WTAW News/Talk 1620

 

Look for a crowd around Bryan High School Thursday. An Eagle Scout project will be removing gum off sidewalks around the campus.

Ben Singer, who attended Bryan High last year but with a family move will be attending A&M Consolidated, has gathered an estimated 50 volunteers from around the area to assist.

Singer says more volunteers are welcomed. Gather Thursday morning at 9 at the bus parking lot outside Bryan High School.

Local restaurants and retail stores have made donations of food and tools to aid the volunteer project.

Click below to hear comments from Ben Singer and his father Steve, visiting with WTAW's Bill Oliver and Tom Turbiville.

The Brazos Valley Bombers are helping one local non-profit celebrate 30 years of service Saturday.

Click to hear WTAW's Chace Murphy talk with Executive Director Amy Reed:

Information from Keep Brazos Beautiful

Pre-Game Picnic (6:00 PM):
Come join Keep Brazos Beautiful at the Brazos Valley Bombers game on Saturday, July 31st. The picnic includes all you can eat hot dogs, hamburgers, brats, chicken sandwiches, baked beans, potato chips, soft drinks, and bottled water.

First Pitch (7:00 PM):
After the picnic, watch the game in your reserved seat in the covered grandstand.

Adults: $15/person
Children Ages 4 - 12: $6/person
Children 3 and Under: FREE

Kids receive two free games in Bombers Kid Zone

If you're not able to make the game but still want to show your support of KBB, you can purchase and donate tickets!

Ballpark location: 2200 Bomber Drive Bryan, Texas 77801

Kids will also receive a FREE pencil pouch and a chance to win a backpack full of school supplies!

Help us sell a minimum of 100 tickets and all of our guests will receive a FREE Bombers Baseball Cap and a Season Program!

Local law enforcement says thanks to all who made a contribution Tuesday night at the tip-a-cop fundraiser for Special Olympics.

Bryan Police Officer Jon Agnew says $4,979.79 came in from tips and t-shirt sales.

Next on the social calendar for Bryan Police, a softball game against firefighters Sunday afternoon ahead of the Bombers baseball game.  The Guns and Hoses softball game starts Sunday at 5.

Click below to hear comments about the softball game from Jon Agnew.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign was paying a Republican operative who helped get the Green Party on the Texas ballot.

The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday on campaign finance reports showing the campaign paid Stuart Moss for mileage while he was doing political research in November. That's the same time he helped the Green Party field candidates.

Democrats say liberal Green Party candidates could help Perry by siphoning votes away from Democrat Bill White. The Texas Democratic Party has sued the Green Party to identify the source of $532,000 that bankrolled the petition drive that made it possible for the third party to get candidates on the November ballot.

Perry spokesman Mark Miner says the governor's campaign was not involved in the Green Party petition drive.
     
     (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

HOUSTON (AP) _ A Houston father could learn his fate for the drunken-driving deaths of five children, including three of his own, who drowned after he lost control of his car and veered into a rain-swollen ditch.

A sentencing hearing with witness testimony was scheduled for Thursday in Houston for 34-year-old Chanton Jenkins. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to five counts of intoxication manslaughter.

Prosecutors say state District Judge Mary Lou Keel could issue a sentence on Thursday or hold off until next week. Jenkins could face up to life in prison.

Police say Jenkins was driving drunk and using his cell phone on the afternoon of April 18, 2009, when he lost control of his car, which went off the road and plunged into the ditch.
     
     (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

EL PASO, Texas (AP) _ A federal judge in West Texas has ruled that four Texas cities can't sue that state over its open meetings law.

In the nine-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert Junell of Pecos concluded that the cities of Alpine, Pflugerville, Rockport and Wichita Falls can't sue Texas and Attorney General Greg Abbott to overturn the state law.

The cities and more than a dozen elected officials sued Abbott and the state last year. They argued that the Texas Open Meetings Act violates the officials' First Amendment rights to free speech by barring elected officials from deliberating in secret.
     
     (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)