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More business owners are selling for higher prices than ever, but a sale even in a hot market is not guaranteed.

A Houston high school teacher, who is also the school’s baseball coach, suffered a broken arm after he was jumped by four middle school students last Thursday, his mom told reporters.

The teacher has been identified as Michael Schott, an employee of Langham Creek High School in Houston.

KSAT sister station KPRC reported that four teenage students from Aragon Middle School who were riding dirt bikes on campus during baseball practice are responsible for the attack.

Schott’s mother said the attack happened after Schott stopped one middle school student from riding his dirt bike on campus and then the student left and came back with three other students.

When they returned to the high school, the four juveniles chased down Schott and beat him up in an incident that was captured on cell phone video.

“The reason the others came back is because they didn’t like [Michael] stopping them,” Schott’s mother said to Chron.com.

Sophomore Alena Gonzales told KPRC the day the students jumped Schott “they got arrested and their older friends threatened to shoot up our school. We couldn’t walk around unless we had an ID badge, they wouldn’t even let us in.”

CyFair Independent School District superintendent Mark Henry released a statement following the attack and said, in part, “we will not tolerate anyone compromising the safe environment of our campuses, and will address violations to the greatest extent possible.”

The middle school students have been taken into custody but it’s unclear what charges, if any, the four juveniles face, according to KPRC.

Yes, home prices in the San Antonio area have skyrocketed recently, rising 19 percent from December 2020 to December 2021. However, a new analysis shows it’s actually better to buy than rent a place to live in Alamo City. In fact, San Antonio ranks second on Realtor.com’s new list of the places in the U.S. where it’s better to buy than rent. To come up with the list, Realtor.com looked at the median rents of…

Nearly two out of three people in the U.S. experience symptoms of digital eye strain.

Digital eye strain is when you have blurry vision and burning, itching, and tired eyes after using a digital device.

Too much time on a digital screen can have long-term consequences on your vision. Here are some sight-saving tips to prevent vision damage caused by screens.

Between iPads, phones, computers, people spend a lot of time in front of screens. But all our electronics may be short-circuiting our vision.

“I see patients everyday with digital eye strain,” Dr. Alan Mendelsohn, ophthalmologist said.

Mendelsohn said the blue light that is emitted from digital screens causes eye strain and puts people at greater risk for macular degeneration down the road.

So, what can you do to protect your sight? First, move farther away from your screen.

“There’s only one fourth of the exposure holding it two feet versus one foot,” Mendelsohn said.

Even moving the screen just one inch farther away from your face cuts the blue light exposure by 15 percent.

Also, most devices have a built-in filter that you can turn on and off at certain times. And you can have a blue light blocker embedded in your glasses lens.

Experts say it only takes 30 minutes a day to cause digital eye strain. Another effective strategy to limit digital eye strain is to follow the 20-20-20 rule, which is for every 20 minutes behind a screen, take a 20-second break and look at something 20 feet away.

Becky Hammon, Penny Taylor and Doug Bruno will headline the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022.

The trio is joined by Alice “Cookie” Barron, Delisha Milton-Jones, Paul Sanderford, Bob Schneider and Debbie Antonelli in a group that will be inducted on June 11.

Hammon is being honored for her playing career in the WNBA and at Colorado State. She was a six-time All-Star and was voted one of the WNBA’s 15 greatest players of all-time in 2011.

Taylor starred both with the Phoenix Mercury and the Australian national team. She helped the Mercury win three WNBA championships and Australia to its two Olympic silver medals.

Bruno has coached at DePaul for 36 years, guiding the team to 24 NCAA Tournament appearances. He’s a three time Big East Coach of the Year and also has coached USA Basketball at nearly every level, leading them to gold six times.

Barron played for the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens and lead the Plainview, Texas, team to an undefeated mark of 104-0 in her time there from 1954-1957. Wayland won three national championships.

Milton-Jones won two Olympic gold medals with the U.S. national team and also helped the Los Angeles Sparks to two WNBA titles. She won the Wade Trophy in 1997.

Sanderford led Western Kentucky to three Final Fours; the team finished second in 1992. He went 453-189 in his 25 seasons as a college head coach. Sanderford also guided Louisburg College to the JUCO national championship in 1981.

Schneider was the third-winningest coach in Division II history with 634 wins. In his 40 years of coaching at the collegiate and high school level, he only had two losing seasons while amassing 1,045 victories.

And Antonelli is being honored as a contributor to the game. She’s been a college analyst for 34 years and has helped start numerous in-season tournaments around the country.

The Hall of Fame also is giving its 2022 Trailblazers of the Game award to Title IX, the federal law that requires athletic departments to provide general equivalence for men and women that turns 50 this year.

“Without Title IX, our past and future inductees and trailblazers would not have had the opportunity to blaze those trails,” Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Trustees Chair Carol Stiff said. “It is only fitting that we honor Title IX as it has impacted so many female athletes not only in women’s basketball but in all sports.”

The sale comes on the heels of an $11 million hit the company took to its February earnings last year during Winter Storm Uri.

Community Labs President Sal Webber said the new tracker enables customers to track their Covid sample the same way they might track an Amazon package delivery.

A motorcyclist was taken to an area hospital after crashing on an exit ramp of Loop 410 early Tuesday morning, San Antonio police said.

The crash occurred around 1:20 a.m. on a ramp from Loop 410 to Interstate 35, near Walzem Road.

According to police, the motorcyclist said he doesn’t exactly know how the crash happened, and it’s currently unclear as to whether he was hit by a vehicle or simply lost control of his bike.

The man was taken by EMS to Brooke Army Medical Center, in stable condition.

The San Antonio Police Department, the San Antonio Fire Department and EMS all answered the call.

The exit ramp was closed as emergency crews worked at the scene. It has since reopened.

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A homicide suspect has died after he injured himself from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a series of standoffs with police in Dilley Sunday afternoon.

Pearsall police say Fabian Garza succumbed to his injuries at the Frio Regional Hospital.

The incident began when Pearsall police responded to the 900 block of South Ash Street for shots fired.

When officers arrived, they found Melissa Escobar with a gunshot wound to her face. Escobar told police Gaza was the one who shot her.

Escobar was taken to Frio Regional Hospital, where she later died, police said.

Dilley Police and Frio County Deputies located Garza at his residence on Merle Street in Dilley. Garza was in his vehicle, but he refused to exit.

Following a short standoff, Garza then took off in his vehicle, attempting to evade officers.

Police said Garza then came to a stop on Kinsel Street and another short standoff ensued. During the standoff, Texas Rangers tried to make contact with him on the phone, but were unsuccessful.

Moments later, Garza sped off in his vehicle again, but he ran over spike strips in the road that were set up by police. A short chase ensued and he then drove off the road on Highway 85, just south of Houston Street, police said.

“The Texas Ranger was speaking with him, the sheriff’s deputies were also speaking with him trying to get him to peacefully get out so we could resolve the situation,” Sgt. Ruiz explained.

A short while later, police said they heard a gunshot from inside of Garza’s vehicle. When officers approached, they found him injured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Officers tried to do CPR on Garza before he was rushed by EMS to an area hospital, according to Dilley PD.

Garza later died at the hospital.

“For a tragedy like this to strike our small community, our officers will be very diligent in making sure the community is aware that we are here to protect them and do the best we can,” Sgt. Ruiz said.

“Please keep all of the families involved in your thoughts. We mourn as a community during senseless tragedies,” Dilley Police Chief Homer said in a release.

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San Antonio DEA agents say they are seeing large amounts of fentanyl entering our communities. The drug is a synthetic opioid. These days, it’s clandestinely manufactured in China and Mexico and mixed in with illicit drugs.

Assistant Special Agent in Charge Dante Sorianello said there’s a large profit for dealers who don’t have to do much to make it.

“The bulk of the fentanyl that we’re seeing is being made into fake prescription pills, fake hydrocodone, fake oxycodone. And those pills are not being made in a pharmacy, in a pharmaceutical environment, not in a laboratory. They’re being made by clandestine drug manufacturers,” he explained.

The distribution of fentanyl in the drugs varies widely.

Fentanyl is so potent, an amount smaller than a penny or about the tip of a pencil could kill someone or leave them in a poor state.

Sorianello said DEA lab results show nearly half of the laced pills on the streets contain almost deadly amounts of fentanyl DEA lab results show nearly half of the laced pills on the streets contain almost deadly amounts of fentanyl or about 40%.

“In the last four months in San Antonio alone, we’ve seized over 200,000 fake Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl. So if we’re playing with the 40 percent, now that means 80,000 of those pills could have a potentially lethal dose, it could kill 80,000 people,” he explained.

Sorianello said many of those pills are ending up at parties on college campuses where some students might experiment once and die from that one-time use. He says sometimes other illicit drugs are laced with fentanyl and those consuming it aren’t aware.

“There is a certain part of the people who are overdosing and passing away. They didn’t know it was fentanyl,” he said.

The latest 2020 medical examiner’s report showed that about 94% of overdoses were accidental and about 16% of those were linked to fentanyl and or other illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin. Since 2016, there’s been an upwards trend in deaths linked to fentanyl.