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Sept. 7, 2012 Copperas Cove Leader-Press Page3A
Photos by LARRY HAUK
A trail of broken fences marks the path a driver took early Monday morning. In addition to the fences, two parked vehicles
were also hit. Shanon Eugene Washington-Hester was arrested a block over after trying to leave the scene. Below, a vehi-
cle was still in a yard on 1st Street Wednesday.
Wild ride leads to charges
Washington-
Hester
By MIKAYLA MONDRAGON
Staff writer
A 23-year-old Copperas Cove
man was arrested Monday morning
in the 200 block of North Second
Street after a brief attempt to flee
police.
At 1:34 a.m., officers were dis-
patched to the 700 block of South
First Street. When officers arrived on
scene they immediately noticed a
path of recent damage, ft was appar-
ent a motor vehicle had driven
through residents’ yards, damaging
two parked vehicles and fences.
After following a fluid trail from the
scene, officers came upon an aban-
doned Honda Accord that was still
running.
The officers were soon advised
that the vehicle was registered to
Shanon Eugene Washington-Hester.
Officers located Hester near the 200
block of South Second Street. After
the pursuing officers identified
themselves, Hester ran and was soon
apprehended and taken into custody.
Hester is being charged with
driving while intoxicated, evading
arrest, failure to meet requirements
on striking a highway fixture or
landscaping, and two counts of fail-
ure to meet requirements on striking
an unattended vehicle consisting of
damages over $200.
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‘Introspection’
art exhibit
opens at CTC
The Central Texas College
(CTC) Fine Arts Department
announced its first art exhibit
of the fall semester will open
Monday in the upstairs art
gallery of the campus library.
“Introspection” is a collec-
tion of airbrush paintings on
canvas by local artist Rhea
Brown. A graduate of CTC,
Brown currently works as an
art instructor and her work has
been featured in numerous
group and solo exhibitions
across central Texas.
Brown uses abstract
images to depict real-life expe-
riences based on other people’s
stories as well as her own. “I
am intrigued by the stories of
people who have overcome and
who step out into the world
with ambitious hearts,” said
Brown. “Initially, I painted
more conformed and realistic
portraits that illustrated mirac-
ulous experiences in my own
life. Eventually I started
requesting other people submit
written stories about miracles
that had happened in their
lives, and I turned them into
more abstract and exaggerated
works of art. Those pieces then
grew into deeper explorations
of my own mind and thoughts.”
Believing the presentation
of the work is just as conducive
to expressing the message as
the actual painting, Brown con-
tinues to explore many artistic
mediums in her work. In
“Introspection” she uses air-
brush technique with acrylic
and oil paints. She also uses
embellishments of metal and
stone.
Brown’s work has been
recognized with numerous
awards in area art competitions
with the most recent a second
place finish in the Killeen Civic
Art Guild Spring Art Competi-
tion. In 2010 her work was
selected to adorn the cover of
Byways: The CTC Journal of
Arts and Literature. In addition
to working as an art instructor,
Brown currently serves as the
manager of the Cordovan Art
School in Harker Heights.
“Introspection” will be
free and open to the public dur-
ing normal library hours
through Oct. 15. CTC will host
a meet the artist reception on
Tuesday, Sept. 25, in the library
art gallery at 6 p.m. The recep-
tion is also free and open to the
public.
CTAS public star
parties in September
Public star parties will be
hosted by the Central Texas
Astronomical Society Satur-
da, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
at Overlook Park outside Bel-
ton, the Waco Wetlands out-
side Waco and at the Hubbard
City Lakes Park in Hubbard.
These events are free and
open to the public. CTAS
members will provide tele-
scopes for public viewing.
Guests are also welcome to
bring their own telescopes.
For evening observers,
this area says goodbye to Sat-
urn this month as it sets in the
west a few hours after sunset.
It will pass behind the sun in
late October and begin to
show up in pre-dawn
skies. Neptune and Uranus are
currently visible all night.
Uranus reaches opposition
and peak visibility in late Sep-
tember.
The Ring Nebula (M57)
is a distinctive ring of ionized
gas expelled by a red giant
star. The Hercules Cluster
(Ml3) is a globular cluster of
about 300,000 stars, located
in the constellation Hercules.
M13 is 135 light years in
diameter and 25,000 light
years from the earth. Messier
15 (Ml5) is another globular
cluster located in Pegasus.
Ml5 is 175 light years in
diameter and contains more
than 100,000 stars.
CTAS will look at these
and many other celestial
objects this month. Check the
web site,http://www.centexas-
tronomy.org,for directions to
the sites and for more infor-
mation. If this event is can-
celed due to weather, a cance-
lation notice will be posted by
6 p.m. on the CTAS website.
Register online for this event
and receive monthly notices
of future events.
Judge orders Hasan to shave
By the Associated Press
FORT HOOD - A mili-
tary judge says the Army psy-
chiatrist charged in the 2009
Fort Hood shooting rampage
must be clean-shaven or will
be forcibly shaved before his
murder trial.
Col. Gregory Gross
issued the official order Thurs-
day after a hearing to deter-
mine whether a federal reli-
gious freedom law applied to
Major Nidal Hasan's case.
Hasan says he grew his
beard because his Muslim faith requires it.
Army regulations ban beards.
Gross ruled the defense didn't prove that
Hasan is growing a beard for sincere reli-
gious reasons.
Gross also says his order triggers anoth-
er delay in all proceedings related to Hasan's
trial because his attorneys plan to appeal.
Hasan faces the death penalty if convict-
ed of 13 counts of premeditated murder in the
November 2009 attack on the Texas Anny
post.
■ Judge in video beating gets
warning from panel
HOUSTON - A state commission has
issued a "public warning'' against a South
Texas judge who's already been suspended
after a years-old video surfaced showing him
beating his
teenage daughter.
The effect of
the warning
released Thursday
against Aransas
County Court at
Law Judge
William Adams is
unclear.
The Texas
Commission on
Judicial Conduct
said in its warning
that Adams'
actions in the 2004
video cast doubt on his ability to act impar-
tially as a judge and interfered with the prop-
er performance of his duties. The video was
posted online last November by his now-
adult daughter.
The Texas Supreme Court suspended
Adams with pay and his caseload since then
has been handled by visiting judges.
■ Texas gang leader pleads
guilty in drug case
HOUSTON - The leader of a notorious
street gang has pleaded guilty in a South
Texas case of protecting drug lords and their
loads.
Federal prosecutors in Houston on
Thursday announced Jeffrey Juarez of Sugar
Land pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess
with intent to distribute cocaine and Ecstasy.
The 35-year-old Juarez faces up to 10
years in prison when he's sentenced Dec. 18.
The fonner leader of the Tri-City Bombers
could also be fined as much as $4 million. He
remains in custody.
Juarez was among 13 suspected gang
members indicted in February 2011 over
operations in the McAllen area since 2008.
Eleven co-defendants have pleaded guilty
and await sentencing.
■ Texas to seek No Child Left
Behind waiver
AUSTIN - Texas says it will seek a
wavier from the U.S. Department of Educa-
tion to avoid federal accountability standards
imposed by the No Child Left Behind law.
The state had been one of 11 nationwide
not to seek reprieve from some mandates of
the law. Education officials said they were
reluctant because they feared the federal gov-
ernment might eventually impose a national
curriculum.
But the Teas Education Agency posted
notice online Thursday saying it intends to
seek the wavier. The decision comes just five
days after new education commissioner
Michael Williams took his post.
Recent state statistics showed that nearly
half of Texas' public and charter schools
failed to meet No Child Left Behind account-
ability standards, which are getting progres-
sively more rigorous annually.
That's a sharp increase from previous
years.
Major Nidal Hasan with and with-
out the beard. A judge has
ordered him to shave, which could
delay the trial for another month.
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Olive Garden, Red Lobster
workers sue company
By CURT ANDERSON
AP legal affairs writer
MIAMI - Darden Restaurants violated federal labor laws
by underpaying thousands of servers across the country at
Olive Garden, LongHom Steakhouse, Red Lobster and other
eateries, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of the
workers.
The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court seeks to collec-
tively represent current and past employees who worked for
Darden from August 2009 to the present, ft seeks potentially
tens of millions of dollars in back pay and other compensation,
plus interest and attorney fees, said lead lawyer David Lichter.
"Darden has a companywide pattern and practice of pay-
ing its employees below minimum wage and less than what the
law requires* Lichter said. "We're seeking not only to correct
the wrongs that have occurred at Darden, but hopefully this
will stimulate change across the country."
Darden spokesman Rich Jeffers said the allegations in the
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