Clicking It could save a life
The Texas Department of Transportation kicked off its "Click It or Ticket" campaign today in an effort to save lives.

In 2012, the agency says there were 34-hundred traffic-related fatalities.

Tx-Dot data from 2012 indicates traffic-related fatalities are up by 11 percent in Texas.

Inspectors continue search for suspect in postal carrier slaying

HOUSTON -- Law enforcement agents from around the country have been looking for 36-year-old James Wayne Ham.

Postal inspectors said he is the lead suspect in the investigation into the slaying of 52-year-old Marie Youngblood.

She was a U.S. Postal carrier who had been on her rural delivery route in her personal car on Friday in San Jacinto County. Youngblood worked out of the Coldspring branch. “Yes, yes, it was my aunt. I mean it shouldn’t have happened to her. If you have in your wildest imagination about of a nice person, that was her,” Kenneth Punch, the victim’s nephew, said. Dispatchers got a frantic 911 call around noon on Friday.

Then around 10 p.m., deputies found Youngblood’s body on Morris near Harrell, right outside of Coldspring. Investigators think Youngblood was shot somewhere else and driven to where her Jeep Cherokee was set on fire.

Thelma Roberts is familiar with Youngblood. She heard the commotion. “I was watering my trees, and you can see smoke all around. You can hear something blowing up and popping,” Roberts said. Federal agents are pointing fingers at Ham, because they say he was complaining to postmasters about not getting his mail delivered properly.

Because of this gruesome crime, carriers from Shepard and Coldspring rode around with inspectors with guns while delivering mail on Saturday. They are all afraid of what Ham might do next. “I’m scared because he lives around the corner behind my house,” Roberts said. Youngblood’s family members are also postal carriers. They just can’t believe this happened to their loved one. “Something like this hasn’t totally sunk in but emotions are just rampant, it’s crazy right now.” Punch said.

Youngblood leaves her husband, two sons and grandchildren behind. “What do you say to a person like that someone that does something like that,” Punch said.

Ham is described as being 6 feet tall and weighing 145 pounds. He considered armed and dangerous. Inspectors said the last time a postal worker was killed in Texas was about 30 years ago.

DEA agent shoots suspect ouside The Houstonian Hotel

HOUSTON -- It was a case no one was supposed to know about and no one was ever supposed to see.

At about 1 p.m. Saturday, the Drug Enforcement Agency was working an undercover narcotics case and closing in on four suspects in a parking lot. The lot is used by employees of the Houstonian, one of the city’s finest hotels.

The agent, described in his 30s and in plain clothes, had cornered the suspects in their SUV. When they saw him approach, the driver allegedly tried to speed off.

“Revving his engine, knowing he’s about to be cornered by a number of other agents,” HPD spokesman John Cannon said. “He probably had every intention of running down the DEA agent, and anyone else who got in his way.”

Cannon said the agent drew his gun and fired multiple times at the truck, believed to be a Honda CRV. The agent was not hurt, but a suspect inside was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The three other suspects were cuffed and questioned on site. All four now face federal charges.

It is still not clear what brought them to the lot or if the case involved drugs.

This story comes to us through our partnership with KHOU News.

Winning Powerball ticket sold in Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla (WPMI) - Florida Lottery officials confirm a lone winning Powerball ticket was sold at a grocery store in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to NBC News.

The news organization reported the ticket was sold at a Publix Grocery store.

The winning numbers are 10-13-14-22-52-11.

This story comes to KFDM through our sister station WPMI TV in Pensacola, Florida.

Lamar University president Jimmy Simmons attends his last graduation as president
Lamar university president doctor jimmy simmons shook the hands of hundreds of students crossing the stage for the final time as president.
    More than 16-hundred students received diploma's today.
    Dr. Simmons served as the keynote speaker at the ceremony.
    In July... He will step down as president and join the school's music department.
    Lamar was scheduled to present more than 16 hundred degrees...A record..