Parks and Wildlife Department keeping report on three Scouts’ deaths secret
FOIFT2017-10-17T14:00:26-05:00By Jo Lee Ferguson Longview News-Journal Originally published Oct. 17, 2017 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wants to keep secret a report on the deaths this summer of three Boy Scouts who were electrocuted while sailboating on Lake O' the Pines. The News-Journal had requested a copy of the report once it was completed, but an attorney for the agency said Monday that Texas Parks and Wildlife "believes the requested records may be confidential" because the accident involved "two children." One of the three boys was 17. The accident occurred Aug. 5, when the mast of a sailboat struck a [...]