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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30
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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30
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NEWS SEPTEMBER 2010
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SHOOTING IN DAYTON LOCAL NEWS DATE; LUCKILY NO ONE WAS INJURED IN A SHOOTING INCIDENT AT THE PLANE STATE JAIL AND HENLEY UNIT IN DAYTON YESTERDAY EVENING. INFORMATION GATHERED FROM SEVERAL SOURCES INDICATES THREE MEN FIRED SEVERAL ROUNDS WITH WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS AUTOMATIC WEAPONS, AT THE HOME OF WARDEN WILHELMINA HOWARD ON CR 686 YESTERDAY EVENING. THE WARDEN WAS NOT HOME AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING, AROUND 6 YESTERDAY EVENING, HOWEVER HER TWO ADULT SONS WERE. SOURCES SAY BEFORE THE TWO ADULT CHILDREN OF THE WARDEN COULD REACT, ONE OF THE THREE MEN BROKE THE GLASS ON A STORM DOOR, AND THEN THE THREE BEGAN SHOOTING THE HOME AND VEHICLES IN THE DRIVEWAY. NOT LONG AFTER POLICE WERE CALLED AND A SEARCH BEGAN FOR THESE SHOOTERS, HARRIS COUNTY OFFICERS LOCATED A CAR MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ONE THE SHOOTERS WERE DRIVING. A BRIEF CHASE ENDED WHEN THE ESCAPE CAR CRASHED. THREE PEOPLE WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY, TWO BROTHERS FROM DAYTON AND ONE SAID TO BE FROM HARRIS COUNTY. ONE OF THE THREE MEN IS CURRENTLY BEING HELD IN THE LIBERTY COUNTY JAIL UNDER $150,0000 BOND CHARGED WITH DEADLY CONDUCT. THE OTHER TWO, ARE IN HARRIS COUNTY. NO WORD ON WHICH ACCUSED SHOOTER IS IN WHICH JAIL. WE WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS DRAMATIC STORY VERY SOON. AGAIN, NO ONE WAS INURED WHEN THREE MEN OPENED FIRE ON THE HOME OF TDCJ WARDEN WILHELMINA HOWARD ON CR. 686 IN DAYTON YESTERDAY EVENING. TWO ADULT SONS OF THE WARDEN WERE AT HOME AT THE TIME. INFORMATION INDICATES THE TWO SONS’ KNEW AT LEAST ONE OF THE SHOOTERS, ALL THREE OF WHICH ARE IN CUSTODY. AUTO / PED LOCAL NEWS DATE: JUST BEFORE SEVEN YESTERDAY MORNING, AN ACCIDENT IN DAYTON ON HIGHWAY 90 NEAR THE BEST WESTERN MOTEL, RESULTED IN TWO PEOPLE BEING AIRLIFTED BY HELICOPTER TO HERMANN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN HOUSTON, ONE SAID TO BE IN VERY SERIOUS CONDITION. DAYTON POLICE CORPORAL DANNY CARR SAID JERRY HALL, 61 OF DAISETTA WAS WEST BOUND ON HIGHWAY 90. THE DRIVER SWERVED HIS PICKUP INTO THE LEFT LANE TO AVOID A UTILITY LADDER LYING IN THE RIGHT LANE. CORPORAL CARR SAID IT APPEARS THE DRIVER THEN OVER CORRECTED, SWERVING BACK INTO THE RIGHT LANE, AND OFF THE ROAD WAY. IT WAS IN THE GRASSY AREA ON THE NORTH SIDE OF 90 THAT AN UN-IDENTIFIED HISPANIC MALE WALKING ALONG THE ROADWAY WAS STRUCK BY THE DAISETTA MAN’S PICK UP. CORPOREAL CARR SAID IT APPEARS THE PEDESTRIAN WAS THROWN UP ON THE HOOD OF THE PICK UP AND THEN TO THE GROUND WHEN THE TRUCK TURNED OVER. MR. HALL’S TRUCK ROLLED THREE TIMES BEFORE COMING TO A REST IN THE DITCH. DAYTON POLICE CORPORAL CARR SAID THE HISPANIC MALE, THOUGHT TO BE IN HIS EARLY 20’S, WAS CARRYING NO IDENTIFICATION. THE PEDESTRIAN WAS TAKEN BY LIFE FLIGHT AIR AMBULANCE TO HERMANN HOSPITAL IN VERY CRITICAL CONDITION. JERRY HALL WAS ALSO TAKEN BY LIFE FLIGHT ALTHOUGH HIS INJURIES WERE NOT THOUGHT TO BE LIFE THREATENING. A WITNESS TOLD POLICE A WHITE PICK UP WAS PARKED ALONG SIDE THE ROADWAY AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT, HOWEVER IT LEFT THE SCENE BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IN THE IDENTITY OF THE MAN WALKING ALONG THE ROADWAY IS ASKED TO CALL THE DAYTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 258 7621. LEE GROCE LOCAL NEWS 05/15/2010 ALL NINE NEWS HAS LEARNED LONGTIME LIBERTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT #2 LEE GROCE IS UNDERGOING TESTS AT AN HUMBLE HOSPITAL AFTER A POSSIBLE HEART ATTACK FRIDAY NIGHT. INFORMATION INDICATES COMMISSIONER GROCE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AT SOME POINT FRIDAY, BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED IF THIS WAS DUE TO A HEART ATTACK. IT APPEARS THAT DOCTORS BELIEVE MR. GROCE IS SUFFERING FROM SOME TYPE OF HEART VALVE DAMAGE. WE WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. AGAIN, LIBERTY COUNTY COMMISSIONER LEE GROCE IS REPORTED TO BE UNDERGOING TESTS IN HUMBLE AFTER SUFFERING WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN A HEART ATTACK.
Latest dollar update on Relay for Life 5.15.10 Our latest update on the South Liberty County Relay for Life comes to us from Volunteer Co-Chair and Treasurer Sandra Sterling. She extended gratitude to the many businesses, services clubs and hundreds of individual volunteers who help this idea stay alive and growing. To date she revealed the local chapters has raised some $79,500 with more still coming in but now at a slower pace. These locally raised dollars go not only into the National effort for research and development of cancer treatment and patient care and to supply information for cancer sufferers or their families. $79,500 is not the most a South Liberty County Relay has raised but it is, according to Sandra Sterling, a good number. She said the volunteer committee is proud of those who made this an unbelievable success story. Mrs. Sterling closed by saying, Thanks to all of those who helped locally we will have a world with less cancer…. and more birthdays. special needs registration news story 05.14.10 with hurricane season beginning june 1, liberty county emergency management coordinator tom branch is ENCOURAGING those with special needs to register with his office or the state. tom branch defines the term special needs as those individuals who need help to get out of the county during a mandatory EVACUATION. "audio" tom branch said folks can call either his local office or the statewide 2-1-1 number. "audio" however, the local emergency management COORDINATOR said those with special needs who previously registered do not need to call again unless there has been a change to the contact information. "audio" so, if you need assistance getting out of liberty county during a mandatory evacuation and have not already registered your current contact information, please do so by calling the statewide number at 2-1-1 or the liberty county emergency management office 936-334-3219. hurricane season begins june 1 and CONTINUES through november 30. hunger buster news story 05.14.10 hunger buster will begin again soon. More than 21,000 free lunches were served to hungry children in liberty last summer - all thanks to the communitywide partnership involving liberty school district, area churches, and texas agrilife extension service. now, plans are being made for another summer of this popular program – known as hunger busters youth summer lunch program. this program will provide a free lunch to kids from 1 to 18 years old beginning june 7 and continuing through august 13. this community PARTNERSHIP will again provide free lunches mondays through fridays from noon to 1 p.m. at locations throughout the liberty school district. this includes the san jacinto elementary campus on grand AVENUE and the liberty middle school on jefferson drive. there are also eight SATELLITE feeding locations. that way, kids who don’t have TRANSPORTATION to the school campuses can go to a participating site in their own neighborhood for a free meal. this summer, these locations include the liberty city park PAVILION, liberty MUNICIPAL library, and the vfw hall on main street. among the churches hosting this free lunch program are the assembly of god on texas at grand, central baptist church on highway 90 at layl drive, calvary baptist church south of moss bluff on fm 563, st miles baptist church on u.s. 90 in ames, and lily of the valley church on oil field road. once more, through a communitywide effort, the HUNGER buster youth summer lunch program will begin june 7. this summer program will provide FREE LUNCHes WEEKDAYS to kids from 1 to 18 years old. for information, call alexis cordova at 936-336-4558, ext 221, and doreen carlton at 336-7213.
poullard’s murder news story 05.14.10 kshn REPORTED earlier this week that former dayton resident – 34-year-old ron CHRISTOPHER poullard – was murdered monday night in his nashville, tennessee apartment. now comes word of a break in that case. on thursday night, nashville police arrested 18-year-old montavis woodward of tennessee for that murder. nashville DETECTIVES continue to search for at least one additional suspect. a press release says the teenager confessed to participating in a BURGLARY of poullard’s apartment to find illegal drugs. the former dayton resident returned home in the middle of that burglary and exchanged gunfire with what nashville police said was one of the suspects. poullard was hit in the abdomen and died at his apartment. according to nashville police, their investigation revealed that poullard was involved in the illegal drug trade. repeating, an 18-year-old man has been arrested in nashville, tennessee, for the murder of 34-year-old ron christopher poullard, formerly of dayton. nashville police are continuing their search for a second suspect. YOUTH CONFERENCE FRIDAY LOCAL NEWS 05/13/2010 THE COMMUNITY IS INVITED TO A YOUTH CONFERENCE HOSTED BY U.S. CONGRESSMAN TED POE ON SATURDAY FROM 9:30 A.M. TO 12:30 P.M. AT THE DAYTON COMMUNITY CENTER, 801 SOUTH CLEVELAND. STREET. ACCORDING TO LIBERTY COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT ALEXIS CORDOVA, THE YOUTH CONFERENCE IS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO IS CONCERNED WITH ISSUES AFFECTING YOUNG PEOPLE. IN ADDITION TO CONGRESSMAN POE, NBA "HALL OF FAMER" ELVIN HAYES WILL SPEAK. ALSO RETIRED U.S. ARMY LT. COLONEL ANTHONY LANDRY WILL TALK ON THE TOPIC "COLLEGE BOUND WITH EMPTY POCKETS". LT. COLONEL LANDRY IS A RAYWOOD NATIVE WHO NOW LIVES SOUTH OF DAYTON. AGAIN, THE YOUTH CONFERENCE HOSTED BY DISTRICT 2 CONGRESSMAN TED POE IS SATURDAY AT THE DAYTON COMMUNITY CENTER FROM 9:30 TO 12:30. THE EVENT IS FREE. RSVP IS NOT REQUIRED, BUT THEY DO ASK YOU TO CALL AHEAD SO ORGANIZERS WILL HAVE ENOUGH REFRESHMENTS AND HANDOUTS PREPARED. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 936-336-4558 EXT. 221 OR 281-446-0252. INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER LOCAL NEWS 05/14/10 A CROSBY MAN IS NOW CHARGED WITH INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER IN THE DEATH OF MARK CARPENTER OF KENEFICK. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION FROM THE GALVESTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, THE CHARGE AGAINST RAYMOND COSTELLO, 43, WAS UPGRADED FROM INTOXICATION ASSAULT TO INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER. WE REPORTED IN EARLY IN APRIL THAT MARK CARPENTER, 45 WAS A PASSENGER IN AN ATV OPERATED BY A FRIEND, RAYMOND COSTELLO. INVESTIGATORS SAY COSTELLO WAS DRIVING THE ATV ON A PAVED GALVESTON COUNTY ROADWAY-WHICH IS PROHIBITED BY LAW- NEAR CRYSTAL BEACH WHILE MARK CARPENTER WAS STANDING IN THE VEHICLE. FOR WHATEVER REASON, INVESTIGATORS SAY RAYMOND COSTELLO STOPPED THE ATV SUDDENLY AND MR. CARPENTER WAS THROWN OVER THE FRONT OF IT. THE KENEFICK MAN STRUCK HIS HEAD ON THE PAVEMENT. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AND DIED OF HIS INJURIES. RAYMOND COSTELLO WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH INTOXICATION ASSAULT BUT NOW THE GALVESTON COUNTY DA’S OFFICE UPGRADED THAT TO INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER. MR. COSTELLO IS FREE PENDING TRIAL ON A $5,000 BOND. |
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