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FAMILIAR TERRITORYSunday’s NFC divisional round play-off game will mark the 12th meeting between Brett Favre and the Dallas Cowboys. SPORTS, 1C

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■ Defender:Forbidden garb not specifi edJESSICA LANGDONlangdonj@timesrecordnews.com / 940-763-7530

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin has agreed to hear argu-ments related to the con-stitutionality of Wichita County’s prosecutions of one of the defendants under the Varrio Carnales Gang Injunction order.

Mario Rico Martinez was one of the defendants named in the city’s first gang injunction, which was fi led in 89th District Court in 2006. The injunction be-came a long-term one for a list of defendants in 2007. It prohibits defendants from associating with gang mem-bers and provides a list of requirements they must fol-low within the 1.54-square mile “VC Safety Zone.”

A criminal violation of the civil injunction results in a misdemeanor charge of violation of a court order enjoining organized crimi-nal activity.

Martinez, now 20, was arrested in connection with violations of the injunction; those stemmed from in-cidents Dec. 13, 2006, and Jan. 2, Feb. 20, April 25 and Sept. 6, 2007. He received a 305-day jail sentence and was fi ned.

In February 2009 the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth upheld ele-ments related to Martinez’s criminal case.

The Wichita County Public Defender’s Office appealed that to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in the state, assistant pub-lic defender Brennon Brady said. The offi ce fi led what is called a petition for discre-tionary review.

“He was prohibited from wearing gang clothing or making gang signs,” Brady said. However, the infor-mation didn’t specify what signs or what clothing that meant, he said. The argu-ment is that the local court’s injunction is vague and grants police officers too much power in determin-ing what suspected conduct

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■ Motorcyclecollides with schoolbus in Arlington

JESSICA LANGDONlangdonj@timesrecordnews.com / 940-763-7530

Officer Craig Gordon Story, who graduated from Rider High School and Mid-western State University before beginning his career with the Arlington Police Department, died Wednes-day in the line of duty.

“Our agency suffered a tragic loss today,” a media release from the Arlington Police Department reads.

Story, 34, was working traffic enforcement on his motorcycle along South

Cooper Street about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday. A mem-ber of the Traff ic Unit, he was working to keep the streets safe in an area where children were walk-ing to school. He spotted a speeding vehicle, turned on his sirens and lights, and followed the northbound vehicle, the Arlington Po-lice Department reported. Just after Story passed one intersection, a southbound school bus turned left onto another street. Story’s mo-torcycle and the bus collid-ed in the northbound lanes of Cooper Street, police said.

Story was ejected from the motorcycle , which caught fi re. He died at the

Rider grad dies in the line of duty

Story spent most of his life in Wich-ita Falls. He graduated from Rider High School in 1994.

■ He alsokidnapped kids, police sayLYNN WALKERwalkerl@timesrecordnews.com / 940-763-7528

A 32-yea r- old Clay County man is in custody after authorities say he assaulted his estranged wi fe , then k idnapped her and the couple’s two young daughters.

Clay County Sheriff Kenny Lemons said that We d n e s d ay m o r n i n g Waylon Holland Kruger forced his wife to drive to the Handy Stop conve-nience store at Highway 79 and Goodman Road to

get cigarettes. Once in-side, the woman alerted the clerk her family was being held in a vehicle at knifepoint.

The clerk called au-thorities.

Deputies went to the couple’s home nearby in the 3500 block of Highway 79 North. As they arrived, the woman ran from the

Clay County man is accusedof assaulting estranged wife

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Department of Public Safety troopers return from an area of property behind 3510 Highway 79 North where a man was taken into custody on kidnapping and assault charges.

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TRAGEDY IN HAITI500,000 FEARED DEAD 16 U.N. WORKERS KILLED 20 COUNTRIES PLEDGE AID

■ Aid startsto pour into HaitiansJONATHAN M. KATZAssociated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers searched collapsed buildings as offi cials feared the death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.

The first cargo planes with food, water, medi-cal supplies, shelter and sniff er dogs headed to the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation a day after

the magnitude-7 quake fl attened much of the capi-tal of 2 million people.

Tuesday’s earthquake brought down buildings great and small — from shacks in shantytowns to President Rene Preval’s gleaming white National Palace, where a dome tilt-ed ominously above the manicured grounds.

Hospitals, schools and the main prison collapsed.

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International governments and aid groups rushed to put relief plans in motion following the magnitude-7.0 earthquake and pow-erful aftershocks that struck Haiti on Tuesday.

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■ Sophomorethankful for thiscountry’s riches

ANN WORKworka@timesrecordnews.com / 940-763-7538

Midwestern State Uni-versity sophomore Thony

Durand, who lived in Haiti until two years ago, wakes up every morning and thanks God that he lives in the United States.

Sometimes he marvels at all of America’s technology and its road systems — and even the simple pleasure of going to McDonald’s at night if you’re hungry — and won-ders if he’s dreaming.

In Haiti, if you are hun-gry at night, you are still hungry in the morning, he said.

The Haitian-born stu-dent is pursuing a business degree — and later a mas-ter’s degree — so that he can return to his homeland someday with the wisdom and expertise necessary to help the small, earthquake-

stricken nation.“People have helped me,

and I can never pay them back,” he said Wednesday from the Dillard College of Business, where he talked about his worries for his home country. Supported for the past decade by a doctor who made regular

MSU student from Haiti recalls contrasts with U.S.

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Injured people sit along Delmas Road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday.

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WATCH IT LIVEGov. Rick Perry (left), Kay Bailey Hutchison (above right) and Debra Medina sound off in fi rst debate of GOP guber-natorial primary.

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Midwestern State men’s 14-game win streak ends at Angelo State. In the women’s matchup, a late pair of free throws seals the win for ASU. SPORTS, 1C

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