No political scandal

Nothing to see here, move along.

She got time off for good behavior. 

Nothing more sinister than that, meaning anyone else could have gotten the same consideration, so no need to think she, or anyone else, did anything more than that.


Travis County DA jailed for DWI gets early release
WOAI.com -

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Central Texas prosecutor serving 45 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated has been freed early due to good behavior.

Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg was released early Thursday from jail in Austin.
   
Lehmberg was arrested April 12 following a report of a vehicle swerving in traffic. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving. Lehmberg served about half of the jail term ordered April 19 after she pleaded guilty to DWI.

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Nightmare on Seymour Avenue

Rejoice in their safe return.

Now comes the hard part.

Putting as much of this behind them that they can and moving forward in their lives with family and friends to surround them and protect them.

Nightmare of rape & torture

Beasts beat pregnant captives * 10 years of hell in Ohio dungeon 

By ERIN CALABRESE in Cleveland, Ohio, and LARRY CELONA and KATE SHEEHY in New York

NY Post -

 Three kidnapped young women were starved, repeatedly raped — and then beaten when they got pregnant — in a basement Cleveland dungeon run by three twisted brothers, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The tortured victims were imprisoned in a dilapidated, white-clapboard home with chains mounted to the ceiling for about 10 years before finally escaping Monday evening.

Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 26, and Gina DeJesus, 23, were treated as sex slaves — kept chained and taped in separate rooms, sources told the local ABC affiliate.

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WTH??

This. is. just. wrong.

Get it under control.


Military sex assaults jump by more than 1/3
By Sig Christenson - Express-News

The Pentagon estimates in a new report that the number of troops who were sexually assaulted last year jumped by 7,000 from the previous year.

An annual Defense Department report on sexual assaults in the services estimates 26,000 troops had been victimized in fiscal 2012, which ended Sept. 30.

That was up by more than a third — from 19,000 in fiscal 2011. Most of the assaults go unreported, but the number of troops who reported assaults also increased, to 3,374 from 3,192 the previous year.

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Love hurts and sometimes it kills

Til death do us part.

Pretty much true here eh?


Man who died chasing common-law wife ID'd
By Michelle Casady - Express-News

A man who died one week ago in a traffic accident while chasing after his common-law wife was identified by the medical examiner Tuesday as Louis Celestino, 55.

According to a police report, the woman told authorities Celestino had been arguing with her and following her as she walked south on South Presa Street near Fair Avenue so she flagged down a passing pickup driven by a friend and hopped into the bed to get away.

The woman told police Celestino ran after the pickup and grabbed onto the tailgate in an attempt to jump in but slipped and landed face down on the road and died there.

Stupid is as stupid does

Stupid and apparently drunk.

Never a good combination.

Gets two drunk thumbs up!

Police: New Braunfels man arrested after assaulting cop

By Dalondo Moultrie New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung
 
A New Braunfels man at Saturday’s Wein and Saengerfest wound up jailed for allegedly assaulting a cop, driving drunk and other offenses, a New Braunfels Police Department Spokesman said.

Police arrested David Ben Shefman, 45, on charges of assaulting a public servant, unlawful carrying of a weapon, driving while intoxicated and possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana, NBPD Capt. John McDonald said. Shefman’s actions led to a police officer going to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-New Braunfels for treatment of minor injuries.

About 10:40 p.m. Saturday, an NBPD officer working traffic detail for Wein and Saengerfest in the 300 block of West San Antonio Street saw Shefman speeding in a vehicle toward her while she sat in a patrol car, McDonald said. Shefman nearly rear-ended the officer’s patrol car, so she got out and tried to talk to him.

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Mopery and Dopery?

What a racket I guess.

What's he charged with?


Undercover operation busts sex offender in Beaumont
By Tim Monzingo - Beaumont-Express

A China, Texas, resident and registered sex offender was jailed Monday after authorities conducted a sting operation on a fake modeling company being run out of a Beaumont hotel room.

John Brenton Daigre, 30, was arrested in a joint effort by the Beaumont police, Jefferson County Adult Probation Office and the Jefferson County Sheriff Department's Sex Offender Registration Unit, according to a news release from the Beaumont Police Department.

A Beaumont detective was alerted to a fake business, called "Pastry on Wheels," advertising online for female models. Authorities said in the release that Daigre would interview the applicants and take their pictures for the business.

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The dice are being rolled

The question is are they, the jury, going to believe he no longer presents a threat even if locked up.


Defense gets final shot to save life of courthouse gunman
By Sarah Moore - Beaumont-Enterprise

The defense will get its last chance to save courthouse shooter Bartholomew Granger's life today after jurors listened to an hour and a half of profanity-laden recorded jailhouse telephone conversations on Thursday in the penalty phase of his trial.

Granger, 42, of Houston, was found guilty on Tuesday of capital murder in the March 14, 2012 shooting death of Minnie Ray Sebolt in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse.

Prosecutor Ed Shettle explained to the jury that the question of whether to assess the death penalty, which the state is asking for, comes down to answering the questions of whether Granger is a future danger to society and whether there is mitigating evidence to justify sentencing him to life with parole instead.

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Who blinked first?

I guess good for the Judge to stop this however, why did she?

Why would the State enter into an agreement in the first place?

Could it be because as the DPS Troopers said at the scene that alcohol was not a contributing factor?

Certainly excessive speed was a major factor but how could they determine alcohol played no part in this?  Did the State blink because of this?


Judge rejects guilty plea in triple fatal crash case
By Ben Lloyd - KRIS-TV

SINTON - A judge in Sinton has rejected a guilty plea entered this morning by Hannah Roberts on charges of intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. The defense attorney and prosecutor had reached the agreement before today's hearing.

As Roberts moved to leave the courtroom she was confronted by victims' family members. State Troopers had to rush into the courtroom to get control of the situation.

Roberts is accused of killing three people and injuring two others when she crashed her car while heading south on Interstate 37 near Mathis last September.

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Law suits to follow in ...3 ... 2... 1...

Horrible, horrible story.

God rest their souls.


Bride, 4 others die in limo fire on Calif. bridge
By John S. Marshall - Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When one of the nine women in his limousine complained about smoke, Orville Brown pulled to the side of a San Francisco Bay bridge to check. As he got out, the back of the vehicle became engulfed in flames.

A newlywed bride and eight of her friends were still inside, but passersby quickly pulled three from the burning Lincoln Town Car late Saturday night. And one woman managed to reach safety by squeezing through the partition from the passenger section to the driver's compartment, Brown told authorities.

But five others, including the bride whose marriage they were celebrating on a girls' night out, became trapped.

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Stop being the Campaigner-in-Chief

Don't come to New Braunfels or San Antonio.

Go home.

Work, stop campaigning.  Get results.

Try leading for a change.

You're welcome.


Obama to launch series of trips on economy
By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration, guns and national security are dominating the discussion on Capitol Hill, but Americans by and large are still focused on their bottom line. So President Barack Obama is launching a series of quick jaunts around the country to remind Americans he's still got jobs and the economy on his mind.

Obama will kick off the effort Thursday with a trip to Austin, Texas, the White House said. While in Texas, the president will visit a technical high school and meet with entrepreneurs. He'll also drop in on a tech company and talk with blue-collar workers.

The trips come as Obama, less than four months into his second term, is facing increasing skepticism from political allies and foes alike that he still has the clout to get big things done before the 2014 midterm elections creep up and his ability to set the agenda diminishes. Those concerns have been compounded by a failed push on gun control and a similarly unsuccessful effort to avert automatic spending cuts that took effect in March. Obama traveled repeatedly outside Washington to rally Americans to urge Congress to act on both fronts, but with questionable results.

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Lost life

Folks drive much too quickly in this area and the Parkway ends at this area.

I am sorry she died, much too young.


Woman killed in North Side wreck ID'd
By Ana Ley - Express-News

A woman killed in a wreck on Wurzbach Parkway late Sunday has been identified.

Nancy Solis, 25, had been traveling in the road's eastbound lanes at the Blanco Road exit when she hit a curb and slammed into a pole about 10 p.m. She appeared to have lost control, possibly as she was exiting Wurzbach Parkway.

Police said she died at the crash site.

Please help us locate Devon

Call the New Braunfels Police, please, if you see this young woman at 830-221-4100.


New Braunfels Police looking for missing person
By Dalondo Moultrie New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung 

By distributing photographs and disseminating information to the public, investigators and officers with the New Braunfels Police Department are doing what they can to try to help find an 18-year-old autistic woman who went missing recently.

“We need to get her picture to the public so if anybody sees her we can get her to safety,” Capt. John McDonald with the New Braunfels Police Department said.


Parents of Devon Nicole Gadsby reported her missing in the early hours of Thursday, McDonald said. He said she was last seen about 7 a.m. Thursday in the 12700 block of Terrace Hollow Drive in San Antonio.

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Forget something Buddy?

Pants are like an American Express Card.

Why how?  You say.

Don't leave home without them.


Ex-cop takes plea for bizarre pantless wreck
By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

A former San Antonio police sergeant has pleaded no contest and requested deferred adjudication probation for a bizarre incident last year in which he was found roaming the streets in his underwear near his wrecked city-issued pickup.

Joseph Earl Myers, 53, reached a plea agreement last week for misapplication of fiduciary property involving the $7,165 in damage to the vehicle.

State District Judge Melisa Skinner is set to decide later this month whether he'll serve a two-year term at a state jail facility or on probation.

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A stupid idea

A really, really, really stupid idea in my opinion.

You know, like a "cutting off your nose to spite your face" idea.


Bill would open Loop 1604 to private companies
By Vianna Davilla - Express-News

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would open the door to a private developer one day building a toll road project on Loop 1604.

If the bill becomes law, state or local transportation officials would have the option to partner with a company or other private entity that could front the money to develop, finance, build, maintain and operate the toll road.

The northern half of Loop 1604 would be the first Bexar County highway eligible for what's called a “concession comprehensive development agreement.”

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Crossing the line

So, there you go.  the Comission will oppose the plan which will intergrate the entire building into the Tower.

You nix the plan and the building stays empty until torn down.

Yeah, that doesn't make much sense to me either.


Line in the sand to be drawn on issue of tower near Alamo
By Scott Huddleston - Express-News

The city preservation staff will oppose the new design for a high-rise on top of a historic building near the Alamo at a public meeting Wednesday.

After negotiating for three months with the developer, the Historic and Design Review Commission is expected to vote on a tower to stand up to 26 stories high atop the four-story Joske's building for a hotel and timeshare units.

BC Realty Partners of Dallas had proposed a single 23-story structure, but since has worked with a local design team at Overland Partners to produce a two-tier structure, standing 10 and 26 stories tall. Shanon Miller, the city's historic preservation officer, said the Office of Historic Preservation “does not recommend conceptual approval as submitted.”

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