Miguel Ramos, a 32-year-old homeless day laborer who was killed in a robbery last year, died fighting. He was allegedly killed for a single dollar bill that had been torn in half.
Prosecutor Beth Exley on Tuesday pointed across the courtroom at 19-year-old Carlos Daniel Fernandez and urged jurors to find him guilty of capital murder.
“He killed him because he put up a fight,” Exley told the jury in closing arguments. “That’s it.”
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Posted: Apr 19, 2013 12:22 PM by Press Release
HOUSTON – Coast Guard aircrews have rescued one crew member and are searching for four others after their fishing vessel sank 115 miles southeast of Galveston, Friday.
Watchstanders at the 8th Coast Guard District command center received an alert from the 406 MHZ Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon of a fishing vessel at approximately 3:30 a.m.
An aircrew aboard an HU-25 Falcon jet was launched from Air Station Corpus Christi to provide an overflight of the area and spotted a man waving his arms aboard an orange raft. An MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station Houston were launched and hoisted the man to safety. The survivor reported that there were four other crew members aboard the vessel before it sank.
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HOUSTON — Emergency crews are tending to multiple victims of a stabbing attack on the Lone Star College Cy-Fair campus in Texas.
The violence broke out at about 11:30am on the Cy-Fair campus on Barker Cypress Road. According to the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department, there are multiple victims, possibly as many as 14. At least one person is said to be critically injured. Life Flight was called to the scene, as were a number of ambulances.
Cy-Fair VFD says four patients have been taken by Life Flight to Hermann Texas Medical Center. Two more patients were taken by ground ambulance to Hermann Hospital. The remainder were taken to North Cypress Hospital, and two people refused treatment at the scene.
James, a student at the school, told Eyewitness News’s sister station KTRK, he helped police take one person into custody. He says the suspect, who appeared to be a student, may be hearing impaired, and was armed with a knife similar to an exacto knife, that may be used in animal dissections.
James says he saw the suspect, dressed in black, emerge from the building at a run, and he gave chase. When tackled, the suspect reportedly said, ‘I give up, I give up.’ James adds that he saw several people bleeding, including some victims with neck wounds. They were tended to by medical crews.
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Last Modified: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:08 PM
By Natalie Stewart / American Press
A Sulphur man is suing a fertility clinic and an ex-girlfriend, claiming the sperm bank gave two vials of his sperm to the woman, who conceived a 2-year-old boy. But the woman is countersuing, claiming she had permission to be inseminated with the sperm.
According to court documents, in 2002 Layne Hardin and Katherine LeBlanc, his then girlfriend with whom he also has a child, went to Texas Andrology in Houston to store Hardin’s sperm before he had a vasectomy.
Cade Bernsen, Hardin’s attorney, said when the sperm was stored, Hardin and LeBlanc entered into a legal contract with the clinic with “binding directions.”
Bernsen said according to the contract, LeBlanc, who is also listed as a plaintiff, has ownership of the sperm in the event of Hardin’s death or if the couple separated, which they did in 2006.
Hardin’s attorney said in October 2009, Tobie Devall — a woman who had an “on-again, off-again” relationship with Hardin — went to the fertility clinic and “basically walked in and said, ‘Hey, give me some sperm from Mr. Hardin,’ and the sperm bank didn’t check the contract, didn’t check her ID, they didn’t do any kind of safety protocol.”
Bernsen said the clinic “handed Tobie Devall a brown paper bag with two vials of sperm. Then she walked out and went next door and got inseminated.”
“This has been a nightmare for him; a nightmare for his family, knowing there’s a boy out there,” Bernsen told the American Press. “(Devall) hasn’t allowed (Hardin) to see him.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA says the International Space Station has lost contact with NASA controllers in Houston. Officials say the six crew members and station are fine and they expect to fix the problem soon.
NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said something went wrong around 9:45 a.m. EST Tuesday during a computer software update on the station. The outpost abruptly lost all communication, voice and command from Houston.
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HOUSTON (KTRK) — The sight of Army helicopters and the sound of gunfire created a lot of concern Monday afternoon in one Houston neighborhood.
We received a lot of phones calls, Tweets and Facebook posts from worried neighbors, wondering what was going on.
SkyEye 13 HD was over the south side where at first look, it appeared there was a massive SWAT scene happening.
With military helicopters flying above her southeast Houston neighborhood, Frances Jerrals didn’t know what to think.
“When you see this, you think the worst. When you hear this, you think the worst,” Jerrals said.
And so, she passed along her concern.
“She told me ‘don’t come home it sounds like we’re in a war zone. Guns, shooting, helicopters flying around the house,’” Isaac Robertson Jr. said.
The U.S. Army along with other agencies took over the old Carnegie Vanguard High School near Scott and Airport. There were armed men in fatigues, plenty of weapons and what many thought were real live rounds
“I felt like I was in a warzone.” Jerrals said. “It was nonstop. I was terrified.”
Houston’s Four Seasons Hotel is suing the NAACP, claiming the association owes the hotel almost $100,000, apparently for a summer banquet.
The lawsuit claims that the NAACP owes the Four Seasons $99,597 for various unpaid charges from July to November for an event held at the downtown hotel, according to a petition filed in Harris County District Court on Jan. 16.
HOUSTON – by Tim Wetzel & Rucks Russell/KHOU 11 News and http://www.khou.com – Greg Cortez, 22, is confined to his hospital bed at Memorial Hermann Hospital. Doctors say he may never walk again after a senseless crime left him virtually paralyzed.
Cortez was driving home when he got a flat tire on Beltway 8. When he stopped to change it, three men pulled up and shot him.
According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the crime happened in the 12200-block of East Beltway 8 north near North Lake Houston Parkway around 3 a.m. on Jan. 14.
“They asked him what’s wrong. And he said he needed help with his tire,” Cortez’s mother told KHOU 11 News during an exclusive interview. “And that’s when a guy pulled out a gun and told him I want your money.”
Cortez handed over his wallet, car keys and other belongings. But that wasn’t enough, as the robbers walked off, they turned around and shot him.
Kim Castillo, mother of five-year-old Milo, was dining with her son on Wednesday night. They did not notice the family in the adjacent booth moved, sitting elsewhere.
Castillo stated the wait staff of the restaurant is fond of Milo.
Michael Garcia was serving the family that moved. He, like Castillo, didn’t notice why until he overheard their conversation regarding Milo.
“He said, ‘Special needs children need to be special somewhere else,’” said Garcia. “That’s like saying you don’t need to be here [if] you’re a different skin color.”
Bravo good sir, bravo. The restaurant defended his decision.
“The customer is not always right…”
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