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By Jamie B. Nash November 15, 2009 An hour and 15 minutes after the UTMB Montgomery County Health Department began administering the H1N1 vaccine at Conroe High School on Saturday, all 1,000 doses were gone. The event was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., but started at 8:30 instead because hundreds of people were already in line, according to Emily Llinas, Montgomery County Public Health Preparedness director. Rebecca Bartlett was first in line, arriving around 12:45 a.m. to make sure the third time was a charm in trying to get her daughters vaccinated. The family was in line for the shots at Lone Star College, but the vaccinations were gone before they made it to the front. They tried again on Nov. 7, but that vaccination event was postponed. Finally, Bartlett s tenacity paid off. I m glad we got it done, she said. It s a good experience. Llinas said by 9 a.m. only about 150 tickets remained undistributed out of 1,000. She was pleased at how quickly the line moved, which she said was faster than the previous clinic partly because only the injectable form of the H1N1 vaccine was distributed. Llinas said the vaccine was becoming more accessible and there should now be at least 1,000 doses available at every clinic. Montgomery County received 3,600 doses last week and officials expect to receive similar amounts over the next several weeks. We re soon going to see huge numbers of vaccine everywhere, Llinas said. We re cautiously optimistic that we re coming to the end of the H1N1 wave. The traditional flu season officially started Oct. 1, but usually picks up in January and February, she said.

A man charged with setting one house on fire in the Heights is locked up and prosecutors now say he confessed on video tape to doing it. David Joseph Prince, 30, was in probable cause court Saturday night. He's facing a single arson charge. He's accused of starting one of the arson fires there. The arrest is for a fire on 12th Street, which is right in the middle of an area where there have been more than a dozen other fires. Prince was arrested Friday on one charge of arson. According to investigators, he apparently confessed to setting a fire on 12th Street back on September 17, 2009.

Just after 11 p.m. Friday night, Texas Department of Public Safety, Harris County Sheriff s Office and Rosehill Fire Department personnel responded to a motor vehicle collision at the intersection of Spencer and Sanders where they found a 2007 Chevy Diesel ton pickup nearly 100 feet off the road and into the woods. Robert Smith, Jr., 36, of Magnolia was pronounced dead on the scene. Realizing the location was just inside Montgomery County, they contacted Montgomery County. It might have been days before the wreckage was found, since the trees seemingly closed in around the crash obstructing the view from the road, but a woman heard the truck brake and then crash into the woods. It was noted that a stop sign at the T shaped intersection had been stolen and two other signs indicating the end of the road had been knocked down for what appeared to be a long time, since they were covered by brush that had grown over them. The only remaining warning that the road did not continue on the other side, was an arrow sign at the end of the road. Smith s family was on scene and said he traveled the road frequently, so there is no way of knowing if the missing signs played a role in his death. The truck was so mangled and so deeply buried that it took two hours to remove it from the woods and another hour for the Magnolia and Rosehill Fire Departments to cut Smith out of it.

Saturday night San Jacinto County Sheriff's office got a call about 830pm for a welfare check on Outlaw Road off of FM 1725 in San Jacinto County. When the first unit arrived he found two women and a small female child shot to death in the house. He also found Oliver Bills dead of a single gunshot wound in the bedroom. His step mother was found near the entrance to the house in the kitchen area and his girlfriend and her daughter in the TV room in the back of the house. Family members and friends say he was on medication for psychological problems and when he got off them he would get violent. He was reported to have been at his mothers home in Sargent working on it and returned home Saturday afternoon. One neighbor said he was a gifted craftsman and carpenter. The home set in the back of his step mothers property which was on FM1725. The San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office declined any kind of comment Sunday as they said they would have a press release Monday.

This wa on May 22, 2007 at SH 242 and US 59. Bishop who also was part owner of a HAZMAT compamny had his children assisting in the cleanup. Now he wants to put a Injection well in Splendora. He claims it is safe.