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Coburn found guilty on all counts Thursday, gets 380 years
Michael Coburn, charged with multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child, was found guilty by a Clay County jury Thursday afternoon. During the punishment phase on Friday, District Judge Jack McGaughey sentenced him to a total of 380 years in prison. He will not be eligible for parole for 190 years.
District Attorney Casey Polhemus said the jurors came back with a guilty verdict on all eight counts: Four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child (under age six) and four counts of indecency with a child.
The Nocona man elected to go to the judge for punishment and that process began Friday morning. The range of punishment on the assault charge is 25-99 years or life, and it is 2-20 years with no probation on the indecency charge. District Judge Jack McGaughey is presiding at this case.
He was originally indicted in June 2014 for continuous sexual assault of a child stemming from allegations he assaulted a female during many months in 2013.
Watch your Bowie News for further details.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
No action was taken on a legal issue after members of the Bowie City Council met in a called closed session at 4 p.m. on July 12.
City Secretary Sandy Page said the council met for almost one hour for “consultation with attorney – Midwest Waste Services LLC vs. City of Bowie.
This lawsuit goes back to August 2019 when Midwest sued the city for its action requiring those who receive city water outside the city limits to use the designated waste collector, which is Waste Connections. This was shortly after the city signed a new long-term contract with WC.
The suit was dismissed in June 2020 on two points in the suit, but City Manager Bert Cunningham said a third point remained in mediation.
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