The vibrant, strong, brave woman her friends and family knew had shriveled into a terrified victim looking to escape. "Luis, I need help ... Oh no, he's here." The phone went silent. Later, she texted him and told him she was going to the hospital. Thirteen hours later, police found Villarreal's naked, strangled, burned body stuffed in a trash can in a grassy field near Oso Bay.
Jim Garst, 48, stood next to his friends while he tightly held their hands. He took a deep breath and tried to hold back tears during a prayer and moment of silence Sunday. He couldn't. Garst and about 30 others gathered at the Hidden Door, a gay bar on South Staples Street, to pray for those who were killed in an early Sunday shooting at a nightclub in Orlando.
Joe Perez's father worked seven days a week and rarely missed a day. His mother made sure he and his siblings knew what it took to provide for them. She put her children in her car one day and drove them from the Westside to One Shoreline Plaza, the tallest building in Corpus Christi along the downtown bayfront.
Police do not suspect foul play after a man's body was found floating in the Nueces River near Labonte Park. About 1:35 p.m. Thursday, a family stopped on the access road from Interstate 37 to Labonte Park to go crabbing when they noticed the body, Lt. Michael Pena said. When officers arrived they found the man about 10 feet from a boat ramp.
You seriously can't call yourself a true Selena fan if you've never been to the Selena Museum. For $3, it offers a close look at her personal items, her clothes, her car and even — if you're lucky, obviously — the chance to take a selfie with her dad or her sister, Suzette. The museum is a place where fans can come together, stand in line at the gift shop (because best believe there will be a line), with no shame of how many items with Selena's face on it they're about to purchase.
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Monique Garcia, a waitress at Southside Barbacoa, looks through merchandise sold by Gerald Flores at the restaurant on Friday, January 8, 2016. Flores says the “Blood, Sweat and Tacos” design is one of his favorites. “I was watching something and I saw ‘blood, sweat and tears’ and any time I can incorporate tacos, I will do it,” he said.
