Texas towns say eclipse events "exceeded their expectations"
"Over 20,000 people checked into our welcome center. All our public parks were full," says Ashley Colunga with the City of Ennis.
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Amelia Mugavero joins CBS News Texas team as a reporter. Amelia was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from John Paul II High School.
Amelia always knew she wanted to be a journalist. She has never met a stranger and loves telling people's stories. Amelia grew up watching CBS News Texas, which led her to take multiple Dallas internships. She was an intern for CBS Radio in 2015 and also an intern for a TV news station in the summer of 2016. During that 2016 summer, Amelia helped cover the tragic stories surrounding the 2016 Dallas Ambush, where 5 Dallas police officers were shot and killed in downtown Dallas. After that summer, Amelia knew she wanted to work in Dallas-Fort Worth and help be a voice for North Texans.
Amelia attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Why Illinois? Amelia is a world champion baton twirler -- first learning to twirl from a studio in Garland, Texas. She was offered the prestigious position of Feature Twirler for the Marching Illini. She twirled for all home games and performed at Chicago Bears games, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland.
She comes to DFW from Saint Louis, Missouri, where she was an anchor and reporter. Amelia covered a variety of national stories in the Show Me State, including a historic deadly tornado that leveled an Amazon factory, as well as historic flooding in the summer of 2022 that made national news.
Amelia also worked in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was a reporter for Oklahoma CBS affiliate, KOTV News on 6, as well as KTEN News in Denison, Texas as an anchor and reporter. Amelia has produced investigative pieces, such as the spike in road rage in Texas and Oklahoma, high incarceration rates, and wrongful convictions. Amelia also started her reporter series titled "Those Who Serve" to highlight people and veterans who go above and beyond in their communities.
Amelia competed in the Miss Illinois pageant and was first runner-up to Miss Illinois 2016.
Fun fact - Amelia and her mom were on CBS' Price is Right in March of 2019, where her mom, Angelia, won two trips to Florida and Savannah, Georgia! In her spare time, Amelia loves to explore new restaurants (her favorite food is Italian and tacos), hike, read, and cuddle with her cat, Travis.
"Over 20,000 people checked into our welcome center. All our public parks were full," says Ashley Colunga with the City of Ennis.
Rashee Rice's attorney sent CBS News Texas a statement Monday, confirming Rice was involved in the crash.
The cuts are coming as the district is losing $134 million of ESSR federal funding. The ESSR funds were given to school districts to help get more resources and employees to recover after the pandemic.
A Garland mother is praising the quick actions of Garland firefighters, who used a special device to save her choking baby's life.
"This organization continues to burn," one Fort Worth resident said.
When firefighters broke the door open, the suspect fired a shot and hit the six-year veteran of the Arlington Fire Department, police said Friday.
The company's website is no longer online. Its business page on Google shows it is permanently closed.
Fort Worth police call it a "criminal enterprise" and one of the largest chop shop and theft operations they have uncovered in years.
MedStar currently handles emergency response for Fort Worth and 13 surrounding cities.
Both parents and their two teenage boys suffered injuries from the crash and are in the hospital.
The North Texas man is being remembered across the world for his inspirational story of resilience, after living in an iron lung for more than 70 years after contracting polio.
Thomas Lopez says he never expected to lose his brand-new Jeep when he drove to lunch & parked it in the 2300 block of Victory Lane on Sunday.
With so many animals hurt and killed North Texas rancher Garret Duvall says he was losing hope until he met a small calf crying for help.
Some 10,000 cattle and other animals will die or have to be euthanized because of the wildfires.
"You go through life thinking that you're bulletproof," Drew Naukam said. "I never thought in a million years that I had a problem."