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Sunday evening was a family birthday celebration for the Reynas. It was the first time they had seen each other in over a year and the cousins were the most excited. "They were running around the yard and they had Nerf wars," said Adriana Reyna. "They were wrestling and just enjoying family time." It turned out someone called 911 on the family, stating there were gunshots and people fighting, according to Adriana. Taide Pineda was one of the responding officers who said he did not see any weapons, just Nerf guns. Once they noticed what was going on, the officers...

A property owner’s association is suing a retired Texas City couple for thousands of dollars over a dispute about flower beds that did not meet the HOA’s guidelines. Klaas and Dorothy Tadema moved into the Lago Mar neighborhood after their Dickinson home flooded during Hurricane Harvey. The Tademas said they installed flower beds on the property in November 2018. They said they were notified by the HOA in March 2019 that their home improvements did not meet the association’s guidelines, which the HOA calls “covenants.” The retired couple filed an application along with the $25 fee to get the improvements...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Monday marks the anniversary of the 1947 Texas City ship disaster. On Saturday evening survivors met in Texas City to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the disaster in a somber memorial. On April 16th, 1947, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions to have ever occurred rocked the Texas City port, killing hundreds of people including 28 members of the Texas City Fire Department. It all started shortly after 8 a.m. that day, when longshoremen noticed smoke in the hold of the S.S. Grandcamp. The Texas City Volunteer Fire Department was called but the fire continued to...

Police officers in Texas City fatally shot and killed a man identified by family members as Carlton Smith, a 20-year-old African-American. Texas City Police Chief Robert Burby said he was shot down because he was armed and was pointing his weapon at one of the officers. What happened, according to the police, is that the manager of HT’s Lounge called to report a fight breaking out inside the club. When the police arrived, they saw an individual firing a gun in the direction of patrons exiting the club. He reportedly pointed his gun at an officer and was shot down....

Bar owner: Video supports Texas City police account of shooting | Updated: 3:22 am, Sat Dec 27, 2014. By T.J. AULDS, CHRISTOPHER SMITH GONZALEZ & SHANNON DAUGHTRY TEXAS CITY — Accounts differ about how Carlton Wayne “Chimmy” Smith, 20, came to be holding a handgun when police responding to a call about a crowd arrived at a notorious nightclub early Friday morning. Police said Smith had been firing into the crowd leaving H.T.’s Lounge, 6204 FM 1765, as a Christmas bash was ending about 1:30 a.m. Some friends and relatives said Smith had taken the gun away from another person,...

Mark Oberholtzer isn't an Islamic fighter in Syria. He's never been to Syria. And the plumber from Texas City, Texas, says he certainly would never willingly aid fundamentalist rebels. So it's hard for him to understand how his Ford F-250 pickup truck - including his logo for Mark-1 Plumbing and his phone number - wound up being in a photo posted on Twitter by the extremist Ansar al-Deen Front from the front lines of the war in Syria. Mr Oberholtzer says he's been getting hundreds of phone calls and faxes since the Ansar al-Deen Front tweeted a picture of what...

The CEO of refiner Valero is telling the electric grid operator that serves its Texas City refinery it needs to do more to improve power reliability. Valero’s Texas City refinery has been hit by four major power outages this year, each caused by problems with the power transmission and/or distribution equipment owned and operated by TNMP. The outages, which hit other Texas City refineries including facilities owned by BP and Marathon, led to equipment shutdowns and flaring as the companies scrambled to burns off dangerous emissions. In one instance Texas City officials declared a shelter-in-place when emissions levels became dangerously...

Two drug couriers from Texas have been charged with first-degree murder in Friday's shooting of two women and two young children in a squalid Prince George's County apartment, police said...law enforcement sources added that the killings stemmed from a drug debt the women failed to pay. PG Police Chief Roberto Hylton said Saturday that Darrell Lynn Bellard, 43, shot the four victims execution-style, firing multiple bullets into each one, and that T'keisha Nicole Gilmer, 18, blocked their escape. Bellard, of Dickinson, and Gilmer, of Texas City, were both being held... Killed were Dawn Yvette Brooks, 38; Mwasiti Sikyala, 41; Shayla...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A dog fight headed to civil court Friday. It's a story we first told you about last month regarding two lost German shepherds that were adopted to new families by an animal sanctuary, rather than being returned to the owner.

TEXAS CITY, TX (KTRK) -- We have an update on our top story from Wednesday. The owner of a Texas City animal rescue sanctuary is facing a fire storm of criticism after our story on two lost dogs that were not returned to their owner. Now that animal sanctuary owner is talking to us in person about the dogs and the decision to adopt them out. There is no doubt the Whiskerville Animal Sanctuary has helped hundreds of cats and dogs, but it is what happened with two lost dogs that has upset so many people and now the sanctuary...

My aunt, who used to live in Texas City, moved to Austin this summer. I collected these videos for her and thought some of my fellow Gulf Coast FReepers as well as some of those on NN's ping list might be interested in viewing them.

TEXAS CITY — A massive superhighway that Texans have protested at public hearings statewide drew heated opposition among Galveston County residents, who said they feared the toll road would cripple the local shipping industry and do nothing to improve insufficient hurricane evacuation routes. The Trans-Texas Corridor would wind from Laredo to Corpus Christi, wrap around the western edge of Greater Houston, parallel Interstate 59 through East Texas and leave the state in Texarkana. But residents at a public hearing Thursday night in Texas City questioned the real purpose for the road, which would also be part of a national Interstate...

I've never seen an alert like this on the weather page .. HEADS UP. ~~~~~~~ URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED CHILD ABDUCTION EMERGENCY TEXAS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FORT WORTH TEXAS RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1127 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2007 THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE TEXAS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. THE TEXAS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SEARCHING FOR NICHOLAS STROTHER. HE IS A WHITE MALE...1 YEAR OLD...BROWN HAIR...BROWN EYES...AND A HEAVY SET BABY BODY. POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR BRUCE JOHNATHON STROTHER...WHITE MALE...23 YEARS OLD...DATE OF BIRTH 07-02-1984...5 FOOT 8 INCHES...155 POUNDS...BROWN...

On April 16 1947, the cargo ship SS Grandcamp exploded in the harbor of Texas City Tx. The Grandcamp was carrying 8.5 million tons of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used fertilizer. The SS Grandcamp was also carrying a cargo of small-arms ammunition. At 8:10AM, a small fire was reported in the hold of the Grandcamp. A later investigation determined that spontaneous combustion (or a discarded cigarette) was the cause of the fire. Shortly afterwards, the Texas City Fire Department was called to the dock where the Grandcamp was located. Around 9:00AM, the captain of the Grandcamp oreded that the hull...

TEXAS CITY — Mary Lou Henry would have done anything for her seven cats, those who knew her say. On Thursday, her attempts to save them from a raging fire cost Henry, 77, everything. Henry died after the fire erupted at her house in the 2000 block of 34th Avenue North about 8:40 a.m...

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Great Moments in Police Work Officers of the Texas City Police Department were conducting a prostitution sting April 4. Things were going well -- eventually six hookers were arrested, no doubt the first step toward forever eradicating the problem of prostitution on the Gulf Coast. Around midnight, according to police, the officers observed a Texas City PD patrol car pull up to one of the women posing as a working girl. TCPD officer Lee Marshall, a two-year veteran of the force, was later charged with the class B misdemeanor of solicitation of prostitution. The department is not talking about the...

Extremely dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Rita continues to threaten the Greater Houston Metropolitan area. The forecast track has shifted slightly to the northeast, increasing the risk to Southwest Louisiana, and a significant portion of the oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Texas Governor Perry is urging all coastal residents between Beaumont and Corpus Christi to evacuate as soon as possible. The following links are self-updating: Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P Three Day Forecast TrackFive Day Forecast TrackRita Forecast Track...

You don’t have to be a conspiracy buff to think the recent spate of incidents at BP facilities was maybe a little much to comfortably call coincidence. The FBI’s not going near that, but did confirm it was conducting what it called routine investigations of the incidents. Bureau officials said there was no evidence or indication that any of the incidents might involve deliberate acts, and that such probes had become routine since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. BP’s Texas City oil refinery and a subsidiary’s chemical plant at Chocolate Bayou have been at the center of six large incidents in...

TEXAS CITY - Today BP blamed the deadly blast at its Texas City refinery on workers' failure to follow procedures. Six operators neglected to stick to written checklists for restarting the refinery's isomerization unit on March 23 after maintenance, said Ross Pillari, president of BP Products North America. Moreover, BP's investigators found supervisors seemed to be absent at times during the startup, considered one of the most dangerous times in refinery operations, and crews didn't know who was in charge. --snip--