle School.

Dozens of family members spent the night looking for her. Her uncle told NBC 5 that it was completely out of character for her to disappear.

"This never happens," said Rev. John Reed. "She has never done anything like this. She's a good kid. And we're just puzzled right now. We don't know what to think. We don't know what's going on. Because this is not her character."

"Whatever happens, we give it to the Lord," Reed said. "I'm just speechless. I want my niece to come back. I want whoever knows where she's at, to please, contact us. Please."

North Richland Hills police want the public's help in finding a 14-year-old girl who has been missing since Wednesday.

Ruby Contreras failed to return home from North Oaks Middle School in Haltom City on April 24. Police they were notified at 8 p.m. that night of her disappearance.

Investigators said they believe she has left North Texas and could be with 26-year-old Stephan Andrew Cox.

Cox currently faces charges after a teen girl from Pennsylvania reportedly stole her parents car to drive to Ohio to meet him.

Court records show that Columbus, Ohio, authorities in January charged Cox with two counts of unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

Cox, who has been on house arrest since February, was supposed to have an ankle monitor. He is due in court in Ohio on Tuesday.

The Pennsylvania girl's parents told investigators that she and Cox met online.

North Richland Hill police said they do not believe Contreras had met Cox face-to-face before Wednesday but will not say how they met.

Police say Cox is dangerous and that Contreras is not safe with him.

Police believe they might be traveling west by bus service. Investigators have photographic evidence that the pair traveled to El Paso on a Greyhound bus that left from Wednesday from the downtown Fort Worth terminal.

The Contreras family told police that her disapperance is not normal behavior and that there is no reason to believe she ran away from home. The family said she did not take her cellphone with her and that they have never heard of Cox.

Ruby Contreras is 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighs approximately 95 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans.

Stephan Andrew Cox is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds.

The Texas State Operations Center has refused to call Contreras' disappearance an Amber Alert because of the lack of information on the vehicle they may be traveling in, but North Richland Hills police say they are still working to classify it as an Amber Alert and the classification doesn't lessen the need for the public to help locate her.

The North Richland Hills Police Department is asking anyone with any information as to the whereabouts of Contreras or Cox to call 911 immediately.

NBC 5's Ben Russell contributed to this report.

A threatening note was found on the Weatherford High School campus Tuesday morning, leading to a modified lock down and search of the school.

According to the Weatherford Independent School District, the Weatherford Police Department was called to conduct a search of the building.  While the search was underway, the student body was moved to the football field.

After several hours, the all clear was given and the students were allowed to return to the building.

The exact language of the note has not been released, but officials said it had something to do with a bomb and that it was found by a student. Officials have not said where the note was found.

The Weatherford High School student body is made up of sophomores, juniors and seniors.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy killed by a hit-and-run driver Thursday night is begging the driver to surrender.

"Come forward. Turn yourself in. The damage is already done," De'Shundria Parks said. "Prolonging it is just going to make it worse. You have to face your consequences."

Her son, Deston Bibbs, was struck while riding his bicycle at about 9:20 p.m. along Crowley Road, just south of Sycamore School Road in south Fort Worth, police said.

The boy sustained broken bones and severe head trauma in the crash, police said. He was hospitalized overnight in critical condition and died Friday morning.

Parks said her son was heading to a Family Dollar store about a block away to buy some Gatorade and potato chips.

Bibbs was a seventh-grader at H.F. Stevens Middle School in Crowley.

He liked to play basketball, draw, play the drums, sing and just joke around.

"He was silly," his mother said. "He was the class clown."

But he also had a serious side. He wanted to join the Air Force to help people, she said.

Police said they don't know of any witnesses to the crash, but investigators were able to determine, based on the tire marks left on his clothing, that a sport utility vehicle or large truck struck the teen, police said.

Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case. Tipsters can remain anonymous. Anyone with information is asked to call 817-469-8477.

Meanwhile, investigators are looking at footage from red-light cameras and nearby surveillance cameras to try to narrow the search for the driver.

"If it was an accident, it was an accident," Parks said. "But you left. And you left my son there like he was nothing. He was something to me. And I will never get to see him again, ever."

Editor's Note: Police initially said the crash took place at 11:15 p.m but later said it was at 9:20 p.m. We regret the error.

Four ambulances and a CareFlite helicopter were called to the scene of a crash in Dallas Friday morning where four teens were injured when their SUV crashed into a tree.

The crash took place shortly after 9 a.m. on the 2500 block of Scammel Drive, not far from the intersection of Bruton Road and S. Buckner Boulevard.

Police said four teens, all students at Skyline High School, were involved in the single-vehicle crash.  Investigators said the driver was speeding, hit a fence and crashed into the tree.

Dallas Fire-Rescue said there is no word on the ages of those involved or the severity of their injuries, though the Dallas Independent School District said Friday afternoon that all of the students are expected to be OK.

The district added that crisis counselors will be at Skyline High School on Monday for anyone needing help.

A person wanted by police who was barricaded inside a south Fort Worth home is now in custody.

Fort Worth police spokeswoman Cpl. Tracey Knight said the standoff involved a 23-year-old man with an active felony warrant in a home in the 2600 block of Jennings Avenue.

Fort Worth police took the man into custody after 6 p.m.

Knight said police were called to the home at about 8:45 a.m. about a possible assault.

Negotiations broke down Wednesday afternoon, and tear gas was deployed, police said.

The home is near the intersection of South Jennings and West Morningside Drive, near Hemphill Street. Police said it is the home of the man's family.

Three apartments and surrounding homes were evacuated.

NBC 5 has crews on the way and we'll update this story with more information as soon as it's available.  As this story is developing, elements may change.

The funeral for Dallas firefighter Capt. Kenny Harris Jr. was held Wednesday afternoon in West.

The Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighter, who lived with his family in West, was one of the first responders killed while battling a fire at the West Fertilizer Co. last Wednesday.

Before the explosion, Harris rushed to the scene to offer assistance to the West Volunteer Fire Department.  In all, 10 firefighters were killed in the blast.

Holly Harris, the firefighter's wife, told NBC 5 that she and her husband did everything together and that "he was the personification of what a husband and a father should be."

See more of the Harris family's exclusive interview with NBC 5 here.

Harris' funeral was held in West at St. Mary's Catholic Church of the Assumption. He will be laid to rest at Bold Springs Cemetery. Visitation was held Tuesday evening.

A Fort Worth police officer was injured and a robbery suspect was killed Wednesday in a shootout on the city's east side.

At about 6:26 a.m., a robbery was reported at a Whataburger restaurant at 6469 Brentwood Stair Road.

Officer Marty Stone was nearby and arrived at the restaurant a short time later. Witnesses pointed to a man the officer believed was the suspect, according to Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead.

Halstead said Stone believed the man was the suspect because he was either dropping or intentionally discarding fistfuls of money.

Stone followed the suspect in his patrol car into a neighborhood on Brentwood Drive, police said. The man ran to the back of a home at one point, possibly trying to enter.

Stone encountered the man in the 6400 block of Brentwood Drive near a resident's vehicle in their driveway. The man then opened fire, shooting Stone once in the upper leg.

Police said Stone then returned fire, hitting the suspect multiple times. Investigators have not said how many rounds were fired and by whom.

Residents on the quiet street who woke up to the gunfire described it as one shot followed by several others.

"We heard probably four to six shots," said Christy Taylor, who lives across the street from the shootout scene. "We immediately went to the windows to see what was going on. At that point, we saw the lights from the cop car. A few minutes later, we heard a gentleman groaning; we weren't sure if that was the officer or if that was the suspect."

After the shooting, Stone was able to return to his vehicle and apply a tourniquet to the wound by using his department-issued medical kit.

"The officer takes out the scissors, cuts his own uniform pants, applies a tourniquet on and applies direct compression to control and basically stop this bleeding," Halstead said.

About 700 officers have been trained to use the medical knits. Halstead said they were added to training after last year's Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, as officers did not have quick access to such first-aid equipment.

"I think the application of that personal trauma kit, without a doubt, basically stabilized him immediately and he didn't have to wait for the long transport, and who knows what can happen from bleeding," Halstead said.

Stone's injury has been described as nonlife-threatening, and he is in good condition. He is an eight-year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department and is also an Army infantry veteran, according to Halstead.

The robbery suspect, whose name has also not yet been released, was pronounced dead when he arrived at an area hospital.

A false radiation reading at the Mercantile Building in Downtown Dallas shut down Main Street Wednesday morning.

DFR HAZMAT crews were on the scene to investigate further and found that the radiation detection was a false positive reading from a marble wall.

The building at 1800 Main was formerly the home of the Mercantile National Bank and now houses upscale apartments.

A McKinney chiropractor accused of sexually assaulting several of his patients has been found guilty of charges involving four victims.

The Collin County jury convicted Dr. David Russell of sexual assault, sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child.

Russell was found guilty of sexual assault of a child and indecency with the same child. He was also convicted of another indecency charge related to another child and two sexual assaults of adults.

He was found not guilty on the other charges.

Russell faced up to 12 counts of sexual misconduct related to five female patients, four of them teenagers.

Aggravated sexual assault of a child was the most serious charge, but the jury could consider a charge of indecency with a child by contact if there was not sufficient evidence to support the other charge.

The judge last week tossed out one count of indecency with a child because of insufficient evidence.

The jury began deliberating Tuesday at about 8:30 a.m. and finished at about 11:20 p.m. During their deliberation, the jurors came back and asked a couple of questions related to victim testimony, NBC 5's Randy McIlwain reported Tuesday afternoon.

Jurors were told to come back Wednesday morning for sentencing.

After the verdicts were announced, members of Russell's family appeared visibly shaken, NBC 5's Ray Villeda reported. Sobs from victims seated on the other side of the courtroom could be heard.

During closing arguments, prosecutors argued that the patients' stories are too detailed and similar to simply be made up.

One victim testified that Russell had touched her breasts and commented on her underwear during a treatment session. During another session, he inappropriately touched her private parts, putting a finger inside her vagina, she said.

Another victim shared a similar story.

Also Monday morning, the prosecution introduced three rebuttal witnesses, all adult women who said Russell made inappropriate advances toward them while they were patients in his care.

No charges were filed in those cases because the statute of limitations had expired before they came forward.

Russell and his defense team have denied much of the testimony, adding that it is possible for a chiropractor's hand to make accidental, brushing contact to the area the women described when treating a groin injury.

During closing arguments, the defense said McKinney police made Russell "public enemy No. 1" when he was arrested.

Defense attorney Todd Shapiro said a floodgate of accusers opened up when his client was arrested and his mug shot was released. Shapiro said there is no direct evidence that Russell did anything wrong, saying that only one witness to any alleged misconduct testified during the trial.

Russell did not testify in his own defense.

NBC 5's Catherine Ross, Randy McIlwain and Ray Villeda contributed to this report.

A standoff with Dallas SWAT officers ended Monday with a barricaded man turning the gun on himself, police say.

Officers were called to the 5400 block of Singleton Boulevard after a fight where one person was struck with a gun late Sunday.

The victim, and a witness to the assault, left the home Monday morning.  The victim was treated and released from the scene, but the man's attacker remained barricaded inside the home.

After several hours, and after opening fire on a police SWAT vehicle, officials said the barricaded man fatally shot himself.

Police tweeted the following message Monday afternoon and said no officers were injured.

DPD SWAT vehicle that was shot at by barricaded person at 5400 Singleton. No officers injured.^mg twitter.com/DallasPD/statu…

— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) April 22, 2013

The barricaded man's name has not yet been released.

Check back and refresh this page for the latest update.

In a news conference Monday, officials declared the neighborhood around the site of last week's deadly explosion in the town of West safe, but said some public services will not be restored for several weeks.

Preliminary reports indicate the infrastructure to the town was severely damaged and that further assessment is underway to determine just how significant that damage may be, city officials said in a news conference Monday afternoon.

Due to the damage, officials said a boil water notice is in place for all of West, likely for the next few weeks, and that those without water service will not have it restored for up to three weeks.

Officials said the water plant is OK, but that clamps and seals that connect the 40-foot pipes beneath the ground need to be inspected for damage from the explosion and shock wave. Once the infrastructure is repaired, the water must then be tested by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before service can be fully restored.

City officials said city services it will take some time to restore and are encouraging people to find someplace else to stay until all services are restored.

Mayor pro tem Steve Vanek said the town is out of room for donated material, but that cash donations will still help.

Meanwhile, residents and insurance agents are now being allowed access to Zone 1 and Zone 2, though Zone 3 still remains locked down.  Officials said  a curfew remains in effect and state and local officials continue to actively patrol areas on foot and by ATV.

In all, officials said approximately 350 homes have been impacted by the blast, most all of which were north of Oak Street.

Federal and state investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire that set off the explosion. Investigators also said they are taking a 3-D image of the crater to determine it's size and hopefully learn more about explosion.

Authorities said there is still no inventory of all chemicals that were at the facility.

Officials also discussed the memorial service scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Baylor's Ferrell Center in Waco.  The White House said Monday morning that President Barack Obama is planning to attend, though it is not yet clear if the president plans to tour the town.

NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff contributed to this report.

Three members of the Texas congressional delegation got a firsthand view of the aftermath of this week's massive fertilizer plant explosion.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Roger Williams all offered prayers for West during Friday's news conference to discuss their tour of the town after the fatal blast that killed at least 14 people and injured more than 200 others.

"Your heart weeps for their suffering," Cruz said.

Cornyn said that about 60 people remain unaccounted for, but McLennan County Judge Scott Felton said many people on the list probably lost their homes and have simply been difficult to locate since the Wednesday evening accident.

"The way that list was put together, if someone called in -- let's say from Dallas -- and said, 'Aunt Susie didn't answer her phone,' we put Aunt Susie down on the list of possible missing people when, really, Aunt Susie doesn't answer her phone most of the time, anyway," Felton said.

Felton said he anticipated that a high percentage of the names, perhaps even nearly all of them, would be eliminated from the list.

Cornyn and Cruz said they would wait for more information about the explosion before delving into whether there should be more regulation of anhydrous ammonia, a fertilizer that can be directly injected into soil.

West Fertilizer Co. stored and distributed the chemical.

Meanwhile, Williams said he expects the small farming community north of Waco to rebuild.

On Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and outlined the state's involvement in the town's recovery. He was joined by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and other state officals. Attorney General Greg Abbott also spoke Thursday.

A leaking pipeline at a gas well in Denton prompted evactuations and restricted the airspace over the municipal airport for several hours Friday.

The leak was in an industrial area with a few homes, four of which were evacuated.  Additionally, Jim Christal Road was shut down eastbound at Masch Branch Road and westbound at Western Boulevard, according to a tweet by the Denton Police Department.

A Denton Public Information officer said a gas pipe had separated from the well and that fracking water and natural gas was rising into the air directly around the well site.

The incident was first reported at about 11:30 a.m. A gas capping company was called to the scene to close the leak, which was expected to take about two hours.  At 3:45 p.m., police tweeted that the situation was over and that all roads that had been closed were reopened.

Neighbors nearby to the well told NBC 5's Brian Scott that they saw the water vapor rising last night, but because they did not smell gas, they did not contact authorities. However, natural gas has no natural odor; the smell is added by gas companies to help identify it in the case of leaks.

Authorities on scene said they were not concerned about explosions due to the gas leak.

NBC 5's Brian Scott contributed to this story. As this is a developing story, some details may change as we gather more information.

University Park police have arrested a student in connection with a number of threats directed toward the staff and students of Highland Park High School since the beginning of the year.

Officials said they arrested a 16-year-old Highland Park High School student and charged him with 17 counts of terroristic threat.  The incidents, police said Wednesday, were all directed toward the school and staff and that all disrupted classes.

Since the suspect is a juvenile, his name has not been released.

Police said Wednesday that measures undertaken by the suspect to mask the source of electronic messages made the investigation more difficult, but with the assistance of cyber-crime experts they were able to develop leads.

Police said the arrest was the result of the investigation and help from the FBI, not anonymous tips, so no one is eligible to claim the $10,000 reward.

Police said, even with the announcement of the teen's arrest, the investigation into the threats is ongoing.

Incidents Prompt Lock Downs, Dismissals

In January, someone began leaving threatening notes in a boys bathroom at the high school. After three messages were found, the notes stopped for a short while before three more turned up in February.

The incidents then grew more threatening as several .22-caliber bullets were found in a different boys restroom.

With the threats continuing, and with many resulting in lock downs and early dismissals, the FBI and Secret Service soon joined local law enforcement in attempting to find out who was responsible.

The seventh threat, arguably the most brazen of them all, was emailed directly to Crime Stoppers -- a police utility where tipsters can share information with law enforcement anonymously.

In March, officials said if the threats were found to be connected, the person responsible would face felony charges. Meanwhile, a $10,000 reward was offered for information that led to an arrest and conviction in the case.

NBC 5's Omar Villafranca and Ken Kalthoff contributed to this report.

A school bus was involved in a minor crash in Mesquite Wednesday afternoon.

The crash took place near the intersection of Lasater Road and Interstate 20 after the bus was struck broadside by another vehicle.

There were children on the bus at the time of the crash, but there were no injuries reported.

When Chopper 5 arrived at the scene, little damage was visible on the bus and there were no ambulances in the area.

Dallas Fire-Rescue is responding to a ruptured gas line along Walnut Hill between Marsh Lane and Midway Road.

The line was punctured by a third-party at about 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, fire officials said.  DFR said they believe the break is between 4-6 inches.

The break is near the T intersection of Walnut Hill and Hedgeway Drive, just north of Love Field Airport, in a residential area. At that location are three schools, The Cambridge School of Dallas, Edward H. Cary Middle School and Thomas Jefferson High School.

At this time, there are no evacuations to the schools or neighborhood.

Atmos has been called to the scene.

Due to a suspicious substance, a Dallas Fire-Rescue hazardous materials response team was  called to the Farmers Branch office of U.S. Senator John Cornyn.

Officials with the senator's office said the following Wednesday afternoon: "I can confirm that authorities have been called to our Dallas office to investigate a piece of mail. For more information, please contact Farmer's Branch PD."

The senator's office is on the 11th floor, which has been evacuated as a precaution, Farmer's Branch police said.

At 2:15 p.m., Dallas Fire-Rescue said all tests of the package to determine if it's hazardous came back negative. All other questions about the incident were referred to the U.S. Postal Inspector's Office.

DFR said two people were exposed to the package while checking the mail, but that no one was showing any signs of exposure to hazardous substances.

Sen. Cornyn's North Texas office is located at 5001 Spring Valley Road, ste 1125E.  He has six other offices across the state and one in Washington D.C.

On Wednesday, the FBI is looking into letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.  Both letters were postmarked Memphis, Tenn., and said, "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance." Both are signed, "I am KC and I approve this message."

Reports of suspicious letters also came in from congressional offices in Michigan and Arizona, as police investigated the discovery of at least three questionable packages in Senate office buildings.

It is not yet known if the piece of mail being investigated at Cornyn's Dallas office is related to the other incidents.

A man accused of shooting and killing his pregnant former girlfriend before shooting a Dallas police officer during a chase Monday afternoon is now in police custody.

Dallas police said Tyrone Christopher Allen is charged with capital murder and aggravated assault on a police officer.

Allen is suspected in the fatal shooting of Breshuana Jackson. Jackson, 28, a mother of six children between the ages of 2 and 10, was killed along with her unborn child Monday morning in a shooting on the 12300 block of Hoblitzelle Drive.

According to police, Jackson was shot at about 10:15 a.m. She screamed out the name of her attacker, a witness said. The witness saw the gunman drive away from the residence and was able to provide police with a description of the getaway vehicle.

After the shooting, nearby Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet Elementary School was locked down as a precaution.

At about 11:53 a.m., police spotted a vehicle matching the witnesses' description. Officers tried to make a stop, but Allen refused and led police up and down Central Expressway.

Allen then pulled into the same Hamilton Park neighborhood where Jackson was shot earlier in the morning. As the driver sped through the neighborhood trying to elude police, he began taking shots at police officers, striking Officer Daniel Malouf once in the lower abdomen.

Malouf, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was transported to Medical City Dallas. He was released and was recovering at home, Police Chief David Brown said Monday night.

Malouf has been with the department for five years and served in in the Army in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, police said.

Chopper 5 captured video of Allen stopping at one home and then people outside the running for cover as if they were being fired upon. The driver then again sped off down the road.

With his getaway car showing signs of damage, Allen then crashed, got out of the car and took off on foot. He then entered a house on Galva Drive, where he remained holed up until the standoff was brought to a close shortly before 4:30 p.m.

Allen was taken into custody without incident, police said.

During the standoff, SWAT was called to the scene and nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution.

The standoff was located about a block from the elementary school.  The school, which had been on lock down since 10:45 a.m., dismissed on time Monday -- more on that can be read here.

NBC 5''s Eric King and Omar Villafranca contributed to this story.

Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet Elementary School in Dallas will dismiss at the normal time Monday after being on lockdown since 10:45 a.m. due to a nearby fatal shooting.

The school, which is in the Richardson Independent School District, was put on lockdown at about 10:45 a.m. after a pregnant woman was shot and killed near the 12300 block of Hoblitzelle Drive in Hamilton Park, police said.

Police said the woman, and her unborn child, later died after being transported to Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. The suspected gunman opened fire on Dallas police, hitting one, during a chase Monday aftternoon.

Richardson ISD spokesperson Tim Clark said there has been no direct threat made toward the school and that they will dismiss at the normal time.

Parents who normally pick up their students can do so as they always do. Parents are being asked to pick up children who normally walk home -- as they will not be released.

The extended day program has been cancelled for Monday.

Officials advise that Schroeder, Galva and Willowdell streets are closed, so parents should approach and depart the school from the east side. Dallas police will be assisting with traffic direction.

Investigators reviewing the wreckage of Thursday's fatal Irving bus crash downplayed suggestions that a tire blowout caused the wreck.

Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Lonny Haschel said tire damage on the bus is not consistent with a blowout, but that nothing has been ruled out yet in determining the cause of the crash.

"Currently there's not one thing that is leading us to believe it's a causative factor in this crash, so we're going to have do a very thorough investigation, put all the pieces of the puzzle together, and it's going to take some time," Haschel said.

The tour bus was heading to the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Okla., when it struck a guardrail and overturned on the President George Bush Turnpike near Belt Line Road at about 9 a.m.

Haschel said a total of 44 injured people have now been accounted for at local hospitals, up from the figure of 42 injured people Irving fire officials reported Thursday.

Two people were killed. The bus had 46 people on board, including the driver, Loyd Rieve, of Dallas.

Rieve, 65, was still in intensive care at Parkland Memorial Hospital on Friday, according to a relative.

Investigators plan to talk with Rieve, all of the survivors, witnesses from the crash scene and officials from Cardinal Coach Lines, the bus owner.

The damaged bus is receiving a detailed examination in a Plano storage garage.

Investigators are also reviewing pictures and other evidence from the scene.

"We're going to make sure all the pieces of the puzzle are together," Haschel said. "We want to be able to answer anybody's questions."

Dallas personal injury attorney Frank Branson, who has sued other bus companies over other accidents, said he believes seat belts and stronger glass windows could have helped reduce death or injury in the accident.

"When a bus turns on its side, the people who were on the top side of the bus become human projectiles toward the other side of the bus, and they either hit the hard structures of the bus itself or they hit the passengers," he said.

A federal law approved last year will require buses to have seat belts and safety glass several years in the future, but those features are not required now.

"It's a real shame that you have to have a federal ordinance to make bus companies do what they know is safe to start with," Branson said. "If the manufacturers don't put safety belts in buses, certainly the charter companies could add them."

Officials with Grand Prairie-based Cardinal Coach Lines declined comment Thursday night.

Company records include relatively minor safety violations in the past. It received a satisfactory federal safety rating in a 2011 inspection.

The bus driver, Loyd Rieve, has been working as a commercial driver for nearly 30 years, according to his family.

In 2001, Rieve and another bus company, Central West Motor Stages, were sued over a 1998 bus crash. Court records name Rieve as the driver who swerved around a crash on Interstate 35 and fatally struck a man who was helping a woman injured in the wreck.

The Good Samaritan's family sued Rieve and Central West for damages but lost the case in court in Dallas County. A passenger on the bus also filed suit over the crash but lost.

A grand jury declined to indict Rieve in the crash.

Rieve was behind the wheel in a deadly bus crash in 1998. He swerved around a crash on Interstate 35 and struck and killed a Good Samaritan who was trying to help victims.

Calls and messages to Cardinal Coach have not been returned.

The Texas Highway Patrol is expected to produce a preliminary report on the Irving crash within 10 business days, and Haschel said it will likely take investigators that long to finish it.

"We have several teams on the ground working on different aspects of the investigation," he said.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are also working on the investigation.

Passengers Injured; Organizer Killed

On Friday, officials revised their total and said 46 people were on board the bus at the time of the crash. Forty-four were injured and two were killed, one of whom was the casino trip organizer, Sue Taylor, 81, of Hurst.

Taylor and Paula Hahn, 69, of Fort Worth, died in the crash, DPS said.

Family friends described Taylor, who went by the name "Casino Sue," as a "firecracker" of a woman.

"We're devastated," Janet Denham said.

Her friends said Taylor often planned casino trips and would entertain her guests with games during the road trips. Her daughter told NBC 5 that her mother had been organizing the trips for 10 years.

Information from area hospitals had 13 patients still receiving treatment at Parkland, three at Baylor Irving, one at Baylor Dallas, and one at Methodist. All patients were treated and released at the UT Southwester St. Paul Medical Center. Las Colinas Medical Center did not respond to calls for updates on the seven patients transported there.

Dan Risik, who spoke with NBC 5 both from the scene of the crash and later from his home, said he feels "very lucky" to be alive after the crash.

"After hearing what I've heard and seeing what I've seen in person, I feel extremely fortunate to be virtually injury-free -- a few scrapes, whatever," Risik said. "Other than that, I feel very lucky."

Deadly Texas Bus Crash Coincides with Safety Crackdown

The deadly charter-bus crash Thursday happened in the middle of an aggressive push by federal regulators to shutter unscrupulous carriers and ramp up safety inspections.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has shut down more than a dozen private bus companies -- nearly half of which it deemed "imminent hazards" -- over the past couple months. Last week, the agency announced it was deploying a team of more than 50 safety investigators throughout the country to conduct a wider examination of "higher risk" carriers, including many small charter operations. The FMCSA also asked local police to join the crackdown by boosting traffic enforcement.

The inspection teams headed out into the field on April 1, with orders to target 250 companies with lackluster safety records, according to the American Bus Association, a trade group whose officials were briefed by federal authorities.

Among the carriers already shut down by the FMCSA was Fung Wah, a popular discount bus service between New York City and Boston that had a history of crashes and safety violations.

It's not clear whether the owner of the bus that wrecked Thursday, Cardinal Coach Line, would have been targeted in the crackdown had the crash not happened. According to FMCSA's online record system, Cardinal Coach Line was given a "satisfactory" safety rating in 2009. In the past two years, none of the company's five buses have been in a crash, the records say. But the company's two inspections over that period found violations that resulted in putting a bus and/or or a driver out of service.

Read more on the federal bus safety crackdown here.

The organizer of a bus trip to an Oklahoma casino was killed when the private charter bus overturned on an Irving highway on Thursday morning, the Department of Public Safety confirmed.

The bus was headed to Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Okla., when it crashed on northbound President George Bush Turnpike at about 9 a.m.

Sue Taylor, 81, of Hurst, and Paula Hahn, 69, of Fort Worth, died in the crash, DPS said. More than three dozen people were injured.

Family friends described Taylor, who went by the name "Casino Sue," as a "firecracker" of a woman.

"We're devastated," Janet Denham said.

Her friends said Taylor often planned casino trips and would entertain her guests with games during the road trips. Her daughter told NBC 5 that her mother had been organizing the trips for 10 years.

"She's a very nice person," said Ken Hester, who dog-sitting for Taylor. "I've lived here for 10 years; she was my neighbor for five. ... She's just a very good person."

Marsha Taylor, Sue Taylor's daughter, earlier told NBC 5 that she did not know where her mother was and was looking for her.

NBC 5's Amanda Guerra and Eric King contributed to this report.