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9:15 The American reader and the newspaper
9:45 History and anatomy of page one
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10:30 Language of design
11 Modular design and designing modules
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3:55 Wrapping it all up
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The Farmersville Times
Serving Farmersville and East Collin County Since 1885
• Farmersville, Texas, Thursday, September 27, 2018 • 2 Sections, 10 Pages $1.00
Farmersville Football takes on visiting liFe Waxahachie Friday – sports, 1b
Volume 132
Issue 43
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .3B
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . .. .3A
Opinion . . . . . . . . . ... . . .4A
Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . 3B
Sports . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 1B
InsIde thIs Issue
Lake Lavon Levels
Normal – 492
494.70 ft
as of 09/25/18
Lake Jim Chapman
Normal 440 – Current
438.37 ft
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers
© Copyright 2018. All Rights Reserved.
C&S Media Publications
Courtesy Collin County Sheriff’s Office
A Kansas City Southern railroad train was derailed Friday, Sept. 21 as a result of flooding. More than 12 inches of rain fell over the weekend.
Additional photos page 6A.
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
A train derailment occurred
and multiple roads were closed
after more than 12 inches of
rain fell over the weekend in
the Farmersville area.
It was all hands on deck Fri-
day, Sept. 21 around 11 p.m.
when a Kansas City Southern
train en route from Shreveport
to Dallas derailed two loco-
motives and 11 rail cars near
County Road 605 and County
Road 558 outside Farmersville.
According to information
released from KCS railroad, no
one was injured in the derail-
ment.
A small amount of diesel
fuel leaked from one of the lo-
comotives and is being remedi-
ated by the company. A tank
car spilled non-hazmat brake
fluid while other cars spilled
steel plates.
The rail line was closed to
train traffic until 2 a.m. Sun-
day, Sept. 23 and further clean
up is in progress.
The cause of the derailment
is under investigation, KCS
representatives stated.
Flooding, along with wind
and thunderstorms, created
other issues for Farmersville
including an hour long power
outage in the city and a 6-inch
water line breaking behind
H&H Storage on the corner
of Hwy. 78 and Farmersville
Pkwy.
According to City Manager
Ben White an alert about wa-
ter usage was sent out as a pre-
caution since the water tower
See TRAIN page 6A
Deluge creates closures, train derailment
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
A three-year battle to restrict
the use of a 34-acre tract of land
for an Islamic cemetery ended
last Thursday.
In a special meeting Thurs-
day, Sept. 20 Farmersville City
Council unanimously approved
a settlement with the Islamic
Association of Collin County
which will allow the group to
move forward with its develop-
ment of the property.
The land overlooks Lake La-
von and is in the city’s extra-
territorial jurisdiction located
along Hwy. 380 and CR 557.
The city’s attempts to block
the cemetery ended after it ap-
proved the settlement, reversed
last year’s decision to disap-
prove the tract’s preliminary
plat and approved the prelimi-
nary plat.
The settlement states the city
will approve the final plat with-
in 21 days after submission as
long as it meets all of the city’s
requirements.
IACC did not ask for any
money to be reimbursed by the
city, including their legal fees.
The settlement agreement also
includes a release of claims
from the IACC against the city.
According to First Liberty
Institute, a Plano based non-
profit group that specializes
in religious liberty cases, the
settlement will allow IACC to
move forward with the platting
process “without fear that there
will continue to be religious lib-
erty violations.”
In a press release from First
Liberty, Chelsey Youman, coun-
sel for the organization said
“Religious liberty in America
includes the rights of landown-
ers to use their land for religious
purposes, including burial in
accordance with religious tradi-
tion.
“Politicians in Farmersville
would have spent thousands of
See CEMETERY page 5A
Islamic cemetery approved by council
Lindsay Bain/The Farmersville Times
Preparing for set up
Farmersville’s Jordan Davis prepares to set the ball up at the net against Community
last Friday in the District 13-4A opener. The Lady Farmers won the match in five sets.
For the story and additional photos see this week’s Sports. Additional photos at farmer-
svilletimes.com.
By Morgan Howard
Staff Writer
[email protected]
School board members
voted on a set of goals for the
new school year.
At a meeting Monday,
Sept. 24, the board approved
S.M.A.R.T. goals. School dis-
trict employees will work to
achieve all objectives by the
end of the 2018-’19 school
year.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for
“Specific,” “Measurable,”
“Attainable,” “Relevant”
and “Time-bound.” These at-
tributes are intended to keep
FISD on track with improving
schools.
Two specific goals are
increasing student profi-
ciency in reading and math.
Board members hope the
S.M.A.R.T. outline will help
teachers better prepare stu-
dents for standardized testing.
“Every kid needs to get
better,” Superintendent Jeff
Adams said. “We shouldn’t
sit in a classroom all day and
not get better. We want to see
improvement. They’ve got
to get better than what they
were.”
The board also voted to ap-
prove a memorial plaque in
honor of Glenn McClain, who
died in August.
The plaque will highlight
McClain’s service as a school
board member and football
game announcer. It will be lo-
cated near the concession area
in Fightin’ Farmer Stadium.
McClain’s seat in the
school board will remain va-
cant until the May 2019 elec-
tion.
According to new state
guidelines handed down,
board members must receive
their required training by the
See SCHOOL page 2A
School board sets
goals for school year
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
Those interested in being a
vendor for Old Time Saturday
only have a short amount of
time left to apply.
One of the highlights of
OTS, scheduled for Saturday,
Oct. 6, is the vendors that pro-
vide good eats, tasty treats and
fun shopping.
Vendors have until Wednes-
day, Oct. 3 to reserve their
spots. Booth spaces that sur-
round the Onion Shed are avail-
able for food, arts and crafts
and service related vendors.
Spaces range from $50 to
$160 and can include electricity
for an additional cost.
Vendor applications are
available online at www.farm-
ersvilletx.com. For more infor-
mation regarding vendors con-
tact Cynthia Craddock-Clark at
469-422-2261.
Many other activities are also
included in Old Time Saturday
including the annual East-
ern Star Pancake Breakfast at
Farmersville High School from
7 a.m. until 11 a.m.
Tickets are $8 each and will
include pancakes, sausage,
juice, milk or coffee. Kids un-
der 2 eat free accompanied by
an adult.
Tickets are available in ad-
vance from any Eastern Star
member or the day of the event
at the high school.
To burn off the calories from
the pancake breakfast, there
will be the annual Audie Mur-
phy Hero 5K run from 7:30
a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
The run will start at Farm-
ersville Heritage Museum.
See OTS page 2A
Vendor
deadline
Oct. 3 for
OTS

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Traditional lead
Celtics control Game One.
Boston dominated top-seed
Milwaukee in the opener of
round two in the playoffs. C1.
House Democrats and the Jus-
tice Department battled over
the parameters of Attorney
General William Barr’s planned
testimony this week, raising
the prospect that the hearing
might not happen. A2.
Spaniards appeared to hand
the governing Socialist Party a
decisive victory in an election
that featured heavy turnout
and bolstered a far-right na-
tionalist group. A3.
A California company said it
had created a breath analysis
test for marijuana impairment
among drivers. B1.
Apple has removed or restrict-
ed at least 11 of the 17 most
downloaded screen-time and
parental-control apps, frustrat-
ing users. D2.
Richard Lugar died. The six-
term senator (right) from Indi-
ana was an influential voice on
foreign policy who sought bi-
partisan solutions. D6.
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M o n d a y , A p r i l 2 9 , 2 0 1 9
By John Hilliard
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Bryan Snow, an electrician from Peabody, knows
about the pain opioid addiction can inflict on a
family. The 41-year-old spent years battling the dis-
ease, not seeking the help he needed, in part be-
cause of attitudes in the construction industry.
Snow, drug-free now for seven years, said the in-
dustry must work to encourage those struggling
with addiction to come forward to get treatment.
“It needs to be out there: ‘If you need help, you
can come. It’s OK,’ ” Snow said.
As soaring numbers of construction workers
battle addiction, building trades leaders in Boston
are launching a conference this week intended to
do just that: show contractors and union members
how they can help those who are hooked on drugs
and alcohol.
“We don’t [push] someone away who gets can-
cer or diabetes; we shouldn’t get rid of someone
who suffers addiction,” said Thomas Gunning III,
director of labor relations for the Building Trades
Employers’ Association, which is organizing the
event.
“It’s a disease of the mind, and we want to help
them,” he said.
The goal of the weeklong conference is to help
break down the stigma surrounding substance
abuse disorder that discourages people in the in-
dustry from seeking help, Gunning said.
Organizers are also calling for Narcan to be
available at all job sites to help prevent overdose
deaths, he added.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh will speak Monday at the
conference, according to a spokeswoman; it kicks
off at 5 p.m. at IBEW Local 103’s headquarters on
ADDICTION, Page A6
By Jeremy C. Fox
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Seventeen years after he pleaded guilty to his
role in the murders of two beloved Dartmouth Col-
lege professors, James Parker, who was 16 when he
and his best friend killed Susanne and Half Zantop,
wants to be a free man.
Parker, 34, is set to appear Tuesday in New
Hampshire’s Grafton Superior Court for a hearing
on a motion to suspend his sen-
tence of 25 years to life and re-
lease him from the New Hamp-
shire State Prison for Men in
Concord.
His attorney, Cathy Green,
contends that, while spending
more than half his life behind
bars, Parker has been a model
prisoner, rehabilitated himself,
and earned another shot at life.
If released, he initially would
live with his parents and take a
construction job with his fa-
ther, a contractor.
The state attorney general’s office argues that,
because the killings of Susanne Zantop, 55, chair-
woman of Dartmouth’s German studies program,
and Half Zantop, 62, a Dartmouth professor of
earth sciences, were brutal and premeditated, and
because Parker was given the minimum sentence,
DARTMOUTH, Page A6
By Jess Bidgood
GLOBE STAFF
HOUSTON — This wasn’t just any cam-
paign stop for Bernie Sanders: The forum
was aimed at women of color, and it offered
the irascible Vermont senator a chance to
connect with many voters who did not
warm to his last presidential bid, in 2016.
But when Sanders took the stage at the
She the People Presidential Forum last week,
he did not exactly win over the crowd.
He barreled through big policy propos-
als, speaking with his trademark brusque-
ness amid groans from the audience, while
moderators repeatedly urged him to more
specifically address women of color in the
crowd. Why, they asked, should they sup-
port him?
“Look at my record,” Sanders said, wag-
ging his finger for emphasis, “and look what
I have campaigned on.”
Afterward, several attendees described
Sanders as “agitated,” “frustrated,” and
seemingly underprepared.
“He was the same cantankerous person
that he always is,” said Marsha Jones, 58,
SANDERS, Page A6
By Evan Allen
GLOBE STAFF
Inside the mint-green house on Mattapan
Street, Eleanor Maloney hugged her chil-
dren, cradled her grandbabies, and tended
her mother until she died peacefully at 100
years old. She was the lifeline of a huge and
close-knit family that sprawled all the way to
Barbados, but had a home, always, at No.
17.
She was cooking for them on April 6
when she realized she needed something at
the corner store. She left her unseasoned
chicken and stepped out of her house, past
her brother, her daughter, and the grandson
she treasured, who had just gotten out of
prison and vowed to turn his life around af-
ter years of trouble.
She was on the sidewalk, according to her
family, when the shooting started: bullets
tearing through the warm spring air toward
her grandson.
To the neighbors who loved her, 74-year-
old Maloney was “Ma,” generous and funny
and patient, the boisterous barbecues she
hosted open to all. To the patients rushed to
Boston Medical Center, where she worked
for 44 years as an operating-room assistant,
she was a calm, quick, and sure presence,
MALONEY, Page A5
Building
trades
targeting
addiction
Conference aims to reduce
stigma, promote treatment
Confessed
killer seeks
early release
Man has served 17 years
for role in brutal murders
of Dartmouth professors
For Sanders, a charm defensive
Famously gruff, he leans
on policy, not personality
Loss, and mystery, linger
With no charges filed for the crime, a woman’s
slaying haunts her Mattapan neighborhood
MICHAEL WYKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some at a Houston forum last week thought
Senator Bernie Sanders came across as “agitated.’’
For breaking news, updated
stories, and more, visit our website:
BostonGlobe.com
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Peek-a-blue
In the news
PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF
Women dressed in hospital garb spoke to Police Commissioner William Gross at Eleanor Maloney’s funeral service on April 17.
By Naomi Martin
GLOBE STAFF
Each day, the cars would cruise onto the Milton driveway to the $1.9
million mansion. The drivers would retrieve plastic cases full of brown
paper bags, authorities said, returning hours later with cash.
The scene described in a federal agent’s affidavit led to the arrest this
month of the home’s owner, Deana Martin, 51. She was accused of con-
spiring to sell 220 pounds of marijuana through her unlicensed online
delivery service, Northern Herb, which employed 25 people and alleged-
ly paid no taxes.
With sales of $14 million, Northern Herb was one of the biggest Mas-
sachusetts marijuana operations shut down in recent memory. But even
now with recreational pot legal in the state, the size of Northern Herb
and its many competitors shows that the illegal market continues to
thrive — undercutting the legal trade and filling a need for many con-
sumers.
About 75 percent of the state’s cannabis sales this year will take place
under the table, according to industry analysts, who blamed the state’s
slow rollout of stores, many of them in far-flung communities. Two-and-
a-half years after voters approved legalization, home delivery is not al-
lowed and only 15 retail stores have opened statewide, with just one in
Greater Boston.
The Northern Herb bust was celebrated by police, some policy mak-
ers, and medical marijuana dispensaries, who called this month for a
systematic crackdown on illicit sellers.
MARIJUANA, Page A4
Crackdown on illegal pot splits cannabis community
Unlicensed dealers fill need, some say,
as legitimate industry struggles to grow
PHOTOS BY DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
Federal authorities say an unlawful pot delivery business was
being operated from the house at this Milton address.
CHUCK ROBINSON/AP
James Parker in
custody in 2001.
Maloney was beloved by kin and friends
for her warm and loving disposition.
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lottery news 3 ●
horoscopes news 5 ●
obituaries news 6 ●
opinion news 8
puzzles sports 7, 9 ●
tonight on tv sports 9 ●
comics sports 8 ●
classified sports 6
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Informing more than 1 million Maryland readers weekly in print and online MONDAY
Price $2. Our 182nd year, No. 119 April 29, 2019
baltimoresun.com
NATION
THE FAITHFUL ATTACKED: When gunfire
erupted inside a Southern California synagogue,
a woman was was killed and two others,
including the rabbi, were wounded, and now
political, civic and religious leaders struggle to
make sense of yet another fatal attack on a house
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Giving the City Council power to force
outBaltimore’smayorispartofapackageof
legislative reforms being introduced Mon-
day.
The proposals come amid FBI raids,
ongoing investigations and calls for Demo-
cratic Mayor Catherine Pugh’s resignation
— all fallout from more than $800,000 in
deals she struck to sell her self-published
“Healthy Holly” children book series.
The 14-member council, all Democrats,
have called for Pugh to resign, as have
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, the city’s
members in the state House of Delegates
(alsoDemocrats)andtheGreaterBaltimore
Committee, an influential business and
civic group.
As it is now, a mayor can only be ousted
after being convicted of a crime.
“We heard loud and clear: People want
the council to do something,” Councilman
Kristerfer Burnett said. “They want us to
act. This whole situation has been incred-
ibly embarrassing, incredibly disappoint-
ing. It has rocked the city to the core.”
Burnett is the lead sponsor of a charter
amendmentthatwouldallowthecouncilto
remove the mayor with the approval of
three-fourths of its members. The council
could consider such a vote in cases of
incompetency, misconduct in office, willful
neglect of duty or if a mayor committed a
felony or misdemeanor. The process would
include public hearings and investigations
by the council and the city’s independent
inspector general.
The council currently has the power to
remove the comptroller, council president
Leaders
seek
charter
reforms
Baltimore City Council
members want legislative
power to remove mayor
See REFORMS, page 6
By Yvonne Wenger
The Baltimore Sun
A leaky pipe that Bryant Oden got fixed
in 2017 is still causing headaches today:
The mortgage payment on his Windsor
Mill home jumped by $750 a month.
The leak led to a Baltimore County
sewer service charge of $4,435, more than
10 times what he was charged the previous
year. That fee was part of his annual
property tax bill the county sent in July —
and his mortgage company paid it, wiping
out his escrow account.
Oden didn’t realize that until the
mortgage company adjusted his payments
in December. By then, it was too late to
appeal the county bill.
“It has been a horrible experience for
me and my wife,” said Oden, 53, a
lieutenant with the Maryland Transporta-
tionAuthorityPolice.“Iwouldn’twantany
other county resident to go through what
we had to go through.”
About 230,000 county households get
water from Baltimore’s system. While the
city handles water billing for properties
located in the county, the county adminis-
ters sewer service fees. The county calcu-
lates the sewer charges based on the prior
year’s water consumption. But even when
the city adjusts a person’s water bill
because of a leak or meter errors — as the
city did for Oden — the county doesn’t
automatically follow suit.
Susan Karasinski’s dispute has dragged
on for three years. After being charged
$11,558 for sewer service in the summer of
2016, Karasinski took her case to the
countyBoardofAppeals,whichconcluded
that her water meter malfunctioned and
ruled in her favor. But the county appealed
totheCircuitCourtandthentheMaryland
Court of Special Appeals, and Karasinski
Susan Karasinski sits with a pile of legal documents and bills at her home Thursday.
KARL MERTON FERRON/THE BALTIMORE SUN
Balto. Co. homeowners
dispute high sewer bills
Councilman says officials should address how issues are handled
By Alison Knezevich
The Baltimore Sun
See BILLS, page 7
“I feel like David and Goliath, and I’m getting nowhere.”
— Susan Karasinski, resident disputing a $11,558 sewer service bill
Juan Grant, a close family
friendofFreddieGray’swholed
protests in front of the Western
District police station demand-
ing answers after Gray’s death
from injuries suffered in police
custody in 2015, was shot to
death in West Baltimore on
Saturday, his family said.
Grant, whose brother had a
child with Gray’s twin sister,
was best friends with Gray and
considered the two brothers-in-law. As
tensions rose in the days after the
25-year-old died of spinal cord injuries
following his arrest four years ago near
Gilmor Homes, Grant returned daily to
the police station and met with then-
Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and
then-Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis,
desperate for information.
“He was trying to make a difference in
his own way,” said Frederina Grant, his
grandmother.“Hewasdeterminedthathe
was going to march and have people
march with him to find out what hap-
pened.”
Detectives told Grant’s
grandmothers the 33-year-
old had been driving back to
his grandmother’s Westwood
Avenue home about 8 p.m.
Saturday after dropping off a
cousinwhohaddoneworkon
her house when his black
Cadillac collided with a dirt
bike in the 1800 block of N.
Payson St., his grandmother
said. He got out of the car, she
said. “I don’t know whether it
was to confront this person or
to see if this person was OK.
“Whoever it was just shot him,” Frede-
rina Grant said.
He was taken to a hospital, where he
was pronounced dead with gunshot
wounds to the head.
Melvin Russell, a former police com-
mander who headed the department’s
community relations efforts for decades
before retiring last week, recalled the
“frustration, anger and hostility” from
Grant and the others who yelled at him
and other police officials, demanding to
Juan Grant killed
in West Baltimore
Friend of Freddie Gray led protests after his death
By Colin Campbell
The Baltimore Sun
Juan Grant, a close
friend of Freddie
Gray’s, was killed
Saturday.
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Newburyport ........3
Obituaries ..............5
Opinion ...................4
Public Notices ......13
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HISTORY HAPPENINGS
William Stickney Allen was born
in Newburyport on April 30, 1805.
He studied at Dartmouth, gradu-
ating in 1824, and opened a law
office in Newburyport in 1827. In
the 1830s, he was a proprietor of
the Newburyport Daily and Semi-
Weekly Herald. In 1837, he moved
to St. Louis and continued work-
ing in the newspaper business.
— The Museum of Old Newbury
New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2017 Newspaper of the Year
N EW B U RY P O R T —
Less than two weeks after
announcing his presidential
campaign, Congressman
Seth Moulton will host a
town hall meeting Sunday
afternoon at the Senior Com-
munity Center.
Moulton, a Salem Demo-
crat, announced he was
jumping into the crowded
Democratic field in the 2020
election when he appeared
o n A B C ’ s
“Good Morn-
ing America”
o n A p r i l
22, ending
more than
a month of
speculation.
The town
hall meeting,
scheduled for 3 p.m. at 331
High St., is open to the pub-
lic and does not require an
RSVP.
“I am looking forward to
listening to the members of
our community who join me
in Newburyport on Sunday,
answering questions, and
sharing some ideas about
how to make government
work better for us,” Moulton
said in a press release.
Moulton is one of 21 Demo-
crats who have announced
presidential bids, includ-
ing former Vice President
Joe Biden — who joined the
race three days after the
congressman, all hoping to
unseat incumbent Donald
Trump.
The pool of candidates
also includes several other
well-known candidates,
including Vermont Sen. Ber-
nie Sanders, California Sen.
Kamala Harris, Massachu-
setts Sen. Elizabeth War-
ren and rising stars such as
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor
Pete Buttigieg.
In February, Moulton told
BuzzFeed he was “looking
at” a presidential run. Since
then, he has traveled to New
Hampshire, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Iowa and
Nevada, speaking mostly to
veterans groups and young
Democrats about his vision
for the country.
In recent weeks, Moulton
has pushed the notion that
his candidacy would focus
on what others aren’t talk-
ing about: national security,
defense and foreign policy
— issues on which he says
Trump does not have a firm
grasp.
At the Brookings Institute
in Washington, Moulton said
the U.S. needs to strengthen
ties with allies, rethink
Moulton plans meeting in Newburyport on Sunday
By Jack Shea
[email protected]
Seth
Moulton
BOSTON — Nearly every elected official
in Massachusetts, from the governor to
members of town boards, recites the phase,
“So help me, God” when taking the oath of
office.
On Beacon Hill, a key committee in the
Democrat-controlled Legislature wants to
eliminate the reference to the deity.
A proposal approved last week by the
influential Joint Committee on the Judiciary
calls for using a secular version, known as
the Quaker Oath, which substitutes “swear”
with “affirm” and the phrase, “So help me,
God” with, “This I do under the pains and
penalties of perjury.”
The measure was filed by Rep. Mindy
Domb, D-Amherst, and 13 other Democratic
lawmakers, including Reps. Christina Mini-
cucci, D-North Andover, and Tram Nguyen,
D-Andover. The group of mostly freshman
lawmakers is also backing a proposal to
amend the Constitution to make it gen-
der neutral, changing the pronoun “he” to
PROPOSAL
REMOVES
‘GOD’
FROM OATH
By chriStian M. Wade
[email protected]
Mass. Constitution
would be amended
NEWBURYPORT — Superintendent
Sean Gallagher recently gave an overview
of what he learned after spending his first
school year meeting with teachers, fami-
lies and students to discuss strengths and
areas of improvement.
In the fall, Gallagher laid out an entry
plan for his initial academic year as super-
intendent of the Newburyport School
District.
From personal interviews, Gallagher said
he’s done ample research to receive feed-
back from people in the school system and
community, giving him insight on how to
move the district forward.
“I really took a personal approach to ana-
lyzing and gathering survey data, which I
really believe is helpful, because I can meet
with people one on one and in classrooms
with teachers,” Gallagher said.
“I really support that and it was instru-
mental in my entry plan. Also, throughout
Superintendent
shares
first-year
experiences
By aManda Getchell
[email protected]
See PROPOSAL, Page 8
See MOULTON, Page 8
See OVERVIEW, Page 8
Best of ballot Page 7
Triton softball rolls past Rockport, 19-0 Page 9
The town hall meeting, scheduled for
3 p.m. at 331 High St., is open to the
public and does not require an RSVP.
NEWBURYPORT — Leg-
end has it, if you search far
and wide, a dog named Pablo
can be found hiding in the
corners of Maudslay State
Park with a box of Papa
Gino’s pizza sitting at his
paws.
At least that’s the myth,
according to “How Pablo
the Pizza-Eating Dog
Wrecked Papa Gino’s”
by William Gorman, one
of 44 Newburyport High
School freshmen who wrote,
published and read their
own original tales to second-
grade students at Francis
T. Bresnahan Elementary
School.
The high school students
are members of an English
class who made the short
field trip down the street to
the elementary school Mon-
day morning.
Each year, ninth-
and eleventh-grade
NHS students publish, read books to second-graders
By aManda Getchell
[email protected]
Telling the tale of the myth
BRYAN EATON/Staff photos
Francis T. Bresnahan Elementary School second-grader Addison Forrest, 8, listens intently as Newburyport High School
student Owen Keogh, 14, reads his book, “The Story of How Mr. Rex Invented Soccer,” about an educator who tries to make his
classes more interesting.
Newburyport High School students each wrote a small book
that they published.
NEWBURY — The warrant
article that received some of the
most spirited discussion at the
annual Town Meeting last week
was nearly overturned on a legal
technicality the following day.
Article 8, an appropriation of
$112,000 to fund the town’s media
operations and cable access pro-
gramming, was increased to
$162,000 on the meeting floor.
Selectman Damon Jespersen
amended the motion after it
became clear that many in the
audience were eager to see the
Triton Regional High School
media program more adequately
funded.
Although the amended motion
was approved, questions were
raised after the meeting as to
whether the motion was valid,
given that the amount Jespersen
proposed was higher than what
was listed on the posted warrant.
State law indicates that no
action can be taken at a town
meeting unless it appears on a
warrant that is posted publicly
for two weeks prior. Many town
moderators have interpreted
that to mean any changes to a
dollar amount stated in an article
may be lowered, but not raised,
at the time the motion under the
article is made.
Ultimately, however, town
counsel Lisa Mead saw it differ-
ently, saying that Massachusetts
courts have consistently ruled
that “warrants are to be liber-
ally interpreted and not strictly
construed.”
Because the article as posted
Triton warrant article encounters obstacle
By Jennifer SoliS
Correspondent
See STUDENTS, Page 8
Although the amended motion was approved,
questions were raised after the meeting as to
whether the motion was valid, given that the
amount Jespersen proposed was higher than
what was listed on the posted warrant.
See TRITON, Page 8
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One guard badly hurt while another
says blaze was started by one of the
prisoners igniting a mattress in cell.
Michelle Theriault Boots
Anchorage Daily News
Two prisoners died in their jail cells ear-
ly Sunday when the Napakiak jail in South-
west Alaska went up in fl ames, the Alaska
State Troopers said.
A jail guard was seriously injured trying
to free the prisoners.
Troopers first received a report that
the Napakiak jail was “fully engulfed in
fl ames” at 1:27 a.m. on Sunday.
“It was reported that two jail guards
were able to get out of the building; how-
ever, two prisoners who were inside the jail
cells were not able to get free,” troopers
wrote in an online report.
When the fi re was extinguished, “two
bodies were located at the scene,” troop-
ers said.
One jail guard was seriously injured
trying to free the prisoners and was fl own
out of the community by a medevac heli-
copter. He was hospitalized for injuries,
troopers said.
A different guard “reported that the fi re
was a result of one of the prisoners setting
fi re to the mattress in their jail cell,” ac-
cording to troopers.
Authorities have not yet identifi ed the
victims.
Napakiak is a village of about 380 peo-
ple southwest of Bethel, on the Kusko-
kwim River.
Many aspects of the fire remained
under question as of Sunday night, includ-
ing who operated the jail, what the victims
were in custody for, whether the building
was equipped with smoke detectors, and
how materials to start a fi re got into the
holding cell.
In hubs like Bethel and Nome, regional
jails are operated by the Alaska Depart-
ment of Corrections. But in smaller villag-
es, local governments may run the jail for
short-term detention that are sometimes
NAPAKIAK
2 prisoners killed in jail fi re in Southwest Alaska village
Karoun Demirjian
and Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Democrats
and the Justice Department are
in a standoff over the terms of
Attorney General William Barr’s
planned testimony
before the House
Judiciary Commit-
tee this week, rais-
ing the prospect
that the hearing
might not go for-
ward at all.
A senior Dem-
ocratic committee
aide said Sunday
that Barr risks be-
ing subpoenaed if he refuses to
testify over his objections to the
lawmakers’ desired format for the
hearing.
Barr is expected to appear be-
fore the Senate and House Judi-
ciary committees on Wednesday
and Thursday, respectively, to
address questions about special
counsel Robert Mueller III’s re-
port on Russian interference in
the 2016 election. But according to
senior aides for the panel’s chair-
man, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.,
Justice Department offi cials have
objected to Democrats’ plans to
permit extended questioning, in-
cluding by the committee’s law-
yers, and said Barr may withdraw.
A Justice Department offi cial
said discussions are ongoing.
“The attorney general agreed
to appear before Congress,” Jus-
tice Department spokeswoman
Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
“Therefore, members of Con-
gress should be the ones doing
the questioning. He remains
happy to engage with Members
on their questions regarding the
Mueller report.”
The dispute amplifies what’s
become a tense political battle
between Democrats and the Jus-
tice Department, with lawmakers
NATION
Barr may
refuse to
testify at
Mueller
report
hearing
See BARR, A3
Felicia Sonmez and Ashley Parker
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — First came Joe Biden’s
campaign announcement video highlighting
President Donald Trump’s “very fine peo-
ple on both sides” comment about the 2017
white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia, that left a counterprotester dead.
Then Trump dug in, arguing that he was
referring not to the self-professed neo-Nazi
marchers, but to those who had opposed the
removal of a statue of the “great” Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Less than 24 hours later came another act
of violence described by authorities as a hate
crime: Saturday’s shooting at a synagogue in
Poway, California, in which a gunman killed
one person and injured three others.
Those events have pushed the rising tide
2020 ELECTION
Rising tide of white nationalism
is at fore of presidential race
See WHITE NATIONALISTS, A16
There are plenty of ways to help
during Citywide Cleanup week.
Madeline McGee
Anchorage Daily News
A lot of orange appeared in An-
chorage on Saturday.
It was almost impossible to drive
more than a mile along the Seward
Highway without seeing yet another
crop of orange garbage bags, a hall-
mark of Citywide Cleanup volunteers.
The volunteers — sporting trash
grabbers, latex gloves and, of course,
the orange bags — have come out
in force this week to clean up the
broken bottles, food containers, candy
wrappers, old receipts and discarded
clothing newly exposed by the melting
snow.
Annual cleanup week, a 51-year
community service event sponsored
by the Anchorage Chamber of Com-
merce, collects millions of pounds
of trash from Anchorage roadways,
neighborhoods and creeks every year,
according to the chamber.
Some participants make it into
a true social gathering, capping off
their cleaning efforts with picnics and
barbecues.
ANCHORAGE
Putting trash in its place
Photos by LOREN HOLMES / ADN
David Funatake picks up trash along the Seward Highway at Sunshine Ridge, a rock climbing area near Beluga Point, on Saturday. Volunteers from the Climbers Alliance
of Southcentral Alaska, a climbers’ advocacy organization, set out to clear trash from seven popular crags along Turnagain Arm.
Volunteers from a Hmong group at Faith Lutheran Church deposit trash
they picked up from along the Seward Highway near Tudor Road.
See CLEANUP, A16
See JAIL FIRE, A3
INSIDE
Trump wrestles with 2020 balancing act. A7
Barr
Opinion A4 | Weather A6 | Berkshires B1 | Obits B4 | Sports C1 | Business C6
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Great Barrington officer facing OUI charge
BY HEATHER BELLOW
The Berkshire Eagle
GREAT BARRINGTON — A town po-
lice offi cer is facing a drunken
driving charge after being ar-
rested Saturday on the Mas-
sachusetts Turnpike.
Daniel Bartini, 26, was ar-
rested by a state police troop-
er in Otis and charged with
operating under the infl u-
ence of liquor. He had been
scheduled to be arraigned at
9 a.m. Monday in Southern
Berkshire District Court, but
failed to appear, according to
court offi cials.
Police Chief William Walsh
told The Eagle
that Bartini’s
arraignment
has been re-
scheduled to
May 20 be-
cause he is in
rehabilitation.
State police
received calls about 5 p.m.
Saturday from other drivers
who reported a blue pickup
operated by a male with Mas-
sachusetts plates driving er-
ratically and at a high rate
of speed on the turnpike in
Becket, according to the ar-
rest report. Both callers said
the truck, traveling east-
bound, had “almost struck
their vehicles from behind
and swerved around their ve-
hicles at a high rate of speed.”
Bartini, who was off-duty,
was pulled over about 40
minutes later heading west-
bound, and told the trooper
he was traveling to Agawam,
which the trooper noted is
in the opposite direction, ac-
cording to the police report.
He refused to produce his
driver’s license and registra-
tion or to take a Breathalyzer
test, the report said. He failed
a fi eld sobriety test, smelled
strongly of alcohol, was dis-
oriented and disheveled, and
his speech was slurred.
Upon booking, Bartini al-
legedly punched the booking
room wall. And police confi s-
cated a pistol found secured
in his truck.
He was released on his own
recognizance, with a bail fee
of $40.
“I’m extremely upset about
this news and the Depart-
ment’s Internal Affairs Unit
is conducting a full investiga-
tion,” Walsh told The Eagle
via email on Monday. “A
detailed report will be for-
warded to the Town Manager
soon.”
State police arrested Daniel Bartini on Pike after reports of erratic driver
Bartini
OFFICER, Page 3
Fire cider case
cools heels amid
scheduling issue
BY TONY DOBROWOLSKI
The Berkshire Eagle
PITTSFIELD — A dispute over the legal right to use the
term fi re cider is on hold for the moment.
A civil trial between a Pittsfi eld company and a
group of herbalists over the right to use this legally
trademarked name began March 25 in U.S. District
Court in Springfi eld, but has been delayed due to a
scheduling issue.
The trial is scheduled to resume in federal court
May 13 through 15 with additional testimony before
Judge Mark G. Mastroianni.
“It’s expected to fi nish then,” said attorney Chris-
topher Hennessey, of Pittsfi eld, who is representing
the plaintiff, Shire City Herbals of Pittsfi eld. “Then
it will be submitted to the judge for a decision.
“No unexpected issues caused the delay,” said
Hennessey, adding that the trial “was just longer”
than the court expected it to be. The herbalists are
expected to provide additional testimony once the
trial resumes, he said.
Shire City Herbals, which makes vinegar-based
health tonics under the fi re cider brand name, fi led
FIRE CIDER, Page 3
TRAGEDY, Page 3
She eld
tragedy’s
answers
elusive
BY HEATHER BELLOW
The Berkshire Eagle
SHEFFIELD — The eldest twin by two
minutes, Alex loved Money Math.
And he had “grandiose plans for a
tree house that he and his dad were
going to build.”
The younger twin, Zoe, loved to
draw and would collect all the dol-
phin cards when she played Goldfi sh.
She loved unicorns and mermaids.
Their younger brother, Marek,
thought he could do anything his sib-
lings could.
“He had no fear.”
Obituaries for these three children
ran together with those of their par-
ents, Justine Wilbur and Luke Kar-
pinski, last week ahead of Saturday’s
funeral at St. Agnes Church in Dalton,
the couple’s hometown. The family was
then buried at St. Patrick’s Cemetery.
Offi cials say Karpinski killed his
wife and children last month before
setting fi re to the family’s house on
Home Road, and then taking his own
life.
While family in murder-suicide
laid to rest, DA reveals little still
Attack leaves a community ‘numb’
BY CLARENCE FANTO
Eagle correspondent
The leader of the Pittsfi eld-based
Chabad of the Berkshires is urging
the local community and the nation
to reassert its “values of tolerance
and loving kindness” in the wake of
the Chabad synagogue shooting in
California on Saturday, the eighth
and fi nal day of the Passover festi-
val of Jewish liberation.
“We are heartbroken and pained,”
Rabbi Levi Volovik told The Eagle
on Monday.
Congregation member Lori Gil-
bert-Kaye, 60, died as she shielded
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein from a gun-
man’s fi re. Goldstein, 57, and two
other members were injured in the
shooting at Chabad of Poway, north
of San Diego.
The suspect, John T. Earnest, 19,
of San Diego, acted alone, accord-
ing to authorities, and has been
charged with murder. Offi cials have
described the attack as a likely hate
crime.
The Pittsfi eld Chabad, opened on
South Street in 2004, is planning to
build an Orthodox Jewish center on
property it acquired in November
2016 on West Street in Lenox, Vo-
lovik confi rmed.
“We are not going to cower but
we’re going to grow and not hide our
religious beliefs,” he said. “We’re
planning a beautiful Jewish Center,
a house to help people, that’s what
it’s all about. It’s time for everyone
to roll up their sleeves and do acts of
goodness and kindness.”
Unspecifi ed security measures
will be reviewed, Volovik said, in or-
der to take “the utmost precautions
to ensure the safety of all those at
Chabad of the Berkshires.”
But Berkshire Jewish leaders
vow to ‘not cower’ in the face
of hate, pursuit of ‘goodness’
GREG BULL — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ali De Leon pauses at a growing memorial with her son, Leo, and her dog, Vinny, across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue
in Poway, Calif., Monday. A gunman opened fi re Saturday at the synagogue as dozens of people were worshiping exactly six months after
a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue. The FBI on Monday said it received a tip about a threat moments before Saturday’s attack.
Read more on Page A2.
Rabbi Levi
Volovik and his
wife, Sara, stand
in front of a
portrait of “The
Rebbe,” Rabbi
Menachem M.
Schneerson, at
Chabad of the
Berkshires in
Pittsfi eld.
GILLIAN JONES
THE BERKSHIRE
EAGLE
SHOOTING, Page 2
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Karpinski
Zoe
Karpinski
Alex
Karpinski
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racing helmet at a seemingly endless
strip of concrete where space shuttles
once landed.
The world faded as all focus shifted to
the 562-horsepower supercar at his fin-
gertips. The bright orange McLaren
570S was ready to show its muscle.
Turner and his son Jonathan, both
Naples residents, were part of a rally
starting in Naples. Rallies are scheduled
events allowing supercar owners to go
very, very fast from point to point.
This rally went to Kennedy Space
Center to let drivers experience some-
Jonathan Turner works with his father, Charles, as a financial adviser in Naples. Jonathan brought his McLaren 570S and
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at Kennedy Space Center
Retired businessman William Treffert sits in his Porsche 918 Spyder and chats
with his grandson Benjamin Myers, who cleans the car before they race it.
Rally lets supercars ‘fly’
where shuttles landed
Thaddeus Mast
Naples Daily News
USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA
“Standing there and you can’t see the end of (the runway) – you’re
doing 200 mph and you still can’t see the end of the runway.”
Jonathan Turner, Naples resident
See SPEED, Page 5A
Any hope of raising the buying age
for tobacco to 21 this session is dwin-
dling, but Republican Sen. David Sim-
mons of Longwood presented amend-
ments to try to keep it alive by remov-
ing issues that raised flags for compet-
ing interest groups.
The amendments streamline the
bill considerably by only giving the
state power to set the purchasing age
at 21 and making exceptions for people
in the military.
Gone is an exemption for cigar
smokers. Gone is a preemption on lo-
cal government control of marketing.
Gone are vape devices from the defini-
tion of tobacco.
Legislation
on tobacco
buying age
still in play
Jeffrey Schweers
Tallahassee Democrat
See TOBACCO, Page 9A
Lee County school board member
Melisa Giovannelli plans to ask her
colleagues to fire Superintendent Greg
Adkins when the board meets May 7.
The board’s seven
members recently com-
pleted annual evalua-
tions of Adkins – and
Giovannelli noted at the
end of her evaluation
she plans to move to ter-
minate Adkins during
the meeting.
In Giovanelli’s evaluation, she criti-
cized Adkins for not being transpar-
ent, not communicating effectively, for
the school district losing high-ranking
Ax schools
chief, says
Lee board
member
Thyrie Bland
Fort Myers News-Press
See ADKINS, Page 10A
Adkins
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record number of women to the Legisla-
ture during last year’s midterms. Wom-
en won two of the state’s most compet-
itive U.S. House races, and a woman
was elected governor for the first time.
Yet across Iowa, there’s palpable
anxiety among some Democratic wom-
en about nominating a female candi-
date to face off against President Don-
ald Trump next year.
“I want to be for a woman, but it’s
just hard when you see a lot of other
people not supporting women yet. I feel
that America’s just not there yet,” said
Wendy McVey, a 20-year-old junior at
Iowa State University who is most in-
terested in Beto O’Rourke, a former Tex-
as congressman.
And it’s not just Iowa.
Across Iowa, New Hampshire and
South Carolina, three of the first states
to hold 2020 nominating contests, doz-
ens of women told the Associated Press
that they are worried about whether the
country is ready to elect a woman as
president. Their concerns are political
and personal, rooted as much in fear of
repeating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to
Trump as in their own experiences with
sexism and gender discrimination.
These worries have created a para-
dox for Democrats.
Women are among the party’s most
energized and engaged voters, account-
ing for more than half the electorate in
the 2018 midterms. Democrats sent a
historic number of women to Congress
last year and have a record number of
women running for president, includ-
ing Sens. Kamala Harris of California,
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts,
Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kir-
sten Gillibrand of New York.
But the Oval Office has been elusive,
and given Democrats’ deep desire to
oust Trump, some don’t want to take
any chances with their nominee.
“I think a lot of people voted for him
because they didn’t want to vote for
her,” Katrina Riley, a 69-year-old from
Summerville, South Carolina, said of
the 2016 contest between Trump and
Clinton. “And I don’t want that to hap-
pen again.”
Helen Holden Slottje, a 52-year-old
New Hampshire attorney, noted the iro-
ny in women raising concerns about
nominating a woman.
“I fear for that with women, that it’s,
‘Well, we had our chance. We had Hilla-
ry. Hillary didn’t pan out. Best to just
pick another 65-year-old plus white
guy who has the best chance of win-
ning,’ ” Slottje said.
Older white men do sit atop most
early polls: former Vice President Joe
Biden, 76, and Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders, 77. Two younger white men,
O’Rourke and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of
South Bend, Indiana, have become
media darlings despite having less po-
litical experience than many of the
women in the White House race.
Amanda Hunter, research and com-
munications director at the Barbara Lee
Foundation, which studies how female
candidates are perceived in politics,
said women face particular challenges
when running for president that they
don’t at the local level.
“We know that it’s one thing to sup-
port women as a decision-maker as
part of a legislative body, but if she’s the
decision-maker, voters need to be that
much more convinced that she’s up to
the job,” she said. “Men can put out
their resume. Women have to justify
over and over what they’ve accom-
plished.”
A Pew Research Center report from
2018 backs up that assessment. Ac-
cording to the survey, 76% of women
said a major reason why there are fewer
women in office is that women have to
do more to prove themselves. About
‘Hilary hangover’
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is among the women staking a spot in the 2020 Democratic presidential field. However,
the frontrunners are septuagenarians Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, and Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg have become
media darlings. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP FILE
Democratic women
unsure of nomination
chances as Clinton
still haunts field
Alexandra Jaffe, Julie Pace
and Hunter Woodall
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“I feel like we ourselves have lived in a country where
women’s power and leadership has been so absent. I think
it’s hard even for women to imagine a future of real equity
but I think that time has come.”
Cecile Richards
Former president of Planned Parenthood
See WOMEN, Page 2A
Bob Anderson was known as "The
Dean." He earned that title by setting
the standard in his profession for over
three decades as the sports informa-
tion director at Louisiana-Monroe.
From his perch inside the press box
that bears his name atop Malone Sta-
dium, or courtside at Fant-Ewing Coli-
seum, Anderson chronicled many of
the most memorable teams, indelible
athletes and colorful coaches in the
history of then-Northeast Louisiana
University.
Longtime
ULM sports
information
director dies
Adam Hunsucker
Monroe News-Star
USA TODAY NETWORK
Bob Anderson remained a fixture at
sporting events , and began writing a
book about the history of ULM
athletics afrer retiring. The product
of his 10-year labor of love, “Indian
Territory,” was published in 2003.
FILE PHOTO
See ANDERSON, Page 3A
BATON ROUGE — Homestead ex-
emption kept its reputation as the
third rail of Louisiana politics after a
House committee here killed a bill to
allow local voters to raise taxes on
homeowners in individual parishes.
House Bill 12 by Rep. Steve Carter, R-
Baton Rouge, is a constitutional
amendment would have allowed indi-
vidual parish governments to let locals
decide whether to lower the current
homestead exemption of $75,000.
Homestead
exemption tax
break preserved
in Louisiana
Greg Hilburn
Monroe News-Star
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida
lawmakers put some teeth
in the state’s texting while
driving ban Monday, final-
izing legislation that allows
law enforcement to pull over
drivers solely for texting.
The bill now goes to Gov.
Ron DeSantis, who has
voiced support for the pro-
posal. It would make texting
while driving a primary
offense instead of a secondary
offense and requires drivers
to go totally hands free when
operating wireless commu-
nications devices in school
zones and in construction
zones when workers are
present.
The Florida House passed
the legislation Monday after
reaching a deal with the
Senate, which had proposed
a broader hands-free bill.
“It took some compromise
to get it done,” House Speaker
Jose Oliva, R-Miami, said
Monday.
The texting bill cleared the
House 108-7 Monday after
passing the Senate 33-5 last
week.
“Hands-free is where we
should be,” Sen. Wilton
Simpson, R-Trilby, said when
the bill cleared the Senate.
“Many, many lives will be
saved by the texting and
driving bill; many more lives
would be saved by a hands-
free bill.”
But getting texting while
Florida Legislature approves
ban on texting while driving
By Richard Winton
and James Queally
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — A U.S.
Army veteran planned
to detonate improvised
explosive devices at sev-
eral Southern California
locations to cause “mass
casualties” in a terror plot
thwarted by law enforce-
ment officials.
Mark Stevens Domingo,
26 of Reseda, in the San
Fernando Valley, was
arrested Friday night after
he took delivery of what he
thought was a live bomb
from an undercover law
enforcement officer posing
as bomb maker. He was
charged with attempting to
provide materiel support to
terrorists.
According a federal affi-
davit, “after considering
various attacks — including
targeting Jews, churches
and police officers —
Domingo decided to
detonate
an IED at a
rally sched-
u l e d t o
take place
i n L o n g
Beach this
past week-
end. As part of the plot,
Domingo asked his con-
federate — who actually
was cooperating with the
FBI as part of the inves-
tigation — to find a bomb
maker, and Domingo last
week purchased several
hundred nails to be used as
shrapnel inside the IED.”
“Domingo said he spe-
cifically bought 3-inch
nails because they would
be long enough to pen-
etrate the human body and
puncture internal organs,”
the affidavit states.
Prosecutors alleged
Domingo sought retribu-
tion for the New Zealand
mosque attack and said he
Feds: Army vet
plotted attacks for
‘mass casualties’
Domingo
By George Bennett
The Palm Beach Post
HOBE SOUND — Saying
he wants to move quickly to
address Florida’s “massive”
toxic blue-green algae prob-
lem, Gov. Ron DeSantis on
Monday named five scientists
to advise him on which water
projects to prioritize ahead of
July 1, when the state’s budget
year begins.
State legislators are
expected to approve DeSantis’
request for $625 million for
water projects in 2019-20.
“As we’re getting resources,
financial resources to bear
on the problem and making
good choices, we want to
make sure that those choices
are informed by the best sci-
ence and the best research
available,” DeSantis said in
announcing the task force
during an appearance at the
Nathaniel P. Reed Hobe Sound
DeSantis names 5 scientists
to panel on toxic algae, water
By Julius Whigham II
The Palm Beach Post
As an outbreak of measles
continues to surge across
the United States, local
doctors and health officials
say vaccination is the best
defense against the highly
infectious disease.
Two cases of measles
have been reported in
Florida for 2019 — one in
Pinellas County and the
other in Broward County
— with both cases involv-
ing persons who recently
traveled to countries in
Southeast Asia, according
to the Florida Department
of Health. Nationally, 704
cases have been reported
across 22 states, the most
in a quarter century.
“Not to scare people, it’s a
very contagious, but seem-
ingly preventable virus,”
Officials: Vaccination is
best measles defense
Religious objection?
Jewish, Islamic and Catholic
leaders all say get the vac-
cine. A2
About measles
Two cases of measles have
been reported to the Florida
Health Department as of
April 17. If you were born
before 1957, you're consid-
ered immune, according to
DOH. Children should be
immunized with the com-
bination measles, mumps
and rubella vaccine (MMR).
Children should receive two
doses, with the first at 12 to
15 months of age, and the
second at 4 to 6 years of age.
Adults should be vaccinated
with at least one dose of
MMR, with a second dose
recommended for those at
higher risk such as interna-
tional travelers and health
care workers.
See TEXTING, A6
See MEASLES, A2
See PANEL, A8
See ATTACKS, A8
More inside
• Legislators pass anti-Sem-
itism bill, adding religious
discrimination to list of actions
banned in Florida schools, A6
• Woman killed in Saturday's
attack on a California syna-
gogue is buried, A7
Howard Kaye, the husband of Lori Kaye, pictured at left, speaks Monday during her funeral. She was killed
Saturday when a gunman opened fire inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue. For more on the service, A7
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Local places of worship
try to find balance with
mission, security
By Kristina Webb
The Palm Beach Post
A shooting on Saturday at
a California synagogue that
killed one person, just six
months after a gunman killed
11 people at the Tree of Life
synagogue in Pittsburgh has
left the local Jewish popula-
tion shaken but resilient.
“Although these events are
horrific, we will not close our
doors,” said Jewish Federation
of Palm Beach County CEO
Michael Hoffman. “We
‘We will not
close our doors’
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NEW FAIRFIELD –
During the hardest mo-
ments of Mark Garrahan’s
life, his best friend was
always there with the kind
of unconditional support
that transformed the pain.
But when the shocking
news reached Garrahan that
his best friend had been
bludgeoned and stabbed to
death in his New Fairfield
home by his wife, who then
took her life,
Garrahan felt a
great absence that
had all the mak-
ings of a death he
might not get
over.
“You go
through this
disbelief, where
you start calling
everybody you
can think of to
see what they
know,” Garrahan said of
the mid-April murder of
Michael Ciorra by his wife
Jennifer Ciorra. “But it may
turn out to be that this is a
sad tragedy, with no one
you can blame.”
Garrahan’s praise for his
lost friend and dismay that
answers about Ciorra’s
death are so elusive repre-
sents the first time someone
close to the murdered father
of two has spoken publicly
since police revealed April
15 that he and his wife had
been found dead at their
Cornell Road home.
State Police have refused
to release even basic facts
of the death, claiming a
statute meant to protect
victims of domestic vio-
lence bars it.
The coroner ruled Ciorra
died from a bludgeon
wound to the head and
stabbing
wounds to the
body, and that
his wife died
by carbon
monoxide poi-
soning.
The couple’s
two sons are
living with
relatives.
“Mike didn’t
ever indicate
to me or any of
us who he was close to that
there was ever any trouble
(with his wife),” said Gar-
rahan, who met Ciorra on
a neighborhood stickball
lot in Garnerville, N.Y., in
1979. “I know I may have to
just accept it, but what this
creates is an inability to get
over it.”
At a private but packed
NEW FAIRFIELD
Questions
remain
unanswered
Domestic violence statute
blocks release of details
surrounding couple’s death
“I know I may
have to just
accept it, but
what this
creates is an
inability to get
over it.”
Mark Garrahan
By Rob Ryser
See Deaths on A8
WASHINGTON — Sen.
Richard Blumenthal is an
enthusiastic supporter of
submarines, jet engines,
helicopters — any piece of
defense hardware made in
Connecticut.
But when it comes to
health insurance, the senior
senator’s home-state ad-
vocacy is very much open
to question.
Blumenthal is one of 14
co-sponsors of the “Medi-
care for All Act of 2019” —
introduced earlier this
month by Sen. Bernie Sand-
ers, I-Vt., a leading left-of-
center contender for the
Democratic presidential
nomination in 2020.
If signed into law, the bill
would establish a health-
insurance system financed
by a single payer: The Unit-
ed States Government. It
would be Medicare on ste-
roids, with no premiums or
deductibles and co-pays
only for prescription drugs.
Taxes might rise but out-of-
pocket costs would plum-
met, its advocates say.
But the collateral damage
to the health-insurance
industry — and insurance
in general — is little dis-
cussed in the debate over
how to fix the 2010 Afford-
able Care Act. Health insur-
ance companies employ
9,500 in Connecticut, with
an annual payroll of $1.1
‘Medicare for
all’ tricky issue
for delegation
By Dan Freedman
See Medicare on A4
the Legislature, she will
be remembered for her
advocacy on behalf of the
historic flagpole, first
erected in 1876 on the
centennial celebration of
the nation’s indepen-
dence.
The state Department
of Transportation
touched off a furor by
proposing to remove the
pole after a fatal car acci-
dent in 1979, but Schmi-
dle got legislation passed
prohibiting its removal.
That wasn’t her only
high-profile fight.
In 1985, Schmidle pro-
posed a bill that would
outlaw tossing uncooked
rice at weddings because
“It kills the birds who
ingest it,” she said.
“They can’t digest it.”
NEWTOWN — Mae
Schmidle, a former state
legislator who fought
successfully to save the
town’s iconic flagpole
when the state moved to
tear it down, died Friday
at age 92.
Along with serving
four terms as a state
representative, Schmidle
was also Town Clerk and
president of the Connect-
icut State PTA.
“A familiar figure
around Newtown, who
always dressed in red,
she was as dynamic as
she was diligent in given
her enthusiastic efforts
to the causes she espous-
ed,” her death notice
reads.
During her years in
NEWTOWN
LOCAL LEGEND DIES
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Mae Schmidle and her husband Bob Schmidle, of Newtown, during the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 308
celebration of its 75th anniversary in 2014. Schmidle died at the age of 92.
Ex-lawmaker Mae Schmidle known for fight for iconic flagpole
Brian Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
The annual Newtown Labor Day parade makes its
way down Main Street toward the flagpole in
Newtown in September 2018. See Schmidle on A4
By Jim Shay
also includes a 6.35 percent state
sales tax and 3 percent local sales
tax, which will go to the towns that
host dispensaries.
This rate is similar to the 20
percent effective tax rate in Mas-
sachusetts, which has already legal-
ized adult recreational use of the
drug.
Supporters on Monday high-
lighted the state’s opportunity to
revitalize urban communities while
bringing new revenue to the state.
Opponents said the social costs of
the drug eclipsed those benefits.
The Democrat-backed bill
proposes a $35 per ounce levy on
cannabis flowers and $13.50 per
ounce on the rest of the plant. It
A finance committee hearing on
how to tax recreational marijuana
and what the state should do with
the money quickly became a broad
debate on the merits of legalization
as the General Assembly readies to
vote on the issue in the next six
weeks.
OUR CAPITOL BUREAU
Hearing on pot taxation
turns into broader debate
Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
Democrats
have passed
bills that
would
expunge the
criminal
records of
those
convicted of
marijuana
crimes and
give minority
entrepreneurs
priority in
obtaining
licenses to
run cannabis
shops and
cultivation
facilities.
By Emilie Munson
See Debate on A4
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When Brahm Ahmadi received early ren-
derings of Community Foods Market, he
recoiled at the wood accents all over the
interior.
“I was like, ‘No way.
That’s the wrong price
image,’ ” he said.
For the better part of a
decade, Ahmadi has been
carefully ironing out every
detail for West Oakland’s
first full-scale grocery
store in decades, due to
open in early May at 3105 San Pablo Ave. In a
historically low-income neighborhood long
considered a food desert, image matters.
Now, after years of delays, Community Foods
Market is nearly ready.
Nearby residents are excited for a lot of
things: to finally walk to a grocery store, to
have a central gathering place, to feel like
West Oakland is in a revival. But there are
some concerns about how the store might
further gentrify the neighborhood, and
whether it will be afford-
able enough to serve the
people who need it most.
The latter is of utmost
importance to Ahmadi,
which is why he skipped
wood accents, shades of
green and other decor that
might accidentally signal
that Community Foods
Market isn’t for everyone.
It’s also why he convened a community
advisory council in 2012, which met monthly
for four years, to discuss everything from
products to services to workforce devel-
Photos by Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
Above: Brahm Ahmadi, co-founder of Community Foods Market, sets up a checkout stand.
Below: The full-service West Oakland grocery store takes shape. It will open in early May.
Community in need
getting a food oasis
Market carefully planned to fit into West Oakland
By Janelle Bitker
Market continues on A8
“Everybody talks about
food deserts. ... This is
about an anchor need in
the community.”
Carol Wyatt, West Oakland neighbor
San Francisco’s top transit
boss is stepping down, the
latest fallout from a 10-hour
subway meltdown that choked
the city on Friday.
Ed Reiskin, who has steered
San Francisco Municipal
Transportation Agency for
eight years, made no mention
of the incident in a contrite note
he sent to colleagues on Mon-
day. But to most observers, the
connection was clear.
“The employment agreement
I have with the SFMTA Board
of Directors ends in August,
and it’s become clear that this is
the right time for a change,”
Reiskin wrote. He said he will
resign this summer, shortly
before his contract expires.
His announcement coincid-
ed with a scorching letter from
Mayor London Breed — the
latest in a series of missives to
the city’s main transit board —
calling for a national search to
find a new director.
The failure of an overhead
wire that crippled the down-
town commute on Friday ap-
peared to be the breaking point
for Breed, who was already
scrutinizing the agency.
“While unplanned outages
and service disruptions come
with a system as complex as
ours, it is our proactive work to
prevent these outages and dis-
Pressured
Muni chief
to resign
Friday’s daylong subway meltdown
appeared to be last straw for mayor
By Rachel Swan
Muni continues on A9
Jessica Christian / The Chronicle 2018
Municipal Transportation
Agency chief Ed Reiskin has
been in his position, which
pays $342,483, since 2011.
A Stanford scientist has
developed what could be the
first simple blood test for
chronic fatigue syndrome, a
puzzling and often disabling
illness that can take years to
diagnose and is still largely
misunderstood by mainstream
medicine.
The diagnostic test is built
on Stanford biochemist Ron
Davis’ discovery of a biological
marker that distinguishes
people with chronic fatigue
syndrome from those who are
healthy. A description of the
biomarker and how it might be
used was published Monday in
the Proceedings of the Nation-
al Academy of Sciences.
Assuming his results hold
up under further study, the
biomarker would be a critical
breakthrough in research into
the disease. It could make
diagnosis of chronic fatigue
syndrome much easier and
help scientists develop treat-
ments for the illness. And
perhaps just as important, the
biomarker provides further
validation to a disease that has
long been brushed aside or
even labeled as imaginary.
“There are physicians
around who say if there is no
biomarker the disease doesn’t
exist, as far as they’re con-
cerned,” Davis said. “So there’s
been a real effort to find a
biomarker. I’m hoping this will
help the medical community
accept that this is
Stanford discovery
validates chronic
fatigue syndrome
By Erin Allday
Disease continues on A9
Bay Area home prices fell
last month on a year-over-year
basis for the first
time in seven years,
according to a re-
port Monday from
research firm Core-
Logic.
The median price paid for a
new or existing home or con-
do in the nine counties was
$830,000 in March, up 7.8
percent from Febru-
ary but down 0.1
percent from March
of last year.
The last time
prices fell year over
year was in March 2012. After
that, they rose for 83 consec-
utive months, often in the
double digits for long stretch-
es of time. In March of last
year, the median price was up
a whopping 16.2 percent over
March 2016. After that, the
appreciation rate slowed
down, but was still positive
through February.
“It’s not that surprising that
we hit the wall, at least in
terms of a pause,” said Core-
Logic analyst Andrew LePage.
Home sales and prices typ-
ically pick up between Febru-
ary and March as buyers posi-
tion themselves to move over
the summer. And they did
this year, “but not as strong as
last year,” said Glen Bell, a
broker with Better Homes and
Gardens Reliance Partners in
the East Bay.
“It’s not like the sky is fall-
ing,” he said. “We are going
through a gradual move from
a hot seller’s market to a more
balanced market. There are
fewer offers, properties are
Bay Area home prices fall for first time in 7 years
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[email protected]
Although a “second
wave” of influenza has
been reported in parts of the
U.S. and Ohio, local health
authorities in Washington
County said Monday they
have not seen any unusual
upward spikes in reports of
flu.
“I think we saw more
overall cases this winter,”
said Valerie Betkoski,
director of nursing for the
Washington County Health
Department. “We track it
from hospital admissions,
and we don’t always get
reports on people who are
outpatients. There were six
confirmed cases in April.
We still generally see a few
cases in April, but by the
end of the month the season
is usually pretty well over.”
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention,
which tracks flu cases
using county-level reports
of hospitalizations from
around the country, report-
ed a slight upsurge in
Influenza B cases, but
Influenza A cases still
made up the predominant
number of reports. Most
locations, including Ohio,
reported a late peak in
cases. Week eight of the
season – around the begin-
ning of March – was the
high for percentage of hos-
pital admissions nation-
wide attributed to flu, 5
percent, the worst level of
prevalence since 2012,
when it hit 7.5 percent in
week six.
The CDC’s criteria for
reporting flu is “incidents
of flu-like illness,” in
which patients present with
a fever of 100 degrees or
greater and a cough and
sore throat.
Ohio’s flu cases didn’t
peak until the last week in
March, with 1,200 report-
ed that week.
According to the Ohio
Health Department, the
five-year baseline for flu
case peak is the first week
in January, with 800 cases,
which indicates that
statewide the flu this year
was more widespread and
significantly later than
usual.
The Marietta Health
Department is still offering
flu shots, but nurse Vickie
Kelly said they haven’t had
anyone come in for a shot
for at least two weeks. Dur-
ing the last week in April,
the national rate of flu-
related illness attributed to
hospital admissions
dropped to 2.1 percent.
Kelly said in her experi-
ence flu generally has two
seasonal peaks, one just
after Thanksgiving and
another in late winter.
People who get ill at this
time of the year can have
difficulty distinguishing
symptoms of flu from other
seasonal ailments, such as
allergies or spring colds.
Kelly said the hallmarks of
flu are a fever and serious
body aches.
The flu vaccine this year
is of two varieties, one that
offers protection against
three strains and another,
the quadrivalent vaccine,
intended to fend off four
strains. Although the vac-
cines aren’t guaranteed to
offer complete immunity,
those who get flu shots and
still get the virus generally
By Chad Plauche-Adkins
The Marietta Times
[email protected]
For more than a week,
residents and businesses in
Washington County have
been having problems with
their conversations being
heard when they place a
call.
Businesses, schools and
government agencies are
having to make special con-
siderations to deal with the
lack of call quality and say
they are anxious for the
problem to be resolved.
Brenda Padgitt, with
WMOA, said she has been
in contact with AT&T due
to phone issues at the radio
station and was told there
was a compatibility issue
between their customers
and Suddenlink phone cus-
tomers. She said that AT&T
representatives have said
the problem will be fixed by
the end of business hours
today.
Rick Peoples, commis-
sioners clerk, said the cour-
thouse’s phone system has
been experiencing problems
since Thursday.
“We’re just struggling,”
he said.
He said he has been
receiving calls, but when he
answers them, he can’t hear
the person calling his
office. It has become so
problematic, he said they
are working on a greeting to
inform people of the issues
with the phone system.
“We are doing it so peo-
ple don’t feel like we are
ignoring them,” he said.
Jessica Thompson,
receptionist at Settlers Bank
in Marietta, said she has
been dealing with the prob-
lem for two weeks.
“It’s becoming very frus-
trating,” she said. “I can’t
hear them.”
She said her workload
has significantly increased
with the phone problems.
“I have to take a log of all
the numbers that call me,
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By Chad Plauche-Adkins
The Marietta Times
[email protected]
About a dozen members
of the Bethel Lighthouse
Baptist Church watched as
their former treasurer of 41
years was sentenced to 30
months behind bars Monday
for embezzling more than
half a million dollars from
the house of worship.
Wheaton was also ordered
to pay back all the money
stolen from the church. She
faced up to five years in
prison for her crime.
Betty Wheaton, 80, of
1610 Hill St., Belpre, had
pleaded guilty to a third-
degree felony charge of
aggravated theft on March 7
after admitting to stealing
$515,283.71 from the cof-
fers of the church located at
5570 Warren Chapel Road.
Washington County Assis-
Church treasurer
sentenced to
prison for theft
MICHAEL KELLY The Marietta Times
Becky Jones, a public health nurse at the Marietta Health Department, examines a package of flu vaccine. Despite reports in
some parts of the country about a second wave of influenza infections, the flu season in Washington County has been average,
authorities said.
Health officials say measles missing MOV, too
See FLU, Page A9
2018-19 flu season
¯Ohio peak hospitalizations: 1,200, third week of March.
¯Five-year average peak: 800, first week of January.
Source: Ohio Department of Health
At a glance
¯Betty Wheaton, 80, of Bel-
pre, was sentenced to 30
months in prison Monday for
stealing $515,283.71 from the
Bethel Lighthouse Baptist
Church. She was also ordered
to pay back the money stolen.
¯The money was stolen over
the last seven years, but
Wheaton admitted to stealing
from the church from as far
back as 1998.
¯Wheaton told the court she
doesn’t know where the money
went.
¯Wheaton faced up to five
years in prison for her crimes.
Source: Times research
At a glance
¯People are having problems hearing and being heard during
phone calls in Washington County.
¯It is causing problems for schools, businesses and government
agencies.
¯The Washington County IT Department suspects it is a problem
with AT&T, preventing its customers from correctly connecting during
phone calls with Suddenlink customers.
¯AT and T has said the problem should be fixed by the end of busi-
ness today.
Source: Times research
Deaths
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Shirley Ann Babcock, Marietta
Joan M. Barton, Coal Run, Ohio
Carrie Ann Hammond, Rockport
William A. “Bill” Winland, Woodsfield
MARY ANN MOON
OF MARIETTA
FROM STAFF REPORTS
A Coal Run woman died
Sunday and four other peo-
ple were injured after a
head-on collision between
two vehicles on Ohio 60.
While driving south near
mile marker 17 at approxi-
mately 5:24 p.m., Joan Bar-
ton, 61, had her 2002
Chevrolet Venture struck
head-on by a northbound
2005 Audi A4 driven by
Adam Schaad, 34, of Mari-
etta, according to the Ohio
State Highway Patrol.
Barton was pronounced
dead at the scene and
Schaad was transported to
Marietta Memorial Hospital
with serious injuries. Three
juvenile passengers in Bar-
ton’s van also received seri-
ous injuries. Two were ulti-
mately life flighted to Chil-
dren’s Hospital in Colum-
bus with the third receiving
care at Marietta Memorial
Hospital.
Members of the Beverly
Volunteer Fire Department,
Beverly Police Department,
Lowell-Adams Volunteer
Fire Department, Washing-
ton County Sheriff’s Office,
Washington County Prose-
cutor’s Office and the
Washington County Coro-
ner responded to the acci-
dent.
Ohio 60 was closed for
three and a half hours while
crews processed the scene.
The accident is still under
investigation by the Ohio
State Highway Patrol.
Coal Run woman
killed in collision
See PHONE, Page A9
See WHEATON, Page A9
Beetles:LargestgrouponEarth,A10
HEALTHFAIRGIVESENIORSRESOURCES,A5
COSHOCTONATMARIETTABASEBALL,B1
CHAD PLAUCHE-ADKINS The Marietta Times
Betty Wheaton listens as she is sentenced to 30 months in prison
on Monday in Washington County Common Pleas Court.
“There were six
confirmed cases (of
flu) in April.We still
generally see a few
cases in April, but
by the end of the
month the season is
usually pretty well
over.”
Valerie Betkoski,
director of nursing
for theWashington
County Health
Department
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SEARCH FOR THE PERSON BEHIND THE WHEEL
TODAY AT 5:30PM ON NEWS CENTER 7:
ByWayneBaker
StaffWriter
Kettering is the latest local
city to consider pay raises for its
elected officials, but the percent-
age is much less than increases
proposed in Beavercreek and
Huber Heights.
Kettering’s plan calls for a 5%
increase, phased in over two
years, if approved.
InKettering’scase,theincreases
would come about 7 years after
voters decreased the pay of coun-
cil members.
Earlier this month, Beaver-
creek City Council approved by
5-1 vote an 80% increase of mem-
bers’ salaries for terms starting
on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
The Huber Heights plan calls
for a 125% increase in council
pay and a 61% increase for the
mayor. Rates for those jobs have
not been increased in decades.
The Beavercreek measure
increased council members’
annual salaries from $6,000 to
$10,800. Councilwoman Melissa
Litteralvotedagainstthemeasure.
Raisescontinued on A10
Huber Heights,
Kettering to follow
Beavercreek pay boost.
Cities consider pay
raises for Council
ONLYINTHEDAYTONDAILYNEWS
ByHollyShively
StaffWriter
Downtownbusinessleadersare
more optimistic than ever after
strong growth last year.
Nearly 83 percent of business
leaders in downtown Dayton said
they think downtown is better
off than it was three years ago,
according to 370 downtown busi-
nesses surveyed by the Down-
townDaytonPartnership.In2010,
only25 percent ofbusinesses said
downtown was better off than it
was in the three previous years.
The optimism gap has grown
since 2010, when nearly 21 per-
cent of businesses thought down-
town was worse off. In 2018, only
1.7 percent of businesses thought
downtown was worse off than it
was three years earlier.
“We see a confidence in our
downtown, and that confidence
is really important when busi-
nesses are making their decisions
on where to locate or expand,
wheninvestorsanddevelopersare
looking at where they’re going to
put their money and time,” said
DDP president Sandra Gudorf.
Downtown has seen major
business growth in the past year
where $83 million in projects
were completed and 32 new busi-
nesses opened, according to the
DDP. Levitt Pavilion opened, RTA
launched free shuttle service.
Fairfield Inn & Suites was the first
new hotel to open downtown in
decades and several apartment
and housing units hit the market.
Optimismcontinued on A5
In past year, downtown
had $83M in projects, 32
new businesses opened.
Strong growth
has businesses
optimistic
DAYTONDAILYNEWSIN-DEPTH
Downtown business optimism
Business leaders are more optimistic than ever that
downtown Dayton is better off than it was three
year ago and fewer owners think it is worse off.
Source: Downtown Dayton Partnership STAFF
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Better off
Worse off
0
20
40
60
80
100% 82.9%
1.7%
Business leaders are more optimistic than everthat
downtown Dayton is betteroffthan itwas three
years ago and fewerowners thinkit isworse off.
ByHollyShively
StaffWriter
Potential home buyers could
find cheaper home prices this
summer in some parts of the Day-
ton region despite a long-running
shortage of affordable homes.
Home prices have increased
in the area over the last several
years as inventory shortens and
demand increases. Median price
peaked at a record $158,000 in
June, 9% higher than the year
before.In2010,themedianhome
price was $105,000.
The biggest issue real estate
agents and homebuyers have
seen in today’s housing market
is a shortage of affordable homes
between$100,000and$300,000,
which typically attract first-time
homebuyers,lower-incomepoten-
tialhomeownersandbabyboom-
ers looking to downsize.
But area real estate agents have
said the shortage might ease as
the weather warms up and more
people planning to move during
the summer put their homes on
the market.
“We’re seeing an increase
already this month in listings,”
said Jan Leverett, president of
Dayton Realtors. “May is going
to be the best month for new list-
ings coming out and opportuni-
ties because then people know
that they can move by June, July,
which is when they’re all being
relocated.”
On three different listing
Homepricescontinued on A6
Home prices could
stabilize in summer
ONLYINTHEDAYTONDAILYNEWS
Area real estate agents expect inventory
shortage to ease over next few months.
Real estate agents say the shortage ease may just be a factor of the season and won’t last forever. It also
doesn’t apply to every community, where demand is largely driven by school district. TY GREENLEES / STAFF
MEDIANHOMESALEPRICE
The median home sale price
in the area has remained high
since it peaked inJune 2018.
March $137,500
February $138,000
January $122,111
December $140,000
November $138,500
October $142,500
September $145,000
August $150,000
July $147,000
June $158,000
SOURCE: DAYTON REALTORS
ByLaurenPack
andDeniseG.Callahan
StaffWriters
WESTCHESTERTWP. —Fourmem-
bers of a West Chester Twp. fam-
ily were found dead Sunday night
as apparent victims of gun vio-
lence, and police spent Sunday
night and Monday searching for
a suspect while telling the com-
munity they were not in danger.
Atabout9:40p.m.officerswere
dispatched to 4562 Wyndtree
Drive in the Lakefront at West
Chester apartment complex for
a report of four people down,
according to Police Chief Joel
Herzog.
Three females and one male
were found in the apartment
dead. All suffered apparent gun-
shot wounds, Herzog said.
The incident caused a large
perimeter to be set up around
the apartment complex on Sun-
day night, and by Monday morn-
ing police were still investigating
as residents went to work and
took their kids to school. By Mon-
day afternoon, a dive team was
searching a pond for evidence.
Residents,religiousleadersand
townshipofficialsexpressedshock
that a quadruple homicide, one
of the area’s deadliest incidents
in the past decade, happened in
their community.
Deathscontinued on A6
4 people found shot to death at apartment
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suspect after discovery
in West Chester Twp.
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NEW HAVEN — The police
union, as it continues to wait for
a new contract, says the exodus
of officers to other departments is
continuing, negatively affecting
the representation of minorities
among the ranks.
“As the Harp administration
has stated previously, we want
officers that ‘mirror’ the commu-
nity. Well, let me tell you first-
hand those same individuals who
‘mirror’ the community are leav-
ing the department for better
wages and benefits for communi-
ties that they may in fact not
‘mirror,’” Officer Florencio Cotto
Jr., president of New Haven Elm
City Inc., said in a statement.
Cotto also asked Mayor Toni
Harp to follow the example of
Bridgeport and settle a contract
with the police. The stalemate
over wages, proposed medical
changes, expanded management
rights and other non-cost items
remains in arbitration, a battle
that will reach three years this
summer.
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim
signed a five-year contract with
police last week that has pay
raises in each of those years: one
percent, 2.5 percent and 2 percent
in the remaining three years,
Hearst Connecticut Media report-
ed. Three of those years are retro-
active to July 2016 for a raise of
7.5 percent come July 1 and 9.5
percent by the beginning of fiscal
2021.
NEW HAVEN
Union: City losing minority cops
Contract impasse, pay issues has many leaving department
By Mary E. O’Leary
See Police on A2
HORSING AROUND
Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
From left, Quinnipiac University occupational therapy students Mia Maselli and Sonia Sousa
watch as classmate Kelly Otten takes a selfie with Mabel, one of three miniature therapy horses
from J.C. Eventing brought to the university’s North Haven Campus on Monday. The horses
were brought to the campus by Donna Latella, professor of occupational therapy, along with
her therapy dog to interact with students who are finishing classes before final exams. At right
is Michelle Misiti. Tuesday is National Therapy Animal Day.
NEW HAVEN — Keisha Greene wants
something good to come out of the pain
suffered by her son, Paul Witherspoon,
who was targeted in the police shooting on
Argyle Street April 16.
To make that happen, she is striving to
ensure her voice —
and, by extension,
that of the neigh-
borhood in which she
was raised — is
heard.
Greene, her fiancée, Jasmine Evans, and
Greene’s uncle, Rodney Williams, held a
news conference Monday morning amid
the sweeping reaction to the shooting,
which left Witherspoon’s girlfriend, Ste-
phanie Washington, 22, wounded.
‘I want to be able to say
that we made a difference’
Family of man targeted in
police-involved shooting
want positive change
1 INSIDE: Protest-
ers push mayor to
fire cop. A12
By Ben Lambert
Since 1931, Tweed New Haven
Airport has sat on a spit of what was
once salt marsh and wetlands strad-
dling the East Haven border. It is
wedged between New Haven Harbor
where the Quinnipiac River empties,
the Farm River mouth separating
East Haven and Branford, and Long
Island Sound. It is transected by
other waterways — Tuttle Brook
and Morris Creek.
And it floods.
Recent morning thunderstorms
left water rimming the runways and
pooling in adjacent residential
roads.
It will only get worse.
NEW HAVEN
Sinking land could ground plans
Tweed airport expansion
opponents argue noise,
pollution and traffic
By Jan Ellen Spiegel
CTMIRROR.ORG
File photo
Flooding concerns could impede on
plans to expand Tweed airport in
New Haven. See Tweed on A6
WASHINGTON — Sen.
Richard Blumenthal is an
enthusiastic supporter of
submarines, jet engines,
helicopters — any piece of
defense hardware made in
Connecticut.
But when it comes to
health insur-
ance, the senior
senator’s home-
state advocacy
is very much
open to ques-
tion.
Blumenthal
is one of 14
co-sponsors of
the “Medicare
for All Act of
2019” — in-
troduced earlier
this month by
Sen. Bernie
Sanders, I-Vt., a
leading left-of-
center contend-
er for the Dem-
ocratic presi-
dential nom-
ination in 2020.
If signed into law, the bill
would establish a health-
insurance system financed
by a single payer: The Unit-
ed States Government. It
would be Medicare on ste-
roids, with no premiums or
deductibles and co-pays only
for prescription drugs. Taxes
might rise but out-of-pocket
costs would plummet, its
advocates say.
But the collateral damage
to the health-insurance
industry — and insurance in
general — is little discussed
in the debate over how to fix
the 2010 Affordable Care
Act. Health insurance com-
panies employ 9,500 in Con-
necticut, with an annual
payroll of $1.1 billion, accord-
ing to data gathered by
America’s Health Insurance
Plans — AHIP — the main
trade group for health in-
surers.
The largest
provider of
health insur-
ance in Con-
necticut is
Aetna, which
after merging
with CVS last
year agreed to
abandon plans
to move to New
York and in-
stead remain in
Hartford -roots
that go back to
1819. Cigna is
the other main
health-insur-
ance player
with a long
history in Con-
necticut. Its
headquarters now are in
Bloomfield and Philadelphia.
The Sanders “Medicare-
for-all” measure would es-
sentially wipe out the role of
private insurance in health
care.
The 200-plus million
Americans who get private
insurance (180 million
through their employers)
would be transitioned to
government-provided health
insurance that would in-
clude coverage for vision,
dental, substance abuse and
mental health.
FOR STATE DELEGATION
‘Medicare
for all’ a
tricky issue
By Dan Freedman
U.S. Sen. Richard
Blumenthal is a
supporter of
Medicare for all
legislation, which
could negatively
affect the state’s
insurance industry.
See Medicare on A2
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Akeena Avanel Bennett
and her sister Keanna Ariel
Bennett were on on their
way to church Sunday, driv-
ing in the South Florida
sunshine with their god-
mother to a service in Fort
Lauderdale.
But instead of an after-
noonofsongandprayer,the
girls’ family is in mourning.
There was a devastating
crash on Interstate 95 and
trips to a hospital. Akeena,
2, died in the crash. Keanna,
5, who had been on life sup-
port at the hospital, died
Monday night, according to
a post on their mother’s
Facebookpage.
The girls’ parents, An-
nette and Keane Bennett, of
Deerfield Beach, had been
out of town, having flown to
New York for a wedding,
Annette Bennett said Mon-
day. After receiving news of
the crash, they returned
home to be with Keanna.
Second child
dies following
crash on I-95
5-year-old was put
on life support after
Sunday collision
By Linda Trischitta
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Akeena Avanel Bennett, 2,
and her sister, Keanna Ariel
Bennett, 5, were in a crash
Sunday on Interstate 95.
COURTESY/GOFUNDME
See CRASH, 8A
“Die, die, die,” the Park-
land school shooter wrote
in a story for language arts
class in middle school. His
explanation: It was a line
fromhis“CallofDuty”war-
fare video game booklet.
Teachers were con-
cerned that he was spend-
ing too much time playing
“inappropriate” video
games — as much as 15
hours a day, some neigh-
bors told investigators. His
mother struggled to limit
hisplayingtime,believingit
was a source of his hostility
at home.
The role of video games
in the shooter’s life has not
been closely examined
publicly, but some details
have emerged in school re-
cords and documents filed
in the court system in
wrongful death suits re-
lated to the murders of 17
staff and students at Mar-
jory Stoneman Douglas
High.
One contention is that
mental health profession-
als, working for Henderson
Behavioral Health, did not
properly diagnose or treat
Nikolas Cruz and, actually,
provided therapies that ag-
gravated his condition. The
allegations included having
him sign personal contracts
that included playing vi-
See VIOLENT, 8A
Video games’ role an
issue in MSD attack
By Megan O’Matz
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TALLAHASSEE – A bill
that allows police to stop
drivers just for texting is
headed to the governor af-
ter several years of hitting
roadblocks in the Florida
Legislature.
The House voted 108-7
Monday to make texting
while driving a primary of-
fense.
Gov.RonDeSantishasin-
dicated he will sign the bill
(HB 107), which would
bring Florida in line with
most other states.
Rep. Emily Slosberg, D-
Boca Raton, fought for sev-
eral years for a tougher law,
butherbillskeptstallingbe-
cause of privacy and racial-
profiling concerns.
In 1996, Slosberg was in-
jured in a wreck that killed
five teenagers, including
her twin sister, Dori; the
crash was caused by a reck-
less driver. Slosberg, who
was 14 at the time, suffered
broken bones and a punc-
tured lung in the crash.
“It’s a great day for our
state of Florida,” she said
Monday just moments after
the vote. “We are going to
Texting while driving is banned
After many years of roadblocks,
lawmakers send measure to DeSantis
By Skyler Swisher
See TEXTING, 8A
More action from the legislature
■ Lawmakers approve bill to create program for
prescription drug imports from Canada. Making such drugs
more affordable has been a priority for Gov. DeSantis. 8A
■ Criminal justice reform bill passes, but without more
ambitious reforms pending in Senate. 1B
■ Visit Florida gets 1-year lease on life as budget
negotiators agree to funding through June 2020. 2B
■ Lawmakers mention California synagogue shooting
before giving unanimous approval to anti-Semitism
schools bill. 4B
WASHINGTON — Top
Democratic congressional
leaders cast aside a brew-
ing showdown over presi-
dential oversight Monday
and pitched President
Donald Trump on a “big
and bold” infrastructure
billaheadofaWhiteHouse
meetingontheissue,insist-
ing there are “significant
majorities in both the
House and Senate” ready
to act.
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate
Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer, D-N.Y., are set to
meet Trump on Tuesday,
joined by other leading
Democrats. In a letter sent
Monday, the pair asked
Trump to entertain infra-
structure legislation with
“substantial, new and real
revenue” — as opposed to
previous GOP plans that
have focused on using
smaller amounts of public
money to leverage private
investments. They did not
specify a dollar figure for
the package, though many
have discussed $1trillion as
a bare minimum.
Paying for such an in-
vestment is the major chal-
lenge, and potential reve-
nue sources all carry politi-
cal risks. Lawmakers from
bothpartieshavediscussed
increasing the federal gas
tax for the first time since
1993, but Democrats are
eyeing a rollback of the Re-
publican tax cuts that
Trump signed into law in
2017.
A Democratic official
close to Schumer said the
Senate leader would not
consider a gas tax hike —
which would be a dispro-
portionate burden on
working-class voters — un-
less Republicans consider
undoing some of their tax
cuts for corporations and
wealthy Americans. The
official spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity.
“We look forward to
hearing your ideas on how
to pay for this package to
Dems pitch infrastructure package
Pelosi, Schumer say
agreement between
parties is possible
By Mike DeBonis
The Washington Post
Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are
scheduled to meet with President Trump on Tuesday.
ANDREW HARNIK/AP
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Mourners pay
their respects to
Lori Gilbert-Kaye,
who was killed in
the attack on the
Chabad of Poway
synagogue.
NICK OZA FOR
USA TODAY
ESCONDIDO, Calif. – Two religious congregations
about 12 miles apart – one Jewish and the other
Christian – were bound by tragedy over the weekend.
One was a synagogue ripped apart by gunfire; the
other was a church the suspected shooter’s family
regularly attended. What both shared Sunday: an
overwhelming sense of grief as worshippersgrappled
to make sense of the senseless.
Their leaders, a rabbi and a pastor, did their best to
show how they are rising above hate.
At the Chabad of Poway, Orthodox Jews had gath-
ered for Passover when a gunman burst in with a
semiautomatic rifle Saturday and started shooting,
Synagogue shooting wounded
– and united – 2 congregations
Chris Woodyard USA TODAY
See CONGREGATIONS, Page 4A
Chilling
plot in LA
Ex-soldier charged
with planning mass
terror attacks. 3A
FEARS
OF BIG
PHARMA
Bernadette Pajer doesn’t trust
the pharmaceutical industry. And
she doesn’t trust vaccines.
The founder of a Washington
state advocacy group says drug-
makers have a “pretty poor record
overall” on safety and transparency.
Not to mention the opioid epidemic,
though Pajer often does.
As distrust of the pharmaceuti-
cal industry grows, so has the anti-
vaccination movement – a critical
issue as the number of measles
cases in the USA surges.
Vaccine supporters – including
federal, state and local officials, the
public health community and most
doctors – say it wasn’t drugmakers’
idea to require protection from
largely eradicated deadly diseases.
It’s the government’s doing.
It’s also the government that
shields drugmakers from liability
when vaccines are found to cause
injury. To skeptics, including drug
safety advocate Kim Witczak, this
suggests they may be hiding or at
least getting away with something.
When voters were surveyed in
January about their feelings toward
industries that benefit from the
Many don’t trust industry.
Why would they trust its vaccines?
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John Singleton,
filmmaker, dead at 51
Director, screenwriter earned Oscar
nominations for “Boyz n the Hood”
Rod Rosenstein
submits resignation
Deputy attorney general appointed
special counsel Robert Mueller
IN MONEY
Facebook plans to
return users’ privacy
CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reveal how
he intends to do it at F8 conference
IN SPORTS
Harper and Machado
making subtle impact
Top free agents aren’t on leaders’ lists,
but their teams are off to hot starts
Post-draft questions
for every NFL team
Mike Jones: With needs addressed,
clubs head into offseason practices
IN LIFE
‘Thrones’ cheats fans
with sparse death toll
Kelly Lawler: Writers’ refusal to kill
off major characters hurts the series
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“Vaccines are largely a victim of their
own success. If you don’t fear the
disease, you’re more likely to fear
the vaccine.”
Paul Offit
Author and infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
WASHINGTON – President Donald
Trump and congressional Democrats
will meet Tuesday in search of a fix for
the nation’s crumbling infrastructure,
but they’ll first have to swerve around
an escalating battle over special coun-
sel Robert Mueller’s report.
The meeting, which will mark the
first time Trump has hosted Demo-
cratic leaders since an acrimonious
gathering during the partial govern-
ment shutdown in January, comes as
the White House is resisting Demo-
cratic demands to question admini-
stration officials involved in the Muell-
er investigation into Russian election
interference.
Trump and Democratic lawmakers
have flirted with a bipartisan infra-
structure deal since the president took
office, but talks have stalled around
how to pay for the trillion-dollar-plus
investment needed to make a dent in
modernizing the nation’s highways,
transit systems and airports. And that
was before congressional subpoenas
started flying.
“The current climate seems less
than optimal for reaching a consen-
sus,” said D.J. Gribbin, a former assis-
tant to the president on infrastructure
issues, but he said he was neverthe-
less encouraged that an initial meeting
is taking place.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Trump,
Dems
huddle
today
Infrastructure meeting
comes with tension high
John Fritze and Eliza Collins
USA TODAY
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
suggested the meeting in a call
this month with President Trump.
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“Israel, under
Netanyahu, has
made common cause
with Trump and been
richly rewarded for it.”
Editorial, A4
In the news
The Vermont Legislature
has passed a measure that
would create a drinking water
standard for a class of toxic
chemicals known as PFAS. A3
Sports
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Conference Center in Mont-
pelier is set to host the Hall
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Merged budget on docket
Officials hail tiny home project
Commission
tweaks zoning
document
By DAVID DELCORE
STAFF WRITER
EAST MONTPELIER — With
a legislative reprieve looking less
likely by the day, passing a single
school budget to finance pre-K-12
education in what is now the Wash-
ington Central Supervisory Union
is beginning to look like a looming
imperative.
Each of the supervisory union’s
six school districts have voter-ap-
proved budgets for the coming
fiscal year, but that spending
authority will never come into play
if a school district merger — one of
several ordered under Act 46 — is
launched on July 1.
Members of the transitional
board of what would become
the Washington Central Unified
Union School District grudgingly
acknowledged last week that’s
likely the case. The board autho-
rized administrators to begin the
process of shifting from six separate
systems — seven if you count the
supervisory union — to one.
That could take up to 60 days.
The goal is to ensure a seamless
transition that avoids the potential
interruption of employee benefits.
In the meantime, the House and
Senate have each passed differing
proposals, but a conference com-
mittee that has met six times has
been unable to reconcile key dif-
ferences and has all but given up.
By STEPHEN MILLS
STAFF WRITER
NORTHFIELD — A cel-
ebration on Friday marked
the near-completion of a
tiny house built by Norwich
University students, which
was hailed as a solution to
into communal housing or
apartment settings.
Enter the LIFT house, a
280-square-foot, energy-ef-
ficient home for a homeless
person with mental health
issues. The students named
the project the LIFT house
University students, who
built the house; the
Department of Mental
Health, which will a pro-
vide housing vouchers for
the occupant; Washington
County Mental Health
Services (WCMHS), which
By DAVID DELCORE
STAFF WRITER
BARRE — When it comes
to proposed zoning regu-
lations, planning commis-
sioners have concluded the
former Skyline Ski Area isn’t
a hill worth stressing over.
Commissioners have
unanimously agreed to rec-
ommend a change in the
designation of the property
to allow for low-density resi-
dential development.
Of all the changes the
commission may yet be
asked to make to a docu-
ment it thought was finished
earlier this month, rezoning
the 200-acre tract owned by
Oreste Valsangiacomo Jr.
and his family could be the
easiest.
Not because commission-
ers couldn’t make a decent
argument that the unde-
veloped property should
remain in the conservation
district.
Much of the property
the conservation district for
decades. It’s also why plan-
ning commissioners didn’t
think twice about leaving it
there and throwing in the
balance while preparing the
“Unified Development Ordi-
nance” they’ve been asked to
review one last time before
making a revised recommen-
dation to the City Council.
The product of a public
process that spanned more
than two years, the ordinance
has attracted belated criticism
from some while others have
urged it be approved so
that some things that aren’t
currently allowed — an
electronic message board at
Spaulding High School and
“tiny houses” on Brook Street
— would be.
While commissioners
wait to receive written
comments from those
concerned about the pro-
posed document, they have
already accommodated the
concern raised by Valsangi-
JOSH KUCKENS / STAFF PHOTO
Sarah Garceau, left, and James Wallace, center, get settled as Lindley Barrett navigates through unusually high waters at the Wrightsville Res-
ervoir boat launch in Middlesex on Sunday.
JOSH KUCKENS / STAFF PHOTO
As Gov. Phil Scott, center, looks on, Vermont State Trooper and drug recognition expert
Jay Riggen, left, evaluates the impairment of a driver during a mock roadside testing
demonstration Monday at police headquarters in Waterbury. The demonstration was
part of multiple stops across Washington County during the Scott administration’s
Capitol for a Day initiative.
RESERVOIR CRUISE
CAPITOL FOR A DAY
WASHINGTON CENTrAl
See Merged, page A10
By MIKE DONOGHUE
CORRESPONDENT
BURLINGTON — Jury selection
got underway Monday for a Williston
man charged after a wrong-way crash
that killed five teens on Interstate 89.
Police say Steven D. Bourgoin was
speeding, driving the wrong way and
had THC and other drugs in his sys-
tem when he slammed his truck into
a Volkswagen in Williston at about
11:55 p.m. Oct. 8, 2016. A state judge
ordered a blood draw of Bourgoin
because of the impairment he dis-
played at the scene, police said.
Bourgoin, 38, has pleaded not
guilty to five counts of second
degree murder and plans to use an
insanity defense — which was front
and center during the first day of
jury selection.
The five deaths are believed to
be the largest mass homicide case
charged criminally in Vermont
history.
Judge Kevin Griffin briefed 58
potential jurors on Monday about
the basis for trial by reading the
criminal charges Bourgoin faces.
The panel members were later sent
to another courtroom and, one by
one, 50 of them returned for individ-
ual questioning by the prosecution
and defense before court closed for
the day.
The answers ranged from the
first juror interviewed, who said he
was unaware of any media coverage
because he does not follow any news,
to a former Burlington Free Press
reporter, who admitted to reading
as much as possible to stay informed.
By the end of the day, 14 jurors
had been excused for cause.
Griffin said the eight that were
not questioned individually on
Monday will need to return today
and be joined by 38 new potential
jurors. Those that are still in the
running by the end of today will
Jury forming for Bourgoin trial
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“We are a Jewish
nation that will stand
tall. We will not
let anyone take us
down. Terrorism like
this will not take us
down.”
Yisroel Goldstein, rabbi at the
synagogue Chabad of Poway,
where a shooter killed a woman
and injured three people near
San Diego on Saturday. — B4
PFAS plan
Vermont lawmakers pass
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Today
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PERFORMANCE
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ble will be performing four move-
ments from part of the Berlin Suite,
in addition to other jazz numbers.
$10, 7 p.m. Casella Theater, 45 Alum-
ni Drive, Castleton, [email protected]
castleton.edu, 802-468-1013.
By PATRICK MCARDLE
STAFF WRITER
A West Rutland man was charged
with a felony count of attempted mur-
der after police said he shot at a man
he was trying to rob in West Rutland
on Friday.
Christopher D. Hale, 27, pleaded
not guilty in Rutland criminal court on
Monday to felony charges of first-de-
gree attempted murder and attempted
assault and robbery. Hale also pleaded
not guilty to two misdemeanor counts
of violating his conditions of release
from custody.
Hale was ordered held without bail
until a hearing can be scheduled to
determine whether he will be given
a chance to be released from custody
pending the resolution of the charges.
If convicted of the attempted mur-
der charge, Hale could face a life
sentence with a presumptive mini-
mum term of 35 years in prison.
Joshua Stone, 28, of Rutland, was
charged in Rutland criminal court
with a felony count of attempted
assault and robbery in connection
with the same incident. Stone, who
also pleaded not guilty, was ordered
held on $10,000 bail.
In an affidavit, Detective Sgt. Henry
Alberico, of the Vermont State Police,
said he learned around 8:30 p.m. on
Friday about an “altercation” in West
Rutland, during which a gun had
been fired. Alberico said he learned
that Rutland City Police Officer
Jimmy Plakas, who was off-duty at the
time, heard the gunshot and reported
it. He saw a silver Jeep Commander
that was later spotted and stopped
Attempted murder alleged
Jury forming for Bourgoin trial
By MIKE DONOGHUE
CORRESPONDENT
BURLINGTON — Jury selection
got underway Monday for a Willis-
ton man charged after a wrong-way
crash that killed five teens on Inter-
state 89.
Police say Steven D. Bourgoin
was speeding, driving the wrong
way and had THC and other drugs
in his system when he slammed his
truck into a Volkswagen in Williston
at about 11:55 p.m. Oct. 8, 2016. A
state judge ordered a blood draw
of Bourgoin because of the impair-
ment he displayed at the scene,
police said.
Bourgoin, 38, has pleaded not
guilty to five counts of second
degree murder and plans to use an
insanity defense — which was front
and center during the first day of
jury selection.
The five deaths are believed to
be the largest mass homicide case
charged criminally in Vermont
history.
Judge Kevin Griffin briefed 58
potential jurors on Monday about
the basis for trial by reading the
PATRICK MCARDLE / STAFF PHOTO
Michael Collins, of New Orleans, marks the graves of his ancestors, Thomas and Benoni
Collins, who both served in the Revolutionary War, during a ceremony on Saturday at
Riverside Cemetery in Ira that was organized by the Ann Story Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
Rail crossing
lawsuit settled
By GORDON DRITSCHILO
STAFF WRITER
The Park Street rail cross-
ing is no longer standing in
the way of the fire coverage
upgrade.
The city settled a lawsuit
last week against the Ver-
mont Agency of Transpor-
tation (AOT) and Vermont
Rail System over the two
organizations requiring the
city to sign a “master licens-
ing agreement” before they
would cooperate with the
replacement of water lines
running under the track. A
letter from VRS President
David Wulfson clears the
city to proceed with the
project.
“We value our relation-
ship with you and the City
and look forward to work-
ing together with you,”
read the letter, addressed
to Mayor David Allaire.
A call to the railway was
not immediately returned
Monday.
Allaire said he expected
work on the project to
begin in 30 to 60 days.
“There will be a future
sit-down, beginning with
myself and David Wulfson,
to figure out how to go
ahead with future projects,”
Allaire said.
The project was launched
in response to the effect that
fighting the 2014 Rutland
Plywood fire had on water
pressure in nearby neigh-
borhoods. When the city
inquired in 2016 whether
it would need a permit
from AOT to replace pipes
running under the tracks
at the Park Street crossing,
the agency replied that the
city would instead need
to sign a master licensing
agreement (MLA) in order
to proceed.
The city objected to sev-
eral provisions in the MLA,
including that it would
apply to all crossings in
the city, require the city to
indemnify AOT and Ver-
mont Rail System for any
damages associated with
the pipes — even if they
were caused by the other
party’s negligence — and
would have given AOT
and Vermont Rail System
the ability to disallow
additional water and sewer
infrastructure at crossings
without cause.
The city sued to force
the state and the railway
to cooperate without the
agreement, and the lawsuit
was scheduled for trial later
this week.
gordon.dritschilo
@rutlandherald.com
Rev War veterans honored
By PATRICK MCARDLE
STAFF WRITER
IRA — On a cold, windy
morning, the Ann Story
Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolu-
tion, with the help of a New
Orleans couple, dedicated
the markers on the grave-
stones of two veterans, a
father and son, of the war
of independence.
T h e h e a d s t o n e s o f
Thomas Collins, who died
on March 25, 1793, and his
son, Benoni Collins, who
died on Sept. 5, 1822, now
bear the markers. Mike Col-
lins, of New Orleans, placed
the marker on the grave of
his ancestor, Thomas, at
Riverside Cemetery.
Despite the rain, about
30 people were at the
dedication, including mem-
bers of the Vermont Patriot
Guards and a Color Guard
from the American Legion
Post 87 in West Rutland.
At the cemetery, Mike
Collins, who said Thomas
Collins was his grandfather
going back six generations,
said his ancestor bought a
See Veterans, page A5
See Trial, page A5
MAN HELD WITHOUT BAIL
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Castleton Fire Department members use their ladder truck to spray water onto the second floor of the Benson Village Store during a structure fire
on Monday evening. Firefighters from the Benson, Orwell and Castleton fire departments responded to the call. Lake Road and Stage Road near
the store were blocked until further notice, state police said in a news release at 9:51 p.m. No further details were available at the time.
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istee, is the southern gateway to Michigan’s scenic highway, M-22. ❚ The
community (pronounced One-comma and O-NECK-a-ma) is known as an
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fishing, hiking, biking and golf. ❚ But in recent days, Onekama — which
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are increasingly becoming a statewide threat. They also are spawning
new health concerns, including some rare cases that have linked tick bites
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Charlene Lust says she has no doubt that
what she saw in a Macomb County auto plant
in February was a noose.
Seeing the rope hanging in an area where
she was coming to help a coworker clean up,
Lust said she was overcome by a feeling of sad-
ness.
“I literally almost fainted. I’ve never seen
one,” Lust said from her living room on De-
troit’s west side this month. “When I saw the
noose, I was like stuck.”
She snapped a photo of the rope, which she
believes was left as a message to African Amer-
icans like her, in the area of the plant’s paint
shop. It reminded her of the day in 2015 she
helped nab a pedophile, an action that gar-
nered her a civilian citation from the Warren
Police Department.
“It startled me. It felt like the moment I
caught the young boy being molested at the
park. It was like one of those shocks,” Lust said.
Woman: I reported noose, lost my job
She says subcontractor at
FCA plant said not to return
Eric D. Lawrence Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY NETWORK
Lust
See NOOSE, Page 6A
The Grand Rapids Police officer who was
criticized by civil rights advocates for turning
over a Marine veteran and U.S.-born citizen to
federal immigration authorities was reinstated
to work on Monday after he had been placed on
leave for two months.
But the Grand Rapids police captain has
been stripped of his authority over an immi-
grant visa program for victims of crime.
Grand Rapids Interim Police Chief David
Kiddle said in a statement that Police Capt.
Curtis VanderKooi did not violate policies
when he contacted U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement (ICE) to de-
tain Jilmar Ramos-Gomez, 27,
who had been arrested Nov. 21
after an arson at Spectrum But-
terworth hospital.
Kiddle added that his de-
partment is working on clarify-
ing its policies on how it inter-
acts with federal authorities on
immigration issues.
The case illustrated the intense debate tak-
ing place over how much local police should be
interacting with ICE in enforcing immigration
laws. VanderKooi said he contacted ICE over
concerns about potential terrorism since Ra-
mos-Gomez had entered a heliport area of the
hospital.
Ramos-Gomez was born in the U.S. and is a
veteran of the Marines who served in Afghani-
stan. But because he is Latino of Mexican de-
scent, he was racially profiled and detained by
ICE for three days before his mother rescued
him, said attorneys with the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) Michigan and Michi-
gan Immigrant Rights Center.
The ACLU blasted the decision by Grand
Rapids to reinstate VanderKooi and said it will
hold a news conference on Tuesday with the
mother of Ramos-Gomez. They said they have
video that shows the police knew Ramos-Go-
mez was a U.S. citizen with PTSD.
VanderKooi was not the original arresting
officer of the Marine veteran, but heard about
the case on the news and decided to contact
ICE, said the ACLU.
Officer who
turned vet
over to ICE
back on job
Niraj Warikoo Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY NETWORK
See OFFICER REINSTATED, Page 6A
VanderKooi
LOS ANGELES – An Army veteran who
converted to Islam and discussed launching
various terrorist attacks throughout South-
ern California was arrested as he plotted to
bomb a white supremacist rally as retribution
for the New Zealand mosque attacks, federal
prosecutors said Monday.
Mark Domingo, an infantryman who
served a combat stint in Afghanistan, was ar-
rested Friday after visiting a park in Long
Beach where investigators say he planned to
plant homemade explosive devices made with
nail-filled pressure cookers in advance of a Na-
zi rally scheduled Sunday.
Domingo, 26, was arrested on a charge of
providing material support to terrorists. A
criminal complaint said he had been planning
since March to “manufacture and use a weap-
on of mass destruction in order to commit
mass murder.”
U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna told a news con-
ference that Domingo supported violent jihad
and spoke about becoming a martyr and of
pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group
if it established a presence in the United
States.
US officials: Army veteran’s California terrorist plots stopped
Brian Melley ASSOCIATED PRESS
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day that Pennsylvania will
join 23 other states in the U.S.
Climate Alliance pledging to
meet the goals spelled out in
the United Nations’ 2016 Par-
is Agreement.
The alliance formed af-
ter President Donald Trump
announced in 2017 that the
United States was withdraw-
ing from the agreement.
“We’ve seen lately even
more evidence that there is a
need for leadership on climate
change,” Wolf said. “With the
federal government turning
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vironment, I am proud to join
with states that are leading
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solutions, and taking concrete
actions to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.”
The U.S. Climate Alliance
is a bipartisan coalition of
24 governors, representing
over half of the U.S. popu-
lation working to implement
policies that uphold the com-
mitments made in the Paris
Agreement, Wolf said.
By Keith Gushard
MEADVILLE TRIBUNE
LORD Corp., one of Craw-
ford County’s largest employ-
ers, is being sold to Parker
Hannifin Corp. in an all-cash
deal valued at more than $3.6
billion.
The privately held LORD
Corp. — with manufacturing
facilities in both Crawford
and Erie counties — makes
chemical adhesives, coatings
and specialty materials along
with vibration and motion con-
trol devices. Its products are
used in the aerospace, automo-
tive and industrial markets.
In March, LORD offi-
cials declined comment on a
Bloomberg report the Cary,
N.C.-based firm was working
with an adviser to sell the com-
pany through an auction pro-
cess that could garner as much
as $3 billion. The report came
about two months after LORD
announced it had $1.1 billion
in sales for 2018.
Parker Hannifin Corp.,
based in Cleveland, is a maker
of motion and control technol-
ogies across a wide range of
diversified industrial and aero-
space markets. Parker Hannifin
LOS ANGELES TIMES
WASHINGTON — Long known
as a law-and-order prosecutor, Attor-
ney General William Barr is under
fire from critics who say he acted
more as a partisan advocate for Pres-
ident Donald Trump than an impar-
tial law enforcement officer when he
released the special counsel report
into Russia’s interference in the 2016
election.
In scheduled back-to-back con-
gressional hearings this week, Dem-
ocrats will have their first chance to
grill Barr since he stood at the Jus-
tice Department podium on April
18 and repeatedly declared that spe-
cial counsel Robert S. Mueller III
had found no “collusion” between
Trump and the Kremlin-backed op-
eration.
Trump has relentlessly made that
claim in tweets and speeches, al-
though Mueller’s report avoided us-
ing the term “collusion,” explaining
that it is not a crime or even a term
recognized in federal law.
Two weeks earlier, Barr also went
further than Mueller in a letter to
Congress by saying Trump hadn’t
Meadville Tribune file photo
LORD’s chemical adhesives and
coatings plant in Saegertown
employs more than 230 people.
See LORD, Page a8
LORD Corp. sold in $3.6B deal
INSIDE: What’s next for local LORD facilities? Page A8
Making their case
Sheriff candidates tout experience in forum
By Mike Crowley
MEADVILLE TRIBUNE
VERNON TOWNSHIP — The
two candidates in what has been the
most hotly contested Crawford Coun-
ty primary race this year found plenty
to agree on Monday at the Vernon
Township Municipal Building.
Neil Fratus and Dave Powers, the
two Republican candidates for Craw-
ford County sheriff, agreed that main-
taining court safety should be the top
priority for the office; that Nick Hoke,
the current sheriff who is not running
for re-election, has performed well in
office; that they did not anticipate the
need for significant budget increases
or staffing increases as a result of the
changes they did call for; and that it
would be a good idea for the state
Legislature to restore investigative
powers to county sheriffs. Both men
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and Dave Powers wait to choose their positions Monday in the public forum at the Vernon Township Municipal Building.
See FORUM, Page a5
By Pete Sirianni
CNHI NEWS SERVICE
PITTSBURGH — If Joe Biden
is going to win the Democratic
nomination and ultimately the
White House in 2020, he’s going
video message on Thursday.
“There are three basic reasons
why I’m running for the president
of the United States,” Biden said
in front of the packed union hall.
“The first is to restore the soul of
Biden holds first campaign event of 2020 run
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President Joe
Biden speaks
during his first
campaign stop
of his 2020
presidential bid
Barr poised to face grilling over report
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By Kaylee Tornay
Mail Tribune
Central Point School District officials
aren’t fazed by having to push the grand
opening of the CraterWorks Maker-
space back until next month.
“When you’re dealing with the
current construction market, a public
entity, and you’re building something
that is unique, there are a lot of times
where we’ve had to say, ‘OK, back to
the table — what do we do now?’” said
Superintendent Samantha Steele. “But
we don’t take ‘no.’”
The approximately 20,000-square-
foot facility will see its public grand
opening May 18, instead of its original
date of April 27. For now, construc-
tion crews continue to work on
transforming the former home of Crater
Iron into a space for activities as diverse
as the people organizers expect to walk
through its doors.
In some ways, the facility is planned
down to the finest details, but in others,
vagueness is an invitation for future
makerspace users to fine-tune what’s
provided there with their own sugges-
tions for tools and technology.
“We wanted to invite the community
in, and the people who will actually be
using this space, and find out what tools
and equipment they want,” said Taneea
Browning, executive director of the
nonprofit Direct Involvement Recre-
ation Training, or D.I.R.T., which will
manage the makerspace.
Browning said one major guiding
principle for her organization and the
school district is safety.
After all, some of those tools include
high-power saws and other machines
that use extreme heat or extreme
pressure.
Walking through the semi-completed
interior, Steele and Browning explained
the rationale behind certain design or
material choices, including the feedback
CENTRAL POINT
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JUST BEGINNING
Public grand
opening of
CraterWorks set
for May 18
By Colleen Shalby
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — New
research unveiled recently
links a series of California
earthquakes to heavy snow-
melt during a wet winter.
Scientists involved in the
work said they believe that
water from the runoff flowed
down to the groundwater,
causing seismic movement.
Melting
snow may
have caused
earthquakes
SEE RESEARCH, A8
By Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein
submitted his resignation
Monday after a two-year
run defined by his appoint-
ment of a special counsel
to investigate connections
between President Donald
Trump’s campaign and
Russia.
His last day will be
May 11, ending a tumultuous relationship
Rod Rosenstein
resigns post as
U.S. deputy AG
Rosenstein
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By Ryan Pfeil
Mail Tribune
A cougar that has been seen
multiple times during daylight
hours — such as the one shot
and killed by Medford police
early Sunday morning — can be
classified as a threat to human
safety, according to state law.
“Loss of wariness to humans,
displayed through repeated
sightings of the animal during
the day near a permanent
structure, permanent corral
or mobile dwelling used
by humans” is one of four
signs listed that the animal
is a threat, according to ORS
498.166. Because of several
problems that can arise from
tranquilizing and relocating
such an animal, the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life said killing it was the best
option.
“We’ve had a number of
sightings now of this animal,”
said ODFW district wildlife
biologist Steve Niemela. “And
unfortunately the area it’s
been seen in is not only near
residences and structures,
but essentially, there are a lot
of kids around there. In some
places, there’s a big transient
population. So in that situa-
tion, when the decision has
been reached to remove the
animal, really the only option
available to us is a lethal
removal.”
The cougar killed Sunday,
identified as a 102-pound male
— which was mistakenly iden-
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spotted in thick brush that runs
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drawing inspiration from
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MIT students over the week-
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TONIGHT: Few show-
ers. Low 51.
TOMORROW: Few
showers. High 62.
Low 54.
Over 450 people were
in attendance at the
golden anniversary
testimonial dinner
honoring the Rev.
Francis H. Pascoe,
pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church,
Coaldale, yesterday af-
ternoon at the Coaldale
High School building.
Following dinner,
William J. Jones, pres-
ident of the board of
trustees of the church,
introduced the toast-
master, Walter Evans,
a member of the board
of deacons.
Mayor Joseph Sharpe
gave the welcome
while remarks were
made by the Rev. Ken-
neth Ewing, minister
of Baptist students at
Purdue University. He
is the son-in-law of the
Rev. Pascoe and the
Rev. Daniel Yolton,
pastor of the En-
glish Congregational
Church, Lansford.
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“The trouble with our
age is all signposts and
no destination.”
-Louis Kronenberger,
American author
(1904-1980)
THOUGHT
BY CHRIS REBER
[email protected]
Jim Thorpe Area School Dis-
trict has hired a new superinten-
dent, meaning it will not renew
Dr. Brian Gasper’s contract when
it expires in June.
The school board voted unani-
mously at a special meeting Mon-
day night to hire John Rushefski
as its new superintendent, effec-
tive July 1.
Rushefski has been superinten-
dent at Old Forge School District
since 2014.
Rushefski has a three-year con-
tract with Jim Thorpe Area School
District and his starting salary
will be $132,000.
Board President Pearl
Downs-Sheckler said Rushefski’s
experience made him the most
qualified candidate for the job.
“He has the experience, he has
the personality, I think he’s going
to be a good fit,” she said.
Rushefski has experience as a
superintendent and principal at
both the high school and elemen-
tary school level.
Before serving as superin-
tendent at Old Forge, Rushefski
served seven years as principal of
the former Chestnuthill Elemen-
tary in the Pleasant Valley School
District, and also served as high
school principal in Lackawanna
Trail School District. Rushefski
hasn’t completed a doctoral pro-
gram but he plans to once he is set-
tled in at Jim Thorpe.
Rushefski was joined at the
meeting by supporters, including
his wife and children.
He said that his family loves the
town of Jim Thorpe, and he has
long wanted to be the superinten-
dent of a rural district.
“There’s wonderful things here.
The opportunity to be the superin-
Thorpe hires new superintendent
BY TERRY AHNER
[email protected]
Two people were in-
jured during a single-ve-
hicle crash Monday
morning along Route 309
in West Penn Township.
Township police
Chief Brian Johnson
said the incident oc-
curred around 10 a.m.
across from the Penn
Mahoning Ambulance
garage at 1775 West Penn
Pike.
Johnson said a truck
was traveling south-
bound on Route 309
when the driver suffered
some kind of medical
condition and crossed
over the lanes.
He said the vehicle hit
a pole, fence and build-
ing at Storage Solutions
before coming to rest on
top of 2-by-2-by-6 con-
crete blocks.
Johnson said the driv-
er sustained minor inju-
ries, while a passenger
asleep in the rear sleeper
was injured and taken to
St. Luke’s Miners Cam-
pus.
He said the crash re-
mains under investiga-
tion, and the outcome of
a blood draw from the
Truck hits storage buildings in West Penn Twp.
Two people were injured Monday morning when this truck traveling southbound
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COURTROOM EXPERIENCE
ABOVE: Magisterial District
Judges, William J. Kissner and
Eric M. Schrantz preside over
a mock trial while Palmerton
senior Ben Serfass questions
a witness played by Palmerton
sophomore Matthew
Yurkunas. The trial was held
in courtroom one of the
Carbon County Courthouse
and sponsored by the young
lawyers division of the Carbon
County Bar Association.
RIGHT: Palmerton Area High
School freshman Nevaeh
Keiper is sworn in by Carbon
County tipstaff Sandy Flanigan
during the mock trial Monday
morning. See tnonline.com for
a photo gallery and Page 5
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BY JUDY DOLGOS-KRAMER
[email protected]
Members of the Pleas-
ant Valley community
gathered Monday to hon-
or a man who sacrificed
himself for students.
The new fitness center
in the John C. Mills wing
of the high school was
dedicated to the late 1986
graduate Chris Hixon.
Hixon was killed
during the mass shoot-
ing at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida, on Feb.
14, 2018. He had served as
an athletic director and
coach in Broward Coun-
ty for more than 20 years,
and on that fateful day he
ran toward the sound of
gunfire when others took
cover.
Pleasant Valley High
School Principal Matt
Triolo said Hixon, a vet-
eran of the U.S. Navy,
reacted to the gunfire by
jumping onto his golf cart
and heading toward the
sound to bring students
to safety. Hixon encoun-
tered the gunman, was
shot multiple times, but
yet stood guard, with his
radio in hand until police
arrived on the scene.
Members of Hixon’s
family were on hand for
the dedication. His moth-
er, Toni, and father, Rus-
Honoring
a hero
Pleasant Valley ﬁtness
center dedicated
to Chris Hixon
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students got
an introduction
to the court
system Monday.
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from the annual
Law Day event.
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out the
photos from
the Blue
Mountain vs.
Jim Thorpe
track meet
Monday. See
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town as the Syracuse Mets
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IronPigs. Tebow fields
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transition to AAA, and his
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Former
probation
officer
admits to
robbery
Human
error may
be cause
of crane
collapse
The former juvenile jus-
tice officer accused of at-
tempting to rob a used car
dealership with a hammer
pleaded guilty Monday in
Deschutes County Circuit
Court as part of a deal that
could spare him years in
prison.
Christopher James
Grant, 50, could have
served up to
17 years in
prison for
the episode
but instead
will serve six
years with no
possibility of
early release.
But under the deal struck
with the Deschutes County
District Attorney’s Office,
14 charges, including kid-
napping, were dropped
from his indictment in
exchange for guilty pleas
to two counts of menacing,
one of first-degree robbery
and one of unlawful use of
a weapon.
Appearing by video
from the Deschutes County
jail, Grant answered “yes,
sir,” when the judge asked
if he intended to plead
guilty.
SEATTLE — Human
error may have caused a
crane collapse that killed
four people and injured
four others over the week-
end, experts said Monday.
Based on videos of
the collapse, they said
it appears workers who
were disassembling the
construction crane had
prematurely removed pins
securing the sections of the
crane’s mast to each other,
and that could explain why
the crane toppled in rela-
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After 37 years of being an orthopedic surgeon in Bend, Dr. Rod Wigle has retired and hopes to spend more time doing the things he loves
like golfing, fishing and spending time with his family.
(Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin photo)
During his last year of high
school, Rod Wigle was shooting
hoops with a friend, who had com-
pleted his degree at Oregon State
and entered medical school.
“What are you going to do?”
the friend asked Wigle, an all-
conference basketball player and
valedictorian of his class.
“I don’t know, something math or
science-based,” Wigle recalls telling
him.
“You ought to consider medicine,”
his friend replied. “You’ll have a
comfortable living. It gives you the
ability to choose where you want to
live, and you can contribute to your
community.”
They had no idea just how pre-
scient that advice would be.
Last month, Wigle retired after
37 years of practicing orthopedics
in his chosen town of Bend, raising
two kids and contributing exten-
sively to the community at large.
Wigle was born in Canyonville
and was raised five miles west of
there in the tiny town of Riddle. His
father, a World War II paratrooper,
worked in a nickel mine; his mother
was a teacher. With two older broth-
ers and two younger sisters, he was
an avid athlete playing basketball,
baseball and football.
After high school, Wigle en-
rolled in Southern Oregon Univer-
sity, completing a degree in biology
while playing three sports. In his
sophomore year, he broke his col-
larbone on a kickoff in the second
football game of the year, and from
there on, concentrated solely on
baseball.
He would load up on courses in
the fall and winter semester, to have
an easier course load in the spring
when road games limited him to
about two days of classes a week.
“The big thing that kept you go-
ing was sports,” he said. “To this
day, most of the people I keep in
touch with from college are the
guys I played sports with.”
At Southern Oregon, he met
his wife, Carla, a singer who had
turned down a scholarship to The
Juilliard School in New York City.
They got married during his senior
year, before he enrolled in medical
school at Oregon Health & Science
University in Portland. He paid his
way through college working as a
choke setter and a timber faller in
the logging industry, and loading
freight.
Longtime Bend
orthopedist retires
PORTLAND — A measles
outbreak that sickened more
than 70 people, mostly chil-
dren, in the Pacific Northwest
is finally over even as the total
number of cases nationwide
continues to spike to near-
record levels, officials said
Monday.
Six weeks have passed
without a new infection in
southwest Washington state,
where the outbreak began
Jan. 3, said Dr. Alan Melnick,
head of the Clark County,
Washington, public health
department.
A total of 71 people were in-
fected — a tally that does not
include a handful of cases in
Portland and Seattle linked to
the outbreak’s epicenter.
Authorities elsewhere
struggled with the most mea-
sles cases in the U.S. since
1994. Across the country, 704
cases have been reported in 22
states as of Monday, accord-
ing to the U.S. Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention.
A large outbreak in the New
York City area has stymied
public health officials, and 271
students at two major Cali-
fornia universities remained
quarantined after possible
exposure, down from 800 stu-
dents last week.
“We’re grateful to see this
outbreak come to an end
without any deaths or serious
complications,” Melnick said.
“But as long as measles exists
elsewhere in the world and
people continue travel, we’re
at risk of seeing another out-
break. We must improve our
immunization rates to prevent
future outbreaks and keep our
children and other vulnerable
people safe.”
Northwest measles outbreak is over
Oregon
judge halts
impending
nationwide
‘gag rule’
U.S. District Judge
Michael McShane on Mon-
day granted the second
nationwide preliminary
injunction against new
federal restrictions that bar
taxpayer-funded family
planning clinics from re-
ferring patients to abortion
providers or from being
housed in the same place
as abortion services.
The judge signaled from
the bench last week that
he planned to grant the
injunction sought by 20
states, including Oregon,
as well as the District of
Columbia, Planned Par-
enthood and the American
Medical Association. But
at the time, he said he was
reluctant to set “national
health care” policy as a fed-
eral judge based in Eugene.
The government urged any
injunction be limited to the
plaintiffs in the case.
Ultimately, McShane
didn’t restrict the injunc-
tion, temporarily blocking
the Trump administration’s
controversial Title X family
planning program rules,
according to his 32-page
written opinion.
The so-called “gag rule,”
he wrote, would “hand-
cuff” medical providers
from referring a woman
who doesn’t want to con-
tinue her pregnancy to an
abortion provider, essen-
tially making medical pro-
fessionals “deaf and dumb
when counseling a client.”
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The Bulletin
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Corrections
In an article headlined “8
candidates vie for 3 seats”
which appeared Sunday,
April 28, on Page A1, the
amount of time that Bend-La
Pine School Board candidate
Caroline Skidmore had been a
speech-language pathologist
was misstated. Skidmore
has been a speech-language
pathologist for 25 years and
has owned her own practice in
Bend for 17 of those.
In an article headlined
“Bond, levy would fund pool,”
which appeared Monday, April
29, on Page A1, the total cost
of Redmond’s park bond and
levy was misstated. The bond
and levy would cost the owner
of a $200,000 home about
$148 per year.
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errors.
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By CAITLIN NEARHOOD
[email protected]
HURON TWP.
Cleveland abduction
survivor Gina DeJesus and
her cousin, Sylvia Colon,
are among the speakers
on a panel at 6:30 p.m.
We d n e s d a y a t B G S U
F i r e l a n d s ’
Cedar Point
Center. The
event is free
and open to
the public.
D e J e s u s ,
2 9 , a l o n g
with Michelle
K n i g h t
and Amanda Berry, were
abducted, held captive and
abused in a Cleveland home
for about a decade before
escaping in 2013.
In an interview with ABC
News’ Robin Roberts in 2015,
DeJesus and Berry described
the escape. At one point,
after police stormed into
the residence, DeJesus and
Knight thought their captor,
Ariel Castro, returned.
Captive
to tell
story of
survival
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FIRELANDS
Fishing for your food
Youth commission goes green
By TOM JACKSON
[email protected]
SANDUSKY
Eating fish is good for you, but
watch what you eat and how much,
state officials said.
Three state agencies have just
issued the latest “Ohio Sport Fishing
Consumption Advisory,” giving do’s
and dont’s for eating the fish you pull
out of Ohio waters.
The good news: Yellow perch are
among the safest fish you can eat.
None of the state’s “don’t eat anything
you catch here” warnings apply to
bodies of water in the Sandusky area.
The not-so-good news: You have
to be careful to avoid eating fish that
may have mercury or PCBs.
By ANDY OURIEL
[email protected]
SANDUSKY
The leaders of tomorrow
understand they must help
take care of Earth today so
future generations — which
include their children and
grandchildren — can also
enjoy what this planet
presently offers.
Representatives of
t h e Sa n d u s ky you t h
c o m m i s s i o n v i s i t e d
the Register offices on
Monday, appearing on
“Between the Lines.” The
entire program is available
for demand viewing at
sanduskyregister.com/btl.
During the 25-minute
s e g m e n t , m e m b e r s
m a d e t w o m a j o r
announcements.
First and foremost,
the group wants to paint
a n e n v i ro n m e n t a l l y
conscious mural as its
legacy gift to Sandusky.
Beginning this fall, they’ll
create a dystopia-to-
utopia depiction on the
Camp Street side of A & B
Hobbies & Cycles on West
Washington Street (U.S. 6).
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HEALTH
SANDUSKY | ‘BETWEEN THE LINES’
Fishing remains
popular in Ohio,
but certain kinds
of fish should only
be eaten rarely.
Register file photo/
ERIN CALDWELL
How to safely consume what you catch
DeJesus
Register photo/ERIN CALDWELL
Members of the Sandusky youth commission — from left, Wyatt
Schenk, George Gale, Tyler Franklin, Cecilia Yeckley, Hunter
Hayberger and Jai’Shanti Hicks — talk about an upcoming
fundraiser during “Between the Lines” on Monday at the Register.
Want to
donate?
The Sandusky
Youth Commission
started an online
fundraiser, visit
gofundme.com/
sanduskyyouth
commission, so
an artist can paint
an environmental-
themed mural.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT
Reliable cruisers vital to police work
By BRANDON ADDEO
[email protected]
SANDUSKY
Some local cops poke fun at
Erie County Sheriff Paul Sigsworth
for driving a Ford Crown Victoria.
It’s an old-school police vehicle
widely used between the 1980s
and 2000s that was discontinued
in 2011.
“Everybody makes fun of me
because I drive a Crown Vic, but
I don’t care,” Sigsworth said with
a laugh as he stood near his 2011
model Crown Victoria police
cruiser Wednesday.
Sigsworth praised the vehicle,
which he called both reliable and
durable. He said “Crown Vics”
have kept him largely unhurt in
three on-the-job car crashes over
his law enforcement career.
“They’re roomy, they’re nice.
It’s like an old shoe, I’m just
comfortable wearing it,” he said.
n See CRUISERS, Page A3
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Erie County Sheriff Paul Sigsworth stands next to his 2011 Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser on Wednesday in Perkins Township.
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[email protected]
With 55 years of service under its belt, Yank-
ton’s wastewater treatment plant has served the
community well.
However, its age and a number of major rain-
fall events over the course of the past year are
taking a damaging toll on the plant and its ability
to operate.
Last week, the Yankton City Commission held
a work session to discuss the potential for a con-
ditions assessment for the plant that could serve
as a guide for future work.
Director of Environmental Services Kyle
Goodmanson said the plant’s very nature makes
it hard to maintain equipment and structures on
site.
“It’s a really harsh environment at the waste-
water facility,” Goodmanson said. “You’ve got a
lot of methane gas, a lot of different corrosive
environments, so equipment doesn’t last as long
down there as we would like.”
He said the wastewater plant is put at a
further disadvantage when trying to repair and
replace equipment due to its critical importance.
“There’s no way of shutting this system off,”
he said. “We can’t stop the flow from coming in.
If you’ve got an issue with a water main, you can
shut it down — there’s really no way to shut the
sewer down. It’s going to start backing up into
homes and things like that, so we’ve always got
KELLY HERTZ/P&D
These two girls work to get the cookies balanced on their noses to fall into their mouths without
using their hands during the Beadle Elementary School Carnival, held on the playground of
Beadle School Monday. The event featured a bevy of activities for kids, including the chance to
throw water balloons at Beadle School Principal Carey Mitzel.
National
Day Of
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Thursday
BY RANDY TRAMP
P&D Correspondent
The annual National Day
of Prayer is this Thursday,
and this year’s theme is
“Love One Another.”
Dr. Ronnie Floyd, presi-
dent of the National Day
of Prayer, said, “We need a
baptism of love by the Holy
Spirit that will immerse the
entire Church of Jesus Christ
in America and a baptism of
love that will immerse all of
America today. … From the
church house to the state
house and all the way to the
White House, we need to
learn to love one another.”
“Even among the vast
majority of America that
“doesn’t look like us, talk
like us, and understand us,”
Floyd said, “They understand
that America’s broken. They
may not understand why but
they understand America’s
broken, and in their mindset,
if there’s a God who exists,
He’s about the only one who
can fix it.”
In Yankton Thursday,
a noon prayer ceremony
will be open to the public,
to be held at the City Gym,
located at Fifth and Walnut
St.. Prayer leaders from
previous years in Yankton
have prayed for our nation’s
leaders in seven areas. These
areas are our government,
churches, military, media,
families, business and educa-
tion. Yankton organizers have
added prayers for the less
fortunate. Prayer leaders will
include Lay people as well
as ministers representing
churches in the area.
In 1952, President Harry S.
Truman established the spring
PRAYER | PAGE 11
Cookie Catchers
BY BLAKE NICHOLSON
Associated Press
A western South Dakota sheriff is seeking to be dis-
missed from a lawsuit challenging new state laws that
target disruptive demonstrations by anti-oil pipeline
activists.
Attorney Rebeca L. Mann said Pennington County
Sheriff Kevin Thom must enforce state laws but isn’t
responsible for defending them.
“Pennington County is not a proper party to defend
the constitutionality of state statues nor should it be
burdened with the expense of defending statutes it has
no power to change,” Mann argued in court docu-
ments filed last week.
Pennington County is one of eight South Dakota
counties along the route of TransCanada Corp.’s
planned Keystone XL pipeline to move Canadian crude
through Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska,
where it would connect with lines to Gulf Coast refiner-
ies. The $8 billion project has the backing of President
Donald Trump but is being fought in the courts by
opponents.
Activists and American Indian tribes also plan
on-the-ground protests against construction. Such
protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in
North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 resulted in 761 arrests
and cost the state and Morton County $38 million.
Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer
Partners also is seeking to recover millions of dollars
in protest-related damages from Greenpeace, an effort
KEYSTONE | PAGE 11
KELLY HERTZ/P&D
Yankton’s 55-year-old wastewater treatment
plant has seen damage as a result of aging
and major rain events in recent years. Now,
city officials are looking at the prospect of a
conditions assessment to figure out what pro-
jects may be needed in the future.
City Officials
Examining
Wastewater
Plant Future
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KELLY HERTZ/P&D)
The Yankton High School spring choir con-
cert was held Monday night at the YHS thea-
tre. The program, under the direction of An-
gela Larson, featured performances by the
Concert Choir, Treble Choir and Acappella
Choir, as well as a finale featuring all choirs
singing “Give Us Hope.”
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Co. Sheriff
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Responsible
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Laws In Court
BY ELLIOT SPAGAT
AND JULIE WATSON
Associated Press
POWAY, Calif. — The FBI
said it got tips about a social
media post threatening violence
against Jews just minutes before
a gunman killed a worshipper
and wounded three others at a
Southern California synagogue —
an attack that makes him “part of
the history of evil that has been
perpetrated on Jewish people for
centuries,” the suspect’s family
said Monday.
The tips to an FBI website
and hotline included a link to
the anonymous post but did
not offer specific information
about its author or the location
of the threat. The bureau said
employees immediately tried to
determine who wrote it, but the
shooting occurred before they
could establish his identity.
John T. Earnest, 19, was
charged with murder and at-
tempted murder in Saturday’s
attack as well as arson in connec-
tion with a nearby mosque fire
last month. He was expected in
court Tuesday.
His parents said their son and
five siblings were raised in a fam-
ily that “rejected hate and taught
that love must be the motive for
everything we do.” They said
they were shocked and mystified.
“Our son’s actions were
informed by people we do not
know, and ideas we do not hold,”
the family said in its first public
comments.
They said they were cooper-
ating with investigators to help
“uncover many details of the
path that he took to this evil and
despicable act.” They do not plan
to provide their son with legal
representation, according to their
attorney, Earll Potts. A public
defender will likely be appointed.
Earnest burst into the Chabad
of Poway synagogue Saturday on
the last day of Passover, a major
Jewish holiday that celebrates
freedom, and opened fire with an
assault-style rifle on the crowd of
about 100.
Lori Kaye, a founding member
of the congregation, was killed.
Rabbi Yishoel Goldstein was shot
in the hand, while Noya Dahan, 8,
and her uncle Almog Peretz suf-
fered shrapnel wounds.
Kaye, 60, was remembered
for her kindness Monday at a
memorial service at the packed
synagogue in Poway, a well-to-do
suburb north of San Diego.
Earnest fled when the gun
jammed, calling 911 to report
the shooting and surrendering a
short time later, authorities said.
He was a star scholar, athlete
and pianist whose embrace of
white supremacy and anti-
Semitism has dumbfounded the
people closest to him.
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OXFORD — A drug drop off location was
provided by the Oxford Police and the
Talbot County Sheriff’s Office during
the 2019 Oxford Day, April 27.
Talbot County Sheriff’s Office Corpo-
ral Tim Connors, who manned the drop
off location with Talbot County Sheriff’s
Office Deputy First Class John Cole-
man, said the opioid drop off location in
Talbot County had been used frequent-
ly. Connors said since Talbot County
has a large elderly population, a lot of
residents want to dispose of all expired
prescriptions.
Connors said the office put on simi-
lar programs throughout the county,
including at local high schools, senior
centers and other organizations.
A portable metal drum with a one-way
deposit is taken to most of these presen-
tations, including Oxford Day, where
Connors said the barrel was sponsored
by members of the local Lions Club.
Connors said during these demonstra-
tions, especially at senior centers, the
office will collect nearly three evidence
bags of opioids or related substances.
“It’s a two-day thing, and when we do
it we get a lot,” Connors said. “A lot of
people are realizing that it’s not safe to
leave it in your medicine cabinet.”
Drug dropoff boxes seeing use in Talbot
PHOTO BY JACK RODGERS
Corporal Tim Connors, left, and Deputy First Class John Coleman stand next to their portable metal drum, used to
accept donations of opioids and other prescriptions, during Oxford Day, April 27.
By KAYLA RIVAS
[email protected]
EASTON — The Women & Girls Fund of
the Mid-Shore held its seventeenth an-
nual grants and awards luncheon Mon-
day afternoon, April 29, at The Mile-
stone.
The endowed fund channels the
pooled resources of individuals into a
legacy serving needs and improving
the lives of women and girls in Caro-
line, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s
and Talbot Counties. The Fund began in
2002 as the grassroots effort of a group
of women looking for an effective way to
address significant local problems.
Since 2003, the Women & Girls Fund
of the Mid-Shore has awarded $601,767
to 89 Mid-Shore non-profit organiza-
tions. During Monday’s luncheon, 17
organizations received over $48,000 in
grant funding from the Fund.
Fund awards grants, honors two
PHOTO BY KAYLA RIVAS
The Women and Girls Fund awarded over $48,000 in grants to 17 non-profit organizations across the Mid-Shore on
April 29 at the Milestone.
EASTON — Dr. Kelly L. Griffith, Talbot Schools
superintendent, has announced the appoint-
ment of Dr. Jodi E. Colman to the position of
principal of Easton Middle School effective
July 1, 2019.
Colman succeeds former Easton Middle
School Principal Jackie Valcik, who served as
acting principal of the school since October 2017.
“I am writing to share with you that after
careful consideration, I have decided to follow
my heart and my true love for children and
return to the classroom,” Valcik wrote in an
email to families on April 26. “I will be teach-
ing first grade at White Marsh Elementary
School for the 2019–2020 school year.”
“We will work collaboratively to make the
transition smooth, and I know that you will
welcome her warmly and support her as you
have supported me,” Valcik said.
Colman has served as principal of Chapel
District Elementary since 2017. As a gradu-
ate of Easton High, she came to TCPS from
Dorchester County Public Schools, where
she worked since 1993. She earned a bach-
elors degree in elementary education from
Salisbury State University that year, and a
masters in education with a concentration in
reading in 1996.
Colman received a Ph.D. in organizational
leadership from the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore in 2012.
“I understand and respect Mrs. Valcik’s
decision to follow her heart and return to
teaching at this time. I wish her the very best
moving forward at WMES,” said Griffith. “Dr.
Colman brings a wealth of experience in ad-
ministrative leadership and curriculum su-
pervision to EMS, and her collaborative spirit
and enthusiasm will be an asset to the team!”
EASTON — A Talbot deputy’s patrol vehicle was dam-
aged Sunday night by a hit-and-run driver, police said.
The deputy was sitting inside his marked patrol
vehicle completing a traffic stop about 9:21 p.m. Sun-
day, April 28, on Easton Parkway in the area of North
Washington Street,
when his vehicle
was struck in the
driver side causing
minor damage but
disabling the patrol
vehicle, the Talbot
County Sheriff’s Of-
fice said.
After the collision,
the vehicle which
struck the deputy’s
vehicle failed to re-
main at the scene and continued traveling south on
Easton Parkway.
A lookout was broadcast to other law enforcement
agencies; however attempts to locate the vehicle were
unsuccessful. During the investigation, deputies were
able to locate the passenger side mirror of the vehicle
that struck the deputy’s vehicle.
Deputies were able to determine the suspect vehicle
is a 2002-2006 Nissan Altima, silver/gray in color. The
suspect vehicle will have passenger side damage to the
front fender, front door and the passenger side mirror
is missing.
Anyone who locates this vehicle or has any informa-
tion about this vehicle is asked to contact First Ser-
geant J.R. Dobson of the Talbot County Sheriff’s Office
at 410-822-1020. Callers may remain anonymous.
Colman is new Easton
Middle School principal
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sition of Easton Middle School principal effective
July 1, 2019.
Hit-and-run driver
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2002-2006 Nissan Altima is
shown.
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how they formed
via the internet. E1
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By STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
[email protected]artribune.com
Jenny Teeson has told Min-
nesota lawmakers many times,
often in explicit detail, the story
of being sexually assaulted by
her former husband — and how
he all but escaped justice.
On Monday, the 39-year-old
Andover woman saw her per-
sistence pay off as the Minne-
sota Senate voted unanimously
to repeal a decades-old law that
sometimes shields spouses and
domestic partners from pros-
ecution for marital rape.
“There’s real power when
you’re in a survivor mentality
and not a victim mentality to be
able to tell your story for good,”
Teeson said.
After the Senate’s 66-0 vote,
Gov. Tim Walz could sign the
repeal later this week, striking
Minnesota from the ledger of
states that still have loopholes
that make it difficult under cer-
tain circumstances to prosecute
men for sexual assault.
When Teeson and her father,
Jerry Teeson, brought her story
to lawmakers last year, they
were initially met by shock that
the law still existed. Known in
courthouses as the “voluntary
relationship” exemption, or
the “marital rape defense,” the
repealed statute dates to the
1970s. It prevents authorities
from charging spouses who
Senate passes ‘marital rape’ bill
Gun rights advocate won
unanimous support.
By DANNY HAKIM
New York Times
INDIANAPOLIS – After a
power struggle roiled the
National Rifle Association’s
annual convention over the
past few days, the group’s board
unanimously re-elected Wayne
LaPierre as chief executive
Monday and selected a new
president to replace Oliver
North, attendees at its annual
board meeting said.
The moves ended a bitter
internal fight that pitted North,
a right-wing celebrity since he
emerged in the Iran-Contra
scandal, against LaPierre, the
best-known face of the gun
rights movement. The leader-
ship squabble came as the NRA
faces an array of challenges,
including an investigation by
the New York attorney gen-
eral into the group’s tax-exempt
status, and the new financial
strength of the gun control
movement. In a statement
Monday, LaPierre said he was
“humbled by the board’s vote of
confidence and its support of
my vision for the future.”
North’s successor is Carolyn
NRA’s LaPierre fends off
backlash, wins re-election
GLEN STUBBE • [email protected]
Jenny Teeson thanked legislators Zack Stephenson, left, and
John Hoffman on Monday. Her parents are in the background.
Lake Calhoun is back on the map.
The state Court of Appeals ruled
Monday that former Department of
Natural Resources Commissioner Tom
Landwehr lacked authority last year to
change the name of the lake to Bde Maka
Ska (White Earth Lake), so the lake’s
name legally remains Calhoun.
Erick Kaardal, a lawyer represent-
ing “Save Lake Calhoun,” a group that
opposed renaming the lake, called the
decision “a win for holding the system
accountable.” He added: “We don’t have to pronounce
Bde Maka Ska.”
But then again, maybe we will. Minneapolis Park and
Recreation Board President Brad Bourn said in a statement
Monday that the lake was called Bde Maka Ska for genera-
tions before white settlers, he said, “stole it” from the Dakota.
Minneapolis Park Board members said they have no
intention of honoring the decision, and some legislators
are already pushing for a vote to allow
the Dakota name to stay. That vote could
come in the House as early as Tuesday.
The court’s ruling is pinned on a
1925 law which it said “unambiguously,
denies authority for the DNR to change
the name of a lake which has existed for
40 years.”
Lake Calhoun was referred to as such
in writings dating to the early 1820s. The
court ruled that only the Legislature can
change the name after four decades.
Gov. Tim Walz deferred comment on the ruling to the
DNR, which issued a statement saying it has 30 days to decide
whether to ask the state Supreme Court to review the decision.
In the meantime, it said, the lake’s name in federal documents
remains Bde Maka Ska, pronounced beh-DAY mah-KAH skah.
The DNR’s statement expressed concern that the rul-
ing eliminates any mechanism for changing the names of
Court says it’s Lake Calhoun
Minneapolis Park Board members say they plan to stick with the new name, and some in the Legislature are pushing for a vote.
In closing arguments, both
sides called Damond’s
fatal shooting a tragedy.
By CHAO XIONG and LIBOR
JANY • Star Tribune staff writers
Jurors deliberating the fate
of a former Minneapolis police
officer charged with fatally
shooting Justine Ruszczyk
Damond are debating two
versions of the 2017 killing
that reverberated around the
world: An officer who acted
recklessly when he fired at a
woman who had called 911, and
one who used his training to
stop a possible threat to him-
self and his partner.
The prosecution and
defense delivered heated clos-
ing arguments Monday before
the jury of two women and 10
men received the case against
Mohamed Noor about 2:15 p.m.
Jurors, at least six of whom
appear to be people of color,
will be sequestered while they
weigh the charges against
Noor — second-degree mur-
der, third-degree murder and
second-degree manslaugh-
ter. They deliberated into the
evening and are expected to
resume Tuesday morning.
“This case has tragedy com-
pounded on top of tragedy,”
Assistant Hennepin County
Attorney Amy Sweasy said
in her closing arguments.
“[Damond is] gone because
she was tragically and violently
gunned down by a police offi-
cer she called for help. ” Defense
attorney Thomas Plunkett
slammed his hand on a lec-
tern at the start of his closing
Decision
on Noor
in hands
of jury
Outbreaks are unabated
among the unvaccinated.
By LENA H. SUN • Washington Post
At least 704 people in the
United States have been sick-
ened this year by measles, a
highly contagious and poten-
tially life-threatening disease,
according to a report released
Monday by the Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion. It’s the greatest number
of cases in a single year in 25
years and represents a huge
setback for public health after
measles was declared elimi-
nated in the U.S. in 2000. More
than 500 of the people infected
in 22 states were not vacci-
nated. Sixty-six people have
been hospitalized, including
24 who had pneumonia. More
than one-third of the cases are
children younger than 5.
The biggest and longest-
lasting outbreaks are in New
York’s Rockland County
and Brooklyn, centered in
ultra-Orthodox Jewish com-
munities, where misinfor-
mation about the safety and
Measles cases top 700,
most in U.S. in 25 years
HOLDS ON TO JOB
NRA retained Wayne LaPierre
as its leader amid a leadership
fight that broke into the open
at the group’s national
convention in Indianapolis.
A determined survivor brought the need for repeal to light.
DNR lacked authority
to change the name
of the lake after
40 years, court ruled.
By ROCHELLE OLSON
and TOREY VAN OOT
Star Tribune staff writers
LEILA NAVIDI • [email protected]
Polio: Pakistan’s efforts to get rid of the disease falter. A10
Oliver North is
being replaced
as president
by longtime
member Caro-
lyn Meadows.
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gressional candidate Chris
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olina state court against the
North Carolina Republican
Party last Friday, demanding
they provide him access to
data and entry to events that
they are providing to
other Republican can-
didates in the primary.
Anglin circulated a
copy of his legal com-
plaint to members of
the media by email.
A n g l i n c l a i m s
NCGOP Chairman
Robin Hayes illegally banned
Anglin from access
and acting Chair
Aubrey Woodard has
refused to reverse
that decision.
“They are violating
their own rules, as
well as the Constitu-
tional rights of voters
and myself by treating me dif-
ferently than other Republi-
can candidates in this race,”
Anglin said in a statement.
“They are scared of my mes-
sage of being a Constitutional
Reagan Republican who will
stand up for the rule of law,
common sense and to them.”
The suit alleges that the
NC GOP is violating their
own plan of organization by
interfering in a contested Pri-
mary, and as a public entity,
violating the public’s and
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UNION COUNTY — From April
24 to April 27, 672 early votes for
Special Republican Primary of the
Ninth Congressional District race
were cast, according to the Union
County Board of Elections.
Early voting for the Ninth Dis-
trict primary is held in the Griffin
Room of the Union County Library
in Monroe, located at 316 E Wind-
sor Street.
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Nearly 700 early votes cast for Ninth District
BY HOLLY MORGAN
[email protected]
M I N E R A L
S P R I N G S
“I haven’t seen this much
seersucker since
1967,” I overheard a
spectator say on Saturday.
As my grandmother
would say, people were
“broke out” in pastel
seersucker and Lilly
Pulitzer at what is probably
North Carolina’s preppiest
event of the year — the
24th annual Queen’s Cup
Steeplechase.
Attending the Queen’s
Cup has been a dream of
mine for years. This past
weekend, that dream came
true.
Because this was my
first year, I had no idea
what to expect or how to
plan for a day at the races.
Based on my latest
bucket-list experience, here
are the top three tips from
a first-time guest at the
Queen’s Cup Steeplechase:
Befriend someone of
wealth: If you’re not rich,
at least find a friend who
is. Having rich friends
means you get to watch
the race from a tent, and
you get to tailgate in an air-
conditioning. I did not have
rich friends on Saturday.
If you’re rich, attend the
Steeplechase each year and
take note of this — ’ I’m a
great date.
SEE GUEST/PAGE A10
24th annual Steeplechase: Through
the lens of a first-time guest
BY HOLLY MORGAN
[email protected]
Photos by Holly Morgan
In addition to many other events, there were five horse races at the Queen’s Cup in Mineral Springs on Saturday.
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‘I AM PROUD TO BE
A GAY SON OF GOD’
Matt Easton, the 2019
valedictorian for Brigham
Young University, used his
speech at commencement
to come out as gay. 2A
FOOD & DRINK
VETS MAKE NAME
IN BEER MARKET
In Sacramento, the booming
beer industry is being
boosted by breweries owned
by military veterans and
police officers. 1C
LOCAL
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WOMAN RELEASED
A judge ordered the release
of Maribel Menchaca after
six months in custody when
murder and robbery
charges were dismissed. 4A
BEIRUT
The shadowy leader of the
Islamic State group claimed to
appear for the first time in five
years in a video released by the
extremist group’s propaganda
arm on Monday, acknowledging
defeat in the group’s last
stronghold in Syria but vowing a
“long battle” ahead.
The man said to be Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi in the video also
claimed the Easter Day bomb-
ings in Sri Lanka which killed
over 250 people were “part of
the revenge” that awaits the
West.
Despite numerous claims
about his death in the past few
years, al-Baghdadi’s where-
abouts remain a mystery. Many
of his top aides have been
killed, mostly by U.S.-led coali-
tion airstrikes. He is among the
few senior IS commanders still
at large after two years of
steady battlefield losses that
saw the self-styled “caliphate”
AP
This image made from video
posted on a militant website on
Monday purports to show the
leader of the Islamic State group,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being
interviewed by his group’s
Al-Furqan media outlet.
Lanka
BY ZEINA KARAM AND
BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
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NAMPA
In 1972, historic preserva-
tionists saved Nampa Train
Depot from destruction by
turning it into a museum. Now
that museum could be forced
to close if it can’t find more
funding.
“We are starting to run out
of money,” said Aldis Garsvo,
president of the Canyon Coun-
ty Historical Society, which
owns the 116-year-old building.
“Costs are going up, mainte-
nance requirement is already
going up. It takes $30,000 just
to keep the lights on.”
The Nampa Train Depot
Museum is a Nampa icon. It
offers visitors insight into the
Treasure Valley’s past and
serves as a reminder of the
vital role railroads, especially
the Union Pacific, have played
in the region’s growth since the
19th century.
Even today, with train pas-
sengers gone, Nampa has a
major Union Pacific rail yard
that is one of UP’s two termi-
nals in Idaho (Pocatello has the
other), and it is fed by local
freight shipments along the
Boise Valley Railroad from the
Boise area.
If the depot closes, Garsvo
says Nampa will lose part of its
identity.
“It removes the opportunity
for citizens of Nampa and Can-
yon County to experience his-
tory — to learn about how their
grandma and grandpa created
this county,” he said in an
interview.
But the building needs re-
pairs and its displays need
updates. Gutters need to be
stripped and replaced, Garsvo
said. The mortar of the exterior
brickwork has cracks that must
be filled in. He’d also like to
replace the carpet — blue and
KATE TALERICO [email protected]
Aldis Garsvo, president of the Canyon County Historical Society, worked on weekends alongside his son to restore this 1942 Union Pacific
caboose that sits outside the Nampa Train Depot Museum.
Nampa Train Depot, saved by
preservationists in the 1970s,
is in financial danger again
DARIN OSWALD [email protected]
The Nampa Train Depot Museum in downtown Nampa boasts one
of the fanciest structures of the Oregon Short Line series of depots
in Idaho. Inside the museum are displays and exhibits from the
railroad era, including the famed Dewey Palace Hotel.
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U.S. attorney in
St. Louis an-
nounced in a
news release.
He could face
up to 20 years
in prison on
each count, if
convicted.
Stenger’s attorney, Scott
Rosenblum, confirmed the
resignation and said he would
comment further about the
case later.
Stenger, a Democrat elect-
ed to his second term in No-
vember, is accused of ensur-
ing that donor John Rallo and
his companies obtained con-
tracts with the county and
received other favors. Stenger
also is accused of ensuring
that an unnamed company
obtained a state lobbying
contract from the St. Louis
Economic Development Part-
nership, and taking actions to
conceal the illegal conduct.
The U.S. attorney’s office
said Stenger sought to “se-
cretly use his official position
to enrich himself through
soliciting and accepting cam-
paign contributions from
individuals and their compa-
nies in exchange for favorable
official action, and for indi-
viduals and their companies
to enrich themselves and their
companies by secretly ob-
taining favorable action for
themselves and for their com-
SEE INDICTED, 2A
Steve
Stenger
NATION & WORLD
‘BOYZ N HOOD’
DIRECTOR DIES
John Singleton, who made
one of Hollywood’s most
memorable debuts with the
Oscar-nominated “Boyz N
the Hood,” has died at the
age of 51. 7A
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COACH NAMED AT
ALTON HIGH
Dana Morgan, a former
assistant at East St. Louis
High School, is the new
Alton basketball coach. 1B
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SHARKS LIKE
KARLSSON’S PLAY
Erik Karlsson’s end-to-end
rush in a loss to Colorado
has San Jose hoping the
defenseman is healthy
again. 1B
COLLINSVILLE
When U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise,
R-Louisiana, was shot on June
14, 2017, while on a baseball
field in Alexandria, Virginia, the
congressman tried crawling
away, but eventually his arms
gave out.
Then he started to pray.
The first thought was of his
daughter years in the future,
walking down the aisle of her
wedding alone, Scalise said.
“I said, ‘Please God, don’t let
Madison walk down the aisle
alone.’ That’s what had come to
my mind first,” Scalise said.
“Then I just prayed that I see
my family again.”
Scalise spoke about the con-
gressional shooting on Monday
at the 21st Annual Congression-
al Prayer Breakfast in Collins-
ville. The shooter, James
Hodgkinson, who was from the
Belleville area, was killed by law
enforcement during the shoot-
out.
In Scalise’s remarks he never
uttered Hodgkinson’s name,
refering to the metro-east man
as the “shooter” or a “deranged
gunman.”
The breakfast also featured
fellow Republican baseball team
members U.S. Rep. John Shim-
kus, R-Collinsville, who is Scal-
ise’s roommate in Washington,
D.C., and U.S. Rep. Rodney
Davis, R-Taylorville, and U.S.
Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphys-
boro, whose office had been
contacted by Hodgkinson 10
times.
“(After) the events of that day
... prayers went out all over the
nation,” Bost said. “We’re just
Collinsville. Scalise spoke about his faith and recovery after he was shot in 2017 by James Hodgkinson, who was from the Belleville area.
Congressman Steve
Scalise shares his survival
story and his faith
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RodRosensteinsubmits
hisletterofresignation
The deputyattorneygeneral on
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run defined byhis appointment
ofspecial counsel Robert Mueller.
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itstopteacherhonor
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PEinstructorwassuspendedafter
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BurgerKingiskeen
onnewveggieburger
The chain’s month-long test of
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Volume71,Number120
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ByYamilBerard
[email protected]
A Norcross dietary supplement
maker is once again under fed-
eral scrutiny, warned this time to
immediately stop sales of prod-
ucts with an ingredient that may
not be safe.
TheU.S.FoodandDrugAdmin-
istrationsaysHi-TechPharmaceu-
ticalsshouldn’tbesellingproducts
containing the stimulant DMHA.
But a defiant company owner
Jared Wheat vows to continue to
provide his customers with the
pre-workout powders and diet
aids until a court orders him to
stop. Wheat — no stranger to bat-
tling with federal authorities —
Supplementscontinued on A6
Northside company has new run-in with feds
ONLYINTHEAJC NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
FDAWANTSTOOVERHAULREGULATORY
PROCESSFORSUPPLEMENTS
As more newproducts flood the market,
the FDAisworking on efforts to modernize its
approach to regulating dietary supplements,
industryofficials say.
The agencyhas been pushing forcompanies
to undergo a notification process before they
introduce new products to the marketplace.
That processwould require them to provide the
FDAwith a dossieron the product ingredients
alongwith safetydata.
Now,dietarysupplements don’t have to
have pre-market approval from the FDA.But
companies must address anyFDAconcerns
about the products’safetyand compliancewith
federal law.
“Ourmembers represent the responsible
players in this industryso theydo complywith
this requirement,”saidAndrewShao,spokesman
fortheWashington,D.C.-based Council for
Responsible Nutrition,which represents more
than 150 dietarysupplement companies.
MORE DETAILS
FDA says products have a stimulant
that may present a health, injury risk.
Despite a
warning from
the FDA, Jared
Wheat, own-
er of Hi-Tech
Pharmaceu-
ticals in Nor-
cross, vows to
sell pre-work-
out powders
and diet aids
until a court
orders him to
stop. He plans
to sue FDA.
[email protected]
A South Korean battery man-
ufacturer on Monday filed a fed-
erallawsuitandatradecomplaint
alleging theft of trade secrets
against a rival company plan-
ning a sprawling factory in north-
east Georgia it says will one day
employ 2,000 workers.
The dispute pits two of South
federal judge in Delaware and the
U.S. International Trade Com-
mission step in to block SK from
importing lithium-ion batteries
and from even importing equip-
ment for manufacturing and test-
ing batteries into the U.S.
LG Chem, which has its U.S.
headquarters in Atlanta, also
SKInnovationcontinued on A10
TheAJC previouslyreported
on SKInnovation’s plans fora
sprawling factory inJackson
Countywhere it plans to build
batteries forelectric
vehicles and
employ2,000.A
letterobtained
bytheAJC shows
the state and
Jackson County
offered the company
a combined $300 million in
taxbreaks,grants and other
incentives.The companycould
receive millions more in rebates
eachyearfrom certain sales
and use tax exemptions.
OUR REPORTING
Gov. Brian Kemp (left) greets
Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross at the SK Innovation
groundbreaking in March.
BOB ANDRES / [email protected]
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Number of illegal
immigrants posing as
families soaring. A3
COMMENTARY
Complete, verifi able
denuclearization a
must in North Korea. B1
WORLD
Norway fi nds whale
with harness possibly
linked to Russia. A8
NATION
Army veteran accused
in plot to retaliate for
Christchurch attack. A6
the federal gasoline tax to help pay for infrastruc-
ture spending. The move could give the initiative
bipartisan momentum in Congress not seen since
2013, when business and labor joined forces in an ul-
timately unsuccessful push for immigration reform.
Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer will arrive at the
White House with a “big and bold” list of liberal
demands for higher spending and climate change
regulations, but partisan hostility in Washington has
only increased since the partial government shut-
down ended in January and special counsel Robert
Mueller released a report on his Russia investigation
BY S.A. MILLER AND SETH MCLAUGHLIN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PITTSBURGH | More than anything
else, the pro-union crowd at former Vice
President Joseph R. Biden’s campaign
kickoff Monday cheered him as someone
they believe can beat President Trump
and bring back the Obama era.
The fervor inside the Teamsters union
hall combined a nostalgia for President
Obama with the conviction that Mr.
Biden was electable and a belief that
the former vice president would be a
transitional fi gure on the way to the
far-left government envisioned by party
activists.
Looking up at Mr. Biden on the stage,
public school teacher Sherri Suppa
beamed with pleasure.
“He brings me smiles because I think
of when times were better and people
were civil. He and Obama were a great
team. We need to get back,” said Ms.
Suppa, 55, a member of the Pittsburgh
Federation of Teachers.
As he heads out on the campaign
trail, Mr. Biden is under pressure to keep
Democrats’ hopes for 2020 alive.
“We have to choose hope over fear,
unity over divisions and maybe most
importantly truth over lies,” Mr. Biden
said to cheers.
The themes of his speech often
BY DAVID SHERFINSKI
The National Rifl e Association named Carolyn
D. Meadows as its president Monday and circled the
wagons around embattled Executive Vice President
Wayne LaPierre amid unprecedented turmoil at the
gun rights organization.
Ms. Meadows replaces Oliver North, who was
pushed out over the weekend amid a struggle with
Mr. LaPierre stemming from the NRA’s fi nancial
position.
The NRA’s board also voted to renew Mr. LaPi-
erre as executive vice president and CEO, sidelining
calls from some members to oust him.
Keeping Mr. LaPierre in place is a vote of con-
fi dence that the NRA can pull out of its fi nancial
troubles. The organization bled cash in the run-up
to the 2016 elections.
Numbers released this weekend showed that
the NRA and several of its affi liates ran another $11
million defi cit last year.
“We’ve been less than accountable at the NRA
— not as unaccountable as the government or the
media, but we’re better than that,” legendary rocker
Ted Nugent, an NRA board member, told The Wash-
ington Times on the sidelines of the group’s annual
meetings in Indianapolis over the weekend. “I’m just
a guitar player, but see if I have this right: When I
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION
NRA board
names North
replacement,
backs LaPierre
Meadows new leader
of embattled gun group
BY GUY TAYLOR AND CARLO MUÑOZ
He may have lost his hold on ter-
ritory in Syria and Iraq and barely
eluded the U.S.-backed forces who
destroyed his “caliphate,” but unbro-
ken Islamic State leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi reemerged Monday, ap-
pearing for the fi rst time in fi ve years
in a crude jihadi video to declare that
his global terrorist organization is far
from dead.
The video appeared to show the
reclusive jihadi leader talking about
the recent Islamic State-linked sui-
cide bombings that killed more than
250 people in Sri Lanka and vowing
broadly to seek revenge for the deaths
and imprisonments of the terrorist
group’s fi ghters in recent years.
Intelligence sources scrutinizing
the video’s authenticity said they
believe the tired-looking gray- and
red-bearded terrorist leader, wearing
a black tunic and sitting against a wall
next to an AK-47 rifl e in an unknown
hiding place, was likely al-Baghdadi
and that the reference to the Easter
attacks in Sri Lanka points to a recent
fi lming.
Analysts said al-Baghdadi had a
somewhat defeated posture in the
video but likely ordered its circu-
lation to show that even with the
Islamic State on the ropes in its
Middle East home base, the group
continues to hold sway on the global
jihadi landscape.
“It’s interesting that after five
years he’s fi nally decided to show
his face. I think it’s a recognition that
things aren’t going well for Islamic
State,” said Bill Roggio, a counterter-
rorism analyst with the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies think
Defi ant leader in
video shows he,
Islamic State are
far from dead
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
DES MOINES, IOWA | For two
years, Iowa Republicans have
stewed as Attorney General Tom
Miller fi led lawsuit after law-
suit against the Trump admin-
istration. Now, they have said
“enough.”
Sitting on Iowa Gov. Kim
Reynolds’ desk is a bill that
would require the attorney gen-
eral to obtain permission from
the governor, executive council
or General Assembly before ini-
tiating out-of-state legal action,
which would make Iowa the fi rst
state to crack down on growing
prosecutorial activism.
Republican state Rep. Gary
Worthan, who is chairman of the
House justice system appropria-
tions subcommittee, said the last
straw was Mr. Miller’s decision to
sign onto a 20-state lawsuit last
month to block the shift of Title X
federal family-planning funding
IOWA
Anti-Trump lawsuits
push GOP too far
Bill aims to curb AG activism
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Trump accepted a jersey, a basketball and a cap from members of the Baylor
women’s basketball team at the White House on Monday. Baylor beat Notre Dame to win
the NCAA women’s college basketball title earlier this month and fi nished the season 37-1.
TRUMP WELCOMES BAYLOR WOMEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
IN DEFEAT: A man presumed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi acknowledged in a video released Monday that the Islamic
State lost the war in Baghouz, a Syrian village captured last month by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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NEWS-SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
The California State Sen-
ate Health Committee ex-
pressed its unwavering sup-
port for Senate Bill 706,
which will create a health
task force dedicated to pul-
monary hypertension re-
search and development, at
the State Capitol on Wednes-
day, April 24.
SB 706 comes after Lodi na-
tive Tracy Espinosa reached
out to State Senator Cathleen
Galgiani, D-Stockton, in the
hopes of establishing a task
force. The task force will be
composed of medical experts
from different concentra-
tions in the medical field
with an emphasis on expand-
ing research and raising
awareness about pulmonary
hypertension (PH).
The bill is intended to re-
semble a bill that passed in
Massachusetts, that led to the
creation of a PH task force.
The bill was signed into law
in February of 2017, making
Massachusetts the first state
in the nation to pass a PH
bill.
The Massachusetts bill es-
tablished a task force of med-
ical, health insurance, phar-
maceutical, advocacy, re-
search and patient experts to
monitor and report annually
on advances in patient care.
The reports have included
summaries on research, serv-
ices, and support for patients
across Massachusetts and has
led to the development of a
comprehensive strategic plan
with yearly updates on how to
improve patient outcomes.
Lodi native Tracey Es-
pinosa, — who lost her hus-
band to PH, only to have both
of her daughters diagnosed
with the same disease — felt
it was of dire urgency to get
the bill written and passed,
because of how fatal the dis-
ease is.
“We have a PH support
group online, and just this
last month we lost four chil-
dren to this disease. The
deaths are a result of misdi-
agnosing the disease, and
blanket treatments,” Es-
pinosa said.
PH is a difficult disease to
diagnose because it often de-
velops slowly, without early
signs and symptoms. When
symptoms do occur, they may
be mistakenly diagnosed for
asthma or another lung or
heart condition.
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Today will be mainly sunny. Wednesday and
Thursday will be sunny. Friday will be sunny with
cloudy breaks. Full report, Page 14.
Lodi Lake’s annual event has enthusiasts back in the paddle again
NEWS-SENTINEL PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEA AHBECK
Savina and Richard Thompson, both of Lodi, paddle during
Paddlefest at Lodi Lake on Saturday.
Headwaters’ boat house manager Abba Christensenalt teach-
es proper paddling technique during Paddlefest at Lodi Lake
on Saturday.
Erik Reyes paddles with Gail Reyes, 3, both of Lodi, during
Paddlefest at Lodi Lake on Saturday.
BEA AHBECK/NEWS-SENTINEL
Tracy Espinosa, left, California State Senator Cathleen Galgiani, center, and Espinosa's
daughter, Lauren Spencer, 19, are pictured at Espinosa’s Lodi home Friday.
cue effort, the tiny Delta smelt
appears closer than ever to
vanishing from its only natu-
ral home, the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta.
Now, some worry it won’t be
long before the only place the
once-abundant species exists
is within the confines of an
artificial tank.
“If current trends continue,
and we don’t get the numbers
back up in the wild this year,
we will be at a point where the
only ones left will be in captiv-
ity
,” said Peter Moyle, an ex-
pert on the species at the Uni-
versity of California, Davis.
Mocked by President Don-
ald Trump as “a certain kind
of 3-inch fish” and targeted by
endless litigation, Hypomesus
transpacificus has struggled
to survive within the heart of
a delicate and overtaxed wa-
ter distribution network.
Efforts to preserve the
smelt have relied on restrict-
ing Delta water operations
supplying the San Joaquin
Valley and Southern Califor-
nia — regulations that have
vexed agricultural interests
and water districts, and
placed the fish squarely in the
center of California’s water
wars.
Most recently, the smelt
played a supporting role in
calls to open an ethics investi-
gation into newly confirmed
Interior Secretary David
Bernhardt. As a lobbyist for
California’s Westlands Water
District — the largest agricul-
tural water supplier in the na-
tion — Bernhardt argued in
favor of weakening federal
protections for the smelt and
other species.
The prospect of extinction
may seem unduly pessimistic
to some, but the Aquarium of
the Pacific in Long Beach an-
nounced recently that it had
acquired 1,200 Delta smelt
from a UC Davis research
hatchery
.
The fish will be exhibited in
a 6-feet-tall, 6-feet-wide acrylic
tank beginning May 24, when
the aquarium opens a new $53
million wing, Pacific Visions.
It would be the first such
aquarium exhibit to feature
the finger-length, translucent
fish.
“We expect some folks to
ask, ‘Why did they devote
such a big beautiful place to
such a teensy fish?’” said Jer-
ry R. Schubel, president and
chief executive of the aquari-
um.
Puzzled visitors, he said,
would “go on to learn how the
life cycle of the Delta smelt is
intertwined with the past,
present and future of Califor-
nia’s food and water story
.”
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Federally endangered Delta
smelt that were hatched at
the UC Davis Fish
Conservation & Culture Lab
are transferred to a holding
tank at the Aquarium of the
Pacific in Long Beach.
PLEASE SEE SMELT, PAGE 7
legislation
PLEASE SEE TASK FORCE, PAGE 7
Despite low temperatures,
golfers played the Sonnenalp
Club course in Edwards on
Monday. Many golf courses
throughout the valley have
opened for the season.
WEATHER
IMAGIN RITTER-DANIELS
Red Hill Elementary School
Snow showers
High 43; low 29 — Weather, B8
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SPECIAL TO THE DAILY
LOCAL & REGION
CDOT crews making
steady progress
on Independence
Pass. FOR THE FULL
STORY, SEE PAGE A2.
OUR WORLD
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
submits his resignation Monday, ending a
two-year run defined by his appointment
of special counsel Robert Mueller. FOR
THE FULL STORY, SEE PAGE A12.
Colorado fly-fisherman to
take Animal Planet viewers to
exotic locations in new show
“Fish or Die.” FOR THE FULL
STORY, SEE PAGE B1.
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ment proceedings.
The chairmen and members of
the six panels investigating the
president are increasingly an-
gered by the White House’s unwill-
ingness to comply as they carry
out their oversight role, according
to several House Democratic offi-
cials who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss the matter
freely. But that anger extends into
the ranks of Pelosi’s team as well,
according to multiple leadership
officials.
A recent threat by Attorney
General William P. Barr not to
SEE IMPEACHMENT ON A4
BY RACHAEL BADE
AND MIKE DEBONIS
Frustration among House Dem-
ocratic investigators is intensify-
ing after President Trump’s refus-
al to cooperate with congressional
inquiries, leading some to private-
ly question whether they should
try to pressure Speaker Nancy
Pelosi into launching impeach-
Defiance from White House
intensifies calls to impeach
BY PETER JAMISON
From coast to coast, booming
American cities and suburbs are
looking for ways to preserve
homes for an increasingly cash-
strapped middle class.
California’s governor wants to
fund housing for families whose
moderate income puts them be-
yond the scope of current assis-
tance programs. Similar efforts
are underway in Boston and Phil-
adelphia. And in Washington,
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has
proposed spending $20 million to
spur development of homes for
families earning up to $141,000 a
year.
But as public officials expand
their affordable-housing initia-
tives to encompass the less needy,
they are confronting a question:
When it comes to the income of
those who deserve a government
SEE HOUSING ON A10
BY AMY GOLDSTEIN
Three and a half years after
then-Gov. Peter Shumlin of Ver-
mont signed into law a vision for
the nation’s first single-payer
health system, his small team was
still struggling to find a way to
pay for it. With a deadline bearing
down, they worked through a
frozen, mid-December weekend,
trying one computer model Fri-
day night, another Saturday
night, yet another Sunday morn-
ing.
If they kept going, the governor
asked his exhausted team on
Monday, could they arrive at a tax
plan that would be politically
palatable? No, they told him.
They could not.
Two days later, on Dec. 17, 2014,
Shumlin, a Democrat who had
swept into office promising a
health-care system that left no
one uninsured, announced he
was giving up, lamenting the de-
cision as “the greatest disappoint-
ment of my political life so far.”
The trajectory of Green Moun-
tain Care, as Vermont’s health
system was to be known — from
the euphoric spring of 2011 to its
crash landing in late 2014 — offers
sobering lessons for the current
crop of Democrats running for
president, including Vermont’s
own Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), most
of whom embrace Medicare-for-
all or other aspirations for univer-
sal insurance coverage.
Vermont’s foray into publicly
financed health care — in a state
that in many ways offered the
SEE HEALTH CARE ON A8
Vermont’s health-care lesson for 2020
JEB WALLACE-BRODEUR/TIMES ARGUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nurses hold a banner reading “Healthcare Is a Human Right”
outside the Vermont State House in Montpelier in 2009.
Middle-class
housing aid
stirs debate in
pricey cities
The state’s single-payer
dream failed to add up
to a political reality
John Singleton: 1968-2019 The first African
American to be nominated for a best director
Oscar oversaw “Boyz N the Hood.” B6
A leader’s return Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
head of the Islamic State, appeared in a video
for the first time in five years. A13
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Open birders
With their help — and
satellites — species are
tracked and protected. E1
STYLE
A very dark battle
So dark in fact that
“Game of Thrones” fans
could hardly see it. C1
In the news
THE NATION
The NRA reelected
Wayne LaPierre as its
chief executive, capping
a dramatic power strug
gle between LaPierre
and former president
Oliver North. A2
At least 704 people in
22 states have been in
fected with measles this
year, a 25year record
high, officials said. A3
The Justice Depart
ment and House Demo
crats remain divided
over the attorney gener
al’s testimony on the
Mueller report. A4
THE WORLD
Migration from Mexico
has dropped 90 percent
over the past 20 years,
and analysts see a natu
ral pattern that could
also occur in Guatemala
and Honduras. A12
A man accused by
Turkish authorities of
spying for the United
Arab Emirates was
found dead inside his
prison cell. A13
THE ECONOMY
Boeing’s CEO and
board of directors faced
difficult questions from
investors and the media
over its response to 737
Max jet crashes. A15
Weeks after agreeing
to sell itself to Chevron,
Anadarko Petroleum re
opened talks with Occi
dental Petroleum, po
tentially setting off a
bidding war. A16
After likely Fed nomi
nee Stephen Moore
apologized for past com
ments about women,
the White House said it
was reviewing them. A16
THE REGION
School systems in
Northern Virginia have
filed a court brief to bol
ster a transgender teen’s
legal battle over bath
room access. B1
Just over half the
members of Maryland’s
Legislative Black Cau
cus endorsed Dereck E.
Davis as the next House
speaker. B1
Amazon posted the
first jobs for its new
Arlington County head
quarters, which is
“ahead of schedule,”
and will move two vice
presidents there. B1
When avowed white
nationalists interrupted
an author chat at D.C.
bookstore Politics and
Prose, workers were
surprised — but not un
prepared. B1
A former D.C. teacher
said he’s still waiting for
his back pay nearly a
year after his termina
tion was determined to
be wrongful. B3
Five men trapped in a
cave in Russell County,
Va., for nearly two days
were rescued after a
16hour operation. B4
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OBITUARIES | PAGE C5
HOWARD YUNE
[email protected]
From chrome-tipped nose to
rounded tail, Steve Pierce’s 1940
Buick Super coupe is an example
of the Napa native’s passion for
restoring vintage cars – and a
way to keep his mother’s mem-
ory alive.
On completing a bumper-to-
bumper overhaul of the Buick
in December, the 35-year-old
Pierce began exhibiting the
two-door car at auto shows
across California – but not be-
fore christening it Pamela after
his mother Pamela Pierce, who
died in August 2014 at age 61.
And as the curvaceous exam-
ple of pre-World War II Detroit
iron has garnered awards from
show judges, the real reward for
its restorer has been the fount of
memories it keeps close to his
heart.
“I brought home my fi rst old
car, a Volkswagen Bug, when I
was 13, and the fi rst Bug that I
wanted to keep at 14, and she was
always open to my car projects,
”
Pierce recalled Sunday after dis-
playing the Buick at the Silver-
ado Resort Car Show earlier in
the day.
That encouragement – and a
selfl ess devotion to Steve and his
sister, Lisa Kennedy – were what
he hoped to honor by pinning his
mother’s name to his most ambi-
tious restoration project.
“Mom always put her family
fi rst; her main hobby was her
kids – she wanted to do things for
myself and my sister,
” he said of
Pamela, who raised her two chil-
dren while working 30 years as an
o ce sta er and teaching assis-
tant for Alta Heights Elementary
School.
The coupe that is at once
namesake and tribute has gained
the notice of vintage car bu s
while appearing at a half-dozen
exhibitions this year. The Buick
has been named the Goodguys
Street Rod Headquarters Custom
of the Year, and in February cap-
tured three awards at the Sac-
ramento Autorama – for most
beautiful custom, outstanding
nostalgia rod and “King of Kus-
toms.
”
A barber who operates The
Executive Room on Main Street,
Pierce devoted more than four
years’ worth of spare time and
about $100,000 to his e ort to
bring the 1940 Buick not only to
showroom freshness but beyond.
A lowered frame and fender
skirts concealing the rear wheels
give the blue-painted coupe
Loving car restoration is
dedicated to Napa mom
HOWARD YUNE PHOTOS, REGISTER
Steve Pierce of Napa named his restored 1940 Buick after his mother Pamela, who died in 2014. The vehicle, which took four years to restore, has
won Pierce several awards at the six exhibitions where it has gone on display this year.
SASHA PAULSEN
[email protected]
Wanted: one local non-profi t
in need of a great fundraiser.
The Home Winemakers Clas-
sic, which for 36 years has raised
funds for the Dry Creek-Lokoya
Volunteer Fire Department, has
reached a turn in its benevolent
road.
Fire Chief Gary Green is re-
tiring after 41 years, and with
no one else available to organize
the annual event, the 2019 Home
Winemakers Class on July 27 at
the CIA at Copia will be the last
one produced in association with
his station.
The Home Winemakers as-
sociation, however, wants to
continue its popular event and
members are looking for a new
local non-profi t to work with
them in 2020.
Green said the event raised
funds for the volunteer fi re fi ght-
ers to maintain the remote sta-
tion on Dry Creek Road. (As part
of the county fi re department,
they are also supported by the
county budget.) After expenses,
they generally netted $10,000-
$20,000, he said.
Beyond this, however, he said,
“It’s a fun community event. I’d
hate to see it go away.
”
Home winemakers Greg and
Kasandra Weinerth agree. “It’s a
conference for home winemak-
ers,
” Kasandra Weinerth said.
“It’s a chance to get together
and see what everyone is doing,
”
Greg added.
Twenty-nine home winemak-
ers brought their creations to the
2018 event. Guests at the Classic
Winemakers seek new sponsor
REGISTER FILE PHOTO
The atmosphere was congenial at the 2015 Home Winemakers Classic at the
Charles Krug Winery. Organizers are looking for a new nonprofi t sponsor for
the event in 2020.
COURTNEY TEAGUE
[email protected]
Collectively, Napa Valley law
enforcement agencies reported
one case of serious misconduct
in the past decade.
The county, and cities of Napa
and Calistoga all said they did
not determine any o cers em-
ployed by their law enforcement
agencies committed a serious
act of misconduct in that time
frame. The St. Helena Police De-
partment was the only agency to
report that it found an o cer lied
on the job.
This was uncovered thanks to
a new law, Senate Bill 1421, that
went into e ect in January. It
grants the public access to re-
cords related to investigations in
which an o cer is found to have
sexually assaulted a member of
the public, or engaged in serious
misconduct such as committing
perjury, fi ling false reports, or
destroying, falsifying or hiding
evidence.
The Register requested records
from the Napa Police Depart-
ment, St. Helena Police Depart-
ment, Calistoga Police Depart-
ment, Napa County Probation
Department, Napa County Cor-
rections Department and Napa
County Sheri ’s O ce, which
sta s the American Canyon
Police Department and patrols
Yountville.
In the case of the St. Helena
o cer, Melissa Brown cited a
driver for driving without proof
of insurance, even though he
had shown her his valid proof of
insurance, the St. Helena Star
reported last month. She later
returned to work after a stint
on paid leave and admitted she
made a mistake in issuing the
wrong kind of ticket.
Brown said she had warned
the motorist about speeding
many times and tried to do him
a favor by issuing him a so-called
Steve Pierce’s 1940
Buick Super is winning
honors at car shows
The interior of the 1940 Buick Special bought and restored by Steve
Pierce of Napa.
HOBBYISTS
Amateur group needs
nonprofit to help with
annual fundraisers
Please see RECORDS, Page A2
Please see RESTORATION, Page A6
Please see WINEMAKERS, Page A6
Volume 108
No. 103
Saloon on Saturday.
RIGHT: Men’s clothing
from 4th Coast Outfitters is
modeled on stage during
the Juneau Rotaract’s Wild
West Roundup Fashion
Show.
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL PENN |
JUNEAU EMPIRE
SlideShow
See more photos of the
fashion show at
juneauempire.com.
tries for Mendenhall
River school position
Joanna “JJ” Hinderberger
hopes her education career con-
tinues where it began.
Hinderberger, current princi-
pal at Eagle’s View Elementary
School in Unalaska, started as an
educator in the Juneau School
District. In 2012, she complet-
ed her educational leadership
internship at Sayeik: Gastineau
Community School, and Mon-
day morning she had a public
By BEN HOHENstAtt
JUNEAU EMPIRE
SEE JOB | Page A6
Erin Anais Heist picks devil’s club buds last Tuesday.
MICHAEL PENN | JUNEAU EMPIRE
Devilishly delicious: Devil’s
club stuffed halibut cheeks
As any Juneauite
can testify, we live
in a land of micro-
climates. To the forager,
an intimate awareness of
the way weather moves
through our landscape is
the difference between a
picking season of a few
days, and a picking season
of a month. Especially
when it comes to plants
like devil’s club.
For a magically short
window, devil’s club
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After more than 40 years of com-
munity service in Santa Maria,
Orie and Gladys Johnson are
looking to have an even greater impact
by building a transitional housing fa-
cility for the homeless and continuing
a summer program for kids.
The projects are being spearheaded by
the Harvest Community Center, a non-
profi t the Johnsons formed several years
ago to continue the community service
work they began while building Vic-
tory Harvest Church of God in Christ,
located at 619 N. Railroad Ave. The or-
ganization holds monthly food distribu-
tions, in partnership with the Foodbank
of Santa Barbara County, and hosts lit-
eracy programs for schoolchildren.
Through the church, the 86-year-
old Gladys and 93-year-old Orie have
provided groceries to needy Santa
Marians for decades.
During the month of May, Harvest
Community Center — which is located
inside the church — has set a prelim-
inary goal to raise $100,000 to cover
the cost of the 2019 summer program
and the preparation of the initial ar-
chitectural renderings and planning
documents for the transitional housing
facility, which is slated to be built on
land directly behind the church, said
Anthony Burns, director of the center.
The facility plans to host formerly
homeless adults for a minimum period of
12 months, with sta dedicated to helping
them get back on their feet, Burns said.
Joe Halsell, of Halsell Builders, has
partnered with Harvest Community
Center to help with the construction of
the facility.
John T. Earnest’s parents said they raised
him and his fi ve siblings in a family, faith and
community that rejected hate.
“Our son’s actions were informed by
people we do not know, and ideas we do not
hold,” the parents said in a statement, which
didn’t include their names.
“How our son was attracted to such dark-
ness is a terrifying mystery to us, though we
are confi dent that law enforcement will un-
cover many details of the path that he took to
this evil and despicable act,” the statement
said.
The gunman on Saturday burst into the
Chabad of Poway near San Diego on the last
day of Passover, a major Jewish holiday that
celebrates freedom, and opened fi re with
an assault-style rifl e, killing a woman and
wounding a rabbi and two others.
On Monday, Suzanne Levy, who serves on
the board of directors for Santa Maria’s Tem-
ple Beth El, said Saturday’s shooting was a
Harvest Center plans new
transitional housing facility
ZEINA KARAM AND BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
BEIRUT — The shadowy leader
of the Islamic State group claimed
to appear for the fi rst time in fi ve
years in a video released by the ex-
tremist group’s propaganda arm
on Monday, acknowledging defeat
in the group’s last stronghold in
Syria but vowing a “long battle”
ahead.
The man said to be Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi in the video also
claimed the Easter Day bombings
in Sri Lanka which
killed more than
250 people were
“part of the re-
venge” that awaits
the West.
Despite numer-
ous claims about
his death in the
past few years,
al-Baghdadi’s whereabouts re-
main a mystery. Many of his
top aides were killed, mostly by
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. He
is among the few senior IS com-
manders still at large after two
years of steady battlefi eld losses
that saw the self-styled “caliph-
ate” shrink from an area the size
of Britain to a tiny speck in the
Euphrates River valley.
The video released by a me-
dia outlet run by the extremists,
Al-Furqan, shows al-Baghdadi
speaking with three men seated
opposite him whose faces were
covered and blotted out.
It is his fi rst video appearance
since he delivered a sermon at the
al-Nuri mosque in the Iraqi city
of Mosul in 2014. In that video,
he appeared as a black-robed fi g-
ure with a trimmed black beard to
deliver a sermon from the pulpit
of the mosque in which he urged
Muslims around the world to
swear allegiance to the caliphate
and obey him as its leader.
Since then, he has only re-
leased audio messages through
the group’s media outlets.
In the video released Monday,
al-Baghdadi acknowledged that
IS lost the war in the eastern Syr-
ian village of Baghouz, the group’s
last sliver of territory, which was
captured last month by the U.S.-
backed Kurdish-led Syrian Dem-
ocratic Forces. The fall of Baghouz
marked the militants’ territo-
rial defeat and the end of their
self-declared Islamic caliphate
over parts of Syria and Iraq.
Al-Baghdadi said that the battle
Islamic State leader appears in video for first time in 5 years
GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — A measles out-
break that sickened more than 70 people,
mostly children, in the Pacifi c Northwest
is fi nally over even as the total number of
cases nationwide continues to spike to
near-record levels , o cials said Mon-
day.
Six weeks have passed without a new
infection in southwest Washington state,
where the outbreak began on Jan. 3, said
Dr. Alan Melnick, head of the Clark
County public health department. A
total of 71 people were infected — a tally
that does not include a handful of cases
in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle that
were linked to the outbreak’s epicenter.
The good news from the Pacifi c North-
west comes as authorities elsewhere
struggled with the most measles cases in
the U.S. since 1994. Across the country,
704 cases have been reported in 22 states
as of Monday, according to the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention.
A large outbreak in the New York City
area has stymied public health o cials
and more than 350 students at two major
California universities remained quaran-
tined after possible exposure, down from
800 students last week.
“We’re grateful to see this outbreak
come to an end without any deaths or
serious complications,
” Melnick said.
O cials declare measles outbreak over
ERIC TUCKER AND MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein submitted his res-
ignation Monday, ending a two-year run
defi ned by his appointment
of a special counsel to inves-
tigate connections between
Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign and Russia. His
last day will be May 11.
Rosenstein’s departure
was expected after the con-
fi rmation of William Barr as
attorney general. The White
House nominated a replacement for the de-
partment’s No. 2 slot weeks ago.
In his resignation letter to Trump, Rosen-
stein paid tribute to Trump, even praising the
president’s sense of humor, despite being
Rosenstein
submits letter
of resignation
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foreseeable future
Former infantryman
had converted to Islam,
allegedly planned to
bomb Long Beach
event, and other targets
By Brian Melley
LOS ANGELES — An Army
veteran who converted to
Islam and discussed launch-
ing various terror attacks
t h r o u g h o u t S o u t h e r n
California was arrested
as he plotted to bomb a
white supremacist rally
as retribution for the New
Zealand mosque attacks, fed-
eral prosecutors said Monday.
Mark Domingo, an infan-
tryman who served a combat
stint in Afghanistan, was
arrested Friday after vis-
iting a park in Long Beach
where investigators say he
planned to plant home-made
explosive devices made with
nail-filled pressure cookers in
advance of a Nazi rally sched-
uled Sunday.
Domingo, 26, was arrested
on a charge of providing
material support to terrorists.
A criminal complaint said
he had been planning since
March to “manufacture and
use a weapon of mass destruc-
tion in order to commit mass
murder.”
U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna
told a news conference that
Domingo supported violent
jihad and spoke about becom-
ing a martyr and of pledging
allegiance to the Islamic State
group if it established a pres-
ence in the United States.
“This is a case in which law
US Attorney: Army veteran’s
SoCal terror plot thwarted
United States Attorney Nick Hanna stands next to photos of Mark
Steven Domingo, during a news conference in Los Angeles on
Monday. A terror plot by Domingo, an Army veteran who converted
to Islam and planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Long
Beach as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks, was
thwarted, federal prosecutors said. [AP PHOTO/RICHARD VOGEL]
Mother, aunt of 6-year-
old Duke Flores of Apple
Valley charged with
first-degree murder, will
be arraigned today
By Garrett Bergthold
Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE — San
Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department personnel
began searching for the
body of a missing Apple
Valley six-year-old at a
local landfill on Monday,
and authorities announced
the mother and aunt of Duke
Flores both had been charged
with first-degree murder.
Twin sisters Jackee Raquel
Contreras and Jennifer Rachel
Contreras, both 29 and of
Apple Valley, will be arraigned
at the Victorville courthouse
at 8:30 a.m. today on suspi-
cion of the murder of Duke,
Jackee’s son, said Kimberly
Fuller, a spokeswoman for
the San Bernardino County
District Attorney’s Office.
The announcement came
as law enforcement person-
nel equipped with three K-9
units scoured the Victorville
Landfill for Duke’s body on
Monday. Detectives said
during the course of their
investigation, they obtained
information that led them to
believe Duke's body had been
placed in a trash bin. That
resulted in the landfill search.
“If he is not found today,
the search will resume
tomorrow,” said Sheriff's
Department spokeswoman
Jodi Miller, adding there was
no time frame for when the
search would conclude.
As of 3:30 p.m. Monday,
Duke’s body had not been
found, Miller said. At 5:10
p.m., the search was called
off for the day.
The search area was said
to be a 70-foot by 70-foot
by 10-foot deep section
of the landfill, which con-
tained an estimated 600
tons of material, the Sheriff's
Department said. Joining an
unknown number of homi-
cide detectives and landfill
personnel in looking for the
boy's body were 36 Sheriff's
and will be arraigned in Victorville Superior Court on Tuesday morning. [JAMES QUIGG, DAILY PRESS]
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Hope Act last week and has signed
the bill for new voting machines in
the state. Members of the Douglas
delegation were contacted and asked
for their take on highlights from this
year’s session.
In his first year as Senate Majority
Leader, Sen. Mike Dugan, R-Carroll-
ton, who represents the 30th District,
which includes west Douglas County,
south Paulding and most of Carroll
County, had his own learning curve to
deal with during the session, and he
was also working with a new governor.
Dugan commented recently in an
article with the Times-Georgian that
his role as leader requires him to be
“responsible for my caucus and the
Republican party in the Senate.” As
the leader, he assisted Democratic
members as often as he could to
avoid conflict beyond “natural dis-
agreements” on certain issues.
Dugan told the Times-Georgian
that he felt accomplished after the
SEE LEGISLATORS/PAGE A5
knife. The attack
left Wyley with
a deep wound
approximately 4 to 6-inch long.
McPherson is currently out on
$20,000 bond.
Nettles, of Douglasville, was
indicted on charges of aggravat-
ed assault in connection with an
incident that took place on Feb.
17 at a home on Yeager Road.
According to court records,
Nettles assaulted Wendie
Nicole Black with intent to mur-
der by strangulation. Nettles
SEE JURY/PAGE A6
The Prayer Center of West
Georgia will host the annual
National Day of Prayer in front
of the Eternal Flame outside the
Douglas County Courthouse this
Thursday at noon.
Celebrating its 19th year, the
event seeks to mobilize people of
all faiths in unified public prayer
to pray for the city, county and
nation.
“Every year we have judges,
lawyers, businessmen, pastors,
and other community members
come together and we pray for an
hour,” said Prayer Center of West
Georgia Director Ned Fowler.
The National Day of Prayer was
created in 1952 by a joint reso-
lution of Congress and signed
into law by President Harry S.
Truman. In 1988, the law was
SEE PRAYER/PAGE A6
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DECODING THE HURT
A new letter from county ed-
ucation officials says that
SweetwaterUnionHighSchool
District has again reported in-
correct information about its
finances.
The San Diego County Of-
fice of Education on Friday
sent a letter to the district say-
ing Sweetwater is expected to
end this school year with $20
million to $23 million in inter-
fund borrowing debt, which is
more than twice the amount
that Sweetwater had reported.
Interfund debt, in this case,
refers to loan balances when
money collected for one use,
such as for facilities, is tempo-
rarily used for another use,
such as operations.
The interfund debt esti-
mates in the letter are based on
an analysis of Sweetwater fi-
nances by an outside auditing
firm.
Sweetwater declared last
month that it would end this
fiscal year with $8 million in in-
terfund debt. Even with that
lower estimate, Sweetwater
will be in violation of the state’s
Education Code, which re-
quires it to pay off all its inter-
fund debt by the end of the fis-
cal year, according to the
county office’s letter.
District spokesman Manny
Rubio said the district dis-
agrees with the county’s esti-
mate of $20 million to $23 mil-
lion in debt. He said he thinks
the county office’s letter over-
looks the progress the district
has made in fixing its financial
practices and paying down its
debt, which reached $79 million
District official says
county education
office ignores progress
BY KRISTEN TAKETA
SEE SWEETWATER • A6
AUDITOR: SWEETWATER
UNDERREPORTED DEBT
BY AT LEAST $12 MILLION
during a Passover service at Chabad of
Poway. Three others — founding Rabbi
Yisroel Goldstein, 8-year-old Noya Da-
han, and her uncle, Almog Peretz, 34 —
were injured.
On Monday, the District Attorney’s
Office charged Earnest with one count
of murder and three counts of at-
tempted murder — including allega-
tions that the attack was a hate crime.
He was also charged with setting a fire
SEE SHOOTING • A8
At a standing-room-only me-
morial service for synagogue
shooting victim Lori Gilbert-
Kaye on Monday, there was an
outpouring of love expressed by
her family and friends. But there
was also a strong undercurrent of
anger toward the man who was
charged with committing the
crime.
Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was remem-
bered by friends, family and rab-
bis at Chabad of Poway as cheer-
ful, energetic, devoted to her Jew-
ish faith and friends, and end-
lessly generous with her time,
checkbook and home-baked
challah.
But she was also described by
speakers as a “sanctified” person
who sacrificed her life Saturday
morning to help end a global epi-
demic of hate and violence
against Jews.
“She died on Shabbat. She
died on Passover. She died in a
synagogue. She died saving our
rabbi. She died as a holy person
sanctifying God’s name,” close
friend Dr. Roneet Lev said near
the conclusion of the memorial.
More than 700 people were in-
side the sanctuary for the service
and another 100 or so stood on
the street outside, many shelter-
ing under umbrellas as they lis-
tened to the service on outdoor
speakers. A burial service fol-
Thetwo-hourservicewasheld
at Chabad of Poway, which for-
mer temple President Sam Hoff-
man referred to as “ground zero,”
astheattackoccurredinthetem-
ple’s lobby just a dozen or so feet
from where Hoffman and others
spoke.
Gilbert-Kaye was killed on Saturday when a gunman opened fire during a Passover service at a Poway synagogue.
SHOOTING VICTIM RECALLED
AS PEACEFUL HUMANITARIAN
Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein holds a rose during Monday’s service for Lori
Gilbert-Kaye, who had given him the flower as part of a bouquet the day before the attack.
GREGORY BULL AP
Hundreds gather at
Chabad of Poway for
Gilbert-Kaye’s memorial
BY PAM KRAGEN
SEE MEMORIAL • A8
Two days after the shooting at
Chabad of Poway, Gov. Gavin Newsom
pledged support for a measure provid-
ing $15 million for security at houses of
worship and nonprofit institutions tar-
geted by extremists.
“We all must call out hate — against
any and all communities — and act to
defend those targeted for their reli-
gious beliefs, who they love or how they
identify,”NewsomsaidMonday.“Anat-
tack against any community is an at-
tack against our entire state — who we
are and what we stand for.”
Newsom’s backing of Assembly Bill
1548isthelatestmoveinanongoingde-
bate: How secure can synagogues,
churches and mosques be, given their
mission of ministering to all of human-
ity?
“Open doors is part of their
SEE SECURITY • A7
RELIGIOUS
FACILITIES
SEEK MORE
PROTECTION
BY PETER ROWE
Children with autism
spectrum disorder can be re-
liably diagnosed as young as
14 months, according to a
study by UC San Diego
autism researchers. If results
are confirmed by independ-
ent research, this would be
the earliest age this has prov-
en feasible.
Earlier detection means
earlier treatment, which
should improve outcomes,
said Karen Pierce, co-direc-
tor of the UCSD Autism Cen-
ter for Excellence. Pierce led
the study with Eric Courch-
esne, the center’s other co-di-
rector.
Autism screening should
be first done at 18 months, ac-
cording to the American
Academy of Pediatrics. How-
ever, according to the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention, the average age
of diagnosis in the U.S. is 4
years.
That gap represents a
missed opportunity to guide
these very young children
into normal social devel-
opment, Pierce said.
“The brain is very plastic.
It’s developing at a really su-
per-fast pace from birth to
age 3,” she said. “There’s a lot
of connections that are
formed between brain cells.
So hopefully we can shape
those connections.”
The study was published
Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.
It can be found at http://j.mp/
autismucsd1
Results are based on de-
velopmentof1,269toddlersin
San Diego County, selected
from a universal screening
program to detect possible
autism. Children suspected
UCSD STUDY SUGGESTS
EARLY AUTISM SCREENS
Reliable diagnosis achievable at 14 months,
allowing early treatment, improved outcomes
BY BRADLEY J. FIKES
SEE AUTISM • A6
A San Fernando Valley man
planned to detonate improvised ex-
plosive devices at several Southern
California locations to cause “mass
casualties” in a terror plot thwarted
by law enforcement officials, author-
ities said Monday. Story, A2.
FBI Special Agent Ryan Young
(left) with LAPD Chief Michel
Moore during Monday’s briefing.
RICHARD VOGEL AP
I N S I D E
L.A.-AREA TERROR
PLOT THWARTED
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By Brian Melley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — An Army veteran
who converted to Islam and discussed
launching various terror attacks through-
out Southern California was arrested as
he plotted to bomb a white su-
premacist rally as retribution for
the New Zealand mosque attacks,
federal prosecutors said Monday.
Mark Domingo, an infantry-
man who served a combat stint
in Afghanistan, was arrested Fri-
day after visiting a park in Long
Beach where investigators say he
planned to plant home-made ex-
plosive devices made with nail-
filled pressure cookers in advance
of a Nazi rally scheduled for Sunday.
Domingo,26,wasarrestedonachargeof
providing material support to terrorists. A
criminal complaint said he had been plan-
ning since March to “manufacture and use
a weapon of mass destruction in order to
commit mass murder.
”
U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna told a news
conference that Domingo supported vi-
olent jihad and spoke about becoming a
martyr and of pledging allegiance to the
Islamic State if it established a presence in
the United States.
“This is a case in which law enforce-
ment was able to identify a man consumed
with hate and bent on mass mur-
der, and stop him before he could
carry out his attack,
” Hanna said.
“The criminal case outlines a
chilling terrorism plot that de-
velopedoverthepasttwomonths
and targeted innocent Americans
that he expected to gather this
past weekend.
”
Investigators said Domingo
posted an online message March
3 that said, “America needs an-
other Vegas event,
” an apparent reference
tothe2017massshootingthatkilled59.He
allegedly said it would spark civil unrest to
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COMING THURSDAY IN CALIENTE
SIDEWALK SINGERS: Meet some of the people
who are bringing harmony to Tucson’s streets.
And he is directing officials to begin
charging a fee to process asylum and employ-
ment authorization applications — which do
not currently require payment.
The White House and DHS officials did not
immediately respond to questions about how
much applicants might be forced to pay,and it
is unclear how many families fleeing poverty
would be able to afford such a payment.
The memo says the price would not exceed
the cost of processing applications, but offi-
cials did not immediately provide an estimate
for what that might be.
Trump also wants to bar anyone who has
entered or tried to enter the country illegally
RON MEDVESCEK / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
University of Arizona student Lucas Boje spent a long time Monday on the University of Arizona Mall, reading stories of youth suicides
at the Send Silence Packing exhibition. Each of the more than 1,000 backpacks represents a person.“It feels important to hear them
out,” Boje said. The exhibit attempts to raise awareness about the impact of suicide and connect people to mental-health resources.
By Lisa Marie Pane
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS —
Wayne LaPierre, the fiery
public face of the National
Rifle Association for de-
cades,fended off a backlash
inside the organization over
its finances and direction,
winning re-election Mon-
day as the gun lobby’s CEO.
The move, announced
on the NRA magazine’s
American Rifleman web-
site, came during a closed-
door meeting of the group’s
board of directors.
It was unclear if the de-
bate that has roiled the
5-million-member orga-
nization in recent weeks
would still lead to signifi-
cant changes in its opera-
tions.
Board members did not
immediately return mes-
sages for comment; their
phones had been confis-
cated before entering the
meeting room.
The board also elected a
slate of leaders, including
Carolyn Meadows as pres-
ident. She bypassed the
person who traditionally
would have been next in
line to become president.
For the past two decades,
the NRA has faced criti-
cism from among its ranks
that its leaders had become
corrupted by the millions of
dollars flowing into its cof-
fers.
Thecriticismhasinclud-
ed allegations of self-deal-
ing and excessive personal
spending. Now the pres-
sure has increased, with
New York’s attorney gen-
eral opening an investiga-
tion that could threaten the
group’s tax-exempt status.
The NRA’s charter was
originally filed in New York,
giving authorities there
broadlatitudetoinvestigate
its operations.
Newly elected New York
Attorney General Letitia
James has made no bones
about her dislike of the
NRA, calling it a “terrorist
organization.
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“I never thought this
thing would ever get to the
level it got,
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an NRA board member
since 2002, told The As-
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TALLAHASSEE — The House
Democrats’ secret meeting last
week was a symptom of growing
frustration with Minority Leader
Kionne McGhee’s leadership,
which had long been simmering
during the legislative session, as
the Miami Democrat sought to
tamp down criticism within the
caucus.
Five House Democrats, who
asked for anonymity to speak can-
didly about McGhee, contend he
acquiesces to GOP demands too
easily, doesn’t communicate fre-
quently with members and
doesn’t do enough to organize
Democratic opposition to Repub-
lican bills.
“There’s a
vacuum of lead-
ership,” said one
Democratic
House member.
That frustra-
tion threatened
to boil over dur-
ing the closed-
door meeting
late Wednesday
night. Reporters listening through
a wall could only hear snippets of
McGhee defending his moves to
hismembersandtalkaboutstrate-
gies during ongoing budget nego-
tiations. Later reporters were al-
lowed into the meeting to watch
Democrats vote for leaders in
2020 and 2022.
During the private portion of
the meeting, one Democrat de-
scribed a meeting where McGhee
simultaneously defended himself
and asked for unity, but received
plenty of pushback as members
questioned him.
McGhee told his colleagues he
had agreed to allow bills intro-
duced on the floor the following
Secret gathering shows
a growing frustration
with minority leader
By Gray Rohrer
Tallahassee Bureau
McGhee
Please turn to MCGHEE, A8
TALLAHASSEE – A bill that
allows police to stop drivers just
for texting is headed to the gov-
ernor after several years of hit-
ting roadblocks in the Florida
Legislature.
The House voted 108-7 Mon-
day to make texting while driving
a primary offense.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has indi-
catedhewillsignthebill(HB107),
which would bring Florida in line
with most other states.
Rep. Emily Slosberg, D-Boca
Raton, fought for several years for
a tougher law, but her bills kept
stalling because of privacy and
racial-profiling concerns.
In1996,Slosbergwasinjuredin
a wreck that killed five teenagers,
includinghertwinsister,Dori;the
crash was caused by a reckless
driver.Slosberg,whowas14atthe
time, suffered broken bones and a
punctured lung in the crash.
“It’s a great day for our state of
Florida,” she said Monday just
moments after the vote. “We are
going to have enforcement of our
texting-while-driving law, which
will save lives.”
Forty-three other states make
texting while driving a primary
offense, according to a legislative
analysis.
Legislature bans texting while driving
After many years of
roadblocks, bill will
be sent to DeSantis
By Skyler Swisher
Please turn to TEXTING, A6
mond, who opted for virtual auc-
tions last year.
The comptroller previously
held one in-person auction a year
at a county warehouse.
“Moving to online auctions has
been a huge success for Orange
County taxpayers,” said Diamond,
who tries to stage one online auc-
tion a month. “The winning bid-
Switching to online auctions of
surplus property has paid off big
for Orange County.
Auction revenue in the past
eight months soared to $1.21 mil-
lion,up$400,000fromthelastlive
and in-person auction in 2018,
which pulled in $810,000, said Or-
angeCountyComptrollerPhilDia-
Virtual auctions paying
off for Orange County
By Stephen Hudak
Orlando Sentinel
Please turn to AUCTIONS, A6
The legendary Pat
Williams an-
nounced his official
retirement from the
Orlando Magic on
Monday, but can you really ever
retire from being the father and
founder of a franchise?
Yes, Williams announced his
retirement as the Magic’s senior
vice president on Monday, but
he’llalwaysbetheco-founderof
the Magic and one of the most
influential figures in Orlando
sports history.
“We are so grateful to Pat Williams for what
he has done for sports in Orlando,” Orlando
Magic Chairman Dan DeVos said in a statement
released by the Magic. “Back in 1986 sat this
beautiful city in the center of the state that was
theperfectspottobringwhatwasmissing—NBA
basketball to the great people of Orlando. On
behalf of our entire family, we
thank Pat for making the Magic a
reality.”
The story now is part of Or-
landosportslore—howWilliams,
spurred on by fellow co-founder
and Orlando businessman Jimmy
Hewitt, sold the NBA on Orlando.
Back in 1986, Williams, then
the GM of the Philadelphia 76ers
and one of the most prominent
executives in the NBA, had the
ear of new commissioner David
Stern. Two years earlier, Williams
had become friends with Hewitt,
whoonthatfatefuldayin’86wasdrivingWilliams
back to the airport after a speaking engagement in
Orlando. Williams relayed some inside informa-
Pat Williams at an April 22, 1987, pep rally celebrating the NBA’s announcement that Orlando will receive an expansion franchise.
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Orlando Magic co-founder Pat Williams set to
step down after more than 50 years in NBA
By Mike Bianchi | Orlando Sentinel
More than an
Orlando icon
Pat Williams announced
his retirement as the
Magic’s senior vice
president on Monday, but
he’ll always be the
co-founder and one of the
most influential figures in
Orlando sports history.
Awards and honors:
Received the John W. Bunn
Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2012 from the
Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame for
significant lifetime
contributions to the sport
Named one of the NBA’s
most influential people in
1996
Member of the Wake
Forest Sports Hall of Fame
and the Delaware Sports
Museum and Hall of Fame
Please turn to WILLIAMS, A9
“He shined a light on
what has been
known for so long
from native Central
Floridians, that this is
a fabulous place to
live, work and play.”
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Orlando Magic CEO

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DECODING THE HURT
A new letter from county ed-
ucation officials says that
SweetwaterUnionHighSchool
District has again reported in-
correct information about its
finances.
The San Diego County Of-
fice of Education on Friday
sent a letter to the district say-
ing Sweetwater is expected to
end this school year with $20
million to $23 million in inter-
fund borrowing debt, which is
more than twice the amount
that Sweetwater had reported.
Interfund debt, in this case,
refers to loan balances when
money collected for one use,
such as for facilities, is tempo-
rarily used for another use,
such as operations.
The interfund debt esti-
mates in the letter are based on
an analysis of Sweetwater fi-
nances by an outside auditing
firm.
Sweetwater declared last
month that it would end this
fiscal year with $8 million in in-
terfund debt. Even with that
lower estimate, Sweetwater
will be in violation of the state’s
Education Code, which re-
quires it to pay off all its inter-
fund debt by the end of the fis-
cal year, according to the
county office’s letter.
District spokesman Manny
Rubio said the district dis-
agrees with the county’s esti-
mate of $20 million to $23 mil-
lion in debt. He said he thinks
the county office’s letter over-
looks the progress the district
has made in fixing its financial
practices and paying down its
debt, which reached $79 million
District official says
county education
office ignores progress
BY KRISTEN TAKETA
SEE SWEETWATER • A6
AUDITOR: SWEETWATER
UNDERREPORTED DEBT
BY AT LEAST $12 MILLION
Minutes before a gunman opened
fire on a Poway synagogue Saturday,
someone discovered an anonymous
anti-Semitic manifesto posted online
and told the FBI — but it was too late.
The tip came in about five minutes
before the shooting and included a link
to the threatening post. But it didn’t
contain information about the author
or the location thatwas threatened,ac-
cording to the FBI. Bureau employees
immediately took action to determine
who wrote the post, but the deadly
shooting occurred before the suspect
could be identified.
John T. Earnest, a 19-year-old Ran-
cho Peñasquitos resident, is accused of
killing 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye
during a Passover service at Chabad of
Poway. Three others — founding Rabbi
Yisroel Goldstein, 8-year-old Noya Da-
han, and her uncle, Almog Peretz, 34 —
were injured.
On Monday, the District Attorney’s
Office charged Earnest with one count
of murder and three counts of at-
tempted murder — including allega-
tions that the attack was a hate crime.
He was also charged with setting a fire
FBI TOLD OF
MANIFESTO
MINUTES
BEFORE
SHOOTING
Tipster says he saw post
online; Earnest also charged
in Escondido mosque fire
BY LYNDSAY WINKLEY
& TERI FIGUEROA
SEE SHOOTING • A8
At a standing-room-only me-
morial service for synagogue
shooting victim Lori Gilbert-
Kaye on Monday, there was an
outpouring of love expressed by
her family and friends. But there
was also a strong undercurrent of
anger toward the man who was
charged with committing the
crime.
Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was remem-
bered by friends, family and rab-
bis at Chabad of Poway as cheer-
ful, energetic, devoted to her Jew-
ish faith and friends, and end-
lessly generous with her time,
checkbook and home-baked
challah.
But she was also described by
speakers as a “sanctified” person
who sacrificed her life Saturday
morning to help end a global epi-
demic of hate and violence
against Jews.
“She died on Shabbat. She
died on Passover. She died in a
synagogue. She died saving our
rabbi. She died as a holy person
sanctifying God’s name,” close
friend Dr. Roneet Lev said near
the conclusion of the memorial.
More than 700 people were in-
side the sanctuary for the service
and another 100 or so stood on
the street outside, many shelter-
ing under umbrellas as they lis-
tened to the service on outdoor
speakers. A burial service fol-
Thetwo-hourservicewasheld
at Chabad of Poway, which for-
mer temple President Sam Hoff-
man referred to as “ground zero,”
astheattackoccurredinthetem-
ple’s lobby just a dozen or so feet
from where Hoffman and others
spoke.
Hannah Kaye kneels with her father, Dr. Howard Kaye, at the burial site of her mother, Lori Gilbert-Kaye, on Monday.
Gilbert-Kaye was killed on Saturday when a gunman opened fire during a Passover service at a Poway synagogue.
K.C. ALFRED U-T
SHOOTING VICTIM RECALLED
AS PEACEFUL HUMANITARIAN
Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein holds a rose during Monday’s service for Lori
Gilbert-Kaye, who had given him the flower as part of a bouquet the day before the attack.
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Hundreds gather at
Chabad of Poway for
Gilbert-Kaye’s memorial
BY PAM KRAGEN
SEE MEMORIAL • A8
Two days after the shooting at
Chabad of Poway, Gov. Gavin Newsom
pledged support for a measure provid-
ing $15 million for security at houses of
worship and nonprofit institutions tar-
geted by extremists.
“We all must call out hate — against
any and all communities — and act to
defend those targeted for their reli-
gious beliefs, who they love or how they
identify,”NewsomsaidMonday.“Anat-
tack against any community is an at-
tack against our entire state — who we
are and what we stand for.”
Newsom’s backing of Assembly Bill
1548isthelatestmoveinanongoingde-
bate: How secure can synagogues,
churches and mosques be, given their
mission of ministering to all of human-
ity?
“Open doors is part of their
SEE SECURITY • A7
RELIGIOUS
FACILITIES
SEEK MORE
PROTECTION
BY PETER ROWE
Children with autism
spectrum disorder can be re-
liably diagnosed as young as
14 months, according to a
study by UC San Diego
autism researchers. If results
are confirmed by independ-
ent research, this would be
the earliest age this has prov-
en feasible.
Earlier detection means
earlier treatment, which
should improve outcomes,
said Karen Pierce, co-direc-
tor of the UCSD Autism Cen-
ter for Excellence. Pierce led
the study with Eric Courch-
esne, the center’s other co-di-
rector.
Autism screening should
be first done at 18 months, ac-
cording to the American
Academy of Pediatrics. How-
ever, according to the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention, the average age
of diagnosis in the U.S. is 4
years.
That gap represents a
missed opportunity to guide
these very young children
into normal social devel-
opment, Pierce said.
“The brain is very plastic.
It’s developing at a really su-
per-fast pace from birth to
age 3,” she said. “There’s a lot
of connections that are
formed between brain cells.
So hopefully we can shape
those connections.”
The study was published
Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.
It can be found at http://j.mp/
autismucsd1
Results are based on de-
velopmentof1,269toddlersin
San Diego County, selected
from a universal screening
program to detect possible
autism. Children suspected
UCSD STUDY SUGGESTS
EARLY AUTISM SCREENS
Reliable diagnosis achievable at 14 months,
allowing early treatment, improved outcomes
BY BRADLEY J. FIKES
SEE AUTISM • A6
A San Fernando Valley man
planned to detonate improvised ex-
plosive devices at several Southern
California locations to cause “mass
casualties” in a terror plot thwarted
by law enforcement officials, author-
ities said Monday. Story, A2.
FBI Special Agent Ryan Young
(left) with LAPD Chief Michel
Moore during Monday’s briefing.
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I N S I D E
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PLOT THWARTED
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A8 • Lone actors present
challenge for law enforcement.
A9 • Thousands attend vigil
at Poway High School stadium
to decry hate, remember victims.
More than 200 bills passed dur-
ing Georgia’s General Assembly this
year. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the
Hope Act last week and has signed
the bill for new voting machines in
the state. Members of the Douglas
delegation were contacted and asked
for their take on highlights from this
year’s session.
In his first year as Senate Majority
Leader, Sen. Mike Dugan, R-Carroll-
ton, who represents the 30th District,
which includes west Douglas County,
south Paulding and most of Carroll
County, had his own learning curve to
deal with during the session, and he
was also working with a new governor.
Dugan commented recently in an
article with the Times-Georgian that
his role as leader requires him to be
“responsible for my caucus and the
Republican party in the Senate.” As
the leader, he assisted Democratic
members as often as he could to
avoid conflict beyond “natural dis-
agreements” on certain issues.
Dugan told the Times-Georgian
that he felt accomplished after the
SEE LEGISLATORS/PAGE A5
BY RICHARD GRANT
FOR THE SENTINEL
Contractors for the Douglas Coun-
ty Department of Transportation
will implement lane closures on Lee
Road in Lithia Springs to begin mill-
ing, inlay and resurfacing activities as
early as Wednesday, a county offcial
said in a news release Monday.
“Initially we were given a date of
May 6th, but contractors are now able
to begin work earlier,” said Director
of Communications & Community
Relations Rick Martin.
Weather permitting, resurfacing
activities on Lee Road will take place
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. starting
Wednesday between Fairburn Road
and Interstate 20, Martin said.
The project is expected to last
anywhere from three to four weeks,
weather permitting.
Message boards will give drivers
advance notice of the traffic. Motor-
ists are advised to expect delays
and plan alternate routes to avoid
delays. Drivers are encouraged to
exercise caution and reduce their
speed while traveling through or
around the work zones.
Lee Road lane closures planned
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Resurfacing project set to begin this week
The Douglas County Grand
Jur y returned true bills of
indictment April 26 in 19 crimi-
nal cases.
District Attor-
ney Ryan Leon-
ard announced
the indictments,
which includ-
ed aggravated
assault charges
against Quej-
cia McPherson,
22, aggravated
assault charges
against Kenneth
Nettles, 45, and
meth trafficking
charges against
Javonta Jones,
25, and Ashley
Rhyne, 24.
McPherson,
of Douglasville,
was indicted on
charges of aggra-
vated assault in
connection with
an incident that
took place on
Jan. 14 around
6:45 p.m. at a
home on Gentry
Drive. Accord-
ing to cour t
records, McPher-
son stabbed her
boyfriend, Felix
Wyley Jr. on
the left side of
his back with a
knife. The attack
left Wyley with
a deep wound
approximately 4 to 6-inch long.
McPherson is currently out on
$20,000 bond.
Nettles, of Douglasville, was
indicted on charges of aggravat-
ed assault in connection with an
incident that took place on Feb.
17 at a home on Yeager Road.
According to court records,
Nettles assaulted Wendie
Nicole Black with intent to mur-
der by strangulation. Nettles
SEE JURY/PAGE A6
Grand jury
returns 19
indictments
BY KRYSTAL HORNE
STAFF WRITER
Local legislators reflect on the
highlights of General Assembly
Medical marijuana, abortion among top issues tackled this year
The Prayer Center of West
Georgia will host the annual
National Day of Prayer in front
of the Eternal Flame outside the
Douglas County Courthouse this
Thursday at noon.
Celebrating its 19th year, the
event seeks to mobilize people of
all faiths in unified public prayer
to pray for the city, county and
nation.
“Every year we have judges,
lawyers, businessmen, pastors,
and other community members
come together and we pray for an
hour,” said Prayer Center of West
Georgia Director Ned Fowler.
The National Day of Prayer was
created in 1952 by a joint reso-
lution of Congress and signed
into law by President Harry S.
Truman. In 1988, the law was
SEE PRAYER/PAGE A6
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STAFF WRITER
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McPherson
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Nettles
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Jones
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Rhyne
LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP
Douglas County Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League of Douglas County are
holding a post-legislative discussion Wednesday, May 1, at 5:30 p.m. at the Douglasville
Conference Center. Visit https://douglascountygeorgia.com/ for more information.
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State Rep. Micah Gravley, R-Douglasville, shakes Gov. Brian Kemp’s hand after Kemp signed Georgia’s Hope Act into law April
17. The Hope Act, sponsored by Gravley, allows for the cultivation, manufacturing and dispensing of low THC oil in Georgia.
Pastor Dave Devine from
The Church at Chapelhill,
center, and others joined
together in praise and wor-
ship by local pastors and
community leaders at the
Douglas County Courthouse
during the National Day of
Prayer service last year. The
National Day of Prayer this
year is Thursday, May 2.
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Troopers: Jail fire victims tentatively ID’d
ANCHORAGE —
Guards were unable to
save two prisoners from
a weekend fire that broke
out in a village jail be-
cause they were driven
out by heat and smoke,
Alaska authorities said
Monday.
One of two guards at
the scene of the early
Sunday morning fire in
Napakiak was seriously
injured trying to free the
inmates, who died in the
blaze. The other guard
said a prisoner set fire
to a mattress, but it was
unclear how fire-starting
materials got into a cell.
Troopers said the fire
victims have been ten-
tatively identified as
24-year-old Becca White
and 22-year-old Isaiah
Parka, both of Napakiak.
But troopers said the
identifications still need
to be confirmed by the
state medical examiner’s
office.
A village leader said
more than 20 residents
worked through the night
to extinguish the fire, us-
ing water pumped from
the Kuskokwim River,
Two inmates die in weekend fire at Napakiak prison
By RACHEL D’ORO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ex-bank
worker gets
prison in
$4.3M theft
ANCHORAGE — A dar-
ing Alaska bank employee who
boxed up $4.3 million in cash,
rolled it to his car and flew it to
Seattle was sentenced Monday
to 10 years in prison for bank
theft.
Gerardo Valenzuela, 34, also
known as Gary Cazarez, was
sentenced in federal court after
pleading guilty in January.
U.S. District Judge Timothy
By DAN JOLING
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABOVE: Women’s clothing
from Resolute Boutique is
Show at the Red Dog
Saloon on Saturday.
RIGHT: Men’s clothing
from 4th Coast Outfitters is
Show.
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Familiar face
interviews
for principal
Former Juneau educator
tries for Mendenhall
River school position
Joanna “JJ” Hinderberger
hopes her education career con-
tinues where it began.
Hinderberger, current princi-
pal at Eagle’s View Elementary
School in Unalaska, started as an
educator in the Juneau School
District. In 2012, she complet-
ed her educational leadership
internship at Sayeik: Gastineau
Community School, and Mon-
day morning she had a public
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Erin Anais Heist picks devil’s club buds last Tuesday.
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Devilishly delicious: Devil’s
club stuffed halibut cheeks
As any Juneauite
can testify, we live
in a land of micro-
climates. To the forager,
an intimate awareness of
the way weather moves
through our landscape is
the difference between a
picking season of a few
days, and a picking season
of a month. Especially
when it comes to plants
like devil’s club.
For a magically short
window, devil’s club
(Oplopanax horridus), the
bane of any bushwhacker,
grows delicious buds,
packed full of nutrients
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City Ministerial Association will host an
event at noon Thursday.
“It will be similar to years past,”
Michael Waldrop with the ministerial
association said. “There will be a
welcome and several prayers.”
Waldrop said there will be prayers for
the government, economy, education,
media, church, family and the military
and first responders. The prayers will
be led by pastors and people from the
By CLIFF WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
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Two 18-year-olds were arrested
Tuesday after weapons were fired near
Central Alabama Community College
Monday night.
Jaquavian Edwards and Archavious
Lawson were arrested and charged with
reckless endangerment and shooting into
an unoccupied dwelling, according to
Alexander City Police Department Sgt.
William Grant.
“We received a call Monday night
about shots fired near CACC,” Grant
said. “Upon further investigation
officers determined shots were fired at
an unoccupied dwelling and a vehicle.
Detectives came out and collected
evidence.”
Grant said police developed Edwards
By CLIFF WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
See ARRESTS • Page 9
National Day of Prayer to
be observed Thursday
TPI debuts new websites
When readers visit TPI’s
newspaper websites today,
including www.alexcityoutlook.
com, they will notice a fresh look
as the new sites launched this
morning.
A group of TPI staff members,
with the help of TownNews
professionals, has worked for
nearly six months designing a
website layout that is not only
streamlined but appeals to readers.
The website is user-friendly with
an easy-to-scroll-through flow that
allows readers to absorb all the
content on the website, including
news, sports, opinion pieces and
obituaries.
As TPI continues to advance
as a multimedia company, this
website will enhance its products
in a way the old website could
not. Stories will be displayed
to give readers a multitude of
elements to view each story while
still being user-friendly.
“The new Outlook site presents
you with a more compact view
of the news agenda as it changes
throughout the day and night,”
publisher Steve Baker said. “The
new design will also give you
more visual clues about each
story’s relative importance and
its editorial tone, whether it is a
breaking news story or a live blog,
a piece of analysis, a piece of
opinion, a feature or a review.
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and interactives are now more
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Jimmy Wigfield / The Outlook
Top: An employee assembles a center console for automobiles at Sejin
America’s Dadeville plant Tuesday. Above: I.W. Kim, the general man-
ager of Sejin’s management support department, said the 36 new jobs
will pay up to $15 an hour including the value of benefi ts.
GREEN LIGHT IN DADEVILLE
Dadeville Mayor Wayne Smith remembers
when the land outside Dadeville where
the Sejin America plant is located was
more plentiful with venison than vehicle
parts.
“When we were coming up in our late teens and
early 20s we deer hunted out there,” he said. “It
was nothing but woods and dirt roads. It was good
hunting land.”
But Smith said he is happy to exchange trophy
bucks for the big bucks Sejin’s automotive
manufacturing operation provides Dadeville and
Tallapoosa County.
Those dollars have been flowing since 2008
and Sejin, which has exceeded every economic
promise and projection for its Dadeville plant, said
it will open the faucet even wider with Tuesday’s
announcement of a $15 million expansion that will
create 36 jobs.
Sejin, which is Tallapoosa County’s third-largest
By JIMMY WIGFIELD
Managing Editor
See SEJIN • Page 11
Sejin announces $15M
expansion, 36 jobs
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TPI Staff
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108th year, No. 47
28 pages, 4 sections
By Bayne Hughes
Staff Writer
Caki Bolding has a choice in
where she lives, and a Decatur-
Morgan Chamber of Commerce
committee is trying to figure how
to get young professionals like
her to select Decatur.
Members of a chamber
committee aimed at jump-start-
ing the city’s flat residential
growth spoke Tuesday to the
chamber’sbimonthlyyoungpro-
fessionals luncheon.
Committee membersStratton
Orr, Miracle Osborne and Victo-
ria McKenzie went to the Third
Street Boys and Girls Club to
discuss their progress and to get
input from residents 40-years-
old and younger.
The chamber group was
focused on getting more new
homes on the market, a major
problem for the city.
But young professionals like
Bolding were more interested in
apartments.
Bolding works two jobs and
rents a home from her room-
mate on Canal Street Northeast.
She works for the Boys and Girls
Clubs of North-Central Alabama
and spends most of her days in
the Decatur area. Her other job
is teaching boutique yoga in
Madison.
DECATUR
Young professionals: Apartments needed
By Deangelo McDaniel
Staff Writer
MOULTON — A fourth
building in downtown Moulton
has been condemned as a result
of last week's fire, and the fate
of another structure on Court
Street remains in limbo.
Moulton building inspector
Renay Saint condemned the
Court Street building leased to
The Willow Tree on Monday.
He is waiting for debris caused
by the fire to be removed to
determine if a building W.R.
Jackson constructed in 1932
and that houses a lock and key
business and a state probation
office is structurally sound.
The 1932 building also has
a vacant storefront that once
housed The Cigar Store. Saint
saidastructurebehindthevacant
storefront has to be removed
before engineers can determine
if the 1932 building is safe.
"Itlooksliketheymaybesafe,
but until this is removed and we
can see what damage is there I
don'tknow,"SaintsaidTuesday.
He said he has asked The
Willow Tree owner to pro-
vide him a plan to remove the
building so it doesn't damage
the vacant Wilkerson Diamond
building to the west.
"I'm hoping that we don't
have to go any further with
removing any buildings," Saint
said.
Willow Tree owner Craig
Johnston said at least one wall
in the building he rented has
“significant cracks” and the
back roof of the building col-
lapsed when a second-floor
blockwallfromtheCourtStreet
Grill fell while contractors were
removing debris.
“At this point I don’t know,”
he said, when asked whether he
would reopen the business in
downtown Moulton. “There’s
really not any space available
that’s big enough for me.”
The Willow Tree, which
opened about seven months
ago in Moulton, is temporarily
located in a building on Court
Street near the Bill Stewart
Center.
“We have to find what will
work for us and this may mean
leaving downtown,” Johnston
said.
A fire that started shortly
after 8 p.m. April 22 as workers
were closing the Court Street
Gill destroyed the restaurant,
Deja Vu Salon and Tucker’s
Accessory Tire and Auto. The
Willow Tree was on the west
side of the restaurant. Deja Vu
was on the other side of the
restaurant. The 1932 building
is east of Deja Vu.
DOWNTOWN MOULTON FIRE
Another business lost
Workers clean leftover debris from the site where Court Street Grill and Deja Vu Salon were destroyed by a fire last
week. [DEANGELO MCDANIEL PHOTOS/DECATUR DAILY]
City condemns The Willow Tree because of cracks, roof damage
Inside
The downtown Moulton fire will not
hamper the annual Strawberry Festi-
val this weekend, the event director
said. A3.
This building,
constructed
in 1932 to
the east of
Court Street
Grill and Deja
Vu Salon,
may face
demolition.
The building
has a vacant
storefront, a
state proba-
tion office
and locksmith
business.
Resolve tested as
administration pushes
back at oversight
By Lisa Mascaro
and Mary Clare Jalonick
WASHINGTON — Dem-
ocrats are steeling for an
extraordinary fight with
President Donald Trump
as the White House stone-
walls congressional oversight
demands in the aftermath of
special counsel Robert Muel-
ler’sinvestigation.Inthelatest
case,Trump,hisfamilyandthe
TrumpOrganizationhavefiled
alawsuitagainstDeutscheBank
and Capital One attempting
to thwart congressional sub-
poenas into his financial and
business dealings, asserting
therequestsareoutofbounds.
That comes as Trump’s
treasury secretary is declin-
ing to produce the president’s
tax returns, Attorney General
William Barr is threatening to
back out of his agreement to
appear this week before the
Democratic-led House Judi-
ciary Committee, and former
White House counsel Don
McGahn and other officials are
beingencouragednottotestify
before Congress.
“He’s prepared to fight us
tooth and nail. And we’re pre-
pared to fight him back,” said
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.,
thechairwomanoftheFinancial
ServicesCommittee.“Heobvi-
ously has something to hide.”
The standoff pits the legis-
lative and executive branches
against each other in a consti-
tutional showdown not seen
since the Watergate era. Nei-
ther side is expected to back
down. The debate over wit-
nesses and documents could
escalate with legal battles rip-
pling into the 2020 election.
From Trump’s perspective,
since Mueller finished his
report on Russian interfer-
ence into the election, there’s
no further need to investigate.
It’s a view largely backed by
the president’s party in Con-
gress. But Democrats say it’s
theirdutytoconductoversight
even as they are also confront-
ing the limits of their own
enforcement powers.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.,
the chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, said the stone-
walling “certainly builds the
case that the administration
and the president is engaged
in wholesale obstruction of
Congress, completely extra-
constitutional, trying to make
the presidency not responsive
toCongress,tryingtomakethe
presidency into a monarchy.”
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to enforce
subpoenas
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It was a special evening for Special Olympians.
Junior League of the Shoals hosted a banquet Tuesday for the
area's athletes who participate in Special Olympics. The ban-
quet honors and encourages the athletes, some of whom could
be attending the state games May 17-19 at Troy University. Local
Special Olympics games were in March in Muscle Shoals.
The banquet took place at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum,
where attendees were treated to pizza, games, T-shirts, special
performers, and other activities.
Special Olympians
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By Kendyl Hollingsworth
Staff Writer
FLORENCE — Florence’s
art centers and museums play
a large role in the culture and
novelty of the city, but several
of them are in need of renova-
tions and repairs, according to a
presentation Tuesday from Arts
and Museums Superintendent
Libby Jordan.
Mayor Steve Holt and city
finance committee members
expressed strong support for the
projects, which will total hun-
dreds of thousands of dollarsl.
The committee approved what
was discussed, motioning for a
bump in the budget allocated for
museums from nearly $450,000
to $500,000.
LOCAL
Florence Finance Committee expresses
support for art, museum upgrades
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Monday morning at
6:08 a.m. Penn Valley Fire
Protection District were
notified of a residential
structure fire at the 12000
Block of Shephard Road in
Big Oak Valley, according
to a release.
Units arrived on scene
at 6:17 a.m. to find light
smoke showing from a
single-story residence.
A resident notified the
incident commander of a
burn victim on the deck of
the structure. Paramedic
engine companies 43 and
44 initiated patient care
and extinguished the fire.
The patient suffered se-
vere burns and was trans-
ported by Sierra Nevada
Ambulance, with Penn
Valley Paramedics, to an
awaiting Air Ambulance at
Western Gateway Park
The patient was flown to
UC Davis Medical Center
for further treatment.
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‘More than beauty’
Cancer can be devastat-
ing, especially for those
nearest to it.
Meleesa Pellerino, owner
of Image by Design Hair
& Makeup Studio, is no
stranger to the disease. She
has had four close relatives
die of cancer within the
past two decades. Since
2012, she has been vol-
unteering with the cancer
support group, Look Good
Feel Better, at Sierra Neva-
da Memorial Hospital.
She also used her studio
to help cancer patients find
the right wigs, and ensure
they fit the individual’s
face shape, eye color and
general aesthetic.
At the end of 2018,
Pellerino decided to for-
malize her work, opening
the nonprofit, Butterflies
& Roses Cancer Support,
out of her studio. The
executive director said she
plans to take fliers of her
organization to the hospi-
tal, providing information
Sacramento
diocese releases
names of credibly
accused clergy
A former priest of
St. Patrick Church in
Grass Valley is one of 46
ministers named by the
Catholic Diocese of Sacra-
mento in a list of credibly
accused clergy.
Simon Twomey, who
served at the local church
from 1999 to 2003, is
accused of abusing a girl
under 18 years old around
1975 and 1976. At that
time Twomey served at
churches in Chico and
Carmichael, diocese re-
cords state.
Twomey is one of 44
priests and two perma-
nent deacons named on
the list of credibly ac-
cused clergy. Kevin Eck-
ery, spokesperson for the
Catholic Diocese of Sac-
ramento, defined credible
as more likely than not to
be true.
The Sacramento Bee,
which published the
names Tuesday, obtained
records collected by the
church after Bishop Jai-
me Soto ordered staff to
search personnel files and
create the list.
Twomey served at sev-
eral churches during his
career before his 2009
retirement. The diocese
learned of the reported
abuse in 2018. An inves-
tigation by the diocese
is pending, documents
state.
Eckery said church offi-
cials intend to investigate
older cases that likely
are past the statute of
limitations.
“In all likelihood,
the criminal statute of
limitations has expired,”
Eckery said of Twomey’s
accusations.
It’s unknown how long
the investigation will
take, he added.
The allegations led
the diocese last year to
City foregoes
5G moratorium
A proposed morato-
rium by Nevada City on
5G wireless turned out
to be a no-go, after the
city’s attorneys advised
the council members they
could not legally impose
one.
Nevada City’s council
did expand its already
existing wireless tele-
communications ordi-
nance, however, in order
to establish control over
wireless facilities on pri-
vate land.
In February, council
members approved an or-
dinance to limit putting
small cell facilities on
PG&E poles and other
utility-company owned
structures, and set “rea-
sonable” limits on output
to protect public health,
safety and welfare. The
ordinance established a
three-tiered system for
the approval of wireless
telecommunications fa-
cilities based on size and
location.
The city council sub-
sequently asked staff to
prepare an ordinance to
make telecommunica-
tions regulations applica-
ble citywide, not just in
public right of ways. In a
staff report, City Manag-
er Catrina Olson noted
consultant Rusty Mon-
roe had drafted a draft
ordinance that complete-
ly replaced the already
existing ordinance, and
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on display
Cancer support nonprofit offers
makeovers to cancer patients
KNOW & GO
What: Butterflies & Roses
Cancer Support nonprofit
Where: 425 South Auburn
Street, Suite 1, Grass
Valley, California
When: Schedule an
appointment at 530-368-
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yahoo.com
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Council opts
to strengthen
existing telecom
ordinance
WIRELESS, A6
List includes
former Grass
Valley priest
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By Scott Smith and
Christopher Torchia
CARACAS, Venezuela —
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó
took a bold step to revive his
movement to seize power
in Venezuela, taking to the
streets Tuesday to call for a
military uprising that drew
quick support from the Trump
administration but fierce
resistance from forces loyal
to embattled socialist Nicolas
Maduro.
Violent street battles erupted
in parts of Caracas in what was
the most serious challenge
yet to Maduro’s rule — kicked
off with a surprise video shot
at dawn of Guaidó, flanked
by several heavily-national
guardsmen, urging a final push
to topple Maduro.
Still, the surprise rebellion,
dubbed “Operation Freedom,”
seemed to have garnered only
limited military support.
Meanwhile, U.S. National
Security Adviser John Bolton
said the Trump administra-
tion was waiting for three key
officials, including Maduro’s
defense minister and head
of the supreme court, to act
on what he said were private
pledges to remove Maduro. He
did not provide details.
The dramatic events began
early Tuesday when Guaidó,
flanked by a few dozen national
guardsmen and some armored
crowd-control vehicles,
released the three-minute video
filmed near a Caracas air base.
In a surprise, Leopoldo
Lopez, his political mentor
Guaido urges opposition uprising
More drama expected
as AG testifies before
Senate committee
By Eric Tucker and
Mary Clare Jalonick
WASHINGTON — Attorney
General William Barr on
Wednesday will face lawmak-
ers’ questions for the first time
since releasing special counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia report,
in what promises to be a dra-
matic showdown as he defends
his actions before Democrats
who accuse him of spinning
the investigation’s findings
in President Donald Trump’s
favor.
Barr’s appearance before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
is expected to highlight the
partisan schism around
Mueller’s report and the Justice
Department’s handling of it. It
will give the attorney general
his most extensive opportu-
nity to explain the department’s
actions, including a press con-
ference held before the report’s
release, and for him to repair a
reputation bruised by allega-
tions that he’s the president’s
protector.
Barr to face
Mueller
report
questions
Giving prevention a hand
Beth Heuer, right, vocal director for the Auburn High School Creative And Performing Arts choirs, directs the Auburn Chamber singers during the
Hands Around the Courthouse event Tuesday at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center in Rockford. The event aims to raise awareness of
child abuse and neglect prevention efforts. [PHOTOS BY SCOTT P. YATES/RRSTAR.COM STAFF]
A woman holds a pinwheel, a national symbol for child abuse
prevention, during the Hands Around the Courthouse event Tuesday.
Participants hold a blue ribbon during Hands Around the
Courthouse at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center.
18th annual Hands Around the Courthouse works to raise awareness of child abuse, neglect
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In his latest attempt to slow the flood of Central
American migrants pouring across the southern bor-
der, President Donald Trump proposed sweeping new
rules for asylum-seekers that would make it more dif-
ficult and expensive for them to seek refuge in the U.S.
In a presidential memorandum, Trump gave the
departments of Justice and Homeland Security 90
days to implement the changes in an effort to stem
what he described as an asylum “crisis” that has been
plagued by “rampant abuse.”
“This strategic exploitation of our nation’s hu-
manitarian programs undermines our nation’s secu-
rity and sovereignty,” Trump wrote.
The rules would, for the first time, require asylum-
seekers to pay an application fee, deny work permits
for asylum-seekers who enter the country illegally
and require government officials to complete asylum
hearings within 180 days.
Critics say those changes would unfairly punish
the most vulnerable people in the world, those who
Trump: Charge a fee to asylum seekers
Alan Gomez USA TODAY
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Trump, Dems agree on
$2T infrastructure plan. 6A
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Man allegedly hurls hedge
clippers at fire station windows
Local, 3A
A Visalia man may have confessed to being a killer,
but police are being tight-lipped when it comes to de-
tails surrounding the possible death investigation.
Visalia detectives say they are trying to protect a
"sensitive" case.
Law enforcement was out in full force Friday and
Saturday near Avenue 264 and Road 164, just outside
of Visalia. The activity sparked interest from people
who speculated on social media.
One nearby witness said a "big pile of dirt" was
served during a search warrant. Nearby homeowners
and businesses were notified, but few details were of-
fered about the search warrant.
One witness said Visalia police and Tulare County
detectives spent hours excavating an empty field be-
hind a home in the area. Police dogs were used during
the search, as well as a drone, witnesses said.
A backhoe, used to dig, could be seen from the road-
way, witnesses said. A large hole was dug. According
to officers, who asked to remain anonymous, officers
were looking for bodies.
By Monday morning, law enforcement had cleared
the area. It's unclear if officers found what they were
looking for.
Visalia Times-Delta reached out to Visalia police
Police mum on death investigation
Officials can confirm the probe is near Farmersville
Sheyanne N Romero Visalia Times-Delta
USA TODAY NETWORK
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Tulare Regional Medical Center is no
more.
The hospital is now officially known as
Adventist Health Tulare, as Adventist began
operating the facility this week under its
own license.
"A new name for your community's hospi-
tal....Proudly introducing Adventist Health
Tulare," reads the hospital's Facebook page.
Notably, all mention of TRMC has been
scrubbed from the hospital's social media
and website. Searches for "Tulare Region
Medical Center" now redirect to Adventist
Health Tulare.
Hospital officials say new signage is on
the way to update the main hospital build-
ing, as well. A large banner currently hang-
ing above the hospital's main entrance
reads: "Tulare Regional Medical Center
Managed by Adventist Health."
Whether the rebranding will be enough to
wrestle back patients' trust after the hospi-
tal's rocky rebirth remains to be seen.
Until now, Adventist Health managed the
hospital on behalf of Tulare Local Health
Care District.
"Now we're the tenant and they're the
landlord," said Randy Dodd, Adventist
Health Tulare's president. "It was important
to put our stamp on the name — it made
sense."
Tulare Regional Medical Center
changes name to Adventist Health Tulare
Staff, administrators and community members gather for the grand re-opening of Tulare Regional Medical
Center in this 2018 file photo. The hospital, now managed by Adventist Health, closed last October.
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Honing in on
hospital’s rebirth
Joshua Yeager Visalia Times-Delta
USA TODAY NETWORK
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The price tag on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics is
now $6.88 billion, a $1.36 billion increase that comes
mainly because of accounting measures designed to
better reflect inflation over the long lead-up to those
games.
Most key numbers the organizing committee re-
leased Tuesday are essentially the same as those in
the original bid documents, only adjusted from 2016
dollars to reflect the real value of the dollars at the
time they’ll be received or spent – mainly in the later
part of the 2020s.
That includes the cost of venue infrastructure (in-
crease from $1.19 billion to $1.46 billion) and the con-
tingency fund being guaranteed by the city and state
($487 million to $615 million).
If LA runs the games without any cost overruns, it
will become the first host since at least 1984 – also a
year that LA hosted – to do so.
Next year’s Olympics in Tokyo originally were
budgeted at $7.3 billion but are now expected to run
$12.6 billion.
Los Angeles initially projected a $5.3 billion bud-
get for its original bid for the 2024 Games. But in a
groundbreaking move, the International Olympic
Committee awarded the 2024 Games to Paris and the
2028 Games to Los Angeles at the same time. Part of
that agreement was that LA would reveal a revised
budget, for 2028 instead of 2024, in the first quarter
of this year.
The revised budget does contain a 3% increase,
$160 million of which is targeted toward youth sports
throughout the city, and the rest earmarked to keep
the organizing committee running during a lifespan
that will run four years longer than initially antici-
pated.
The city of Los Angeles and state of California
originally were projected to guarantee $250 million
each for the contingency fund – with LA on the hook
for the first $250 million, then the state for the rest.
Those figures have been adjusted to $270 million
apiece; the organizing committee has repeatedly said
it doesn’t expect to need that backup.
Los Angeles is planning to host the games without
building stadiums or arenas and by using infrastruc-
ture already in place or planned.
Part of the new budget includes $200 million in
projected new cash from top IOC sponsors that
would come in addition to $437 million already bud-
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Olympics
budget
nearly $7B
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are illuminated in the corner, the room almost glows. ❚ Perched in a fuzzy,
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across her bedside table on April 19 at her home in Fort Collins.
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DENVER – Colorado is moving up its
2020 presidential primaries from June to
Super Tuesday in March, hoping to lure ma-
jor party contenders to the purple state.
Gov. Jared Polis made the announce-
ment Tuesday, adding Colorado to at least
10 states conducting their presidential pri-
maries on March 3.
Under voter initiatives approved in 2016,
independent voters – Colorado’s largest
voting bloc – can participate in one or the
other of the major party primaries.
“I think we can really highlight Colorado
as a key state because among the Super
Tuesday states, Colorado is one of the only
ones that is also a competitive state for No-
vember – a purple state,” Polis said.
Colorado
joins Super
Tuesday
primaries
James Anderson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
See PRIMARIES, Page 2A
A Loveland police officer shot a man sus-
pected of robbing a sandwich shop Monday
night.
Police say they received several calls
about an armed robbery at Subway, 256 E.
29th St., about 4:41 p.m. Monday. The call-
ers gave police a description of a robbery
suspect who ran from the store, according
to a police news release.
A man matching that description was
spotted by police near the intersection of
North Monroe Avenue and East 29th Street,
about one block east of the Subway.
One Loveland officer fired at the male
suspect, who was taken to the Medical Cen-
ter of the Rockies with undisclosed injuries.
Man accused
of robbing
sandwich shop
shot by police
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STRAIGHT TO THE PUNCH: President Trump and Joseph
R. Biden are essentially ignoring Mr. Biden’s competitors in the
Democratic primary race and trading barbs with each other. Mr.
Biden is leading the crowded fi eld with more than 35% support.
BY S.A. MILLER
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden quickly
consolidated his lead in polls in the Democratic
presidential contest, as he and President Trump
seem intent on skipping the primaries and declaring
the 2020 race a two-man aff air.
Within days of entering the race, Mr. Biden
surged to the front of the crowded fi eld with more
than 35% support and a double-digit lead over
his closest competitors, according to three polls
released Tuesday.
The polling bounce confi rmed a growing belief
among Democratic voters that Mr. Biden is uniquely
equipped to beat Mr. Trump in 2020.
Mr. Trump also took note of the Biden campaign
launch. He fi red back at Mr. Biden’s attacks on his
moral character and his leadership after ignoring
similar jabs from the other Democratic hopefuls.
“The middle class is booming now, despite what
Joe Biden says,” White House counselor Kellyanne
Conway told reporters at the White House.
Taking on Mr. Biden’s claim that workers are
hurting and disrespected in the Trump era, Mrs.
Conway provided a preview of a possible general
election debate with the former vice president.
“He also sounds like someone who wasn’t vice
president for eight years. He’s got this whole list of
grievances of what’s wrong with the country as if
he didn’t work in this building for eight years. We
inherited that mess,” she said.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly hit Mr. Biden since
CAMPAIGN 2020
Trump helps Biden look
like inevitable nominee
Candidates go head to
head before primaries
BY DAVE BOYER
Democratic leaders secured a tenta-
tive agreement from President Trump on
Tuesday to spend $2 trillion to rebuild
the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges,
then vowed to keep trying to wreck Mr.
Trump’s presidency.
Emerging from a rare meeting with
the president at the White House, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minor-
ity Leader Charles E. Schumer said their
talks were productive, in contrast with
their stormy session together in Janu-
ary, when the president walked out over
funding for the border wall to resolve a
partial government shutdown.
“There was goodwill in this meeting,
and that was diff erent than some of the
other meetings that we’ve had,” said Mr.
Schumer, New York Democrat.
But the goodwill on infrastructure
was apparently a one-way street. Demo-
crats said they won’t back off six House
committee investigations of the presi-
dent and his business empire, and many
continued to push for Mr. Trump’s im-
peachment for purported obstruction
of justice against special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia investigation.
That probe found the Trump cam-
paign was not involved in Moscow’s
meddling in the 2016 election.
“In previous meetings, the president
has said, ‘If these investigations continue,
I can’t work with you,’” Mr. Schumer
CONGRESS
Democrats
aim to fi x
U.S., ruin
president
Trump OKs plan
for infrastructure
BY GABRIELLA MUÑOZ
Democrats returned from a two-week
spring break enraged at President Trump
— but the appetite for impeachment re-
mains low even in the wake of the release
of the special counsel’s report that found
evidence of behavior that could be seen
as obstruction of justice.
A resolution introduced by Rep.
Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, to
begin impeachment proceedings did
pick up supporters Monday, the fi rst day
of Congress’ return. The number rose
from two to seven.
New supporters included lightning-
rod freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of
Minnesota, but none of them was among
the heavyweight committee chairs or
elected caucus leaders. Such a develop-
ment would have suggested a change in
attitude toward impeachment.
Even Ms. Tlaib, the chief sponsor of
the impeachment inquiry, seemed more
circumspect, saying investigations are
enough.
Many Democrat-led House commit-
tees and their chairmen “have done their
job by issuing subpoenas, by doing their
DEMOCRATS
Resolution
to impeach
draws only
7 supporters
Many back probes
as best next move
BY BEN WOLFGANG
Violence erupted in the streets of
Caracas on Tuesday as U.S.-backed Ven-
ezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido
unexpectedly launched what he called
the “fi nal phase” of his campaign to drive
socialist President Nicolas Maduro from
power, urging supporters and members
of the military to mount an all-out rebel-
lion and take control of the government.
A chaotic scene unfolded quickly
after Mr. Guaido, with clear backing
from top Trump administration offi cials
and a number of Venezuela’s neighbors,
released an early morning video fi lmed
near a Caracas military air base. He was
fl anked by dozens of armed national
guard members who had abandoned
Mr. Maduro and added newfound heft
to the opposition.
Mr. Guaido and leading Venezuelan
opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez, who
had been released from house arrest by
security forces following Mr. Guaido’s
orders, called for an unprecedented
popular uprising they dubbed Opera-
tion Freedom.
Despite scenes of street riots, tear gas
attacks and even the sight of an armored
government truck driving into a crowd
of rock-throwing demonstrators, it was
unclear at day’s end whether the protests
in the capital had dented Mr. Maduro’s
authority or the critical support of top
military and legal offi cials.
Mr. Maduro did not appear in public.
He issued only a Twitter post proclaim-
ing his “nerves of steel,” condemning
the opposition and telling supporters,
“We will win!”
With more than 50 countries in the
Western Hemisphere and Europe say-
ing they recognize Mr. Guaido as the
VENEZUELA
Clashes ignite as U.S.-backed Guaido rises up
Opposition leader
starts ‘fi nal phase’
to force Maduro
from presidency
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
Democrats have redoubled their ef-
forts to force President Trump to release
his federal tax returns by threatening to
keep him off the 2020 ballot in deep-blue
states, to which he might say: So what?
Bills have been introduced this year
in 17 states to require presidential can-
didates to turn over their tax returns
as a condition for ballot access. Such
measures have cleared one legislative
chamber in at least four states.
For the Trump campaign, however,
there may be a worse fate than being left
off the ballot in liberal enclaves such as
California, Hawaii and Illinois, where
the bills for mandatory tax returns are
making headway, given that a Republican
presidential contender is not likely to
prevail there.
“In theory, [Mr. Trump] could really
push this, and he could be disqualifi ed
from the state ballots, and it wouldn’t
necessarily aff ect the Electoral College
vote at all,” said University of Denver
political science professor Seth Masket.
“Because those were states he wasn’t
going to win anyway.”
Before that happens, the bills must
win passage, and with many legislative
sessions winding down, no such measure
has reached a governor’s desk.
The Washington state Senate passed
a bill last month requiring presidential
ELECTIONS
Tax return bills aim to keep Trump off state ballots
Deep-blue moves unlikely to affect vote
BY BEN WOLFGANG
For White House National Security Adviser John R. Bolton,
this one is personal.
Thousands of miles from the chaos that erupted in Caracas,
Venezuela, on Tuesday, Mr. Bolton directed a string of unusu-
ally sharp threats at socialist President Nicolas Maduro and
found himself embroiled in a Twitter war of his own with one
of Mr. Maduro’s top deputies.
“Your time is up,” Mr. Bolton tweeted to three top Ven-
ezuelan offi cials. “This is your last chance. Accept Interim
President [Juan] Guaido’s amnesty, protect the Constitution,
and remove Maduro, and we will take you off our sanctions
list. Stay with Maduro, and go down with the ship.”
Mr. Bolton’s hard-charging rhetoric underscores a central
Bolton turns up heat
on Maduro deputies
» see CAMPAIGN | A5
» see IMPEACHMENT | A5 » see TAXES | A9
» see REBUILD | A7
» see BOLTON | A9
MAKING HIS MOVE: Mr. Guaido, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed
president, addressed his supporters outside a military base. He
risks life in prison if his eff ort to oust Mr. Maduro fails.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
STREET FIGHT: Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro faced off Tuesday with loyalist Bolivarian national guards in
Caracas aft er opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for rebellion.
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John Delaney was the first Democrat to
say he was running for president and Joe
Biden is the latest — but maybe not the
last. It’s as if you need a score card to
keep track. And The Gazette can help.
Look in Sunday’s newspaper for short
bios of all the Democratic and Republican
candidates who have announced so far and
read why some experts say so many are
giving it a go.
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announcing his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. This is Biden’s third presidential campaign.
● Former Democratic
Vice President Joe
Biden begins his Iowa
campaign swing with a
Cedar Rapids rally, 3A
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one about his third
campaign for the White
House, 3A
COVERAGE
TODAY:
Law would remove THC
cap, softens pain definition
By Michaela Ramm, The Gazette
A measure to expand Iowa’s medical
marijuana program will open the door
to more patients and new products to
help treat them, the state’s medical
cannabis manufacturer says.
In the last days of the 2019 legisla-
tive session, lawmakers approved a
proposal to expand aspects of the med-
ical cannabidiol program, including
patient access and the type of provid-
ers who can recommend treatment.
“If you look at the bill in its en-
tirety, it is very clear that it is patient-
focused,” said Lucas Nelson, general
manager of outsourcing services for
Kemin Industries, the lead consultant
for MedPharm Iowa of Des Moines.
MedPharm Iowa was the first
company awarded a state license to
manufacture cannabidiol products. Its
products went on sale for the first time
Dec. 1 at five state-certified dispensa-
ries: Davenport, Waterloo, Windsor
Heights, Council Bluffs and Sioux City.
The latest proposal — passed on the
final day of the session — removes the
3 percent cap on tetrahydrocannabi-
nol, or the psychoactive component of
cannabis known as THC.
Instead, the bill limits the amount of
medical cannabis a patient could have
to 25 grams in a 90-day period.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has not said
whether she will sign the bill into law.
Nelson applauded removal of the
cap, saying it makes it easier for pa-
tients to get the dosage they need with-
out taking excessive amounts of the
product, which can be cost prohibitive.
In addition, it will allow MedPharm
to develop vapor products.
“Vapor is fast-acting,” Nelson said.
“It won’t last as long over the course of
the day — maybe an hour, maybe less
or more for some — but it will take
effect within minutes.”
Vapor would be ideal for patients
Medical marijuana expansion ‘patient-focused’
Will Democrats hold
at 21 candidates?
Biden is the latest to bring campaign to the Corridor Agency vacancies concern
environmental advocates
By Erin Jordan, The Gazette
Thursday marks one year
the Iowa Department of Natu-
ral Resources has been with-
out a permanent director. The
lapse is prompting questions
from environmental advocates
about a lack of direction and
advocacy for water quality and
conservation efforts.
Chuck Gipp retired May 1,
2018, after lead-
ing the Iowa DNR
since 2012.
The department
— with nearly
1,400 employees
and an operations
budget of $134 mil-
lion — has been
led since last May
by Acting Director
Bruce Trautman.
The state agency also lacks
permanent hires for key posts,
including heads of the Envi-
ronmental Services Division
and Water Quality Bureau.
“The Wallace Building is in-
habited by knowledgeable and
Iowa DNR
goes one
year without
permanent
director
● $134.3 million operations budget
in fiscal 2019
● 1,400 full- and part-time
employees in fiscal 2018
● 425,000 acres of public land
developed and managed by the
agency including 245 lakes, 71
state parks and recreational areas
and four state forests
● 14 million park visitors
● 625,000 hunters and anglers
served
● 1 million wildlife lovers served
Source: Iowa DNR, State Salary Book
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES
Chuck Gipp
former director
of Iowa DNR
DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS
● Joe Biden
● Corey Booker
● Pete Buttigieg
● Julian Castro
● John Delaney
● Tulsi Gabbard
● Kirsten Gillibrand
● Mike Gravel
● Kamala Harris
● John Hickenlooper
● Jay Inslee
● Amy Klobuchar
● Wayne Messam
● Seth Moulton
● Beto O’Rourke
● Tim Ryan
● Bernie Sanders
● Eric Swalwell
● Elizabeth Warren
● Marianne Williamson
● Andrew Yang
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BATON ROUGE — Loui-
siana would follow other
conservative states in seek-
ing to ban abortions if a fetal
heartbeat is detected, typi-
cally around the sixth week
of pregnancy, under a bill that
took its first steps Tuesday in
the Senate.
Senators on a judiciary
committee voted 5-2 to ad-
vance the proposal to the full
Senate for consideration. But
they rewrote the measure by
Sen. John Milkovich so the
prohibition only would take
effect if a federal appeals
court upholds a similar law in
Mississippi.
Milkovich, a Keithville
Democrat, objected to the link
to Mississippi’s law, saying
efforts to lessen or eliminate
abortion are worth any ex-
pense of litigation.
“This is an important state-
ment of Louisiana’s devotion
to protecting unborn,” he
said.
Opponents said the pro-
posal would eliminate abor-
tion as an option before many
women even realize they are
pregnant, in violation of the
U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v.
Wade decision that legalized
abortion.
“There is no doubt that this
bill is unconstitutional,” said
Ellie Schilling, a New Orleans
attorney who represents and
advises abortion clinics in the
state.
Ohio, Kentucky and Missis-
sippi enacted so-called “heart-
beat bill” bans this year, with
lawmakers considering it in
several others, according to
the New York-based Guttm-
acher Institute, an abortion
rights research organiza-
tion. Georgia legislators also
passed a similar bill and are
awaiting action from Gov.
Brian Kemp, who is expected
to sign it.
Six-week abortion bans
enacted in North Dakota
and Iowa in prior years were
struck down in court, ac-
cording to the Guttmacher
Institute. But anti-abortion
activists are pushing the lat-
est prohibition measures as
another way to challenge the
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during a craft workshop at the Lake Arthur Library.
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‘This is an important
statement of Loui-
siana’s devotion to
protecting unborn.’
Sen. John Milkovich
D-Keithville
A jury was seated and the
trial of a Lake Charles man
charged with second-degree
murder in 2017 got under
way Tuesday in state district
court.
Devin Jalmal Holefield,
26, allegedly shot and killed
31-year-old Gary Obrien dur-
ing an attempted robbery July
17, 2017, on N. Simmons Street.
Holefield was indicted by a
Calcasieu Parish grand jury
on a charge of second-degree
murder in August 2017.
Authorities said Obrien
was shot when he refused to
comply with a demand made
by one of a group of males
who were robbing the home.
Holefield was arrested
in Waco, Texas, by the Lone
Start Fugitive Task Force and
extradited. He was originally
charged with first-degree mur-
der and armed robbery with a
firearm but was later indicted
on a second-degree murder
charge. His bond is $1.2 mil-
lion, and he has remained in
the Calcasieu Correctional
Center since his arrest.
Prosecutor Charles Robin-
son said Obrien was known as
“G-Money” and was targeted
because he sold drugs.
Robinson said Holefield is
the one who pulled the trigger,
and three others who were
there at the time have pleaded
guilty to attempted armed rob-
bery charges.
Catherine Stagg is Hole-
field’s defense attorney
.
At a hearing last April,
defense attorney Andrew
Casanave asked a judge to
allow special jury instructions
regarding the eventual verdict
at Holefield’s trial.
Casanave filed a motion
asking Judge Clayton Davis to
consider special jury instruc-
tion that would require a jury
to reach a unanimous verdict
on his charge.
“The laws of the Jim Crow
era need to change,” Casanave
said. “If one-sixth of a jury
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Louisiana gubernatorial
candidate and current U.S.
Rep. Ralph Abraham said
his campaign goals include
lowering taxes, changing the
business and legal climates
and providing residents with
good living wages.
“As much as I love Loui-
siana, we can do better,”
Abraham, a Republican, told
the American Press editorial
board Monday
.
Abraham has served in
Congress since being elected
in 2014 and represents
Louisiana’s 5th congressional
district. He, along with Baton
Rouge businessman Eddie
Rispone, are the two Repub-
licans challenging Gov. John
Bel Edwards, a Democrat.
Abraham said the state’s
elected leaders should priori-
tize spending. Having legis-
lators and a governor that
understand business would
get rid of “all the waste, fraud
and abuse that we have on a
daily basis,” he said.
“We really don’t have a
revenue problem,” he said. “I
get tired of people saying you
can’t run a government like
you do a business. Yes, you
can.”
Abraham said the federal
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
has “been phenomenal” in
getting people back to work.
Meanwhile, nearly 68,000
Louisiana residents have left
over the last three years to
seek jobs elsewhere, he said.
The state’s lack of predict-
ability and certainty has
business leaders worried,
Abraham said.
“We’ve been hundreds of
places, and they all tell me
exactly the same thing —
‘Fix the tax code; fix the tax
increases,’ ” he said.
Abraham said he supports
incentivizing businesses to
locate in the state. The Indus-
trial Tax Exemption Program,
along with other incentives,
brings money back into the
state over the long term, he
said.
“That money comes back
five or six times back into the
community because they hire
more people,” he said.
Abraham said he supports
an innovative P3 public/pri-
vate partnership to get a new
Interstate 10/Calcasieu River
bridge built. If tolls are put in
place, local residents should
be given a break, he said.
By John Guidroz
[email protected]
Abraham: Lower taxes, change business and legal climates
By The Associated Press
Abortion ban bill advances
BATON ROUGE — A bill
giving local governments
an opportunity to negotiate
for upfront payments from
industries locating in their
areas cleared the House Ways
and Means Committee here
Tuesday and moves to the full
House for debate.
Many manufacturing com-
panies qualify for what could
be a 10-year exemption from
paying local property taxes.
The Industrial Tax Exemption
Program (ITEP) has been in
existence for 80 years, and the
state granted those exemp-
tions exclusively until 2016.
House Bill 81 by Rep. Mark
Abraham, R-Lake Charles,
authorizes any local taxing au-
thority to enter into a coopera-
tive endeavor agreement with
an industrial property owner
that provides for payments
in lieu of (delayed property)
taxes (PILOT).
Cameron Parish taxing
agencies in 2017 wanted to re-
ceive upfront payments from
Cameron LNG immediately
instead of waiting until its tax
exemption expired in 10 years.
State Rep. Ryan Bourri-
aque, R-Cameron, was parish
administrator at the time.
He said the plan was to bring
money to Cameron’s cash-poor
taxing bodies sooner than
later. However, Orson Billings,
the Cameron tax assessor, op-
posed the plan on grounds it
was unconstitutional.
Under PILOT, based on a 30-
year economic life, the parish
would have started collect-
ing a fixed amount — $503.5
million over the next 23 years
— instead of paying an esti-
mated $1.5 billion in property
taxes starting in 2029. How-
ever, Bourriaque said future
property taxes are impossible
to predict.
The PILOT proposal ended
By Jim Beam
[email protected]
Bill to allow
negotiations
for upfront
payments
advances
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One of the passengers
involved in a two-vehicle crash
earlier this month has died,
authorities said.
Louisiana State Police Troop-
er Derek Senegal said the crash
occurred April 18 on La. 385.
Senegal said a pickup truck
driven by Edward W. Milsted Jr.,
92, of Lake Charles was travel-
ing south when Milsted failed to
yield to oncoming traffic while
turning left.
The front seat passenger in
Milsted’s vehicle, 91-year-old
Betty C. Milsted sustained inju-
ries, and she succumbed to her
injuries on Monday
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Heather Cook, the former Episcopal bishop who
garnered national and international headlines after
fatally striking a Baltimore bicyclist with her car while
driving drunk two days after Christmas in 2014, will be
released from prison this month after serving a little
more than half her original sentence.
Gerard Shields, a spokesman for the Maryland
DepartmentofSafetyandCorrectionalServices,saidthe
department withholds prisoners’ release dates for safety
reasons, but Cook would be freed “sometime around the
middle of May.”
If that’s the case, Cook, 62, will have served just over
3 ½ years of the seven-year sentence she was given on
four criminal charges in connection with the crash that
killed bicyclist Thomas Palermo, a software engineer
and married father of two, on Dec. 27, 2014.
Cook pleaded guilty to the charges — including
automobile manslaughter, drunken driving, texting
while driving and leaving the scene of a collision — in
2015.
Cook’s attorney, David Irwin, said his client will be on
Ex-Episcopal bishop
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By Jonathan M. Pitts
The Baltimore Sun
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Former Epis-
copal Bishop
Heather Cook,
who pleaded
guilty in the
2014 drunken-
driving hit-
and-run death
of cyclist
Thomas Pa-
lermo, is being
released after
less than four
years in prison.
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By the end of January, Baltimore
Mayor Catherine Pugh had amassed
nearly $1 million in her bid to be elected
to a second term — and there was no
candidate yet running against her.
Since then, news broke of the sale of
$800,000 worth of her “Healthy Holly”
books, and she has been engulfed by
spreading federal and state criminal
investigationsintoherbusinessdealings.
Calls for her to resign have come from
the City Council, state legislators, the
governor and the business community.
Now,somedonorssaytheywouldlike
theirmoneyback,andcampaignofficials
say they are exploring how they could
issue refunds.
“I have requested the Committee to
Retain Catherine E. Pugh return my
contribution to her campaign in full,”
saidformerstateDel.ConnieDeJuliis,of
Baltimore County, who gave $3,000 to
Pugh in 2016 for her successful run and
$2,000 for a recent fundraiser. “I am
disappointed in the mayor’s lack of
judgment, to say nothing of her lack of
integrity.”
Pugh’s campaign manager, Steven
Sibel, said the campaign committee “is
reviewing the options provided under
the law regarding campaign contrib-
utions, and it will be making a determi-
Pugh
donors
want
refunds
Campaign officials
‘reviewing’ options
for returning money
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and Luke Broadwater
The Baltimore Sun
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He was rugged, rangy and relentless
in his pursuit of quarterbacks. For 13
years during their heyday, the Baltimore
Colts were defined by a slab of a man
known simply as Gino.
No Colts player
epitomized the club —
or the city — better
than Gino Marchetti,
the Hall of Fame de-
fensive end who died
Monday of pneumo-
nia. Mr. Marchetti, 93,
died at Paoli Hospital
in Paoli, Pa.
“I kissed him, and
he knew me and smiled,” said Joan
Marchetti,hiswifeof41years.“Thatwas
Gino’s way of saying goodbye.”
The son of an immigrant coal miner,
Mr. Marchetti rose from lunch-pail
Baltimore
Colts star
epitomized
the city
Hall of Fame defensive
end was captain of 2-time
world championship team
By Mike Klingaman
The Baltimore Sun
See MARCHETTI, page 9
Marchetti
GINO MARCHETTI
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As lawmakers prepare to elect a
speaker of the Maryland House of
Delegates, Baltimore Del. Maggie McIn-
tosh said she’s got enough votes locked
up to win.
In a conference call with reporters on
Tuesday afternoon — the eve of the
election — McIntosh expressed confi-
dence that she’ll beat her rival, Demo-
cratic Del. Dereck Davis, of Prince
George’s County.
McIntosh said she has enough votes
to win a majority of the 98-member
Democratic Caucus and believes that
many of Davis’ supporters will fliptoher
in the official vote by the full House
during Wednesday’s special legislative
session.
“I have the votes in caucus. And I
know that there are a number of
memberswhomaybesupportingChair-
man Davis that will not vote to overturn
the Democratic Caucus selection on the
floor,” McIntosh said. “So, that means
I’ve got it.”
Davis was just as assured that he
would become speaker.
“I’m pretty confident myself,” Davis
said in an interview. “We can only go by
whatfolkstellus.Ifeveryonekeepstheir
McIntosh
says she has
votes to win
speakership
Davis also thinks he does,
as House prepares to pick
replacement for Busch
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and Luke Broadwater
The Baltimore Sun
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to keep a campaign pledge and fi x the roads hit a big
obstacle right off the bat when the Republican Legislature’s leaders declared her center-
piece a nonstarter: They are not about to raise the gas tax by 45 cents a gallon.
The move would raise $2.5 billion a year extra — money that experts have long said
matches the need, versus the GOP plan for an additional $1.2 billion, passed in 2015, what
won’t fully kick in until October 2020.
But that 45-cent hike also would make Michigan’s fuel tax the highest in the nation,
something the Republicans say their constituents cannot aff ord. And yet, the GOP still has
to come up with its own solution.
Is there another way to go? Maybe.
Transportation fi nance experts say a better mechanism is in the works to fund road and
bridge needs. It’s a mileage-based fee, also known as a road-user fee.
A growing number of states are analyzing a GPS system that tallies the number of miles
you drive, through a device on your car or even with your smartphone.
The interest is driven by a hard truth: Gasoline is an increasingly antiquated fuel.
Motor-engine effi ciency is relentlessly improving, and electric and hybrid cars — even
trucks — are pouring into the market. The gas tax, says one expert, is an “aging rock star
on a farewell tour.”
Michigan did raise its gas tax in 2015, to 26.3 cents a gallon — the fi rst hike in 20 years —
making it then the fi fth-highest in the nation. But now, to one analyst, the gas tax is start-
ing to look like an aging rocker.
“The gas tax worked well for 100 years, but because of fuel-effi cient vehicles, it’s going
to get complicated,” said Baruch Feigenbaum, assistant director of transportation policy at
the Reason Foundation, a nonprofi t libertarian think tank. “We think these mileage-based
fees are a wave of the future. They are not ready right now, but we think they will be ready
to roll out in about 10 years.”
PAYING FOR MICHIGAN ROADS
Forget gas taxes.
Just levy fees for
miles traveled.
How it’s done in Oregon
› A motorist volunteers to participate and
then receives a device that plugs into
his or her vehicle.
› The device transmits mileage information
to an account manager, who then computes
miles driven.
› The system charges 1.7 cents per mile
driven, credits 34 cents per gallon con-
sumed for state fuels tax paid, and calcu-
lates the net balance due. Participants then
remit payment or receive a refund.
› Oregon is unable to charge for mileage
driven outside the state but is exploring
that possibility.
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Ed White Associated Press
A special prosecutor who spent three
years leading a criminal investigation of the
Flint water crisis has been fi red, apparently
part of the fallout from the recent discovery
of 23 boxes of records in the basement of a
state building.
Todd Flood’s contract was terminated
April 16, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud
said Monday. The attorney general’s offi ce told
a judge about the records on Friday as it seeks
a six-month freeze in the case against Michi-
gan’s former health director, Nick Lyon, who
is charged with involuntary manslaughter.
“It recently became clear that discovery
was not fully and properly pursued from
the onset of this investigation,” Hammoud
said in a written statement. “The decision to
terminate Mr. Flood’s contract refl ects our
ongoing commitment to execute the high-
est standards in the prosecution of the Flint
water crisis. Our standards demand a full
accounting of all evidence that may inform
the People’s investigation.”
Flood, who was hired in 2016 by then-
Attorney General Bill Schuette, declined to
comment on the criticism when reached by
phone, but he released a statement defend-
ing his work.
“This complex case of offi cial wrongdoing
and betrayal of public trust has been prose-
cuted with the utmost attention to the pro-
fessional standards that justice demands,”
Flood said. “I walk away knowing that I gave
everything I had to give to this case. The
people of Flint deserved nothing less.”
Fifteen people have been charged in con-
nection with the Flint water crisis, which
experts say contaminated people’s plumb-
ing with lead as well as a related outbreak
of Legionnaires’ disease in 2014-15. No
one has been convicted of a felony. Seven
people, including key environmental
FLINT WATER CRISIS
New team cuts special prosecutor loose after three years
David Eggert Associated Press
Attorney General Dana Nessel pledged
Monday to move to shut down Enbridge
Energy’s Line 5 in the Straits of Macki-
nac if the governor doesn’t find a “swift
and straightforward” resolution to the
contentious issue.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last month
halted state agencies’ work to facilitate
construction of a tunnel beneath the
lakebed to house a new segment of Line 5,
pointing to a legal opinion from Nessel
while citing concerns that her Republican
predecessor’s plan would keep the 66-year-
old twin pipeline in the water too long.
But Whitmer said this month she was
open to still building the tunnel in the
channel where Lakes Huron and Michi-
gan meet. Her administration is in talks
with Enbridge.
“I respect the governor’s effort to find
a swift and straightforward resolution to
this issue, but if unsuccessful I will use
every resource available to our office to
shut down Line 5 to protect our Great
Lakes,” said Nessel, a fellow Democrat
who promised during her campaign to
close the pipeline.
A spokeswoman later said while Nes-
sel was reluctant to impose a specific
deadline on Whitmer’s efforts with
Enbridge, she was hopeful that the gov-
ernor by June 1 would have a plan for
decommissioning Line 5.
“The attorney general shares the gov-
ernor’s sense of urgency to remove the
pipeline from the Great Lakes at the
earliest possible moment,” said Kelly
Rossman-McKinney, a spokeswoman for
Nessel.
Nessel released an opinion last month
saying a law enacted in December to
implement former Gov. Rick Snyder’s
tunnel deal is unconstitutional.
As a candidate, Nessel said she would
seek a court injunction to shut down the
pipeline by alleging that Enbridge vio-
lated a 1953 state easement. Although
the federal government regulates oil
pipelines, Michigan owns the lake bot-
tom and granted the easement for Line 5.
The line carries about 23 million gal-
lons of crude oil daily between Superior,
Wisconsin and Sarnia, Ontario. Its twin
carries natural gas.
Environmental groups contend the
segment is a spill hazard and should be
decommissioned. The company says it is
in good shape and could operate indefi-
nitely. The pipeline project is supported
by labor organizations friendly to Whit-
mer because of the jobs it would create.
“We believe the tunnel project is the
best way to protect the waters of the
Great Lakes while ensuring families,
LANSING
Nessel
poised
to halt
Line 5
She says if state and
Enbridge can’t close a deal,
she’ll move for a shutdown
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WASHINGTON – As many
as 30 U.S. customs officers
from upstate New York will be
temporarily transferred to the
southern border in the next
few months to cope with an
influx of asylum-seekers there,
sources said Monday.
Seven Buffalo-area customs
officers have already been told
they will have to leave shortly
for 60-day assignments at the
U.S.-Mexico border, the office
of Rep. Brian Higgins, a Buf-
falo Democrat, said Monday.
One of those officers volun-
teered for the assignment but
the rest are be ing transferred
involuntarily.
Another 11 customs offi-
cers from ports of e
ntry su-
pervised by the agency’s Buf-
falo field office – which covers
all of upstate – are also being
transferred, four of them invol-
untarily, Higgins’ office said.
Other sources confirmed that
the total number of customs
officers sent from upstate New
York to the southern border
could grow to 30 in the com-
ing months.
The Buffalo News first re-
ported early this month that
such transfers would be com-
ing, prompting worries that a
shortage of customs officers
could cause delays at bridges
between the U.S. and Canada
during the peak summer travel
season.
Higgins believes the moves
will leave local ports of e
ntry
short-staffed while forcing lo-
cal officers into 12-16 hour
shifts throughout the summer.
“It’s only a matter of time
before this begins to affect
cross-border operations, both
in terms of security and in
terms of increased wait times,”
Higgins said.
A U.S. Customs and Border
Protection spokesman con-
firmed that some agents have
been given those temporary
60-day assignments at the
U.S.-Mexico border, where they
will help federal staff there
deal with asylum seekers from
Central America.
“The CBP Office of Field
Operations will send CBP offi-
cers from airports and north-
ern border locations on tempo-
rary assignments throughout
the Southwest border to sup-
port the U.S. Border Patrol dur-
ing the current border securi-
ty and humanitarian crisis,”
the customs spokesman said.
“The selected CBP officers will
be re placing the CBP Officers
currently assigned to support
the Border Patrol along the
Customs officers
from WNY face
temporary shift
Will be moved to southern border
to deal with influx of asylum seekers
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and Patricia Cohen
N EW YOR K TIMES
AKRON, Ohio – Colin Rob-
ertson wonders why he pays
federal taxes on the $18,000
a year he makes cleaning car-
pets, while the tech giant Ama-
zon got a tax rebate.
His concerns about a tilted
economic playing field recently
led Robertson to join the Ak-
ron chapter of the Democrat-
ic Socialists of America. At a
gathering this month, as mem-
bers discussed Karl Marx and
corporate greed over choco-
late chip cookies, it was not
long before talk turned to in-
come inequality and how the
government helps the wealthy
avoid taxes.
“One of the benefits of tax-
ation is taking it and using it
for the collective good,” said
Robertson, 25, comparing his
minimal income to the rough-
ly $150 billion net worth of
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief ex-
ecutive and the world’s richest
person.
“He could be taxed at 99.9%
and still have millions left
over,” Robertson said, “and I’d
be homeless.”
It is a topic that several
presidential candidates, led by
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Eliz-
abeth Warren, have hammered
Giants like Amazon
pay no corporate tax,
and voters are sick of it
CITY POISED TO
WIN SNOW TITLES
Barring unusual conditions, Buffalo will
win the Golden Snow Globe and Golden
Snowball for the most snow in the nation
and state last winter. Story o
n Page B1
By Keith McShea
N EWS STA FF R EPORTER
Buffalo is on the rise, on a
big-time rebound with develop-
ment all over the place.
Right?
Um, did you see “The Simp-
sons” on Sunday night?
The latest e
pisode from the
venerable animated sitcom
featured patriarch Homer Simp-
son singing a mocking ode to
upstate New York, to the tune of
“New York, New York,” in which
Buffalo is prominently featured.
Some lyrical “highlights”:
“Start watching Fox News,
Stop watching your weight
There is no fancy part of it
Upstate New York
They’re fond o
f their booze
Hot wing sauce is great
I’m going to clog my heart
in it
Upstate New York.”
The e pisode got the attention
of the administration of Gov.
Andrew Cuomo, where aide Rich
Azzopardi told USA Today – and
then tweeted – the jokes were
a bunch of “dumb cheap shots.”
And it also got the attention of
Cuomo’s Republican rivals. In a
statement, GOP Chairman Ed
Cox blamed the governor for
‘Simpsons’ parody ‘tribute’ to upstate N.Y.
takes some shots at Buffalo – D’oh!
Homer Simpson enjoys a relatively accurate – for
a cartoon – view of the Buffalo skyline before a
lake-effect snowstorm blows in and buries it.
By Ph i l Fa i r B a n k s / N EWS STA FF R EPORTER
Across the border, journalists covering mob killings in Hamilton, Ont., and the shooting last week
of a reputed Mafia leader in Mississauga don’t think twice about mentioning the mob in Buffalo.
Scattered throughout their stories are re ferences to “Buffalo’s crime family” and the role it might have
played in the rash of Mafia violence sweeping southern Ontario. ¶ The reports have left some in Buffalo
wondering: What crime family? ¶ Just two years ago, the FBI all but proclaimed the Mafia in Buffalo dead,
indicating it no longer had an active presence in the region. ¶ Now, after several mob-related murders in
Canada, journalists there are suggesting that any declaration of the mob’s demise here was premature.
“Why would the Mafia go
away?” asked Peter Edwards,
referring to the mob in Buffalo.
Edwards is the organized
crime beat reporter at the To-
ronto Star and the author of 15
books about organized crime.
He points to wiretap recordings
and sources that indicate the
Mafia is on the rebound here
and still very much involved
in organized crime activities
across the border.
On Thursday, after the e arly-
morning shooting of suspected
Hamilton mob leader Pasquale
“Pat” Musitano, the Hamilton
Spectator ran a story indicating
Musitano had organized crime
enemies in Montreal and Buf-
falo.
Musitano’s shooting followed
three mob-related murders, in-
cluding the killing of his young-
er brother Angelo two years ago.
A few weeks after his brother’s
murder, Pat Musitano’s home in
Hamilton was shot up.
Hamilton detectives believe
the murders are part of a power
struggle within the Mafia and
have asked federal and city law
enforcement in Buffalo for help
in finding one of the suspects.
Edwards said the mob in
Buffalo is active but that the To-
daro family, who the FBI once
alleged headed the Mafia here
– a charge still unproven – may
no longer be involved.
“I know it’s there,” Edwards
said of the Mafia in Buffalo, “but
I don’t know who’s in charge
. I
don’t know about Todaro.”
In recent months, both the
Hamilton Spectator and the To-
ronto Star have referred to the
“Todaro crime family” in their
Ontario police and journalists covering the shooting last week
of a reputed mob boss there say there’s a connection
See Simpsonson Page A13
This is a surveillance photo of the
individual sought in the mob-
related murder of Cece Luppino,
killed Jan. 30 in Hamilton. See Mafiaon Page A13
See Customson Page A13
See Taxeson Page A12
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First-year Wolf Pack head coach Steve Alford final-
ized his coaching staff with the addition of former
New Mexico coach Craig Neal. Also joining the staff
are Kory Barnett, Bil Dunay and Kory Alford.
See story on Page 1B
Alford fills vacancies
An “excellent productive” bipartisan meeting be-
tween President Donald Trump and Congressional
Democrats on Tuesday revealed that both sides
agree that $2 trillion should be earmarked to repair
the nation’s infrastructure. What they still don’t
agree on is where the money will come from.
See story on Page 4A
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on infrastructure fixes
During her career as a flight attendant, Laura Heneveld had a
checklist to remind her what to do in the event of a fire. ❚
“The most important thing on an airplane is fire, whether
you are on the ground or whether you are up in the air,”
Heneveld said. “I’m very attuned to how quickly fire can take over and
how you don’t think clearly.” ❚ Now retired and living in California’s
Olympic Valley near Lake Tahoe, Heneveld still keeps a fire checklist. ❚
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sician Ed Heneveld, what to take if they’re escaping a forest fire. ❚ “Forty
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unhealthy forest,” Heneveld said. “I see the potential for a real disaster.”
❚ That’s among the reasons Heneveld and many other Sierra Nevada
residents oppose a proposed redevelopment plan for Squaw Valley Re-
sort that would add about 1,500 bedrooms and additional retail and re-
sort amenities to the valley over the next 25 years.
DESTINED TO BURN
Could new homes
hinder evacuation?
The Truckee Donner Land Trust is seeking help from the Squaw Valley Public Service District to buy the 30-acre Poulsen
property in Olympic Valley, Calif. BENJAMIN SPILLMAN/SAM GROSS
Emergency traffic worry for Tahoe residents
Laura and Ed Heneveld stand in their
Olympic Valley, Calif., home with a
checklist of items they’d try to save
during a wildfire. The couple worries
a proposal to add hundreds of homes
and nearly 300,000 square feet of
commercial development at Squaw
Valley Resort could hinder an
evacuation. BENJAMIN SPILLMAN/RGJ
About this series
This story is part of a series, Destined
to Burn, in which a partnership be-
tween journalists from USA TODAY
Network-California, McClatchy, Media
News and the Associated Press ex-
plore the urgent wildfire issues facing
California.
Benjamin Spillman Reno Gazette Journal | USA TODAY NETWORK
See DEVELOPMENT, Page 2A
First, the Nevada Legislature lost its
senate majority leader under a cloud of
admitted campaign finance violations.
Then, five weeks later, a Reno Ga-
zette Journal records investigation
cast new doubts on how a senior cau-
cus member was using donor funds.
Yet with just a month to go before
the end of Nevada’s hectic, biennial
lawmaking session, Democrats with a
near supermajority in both chambers
say they’re still working on promised
patches for the state’s threadbare po-
litical corruption statute.
Heavily outnumbered Republicans
took a whack at the issue in the form of
Senate Bill 333, which sought to close a
Sill no
sign of
campaign
finance
reform bill
Fears over long-sought
changes heat up as
Legislature winds down
James DeHaven Reno Gazette Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
See REFORM, Page 7A
Spring came fast to the Truckee
Meadows.
It’s been a welcome reprieve for
many who have grown tired of our par-
ticularly heavy winter, but the recent
sunny days and above average temper-
atures are a double-edged sword; rap-
id snowmelt has caused rivers and
creeks — and concerns of flooding — to
rise.
See FLOODING, Page 4A
Spring snowmelt
raises river levels
around the state,
but Truckee not
expected to flood
Sam Gross Reno Gazette Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
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STORY, 4A
The owners of Westfield Garden State Plaza have a grand
vision to transform the region’s largest shopping center into
something Paramus has never seen: a brand-new down-
town, equipped with a luxury, mixed-use residential devel-
opment where mall-lovers can live a stone’s throw from
their favorite stores.
Mall officials revealed in an exclusive interview with
NorthJersey.com and the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jer-
sey their long-anticipated renovation plans, which begin
with re-purposing three large vacant spaces at the mall to
accommodate an estimated 20 new retail tenants.
TOP: A rendering of the
possible development at
Westfield Garden State
Plaza in Paramus. The
concept would use part
of the mall’s parking lot
to build a mixed-use
residential complex.
COURTESY OF WESTFIELD
GARDEN STATE PLAZA
The western parking lot of Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus will undergo a
transformation with housing, dining, outdoor space and shopping.
TARIQ ZEHAWI AND DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/NORTH JERSEY RECORD
‘DOWNTOWN’
DESTINATION
Mall overhaul would put a village in Paramus
Melanie Anzidei North Jersey Record | USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY
“We’re happy to
see investment in
our community.”
Richard LaBarbiera
Mayor of Paramus
See PLAZA, Page 6A
Weather today
High 56° ❚ Low 51°
Cooler with drizzle.
Teacher faces sex crime charges
A Paterson gym teacher has been
indicted in Bergen County on a charge
involving an Uber driver. 1L
Weather tomorrow
High 73° ❚ Low 50°
Warmer with showers.
Forecast, 2A
Promoter tries to keep fest alive
“Woodstock belongs to the people,”
Michael Lang says, committing to the
anniversary event. 3A
Francesco “Frank” Caramagna was
a persistent candidate.
The former Democratic Elmwood
Park mayor, who was charged Monday
with election interference, ran for
mayor or a seat on the Borough Council
every chance he could.
In 1993, the native Italian and self-
employed businessman launched his
first unsuccessful bid for the Borough
Council. In 1995, Caramagna made his
first unsuccessful attempt to oust
longtime incumbent Republican May-
or Richard Mola.
Many more failed runs would fol-
Arrest
ended
political
dream
Elmwood Park mayor
sought post for years
Svetlana Shkolnikova, Richard
Cowen and Steve Janoski
North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY
See ARREST, Page 7A
It has long been a Jewish tradition to
embrace the stranger, but after Satur-
day’s shooting at a California syna-
gogue, Jewish houses of worship ap-
pear to be putting hospitality aside in
favor of security.
In the aftermath of two fatal syna-
gogue attacks within a six-month span,
more Jewish centers are locking their
doors, stationing armed guards at their
entrances and urging members to be
wary of newcomers.
And some congregants — aiming to
fight back — are flocking to gun ranges.
Saturday’s attack, in which a 19-
year-old gunman opened fire at the
Chabad of Poway synagogue, killing
one and injuring three others, sent
shock waves through the Jewish com-
munity. Six months ago, 11 people were
killed in a similar attack at a Pittsburgh
synagogue.
Other houses of worship have also
been targeted: On Easter Sunday, more
than 250 people were killed in bomb-
ings of churches in Sri Lanka, and 50
people were killed in an attack on two
mosques in New Zealand on March 15.
Synagogues
renew focus
on security
after attack
Deena Yellin North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY
See SECURITY, Page 8A
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