Mexican gang leader guilty in 2004 Baytown murder
Harris County jurors sentenced Arturo Chavez Jr. to life for the 2004 killing of Santiago Garcia, a Baytown case linked to a weapons smuggling cell tied to the Los Zetas. Chavez, 34, had been under federal probe for sending guns to Mexico and faced related charges before the murder verdict.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Houston
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Zeta Cell
Zapata
Eric Freed
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Freed
Plantation
Chambers County
Lee College to host healthcare information session Dec 4
Lee College Center for Workforce and Community Development will hold an information session on Wednesday December 4 from 5 30 to 7 p m in the Phyllis Davis Room 909 Decker Drive. Attendees can learn about nearly a dozen non credit healthcare programs and speak with faculty.
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Lee College Center For Workforce and Community Development
Phyllis Davis
Decker Drive
Houston
Sugar Land
Baytown
Baytown Plans 17th Friends Serving Friends Feast
Baytown hosts its 17th annual Friends Serving Friends Thanksgiving Feast on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 230 p.m. at the Baytown Community Center 2407 Market Street. A volunteer meeting at 6 p.m. today at the same center seeks helpers. pizza will be served to attendees. Shirley Sneed donations coordinator notes staffing as the major remaining need.
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Baytown
Friends Serving Friends
Baytown Community Center
Market Street
Shirley Sneed
Turkey Day Meal Cost Rises in Texas for 2013
The Texas Farm Bureau reports a Texas-style Thanksgiving dinner for ten now costs 48.08 dollars, up 4 percent from 2012 and 4.34 percent higher than the previous year, reflecting a continuing rise in holiday meal prices.
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Waco
Texas Farm Bureau
TFB
Texas offshore oyster restoration funded by Deepwater Horizon settlement
Five Texas coastal conservation projects receive 8.8 million dollars from a settlement involving the U S Department of Justice BP and Transocean. One project funds oyster habitat restoration in East Bay between Chambers County and Bolivar Peninsula with 840 thousand dollars. The Galveston Bay effort will total about 170 acres, building on prior restorations since 2005 and intensified after 2008. Oyster restoration boosts ecological services, including filtration of large water volumes.
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Texas
Galveston Bay
U. S. Department of Justice
Transocean
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
East Bay
Chambers County
Bolivar Peninsula
Lance Robinson
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Robinson
Truck overturns at I-10 Spur 300 in Baytown
A Schneider National tractor trailer overturned at the Interstate 10 Spur 300 feeder road in Baytown on Tuesday afternoon. The crash forced the closure of I 10 Beaumont East exit. Page 3 carries the full story.
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Schneider National
Baytown
Beaumont East
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