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25 Oct 2007, 10:14 am
The drivers of the truck, a husband-wife team from the Waco, Texas area, had attempted to repair the brakes on their vehicle two hours before the collision by using electrical tape and a toothpick to stop a leak in a high-pressure hydraulic line. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 8:45 am
I've been reading through the Government Accounting Office's latest report (pdf) on juvenile "boot camps," which finds three common themes in their analysis of 15 deaths at boot camp facilities: Untrained staff, lack of adequate nourishment, and "reckless or negligent operating practices"So when I read in the Waco Tribune Herald recently that a local juvenile judge wanted to send misdemeanants to "private facilities such as boot camps," I was under… [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 5:09 am
It wasn't until four years and many ruined lives later that the Wenatchee witch hunt was exposed as a fraud.A decade later, we seem to be on the verge of another moral panic involving sex abuse, but this time with a new wrinkle: its perpetrators are as young as four years old.Last year a pre-schooler in Waco, Tex. hugged a female aide as he boarded the school bus. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 7:00 am
Subsequent seminars are scheduled for El Paso (October 24th), Lubbock (October 25th), Austin (October 31st), Waco (November 1st), Tyler (November 5th), Houston (November 7th), Harlingen (November 8th), Arlington (November 13th), and San Antonio (November 14th). [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 12:02 am
That's obviously not true at Mart, and almost certainly not for most TYC facilities.How TYC Changes Affect Local Juvie JusticeAnother Waco Tribune Herald story by Cindy Culp (10/18), who's written several good articles localizing the TYC story in the Waco area, focuses on the effects of TYC's scandals and reform legislation on the local juvenile justice system. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 12:15 pm
School officials in Waco, Texas, said Chris rubbed his face in the chest of a female teachers' aide.Well, before you can imagine this father's reaction, you need to know one other fact: His son was 4 years old when the "sexual" incident occurred.What got Chris into trouble was giving the aide a hug. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 8:11 am
The Waco Tribune Herald has the editorial, "Texas justice closes at 5 p.m. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 7:37 am
These jury instructions haven't been used in Texas since 1991, when state law was changed so that jurors now have to decide if mitigating evidence they heard convinced them a life sentence would be more appropriate.The Waco Tribune-Herald has a follow-up story about one of the inmate's whose death sentence was overturned due to the faulty jury charge, "Judge's order to release death row inmate perplexes some in courthouse. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 3:23 am
Today the Waco Tribune-Herald weighed in:Texas justice closes at 5 p.m.Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,shamed the state by deciding that 20 minutes of her time was moreimportant than a last-minute appeal for a man on death row.If Keller cannot be removed from her position, she should be disciplinedfor her outrageous behavior.Keller, a former Dallas prosecutor, has a reputation as a hard-liner whenit comes to upholding convictions.She outdid herself on… [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 12:43 am
"UPDATE: Judge Criss announces in a blog post on Burnt Orange Report that she has officially added her name to the complaint against Judge Keller by the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association.MORE: The Waco Tribune Herald says Keller's actions "shamed the state. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 2:17 am
His turnaround came when he understood "it was revenge and hate" that had motivated McVeigh to kill; he was obsessed with the US Government's murder of cult members at Waco, Texas, in 1993. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 8:16 pm
"And in Waco, Texas, an official from the La Vega Independent School District wrote Chris Blackwell's father that Chris engaged in "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 2:06 pm
DAN RIEHL: I want my Waco! [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 12:43 pm
Haralson County Includes the cities of Bremen, Buchanan, Tallapoosa and Waco. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 9:00 am
By: Staff Writer Last week, a federal jury in Waco, Texas, awarded $6 million to a man who lost four fingers and suffered major injuries to his left leg after his motorcycle collided with an 18-wheeler. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 9:24 am
A federal jury in Waco, Texas has awarded six million dollars in a truck accident case to a man critically injured when his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer in March, 2006. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 9:19 am
Another county struggling with jail overcrowding - McLennan (Waco is the county seat) - wants to find alternatives to incarceration instead of building a new jail, reports the Waco Tribune Herald ("County officials consider a technological solution to jail overcrowding" Sept. 26). [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 10:38 am
For living proof, we reproduce a photograph from Haynes's article, with its caption: "Kwanzaa, a young South African lion at Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas, celebrates his birthday with a cake made from 10 pounds of horse meat, plus whipped cream and a carrot. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 11:37 am
Baylor University and the City of Waco are preparing to allow the public to have their first look at the "Waco Mammoth Site", after several decades of clandestine work uncovering the remains. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 11:37 am
Baylor University and the City of Waco are preparing to allow the public to have their first look at the "Waco Mammoth Site", after several decades of clandestine work uncovering the remains. [read post]
