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Dashcam video shows heated Texas traffic stop

Police dashcam video shows a Texas state trooper trying to drag a black motorist from her car after a minor traffic infraction, then drawing his stun gun and threatening her for refusing to follow his orders.

 

Ramp onto Hwy 44 from NPID closes

The flyover from North Padre Island Drive to State Highway 44, heading toward the Corpus Christi International Airport, closed about 6:45 a.m. Wednesday after a metal connector on the bridge was found sticking out of the road, a Corpus Christi police spokesman said. 

 

KEDT to move to new space in the fall

After 42 years, in late September the public TV and radio station will begin a move to a 16,000-square-foot building at Del Mar College Center for Economic Development, with a ribbon cutting scheduled for April 2016.

 

Rockport indefinitely postpones bag issue

After what the Rockport mayor has called a nearly three year conversation on the use of single-use plastic bags, the Rockport City Council voted to indefinitely postpone a vote to put into effect an ordinance banning them.

 

Section 8 applications skyrocket

More than 46,000 applications have been filed for Section 8 vouchers — nearly a 38-fold increase over the last time the list was opened, officials said Tuesday.

 

Search-and-rescue dog named for Leighton McComb

Mere miles from where 4-year-old Leighton McComb went missing after a historic flood swept through the Central Texas town of Wimberley, a future search-and-rescue dog has been named for her and is training to find missing people.

 

Tuloso-Midway's bigger ag barn in the works

A ceremony was held Tuesday for the ground breaking of a new Tuloso-Midway High School facility that will house livestock for student projects, Tuloso-Midway ISD news release states.

 

App allows people to teach and make money

Users of a passion-based app are earning money teaching about what it is that interests them. They're called "passionaries."

 

Google enters photo-storing competition

It seems like there are almost as many options now for storing your photos online as there are photos in your library. Google has raised the stakes with its new entry into the field, Google Photos.

 

Woman injured in house fire dies

A woman scorched in a home fire on Cheryl Drive died Tuesday morning, Corpus Christi Fire Capt. James Brown said.

 

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