Shooting prompts more questions at Baytown college scene
Investigators say Baytown college student Robert Redus, 23, was shot Friday after allegedly attacking a University of the Incarnate Word officer with a steel baton. No dash cam video exists from the encounter, but audio recordings indicate a violent struggle. The Alamo Heights Police Department and Texas Rangers are reviewing the case.
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Baytown College
Robert Cameron Redus
University of the Incarnate Word
Cpl
Chris Carter
Alamo Heights
AHPD
Texas
Cindy Pruitt
Local educators honored by MANA Latina Leadership Institute
Seven local educators from Goose Creek CISD, Barbers Hill and Houston area schools were honored by MANA for leadership, service and advocacy. Honorees include Laura Acosta, Mandi Bomar, Rachel DeLeon, Kim Herrera, Agustin Laredo II, Mary Ann Lopez Martinez and Norma Picacio Jones. Two honorees Norma Picacio-Jones and Laura Acosta are spotlighted for their paths from teenage motherhood to education careers, guided by veteran mentors.
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MANA
Houston
Laura Acosta
Barbers Hill
Mandi Bomar
Bowie
Rachel DeLeon
Ashbel Smith
Kim Herrera
Ross S. Sterling
Agustin Laredo II
Goose Creek Cisd Board of
South Houston
Mary Ann Lopez Martinez
Horace Mann
Norma Picacio-Jones
Goose Creek Cisd
Language arts teacher motivates teen to finish education
Norma Picacio-Jones credits Patricia Sanders, her Harlingen High School language arts teacher, with transforming a pregnancy at 15 into perseverance. Though she did not return to high school, she earned a GED, then bachelor’s degrees in English and history from the University of Hawaii and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from Tarleton State University.
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Picacio-Jones
Patricia Sanders
Harlingen High School
Ms. Sanders
University of Hawaii
Tarleton State University
Family defends Cameron Redus after police shooting claim
The Redus family released a statement Monday denying that Cameron Redus attacked a police officer before his Friday death. They described him as a loving, intelligent young man beloved by his four brothers and said the family will struggle to adjust without him.
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Robert Cameron Redus
Cameron
Bird count at Chevron Phillips plant marks holiday tally
Audubon Society volunteers survey the Chevron Phillips Cedar Bayou Plant grounds to count bird species during Christmas Bird Count. Led by Aaron Stoley for 25 years, the team walks refinery grounds and cooling ponds, tallying 65 to 70 species and noting regional diversity across Houston. Chevron Phillips supports access and habitat preservation.
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Audubon Society
Chevron Phillips Chemical Plant
Aaron Stoley
Cedar Bayou
Chemical Company
Stoley
Chevron Phillips
Houston
Heather Kroury
Kroury
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co
Baytown
The
Baytown’s first Harris County bomb shelter story
In 1955 Harold Crawford and two Baytown families built the county’s first bomb shelter in Crawford’s backyard. The 12 by 2 foot concrete vault with a thick roof, steel doors, and air pipes faced rain and soil challenges. Permits cost about 1,000 dollars, and neighbors helped. the project reflected postwar Cold War fears and local improvisation.
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Harris County
Harold Crawford
Crawford
Kelly Martin
T.D. O’brien
Russia
United States
Cuba
Florida
England
Japan
Houston
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