(Lindsay Wise & Louis Casiano, Houston Chronicle)
Distraught father Mike Davis asked to pray Saturday morning with volunteers who had spent four days searching the woods and bayous of Liberty County for his toddler son.
“We knelt down there on the ground next to my van and we prayed that our Lord would lead our searchers to the young boy, and give the family peace,” said Texas Equusearch coordinator Ken DeFoor. The father broke down in tears, DeFoor said.
About 45 minutes later, searchers reviewing high-resolution images from a drone aircraft spotted a red dot in the southeast side of an algae-covered pond. It was the red shirt worn by 2½-year-old Devon Davis, whose body was floating in the pond about 300 yards from his family’s house.
The pond had been searched before, but plants covering the surface kept the boy’s body from view, officials said. The discovery brought the desperate search for little Devon to a somber close. (Read more at the Houston Chronicle)
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- Complicated Development Rule Changes in Houston Await Vote (Houston Chronicle)
- Metro Will Spend $750,000 on MLK Project (Houston Chronicle)
- April Pools Day Promotes Water Safety (KTRK 13 News)
- Latin American Firefighters Come to Houston to Train (KRIV 26 News)
- Octomom Goes on Welfare (Houston Chronicle)
- John Chase, Houston Architect & One of UT’s First Black Students, Dies (Houston Chronicle)
OPINIONS ON THE NEWS:
- Who Polices Prosecutors for Violating Rights? No One
(Patti Hart, Houston Chronicle)
“A new study by the Innocence Project has found that in at least 91 Texas criminal cases between 2004 and 2008, prosecutors themselves engaged in misconduct like hiding evidence that would have proved someone’s innocence.” - Home Health Aides Deserve a Living Wage
(Dean Baker, Special Contributor to Washington Post)
“Extending minimum wage and overtime protections to home-care workers is [important] step in America’s progress toward ending gender and racial discrimination. But fairness is not the only reason to make this change. Given the growth of the elderly as a share of the population, demand for home health-care workers is projected to increase rapidly in the next two decades.”