The Denton school board has promoted the assistant principal at W.S. Ryan Elementary School to principal at Lee Elementary School.

Lorena Salas, who starts as principal next school year, will replace Laura Rodriguez, who is retiring.

“I’m honored to serve the students and the community,” Salas said after the board’s vote to officially hire her on Tuesday.

This will be the first time she’s led a school, she said.

She joined the Denton school district 12 years ago, according to district officials, and in that time she’s served as an assistant principal at Title 1 elementary schools Ryan and Wilson,...

Police officers have read it dozens of times, usually as a suspect is being handcuffed and placed under arrest.

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you in a court of law...”

The Miranda warning may seem easy-to-understand, yet a 2011 university study claims nearly one million criminal cases each year may be compromised in the United States because suspects don’t actually understand their constitutional rights under Miranda.

According to Richard Rogers, a psychology professor at the University of North Texas, the public, police, and sometimes courts...