Police thwart park bomb found by hikers in Shady Hollow
Austin police bomb squad disassembled a pipe bomb found by a couple hiking in Shady Hollow Wilderness Park. Investigators aim to trace materials while canvassing the neighborhood for leads. Separately in Odessa, Juan Ramon Morales, 30, was charged with first degree aggravated kidnapping after abducting and releasing a 7 year old girl from Casa de Oracion church.
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Austin
Biggs
Odessa
Sherrie Thompson
Odessa American
Casa de Oracion
Poice
Thompson
Juan Ramon Morales
Ector County
Missing Houston baby body may have been incinerated
After a weeklong search, Octavius Dennil Freeman's body is not at the Harris County morgue and may have been incinerated with medical waste. His funeral was postponed as investigators note the body could have been sent to an incinerator in Garland with medical waste.
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Harris County
Octavius Dennil Freeman
Jess
Harris County Sheriff’s Department
T.E. Kiser
Houston Chronicle
Octavius
Texas Children’s Hospital
Harris County Medical Examiner’s
Kiser
Garland
Fort Worth six plead guilty in Honduran women smuggling case
Six defendants in Fort Worth were sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty in September to conspiracy to smuggle, transport and harbor illegal aliens. Dino Molina and his wife each received 52 months, Ena Aguilar Galindo 52 months, Maria Galindo Carrasco 34 months, Marco Sanchez 63 months, and Steven Flores 27 months in federal court.
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Fort Worth
U.S. Department of Justice
Dino Antonio Molina
Dilicia Suyapa Aguilar- Galindo
Guadalupe Molina
Ena Susana Aguilar-Galindo
Maria de Los Angeles Galindo- Carrasco
Dino Molina
Dilicia Suyapa Aguilar-Galindo
Ena Susana Aguilar- Galindo
Maria de Los Angeles Galindo-Carrasco
Marco Antonio Sanchez
Steven Flores
Flores
Patterson sworn in as Texas land commissioner in Austin
Jerry Patterson, a Republican former state senator from Austin, was sworn in as Texas land commissioner, replacing David Dewhurst. Patterson vows to boost oil and gas production on state lands, ease Gulf Coast drilling restrictions, including Padre Island, and raise funds for public schools.
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Jerry Patterson
Austin
Texas
David Dewhurst
Dewhurst
Patterson
Senate
Gulf Coast
Padre Island National Seashore
Texas General Land Office
David Bernsen
Beaumont
Texas A&m University
Marine Reserve Corps Commission
Four San Antonio officers shot during Denny's clash
Four policemen were wounded, two critically, after a man grabbed guns during a restaurant fight in northeast San Antonio. The suspect was later killed by a responding officer. One officer was shot in the abdomen and chest, another in the neck and chest, with two others wounded in the incident. The dead man, Jamie Lichtenwalter, had a prior conviction for a November 1992 shooting.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
David Evans
Michael Muniz
Brooke Army Medical Center
Evans
Muniz
Nathan Murray
University Hospital
John Bocko
Lichtenwalter
Universal City
Albert Ortiz
Denny’s
Trevino
Bocko
Ortiz
Jailer Aims for Dream Recording Contract in Missouri
Moore County jailer Glen Lackey who survived a 2 1/2 year coma after encephalitis will record and perform country and gospel songs at Fowler Studio Theater near Branson Missouri. He seeks a $100000 recording contract. entrants pay a $500 fee and the show will be streamed online.
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Glen Lackey
Moore County
Lackey
Fowler Studio Theater
Branson, Mo
Missouri
Christa
Eternity’s Dawn
Kimberling City
Branson
Wally Fowler
Oak Ridge Boys
Jim Fowler
Studio Theater
Officer shot by store clerk in undercover operation
Authorities review whether an undercover narcotics officer followed policy before being shot by Bao Nguyen's son at EZ Food Store. The officer, listed in serious condition, had a hooded jacket when she and three other undercover officers entered the store. No one else was injured.
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Jesse Hernandez
Hernandez
Bao Nguyen
Nguyen
Tech picks new center director for Texas Tech Health Sciences
Dr. M. Roy Wilson, dean of Creighton University School of Medicine, named president of Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. He will start in June and becomes the first Black president of a Texas health sciences center. He succeeds David Smith, who became chancellor in May 2002.
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Associated Press
Lubbock
Creighton University
Texas Tech
Health
M. Roy Wilson
School of Medicine
Creighton
Omaha
Neb
Texas
Texas Public Universities
Tech
David Smith
Wilson
Smith
Health Sciences Center
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Larry Fitzgerald
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