Corpus Christi News

Associated Press July 9, 2009 Corpus Christi, Texas - A judge's illness has forced postponement of the sentencing of a former employee who pleaded guilty to abusing residents at a state facility for the developmentally disabled.

Corpus Christi police looking for a man wanted for an alleged parole violation got an assist help from a discerning feline.

Fire Station 17 opened Monday at 3:05 p.m. It was paid for with monies from a 2004 bond.

Security guards told police at 9:09 p.m. that a black Mustang had been casing cars in the La Palmera Mall parking lot Tuesday night.

A Texas judge dealt a major blow Tuesday to the case against a man accused of filming late-night "fight club" bouts at a state facility for the developmentally disabled, ruling that videos of them could not be used at trial.

An image from a cell phone video of the suspected fights among the residents at a Texas facility for the mentally disabled.

The Las Cruces City Council will be considering a resolution Monday to create a regional recycling program.

Police tried to get Noe Martinez DeLeon to come into the police department Monday, but we're unsuccessful, said Capt.

This week jurors in Corpus Christi are expected to watch the graphic abuse of the developmentally disabled on grainy cellphone videos showing the state's most vulnerable wards forced to fight each other for the entertainment of those responsible for protecting them.

Chris De LaPaz of Mr. W Fireworks Inc displays a couple of popular fireworks for this Fourth of July.

Preliminary autopsy results say a man whose body was found in the rubble of a Corpus Christi house leveled by an explosion died of soot inhalation and severe burns.

A Corpus Christi man is going to federal prison on a child porn conviction. During a sentencing hearing late Tuesday, 33-year-old Jesus Celeri Sanchez-Noriega was sentenced to nine years for recieving and distributing child pornography.

Federal and local authorities arrested dozens of area gang members in their five-day roundup last week, which was part of a federal operation called Operation Community Shield.

Police said the investigation continues into last week's incident where a Flour Bluff woman was shot by a Corpus Christi police officer.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency -- ICE to illegals and legals alike -- has announced the results of a big round-up of gang members in Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi who are undocumented aliens.

Originally published June 28, 2009 at 10:22 p.m., updated June 28, 2009 at 11:38 p.m. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas a ' Police in Corpus Christi are ready to take their battle against graffiti to a new level with civil lawsuits against the parents of habitual taggers.

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Tickets: Tickets $12 and up. Call 882-9292. Promotion: Dallas Cowboys Tribute night.

The country rockers will perform in concert on Sept. 10 at American Bank Center arena as this year's South Texas Academic Rising Scholars fundraiser, officials with L&F Distributors announced at a news conference on Friday.