RIP 3 YEAR OLD BENJAMIN PRICE! Child Found in Day Care Van in SE Dallas dies in 105 degree weather!

by geek swagg

This is murder. This child was a toddler left to die like an animal.

Dallas Fire-Rescue and Dallas police are investigating the death of a child left in a van outside a day care in Dallas.
Dallas Fire-Rescue received the call from Little T's Tiny Tot Daycare in the 2200 block of South Buckner Boulevard, which is near Cordell Drive, just before 5:15 p.m. Friday.
The child was given CPR as he was transported to Baylor Hospital. Dallas police said doctors  pronounced him dead at the hospital.
Family members gathered at the hospital identified the child as 3-year-old Benjamin Price. A grieving family member originally told NBC 5 that Price was 4.
Dallas police Lt. Scott Walton said the little boy was left in a van outside the day care after a field trip. Police said the boy may have been in the van for two to two and a half hours after returning from a field trip to see a movie.
The high at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was 105 degrees Friday.

Heavy Rains Flood Houston Roads

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HOUSTON — Floodwaters drenched Houston streets early Tuesday after heavy overnight rains, forcing high-water rescues, soaking homes, closing schools and stranding motorists during rush-hour traffic.
"We just woke up to a puddle of water," said Cindy Rey as she and her husband tried to sweep away some 10 inches of floodwaters out of their home after overnight heavy rains. "I don’t think they mentioned it was going to rain as much as it did. We didn’t expect any flooding."
The couple said their furniture, television and other items were apparently ruined after water surged into their home early in the morning. They estimate more than a foot of water was outside and has since started receding.
The Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management was urging residents in flooded homes to stay indoors.
Some freeway and toll road stretches were closed after at least 6 inches of rain fell. According to emergency management officials, a rain gauge on Buffalo Bayou in far western Houston collected more than 6 inches overnight and nearly 9 inches in 24 hours. They also continue monitoring area reservoirs, which have risen at a high rate. A flood watch continued in effect through Tuesday evening for Southeast Texas.
The disrupted commute prompted some school districts to cancel classes for the day. It also prompted Houston school district officials to postpone the state-mandated Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills exam until Wednesday.
About 200 motorists were stranded for a couple of hours in a parking lot near Interstate 610 and U.S. 59 after they sought refuge from rising floodwaters on frontage roads.
Rescue workers from various departments in the county plucked several people from rushing water. Most were motorists who drove into flooding, said Mark Sloan, Harris County emergency management coordinator. Houston’s assistant fire chief, Adrian Trevino, says fire-rescue boats and high-clearance vehicles, including city dump trucks, were used in some high-water rescues of motorists Tuesday morning. No injuries were reported.
Three shelters were opened for Harris County residents but so far none were occupied, said Sloan.
"Most of the homes that have been impacted are still livable," Sloan said.
The rains came a day after tornadoes left damage in Corsicana and near Austin and Victoria.
Ten structures in Corsicana were damaged in the tornado that had winds of up to 90 mph and was on the ground for about four-tenths of a mile. Another tornado damaged more than 20 structures in the Williamson County community of Jonah, including 12 to 15 homes. In Yorktown, about 30 miles northwest of Victoria, a twister destroyed one home. No injuries were reported.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says "No" to President Obama's stimulus money for the unemployed

Texas gov. rejects stimulus money for unemployment
By MONICA RHOR, Associated Press Writer Monica Rhor, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 47 mins ago

HOUSTON – Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits, saying the money would have required the state to keep funding the expanded benefits after the stimulus money ran out.

Perry, an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill, did accept most of the roughly $17 billion slated for Texas in the plan.

But he said the requirements attached to the federal stimulus money would require a change in the state's definition of unemployment, expanding coverage to more people and placing more of the state's tax burden on employers.

"During these tough times, Texas employers are working harder than ever to move products to market, make payroll and create jobs," Perry said at a news conference. "The last thing they need is government burdening them with higher taxes and expanded obligations."
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Mother of David Koresh found stabbed to death in Texas

Younger sister has been arrested for the murder
By Alicia Evarista Cruz
Senior writer
theblackurbantimes.com
Bonnie Haldeman, 60, the mother of former Branch Davidian leader David Koresh was found stabbed to death in the Chandler, Texas home of her younger sister, Beverly Clark on Friday. Her sister has been arrested and is being held without bond pending her first court appearance this week.

"It's still under investigation and we really don't know what the motive was or what caused this to happen," said Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt.
The sheriff said someone made a 911 call on Friday afternoon and when deputies arrived, they found Haldeman dead. Sheriff deputies said Clark and her sister were the only two people in the house when deputies arrived. A knife found in the home is believed to be the murder weapon.
A report from the Athens Daily Review on Saturday stated that Haldeman’s body had been taken to Dallas for an autopsy. Jail officials on Sunday said Clark did not yet have an attorney.
Haldeman penned an autobiography titled "Memories of the Branch Davidians: The Autobiography of David Koresh's Mother," that described how her son, born Vernon Howell, became David Koresh leader of the cult, the Branch Davidians. The fire that killed over 70 members of the cult also claimed the lives of her grandchildren.
Haldeman had been working as a nurse in Chandler, Texas a rural area near Tyler and about 80 miles east of Dallas at the time of her death.

Standoff at Waco
Almost 16 years ago, Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI arrived at the Branch Davidians ranch known as Mount Carmel located ten miles outside of Waco, Texas on February 28, 1993 attempting to execute a warrant on Vernon Wayne Howell aka David Koresh.

The Bureau had been investigating Koresh and members of his religious sect, the Branch Davidians over allegations that they had been stockpiling a cache of illegal weapons and that children within the group had been abused.
Koresh and his members vehemently denied the allegations and vowed they would not be taken alive.

A shootout led the 51 day standoff that led to the death of 10 people: Four federal agents and six Branch Davidians. At the end, 74 members, including 21 children and Koresh were dead.
A massive fire consumed the ranch as agents watched, helpless to do anything. A special investigation led by the U.S. Justice Department exonerated the government of any wrongdoing, but a heated debate over who started the fire and what actually led to the standoff continued for years.

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Will We Have The First Execution Of The Year?

This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Curtis Moore who is scheduled for execution at the Texas prison in Huntsville on Jan। 14. Moore, condemned for the slayings of three people during a drug-ripoff robbery in 1995 in Fort Worth, is set for lethal injection this week in what would be the first execution in the United States in 2009.

(AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

This file photo, to the right, released by the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services shows the electric chair at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb. In a pre-session survey by the ssociated Press, 28 of 49 senators or senators-elect said they supported changing Nebraska's method of execution from the electric chair to lethal injection। Two said they opposed changing the law, four said they were unsure, three said they opposed the death penalty, three skipped the question and nine didn't respond to the survey. (AP Photo/Nebraska Dept. of Correctional Services, Mikael Karlsson, File)