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Sunday, September 10, 2000

Texas briefs

From Caller-Times wire services
Killeen Luby's, site of 1991 massacre, closes its doors
   KILLEEN - The Luby's Cafeteria where 23 customers were killed nine years ago has closed, falling victim to competition from other restaurants.
   Despite the horrifying memories of a deranged gunman killing restaurant patrons, residents had continued to dine at the Killeen restaurant. But the cafeteria - one of 15 Luby's scheduled to close - turned off the lights for the last time Friday night.
   Customers lined up almost out the door at lunch Friday to have their favorite menu items one last time.
   The mass killing occurred shortly after George Hennard drove his truck through the window of the cafeteria's dining area during the lunch hour Oct. 16, 1991. Moving calmly through a group of more than 100 people, he killed 23 and wounded 20 others before killing himself.
   $1.37 million grant awarded to Texas Tech for study
   LUBBOCK - Texas Tech has received a $1.37 million grant to study pollution and cleanup of more than 50 years worth of environmentally harmful chemicals at the former Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant near Caddo Lake.
   The funds are going to Tech's Institute of Environmental and Human Health to study the effects of ammonium perchlorate on the environment at the 6,000-acre site in Karnack, said Ronald J. Kendall, the institute's director and chairman of Texas Tech's department of environmental toxicology.
   CBS affiliate in El Paso switching to Spanish format
   EL PASO - After a 40-plus-year affiliation with CBS, El Paso television station KDBC is switching by next year to a Spanish-language format by joining upstart network Azteca America.
   El Paso, the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border with 600,000 residents, is also the nation's 13th largest Hispanic television market. Although CBS says it can find another affiliate, the move by KDBC could leave the city without the hit show "60 Minutes" and others.
   Last month, KDBC's CBS affiliation expired. It was extended on a month-to-month basis through April 2001, according to KDBC managers.
   Abilene pipeline fire ends; 30 residents can't return yet
   ABILENE - The fire at a ruptured pipeline that had been burning for about two days was finally extinguished Saturday morning.
   But about 30 residents, who had been evacuated from their homes because of the danger of the burning pipeline touching off another pipeline in the area, were still not allowed to return to their homes, according to officials with the Taylor County Sheriff's Department.
   A one mile radius around State Highway 36 remained blocked off in each direction from the pipeline.

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