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5/20/2013
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Supporters say a new water taxi service across the Corpus Christi Ship Channel is meant to bolster tourism in the city's Sports Entertainment Arts District.
The Harbor Water Taxi will operate on weekends starting June 1 through the summer. The water taxi will run from the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center to the Texas State Aquarium from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Regional Transportation Authority will review the popularity and feasibility of the service. Businesses have donated $30,000 to help fund the operation.
Fares are $3 roundtrip, with discounts for passengers including seniors and students. Children age 5 and younger ride for free. The private Harbor Ferry operator will run the water taxi using a backup boat.
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5/20/2013
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Two women playing video games at a North Texas convenience store and a worker have been burned after a suspect set one of those customers on fire.
The Fort Worth Fire Department says the incident happened early Monday. Another woman suspected of throwing the flammable liquid remains at large.
Authorities are trying to determine what prompted the assault.
Fire department spokesman Timothy Hardeman says the suspect entered the store and doused one woman with a flammable liquid. Investigators are trying to determine how the liquid was then ignited.
Hardeman says the woman set on fire was transported to a Dallas hospital with burns that appear to be life-threatening. The second woman has lesser injuries and was taken to another hospital. An employee suffered minor burns as he helped the victims.
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5/20/2013
DALLAS (AP) - Emergency responders have been searching for a Dallas firefighter who reported by radio being trapped while battling a blaze at a condominium complex.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the search continues for the firefighter unaccounted for in the six-alarm blaze early Monday.
Evans says another firefighter was transported to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening. One resident has been treated for minor smoke inhalation.
Authorities are trying to determine what sparked the blaze reported shortly before 3 a.m. Monday at a three-story complex in northeast Dallas. Most of the flames had been extinguished by dawn as firefighters searched for their missing comrade.
Officials say at least two dozen units were damaged.
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5/20/2013
COLORADO CITY, Texas (AP) - Hundreds of people are joining the parents of a 13-year-old Texas cheerleader to remember the teenager who disappeared in December 2010 and turned up dead last month.
Through songs and prayers they remembered Hailey Darlene Dunn's short life. The memorial was held Sunday at Colorado Middle School where Hailey was a cheerleader.
Dunn's body was found in March near Lake J.B. Thomas in Scurry County, about 20 miles northwest of Dunn's hometown of Colorado City. Last month, officials confirmed the remains belonged to Dunn.
An investigation into Dunn's death continues. Officials have not released a manner and cause of death. No arrests have been made.
Authorities initially named Shawn Adkins as a person of interest. He was Hailey's mother's boyfriend when the teenager disappeared. He has not been charged.
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5/20/2013
FLOWER MOUND, Texas (AP) - A legal battle between a suburban Dallas neighborhood association and a homeowner seeking to install solar panels on his house exposed problems with a state law passed in 2011.
Jay Squyres and the Wellington of Flower Mound Residential Association have settled the lawsuit.
But the skirmish over whether Squyres solar devices were generating too much power and marred the neighborhood's appearance caused lawmakers to consider changes to the law designed to protect renewable energy infrastructure.
That bill died in committee, but was praised by advocacy groups because it required a majority of residents to oppose an array of solar panels before it could be rejected by a neighborhood association. Under current law, opposition by one person could be enough to stop a project.
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5/20/2013
HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police are looking for two or three unknown suspects after one person was killed and two others were wounded in a downtown gunfight.
A 27-year-old man told police he was returning home from a night club at about 6 a.m. on Sunday when he was confronted by four or five armed men. He says the group fired at him, and he drew his own weapon and returned fire.
Police say he shot two of his suspected assailants. One was pronounced dead at the scene. The wounded man was taken to a hospital by an unidentified person. He has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The 27-year-old is being treated for a gunshot wound in his upper back. He has not been charged.
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5/20/2013
HOUSTON (AP) - Police say they have taken into a custody a man they believe may be linked to the killing of a U.S. postal worker in suburban Houston.
The San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday they had taken 36-year-old James Wayne Ham into custody. Postal inspectors say Ham is a lead suspect in the killing of 52-year-old Marie Youngblood.
The postal carrier's body was found late Friday inside her burned out SUV. Investigators believe Youngblood was shot, and later transported to her burned out Jeep Cherokee.
Inspectors say a postal worker was last killed in Texas about 30 years ago.
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5/19/2013
El Paso police used a bomb squad to investigate the home of a high school teacher arrested on charges he had an improper relationship with a student. The El Paso Times (http://bit.ly/11MNtnX ) reports 27-year-old Bobby J. French was arrested Friday by El Paso Independent School District police. French was a business teacher at Andress High School. Homeland Security agents and El Paso school police arrived to serve a search warrant and found "suspicious" objects in French's home. They called in a bomb squad and evacuated neighboring homes. El Paso police department spokesman Sgt. Chris Mears says the objects were not "explosive in nature," but did not say what devices aroused suspicion. French has been charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Bond is set at $100,000.
KXAN
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5/17/2013
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry will head to a North Texas city devastated by a tornado that left at least six people dead.
Perry on Friday afternoon plans to visit Granbury and survey the destruction. Wednesday night's tornado destroyed much of the Rancho Brazos Estates subdivision of Granbury, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds says the storm killed two women and four men. Several people remain unaccounted amid the recovery effort. County officials say nearly 100 homes in Granbury were damaged or destroyed.
Donations can be made through the Red Cross.
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5/17/2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Country star Randy Travis has sued two agencies to block the public release of patrol car video of his 2012 DWI arrest in North Texas.
The lawsuit filed in Austin names the Texas Department of Public Safety and the state attorney general's office.
Travis in January pleaded guilty in Grayson County to driving while intoxicated. A judge sentenced Travis to two years of probation and ordered a 180-day suspended jail term. The judge granted a defense motion asking that the arrest video not be made public.
Media groups have requested the video from DPS. The AG's office ruled May 3 that the judge didn't have discretion to bar release of the video.
DPS and the AG's office didn't immediately respond to messages Friday.
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