WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The trial of a Waco woman who police say was drunk and crashed into two cars in a school pick-up line was delayed Monday after a gas leak forced evacuation of the McLennan County Courthouse and adjacent buildings.

Jury selection in Whitney Ashton Hayes’ DWI trial had begun Monday morning in McLennan County Court-at-Law No. 2 when a contractor working on the renovation of the old downtown county jail struck a gas line between the courthouse and the courthouse annex, authorities said. The building is being converted into a county courts building.

County officials evacuated the courthouse, the annex, the county maintenance building and the former IT building as a precaution while the line was repaired. No injuries were reported, but first-floor courthouse employees repo

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