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SAN ANTONIO – Detectives continued to question women at a San Antonio rehabilitation center Saturday after the body of a newborn girl was found in a center dryer.

The girl’s body was found Friday night wrapped in bloody towels and clothes in the laundry room of the Victory Home in southwestern San Antonio, said police Sgt. Rudy Cran. He said paramedics believed the infant was born at full term, but it was unclear how long the body had been in the dryer, which was not turned on.

Company cited for permit violations

DAISETTA – A company that sits near the edge of a massive sinkhole in Southeast Texas has been accused of violating permits for disposal of saltwater, which some geologists suggest may have caused the crater.

However, officials with the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates such permits, stressed Friday that the cause of the sinkhole has not been determined.

The sinkhole in the small Southeast Texas town of Daisetta began as a 20-foot hole in the ground on Wednesday, but by Thursday had grown to 900 feet across at its widest point and 260 feet deep.

Missing cash, drugs prompts probe

GALVESTON – The disappearance of cash and drugs from the Galveston Police Department’s property room has prompted the dismissal of 16 cases and a Texas Rangers audit of 2,100 other cases.

Local officers began a criminal investigation after about $18,000 in cash and an undisclosed amount of cocaine, hydrocodone and Ecstasy disappeared from the property room last month.

A civilian employee was fired, but no one has been charged with any crime. Charges likely won’t be filed until the state’s investigation is complete, said City Manager Steve LeBlanc.

Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk and city and other county officials decided the evidence remaining in the property room should be examined by an outside law enforcement agency.

Compiled from Advocate wire reports