Texas 6B News Messenger, Monday, April 21, 1997 Officials say church blaze was probably set WOODRIDGE APARTMENTS COLLE YVILLE (AP) A blaze at one building of a church involved in a fee dispute with this Tarrant County community was suspicious, investigators said today. The back of the wood-frame St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church's fellowship hall was gutted in the blaze Saturday. Fire CapL Andy Stoody said someone probably set the blaze. "Exactly how it was started or the motive, we don't have any of that yet," Stoody said.
For months, the church has battled city leaders over impact fees on an addition that would have replaced the dilapidated hall. Last week, the City Council refused to waive about $17,000 in impact fees. The congregation, mostly Romanian immigrants, cannot afford the impact fees, said Constantin Ispas, president of St. Mary's. A sign posted last week on the church, one of only two Romanian Orthodox sanctuaries in Texas, read: "Why the mayor and City Council of Colleyville doesn't like this church?" No one was in the hall when the fire was reported about 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, but a neighbor saw a man nearby a few minutes before the blaze began. The church next door was not damaged. No damage estimate was available. The Tarrant County Arson Task Force was examining debris from the fire and other potential evidence. More than 200 black and multiracial churches many in the southern United States have burned since 1990.
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The state's libraries lose roughly $14.5 million in books not returned each year, according to a Texas Library Association survey of 200 of the state's 500 public libraries. Harris County libraries lose $200,000 a year in long overdue books, while El Paso loses $273,000, according to the association. ESJV TT Earhart imitator faces leaky, cold co*ckpit PASADENA (AP) Authorities were attempting today to determine if the body of a girl found in a field matches the description of a 12-year-old Friendswood girl missing since April 3. Laura Kate Smither has not been seen since that morning when she left her home for what she said was a jog. The gruesome discovery was made Sunday afternoon by a man and his son training a dog in the field.
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