Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

"He lost me on the trail, got angry about it, and made a scene in front of my constituents on the trail," Cole said about the DPS officer assigned to escort her upon her return to Texas.

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A driver's name has been released after he died in a crash on Interstate 10 in the West Valley early Sunday morning.

A Texas man has died after a fatal crash on Sunday evening southeast of Alto. Pye Kervantez Jr., 41 of Wylie, was traveling north on US 69 at around 6:20 p.m. on Sunday when his vehicle went off the road and into a ditch.

A Texas lawmaker who slept in the House Chamber of the Texas Capitol Monday night filed a lawsuit shortly into her protest, according to online records.

The driver, identified as Jose Molina, 28, of Fort Worth, was charged with evading arrest in a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, and possession of marijuana. He was booked into the Ellis County Jail, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The Dayton Public Schools Board of Education approved new safety policies for students riding RTA buses. This comes just days after the district was granted a temporary restraining order against a new Ohio law prohibiting the use of public transit through transfer stations for students.