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AKINS LAWSUIT SERVED ON 16

7.27.10

KSHN RADIO, ITS OWNER – TRINITY RIVER VALLEY BROADCASTING , CORPORATE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER BILL BUCHANAN WERE ALL OFFICIALLY SERVED LAST FRIDAY WITH  DOCUMENTS ON A CIVIL LAWSUIT FILED IN U. S DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT. THE LAW SUIT WAS FILED AGAINST 16 DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND GOVERNMENT ENTITIES   BY FREDERICK RAY AKINS BELIEVED TO STILL HAVE RESIDENCE  NEAR DAYTON. IN THE PAST HE HAS RECEIVED HIS MAIL IN ATASCOSITA, AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE ,OR FORMERLY HAD,  TEMPORARY RESIDENCE IN PORTLAND OREGON. THE LAW SUIT SPELLS OUT VARIOUS ALLEGED CIVIL OFFENSES AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF,  FREDRICK RAY AKINS. THIS RADIO STATION IS ACCUSED OF LIBEL, SLANDER, AND DEFAMATION.  THE FEDERAL LAWSUIT DOCUMENT WAS REPORTEDLY FILED BACK ON JUNE 8^TH BUT KSHN RADIO DID NOT REPORT IT, UNTIL NOW, BECAUSE KSHN RADIO WAS NOT SERVED AND DID NOT RECEIVE NOTICE OF THE SUIT UNTIL LAST FRIDAY.  KSHN RADIO PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER BILL BUCHANAN SAID THE PLAINTIFF, RAY AKINS, HAS THREATENED THIS RADIO STATION WITH LEGAL ACTION ON FIVE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS AND THIS RADIO STATION HAS A POLICY OF NOT REPORTING ON ANY STORY UNTIL FACTS CAN BE CONFIRMED. THE LEGAL SERVICE OF THE SUIT CAME LAST FRIDAY AND WAS REPEATED BY REGISTERED MAIL ON SATURDAY.  ALSO NAMED IN THE FEDERAL CIVIL LAWSUIT  IS LIBERTY COUNTY, COUNTY JUDGE PHIL FITZGERALD IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY,. SHERIFF HENRY PATTERSON - IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY. THE LIBERTY  COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT  AND ITS EMPLOYEES. COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS ALSO KNOWN AS CIVIGENICS, WHO OPERATES THE COUNTY JAIL UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY. ALSO SUED BY AKINS IS WARDEN OF THE JAIL TIMOTHY NEW. THE HARTMAN NEWSPAPERS WHICH THE SUIT CALLS OWNER OF THE ANAHUAC PROGRESS, AND ITS REPORTER THERESA JOE BARRETT. THE LIBERTY VINDICATOR WAS SUED – BUT IT  SHOULD BE NOTED THAT MORE THAN ONE OF THE PEOPLE OR COMPANIES NAMED IN THE SUED WERE INCORRECTLY NAMED. THE SUED NAMES HARTMAN NEWSPAPERS AS OWNING THE VINDICATOR AND PROGRESS – BUT BOTH THE LIBERTY AND ANAHUAC NEWSPAPERS HAVE BEEN OWNED BY GRANITE PUBLISHERS SINCE 2006. WHILE THE ACCUSATIONS MADE IN THE LEGAL ACTION DEAL WITH EVENTS OF 2009.. ALSO SUED, BESIDES KSHN RADIO, IS THE WEBSITE KNOWN AS I-DINE OUT AND ITS PUBLISHER ALLEN YOUNGBLOOD, ANOTHER DEFENDANT IS  COMMUNITY PUBLISHERS AND ITS MANAGER   PAUL CAMPBELL OF BUFFALO MISSOURI.  BUFFALO MISSOURI IS WHERE RAY AKINS LIVED BEFORE MOVING TO LIBERTY COUNTY FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO. THAT IS WHEN HE BEGAN PUBLISHING A CONSERVATIVE BUT CONTROVERSIAL INTERNET BLOG.   MOST OF THE CLAIMS AGAINST THIS  RADIO STATION, PLUS NEWSPAPERS IN LIBERTY COUNTY AND IN MISSOURI, AND THE WEBSITE, OTHER THAN HIS OWN,  WERE BASED ON NEWS REPORTS AFTER AKINS WAS INDICTED AND ARRESTED ON FELONY CHARGES. HE ALSO TOOK ISSUE WITH NEWS REPORTS AIRED AND PRINTED ON A CIVIL SUIT IN WHICH HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT  COURT RULINGS WENT AGAINST MR. AKINS.  THAT CIVIL SUIT CAME PRIOR TO THE CRIMINAL ARREST ON OTHER ISSUES...SOME ACCUSATIONS AGAINST KSHN RADIO AND THE I DINE OUT WEBSITE HAD TO DO WITH REPORTS ON AKINS HEALTH AND COMPLAINTS OF MISTREATMENT WHILE BEING HELD IN JAIL. THAT INFORMATION ON KSHN RADIO WAS GLEANED FROM AND CREDITED TO THE CLEVELAND ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER. KSHN EFFORTS TO TALK TO AKINS WENT UNANSWERED SO OUR NEWS STORIES WERE TAKEN FROM INFORMATION HE REPORTEDLY PROVIDED TO THE  CLEVELAND ADVOCATE. NEWSPAPER, A PART OF THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER CHAIN. THAT CHAIN NOR THE NEWSPAPER IN CLEVELAND WERE SUED BY RAY AKINS. HE ALSO REFERRED TO OTHER KSHN NEWS REPORTS WHERE WE QUOTED OTHER SOURCES THAT HE SAYS LIBELED AND SLANDERED HIM. LIBERTY COUNTY GOVERNMENT WAS SUED FOR ALLEGED MISTREATMENT WHILE HE WAS IN JAIL PRIOR TO BEING RELEASED ON $100,000 BOND- HE REMAINS FREE ON BOND FOR THOSE CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS. HE ALSO ACCUSED NEWS MEDIA REPORTS BEING THE REASON FOR HIS BOND BEING SET HIGHER THAN HIS CO-DEFENDANT IN THE CRIMINAL CHARGES.  THE COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, AKA KNOWN AS CIVIGENICS, WAS NAMED IN THE SUIT FOR THE CONDITIONS OF HIS ACCOMMODATIONS AND HIS TREATMENT WHILE BEING HELD AT THE LIBERTY COUNTY JAIL AND THE FOOD HE WAS SERVED BEFORE BEING RELEASED ON BOND. AGAIN, CONTROVERSIAL INTERNET BLOGGER, FREDRICK RAY AKINS – HAS FILED SUIT IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT AGAINST 16 DIFFERENT, CORPORATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES, AND SELECTED NEWS MEDIA - INCLUDING KSHN RADIO- FOR REPORTING ON FELONY CHARGES LODGED AGAINST, HIM, FOR REPORTS ON HIS HEALTH AFTER HE COMPLAINED TO A CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER ABOUT BEING MISTREATED IN JAIL.  SOME OF THOSE DEFENDANTS NAMED HAVE BEEN SERVED WITH THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT LAWSUIT ON FRIDAY BUT SOME NAMED SAY THEY ARE YET TO BE SERVED. NO AMOUNT FOR   DAMAGES WAS MENTIONED IN THE LAWSUIT OTHER THAN TO ASK FOR THE LIMIT ALLOWED BY THE COURT’S FEDERAL JURISDICTION. AKINS REMAINS FREE ON $100,000.BOND ON FELONY CHARGES.  AT THE TIME OF OUR INITIAL REPORTS IN JULY OF 09 SHERIFF HENRY PATTERSON HAD TOLD ALL NINE NEWS HE WAS YET TO RECEIVE A SIGNED COMPLAINT FROM RAY AKINS.   ON MONDAY SHERIFF PATTERSON SAID HE HAD NOT YET BEEN SERVED WITH THE LAWSUIT ALLEGING MISTREATMENT BY THE SHERIFF BUT HE ALSO IS YET TO GET A SIGNED COMPLAINT OF THAT ALLEGED MISTREATMENT AT THE JAIL.  THE SHERIFF SAID A SIGNED COMPLAINT IS THE LYNCH PIN TO START AN INVESTIGATION INTO AKINS COMPLAINT OF ABUSE AT THE LIBERTY COUNTY JAIL. . . 

KENEFICK MAN DEAD

LOCAL NEWS

07/27/10

A KENEFICK MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A SINGLE VEHICLE WRECK ON HWY 90 SUNDAY NIGHT. DAYTON POLICE SGT. DOUG O’QUINN SAID 25-YEAR-OLD RICHARD MUSSER WAS WESTBOUND ON HWY 90 ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF DAYTON WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE. SGT. O’QUINN SAID A WITNESS TO THE ACCIDENT TOLD POLICE IT APPEARED THE MAN SWERVED OFF THE ROADWAY, THEN OVERCORRECTED TRYING TO GET BACK ON. RICHARD MUSSER’S VEHICLE THEN SKIDDED OFF THE ROAD AGAIN, STRIKING A TREE. PRECINCT #4 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE GLENN PRUITT ORDERED AN AUTOPSY PERFORMED, BUT DAYTON POLICE SGT. DOUG O’QUINN SAID THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN THE CAR. AGAIN, RICHARD MUSSER, 25 OF THE KENEFICK AREA IS DEAD AFTER A HIS VEHICLE STRUCK A TREE OFF HWY 90 NEAR FM 1413 SUNDAY NIGHT. NO ONE ELSE WAS INVOLVED IN THE FATAL WRECK. 

DAYTON VS. PARK APARTMENTS ON HOLD 

LOCAL NEWS

07/27/2010

BACK IN APRIL WE REPORTED THE DAYTON CITY COUNCIL HAD DECIDED TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION OVER A LONG RUNNING DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE OWNERS OF THE DAYTON PARK APARTMENTS. THAT DISAGREEMENT IS ON HOLD AT THE MOMENT, PENDING A HEARING BEFORE 75^TH DISTRICT COURT JUDGE C. T. “RUSTY” HIGHT COMING ON DECEMBER 1^ST. AS REPORTED, DAYTON CITY OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO SWITCH TO WHAT IS CALLED A MASTER WATER METER FOR THE APARTMENT COMPLEX. CURRENTLY, EACH APARTMENT HAS ITS OWN WATER METER AND THE CITY OF DAYTON BILLS EACH TENANT FOR USAGE. CITY MANAGER DAVID DOUGLAS SAID USING THE SINGLE MASTER WATER METER WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT. THE CITY WOULD BILL THE APARTMENT COMPLEX OWNERS, WHO WOULD PASS ON THE PRICE OF THE WATER TO THEIR TENANTS. MR. DOUGLAS SAID COUNCIL HAS ADOPTED AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING ALL NEW APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND MANUFACTURED HOME PARKS TO USE THE MASTER METER SYSTEMS. THE CITY HAS ALSO BEEN PUSHING TO HAVE EXISTING HOUSING FACILITIES TO MAKE THE SWITCH AS WELL. HOWEVER, DAYTON CITY ATTORNEY RANDY GUNTER SAID THE APARTMENT COMPLEX OWNERS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR MORE AND MORE TIME TO REDO THEIR TENANTS’ LEASE AGREEMENTS TO ACCOMMODATE THE CHANGE IN BILLING. WHEN CITY OFFICIALS INSTALLED THE MASTER METER AND INFORMED THE DAYTON PARK APARTMENT OWNERS OF THEIR INTENTION TO TURN IT ON, THE APARTMENT OWNERS ACQUIRED A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER TO PREVENT THE CITY FROM MAKING THAT SWITCHOVER. DAYTON CITY MANAGER DAVID DOUGLAS SAID A HEARING ON THE ORDER WAS HELD ON JULY 9^TH. JUDGE HIGHT SAID HE WAS NOT YET PREPARED TO RULE ON THE DISAGREEMENT AND SET ANOTHER HEARING FOR DECEMBER. MEANWHILE, THE 75^TH DISTRICT JUDGE ORDERED THE STATUS QUO TO BE MAINTAINED WITH THE CITY BILLING EACH INDIVIDUAL APARTMENT SEPARATELY.   CITY MANAGER DAVID DOUGLAS SAID IN THE EVENT DECEMBER 1^ST HEARING SHOULD GO AGAINST THE CITY, DAYTON COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD BE MEETING WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DISCUSS THEIR LEGAL OPTIONS.           

LIBERTY TO BE MERCY-LESS

LOCAL NEWS

07/27/10

WORK BEGAN YESTERDAY TO DEMOLISH THE OLD MERCY HOSPITAL BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN LIBERTY, THOUGH NOT WITHOUT SOME COMPLICATIONS. AS REPORTED, A. A. R. INC. IS THE COMPANY CONTRACTED TO BRING THE OLD 1930 FACILITY TO THE GROUND AS PART OF A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LIBERTY’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARM- THE L.C.D.C., PLUS LIBERTY COUNTY AND THE LIBERTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. IN ADDITION TO REMOVING THE FOUR STORY BRICK BUILDING, THE COMPANY WILL ALSO CLEAR THE SITE. THE THREE TAX ENTITIES BECAME THE OLD BUILDINGS DE FACTO OWNERS WHEN IT WAS SEIZED FOR UNPAID TAXES. ALL THREE ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT INSPECTOR ON THE SCENE TO MAKE SURE THE WORK IS DONE ACCORDING TO STATE PERMIT STANDARDS. THAT JOB BELONGS TO CONSULTANT ASHLEY GRANGER OF VISION ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING INC. IN A LIVE BROADCAST, MR. GRANGER EXPLAINED THE STEPS IN DEMOLISHING THE UNSAFE STRUCTURE AND THE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO CONTAIN THE SUBSEQUENT CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS.

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ACCORDING TO CONSULTANT ASHLEY GRANGER, THE STATE ALLOWED THE OLD MERCY HOSPITAL TO BE TORN DOWN WITHOUT ASBESTOS REMEDIATION SINCE IT HAS BEEN DEEMED UNSAFE. THAT LOWERED THE PRICE OF THE DEMOLITION PROJECT SIGNIFICANTLY. ONE ROAD BUMP ENCOUNTERED BY THE DEMOLITION CREW YESTERDAY CAME WHEN A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN WATER MAIN WAS DISCOVERED INSIDE THE BUILDING. ALL OF THE WATER LINES OUTSIDE THE MERCY HOSPITAL HAD BEEN CAPPED OFF AS PLANNED, BUT THE ONE INSIDE TO FIRE HYDRANTS WAS BROKEN RESULTING IN A 30 FOOT GEYSER OF WATER IN THE AIR FOR CITY CREWS TO REPAIR IN ABOUT 90 MINUTES. YESTERDAY, A LARGE PORTION OF THE MERCY HOSPITAL – THE ENTIRE FRONT SECTION, FORMERLY CALLED THE LIBERTY HOSPITAL, ON TRAVIS STREET IN LIBERTY CAME DOWN. LIBERTY CITY MANAGER GARY BROZ ESTIMATED BY LATE THURSDAY, THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE WILL BE DOWN. THE DEMOLITION OF THE BUILDING AND CLEARING OF THE SITE IS EXPECTED TO TAKE 15 TO 20 DAYS TO COMPLETE. ONCE THAT IS DONE, THE SITE WILL BE SOLD WITH HALF OF THE PROCEEDS GOING TO THE LIBERTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND THE BALANCE DIVIDED EVENLY BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE LISD.    

community garden

news story

07.27.10

a reminder, THE liberty community garden is PLANNING A WORKDAY this SATURDAY FROM 7 A.M. TO NOON. THE GROUP’S PRESIDENT, TRACY WILLIAMS, SAID VOLUNTEERS and supplies ARE NEEDED TO HELP BRING THIS GARDEN TO FRUITION.

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the idea of the community garden is being pushed hard by local state farm agent tracy williams through her capacity as liberty rotary club president. THE community GARDEN IDEA now includes texas agrilife extension service, LIBERTY ISD, AND THE CITY OF LIBERTY. OTHERS INVOLVED ARE THE liberty county master gardeners, THE liberty garden club, LANGETREE DUCK FARM, AMERICORPS/VISTA, AND MANY INDIVIDUALS. plans call for 58 planting plots OR SPACES measuring 4 by 8 feet each. individuals or groups can rent a garden space for $50 a year or $30 for a six-month growing season. THAT INCLUDES A READY-TO-PLANT BED AND WATER. in addition, each liberty school campus will get two plots to use for educational purposes. TRACY WILLIAMS SAID ABOUT 20 OF THOSE BEDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RESERVED. now, volunteers are invited to this WORKDAY planned SATURDAY FROM 7 A.M. TO NOON AT THE GARDEN SITE – THAT’S AT THE CORNER OF GRAND AVENUE AND TEXAS IN LIBERTY – best known as the old san jacinto school campus. FOR INFORMATION, CALL SANDY AT THE LIBERTY COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE AT 936-336-4558, EXT 221.

hit and run

news story

07.27.10

cleveland police have identified the victim of saturday MORNING’S hit-and-run fatality as cleveland resident katie moore. cleveland police DEPARTMENT received a 9-1-1 call shortly after 1:30 a.m. saturday reporting a woman’s body lying in a ditch along highway 105 just west of fm 1725. police quickly determined the woman was deceased - the victim of an auto-PEDESTRIAN accident. according to a press release from cleveland’s assistant police chief darrel broussard, katie moore had been arguing with her husband and went for a walk along state highway 105. prior to the accident, the victim called her husband to pick her up. it was he who reportedly discovered his wife’s body a few minutes later in a ditch after seeing some of her possessions along the roadway. assistant chief broussard said the man flagged down a passerby who called authorities. cleveland police say there were no witnesses or suspects at the time of the accident, but later saturday morning a person did contact cleveland pd about the fatal accident. no other information, including that person’s name, has been released. again, cleveland police have identified the victim of saturday morning’s hit-and-run accident as katie moore of CLEVELAND. she is said to be in her 20s. the fatal accident remains under investigation.

dayton trading post

news story

07.27.10

those who have driven through dayton on highway 90 lately have surely noticed the new rock and electronic sign marking the entrance to dayton trading post on the east end of town. the business’ owner, larry lambright, said he and his son, jeff, erected the – get this - 48-ton rock entrance with the aid of a forklift.

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dayton trading post is a home décor and garden center that offers a wide selection of items. inside the gift store, there’s jewelry, wall hangings, decorative pieces, candles and much more. outside, dayton trading post has merchandise for a home’s LANDSCAPING, from dirt, soil and mulch to outdoor furniture, garden statues, fountains and fire pits. they also carry a wide variety of types and sizes of rocks. truth be told, they carry much more than can be listed here – so it’s best to see for yourself. dayton trading post is located at the top of the hill on highway 90 in dayton. they’re open mondays through SATURDAYs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - just look for the very large rock and electronic sign marking the entrance to their 2 ½ acre location.