Rail Expansion Coming to Port of Victoria
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Sean has a story shared by the Victoria Advocate about a grant that has been secured for the Port of Victoria, and it is about to have a big impact on South Texas. While Sean jokes that some residents who have lived here a long time are surprised to hear Victoria has a port, it s about to expand thanks to a $6 million federal grant.
Sean s story in the Advocate highlights the already impressive 3000-mile shipping route along the coast thanks to the Victoria Barge Canal. Port of Victoria is able to provide rail access to Houston, Mexico, and Canada, and exports crude oil and many petroleums products.
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The City of Victoria has identified areas of improvement that are needed for our water systems in the Crossroads.
Victoria Economic Development Partnership meetings, which are held on Tuesdays had the opportunity to evaluate the issues the Crossroads encountered during last week s winter storms. If there is any good news that came from the angst of living a few days without water due to major leaks and issues is that it helped our city officials investigate and discover along with beginning to repair our water system.
Our mayor, Rawley McCoy offered at the Victoria Economic Development Partnership meeting that, There were a lot of valuable lessons learned, and the beginning of what we need to start doing to thoroughly analyze what impacted the failure of the system along with finding the remedies as soon as possible.
In the course of researching the outcome of every death sentence since 1973 – more than 9,600 death sentences nationwide – DPIC identified 11 cases not previously included on the innocence list in which people who had been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death were later exonerated. Read more about the cases below.
John Thomas Alford
North Carolina Conviction: 1975, Acquitted: 1976
John Thomas Alford was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975. Alford was tried with a codefendant who confessed to the murder. Alford presented evidence and witnesses that he was not at the scene of the crime, but he was not allowed to offer his codefendant’s confession as evidence of his innocence. The North Carolina Supreme Court reversed his conviction and sentence and ordered Alford be retried separately from his codefendant. At retrial, he was acquitted of all charges.
Victoria County COVID Numbers Continue to Remain High
Victoria County COVID numbers continue to remain high with the Victoria County daily dashboard showing that we are still averaging 23 plus percent of hospital capacity for COVID patients. You can see the latest Victoria County daily numbers, updated by 6 pm most evenings by clicking the dashboard here.
250 cases of COVID and
ten deaths in our community as of Thursday evening. Friday s numbers have not been released at this time, but we will continue to monitor and report those numbers.
Coincidently, the Victoria County Public Health Department also hosted its first COVID Clinic at the Victoria Community Center at 2905 E. North St on Thursday as well. The COVID-19 mass clinic was by appointment only and open for Tier 1A and Tier 1B candidates with appointments filled shortly after the appointment book was opened.
The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Marshall Project staff writer Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong. Jerry Jurek was convicted of killing 10-year-old Wendy Adams in 1973. His case went to the Supreme Court as one of several testing new death penalty laws around the country. Pictured here in 1979, left, and 2015, right. Left, Bruce Jackson; right, Maurice Chammah Looking Back at the stories about, and excerpts from, the history of criminal justice.
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The town of Cuero, halfway between San Antonio and the Gulf Coast, was small enough that a child’s disappearance would be noticed quickly. In August 1973, a little after dusk, the grandmother of 10-year-old Wendy Adams arrived to pick her up at the pool in the town park. Her clothes were still in a locker. “The child was obedient,” her grandmother later recalled, “a