Jacinto City News

U.S. Rep. Gene Green hosts his office's 13th annual Immunization Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Aug.

J.P. Riordan has a simple message for people with concerns about terrorism If you see it, report it.

Robert Soard, Harris County division chief of real property, dispelled some of the myths about the county buying property at a recent Galena Park/Jacinto City Rotary meeting.

Amy Earnest said The Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc. women's shelter in Pasadena has helped more than 318,000 women and children since it began 30 years ago.

Galena Park High School graduate who is now a lawyer pays his respects to the Galena Park/Jacinto City Rotary, who gave him a scholarship years ago.

Joshua Mims was apparently angry at the landlord who evicted him, not at the retired schoolteacher, nearly blind, who lived in the apartment downstairs.

“I was out on my back patio, then called the police, and went to the back bedroom and the fire was already at my back window when I grabbed my baby off the bed”

Scores of firefighters battled a three-alarm apartment fire that destroyed about 40 units at east Harris County complex late Sunday night, officials said. via Fire Engineering

“I think we all have an interest in having these people prosecuted especially when it involves vulnerable children or minors.”

Release on bond sometimes leads to deportation bid Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials planned to deport a Mexican woman accused of kidnapping and forcing a teenager to work as a prostitute even ... via Free Republic

“We want to keep it from falling apart.”

Big rigs will soon be banned from the tunnel that connects Pasadena to Jacinto City under the Houston Ship Channel, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday. via Click2Houston.com

“At first the people there said they were the only two people there and that no one else was there”

Police tracked cell phone calls to find a teenage girl who reported being smuggled into the country, held captive in a padlocked room and sexually abused. via WFAA

“She was brought here without her mother's knowledge and she was smuggled into this country”

Local police rescued a teenage girl who was allegedly kidnapped from Mexico and forced into prostitution. via Abc13.com

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“It is such a dangerous circumstance if these drugs actually reach the public”

Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Wednesday, Jan. via Click2Houston.com

A customer angry about how his items were bagged drove his S.U.V. into a store. According to police the accident occurred Wednesday after the customer stormed out of a Dollar General Store in Jacinto City, ... via KTAB KRBC TV

A customer who was angry about how his items were bagged crashed into a store, officials told KPRC Local 2. Jacinto City police said the customer left the Dollar General store on Market Street in a rush on ... via Click2Houston.com

A car has slammed through the front of a store in Jacinto City. The wreck happened at a Dollar General store on Market near Holland. via Abc13.com

“Especially after giving (Romero) a second chance”

Bored by the lack of action on their graveyard shifts, local firefighters Jason Southard and Marvin Romero allegedly took matters into their own hands in the spring and summer of 2006, setting fire to seven ... via Houston Chronicle

Montgomery County sheriff's officials are looking for a man they suspect participated in the beating and kidnapping of a man who was found injured and bound with tape early Tuesday. via Houston Chronicle

“Once damage is done, it's irreversible. That damage and whatever results from that damage, stays with that child for the rest of his life. It could impact his ability to hold a job. It could impact how much the child could earn when he grew up”

On a cool autumn day, some residents of Jacinto City find themselves living in the middle of a hot zone -- especially in the 10300 block of Muscatine. via KHOU-TV Houston