Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 11

-f -i 'r T1 s-fc 4 5- COvpui Christ! horns prices up 272 percent for June UsmtocdojUta a reasonable return on investments ab derided until today before the pun- 1 today bef te begins 1 Jurors reject capital conviction Jurors also could have chosen the lesser charges of manslaughter criminally negligent homicide and robbery Vasquez was shot in the hand and neck Aug 3 Orr will not 2008 at a Holly face the death Road apartment penalty Prosecutors have said Orr was behind plans to rob a drug dealer and that he killed Vasquez shortly after Vasquez knocked on the door in the middle of the crime Orr testified last week that he went to the apartment with a sawed-off shotgun to try and taikamaninto calling off gang members he heard were looking for him Jurors heard about 2 Va days of ishment phase Prosecutors want to use prior felony convictions to enhance the punishment range to 25 to 99 years or life in prison attorneys say Orr should be fig a minimum five years in They argued that the state iq the years in prison because they dibit notify Orr directly ahead of time Prosecutors pointed outano-tice was sent to one of his attorneys Orr also could be fined as much as $10000 Three others were arrested in fWUMrtinn wifli thplrilling Warden and Andrea Nicole Mitchell took 20-year plea deals for the lesser charge of robbery They both testified last week against Oit The third person Joseph Sharpe is awaiting trial on a capital murder charge testimony and spent more than that de-I Qfl liberating Many of the notes they sent out asked for excerpts of testimony and at some points they could be heard arguing in the jury room lb convict Orr of capital murder jurors would have had to agree that Orr intentionally killed Vasquez while in the course of committing another crime in this case robbery Orr has said that he accidentally shot Vasquez when Vasquez tried to grab the gun If found guilty of capital murder Orr would have been either sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty The maximum penalty for murder is life in prison The minimum sentence wait be 'I 4- cavuosmaallercom 886-3623 The death penalty is off the table but life in prison is not Jurors on Monday found Charles Orr guilty of murder He had feced a capital murder charge but after neatly 20 hours of deliberations that began last Wednesday Jurors chose Orr 38 stood with his two attorneys as 148th District Judge Marisela Saldafia read the verdict He bowed his bead and later turned to mouth the words to his mother who sat in the front row next to the sister of Jose Guadalupe Vasquez the man he killed Damaged house getting new roof Pam house that caved in after the explosion of her house June 18 is getting a new roof thanks to a lot of generous local folks A Methodist youth group began Saturday clearing debris from the damaged Flour Bluff home in the 900 block of Green-bay Drive Three contractors a former city inspector and a dozen roofers and framers offered to work for free Sept 5 The only hitch was coming up with the estimated $565750 in materials to reroof the house Last week Mike Clark an owner and manager of Roofing Supply Corpus ChristC offered to donate and deliver shingles15 rolls of roofing felt and nails for the job about a $4000 value can help this lady Clark said was an innocent victim of a horrible tragedy" The explosion killed three people in her neigh- home and police determined it was inten- tionaL flow TO DONATE -a A Pam Lundmark Fire Relief Fund has been established at First National Bank 9517 Padre Island Drive -V Corpus Christ! building maln-tanance official MarkSctiuman -(right) takes yfterans and concerned residents on 4 tour Monday MOVOIMflBNEflOMlWV "-i tmmvmnm i vJ- 7--'V fi Group tours wants to -W: A group of people hop-' ing to restore Memorial Coliseum and return the memorial plaque to the i front toured the timated the coliseum needs between $7 million and $11 -million in upgrades to bring it up to building code The city is considering four prp-buikfing front toured the posals fig the biiikiing Lundmark 62 was sitting in a front room when the explosion collapsed her ceiling The roof in her kitchen bedroom and front room were ripped open by the blast which also blew out her front storm door Lundmark did not have the house insured The remaining lumber needs for the roof replacement total about $1700 Joey Guerra manager of on Airline Road got approval from the corporate office to discount the lumber to $1000 A Methodist rebuilding Monday morning development and also could to nrwii thm hiiMini vdfldde tO tCU th6 building down' The coliseum which opened in 1954k has been to survey the building's condition 1 The group led by veteran Rey Madrigal submitted a petition in July asking the Cfty Council to restore the building If the council act on the petition by Friday the group will receive paperwork to begin a second petition If they collect 5 percent of registered mostly vacant since 2004 when the city opened the American Bank Center and hay ibhjrinHlwj tinff Tj year the city put the bronze memorial plaque that was on the building in storage Sam Foley EESSJ GALLERY MORE PHOTOS Veteran Rey Madrigal (from left) Mark Schuman Corpus Christ! building maintenance official Robert Aguilar president of Aguilar Electric and others tour Memorial Coliseum KZTV KRIS begin merging ate Beveridge helped King reach the playoffs in 2606 A Kigtoget taa player's monger 1 XKSXDB School board 'discusses Las Brisas Energy Center 21 Beveridge died of cancer Oct 10 2008 Both stations will be operated separately as management "analyzes efficiencies and develops the best plan for all employees and the community moving according to Noble's release The parent company of Channel 10 Eagle Creek Broadcasting has been in talka to sell the license to Georgia-based SagamoreHill Broadcasting The station would sell the rest of its assets to the South Carolina-based Evening Post Company which owns KRIS The owners of KUI-TV Channel 3 the local ABC affiliate have tried to block that sale news release indicates that Eagle Creek still owns the broadcast license for KZTV Noble said upgrades are planned for Channel 10 that will enable it to broadcast in high definition Similar mergers have occurred at other stations across the country as the broadcast industry tries to cope with increased competition from cable and the Internet Hawaii recently saw three television stations merge which led to the layoffs of 68 of 190 workers Layoffs expected but no figures announced DANKBIEY lcelleydacallereom 886-4316 Layoffs hit a local television station Monday as KZTV and KRIS began merging operations The layoffs appear to affect KZTV 10 the local CBS affiliate Neither station would disclose the number E-mails to staff members at KRIS 6 the local NBC affiliate also raise the possibility of layoffs them Tim Noble president and general manager of KRIS issued a news release Monday saying that KRIS will begin managing certain services on behalf of KZTV Channel 6 has begun moving its employees into KZTVs building which Noble said will take several months He said there are no plans for further layoffs "Everything is status quo until the end of the Noble said nothing in the plan except to start making a plan" 5-0 to rename the baseball field after Matt Beveridge 20 Trustees Willie Perez and Lucy Rubio were absent am very appreciative of this and it is wonderful of the school board to do Garry Beveridge father said "There were a lot of people who wanted this and it is an honor for my Beveridge an outfielder was diagnosed with anaplastic large T-cell lym- fihoma on July 24 2006 ess than three months after helping King reach the playoffs He earned first team all-district honors and a spot on the All-Metro (second) and All-South Texas (third) teams The illness forced Beveridge to miss his senior season at King but he returned to the diamond in the summer of 2007 with a Corpus Christ! Parks and Recreation Connie Mack team A ceremony to dedicate the field in honor of Beveridge who died Oct 10 2008 has not yet been scheduled 0uHarBOcallefcom 886-3678 CCISD trustees voted Monday to rename the King High School baseball field after a former King player who died of cancer The Corpus Christ! Independent School District trustees on Monday voted i'eseAvaiiaJsJe Copy.