Erika Predicted To Hit Brownsville This Weekend
One month after Claudette Texas residents in the Rio Grande Valley brace for Tropical Storm Erika as it churns across the Gulf. People stock up at grocery stores, board up shops, and move recreational vehicles inland. San Benito H E B parking spots filled and carts taken. lines stretch to aisles as bread runs short.
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Claudette
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Gulf of Mexico
San Benito
Storm Preparations Grow as Erika Menaces Coast
Mary Perez, 42, buys non refrigerated supplies with her three boys while Ralph Rincones stocks canned goods and flashlights. Others board up homes, yet bars offer hurricane specials as Erika nears, prompting cookouts and community plans before the storm reaches shore. Erika strengthens to tropical storm status as it tracks westward.
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Mary Perez
Ralph Rincones
Fernando Puga
Erika
Goose Creek projects $1.5 mil budget deficit
Goose Creek ISD board says no rabbits from hats for the 2023 24 budget with a $1.5 million shortfall in a $116.5 million proposed budget. A special meeting to adopt the budget is set for Aug 28 at 6 30 p.m with a prior hearing Aug 25. Local revenues fall about 4 percent to $102 million as cuts hit security maintenance and admin areas.
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Goose Creek
Katie Bowman
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Jepp Busch
Wake up call as schools shift to earlier start times
Baytown families adjust to earlier bells as districts move to earlier start times for the new school year. Megan Ramirez, a Ross S. Sterling junior and football team trainer, has long been waking her mother for rides to school. Freshman Chase Dempsay faces the change from 8:30 a.m. to an earlier start, planning to sleep sooner to adapt.
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Baytown
Mary Hernandez
Hernandez
Megan Ramirez
Ramirez
Ross S. Sterling
Chase Dempsay
Sterling
Dempsay
Baytown woman charged after stabbing officer during arrest
Baytown 35 year old Robin Fairfield was jailed on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing Officer Gary Slot with a 12 inch serrated bread knife. Slot required surgery for a deep cut to his left calf and was expected to be released that night.
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Gary Slot
Robin Fairfield
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
David Alford
South Shepard
Brian Naismith
Fairfield
Harris County Psychiatric Center
Slot
Alford
Naismith
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