15 Nov 2008
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 2008
Page
1
A veteran of two world wars, the battleship Texas, long a landmark in the region, becomes history in a forthcoming Sunday feature. The article honors its service and notes its looming absence from the local landscape.
A video camera at Garth Road Cleaners helped Baytown police identify 17 year old Alexander Jay Lewis as the man behind two armed robberies at LaRose Cleaners and Garth Road Cleaners. He confessed after being questioned following surveillance footage. Lewis is jailed in Harris County on burglary charges and connected robbery counts.
Baytown City Council held a work session with TEEX to assess the city’s Hurricane Ike response two months after the disaster. City officials praised staff performance and noted citizen solidarity while planning changes before the next hurricane. Governor Perry was briefed on lessons learned and future improvements.
The Florida State Attorney's Office announced that fraud charges against U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp. CEO John Rivera, 50, have been dropped. The Baytown Sun issued a correction noting an earlier Friday report had misstated that Rivera faced charges in Florida.
Rick King, a Baytown native once a Travis Elementary fifth grader, earned a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Public Service Emmy in New York for the 2007 production Now is Our Time to Serve. The project was created with partners the National Military Family Association and the U.S. Family Health Plan and aired after a long career in writing and broadcasting.
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