Tag: fatalities

TRAGEDY STRIKES: Fire claims woman’s life; child dies one day later

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A Wednesday morning apartment fire at the Luxury Apartments in San Benito claimed the life of Alicia C. Anguiano, of San Benito, as well as her young grandson. Anguiano, 64, was in the apartment with her 5-year-old grandson, whose identity has yet to be released, when the fire …

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TxDOT connects students with designated drivers

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com The launching of a new Texas Department of Transportation app is about numbers, specifically 25,794, 9,480 and 1,173—figures totaling the statewide amount of alcohol-related motor vehicle traffic crashes, serious injuries and fatalities in 2012, respectively. Consider further that 260 of the deaths TxDOT reported last year involved drivers between …

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