No driving for you!!

I admire the sentence but I think it may not be legal or enforceable.

Judge imposes lifetime driving ban on 17-year old boy

CBSConnecticut -

CRANSTON, R.I. (CBS Connecticut/AP) — A Rhode Island judge says he imposed a lifetime driving ban on a 17-year-old boy after a serious car accident because he wanted to send a message about reckless driving.

Judge William Guglietta revoked Lyle Topa’s license for the rest of his life on Tuesday in connection with the Oct. 23 crash in Charlestown. Topa and three other Chariho High School students were injured when their car crashed into a tree. One passenger was in a coma for weeks. Topa was driving with a suspended license at the time of the accident, according to The Westerly Sun.

Guglietta said Thursday that Rhode Island’s roads are “littered with broken dreams and broken futures” and it’s time for authorities to get serious about dangerous driving.

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Puro San Antonio

And.............

Another suspected drunk driver collides with a police car in San Antonio.

Fortunately it doesn't sound like the officer was severely injured.

Driver collides with police car

Express-News

Police said a driver suspected of driving while intoxicated struck an officer's vehicle early Saturday morning.

San Antonio police spokesman Matt Porter said the officer was sitting inside his vehicle near the intersection of Loop 410 and Valley High Drive when the driver of a van struck his unit.

The officer received a bump to the head from the impact, Porter said.

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13 and preggers

Ooops!

One little problem for him.

A 13 year old can't consent to having sexual relations.

Well, they can but it isn't a defense.

Man confesses to sex with 13-year old

By Nolan Hicks - Express-News

A man turned himself in to authorities early Saturday morning and confessed to paying a 13 year-old girl for sex last year.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, William Klein, 32, confessed after the girl was taken to Methodist Children's Hospital, where doctors discovered she was pregnant and in labor.

Klein told officers that the sex was consensual.

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If you ban it they will over-come

A very clever entrepreneur.


NB man's container designed to comply with city's can ban
By Greg Bowen New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung

NEW BRAUNFELS — A New Braunfels entrepreneur said he is working with a Chinese manufacturer to produce non-disposable containers that can be used in place of now-banned beer cans on the city’s tubing rivers.

Alfred Leos is the first known businessman to step forward with a non-disposable container created in response to the city’s new ban.

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A tough case for the defense

I don't think his defense attorney, Gina Jones, will be able to pull a rabbit out of her hat in this case.

Not to wish her luck in this case, just that Justice be served.


DA: Teen assault victim trusted suspect

Bob Thaxton - Seguin Gazette

SEGUIN — Testimony is expected to continue for a second day today in the trial of a Guadalupe County man charged with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy.

A jury of eight women and four men, along with two alternates, was chosen Monday afternoon to hear the case against Dale Wayne Fulmer, 47, of Staples.

“You’re going to hear about the ultimate betrayal,” District Attorney Heather McMinn told the jurors in her opening statement Tuesday morning shortly after the jury’s oath was administered by Second 25th District Judge W.C. “Bud” Kirkendall.

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Too hot for tot!

His defense attorney, John Carroll, is one of the best out there.

A five-year sentence for this crime is a testament to his skills as a defense attorney.

Not that I agree with the sentence, after all I do not the extent of the injuries and what the evidence
showed.

Nevertheless, this was a pretty heinous crime.

Ex-prison guard gets five-year sentence for burning child

By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

A former prison guard accused of severely burning his girlfriend's young son in scalding bathwater was ordered by a jury Friday to spend five years among the population he once supervised.

Henry Benson III, who had been free on $50,000 bond while awaiting the conclusion of his trial, was taken into custody.

However, his attorneys requested that state District Judge Angus McGinty reinstate the bond while Benson appeals the verdict.

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Grounds for Inspiration!

Good luck and best wishes Ms. Jones on your endeavor!

Iraq war veteran opens coffee shop on East Side

By Vincent T. Davis - Express-News

Iraq war veteran Deatra Jones was inspired to act upon a long-sought-after dream when she attended Bishop T.D. Jakes' women's empowerment conference in Houston, “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” in November.

The words of encouragement spurred her to create something she couldn't find on the East Side, where she grew up — a coffee shop/book store. Every time she drove past a vacant building at 629 S. W.W. White Road, she pictured it as the perfect spot where people could read a book, sip coffee and spout poetry if they wanted to.

“I had been looking at the location two years ago, but I didn't believe in myself,” said Jones, 31. “But, after the conference, God gave me the OK.”

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The Magic Bus!

Well yes, I know it wasn't a bus he was driving but it sounded so much more apropos.

Also talk about your never-run-flat tires!

Totally "high" pressure!

Edinburg man's tires had $1.9 Million in cocaine

By Lynn Brezosky - Express-News

BROWNSVILLE — A 19-year-old Edinburg man in under investigation after Customs officers at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge found cocaine valued at $1.9 million hidden in the tires of the car he was driving.

The seizure occurred Thursday, after CBP officers noticed something odd in the tires of the 2003 Honda Accord and found 24 packages with a total weight of about 60 pounds of cocaine, the agency said.

The man was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations.

Money is the root of all evil

Great closing argument by the prosecutor, Jan Ischy.

From the article:

"..... prosecutor Jan Ischy waved a dollar bill in front of jurors as she explained that Johnson had taken out a $750,000 life insurance policy less than a year before his death."

“He had no idea that when he signed (it) ... he signed his death warrant,”

Woman guilty in boyfriend's murder

By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

Jurors on Thursday convicted the daughter of a San Antonio police sergeant of murder for a scheme two years ago in which prosecutors said she concocted a plan to have the father of her child killed for insurance money.

It took the group more than two hours to return the guilty verdict for Vanessa Cameron, 31, who previously had admitted to police in a taped interview that she knew Samuel Allen Johnson Jr., 26, was going to be killed before his body was found at an East Side cemetery.

He had been beaten and shot.

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Calls out for Justice

There is a $10,000.00 reward.

Someone, somewhere, knows who did this.

Either 'man-up' and confess or out the person who did this and claim the reward.

By remaining silent her blood is on your hands as well.

Unsolved murder haunts veteran detective

By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News

Even after nearly a decade, the unsolved fatal shooting of a local hairstylist as she drove on the Northwest Side still irks a San Antonio Police Department homicide detective.

“Very seldom do you have an innocent victim murdered in San Antonio,” said Detective Raymond Roberts, the lead detective investigating the nearly decade-old slaying of Cheryl Bertelson, 29. “All of my open cases stick in my head, but this one in particular, because she was just driving home, minding her own business.”

Bertelson's slaying is one of nine cold cases being featured in a weekly SAPD and San Antonio Crime Stoppers series. Digital billboards throughout San Antonio have featured her picture and information about her case, along with an offer of $10,000 — double the reward Crime Stoppers usually offers — for information that leads to an arrest or an indictment in connection with it.

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Texas Navy back on the high 'seas' again

Sign me up!

Texas 'navy' to patrol the Rio Grande

CNN.com

Texas 'navy' to patrol the Rio Grande Texas is getting its own navy. Next month, the state's Department of Public Safety will deploy the first of a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border between the state and Mexico, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reports.

The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.

The vessels will be able to operate in as little as 2 feet of water, according to the report, and will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to combat drug smuggling coming across the Rio Grande.

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Happy Texas Independence Day!

Yeehaw!!

176 years and still going strong! 

BTW we have a Navy again.  (see post above)

Battle of Medina site found, geologist says

By Scott Huddleston - Express-News

A retired petroleum geologist with a love of history says he's found the long-lost site of the deadliest battle ever fought on Texas soil.

Though he's yet to persuade scholars, Robert P. Marshall has intrigued some and flustered others with his 40-page report declaring the Battle of Medina site “has been located!”

Today is Texas Independence Day, the anniversary of the March 2, 1836, signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence. But some Texas history fans focus their energy on the first Texas republic, created in a revolt against Spain nearly 200 years ago and overturned in the lopsided Battle of Medina.

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The end of the Chicken Ranch

Another Texas legend ends.

The last remnants of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas fades away into the sunset.

BTW I understand that she hated the movie.

Rest in Peace Miss Edna.

Last madam of the Chicken Ranch dies

Her story inspired 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.' 
By Tony Freemantle  - Express News

Edna Milton Chadwell, the last madam of the Chicken Ranch — the infamous La Grange brothel that inspired a ZZ Top song, a Broadway hit and a movie starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton — has died in Phoenix.
She was 84.

Chadwell's nephew Robert Kleffman said his aunt died Saturday of complications from injuries suffered in an October wreck.

The Chicken Ranch, which received national infamy after the staging of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” on Broadway, reportedly was the oldest continuously operating brothel in the nation when it closed in August 1973 after an exposé by consumer reporter Marvin Zindler of Houston's KTRK-TV.

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I'm a Believer

I just saw this and was saddened.

There may have been better bands, better musicians and better speakers for our generation, but the Monkees were very entertaining.

I had the pleasure of meeting him many years ago, I believe it was in late 1969.

Very nice and not at all like celebrities today.

Rest in Peace Davy Jones.

Davy Jones dies at 66; Monkees' romantic heartthrob 

The British-born performer sang the leads on several of the Monkees' hits, including 'Daydream Believer' and 'A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You.' The band, created for a TV show, charted numerous hits between 1966 and 1970.

By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times

Davy Jones was a promising 18-year-old actor from England when he found himself among the guest performers on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964 — the same night about 75 million people tuned in to catch the American debut of the Beatles. Like so many others who watched the show from near and far, Jones considered it a life-changing experience.

Looking on from the wings as hundreds of teenagers, mostly girls, were screaming ecstatically while listening to the four musicians who came from a town only 20 miles away from his own hometown of Manchester, Jones knew then he wanted a career in pop music rather than theater.

A little more than a year later he auditioned for and was accepted as a member of the Monkees, a pop band created for a television show developed in the wake of the success of the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" film.

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In pain

I had thought there might be a medical condition underlying the decision for the Guadalupe County Judge to decide to be smokin' the ganja.

Lord knows diabetic neuropathy is extremely painful.

I have it.

I take Alieve and I grin grimace and bear it.  He chose another path.

The voters will decide ultimately on how to judge him and the choice he made.

I do not suspect it will be harsh.


Judge won't resign
From The Seguin Gazette -

SEGUIN — Guadalupe County Judge Mike Wiggins announced Tuesday morning that he will not resign from his position as the county’s chief administrator after being arrested Feb. 6 in College Station on a charge of possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana.

After Wiggins’ announcement, which came during a Commissioners Court meeting, a standing-room-only crowd applauded and cheered. Wiggins then re-read an agenda item that called for commissioners to either accept the judge’s resignation or consider a resolution requesting that he resign.

Precinct 1 Commissioner Roger Baenziger questioned the value of voting on a resolution because Wiggins already had announced his decision not to resign and because no draft resolution had been prepared.

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