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Monday, September 24, 2012
BARC wants you to "fall" in love with a new pet
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- This weekend, BARC is holding a special pet adoption event to help more Houstonians find their perfect pet companion. For the first weekend of fall, they're hoping more people "fall" in love with a new forever friend.
To help find that perfect pooch, BARC uses the "Meet Your Match" program. Behavior experts identify pet personalities and give them labels like "free spirit," "goofball," "love bug" and "party animal."
Today is the last day of the Fall in Love at BARC event. The adoption fee has been reduced to just $20 for dogs and $10 for cats, and the fee is waived for what they call "PurrFurred" pets, which are animals that have been at the shelter longer than 20 days.
If you're interested in seeing what BARC has to offer at this event, head over to 3200 Carr Street between noon and 6pm today.
This event is part of an ongoing campaign to reach 2,100 adoptions by the end of October for the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge. The challenge began August 1. The nonprofit or government agency that shows the biggest improvement in adoption numbers compared to the same time last year wins $100,000.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Family wants justice for murdered American hero
Crystal KobzaHOUSTON (KTRK) -- It's been one year since the murder of an elderly World War II veteran, and still no arrest has been made. It was over Labor Day weekend last year when Percy Harmon, 85, was found bound and gagged in his northeast Houston home.
"Today is most regrettable that we even had to come here today," Mervin Harmon said Saturday as the family gathered to remember his older brother and continue their search for clues.
The family was back together Saturday in the place where their loved one was brutally murdered a year ago. They drove in from Lafayette, Louisiana to hand out flyers in his northeast Houston neighborhood, hoping someone will come forward with information that will help police solve the murder.
Mervin Harmon said he wants closure for his family.
"This now has been a year, and seemingly to us, something should have been done to find somebody responsible for this," he said. "Somebody in the area knows who did this."
The family tells us the suspect or suspects broke into the back window of the house. It wasn't until days later that Harmon's body was discovered in the living room of the home.
Harmon's niece, Janice Simmons, tells us the house has been broken into three more times since her uncle's death.
"For us it just means somebody is walking around here who was able to do something like this with no conscious," she said. "And when will they do it again?"
Detectives with the Houston Police Department helped the family Saturday as they went door to door.
Officer Paul Vela says they've had only a few leads. He believes getting out in the community could help generate information on the suspect.
"In the past it has helped other cases, and I believe within time people come to their senses and say 'I'm tired of crime. I'm tired of keeping this in. I want to speak to someone,'" Vela said.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $6,000 dollars for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the killer or killers responsible for the death of Percy Harmon. Anyone with information can call 713-222-TIPS. All tipsters remain anonymous.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Houston and ex-NFL star Johnny Jolly wants back in NFL
Former NFL and Forest Brook star John Jolly wants to return to the NFL
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Houstonian and former Green Bay Packer Johnny Jolly says he's taking steps to return to the NFL. The 29-year-old Jolly tells us he has applied to Commissioner Roger Goodell for reinstatement. Jolley was suspended indefinitely back in 2009 in connection with drug charges here in Harris County.
He was recently granted 10 years of "shock probation" instead of serving six years behind bars. If Jolly is allowed to return, he tells the National Football Post that he'd like to go back to Green Bay.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Anderson wants to bring integrity back to DA's office
Anderson does have another election to win in November and is not overlooking that. But he can't help but think ahead at least a little bit.
It was a quiet Tuesday night at Pat Lykos' election watch party.
"I just wasn't aggressive," she said.
Lykos, running for re-election, maintains she simply didn't work hard enough on politics to win the race.
"I was being a DA, not a politician," she said.
For Anderson, it was just the opposite.
"It's an honor to be standing in front of you," he said Tuesday night.
And on Wednesday we asked him to speak about the now defeated DA. We asked him what should the voters of Harris County thank Pat Lykos for?
"I think she came in at a time when the office was in real trouble and she did the best she could.I just don't think it worked out," said Anderson.
He will face a Democratic challenger in November, but if he wins he already has plans for immediate changes.
"First, I think it's important to get back integrity," Anderson said.
He wants to free up prosecutors to stop worrying about wins and losses and focus on justice, he will end the DWI divert program that pushes first-time offenders into treatment before trial, and stop the Lykos policy that prevented prosecutions of minor drug cases, even if it means an increased jail population.
"You don't make decisions based on jail population," he said.
The office is still under a special prosecutor's investigation over the now months-old grand jury probe and Anderson does not want to get in the way of it. However, he told us Wednesday he wants the probe to finish and if there was wrongdoing, for it to be punished.
It's not just philosophy he wants to change, he's already identified at least one member of the Lykos team not likely to be part of his office.
He does not see how Rachel Palmer, a prosecutor who took the Fifth during a grand jury probe, can continue if he takes over.
"I don't know how you can gain the public trust or regain the image you want to have in the public if you have someone in the office that the public believes committed a crime and just won't testify about it," Anderson said.
During the campaign, Anderson was accused of wanting to bring back a "win at all costs" DA's office. He doesn't agree and sees his brand of justice as a way to restore the integrity he wants crime victims and the accused to both see from the office.
"Take that oath for what it means and do justice. Justice sometimes means you dismiss a case, sometimes it means a guy gets the death penalty. It doesn't always mean either one. Everything is different and you have to have the freedom to use your experience to make the right call," he said.
We invited Pat Lykos to join us for an interview. She was at the office, but we were told she was too busy with work to conduct one.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Local lawyer wants extra pollution controls nixed
HOUSTON -- A Houston attorney has asked Texas regulators to give the state a break when it comes to required extra controls to deal with foreign pollution. Jed Anderson, who represents the energy industry, says states should not be forced to make deeper cuts in smog-forming emissions to meet federal limits because of wind-borne pollution from places like Mexico. The Houston Chronicle reported Monday that Anderson filed a petition with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality last week, so Texans would no longer be responsible for paying for offsetting foreign pollution.
TCEQ has 60 days to respond. If the state agency agrees with Anderson, it could ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revise the rules.
Environmentalists say Anderson's petition does not address protecting the public health.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Group wants close eye kept on incoming Astros owner
"I believe in running a first class franchise," said Crane during Monday's press conference.
But over the last decade and a half, he was found to be running a less that first class global freight operation. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found the multimillionaire complicit in discrimination within his then-company, Eagle Global Logistics. A two-year investigation began in 1997. The EEOC found a number violations against Crane's company, which was fined for:
Failing or refusing to promote African-Americans. Demoting females from managerial positions Maintaining a hostile work environment against African-Americans, Hispanics and females with respect to terms, conditions and privileges of employment. Failing to adequately investigate incidents of sexual and gender harassment.The EEOC also says his company destroyed evidence the company was instructed to maintain as part of the two-year investigation. His company at the time denied any wrongdoing."If you've done your homework on that, there really wasn't a problem there," Crane told us. "We can address that later. But I don't think it's going to be a problem whatsoever."
It was enough of a problem for Crane's company to reach a $9 million settlement with the EEOC. And now it's something other Major League team owners will have to consider when they vote to approve or block Crane's offer for the Astros.
"You have issues at times," said McLane. "He said that was a learning experience for him and he has certainly moved well past that and has never had another problem."
If the deal does go through, the NAACP is asking for someone to keep watch.
"We are deeply concerned that someone, that has a broad reach throughout the community and across the country regarding employment ... has such a dismal record in the area of discrimination. As such this is someone that should be monitored very closely in the area of employment discrimination as it relates to minorities and woman," the group said in a statement."
Eight-point-five million dollars of that $9 settlement went to back pay and damages to minorities who worked at Eagle from 1995 to 2000. The remaining $500,000 was to implement a leadership development program to benefit minorities and women for those roles within eagle global logistics.
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