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Victoria Advocate from Victoria, Texas • 2

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Victoria Advocatei
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2A-THB VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Uoadxj, Aojart 27. 2001 www.VktodaAirocatt.wa rvw 5 rf 1 s. Allison sends students to hotel? 5 officer tin iFicted oil res duty, will help students move their. was previously arrested, fired for domestic violence belongings this afternoon to new quarters. The university's fee for a doutt ble-occunancy room will notj change for students, official) said.

A shuttle service will be avail: all able to transport students. Z' Some students may move toother housing on campus, mchid-n' ing units in a recently purchased apartment complex. University officials said both tha HOUSTON CAP) Damage caused by flooding from Tropical Storm Allison has forced the University of St Thomas to arrange for accommodation of 200 students at the Radisson Hotel Astrodome and Convention Center The university secured up to 100 rooms Saturday, the same number lost when it decided to close Guinan Hall on Thursday. Officials moved students out of the dorm because water seepage from flooding caused by Tropical Storm Allison rusted a steel support beam. University officials said workers 01 Calltodoy out of trouble.

According to the disciplinary records, San Marcos police arrested Hernandez at his home in January 1996 after receiving reports of a domestic dispute. Hernandez was charged with assault and family violence with bodily injury. Hernandez was fired after he was arrested in October 199C on charges of repeatedly violating his ex-wife's restraining order against him. Hernandez, 40, a she-year veteran, now faces accusations from other officers that he repeatedly struck a handcuffed but combative Fernando Rosales on Aug. 17 while A.

3 tot jFies siott man AUSTIN (AP) A police officer accused by colleagues of beating a handcuffed prisoner last week was Bred in 1997 after his arrest on charges of domestic violence and' violating a protective order Austin officer Doroteo Hernandez appealed his firing and was back in uniform six months after the criminal charges against him were dropped, the Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday. According to disciplinary records, the civil service arbitrator who gave Hernandez his job back ordered the officer to seek counseling, visit a department psychologist and stay I ii moke to appointment ii iff for your personal health assessment and to tour this incredible hotel and the apartment bufldinSf ,1 1 A 1 wui oe ireaieu uxe rrsiuente hall with security, visitation hours' and other campus rules. an OPERATION 5:30 am 9:30 pm 5:30 am 8:30 pm 7:00 am 5:00 pnr NOON 5:00 on OPEN facility. i 30' JO at Bottom Street fire A small house en fiottom Street near Bates Street burned arly Sundayafternoon. According to fir department Investigator Richard Castillo, tho fire started In tho bedroom area.

Ho said that electrical problems were not responsible for starting tho fire. Castillo did not rule out the possibility of smoking materials starting the fire. Castillo said the house was a total loss but had no estimate of the house's value. tMrial laid. Hernandez's lawyers, Gregory Zaney and Jamie Balagia, said his past is irrelevant to the Aug.

17 incident "I guess they're going to allege that every four or five years, he's going to go off and do something crazy," Balagia said. "That just doesn't make sense." Balagia said Rosales had fought several officers by the time Hernandez, who is part of a roving drunken driving unit, showed up. Zaney said the prisoner, whose feet were also bound, head-butted Hernandez while struggling with the officers, Houston's mayor will run again HOUSTON (AP) Lee Brown, Houston's first black mayor, announced as expected Sunday that he win seek a third and final two-year term as leader of the nation's fourth-largest dty. Brown, a Democrat who coasted to a re-election victory in 1999, first won office two years before in a bitter fight against Republican Rob Houston municipal elections are traditionally, nonpartisan, but Brown has enjoyed vocal support from former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, despite the latter's bashing of the city during his failed presidential bid. Brown headed police departments in Atlanta, Houston and New York before becoming Clinton's drug czar In the early v.v.,h;v.'- During his tenure as mayor, he successfully pushed for a new downtown -sports arena and a downtown-to-Astrodome trolley line, both under construction.

Critics charge that several city departments, especially public works, grew wasteful and bloated under his City councilmembers Chris Bell and Orlando Sanchez, who is bid-. ding to become Houston's first Hispanic mayor, are expected to provide stiff and well-financed chal-, lenges to Brown this November. No other major candidates are expected to join the race. Houston mayors are limited to three terms by city ordinance. Brown's predecessor, Bob Lanier, was the first mayor to mandatorily leave office after three victories.

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Prize: $101. Matching three of six: 64,401, Prize: Next Lotto Texas game: Wednesday night Estimated jackpot $9 million. Lose 4 to 8 Inches! Herbal Body Wraps Tfte Bofy Botdujyx. Mossogt Uuric Custer, RMT -4407 Lilac La 361485-2241 NEW! Turbo Trim Plus 5V bar SnaWs lobby for migrants in the U.S. trying to force the 21-year-old drunken driving suspect into the back seat of a patrol car Rosales, who is from Monterrey, Mexico, was taken to Brackenridge Hospital with head and facial wounds and was later moved to the Travis County Jafl.

On Thursday, police turned over to the Travis County district attorney's office the results of their own criminal investigation of Hernandez's actions. Hernandez and two other officers at the scene, Danny Johnson and Lt. Tom Owens, will remain on restricted duty while a separate internal investigation continues, Mrri SMteMvacata staff between President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox. Both presidents have expressed concern for the future of Mexicans, living in the United States. Box and Bush are expected to discuss ways to legalize the status of the estimated 3 million Mexicans who are in the United States illegally- The options range from a blanket amnesty allowing all to become legal residents, to a guest-worker program that would allow them to stay temporarily provided they eventually return to Mexico.

In Houston, the senators from the, opposition PRI party said they flatty oppose a guest-worker program and worry that Fox may cave in on the issue. Txl "The immigrants very concerned that there might be a guest-worker Luebbert Gutierrez said. "We are here to say that we will support only an amnesty." bodity injury to a family membet VICTORIA; Santos Guadalupe Hernandez 36, of Victoria, by police Sunday morning in the 3400 block of Seagull Drive on a warrant charging him with violation of parole, v' Assaulted VICTORIA -i-'-A' 21-year)ld Victoria woman, Saturday night on the balcony of an apartment in the 1900 block of Sam Houston Drive. She told police that a male relative, 21, slapped her. I VICTORIA -James "Lisle" Raughton, 15, in the 200 block of Cimarron about 4:43 Saturday afternoon." -f v.

TKX.21urXTV, CPA's HeriUge Mark BniWlng 5606 Ii Navarre, Ste 20OJ 1 Tax E-Maik 1 A I tors from Mexico flew to Houston for a series of meetings with immi- grants, pledging to expand lobbying eflbrtsnOrthoftheKoGrande. uc Dcuauna fnvuuacu iuau iw the rights of Mexicans living in the United dates, including an amnesty that would aljow many of them to legalize heir Stay here, l( The senators' visit on Saturday was hailed Dy organizers as a first of Its kind on VS. soQ. The senators met with more than 100 Mexican immigrant ii organizers from throughput the United Congressman Gene Green and' HoustoivCity Councilman Chris Bell, a mayoral candidate, also wel- corned the Mexican leaders. The legislators ackriowJedged their visit represents a new trend in Mexico tov new HOURS OF Monday-Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Sunday: MOW 1 Hi pay closer attention to Mexican liv which Includes thi immigrants and mg abroad.

I i their children in the United States." "We used to say that there wereH The local gathering comes less loo million Mexicans, which inchid- than two weeks before a much-ed only those people living within anticipated summit in Washington rOX and BUSH 3FG fo rfccifca CXpeCieO 10 DISCUSS i'igf9 11 ICKdlKw III status of the estimated 3 million Mexicans who are In the United States Illegally. the borders of Mexico," said Oscar Luebbert Gutierrez, a senator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, who represents the border state of Tamaulipas "Now we say there are 120 million Mexicans, discovered when a car he was riding in was stopped for a park curfew violation. i VICTORIA A 24-year-old Victoria man, by police early Sunday morning in the 1600 block of Azalea Street on suspicion of evading arrest. Police followed a suspect car Into a parking lot and the man got out of the back Seat and walked Into an apartment refusing to obey orders to stop. An "officer followed him into the apart-.

ment and arrested hinty i VICTORIA -4- A SO-yeawld man by police early Sunday morning in the 1200 block of South Laurent on suspicion of assault causing bodily 7 injury to a family member. Police said the man fighting with his boyfriend, 28, who was also arrest-'ed on suspicion of assault causing 'Id PoliceCourts Arrested EDITOR'S NOTE: The Advocate does not publish names of those accused of crimes unless they have been formally charged or unless they are arrested on warrants. YICTOBIA A man, age unknown, by police Saturday night in an apartment in the 1900 block of Sam Houston Drive on suspicion of failure to identify: Police answering a disturbance call said the man wouldn't say who he was. Si VICTORIA Jose Alfred MartineziJh, 21, of Victoriaj by, police early Saturday morning in the 300 block of McCright Drive on warrants charging him with viola tion of probation on a driving while intoxicated conviction, with burglary, and with jumping bail and failure to appear. The warrants were DLSTiiepresenUtion mUTO INSURANCE JUDYTURNER son.M DALE TURNER JOE N.

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