Posted 6:48 PM 5/24/2012 by Caroline Flores - cflores@kristv.com
CORPUS CHRISTI - The Texas Commission of Environmental Quality has told the City of Corpus Christi it needs to clean up contamination in the Corpus Christi Bay. This comes after bacteria levels in two areas along the bayfront have tested higher than what is allowed by the state. Meaning the water (More) • Video (1)
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Posted 6:33 PM 5/24/2012 by Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - A New Jersey man who confessed to choking a 6-year-old New York City boy to death in 1979 was arrested on a murder charge on Thursday, police said, the first arrest in a case that helped give rise to the nation's missing-children movement. Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple (More)
Posted 6:22 PM 5/24/2012
CORPUS CHRISTI - A member of the Raza Unida street gang will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for his roll in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
33-year-old Orlando Garcia was sentenced to life today by Senior District Judge Janis Graham Jack. Garcia was convicted (More)
Posted 6:18 PM 5/24/2012
CORPUS CHRISTI - Congratulations are in order for longtime Corpus Christi Police Captain John Houston. He's being promoted to the rank of Commander as part of a department restructuring under new Chief Floyd Simpson.
Houston has served 32 years in all field and investigative services (More) • Video (1)
Posted 6:13 PM 5/24/2012
CORPUS CHRISTI - Police still need help tracking down three suspects involved in an attack that left a woman with a punctured lung from a stabbing. The 42-year-old woman was attacked by three women as she was walking on Ruth Street near Zavala Elementary yesterday afternoon.
She was only (More)
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Posted 5:35 PM 5/24/2012 by Mitch Bryan
CORPUS CHRISTI - Seven men are behind bars tonight after an undercover prostitution sting Wednesday.
We're told undercover female officers were posted at three locations Wednesday, trying to catch suspected "Johns" looking for prostitutes. They found suspects outside City Hall, down (More) • Videos (2)
Posted 5:35 PM 5/24/2012
CORPUS CHRISTI - To celebrate having perfect attendance 14 Gibson Elementary students in Corpus Christi ISD are starting off the summer in style with brand new bikes.
More than 100 students at the campus had perfect attendance this year and were entered in a drawing for a new bike through (More) • Video (1)
Posted 5:32 PM 5/24/2012 by Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican officials say suspected cartel gunmen have launched a complex attack involving heavy weapons and a car bomb on a police dormitory less than 4 miles from the U.S. border. The two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not yet (More)
Posted 5:27 PM 5/24/2012
CORPUS CHRISTI - The City of Corpus Christi has come up with a temporary solution for the plastic bag problem. Officials have decided to delay an ordinance that would ban plastic grocery bags and will instead move forward with an educational campaign.
The hope is the campaign will (More) • Video (1)
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Posted 5:13 PM 5/24/2012 by Associated Press
WACO, Texas (AP) - A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Muslim soldier on six charges in connection with a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Jurors in U.S. District Court (More)
Posted 5:13 PM 5/24/2012 by Associated Press
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) - A sport utility vehicle slammed into an East Texas church daycare center, injuring the driver, a teacher and three children. A police statement says the crash happened about The incident happened around midday Thursday at the Spring Hill First Baptist Church in (More)
Posted 4:32 PM 5/24/2012 by Dave Fraser dfraser@kristv.com
PREMONT - The Premont Elementary kids spent the day creating thank you cards for everyone who chipped in money to keep the doors of their school open.
It wasn't long ago when the Texas Education Association told Premont ISD officials that they were in jeopardy of shutting down the schools (More) • Video (1)