CORPUS CHRISTI — Texas A&M-Corpus Christi could enter today’s Southland Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament without yet another starter.

Coach Robert Robinson said center Myeisha Myles will be a game-time decision when the Islanders meet Texas-Arlington at 6, tonight at Katy’s Merrell Center. Myles was involved in a car accident Tuesday morning.

Myles was heading to meet the team bus and minutes from campus when the wreck occurred. She was given precautionary tests, but everything turned up negative. Myles went to Katy on Tuesday afternoon, but was experiencing soreness in her shoulders and neck.

A&M-Corpus Christi made the tournament’s field of eight as the eighth seed despite losing three starters during the course of the season.

— Lee Goddard

One person is dead after he was struck by a pickup truck while crossing Highway 69 near Nederland.

The accident happened just before 1 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 69 north of Spurlock Road.

Sergeant Chuck Havard with the Texas Department of Public Safety tells KFDM News Richard Mouton, 55, from Port Arthur, was crossing the highway and was struck by the driver of a Dodge Ram pickup truck heading north.

Mouton was flown by Southeast Texas Air Rescue helicopter to Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth where he died at about 2:30 p.m.

Sgt. Havard say the driver of the Dodge Ram pickup wasn’t hurt but another pickup driver who was able to avoid the pedestrian received non life-threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to a hospital.

A 2-year-old who was injured in an Arlington traffic accident has been removed from a ventilator and is breathing on his own.

Abdallah Khader was left in a coma after a Feb. 20 accident involving a man with a history of drunken driving. On Sunday, Abdallah continued to breathe after the ventilator was removed.

“We kissed our baby that night thinking we would never see him anymore,” said his father, Fahad Khader. “We were surprised the next day when he was still alive.”

The family was on their way home from a gathering last month when Stewart Richardson, 44, of Davenport, Iowa, allegedly slammed his pickup into the family’s Honda Accord as they waited at a red light in the 4900 block of South Cooper Street at Oak Village Boulevard in South Arlington, police said.

Arlington police arrested Richardson, who they said had a history of DWI arrests. Richardson was taken to Tarrant County Jail and charged with intoxication assault. The charge could be upgraded if Abdallah dies.

“Does my son have to die for him to go to jail forever?” said his mother, Loubna Elharazin.

The boy’s parents struggled with the decision to remove Abdallah from the ventilator. Doctors said that 80 percent of the boy’s brain had been destroyed.

A feeding tube is now keeping Abdallah alive. His parents continue to rely on their Muslim faith for guidance.

“If God doesn’t want him to breathe anymore, then that’s God’s will,” Elharazin said. “But feeding is something a human being can do. He’s a baby.”

The couple plans to bring Abdallah home knowing he may linger in a vegetative state.

“Sometimes I have good dreams about him, that he woke up and he’s feeding himself,” she said. “I have those dreams and I wake up very happy thinking God gave me that dream to give me more patience.”

A North Texas woman accused of stabbing her husband to death was being held today by authorities in New Mexico.

Dina Jackson was accused of murder and was being held in lieu of $750,000 bail in Gallup, N.M., Fort Worth police said.

Dina and Michael Jackson were involved in an altercation Wednesday night at their home in the 7400 block of Trimble Drive in South Fort Worth when the stabbing occurred, police said.

An injured Michael Jackson fled the scene and was involved in a traffic accident a few blocks away about 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Jackson’s sport utility vehicle crossed over a yard in the 7800 block of Trimble Drive before slamming into a Ford truck, which was then pushed into a house, said Theodore Reed, who was in the home at the time. Reed, who was not injured, said the incident caused thousands of dollars in damage.

Upon further investigation, authorities discovered stab wounds on Jackson’s body and ruled his death a homicide, police said.

An arrest warrant was issued for his wife Friday, and she was detained in New Mexico while on her way to Las Vegas, said Fort Worth homicide Detective Michel Carroll.

Police said she has since admitted stabbing her husband. Police have not released a motive.

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A woman and child were killed Sunday in a car accident along Interstate 20 in Kaufman County, police said.

Carolyn Sue Darling, 47, and Keaton Lambert, 5, both of Longview, Texas were killed when a pickup landed on their vehicle near the 505 mile marker, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report. Their relationship was unknown.

The report said James King, 43, of Wills Point, drove his westbound Nissan pickup into the center median, vaulting it into an eastbound lane about 3:20 p.m. The truck landed on top of Darling’s Chevrolet Cavalier. King was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries, police said. It was unclear whether he would face charges.

Five people were killed Saturday when a van carrying five family members burst into flames after colliding with another car on a rural highway north of Houston, authorities said.

Two others were in critical but stable condition, including a woman ejected from the van following the accident outside a Montgomery County subdivision where the intersection has a history of residential concern.

“They are expected to come through,” Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Angela Fountain said of the survivors.

Four were pronounced dead at the scene after the accident, which happened just before noon Saturday. Another died after being taken to a nearby hospital.

Names or ages of the victims were not immediately released, but Fountain said none were children. She said four people in the van were visiting from Oklahoma, and the driver was from Magnolia.

The van burst into flames after the wreck, leaving the van’s driver and two others trapped inside, authorities said. The other survivor was the driver of a Chevy Cobalt that collided with the van, which state troopers said was trying to cross Texas Highway 249.

A female passenger in the sedan died.

DPS Trooper Winson Pham told The Courier of Conroe the accident was among the most horrific he has seen on the job. Nearby residents watched as investigators and emergency crews worked the accident on the highway and Patridge Circle.

Patridge Circle serves an entrance to the Cripple Creek Farms subdivision. Jeff Clapp, whose father-in-law lives on Patridge Circle, said the intersection has been the site of several accidents.

“When you drive out of the neighborhood and get out in the highway, you’ve got to move across quickly or drivers won’t see you,” Clapp told the newspaper. “Every other weekend, people come out and drive about 100 miles per hour or race down the highway.”

Pham said two van passengers were ejected from the back seat on impact before the vehicle caught fire. The other three victims in the van were men, Fountain said.

Magnolia is about 45 miles northwest of Houston.

A man walking his dog discovered the body of a 25-year-old man who had crashed his car several hours earlier, Grand Prairie police said.

Brant T. Martin of Grand Prairie was found about 1:20 p.m. Thursday outside his 2003 Toyota Camry, police said. It appeared that Martin lost control of his car in the 800 block of West Marshall Drive before crashing into a guardrail and falling into a creek.

The wreckage was not visible from the roadway. The accident, which was believed to have happened before dawn, was not reported until a man walking his dog discovered Martin’s body, police said. Authorities believe speed may have been a contributing factor in the accident.

The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office today identified a 49-year-old woman who was killed in an accident in Arlington.

Susan Meuir of Arlington died shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday at Arlington Memorial Hospital after being involved in a three-vehicle accident in the 3500 block of East Abram Street, authorities said.

According to police, Meuir was driving a 1986 Acura Integra near the intersection of East Abram Street and Great Southwest Parkway when she failed to stop at a red light and rear ended a BMW. The collision caused Meuir to be partially ejected from the vehicle.

Meuir’s death is the first traffic fatality in Arlington in 2009.

Two men in the BMW were taken to Medical Center of Arlington. Their conditions were not available. Another driver, whose vehicle was struck by the BMW, was not seriously injured.

Police believe alcohol or drugs and excessive speed may have contributed to the accident.

Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle held a hearing today to consider the fate of an officer who lied for weeks about how an on-duty traffic accident occurred. Chief Kunkle did not make an immediate decision.

Immediately after the Jan. 15 accident, Officer Horatio Quiroz, told traffic investigators and his supervisors that someone had hit his parked vehicle while he he was inside a pizza restaurant.

Weeks later, in early February, police officials discovered that the damage had actually occurred when the officer hit an 18-wheeler while responding to a major accident on the freeway.

In early March, he told supervisors he had fabricated the details of the accident.

According to internal police documents, the District Attorney’s offfice has decided that Officer Quiroz would be placed on the “do not testify list” which means that he would not be able to testify during court proceedings.

His chain of command has recommended punishment ranging from a 15-day supension to termination.

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