Car chase ends in collision at Iowa Street corner
A police pursuit from Highway 146 South ended when the fleeing driver crashed into a West Baytown corner residence at Iowa Street and Huggins Street. The vehicle, a reported stolen Chevrolet Tahoe, was recovered via OnStar. The driver fled on foot, was later arrested two blocks away on Indiana Street, and faces pending Harris County DA charges. No injuries reported.
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Iowa Avenue
Iowa Street
West Baytown
Highway 146
Baker Road
Compass Bank
Missouri Street
Huggins Street
Keith Dougherty
Indiana Street
Dougherty
Harris County District Attorney’s Office
Crosby residents divided on FM 2100 widening plan
Crosby and Huffman residents debate a 1.06 million project to widen FM 2100 from Diamondhead Boulevard to FM 1960 into a four lane divided road with a raised median. TxDOT says safety gains justify six years of construction starting fall 2011. public comments are due by Saturday.
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Crosby
Crosby- Huffman
Texas Department of Transportation
Crosby and
Huffman
Txdot
Pat Henry
Crosby-Huffman
Diamondhead Boulevard
FM 1960
New Caney
Henry
Floyd Janek
Georgia Smesny
Smesny
Janek
Houpio
Dot
State
Dixie Orton and the Goose Creek Radio Saga in Texas City
Dixie Orton, a longtime radio figure, helped run a Cedar Bayou station with a 350 foot tower and drew listeners from as far as South America. He recalls covering the Texas City explosions in 1947, the warlike scene and heroism of KRCT staff, and later built an electric organ after Exxon retirement while praising his wife Gerry from Elkhart and Wanda Orton, former Baytown Sun editor.
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Goose Creek
C.Q
Kid" Alexander
Dixie
Cedar Bayou
Texas City
KRCT
Elkhart
Gerry
New trial granted for ex cop on death row
Houston AP A former Missouri City public safety officer Robert Fratta was granted a new trial after his 1996 death sentence for masterminding his wife Farah Fratta s murder. Judge Harmon ruled the conviction rested on inadequate testimony and improper hearsay, while triggerman Howard Guidry remains subject to reexamination.
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Farah Fratta
North
Harris County
Robert Fratta
Howard Paul Guidry
Fratta
Harris County Sheriff’s Office
Danny Billingsley
Harmon
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Nicki Evans
Orton
South America
Exxon
Wanda Orton
Chuck
MR. Bean
MR. Woodcock
Sydney White
Manne
Peet
Epted
Sarurvar
Sumoay
Peon. Nce
Gulfbay Church
Iday
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Alexander Campus
N. Alexander Drive
San Jacinto
San Jacinto Medical Group
Sie
Leading Medicine
Baytown
I-10
Chevron-Phillips Chemical Plant
Bluebonnet.org
NCAA
9500
Chevron-Phillips Chemical
Mont Belvieu
National Credit Union Administration
U.S
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