Off-Duty Baytown Officer Foils Pigeon Drop Scam
An off duty Baytown police officer thwarted a pigeon drop scheme targeting a 70 year old woman. The suspect, a 30s Black woman about 5 feet 5 inches, used the same name in two attempted swindles outside Kmart on North Pruett and Lyons Food Market. A second incident involved a separate 70 year old, with similar details. Police say no charges yet filed in the Gaillard Street fight.
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Baytown
Roger Clifford
Century Savings
Highway 146
Kmart
1801
N. Pruett
Lyons Food Market
North Gaillard
Gulf Coast Hospital
Texas highway speed limits raised to 65 for most vehicles
The State Highway Commission voted unanimously to raise rural interstate speed limits to 65 mph for passenger cars buses and light trucks with heavy trucks set to 60 mph. If Governor Clements approves the order would take effect at 12 01 a m May 9. The change covers interstate routes in areas under 50 000 population totaling about 2 441 miles. Only one witness urged maintaining 55 mph.
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Austin
State Highway Commission
Bill Clements
Rossanna Salazar
Clements
Press Retary
Texas
Lilla Barnes
Belton
Texas banks close as failures rise to twenty five
Two more Texas banks failed on Thursday Unitedbank Houston with 218 million in assets and Peoples State Bank of Turkey bringing Texas total to 25 bank failures this year and 71 nationwide. FDIC appointed for sale or liquidation. Unitedbank Houston was the year’s largest Texas failure followed by a grim national trend. Local officials cited insolvency of about seven million before closing.
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Associated Press
Houston
Texas
Unitedbank Houston
Peoples State Bank
Panhandle
Turkey
Kenneth W. Littlefield
Unitedbank-Houston
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Unitedbank- Houston
First National Bank
Midland
FDIC
Alan Whitney
Frank D. Norris
Littlefield
Fire scarred campus sparks cross town welcome signs
Sterling and REL students gathered to greet crosstown peers on campus with a joint Baytown sticks together sign and mascot drawings while REL students posted messages on a fence. Officials warn crowds to keep clear of fire weakened walls as walls may shift during cooling.
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Ross. Sterling
Baytown
REL
RSS
Former Baytown waitress to receive heroism award
Gail Mazzetti, a Baytown native now in Charlotte, will receive the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission award for saving a Houston police officer in April 1986. Along with a Houston Pancho's waitress, she helped fend off two suspects as officers chased a third outside the Uvalde Road eatery. The recognition honors ordinary citizens who risked lives, providing a certificate, medal, and 2500 dollars.
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Baytown
Houston
Carnegie
Gail Mazzetti
Charlotte
N.C
North America
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Pittsburgh
Ms. Mazzetti
Uvalde Road
James Whitley
Fordham faces murder trial in Stiles case aftermath
The suspect Fordham is tied to a death in a wooded area behind a complex. An autopsy found stabbing, asphyxiation and strangling. Warrant signed by Judge Ted Pac of the 228th District Court allowed searches of Fordham's apartment and school locker. Evidence included a metal clipboard with newspaper front pages and a world history textbook opened to Egyptian pages. Prosecutor Ted Wilson presented investigators who traced Fordham leaving with a gray trash bag and returning without it. The bag contained letters to police and items from the scene. The trial recessed until 10:30 a.m. Monday with FBI agents and a county psychiatrist slated to testify.
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Plex
Fordham
Ted Pac
228Th District Court
Poe
Sehool
Moser
Rex Elliott
Baytown Sun
Houston Chronicle
Stiles
Elliott
Osiris
Ted Wilson
Gary Johnson
Special Crimes Division
Mark Argo
Johnson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Baytown May events and services listed for spring
Baytown area notices list funeral arrangements for June Roberson of Baytown and a series of upcoming events and services. ASSET testing sessions at Lee College in Rundell Hall Auditorium May 2 at 10 am and 6 pm. SAT administration moved to Ross S Sterling High School cafeteria May 2 at 8 am. LC presents Pink Thunderbird two one act plays May 1 2 8 9 at LC fine arts building. KC Knights of Columbus dance May 2 at KC Hall 8:30 pm to 12:30 am $4. Baytown Community Building hosts Humble Pioneers May 1 6 pm. Baytown Fairgrounds hosts animal health certs May 3 2–3 pm. Texas Tale Telling festival May 2–3 Armand Bayou Nature Center noon to 5 pm. Exxon Day shuttles May 2 meet Exxon main office Decker Drive 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. Liberty Volunteer Fire Department responds to trailer fire April 30 minor damage. Baytown Parks to host Bluegrass May 2 Bicentennial Park 10 am fiddlers contest. 2 pm bands. Woodland Academy open house May 2 10 am to 3 pm. Bruce Roush Dance Studio recital May 2 6:30 pm at Ross S Sterling High School. Greater Baytown Quarter Horse show three days at Trinity Valley Exposition near Farm Road 563 starting 9 am daily. SOS Singles Outreach Service meets May 2 11 am at Bicentennial Park monument for fajita bluegrass festival. 1816 or 428-1968.
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Greater Baytown Quarter Horse Association
Liberty
SOS
Bicentennial Park
Trustees OK REL benefit concert plan for school fund
Baytown school trustees gave tentative approval to a KBUK radio staged benefit concert to raise funds for Robert E. Lee High School. KEKHT radio will establish a REL fund at InterFirst Bank in Houston with KKHT donations and a start of 500 dollars already provided.
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Baytown
Kbuk Radio
Robert E. Lee High School
Kekht Radio
Houston
InterFirst Bank
Lu Fulbright
Stallworth Stadium
KBUK
Fulbright
KKHT
c/o
Fannin
Texas
Robert E. Lee
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