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  • Texas mom who locked kids in hot car to 'teach them a lesson' gets prison

    05/01/2018 10:43:38 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 27 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 1, 2018 | Kathleen Joyce
    A Texas mother who locked her two children in a hot car last year to “teach them a lesson” while she took a nap was sentenced to prison for their deaths. Cynthia Marie Randolph, 25, of Weatherford, was found guilty Monday of two counts of reckless injury to a child in the deaths of her two children, Juliet Ramirez, 2, and Cavanaugh Ramirez, 16 months. She was sentenced to two 20-year prison terms to be served simultaneously. Randolph's charges were reduced. She had faced two first-degree felony counts of knowingly causing serious injury to a child. A conviction on those...
  • Sheriff: Woman tossed dog from moving car because she was 'frustrated' with it

    02/16/2018 9:49:14 PM PST · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 29 replies
    WFAA.COM ^ | 16 FEBRUARY 2018 | WFAA.COM
    PARKER COUNTY - It's been a tumultuous 24 hours for a young Chihuahua mix named Pumpkin. "She would like to take a nap," said Parker County Animal Control Supervisor Karen Kessler, whose arms Pumpkin was nuzzling into. The tiny pup was found Thursday, roaming a lot in rural Weatherford. A woman named Vanessa was the one who discovered her. "It was very skittish at first," Vanessa said of the dog. "It didn't want [to go] anywhere near me." Vanessa's family has had trouble with people illegally dumping on their property, so they set up game cameras. She went to check...
  • Naked woman arrested for entering Weatherford home through doggy door

    04/24/2013 3:55:45 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 93 replies
    Fox News (DFW) ^ | Updated: Apr 24, 2013 11:28 AM CDT | Mark Norris
    A woman was arrested by Weatherford police after she entered a stranger's home wearing no clothes and through a doggy door. A man living in the house heard a noise early Tuesday morning and called police around 1:45 a.m. The man walked around the home and found the doggy door had been used and looked damaged. At first the man and his wife thought an animal had snuck into the house. Then they found a naked woman sitting in their bathtub.
  • Black couple denied wedding at Mississippi church July 30, 2012

    07/30/2012 4:16:00 PM PDT · by Morgana · 74 replies
    ABC ^ | 7.30.2012 | ABC
    A rally will be held Monday night in Crystal Springs, Mississippi after a black couple wasn’t allowed to get married at their church because of their race. Continue reading The Wilsons were told they couldn’t wed at the town's First Baptist Church because it goes against tradition since a black couple had never been married there in its 129-year history. Charles Wilson and his fiance, Te'Andrea, wanted to get married there, but church members got upset. The paster then asked the couple to take their wedding elsewhere. "This had never been done here before, so it was setting a new...
  • Bush 41 to endorse Roger Williams

    01/17/2011 10:22:31 AM PST · by Racehorse · 87 replies
    Austin American-Statesman ^ | 17 January 2011 | Jason Embry
    Former President George H.W. Bush will endorse Republican Roger Williams this afternoon for the U.S. Senate seat that Kay Bailey Hutchison now holds. The race to succeed Hutchison, who is not seeking re-election, has drawn interest from a number of Republicans, including railroad commissioners Elizabeth Ames Jones and Michael Williams. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is also considering a run. Roger Williams is a Weatherford car dealer and former Texas secretary of state who was a major Republican donor before he was a candidate. The Bush endorsement could give his campaign a nice boost, particularly since the field is crowded and...
  • How Federal Crackdown on Bribery Hurts Business And Enriches Insiders

    05/06/2010 9:14:22 PM PDT · by Saije · 138+ views
    Forbes ^ | 5/6/2010 | Nathan Vardi
    In 2007 Weatherford International, an oil service firm with roots in Houston, discovered it might have a bribery problem on its hands--one or more of its employees might have paid bribes in Europe. Weatherford, following legal custom, notified the Justice Department office responsible for enforcing an anti-bribery law, whose assistant chief was William (Billy) Jacobson. It also hired...Fulbright & Jaworski to conduct an investigation, which found more potential bribery in West Africa. Weatherford promptly reported that to the feds, too. By that time Jacobson had left Justice to join Fulbright as a partner and started doing compliance work for none...
  • Nacogdoches County will fight TTC as new member of regional planning commission

    05/01/2008 5:34:51 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 3 replies · 372+ views
    The Daily Sentinel ^ | April 29, 2008 | Michael Rodden
    County commissioners reaffirmed their stance against the Trans-Texas Corridor, and they took another step toward keeping county government transparent when they met Tuesday. First up on the court's agenda, commissioners heard a presentation by Connie Fogle on behalf of the newly formed Pineywoods Sub-Regional Planning Commission. According to Fogle, the Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 391, requires state agencies to coordinate with local commissions to "ensure effective and orderly implementation of state programs at the regional level." "Critical in the code is the word 'coordinate,'" she said. "This does not mean the commission has to cooperate. The intent is to...
  • TxDOT Announces New Members of Leadership Team

    01/07/2008 7:22:38 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 2 replies · 215+ views
    Reuters ^ | January 7, 2008 | TxDOT
    Saenz expands administration to reflect changing role of agency AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas Department of Transportation today announced selections for the final three members of Executive Director Amadeo Saenz's leadership team. The new Assistant Executive Director for Engineering Operations is John Barton of Beaumont. The newly-formed office of Assistant Executive Director for District Operations will be lead by David Casteel of San Antonio. The newly-formed office of Assistant Executive Director for Innovative Project Development will be lead by Phil Russell of Austin. "John, David and Phil are all outstanding professionals," said Saenz. "All of them understand...
  • Transportation meetings set for Parker County (Trans-Texas Corridor)

    01/26/2007 2:02:22 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 5 replies · 502+ views
    Weatherford Democrat ^ | January 25, 2007 | Galen Scott
    Depending on the traffic, it could take quite a while for Parker County residents to make it to one of three transportation meetings slated to take place in local cities next week. Topics up for discussion at the meetings range from Parker County’s long-term transportation needs to finding solutions to the area’s short-term, immediate transportation problems. A discussion of the future roles of passenger rail, bypass routes and safety improvements is also expected. County officials have been asking for public meetings related to the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor for some time. The Corridor, an $8 billion multi-modal transportation plan developed by...
  • July 3 Marks Tenth Anniversary of Texas' Deadliest Traffic Day, 46 Died

    07/03/2004 8:51:37 AM PDT · by Theodore R. · 3 replies · 229+ views
    Today marks 10th anniversary of state's deadliest traffic day; 46 died Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The moment is seared in Mike Scrivner's mind. The screams of children trapped in their burning van. The helpless feeling of a firefighter without water or a fire truck. The retired Fort Worth fireman was off duty on July 3, 1994, when he drove by the wreckage of a van that had burst into flames after it was hit by a tractor-trailer. Scrivner stopped, broke the van's windshield and pulled out the driver, her 22-year-old daughter and two 4-year-old boys. But he couldn't save...