Octavia Boyd sits in her backyard, wiping tears and scrolling through pictures and videos from her mother’s happiest times.
There’s one of 68-year-old Rose Davis from not long ago, sliding across her carpeted living room floor dancing to R&B. In another, she’s showing off a fashionable Sunday church hat. And in a throwback, Davis is dressed in a white starched uniform decades ago, carrying a medicine tray at one of several Central Texas hospitals and nursing homes where she spent her 40-plus year nursing career.
“She was a beautiful person,” Boyd said, “always laughing, always telling jokes.”
City of Cedar Park names Michael Harmon police chief
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Chief Michael Harmon will begin his new position on May 29 and says he is looking forward to his new role. I would like to thank the City of Cedar Park for their confidence in my leadership throughout the past 15 months, and especially through the Chief s selection process. I also want to thank my officers, command staff, and civilian personnel for their support and encouragement over the past years, Harmon said. I plan to extend my focus on the critically important issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity that will strengthen our mission to serve the people who live, work, and play in Cedar Park. Together we have worked hard to serve our community with honor and I am incredibly proud to take on this new role and to call Cedar Park my home!
A top political aide to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was arrested and released from jail Friday after allegations that he stole money from.
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By - Associated Press - Friday, May 7, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top political aide to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was arrested and released from jail Friday after allegations that he stole money from investors looking to join the state’s new hemp industry.
Todd Smith is charged with third-degree felony theft, according to court records. He is a longtime political consultant to Miller, whose department issues licenses to grow hemp, which became legal in Texas in 2019.
Both Smith and a spokesperson for Miller did not immediately return messages.
Texas political consultant accused in scheme to swap money, campaign contributions for hemp permits
Todd M. Smith, who was arrested Thursday, is a political consultant for state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Dried hemp plants are sorted and trimmed at Hepworth Farms in Milton, N.Y., Monday, April 12, 2021. Farmers dealing with depressed prices for plants that produce CBD extract are eager to take part in a statewide marijuana market expected to generate billions of dollars a year once retail sales start. They already know how to grow and process cannabis plants, since hemp is essentially the same plant with lower levels of THC, marijuana s active ingredient. Now they re waiting on rules that will allow them to switch seeds. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)(Seth Wenig)