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With car prices continuing to soar thanks to the global microchip shortage, there are plenty of reasons to keep your older vehicle if it’s working well. These cars may be a good target for theft since they lack several security systems seen in more modern vehicles. However, keep in mind that your trusted vehicle may also appeal to criminals.
According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau ” Hot Wheels ” list, here’s a list of the top 10 most stolen vehicles in Texas.
| Model | Units stolen |
| Chevrolet Pick-up (Full-size) | 9,382 |
| Ford Pick-up (Full-size) | 8,433 |
| GMC Pick-up (Full-size) | 2,891 |
| Dodge Pick-up (Full-size) | 2,481 |
| Chevrolet Tahoe | 1,814 |
| Honda Accord | 1,423 |
| Nissan Altima | 1,407 |
| Toyota Camry | 1,369 |
| Ram Pick-up (Full-size) | 1,340 |
| Honda Civic | 1,197 |
Not surprisingly, full-size pick-up trucks top the list of most stolen vehicles in Texas. While Chevrolet and Ford pick-up trucks are the most targeted vehicles in the state, other GMC, Dodge, and Ram models are not far behind.
Sedans are the second most stolen type of car in the Lone Star state, with the Honda Accord topping the list. The Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry, and Honda Civic are the other sedans that are theft magnets in Texas.
The most efficient method to ensure that your car does not get stolen is to lock all doors and shut the windows when you exit the vehicle. Most vehicles that made it to the list above were manufactured in an era before “smart keys” became popular. Hence, installing a modern anti-theft system with an audible alarm and an engine immobilizer could help deter car thieves from stealing your vehicle.
However, if you don’t want to spend a fortune on car safety equipment, there’s another great option for you: comprehensive car insurance.
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Crime Stoppers and the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division need the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect(s) responsible for a Murder.
On Saturday, February 20, 2021, at approximately 2:00 a.m., two victims were shot in the 11000 block of East Freeway in Houston, Texas. During the incident, a large disturbance occurred in the parking lot when an unknown suspect(s) began shooting. Two victims were struck and sadly one died as a result of the injuries they sustained. 
The family of Julian Martinez is requesting the community’s help with identifying the suspect(s) responsible for this murder.
Crime Stoppers may pay up to $5,000 for information leading to the charging and/or arrest of the suspect(s) in this case. Information may be reported by calling 713-222-TIPS (8477), submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org, or through the Crime Stoppers mobile app. Only tips and calls DIRECTLY TO Crime Stoppers are anonymous and eligible for a cash reward.
A 37-year-old woman accused of stealing $31,000 worth of lottery tickets from an East Side convenience store where she was employed was arrested on Wednesday.
San Antonio police said Mayra Alejandra Rios stole 30 lottery ticket bundles between October and December of 2022 that were worth a combined $31,000 from a location near where Loop 410 intersects with Rigsby Road. She then cashed in more than $21,000 worth of winnings, according to Jennifer Rodriguez, a police spokesperson.
In yet another move to improve transparency, the Railroad Commission has launched an interactive map of ongoing orphan well plugging with the use of federal infrastructure funding.
The data visualization allows users to choose what they see on the map, including which county to view, the fiscal year, and whether the wells have been plugged or have had a work order issued to be plugged.
The RRC received a $25 million initial grant to plug abandoned oil and gas wells from the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2022. Texas was the first state in the country to start plugging abandoned oil and gas wells using federal funds with projects in Refugio County in October (video).
The funds are part of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which dedicated the funds to plug abandoned oil and gas wells.
So far, the agency, which has the critical mission of protecting public safety and the environment, has already plugged 128 orphaned wells with federal funding and plans to plug about 800 abandoned wells by the end of the fiscal year.
“Thanks to our well-established well plugging program, we were able to hit the ground running to start plugging wells with the federal funds,” said Clay Woodul, RRC Assistant Director of the Oil and Gas Division for Field Operations. “The data visualization allows anybody with access to the Internet to see our progress plugging wells the federal funds.”
RRC’s State Managed Plugging Program, which utilizes revenue from industry fees and fines, has exceeded performance measures set by the Texas Legislature for six consecutive fiscal years.
The RRC may receive up to $318 million in additional formula funding from the federal government to plug orphaned wells. More information and links can be found via the following webpage: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-and-gas/environmental-cleanup-programs/federally-funded-well-plugging/.
Source: rrc.texas.gov
Governor Greg Abbott today appointed Senator Jane Nelson as the 115th Secretary of State for Texas. The Secretary of State serves as Chief Election Officer for Texas, assisting county election officials and ensuring the uniform application and interpretation of election laws throughout Texas. The Office of the Secretary of State also provides a repository for official business and commercial records required to be filed with the Office. The Secretary publishes government rules and regulations and commissions notaries public. The Secretary also serves as the keeper of the state seal and attestor to the Governor’s signature on official documents.In addition, the Secretary serves as senior advisor and liaison to the Governor for Texas Border and Mexican Affairs and as Chief International Protocol Officer for Texas.
Senator Jane Nelson is a businesswoman and former teacher who was first elected to the Texas Senate in 1992 after serving two terms on the State Board of Education. She was Chair of the Senate Health Committee for longer than anyone in history before becoming the first woman to be Chair of the Senate Finance Committee. In addition to writing four balanced state budgets, Senator Nelson has a long list of accomplishments that include establishing the Cancer Research & Prevention Institute of Texas, reforming medical liability, achieving tax relief, overhauling the foster care system, expanding access to mental health care, and passing over 30 bills to protect victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Her work has been recognized with dozens of awards, including from the American Medical Association, American Cancer Society, Texas Association of Business, Texas Council on Family Violence, CASA, Texas Hospital Association, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Texas PTA, Texas Retired Teachers Association, the Women’s Health Coalition, and many others. Senator Nelson and her husband, J. Michael Nelson, owned and operated an aircraft component manufacturing company in Denton County. They have five children and 12 grandchildren.
Source: gov.texas.gov
The online retailer’s founder will come back to deal with its woes, said Michael Batnick of Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Plenty of financial-market professionals have spit out predictions for 2023 in the last few weeks.
These forecasts are often wrong, as when the consensus view called for an increase in stock prices during 2022. Instead, the S&P 500 fell 19%.
Michael Batnick, a managing partner at esteemed Ritholtz Wealth Management, acknowledges that annual predicting is futile.
“Market predictions are silly. We all learned this a long time ago,” he wrote in a commentary. “But that doesn’t mean they’re completely worthless.”
And why is that?
“Even though forecasts are almost always wrong, they can be entertaining and educational,” Batnick said. “That’s all I’m trying to do with this post. Entertain and educate.”
None of this constitutes investment advice, he said. “I’m not doing anything with my portfolio based on these predictions, and neither should you.”
Here are the forecasts.
· Tech continues its layoffs.
· International Stocks Outperform.
· The IPO market remains frozen.
· Value Outperforms Growth Again.
· Gold makes a new all-time high.
· Energy stocks continue to outperform.
· Bitcoin gains 100%.
“Bonds have historically done well when stocks got dinged,” though last year was an exception, Batnick said.
“The 10-year treasury yield went from an all-time low in 2020 to the highest levels in over a decade in fairly short order,” he explained. “That was painful, but the good news is we got it over with. You can’t go from [a yield of] 50 basis points to 4% again this year.”
So the good news is “if stocks have another rocky year, bonds should do ok,” Batnick said. “Even if interest rates were to rise, lowering [bond] prices, at least we’ve got the fixed income component to cushion the blow.”
“It would be easy to suggest that a massive decline in home prices is underway,” given the huge price jump from 2020 through the middle of 2022, Batnick said.
“But I don’t see that happening. The supply-demand imbalance is structural, with buyers outnumbering sellers by a lot. “
Further, “you see activity picking back up as interest rates have [dipped] over the past couple of weeks,” he said.
“As long as [mortgage] rates don’t shoot back up to 7%, home prices will cool, but they won’t crash.” The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.42% in the week ended Dec. 29.
This year will resemble 2022 in that macro factors will dominate, Batnick said. “With peak inflation hopefully behind us, a consumer that is still in good shape, and an investor class that is negative across the board, it wouldn’t take much in the way of an upside surprise for stocks to take off.”
Amazon Get Free Report stock dropped 50% last year, it’s the largest annual decline since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Batnick said.
“Jeff Bezos spent 27 years at Amazon and has been gone for less than two,” he said. “In 2023 he pulls a Bob Iger and returns to steady the ship.”
Iger came back to Disney as chief executive in November, after retiring from the position in 2020.
Source: news-daily
Casi dos décadas después de que un juez absolviera a la cantante de los cargos de reclutar menores para una red de explotación sexual encabezada por su productor, una nueva demanda revive aquel infierno, según la revista ‘Rolling Stone’
La diva mexicana del pop Gloria Trevi afronta una nueva demanda civil por corrupción de menores junto al que fuera su pareja, el productor Sergio Andrade. Una corte del distrito de Los Ángeles ha revivido las afirmaciones de que la pareja reclutó a niñas y adolescentes para formar parte de una red de abuso sexual, de acuerdo con una publicación de la revista Rolling Stone este miércoles. Las acusaciones vuelven casi dos décadas después de que un juez absolviera a la cantante de los mismos cargos: reclutar menores para una red de explotación sexual encabezada por su productor. La artista no se ha pronunciado en sus redes sociales sobre los señalamientos.
La denuncia, que ha sido obtenida en primicia por la revista estadounidense, fue presentada el pasado 31 de diciembre. Aunque en ella no se hace referencia específicamente a la artista y al productor por sus nombres, “está claro que se trata de los dos principales acusados según los detalles, incluidos los conciertos que tuvieron lugar en 1990 y los álbumes que grabó”, cita la publicación.
En la demanda, las denunciantes, dos mujeres identificadas como Jane Does (el nombre genérico para proteger sus identidades en Estados Unidos), aseguran que la cantante se acercó a ellas cuando tenían 13 y 15 años y las atrajo para que se unieran al supuesto programa de capacitación musical que lideraba Andrade. La mayor parte de los presuntos abusos ocurrieron en Los Ángeles, de acuerdo con la revista estadounidense. Siempre, según esa versión, el programa servía como tapadera de una red sexual de chicas jóvenes que durante años fueron explotadas por Andrade, entre ella la propia Gloria Trevi.
En 1990, Trevi y Andrade habían amasado una gran fama internacional y un gran poder en el mundo del espectáculo tanto en México como en el otro lado de la frontera. Años después, una avalancha de acusaciones de violación y abusos de varias mujeres hizo que estallara el escándalo. “Andrade fue retratado como un violento pedófilo en serie y Trevi como su cómplice”, dice Rolling Stone. Ambos fueron arrestados en Brasil en enero de 2000 después de una persecución internacional. “[Trevi y Andrade] usaron su papel, estatus y poder como una estrella pop mexicana conocida y exitosa y un productor famoso para obtener acceso, preparar, manipular y explotar [a las víctimas] y forzar el contacto sexual con ellas durante un curso de años”, alega la nueva demanda civil.
En una entrevista con EL PAÍS en 2018, Trevi se reconocía también como una víctima más de Andrade y aseguraba que no guarda rencor contra las personas que la acusaron. “No tengo coraje con las chicas que dijeron cosas de mí porque sé que ellas han sufrido. Yo las vi sufrir y sabía que ellas tenían una presión muy grande por parte de los medios de comunicación, de su familia, de la sociedad”, señaló. La artista ha relanzado su carrera en los últimos años y se ha posicionado como una de las artistas más famosas en México y Latinoamérica, con giras por varios países. Las últimas publicaciones de Trevi hacen alusión a sus últimos conciertos, aunque no se conoce un posicionamiento formal de ella o su equipo.
La cantante estuvo retenida cuatro años en la cárcel a la espera de juicio hasta que, en 2004, un juez determinó que no existían pruebas suficientes para respaldar las acusaciones de violación, secuestro y corrupción de menores presentadas en su contra, por lo que fue liberada sin cargos. Andrade sí fue condenado por violación, secuestro y corrupción de menores, y paso casi siete años entre rejas.
Después de una difícil vuelta a los escenarios, parecía que Trevi había dejado atrás aquel infierno, pero su pasado regresa para volver a ponerla en el centro de la polémica. Más de una década después de salir de prisión, durante la entrega de los Latin American Music Awards de 2018, Trevi se defendió con firmeza de lo que sucedido: “Mi abusador, hoy por hoy, está libre. No solo me hizo daño a mí, sino a muchas otras jóvenes y probablemente lo siga haciendo”, dijo. “[Yo] tenía 15 años cuando empecé a vivir con manipulaciones, golpes, gritos, abusos, castigos. Y fueron 17 años de humillaciones”, dijo ante miles de espectadores sobre los años que vivió junto a Andrade.
“He tardado mucho en hablar porque yo no quería levantarme dando lástima. Yo quería levantarme por mi trabajo. Sin embargo, sí sentí ese compromiso de denunciar e inspirar a mujeres y hombres que estén pasando por una situación de abuso para decir basta, ya no más”, afirmaba en otra entrevista con este periódico en 2019.
Al ser una demanda civil, lo más probable es que las denunciantes exijan una reparación del daño, que en casi todos los casos suele ser una compensación económica. La demanda fue presentada en esa fecha porque el Estado de California emitió una moratoria de tres años para que personas que hayan sido víctimas de abuso sexual puedan presentar demandas a pesar de que penalmente sus casos ya hayan prescrito. La semana pasada el cantante de Aerosmith, Steven Tyler, también fue demandado en California por un presunto abuso sexual a una menor en 1970.
Source: elpais
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