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The association has been working on restoring the ship for the past three years and plans to have it restored by next year, Columbus Sailing Association President Kim Mrazek said.

The ninth Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchling release will be 6:45 a.m. Friday at Padre Island National Seashore.

A 30-year-old man was taken into custody after his 29-year-old girlfriend was found fatally shot inside an Ingleside home.

An Alice man was sentenced to five years in prison after officials traced child pornography uploads to his Google account, a Department of Justice news release states.

Traci Lynn Lemley was targeted out of jealousy, lured to an apartment on Austin Highway, and was bound and strangled in a bathroom June 7 — and her acquaintance, Jeremy "Jethro" Carrico, was bound and beaten to death in a bedroom closet with a 15-pound dumbbell, court documents state.

A man wanted on two outstanding Corpus Christi police arrest warrants was taken into custody after leading officers on a short foot chase Wednesday evening.

The five Gulf states will receive $18.7 billion in the latest settlement from the 2010 BP oil spill. This will fund years of recovery projects, research and ecological restoration efforts.

A 2013 GMC pickup hit a light pole before it crashed through a wooden fence and struck two vehicles in the driveway of a home in the 4300 block of Montego Drive early Wednesday.

Naval air training has a new chief Thursday as Rear Adm. Dell Bull took over for Rear Adm. Roy Kelley in a change-of-command ceremony at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.

A state commission gave swift approval to changes in line with new state legislation, decreasing the electric bill of low-income Texans by around $50 per month.