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Hundreds gathered in downtown Gainesville Saturday to mourn the life of a Texas girl who died by suicide. Her family said classmates bullied her by threatening to call immigration agents on her parents. In other news, plans to turn the old Dallas Morning News building into a data center have Dallas leaders debating buying the historic property or revamping the $3.7 billion renovation plans for the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center; a federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one of 19 universities, known as the 1890 land grant institutions; and churches across Dallas lifted up Pope Francis in prayer amid his ongoing health challenge and recent hospitalization, asking he feel the healing power of the Holy Spirit.

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