A church in south Montgomery County will be welcoming an anti-trafficking event next week which organizers are asking the community to attend to inform themselves on the issue. The Montgomery County Coalition Against Human Trafficking will host the event 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at The Woodlands United Methodist Church, located at 2200 Lake Woodlands. MCCAHT is a coalition made up of government and private organizations that act as a link between survivors of trafficking and the community. The event will feature a panel of six including Assistant …

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PHOTOS: Imelda soaks southeast Texas Conroe Police Detective Jason Waller and Conroe resident Lance Massey worked together to rescue a man who mistakenly drove into floodwater at Loop 336 and Frazier Street where his vehicle quickly became submerged with an elderly man still inside. >>>See more for scenes from Tropical Storm Imelda… Conroe Police Chief Jeff Christy took the opportunity last week to recognize several officers and a citizen who risked their own safety to rescue motorists during rising flood water as Tropical Storm Imelda pushed through Montgomery County. During …

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Am I the only one who questions the conventional approach to punishing this type of terrible criminal? Just think about a return to corporal punishment for the first offense. After being a fugitive for a month, a 36-year-old Houston man on Friday was sentenced in Montgomery County to 20 years in prison for trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Joshua Andrew Jones pleaded guilty to online solicitation of a minor. The sentencing, imposed by district court Judge Phil Grant, is the maximum. Jones will be eligible for parole …

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The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office along with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office are investigating an early morning shooting that left one man dead. According to Assistant District Attorney Donna Berkey, a man and his son were at a business on Texas 105 near Chrystal Forest Drive when they heard class breaking around 2 a.m. Wednesday. “(The business owner) had been burglarized before so he locked his son inside the went out to check what was happening,” Berkey said. Once outside, the business owner was confronted by a man with …

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A jury found former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder, but she has yet to be sentenced. When a white ex-Dallas police officer recounted her thinking as she fired the two shots that killed an innocent black man in his own living room last year, she told a jury it was fear, not racism, that drove her to pull the trigger. “This is not about hate,” she testified in court Friday. “It’s about being scared.” But after a jury convicted Amber Guyger, 31, of murder Tuesday, prosecutors introduced …

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This photo provided by Harris County Sheriff’s Office shows Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal. ((Harris County Sheriff’s Office via Associated Press)) CYPRESS, TX — The funeral services for slain Harris County sheriff’s deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal will take place Wednesday at the Berry Center in Cypress. The religious ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. and the law enforcement ceremony will be held at 11:30 a.m. Both services are open to the public dependent on how much space is available. Doors for the ceremony opened at 9:30 a.m. The spillover location for the services is …

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0 Comments Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 2 (Summer 2019) full issue. ABSTRACT: This Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed, was given at the Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute on March 22, 2019. Coined by Ross Douthat of the New York Times , woke capitalism refers to a burgeoning wave of companies that apparently have become advocates of social justice. The newly “woke” corporations now support activist groups and social movements, while adding their voices to political debates. How can we understand …

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