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An Annaville resident has come forward against the paving company that is allegedly responsible for spraying and killing a cat with hot asphalt last week.

The homeowner, James Richter, said he could not believe his eyes when he saw 3News' original report about Ricky the cat, because he recognized the asphalt company as the same one he hired to repave his driveway. He claims they did not do the job they were paid to do.

For $1,200, Richter thought he was paying Blacktop Paving for a new asphalt driveway. Instead, he said he was left Scrooged just before Christmas.

"They promised me a beautiful driveway and I got mud," Richter said.

What was supposed to be a brand new driveway made of asphalt turned out to be nothing more than clay and rocks. Richter showed how his driveway literally crumbled away with the use of his water hose and under his foot -- not the job he thought he paid the contractor to do.

Richter said the men were very convincing when they knocked on his door.

"I had a fella knock on the door, said he had a load of asphalt that was going to harden in the back of his truck if he didn't use it. Said he could make me a real good deal on an asphalt driveway. Said it was recycled. Fortified with cement," Richter said. "I did everything wrong, Bill. I did everything wrong. Didn't take pictures. Didn't take copies of drivers licenses, which I wish I had."

Richter has called and called the company with the phone number on the work agreement, always to no avail.

The Better Business Bureau said it's important to first have a contract, and know the correct contact information on the contractor. Do your homework and check BBB.org to see if they are a legitimate business.

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A homeowner's cat that was intentionally sprayed with hot asphalt by a paving crew last week reportedly died from his injuries on Monday.

It was last Wednesday when Pat Jock's cat, Ricky, was found covered in the sticky tar in apparent distress and was taken to the Doddridge Animal Clinic. Ricky had to be shaved, revealing severe burns all over its body.

Since the incident, Ricky was refusing to eat or drink.

Jock's neighbor, Linda Emmord, had hired a crew claiming to work for a company called Blacktop Paving out of Mesquite, Texas, to work on the driveway at her home on Jarvis Street. It is believed that the crew intentionally sprayed Ricky with the hot asphalt. Emmord tried to track down the company, but could night find a working phone number.

On Friday, the Corpus Christi Police Department reported that they are working on locating the company responsible, and that if the case could be proven, the company could be charged with a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty.

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NEW BRAUNFELS Road construction contractors who have been a fixture on Walnut Avenue here for more than three years are due to leave by January but don't think the city's largest-ever capital improvement project will finally be done.

Texas Sterling Construction, which originally was slated to complete its part the $28.5 million job last June, will return when the weather warms to finish paving the newly-widened 1.5-mile stretch of the major traffic artery reaching north from Interstate 35.

The project's end can't come soon enough for motorists weary of delays and for nearby merchants who say its maze of detours and barricades drove off customers.

The barricades will be gone and all four lanes of the road should open to traffic Saturday, although it will be a bumpy ride until the final paving is done, said Octavio Garza, project supervisor for the city. Installing that last layer of asphalt, if done all at once, should take two weeks, he said.

Everybody is really frustrated with it taking forever, it seems like, to complete the project; the city, the contractor and the citizens, Garza said last week.

Texas Sterling has been docked $1,600 a day by the city in liquidated damages on its $15.5 million road construction contract since missing its initial deadline for substantial completion on April 3, Garza said. Company officials declined comment.

The hassles and hardhats have become an everyday reality in the dust-laden construction zone since the barricades first went up in September 2010.

It's been here so long that people don't even talk about it any more, said Larry Wenzel of Creative Eyewear, which lost an entrance driveway as part of the road's redesign.

Debbie Clark, owner of The Loft Salon next door, has taken to stalking Texas Sterling crews with her camera if she sees something fishy, like the day she says five workers were pushing each other up and down a closed road section in a rolling office chair.

I'll be so glad when we actually have the road open, said Clark, whose business opened six months before the crews arrived. Our clients will know where to turn in and we won't have all the dust.

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Lighted ceiling fans are multi-functional. They serve the purpose of beautifying a room while providing a cool breeze and central lighting that reaches farther than light from a table lamp, which only benefits the person sitting right beside it. Lighted ceiling fans are a little more difficult to install than regular ceiling fans because you have to wire the light fitter kit to the regular fan, but with an assistant to help you with the weight of the fan, the installation shouldn't take more than 1 hour.

Before you begin working on electrical wiring, you should turn off the light switch and the circuit breaker in the room in which the ceiling fan will be installed. Try to install the ceiling fan during the daytime so you can open a window for natural light. If you're doing the installation during the night, get as much light as you can from other rooms as possible, and having a spotlight will be a tremendous help.

Remove the cover of the outlet box on the ceiling and expose the wires you'll use to connect the fan. This is normally done with a Phillips screwdriver, but if you don't have one, a flathead screwdriver will work.

Using the screws that you just removed from the outlet box cover, connect the ceiling fan's mounting bracket to the outlet box. If you're installing the fan on an angled wall, see that the open end of the mounting bracket is turned toward the higher side of the ceiling. If it's turned toward the lower side, the fan blades will hit the ceiling when they're installed.

On the ceiling fan motor, take out the motor screws and washers from the bottom of the motor.

Decide whether you want to use a short downrod or a long one. A long downrod is only used for high ceilings. Once you've decided, push the wires from the top of the motor up through the downrod, slide the canopy (the part of the ceiling fan that covers the mounting bracket) over the downrod with the open side facing upward and then slide the yoke cover (the part of the ceiling fan that covers the screws at the bottom end of the downrod) over the downrod with the open side facing downward.

Take out the pin and the clip that holds the pin at the top of the motor and slide the downrod into the motor. Once the downrod is in the motor, slide the pin back into place and lock the downrod and the motor together with the holding clip.

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MOUNT ARLINGTON Philip L. Rosende left more than his car behind on Route 80 over the weekend, State Police say.

While the troopers were on the scene, another vehicle pulled over onto the shoulder of the road, with 29-year-old Rosende in the passenger seat, Grossman said. Rosende identified himself as the owner and operator of the unoccupied vehicle, Grossman said.

Rosende showed signs of impairment and was placed under arrest, Grossman said. The troopers found 97 heroin wax folds in Rosende's trunk, he said.

The Daily Record, citing a criminal complaint filed in Superior Court, said troopers also reported finding another two decks of heroin in Rosende's jeans pockets. Grossman said he didn't have information on that available.

Troopers also found a stun gun and a switchblade in the car, Grossman said.

Rosende was charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while intoxicated or impaired. He was lodged in the Morris County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 bail.

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