PIGSKIN PREVIEW Find out who’s BETTER in HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL and who’s BEST in a -PAGE SPECIAL 48 SECTION. $1.50 SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2010 ■ CITY EDITION 95°/75° Mostly sunny What Quick Read SCOFFLAWS OWE happens TAX-FREE WEEKEND $15.8 CORPUS CHRISTI aft er the CONTINUES The state’s annual tax-free holiday runs storm? until midnight today. Items less than $100 ■ each are exempt from Plan lays out the 8.25 percent sales tax, includ ing school who comes supplies, clothing, back and when backpacks and diapers . MILLION Go to Caller.com to post-hurricane see a full list of the ■ Uninsured motorists total a third of all fi nes due KATHERINE ROSENBERG tax-free items.
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[email protected] / 886-3767 gency planners learned VIOLATION Number of from hurricanes Katrina Corpus Christi drivers Unpaid Fines DELINQUENT CASES and Ike is not what to do caught behind the wheel From a randomly selected to prepare for a storm, but without car insurance Failed to maintain financial responsibility 10,990 sample of 60 cases. what to do after as people aren’t slowed down by Failed to display driver’s license 3,792 return. the city’s enforcement Public intoxication/alcohol 3,558 That’s why area offi cials system, which gives ha- Speeding 3,513 43% On a payment plan are outlining who gets to bitual offenders little Expired registration 3,372 come back first, based on incentive to comply with Failure to appear 2,859 who is most needed to get the law.