School district approves curb plan to ease BHISD traffic
BHISD trustees back a plan by Stan Frazier to rework elementary curb layouts to create two traffic lanes for drop off and pickup. The $40,000 project adds one on duty staffer daily and will run outside peak dismissal times, with completion in about two weeks if weather cooperates.
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Stan Frazier
BHISD
Greg Poole
Pooley
Frazier
Poole
Carmena Goss
Baytown Jamboree Supports United Way and Heritage Projects
A morning charity run offers individual times with Goose Creek Memorial Dazzlers timing, proceeds going to United Way of Baytown. A 9 a.m car show accepts day-of entries for 25 dollars with lunch, benefitting Highlands Heritage Museum. A Main Street parade at 10 a.m. salutes Deputy Eddie Wotipka posthumously, with his family present. A noon children’s pageant funds Scholars and Partners in Education, entry 35 dollars. Food, crafts, and regional representation fill the day until 3 p.m.
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Goose Creek
United Way of
Baytown
Highlands Heritage Museum and Preservation Project
Main Street
Eddie Wotipka
Wotipka
Partners In Education
Highlands
Murder conviction details emerge in Baytown case
Court records show Bland sentenced to 10 days for an offense while the Mosely charge was dropped. Public safety records list a 1996 murder conviction for Bland and a 2008 assault conviction for Mosely. Bond was set at 15000 for Bland and 50000 for Mosely, with both listing the same Gresham Avenue Baytown address.
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Bland
Mosely
Department of Public Safety
Gresham Avenue
Baytown
Texas 7 escapee seeks resentencing amid heavy security
Randy Halprin, one of the five surviving Texas 7, asks for a new sentencing trial claiming he was labeled less dangerous and that this detail was not presented in 2003 when he received a death sentence. The group escaped in December 2000 from a south Texas prison, overpowering workers, stealing clothes and weapons, and using a prison truck and a getaway vehicle arranged by a fellow inmate’s father.
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Dallas
Texas 7
Halprin
South
Texas
Church burglary arrest in Baytown raid
Police responding to a burglary in progress at a church on S. Alexander Drive Baytown found a PT Cruiser near the storage building. Both the storage building and church were burglarized. Raul Gallaga, 39, was charged with burglary and held on $2,000 bond. He resides on E. Morrell in Baytown.
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S. Alexander Drive
Baytown
Raul Gallaga
E. Morrell
Stolen items reported in multiple Baytown incidents
Police beat: burglary in the 7300 block of Interstate 10 at 9 20 p m. A bank lot theft in the 5700 block of Garth Road between 2 35 and 2 45 p m. A TV and game system theft from a W Baker Road apartment between 10 a m and 3 30 p m. A weed trimmer and lawn mower stolen from Cedar Bayou Road residence around 3 p m Saturday. A 22 year old man arrested for stealing electricity on E Pearce Avenue around 9 p m Wednesday. Between Wednesday and Thursday mornings Baytown police filed 40 offense reports including three assaults, one auto theft, three burglaries, three burglaries of motor vehicles, one disorderly conduct, one DWI, two forgeries and nine thefts. 13 other arrests and four additional reports. They investigated one major crash and 10 minor crashes.
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Interstate 10
Garth Road
W. Baker Road
Cedar Bayou Road
Baytown
Stolen Dodge Intrepid Recovered. Suspect Arrested
A 2000 Dodge Intrepid reported stolen from 1300 block of N Alexander Drive between midnight and noon was found nearby. About 1:30 pm police spotted it on N Main Street near Highway 146 and arrested Glenn Keith Flowers, 28, on unauthorized use of a motor vehicle with a $15,000 bond. Court records show two prior UUV convictions in 2000 and 2001. Flowers’ address is Northwood Drive in Baytown.
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N. Alexander
N. Main Street
Highway 146
Glenn Keith Flowers
Northwood Drive
Baytown
Thefts and Burglaries Reported Across Local Blocks
Copper wire was stolen from a business in the 1400 block of N Alexander Drive between 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday. An air conditioner was taken from outside an unoccupied apartment on Tri City Beach Road between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 8:20 p.m. Wednesday. A wallet was stolen at a San Jacinto Mall store about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. A bicycle disappeared from a business on N Main Street around 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Two electric meters were stolen from an apartment complex on Northwood Drive Sunday and recovered Tuesday. A failed copper cable theft attempt occurred on Tri City Beach Road about 1:20 p.m. Wednesday. Office equipment and other items were reported missing.
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N. Alexander Drive
Tri City Beach Road
San Jacinto Mall
N. Main Street
Northwood Drive
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