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Zin brief CALENDAR
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2013
AROUND TEXAS
TODAY IN HISTORY
SATURDAY, AUG. 10
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Holy Redeemer Church will be having a garage sale at 1602 Garcia St. 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call Amparo Ugarte at 286-0862.
TUESDAY, AUG. 13 The Indispensable Assistant Workshop. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Room 101 of Laredo Community College’s De La Garza Building. Early bird registration $149 per person. Regular registration (after July 31) $159 per person. AARP chapter 965 meeting. 2 p.m. Laredo Public Library, 1120 E. Calton Road. Open to people over 50. Scheduled speaker is Congressman Henry Cuellar. Call club president Jorge Castillo at 286-6084.
THURSDAY, AUG. 15 South Texas Food Bank jail and bail. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Laredo Fire Fighters Union Hall, 5219 Tesoro Plaza. Local celebrities will be “locked up.” For “bail,” they must sell tickets for Empty Bowls VII concert at $10, $15 or $25. Call 324-2432. Los Amigos Duplicate Bridge Club. 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Laredo County Club. Call Beverly Cantu at 7270589.
FRIDAY, AUG. 16 Fundamentals of Instructor Training class to become a certified American Red Cross Instructor in First Aid/ CPR/AED. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Location to be announced. Class is two-and-a-half days. CPR prerequisite. Cost $365, deposit $65 by July 31. Limited seating. Register with Randy Gonzalez, 7238401.
SATURDAY, AUG. 17 The Back to School Kids Fishing Tournament will take place at Bravo Park Pond, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21 Laredo Toastmaster’s evening meeting. Public speaking and leadership are focus. Meetings held at third Wednesday of each month. http://laredotoastmasters.toastmastersclubs.org. Contact Humberto Vela at humbertovela@sbcglobal.net or 740-3633.
THURSDAY, AUG. 22 Los Amigos Duplicate Bridge Club. 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Laredo County Club. Call Beverly Cantu at 7270589.
FRIDAY, AUG. 23 The South Texas Food Bank’s Empty Bowls VII fundraiser starts at 6 p.m. at the Laredo Energy Arena, 6700 Arena Blvd. Table sponsorships start at $1,500. Call 324-2432.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 First United Methodist Church will hold a used book sale, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 1220 McClelland Ave. Hardback books are $1, paperback books 50 cents, and magazines and children’s books 25 cents.
SATURDAY, OCT. 5 First United Methodist Church will hold a used book sale, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 1220 McClelland Ave. Hardback books are $1, paperback books 50 cents, and magazines and children’s books 25 cents.
Photo by Dallas County Sheriff’s Office | AP
This photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office shows Erbie Bowser after a previous arrest. Investigators arrested Bowser on Wednesday night after the fatal shooting of four people in two Dallas-area homes. Bowser has been charged with two counts of capital murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police announced Friday.
Charges filed in attacks ASSOCIATED PRESS
DESOTO — Additional charges have been filed against former teacher and Dallas Mavericks hip-hop dancer that police say fatally shot four people and injured four others in separate Dallas-area attacks, police announced Friday. Erbie Lee Bowser was charged by Dallas police with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of his girlfriend, Toya Smith, and her 17-year-old daughter, Tasmia Allen. He was also charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for wounding Smith’s 14-year-old son and a 17year-old family friend. Dallas police said in the arrest affidavit that the family friend, Dasmine Mitchell, identified Bowser as the shooter from a lineup of suspect photos.
Mitchell, who police said is recovering from gunshot wounds, said Bowser was the lone shooter on Wednesday evening, according to the affidavit released Friday. Police say after the shootings in Dallas, Bowser, 44, went to a DeSoto home and killed his estranged wife, Zina Bowser, and her daughter, Neima Williams. Police said he also wounded two boys, ages 11 and 13, who were in critical condition Thursday. Bowser is being held in the Dallas County Jail. DeSoto Police Cpl. Melissa Franks said Thursday that detectives have had a hard time interviewing Bowser. “He does lapse into periods where he sits there quietly or wants to lay down or doesn’t want to speak,” she said. He worked for nearly a decade as a special education teacher in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite.
Annual sales tax holiday this weekend
George W. Bush Library marks 100 days
Body of woman found in freezer
AUSTIN — The annual sales tax holiday begins Friday, with tax breaks on certain items through Sunday as families prepare to send children back to school. State officials estimate shoppers will save more than $74 million in state and local sales taxes this weekend.
DALLAS — Open now for 100 days, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas has drawn more than 170,000 visitors. Officials say that’s a pace to reach their most optimistic firstyear attendance target of 500,000. The presidential museum at Southern Methodist University opened May 1.
MINERAL WELLS — Authorities say a teenager has discovered the body of his mother in a freezer at her Texas home. Mineral Wells Police Chief Dean Sullivan says the body was discovered Thursday evening and that the death is being investigated as a possible homicide.
Arrest warrant issued in Tyler mother’s slaying TYLER — Police are searching for a 20-year-old man after issuing an arrest warrant for him in the death of a mother caught in gang crossfire last week while at a park with her 3-year-old son. Police said Friday that an arrest warrant for a murder has been issued for Rakheem Goldstein of Tyler. A judge has set his bond at $1 million. 20-year-old Briana Raquel Young was pronounced dead at the scene. Her son was not hurt.
Investigators exhume victim from 1972 CLEBURNE — Remains of a man found dead more than 40 years ago have been exhumed from a Texas cemetery so a coldcase team of retired investigators can try to find out who he is and hopefully who killed him. The man removed from the gravesite Thursday in Johnson County is known by police there as “Mr. X.” He was found by a rancher on Dec. 11, 1972. He was shot three times.
Lufkin man arrested for 47th time LUFKIN — A 51-year-old Lufkin man is back in a familiar place. Records show when Angelina County sheriff ’s deputies Wednesday arrested John Richard Burch Sr., it was his 47th arrest. Burch appeared in court Thursday and pleaded guilty to resisting arrest. He’s still held on $1,500 bond. Burch’s record goes back to 1994 with a public intoxication arrest. — Compiled from AP reports
FRIDAY, OCT. 11 Registration for the Texas Team Trail Championship will take place at the Zapata Community Center, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOV. 2 First United Methodist Church will hold a used book sale, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 1220 McClelland Ave. Hardback books are $1, paperback books 50 cents, and magazines and children’s books 25 cents.
SATURDAY, DEC. 7 First United Methodist Church will hold a used book sale, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 1220 McClelland Ave. Hardback books are $1, paperback books 50 cents, and magazines and children’s books 25 cents.
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AROUND THE NATION Beauty queen charged with possessing bombs SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors filed charges of bomb possession Friday against a recently crowned Utah beauty pageant winner. Kendra McKenzie Gill was arrested last weekend with three accomplices for what one described as a prank. All four face the same set of four felony charges, prosecutor Blake Nakamura said Friday. The 18-year-olds were arrested Saturday after driving around neighborhoods and allegedly tossing plastic bottles of caustic chemicals and shrapnel at people they knew. Nobody was injured.
Crews searching for investigator find body OAKLAND, Calif. — Authorities in California found a woman’s body on Friday in an area where investigators were search-
Today is Saturday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2013. There are 143 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 10, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living JapaneseAmericans who’d been interned by their government during World War II. On this date: In 1680, Pueblo Indians launched a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico. In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries (TWEE’luh-reez) Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.) In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state. In 1846, President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution. In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. In 1913, the Treaty of Bucharest was signed, ending the Second Balkan War. In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello. In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. In 1962, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in West Branch, Iowa, on the 88th birthday of the former president, who attended the ceremony along with former President Harry S. Truman. In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people had been slain. In 1975, television personality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclusive rights to interview former President Richard Nixon. In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Ten years ago: During a heat wave plaguing Europe, Britain topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history. Five years ago: At the Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps began his long march toward eight gold medals by winning the 400-meter individual medley in 4:03.84 — smashing his own world record. One year ago: A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American service members in southern Afghanistan; the Taliban claimed the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Rhonda Fleming is 90. Actor-director Tom Laughlin (“Billy Jack”) is 82. Singer Ronnie Spector is 70. Actor James Reynolds is 67. Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 66. Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 64. Singer Patti Austin is 63. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 61. Folk singersongwriter Sam Baker is 59. Actress Rosanna Arquette is 54. Actor Antonio Banderas is 53. Thought for Today: “There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.” — Percy Williams Bridgeman, American scientist (1882-1961).
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Members of the United States volleyball team, two teams, stand on the winner’s podium after taking first and second at the 2013 World Dwarf Games in East Lansing, Mich. on Thursday. ing for a missing federal investigator. Oakland police said the body was discovered near Laguna Valley Park in Vacaville, where crews have been looking for 50year-old Sandra Coke of Oakland.
Officer Johnna Watson said the body has not been identified and will be taken to the Solano County medical examiner. Coke, a capital case investigator in Sacramento, was last seen in Oakland on Sunday. — Compiled from AP reports
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