The Drafted Heads to Wisconsin for MKE Punk Fest
Highlands band The Drafted aims to play outside Texas for the first time at the MKE Punk Festival in Wisconsin. They seek fan support via GoFundMe to cover travel costs while they perform alongside 80 acts over eight days and fly out the next day after their set.
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GoFundMe
Aaron Hughes
Ryan Felder
Craig Stanley
John McDonald
Texas
Lone Star State
Stanley
Highlands
Sonicbids
South By Southwest
U.S
4007 Fist
Wisconsin
Houston
Walters
Drafted
Badger State
Austin
San Jacinto River habitat grant and youth education program
A Texas state and county grant totaling 29.2 million resolves a prior dispute with McGinnis Industrial Maintenance. Funds redirected to TPWD will support a San Jacinto watershed education initiative led by Cushman and Woods of Sea Scout Ship 208, incorporating kayaking, birding, and ecology studies for area youth and communities along the river.
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Interstate 10 East Bridge
McGinnis Industrial Maintenance Corporation
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Cushman and Woods
TPWD
San Jacinto
Sea Scouts
Woods
I-10
Cinto River
San Jacinto Battleground
San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
Ted Hollingsworth
Baytown police beat reports multiple thefts and extortion case
Police Beat summaries a extortion case where a 19 year old man received death threats via phone and text after online contact with a woman, plus several thefts including a gold iPhone 6, a red 2011 Ford Escape with plate FWB 8454, a motorcycle, a 1978 Cadillac Deville front grill, tires and rims, and an iPhone left at a gas pump. A 32 year old Baytown man was arrested for copper theft on Garth Road.
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Baytown
Western Union
Lakes of Madera
West Baker Drive
Shady Oaks
North Highway 146
Mabry Street
Avalon Bay Apartments
Northwood Drive
Exxon
Garth Road
Burglaries Reported Stolen Firearms and Xbox
A burglary on Alabama Street Tuesday left a Mossberg Maverick Model 88 shotgun a Remington 308 rifle and an Xbox game console missing from a home in the 1800 block.
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Alabama
Obama adds five Texas counties to disaster declaration
President Obama expanded the major disaster declaration to include Kleberg Fayette Harris Parker and Palo Pinto counties in Texas adding to the previous list of Austin Brazoria Brazos Fort Bend Grimes Hidalgo Hood Montgomery San Jacinto Travis Waller and Washington counties. The declaration enables federal grants for temporary housing home repairs low interest loans and other assistance for individuals and businesses. Governor Abbott indicated more counties could be added.
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Austin
Brazoria
Brazos
Fort Bend
Grimes
Hidalgo
Hood
Montgomery
San Jacinto
Travis
Waller
Washington
Abbott
Harris County prepares for Zika as mosquito threat grows
Harris County and Houston health officials warn of Zika risk in impoverished urban areas along the Gulf Coast. Dr. Peter Hotez notes local mosquito breeding sites while authorities expand labs, deploy traps, and launch a $2 million awareness campaign. No locally transmitted cases yet. aggressive testing underway.
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Houston
Peter Hotez
Latin America
Hotez
Baylor College of Medicine
Gulf Coast
Texas
Umair Shah
Harris County Public Health Department
Florida
Rick Scott
Congress
Barack Obama
Senate
Puerto Rico
State Health Department
Shah
Harris County
U.S
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