Immigrants Detained After Truck Stop Tip Near Sweetwater
More than two dozen illegal immigrants from Brazil and Mexico were detained after police found a tractor trailer at an I-20 truck stop. Ventilation holes had been cut in the back, and 29 people were taken into custody. A 45-year-old Louisiana truck driver fled the scene and was later detained. In a separate Pasadena case, over 30 immigrants from Guatemala Honduras Mexico El Salvador and Peru were discovered behind locked doors in a home, with no hospitalizations, awaiting transport to detention.
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Brazil
Mexico
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency
Jim Kelley
Abilene
Interstate 20
Kelley
Louisiana
Houston
Martin DeLeon
Pasadena
Houston Chronicle
Guatemala
Honduras
el Salvador
Peru
de Leon
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
Art Torrez
Greg Brawley
Texas Guardsmen Called Up for Iraq Deployment
About 3,000 Texas National Guard members of the 56th Brigade of the 36th Infantry Division, based in Fort Worth, will mobilize for duty outside the United States for at least 12 months starting early next year. They will train at Fort Hood in August and head to Iraq, likely the Baghdad area, with the larger deployment marking the first Texas divisional brigade mobilized in this manner since World War I.
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Texas National Guard
U.S. Army
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36Th Infantry Division
56Th Brigade
Texas
Wayne D. Marty
Adjutant General of
United States
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Fort Hood
Iraq
Army
Cameron Lenahan
Audit finds Texas Health Commission misspent CHIP funds
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission mishandled contracts and issued 20 million in improper payments to Clarendon National Insurance Company. The audit says the commission self insured medical costs in 2001 while still paying Clarendon fees for CHIP, despite professional advice. CHIP remains available to working poor families up to twice the federal poverty level, with a family of three at 31340.
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Austin
Health and Human Services Commission
Texas Auditor’s Office
Commission
Clarendon National Insurance Company
Clarendon
CHIP
Austin DJ Lunchbox Charged After Ski Mask Gum Buy
Austin radio host Dan Chappell known as Lunchbox wore a ski mask to a convenience store and bought gum during an on air prank. Police say no threats were made but clerk pressed alarm and Chappell faces a terroristic threat charge, a Class A misdemeanor. He is out on bond.
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Austin
Dan Chappell
KHFI
Atif Akhlaque
Kevin Buchman
Chappell
Fourth rabies death tied to infected organ transplant
A fourth patient died after receiving tissues from an Arkansas donor known to have rabies. Baylor University Medical Center reported three prior deaths from the donor's organ transplants to Dallas and Alabama recipients. The fourth death involved an infected artery discovered after surgery. authorities caution that no more infections are expected as tissues are discarded after seven days.
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Arkansas
Baylor University Medical Center
Baylor
Henry Randall
Alabama
Texarkana
James Zoretic
Texas Department of Health
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