The court fight over whether a Baytown science teacher used a water pistol as a teaching tool or to assault a student has ended with the boy's parents dropping the charges. Bryan and Dana Adkins agreed to dismiss the misdemeanor assault charges against Maria Ripke after half the students in their 11-year-old son's Baytown Junior School class were interviewed and none would substantiate his story. "If nobody else would come forward, I didn't want to put my son on the stand to tell his story and then have an older teacher contradict it," said Bryan Adkins, a Baytown patrolman. But...