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A.M. UPDATE: Police seek robbery suspect; UT-Tyler wants women for exercise study
POLICE CAPTURE ONE OF TWO STORE ROBBERY SUSPECTS
Tyler Police have captured one of two men suspected for an early morning convenience store robbery in Tyler today. The police are actively searching for the second suspect. Two men approached a store clerk of a convenience store on Old Omen Road and Spur 248 and forced the clerk back into the store at gunpoint.
The suspects took an unspecified amount of money from the store. A customer drove up to the store causing the suspects to flee into the woods near the store. While making the escape one suspect shot himself in the leg. The injured suspect hide in nearby brush and was later apprehended by Tyler Police. The second suspect is still on the loose. This story will be updated on TylerPaper.com when new information becomes available.
The suspects took an unspecified amount of money from the store. A customer drove up to the store causing the suspects to flee into the woods near the store. While making the escape one suspect shot himself in the leg. The injured suspect hide in nearby brush and was later apprehended by Tyler Police. The second suspect is still on the loose. This story will be updated on TylerPaper.com when new information becomes available.
LOST-DOG MAN RUNNING SCAM
It turns out a man who claimed he lost and then found his beloved service dog earlier this month was in fact trying to run a scam and lied to various people, said Jacksonville police.
Charles Boothe, 54, told media and others last week that he was reunited with his dog after the canine went missing for days.
At the time, he was living behind a building in Jacksonville, and police confirmed they knew where he was staying.
Boothe was arrested Friday and charged with public intoxication, a class C misdemeanor, and fraudulent use of identifying information, a state jail felony.
Police said Boothe also possessed another person's birth certificate, but they are not sure why he had it
Charles Boothe, 54, told media and others last week that he was reunited with his dog after the canine went missing for days.
At the time, he was living behind a building in Jacksonville, and police confirmed they knew where he was staying.
Boothe was arrested Friday and charged with public intoxication, a class C misdemeanor, and fraudulent use of identifying information, a state jail felony.
Police said Boothe also possessed another person's birth certificate, but they are not sure why he had it
UT-TYLER SEEKS WOMEN TO JOIN EXERCISE STUDY
The University of Texas at Tyler is seeking women to participate in an exercise class and research study for cancer survivors.
Participants must be fifty-five years or older, must have completed cancer treatment in the past two years and must be able to walk.
A mandatory orientation session will be at nine thirty a.m. January twenty-sixth in the UT Tyler Herrington Patriot Center.
Physician screening forms will be distributed.
Each cancer survivor will be paired with a kinesiology student who will act as a personal trainer.
The eight-week morning classes will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning February twenty-sixth.
For more information, contact Dr. Ballard at 903-566-7042.
Participants must be fifty-five years or older, must have completed cancer treatment in the past two years and must be able to walk.
A mandatory orientation session will be at nine thirty a.m. January twenty-sixth in the UT Tyler Herrington Patriot Center.
Physician screening forms will be distributed.
Each cancer survivor will be paired with a kinesiology student who will act as a personal trainer.
The eight-week morning classes will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning February twenty-sixth.
For more information, contact Dr. Ballard at 903-566-7042.
Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and a Dallas-area state senator plan a joint news conference to reveal two Medicaid reform bills.
The pair will discuss Texas Senate Bills 7 and 8 on this morning.
Jane Nelson is a veteran Republican from Flower Mound.
She is sponsoring a bill to require those seeking welfare and unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing — an initiative supported by Dewhurst and Governor Rick Perry.
Dewhurst ran unsuccessfully last year for U.S. Senate.
He was defeated in the Republican primary by Ted Cruz.
Dewhurst returned to the Texas Capitol vowing to ensure that the Republican-controlled Legislature adheres even more strictly to conservative values.
The pair will discuss Texas Senate Bills 7 and 8 on this morning.
Jane Nelson is a veteran Republican from Flower Mound.
She is sponsoring a bill to require those seeking welfare and unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing — an initiative supported by Dewhurst and Governor Rick Perry.
Dewhurst ran unsuccessfully last year for U.S. Senate.
He was defeated in the Republican primary by Ted Cruz.
Dewhurst returned to the Texas Capitol vowing to ensure that the Republican-controlled Legislature adheres even more strictly to conservative values.
ARMSTRONG TALKS WITH OPRAH
Lance Armstrong may not be done confessing.
His interview with Oprah Winfrey hasn't aired yet, but already some people want to hear more — under oath — before Armstrong is allowed to compete in elite triathlons, a sport he returned to after retiring from cycling in 2011.
In addition to stripping him of all seven of his Tour de France titles last year, anti-doping officials banned Armstrong for life from sanctioned events.
World Anti-Doping Agency officials said nothing short of "a full confession under oath" would even cause them to reconsider the ban.
Although Armstrong admitted to Winfrey on Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs, they said that is "hardly the same as giving evidence to a relevant authority."
His interview with Oprah Winfrey hasn't aired yet, but already some people want to hear more — under oath — before Armstrong is allowed to compete in elite triathlons, a sport he returned to after retiring from cycling in 2011.
In addition to stripping him of all seven of his Tour de France titles last year, anti-doping officials banned Armstrong for life from sanctioned events.
World Anti-Doping Agency officials said nothing short of "a full confession under oath" would even cause them to reconsider the ban.
Although Armstrong admitted to Winfrey on Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs, they said that is "hardly the same as giving evidence to a relevant authority."
NEW SURVEY ON ENERGY DRINKS
A new government survey suggests the number of people seeking emergency treatment after consuming energy drinks has doubled nationwide during the past four years, the same period in which the supercharged drink industry has surged in popularity in convenience stores, bars and on college campuses.
From two thousand seven to two thousand eleven, the government estimates the number of emergency room visits involving the neon-labeled beverages shot up from about ten thousand to more than twenty thousand.
Most of those cases involved teens or young adults, according to a survey of the nation's hospitals.
The report doesn't specify which symptoms brought people to the emergency room but calls energy drink consumption a "rising public health problem" that can cause insomnia, nervousness, headache, fast heartbeat and seizures that are severe enough to require emergency care.
Several emergency physicians said they had seen a clear uptick in the number of patients suffering from irregular heartbeats, anxiety and heart attacks who said they had recently downed an energy drink.
More than half of the patients considered in the survey who wound up in the emergency room told doctors they had downed only energy drinks.
From two thousand seven to two thousand eleven, the government estimates the number of emergency room visits involving the neon-labeled beverages shot up from about ten thousand to more than twenty thousand.
Most of those cases involved teens or young adults, according to a survey of the nation's hospitals.
The report doesn't specify which symptoms brought people to the emergency room but calls energy drink consumption a "rising public health problem" that can cause insomnia, nervousness, headache, fast heartbeat and seizures that are severe enough to require emergency care.
Several emergency physicians said they had seen a clear uptick in the number of patients suffering from irregular heartbeats, anxiety and heart attacks who said they had recently downed an energy drink.
More than half of the patients considered in the survey who wound up in the emergency room told doctors they had downed only energy drinks.
