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ral Texas dentist accused of
exually assaulting a pris-
ner he was treating had
een out on bail for three
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“I personally think it’s an
extraordinary amount of
time,” Frasier told the
Austin American-Statesman
in Tuesday’s editions.
Hagen’s most recent ar
rest earlier this month fol
lowed an accusation that he
exposed himself on Oct. 6
to a 34-year-old woman in
his office at the Manchaca
Dental Clinic on Farm-to-
Market Road 1626.
Frasier said she believes
reports of more incidents
will surface and asked for
any patients with informa
tion to contact the sheriff’s
office.
“I would be shocked if
this is the only one,” she
said. “It would be rare for
him to re-offend and only
re-offend one person. That’s
not the pattern of sex of
fenders.”
Sheriff’s deputies, using
surveillance cameras, re
ported in September 1997
they caught Hagen on tape
fondling a female inmate
when he was working as a
dentist in Travis County’s
Del Valle Correctional
Complex.
Hagen of Buda was later
charged with sexual assault
and four counts of improp
er sexual activity with a per
son in custody.
A second-degree felony,
sexual assault is punishable
by two to 20 years in prison
and a fine up to $10,000.
Until his most recent ar
rest, Hagen had been out on
bond practicing dentistry
while awaiting trial.
The delay in Hagen’s tri
al was partly from court
backlogs and also because
judges tend to give a lower
priority to cases when the
defendant is not in jail, said
Gary Cobb, a prosecutor for
the Travis County district
attorney’s office.
“It’s not unusual for out-
of-jail cases to be pending
for two years,” he said.
“Three’s a little long.”
Civil suits also added to
the delay. Since Hagen’s
1997 arrest, five inmates
have sued for alleged sexu
al assault.
“Since he’s been out on
bond, nobody’s felt like
there’s a big hurry in getting
him to trial,” said Hagen's
lawyer, Scott Young.
Department of Transportation
calls memorials traffic hazard
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — The
mall, homemade crosses stand defi
antly peppering the Texas countryside.
They are all that remain of wreck
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bodies that meant death or injury for
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For the families of those victims,
the small makeshift memorials are
tributes to their lost loved ones — re
minders of what they have lost.
But, Texas Department of Trans
portation officials say the memorials
can be a traffic hazard and should
come down.
“We want to control the place
ment of memorials more than has
been done in the past,” Richard
Kirby, TxDOT director of mainte
nance operations, told the Corpus
-ban’s game alwayscoi christi Caller-Times in Tuesday’s
editions. “Frankly, it’s just not
safe.”
When the state asked that families
remove the roadside memorials, they
Ruben Del fought back.
And they may soon have a state-
sanctioned alternative.
Under a TxDOT proposal to be
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trol the placement
of memorials more
than has been
done in the past”
— Richard Kirby
TxDOT director of maintainence
operations
considered next month, families
would submit an application for a
memorial sign and pay a $ 100 fee.
The plan for review by the Texas
Transportation Commission on Nov.
16 probably will not please everyone,
said Randall Dillard, a transportation
department spokesman.
“We have received comments on
both sides,” he said. “There are peo
ple who want some type of state mark
er to be available. And there are those
who don’t want anything to be along
the road — not the current memorials
and not the proposed ones.” '
The memorials, which would in
clude both drunken driving and other
fatalities, would be rectangular signs
with white letters on a blue back
ground. The signs would read “In
memory of’ and include the person’s
name and date of death.
Crosses are being avoided to keep
separation of church and state.
Near Corpus Christi, a tall,
, wreathed white cross stands where
Johnathan Letzkus skidded off the
road and plunged into the water to his
death in 1997. His mother, Dorothy,
says the memorial serves as a re
minder to other drivers.
“John’s cross was to represent to
young people ... that certain roads
need to be respected,” she said.
Kirby echoed the need for memo
rials to serve as reminders of highway
dangers.
“We are hoping that the signs will
have an impact,” Kirby said. “Maybe
seeing a sign with a person's name on
it, and the date they passed away, will
encourage someone to slow down or
not drink and drive.”
Bryan
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“It’s important to look at all the is
sues in front of you with water plan
ning and water resources,” said Wig-
ginton. “The idea of the Safe Water
Drinking Act lets you rely on water
being safe anywhere in the U.S.”
Lawrence Carter, water service
director for Bryan, explained the
functioning of the water distribution
system. He said Bryan’s water facil
ities comprise more than 300 miles of
pipeline and more than 25,000
valves.
“Bryan’s current water capability
with the system is 24 million gallons
a day,” Carter said. “The current goal
we are striving for is 30 million gal
lons to provide for the city.”
Carter said that Bryan is on the
right track, especially since the sys
tem made it through seasonal
droughts and severe water conditions.
“The bottom line is to get the job
done so our system can meet and stay
ahead of the demands, whatever they
may be,” Carter told the council.
A proclamation at the meeting en
dorsed a National Young Reader’s
Day on Nov. 8 in Bryan-College Sta
tion. Bryan’s Mayor Lonnie Stabler
urged appropriate recognition for
Bryan and College Station’s young
readers.
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Tallest skyscraper in the
world proposed for Dallas
DALLAS (AP) — What would be the world’s
tallest building may scrape the sky a bit too
much.
A proposed 1,659-foot skyscraper in a Dal
las suburb may reach high enough to pose a
problem for the flight paths of jetliners at near
by Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
That is why Maharishi Global Development
Fund of New York is pitching its idea to the Fed
eral Aviation Administration, which must ap
prove construction of buildings taller than 200
feet because of thick air traffic in the North
Texas area.
The multibillion-dollar project, proposed for
The Colony northwest of Dallas, would surpass
the twin, 1,483-foot Petronas Towers in
Malaysia as the tallest of the world’s high-ris
es. Chicago’s Sears Tower and New York City’s
World Trade Center would also be surpassed by
a few hundred feet.
Helicopter goes down in
Gulf, 5 passengers OK
NEW CRLEANS (AP) — A helicopter went
down in the Gulf of Mexico southwest of New
Orleans Tuesday morning but all five people
aboard survived.
The Coast Guard said the five made it into
a life raft. Kim Wallace, spokeswoman for El
Paso Energy Corp. said they were taken to an
offshore platform and were to be carried back
to shore by another helicopter.
The helicopter went down about 10:45 a.m.
Retired oil worker fatally
shoots deputy sheriff
TOMBALL, Texas (AP) — A retired oil worker
who fatally shot a Harris County deputy sheriff
at a nearby house had believed his neighbors
were involved with organized crime, according
to investigators.
J.C. Risley, a 10-year department veteran,
was answering a disturbance call Monday at the
home when he was shot by Jimmy Ross White-
head, said witnesses. Whitehead was then
killed by a deputy who responded to a request
for backup.
“He thought the people next door were in
volved in the Mafia or drugs,” William White-
head, the suspect’s 36-year-old son, told the
Houston Chronicle in Tuesday’s editions.
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National Security Education Program
**Info Session: Thursday, October 25tli
3:30 p.m. in Room 342 Rudder**
An NSEP representative will give a presentation bn
NSEP’s undergraduate scholarships for study abroad.
The representative will also be available from 11:00-
1:30 in the MSC Main Hallway.
NSEP undergraduate scholarships are open to US
citizens enrolled in US universities who wish to study
abroad in critical world areas in Africa, Asia, Eastern
and Central Europe, Latin and South America and the
Middle East. Applications are available for study in
Summer 2001, Fall 2001 and/or Spring 2002.
See NSEP website for details; www.iie.org/nsep/
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