Ex Marine fights flag display in Brownsville council chamber
Ex Marine and attorney Oliver Butler seeks federal action to remove the Mexican flag from Brownsville City Council chambers where the U S flag also flies. Mayor Hernandez defends the current display saying allegiance pledges honor the American flag, while the council awaits guidance from the attorney general on legality.
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Oliver Butler
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Mexico
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Matamoros
Attornney
Hernandez
San Antonio police hold two jobs
Almost one third of the San Antonio Police Department's 1273 officers have second jobs, with some working up to 36 extra hours weekly. Officers cite economic needs and a desire for normal life, including homes in safer neighborhoods, boats, and cars, earning private security wages of 10 to 15 dollars an hour. Moonlighting could add 10 to 15 thousand dollars yearly, while department policy caps extra work at 36 hours.
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San Antonio
Smartline
Storm Kills and Rescues Trail Lake Livingston Chaos
Texas sheriff Ted Everitt reports 18 still missing after a sudden lake storm on Lake Livingston. Witnesses recall rescuers rushing onto the water as winds near 90 mph sent 10 foot waves, with about 180 fishermen in a bass tourney and hundreds more boating. Coast Guard says 138 rescued off Galveston vessels. several homes and sites damaged in multiple counties, with two dozen aircraft and motor traffic affected.
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Gloria Crale
Robbins
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Livingston
Trinity River
Houston
Galveston
Mike Walter
U.S. Coast Guard
David Weitzel
Galveston Bay
Texas
Confederate Air Force
Jasper
Tyler
Polk
Jefferson
National Weather Service
Brazos County
Tightened port security across European ferries
European ports tightened security as the alert stretched across summer. Police at Dover and other ports inspected vehicles and searched under cars with mirrors, while explosives experts and 200 officers guarded ferry routes to Calais Boulogne Sur Mer Ostend and Hook of Holland.
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Times of London
British Defense Ministry
Condon
Calais
Boulogne-Sur-Mer
Ostend
Hook of Holland
Esbjerg
Oslo
Goteborg
Britain
Essex
Zeebrugge
Dunkirk
Baytown teacher of year Anne Sullivan inspires journaling andDecathlon
Anne Sullivan named Baytown's teacher of the year praises journal writing for students and recounts how former pupils keep journals. She started a student magazine Mind Flight now in its sixth edition. Sullivan also coaches the AEL Academic Decathlon Team with Chris Bacon, expanding learning beyond the classroom to museums and concert halls. She credits Arm strong's support for creative writing and notes her focus on both gifted and special needs students.
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Baytown
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Library continues Baytown history series on early doctors
Mrs. Thomson notes Bridges practiced in Mont Belvieu before World War II and settled in Baytown in 1946. Dr. Herbert H. Duke Sr and Dr. Gordon A. Lillie opened Lillie Duke Hospital in 1939 at West Pearce and South Ashbel, operating until 1966. Dr. W. T. Jones, Baytown native since 1934, helped found Gulf Coast Hospital and will discuss Gulf Coast's growth since 1958.
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Baytown
Thomson
Herbert H. Duke
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Gordon A. Lillie
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W.T. Jones
Gulf Coast Hospital
Jones
Gulf Coast
Interstate 10 Bridge Project Completion Reported
Christie said the I 10 bridge project cost about 3.3 million dollars. In a separate plan workers were to repair pavement on I 10 between Thompson Road and the bridge, Christie added.
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Christie
Thompson Road
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