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Blacks, Men: Are Racial & Gender Discrimination Not Dead Yet?

Houston, TX -- A Federal Civil suit has been filed in Texas alleging problems of gross, illegal discrimination and unethical conduct by one of the largest YMCAs in the nation. The conflict seems to involve a former...

Employee Organized: Videos show disturbing fights at Texas School

Corpus Christi State School employees allegedly produced cell phone videos of disturbing scenes of developmentally disabled students fighting each other, and also organized the fights. " In one of the videos...

Texas Fight Club Busted In State School For Mentally Disabled

After watching clips on TV about this fight club it was very disturbing. Recordings from a lost cell phone is how the police found out. I hope this opens eyes to Administrators of these facilities. Cameras need to...

Survivor of Torture seeks asylum and assistance

It has been four years this month since it happen and yet today my life is still a nightmare because of it. I am living in a country were I can not file for refugee status and I have no papers to work. I am scared everyday and survival, even the basics is so damn tenuous.I am...

Cover-up? Time For Cops To Hide The Tats

New Rule Irks Some Officers"Beginning Nov. 1st, officers in Corpus Christi must keep their tattoos covered. Some officers don't like the new policy, including those who consider their military tats a badge of...

Galveston: Debris from Hurricane Washed up 120 Miles Away

FLOTSAM and debris are being washed up on shores as far away as Corpus Christi, over one hundred miles south of Galveston.   With recovery teams now moving in having sectioned off the piles of hubris into 44 heaps, the human death toll is expected to rise in the...

A clock that eats time

Created from his personal funds and now having a 1.8 Million dollar value."The beast—with its long needle teeth and barbed tail— rocks back and forth, ultimately inserting its talons in notches at the top of...

Houston's post-Ike supplies coming, officials say

"HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Federal supplies of food and water will be available to Houstonians affected by Hurricane Ike on Monday, an official said Sunday after Houston's mayor voiced concern about the aid. ...

IKE NOW TROPICAL STORM

UPDATES:  Call 1-800-588-9822 to find family membersHouston Television News Coverage"Streaming live coverage KTRKStreaming live coverage KHOUStreaming livc coverage KPRC"14:16 [KHOU-Houston] "GALVESTON, Texas...

Evacuations begin as Ike heads for Texas

People are already starting to be evacuated from Texas, as Hurricane Ike is gaining strength across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is headed straight for the Texas coast after crashing through Cuba...

South Texas Coast Under Evacuation Order

Mandatory evacuation has been ordered for Corpus Christi, Texas and other coastal areas of South Texas. Hurricane Ike is forecast to make landfall at Corpus Christi sometime Friday night or Saturday morning,...

Art judge steps down over an offensive Jesus painting

“Only women bleed” is the inscription underneath an unorthodoxly graphic image of Jesus Christ submitted by Adam Cullen for the Blake Prize for Religious Art in Australia. The artist claims his submission was inspired by the early Christian paintings, but Christopher...

Family sues PetSmart after parrot fever kills father

A Corpus Christi family is suing PetSmart after Joe De La Garza Sr. died after catching parrot fever from a bird purchased at one of their stores.  The man contracted the bacterial infection after his...

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined...

Oh, Those Darned Undead

Doesn't anyone appreciate a good old fashioned dance of death anymore?"A procession of devils, ghosts and zombies through the historic Spanish city of Toledo has been branded blasphemous by the Catholic Church."

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