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Corpus Christi City Council return to their original chambers The are beginning to enforce rules of decorum that have gone unenforced for some time One of the rules limits what people can say during public comment
Corpus Christi City Council has returned to their original chambers in city hall after months of renovations. With the return, council begins enforcing a rule that's been on the books for decades.
After receiving feedback from residents about not enforcing rules, city council is educating the public on ordinances that have been in place for decades, but not enforced by the council.
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Former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried faces the potential of decades in prison when he is sentenced Thursday for his role in the 2022 collapse of FTX, once one of the world's most popular platforms for trading digital currency.
Bankman-Fried, 32, was convicted in November of fraud and conspiracy a dramatic fall from a year earlier when he and his companies seemed to be riding a crest of success that resulted in a Super Bowl advertisement and celebrity endorsements from stars like quarterback Tom Brady and comedian Larry David.
A jury found that Bankman-Fried illegally used ..read more
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A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.
The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog.
Controlled remotely by state troopers, it first checked the two main floors before finding someone in the basement. The person, armed with a rifle, twice knocked over the robotic dog b ..read more
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It's been a little over 48 hours since the horrific collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, that claimed at least six lives. Now the question revolves around how quickly funding will become available to start the rebuilding process and reopening of the busy port.
President Joe Biden has promised that the federal government will cover the entire cost of reconstructing the bridge. And this isn't the first time that Congress has been forced to act after a disaster like this.
In 2007, when a major bridge collapsed near Minneapolis, lawmakers quickly passed legisl ..read more
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It's the one day on the baseball calendar where fans of even the most hapless clubs have hope. Thursday marks the start of MLB's 2024 season.
All 30 MLB teams were scheduled to play today, but some of those games will not occur. The Mets opener with the Brewers and the Phillies premiere versus the Braves were both pushed to Friday due to a persistent rain storm on the East Coast.
For two MLB teams the Padres and Dodgers they already have a win and a loss in the standings. MLB sent the two California clubs to Korea for a two-game regular season series. The games marked the ninth tim ..read more
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The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent "routine engine maintenance" in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search efforts had been exhausted.
Investigators began collecting evidence from the vessel a day after it struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bodies of the two men were located in the morning inside a red pickup submerged in about 25 feet (7.6 meters) of water near the bridge's m ..read more
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Wednesday marked 37 consecutive Powerball drawings without a winner, causing the jackpot for Saturday's drawing to reach $935 million, the fifth-largest in the lottery's history.
The last time someone hit all six numbers in a Powerball drawing was on New Year's Day.
On Wednesday, the numbers drawn were white balls 37, 46, 57, 60, 66 and red Powerball 8. The odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 292 million.
Powerball also has prizes ranging from $4 to $2 million, and the odds of winning a smaller prize are about 1 in 25. There were nearly 1.7 million winning tickets for ..read more
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The Corpus Christi Tritons are back at the American Bank Center this weekend for their second home game in franchise history. The Tritons won the first, an exhibition game, 50-18. Then they earned a forfeit victory on the road in their first American Indoor Football official league game.
"They're figuring out the system that we're running because we've got a lot of rookies," Bradly Chavez, Tritons football head coach. "I think they're learning the field and where you can be in the spots on the field, so I've been very pleased with them and it will only continue to get better."
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Islanders baseball went back to work Wednesday after defeating the University of Texas at Austin 4-1. This season the Islanders started a new tradition after winning a series, taking a selfie. Not a bad way to make memories.
"Everybody was talking about we need this selfie," Christian Smith-Johnson said. "We need this selfie. Man they don't know about the other 15 selfies we've taken. We've got plenty."
A victory worth celebrating, but staying balanced in emotions. A skill Corpus Christi head coach Scott Malone says his guys have done well this season.
"We know that we can hang," Smith-Johnson ..read more
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The music producer who sued Sean "Diddy" Combs for sexual assault and other crimes last month has added another public figure to his lawsuit: Cuba Gooding Jr.
Though Gooding's name was mentioned in the February filing, Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones officially amended his federal complaint to add the actor as a co-defendant Monday the same day federal agents raided two of Combs' homes, reportedly as part of a sex-trafficking investigation.
It's not clear whether the federal investigation has a direct connection to Jones' suit, which alleged sex trafficking as one crime against Co ..read more