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WISD buS rollover InjureS 16by Shelly ConlonWDL DIGITAL NEWS EDITor

A Waxahachie ISD school bus rolled over Tuesday morning with 19 children onboard. Fifteen were transported to two area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at Farm-to-Market 879 less than a mille north of Ike Road at 6:58 a.m. in the rural community of Boyce. Emergency crews treated several of the injured on scene and assessed in-juries. District officials identified the school bus as No. 68.

At least five ambulances left the scene to transport injured children. Eight children were transported to Children’s Medical Cen-ter in Dallas. Seven were transported, or brought by parents, to Baylor Medi-cal Center at Waxahachie, said Baylor media rela-tions officer Julie Martin. The bus driver also went to the hospital with minor

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Photo by Scott Dorsett/Daily Lightan east texas emS parademic leads a Waxahachie iSD student wearing a neck brace and makeshift sling to an ambu-lance tuesday morning. a school bus transporting 19 children to clift elementary tipped over on Farm-to-market road 879, injuring 15 children and the bus driver. WISD officials are awaiting the police report before taking a course of action.

Police capture red oak fugitiveby AnDreW brAnCA DAILY LIGHT STAff WrITEr

Dallas police officers took Leonard Allen Hennard, 43, of Red Oak into custody Sunday. Hennard left the Ellis County Courthouse as a jury started to deliberate in a case where he was named the defendant on Aug. 27.

The jury came back with a guilty verdict on two charges — assault against a fam-ily member with a previous conviction and assault against a family member. Hennard was sentenced to 20 years.

“We have been looking for him since (the Ellis County District Attorney) put out the notice that he had skipped out on his sentencing. We were fol-lowing up on some leads,” Red Oak Police Chief Garland Wolf said.

Information provided about Hennard’s whereabouts came from the arrest of different a person on a methamphetamine charge, Wolf said. The person

told officers Hennard was in an apartment complex off Red Oak Road.

Officers determined Hennard had stayed there the previous night, but police had missed him by minutes.

Wolf said the person then provided a phone number for Hennard and then contacted him for police.

“We had that guy make some

phone calls as kind of a ruse to try and get him to admit where he was at,” Wolf said. “He conveyed to the suspect that we had in custody was that he was at a location some where in Dal-las near a Denny’s and hotel.”

Wolf said during the phone conversation, Hennard men-tioned he really needed a weapon and wanted the person in custody to provide him with one.

Detectives canvased the area and spoke with several of the hotel owners. One of owners told police he knew Hennard had been there, but did not know if still was. Police staked out the hotel for two or three hours, but Hennard did not show. Later on Sunday, the owner of the hotel called 9-1-1 and informed dispatched that Hennard had returned. Dal-las officers were dispatched and took Hennard into custody without incident. Hennard was booked into the Dallas County Jail at 4:30 p.m.

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by bethAny PeterSonMIrror MANAGING EDITor

Mid-Way Regional Airport will receive approximately $107,700 in fed-eral grant money for airport improve-ments.

Texas Transportation Commission approved the funding from the Texas Department of Transportation’s Avia-tion Facilities Grant Program at its August meeting, according to a press release from TxDOT. The project will fund engineering and design for a new hangar and pavement improvements.

The airport is looking to build 12 new T-hangars that will open space for 12 new private airplanes, said Airport

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txDot funds new hangars for airport

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Waxahachie police shoot angry emu to protect citizenby AnDreW brAnCA DAILY LIGHT STAff WrITEr

Waxahachie police of-ficers shot an emu after unsuccessful attempts to restrain the animal. Police received a request for assistance from Animal Control at 9:03 a.m. on Aug. 27 in the 1300 block of Wyatt Street.

“A motorist was driving by in the 1300 block of Wy-att and he spotted what he believed to be an ostrich and reported (it) was loose,” Senior Animal Con-trol Officer Warren Howell

said. “So I responded over to the area to verify and it ended up being an emu in the area. I called for as-sistance from other animal control officers and the police department, just to help contain the animal where it was.”

Emus can be more than six feet tall and can reach speeds of 55 mph.

Howell said once he re-ceived assistance and had enough people there to maintain the perimeter he moved in to safely catch the bird. He went calmly behind the bird reaching

around and grabbing the bird by the wings.

By approaching the emu from behind, Howell explained, it prevents a person from being kicked. Emus can’t kick backward because their legs bend at the front.

“I was able to grab hold and get control at that time. Unfortunately the bird did not want to get in the back of the truck and was able to push off the back of the tailgate where I lost control of it,” Howell said. “It was more appre-hensive about us walking

behind it and catching it at that point. We had to follow it through the neighborhood until we finally ended up on East Ross Street.”

Waxahachie Police Lt. Todd Woodruff said the emu fled through a tree line behind a residence and exited in the front of some homes in the 100 block of Peters St. Officers were able to corner it in the driveway of a home in the 900 block of East Ross St.

“That is where we thought that it would be

contained. All of us tried to approach and contain it within that property. The bird was acting agi-tated because he was in a flight mode,” Howell said. “There is a citizen that lives on the property that is an elderly man, who stepped out of his work-shop and did not realize what was going on. Once he stepped out, it pretty much changed everything. The emu was acting like he was going to stand his ground more at this point.”

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