Texas guards shortage grows as riot training resumes for recruits
Texas authorities scramble to fill prison-guard jobs amid a 2,000-officer shortfall in a 151,000-inmate system. After rapid expansion since 1995, attrition rose to 21 percent last year, with violence toward officers up 129 percent to 1,649 assaults in 1999.
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Huntsville
Andrew Green
Police Academy
Sam Houston State University
Green
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Texas
Dry windy weather sparks grass-fire hazard in Permian Basin
Texas Forest Service officials warn dry windy conditions create a high fire risk in the Permian Basin as grass and vegetation tinder. Experts note most fires are human caused from cigarettes and equipment sparks, with fires spreading quickly in strong winds. Officials urge careful trash burning and avoiding any outdoor flames until rainfall improves conditions.
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Texas Forest Service
Permian Basin
Shelley Huguley
Texas
Gary Peek
Crossing guards raise alert at Odessa railroad crossings
Larry Griffin reports Odessa law enforcement issued five citations for rail crossing violations during a three day awareness exercise. Officers from Odessa Police, Ector County Sheriff's deputies and Texas DPS worked at 12 of 16 grade crossings along Business 20 and Second Street supported by Union Pacific CARE program to stress yield and warning signs.
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Odessa
Ector County Sheriff's
Texas Department of Public Safety
Ector County
Second Street
Union Pacific
Lucas Melendez
Union Pacific Railroad Police
el Paso
Roy Gladden
Judge orders hot check offenders to walk with signs in Wood County
Wood County Judge Bill Alexander sentences ten offenders to wear two foot tall sandwich signs around the courthouse calling out hot checks and drunken driving as humiliation penalties. The first case saw a woman fall on a cracked sidewalk during a four hour march, earning treatment for minor cuts and four hours toward a 24 hour community service.
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Quitman
Wood County
Bill Alexander
Alexander
Texas
ECISD superintendent finalist outlines slow start plan
Roy Benavides executive director Region XIII Education Service Center in Austin toured ECISD campuses and spoke at a news conference saying he would slow the first year to evaluate programs. He stressed technology integration for teachers and students and outlined Region XIII scope and his district leadership aspirations.
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Ector County Independent School District
Board of Trustees
Roy Benavides
Region XIII Education Service Center
Austin
Permian High School
Odessa High School
Transportation Center
Benavides
ECISD
Vernon Stokes
Region XIII
San Antonio
Fredricksburg
la Grange
Administrators discuss safe parking woes at Odessa High
Ector County public school leaders met to address overflowing parking at Odessa High School with 2,000 plus students. Trustees and Principal Alma Guerrero voiced concern over spaces and noted students park in nearby empty lots, including north of campus near Dusty Avenue and West 14th Street as plans consider selling Goldsmith Elementary.
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Ector County Public
Odessa High School
Goldsmith
OHS
Ector County Independent School District
Bill Rutherford
Alma Guerrero
David Finley
Dusty Avenue
West 14Th Street
Tejano songwriter Homar Hernandez dies before Hall of Fame tribute
Tejano songwriter Homar Hernandez died at 57 of a heart attack while working at a Floresville grocery store. Born July 19 1942 in Asherton he wrote 144 songs and had been slated for induction into the Tejano Music Awards Hall of Fame. His hit Rosas para una Rosa was recorded by Ramiro Herrera and others.
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San Antonio
Homar Hernandez
Hernandez
Floresville
Sam Zuniga
Zuniga
Asherton
Dolores Sylvia Hernandez
Ramiro “Ram” Herrera
Emilio Navarra
Shelly Lares
Laura Canales
Johnny Hernandez
Aztlan
Roy Benavides Career Timeline Highlights
Roy Benavides earned a B S from Trinity University in 1967 and an M Ed from Trinity University in 1972 plus a Ph D from Texas A M. He has served as Director at Region XII Education Service Center in Austin since 1992, Weslaco ISD superintendent from 1990 to 1992, and Judson ISD associate superintendent in Converse from 1988 to 1990.
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Trinity University
Texas A&m
Austin
Weslaco Isd
Weslaco
Judson Isd
Converse
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