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  2. Now
    9 Welcome and introduction
    9:15 The American reader and the newspaper
    9:45 History and anatomy of page one
    10:20 BREAK
    10:30 Language of design
    11 Modular design and designing modules
    Noon LUNCH
    12:45 America’s page one – PART ONE
    1:45 America’s page one – PART TWO
    2:45 BREAK
    3 Putting it all together
    3:55 Wrapping it all up
    4 Conclusion

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  3. Modular Design
    1898 1956

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    1898 1956

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  5. Modular Design
    n We read in groupings, clusters
    n Top to bottom, left to right
    n Attracted to large images,
    headlines and modules
    n Then to the next biggest image,
    headline and module
    n But eventually fall back
    into the same pattern...
    n Top to bottom, left to right
    looking for the next module

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  6. Modular Design
    2009 2019
    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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    2009 2019
    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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  11. Designing Modules
    Let Content Drive the Design
    n Where is your story played?
    n Attract the reader
    n Guide the reader
    n Inform the reader

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  12. Designing Modules
    n The Promos

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  18. Designing Modules
    n The Strip or
    Banner module

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  19. Top Strip
    Type treatments

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    Type and art

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    Type and art

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  24. Designing Modules
    n The Lead
    Traditional

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  25. 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.
    abcde
    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
    V O L . 2 9 5 , N O . 1 1 9
    *
    Suggested retail price
    $3.00
    Monday: Periods of sun.
    High 56-61, low 41-46.
    Tuesday: Rains return. High
    47-52, low 39-44.
    High tide: 8:01, 8:38.
    Sunrise: 5:43. Sunset: 7:41.
    Comics and weather, C9-10
    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.
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    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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    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.
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    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
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    ‘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
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    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
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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.
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    THE BERKSHIRE
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    Charles Turner stared through his
    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 fin-
    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 financial adviser in Naples. Jonathan brought his McLaren 570S and
    Charles brought his 2019 Aston Martin Vantage to race on a 2.3-mile stretch of the former space shuttle landing strip at
    the Kennedy Space Center during the Pulse Rally in March. PHOTOS BY H. LEO KIM/NAPLES DAILY NEWS
    They feed a need for speed
    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 ‘fly’
    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 flags 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 defini-
    tion of tobacco.
    Legislation
    on tobacco
    buying age
    still in play
    Jeffrey Schweers
    Tallahassee Democrat
    USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA
    See TOBACCO, Page 9A
    Lee County school board member
    Melisa Giovannelli plans to ask her
    colleagues to fire 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 effectively, for
    the school district losing high-ranking
    Ax schools
    chief, says
    Lee board
    member
    Thyrie Bland
    Fort Myers News-Press
    USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA
    See ADKINS, Page 10A
    Adkins
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    TIPTON, Iowa – Iowa voters sent a
    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 first 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 first 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 Office 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 office 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 field. 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 field
    Alexandra Jaffe, Julie Pace
    and Hunter Woodall
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    “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 fixture 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
    USA TODAY NETWORK
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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
    [GREG BULL/ASSOCIATED PRESS]
    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’
    See WORSHIP, A7

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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
    H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
    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
    Pender continues on A8
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    By Michael Kelly
    The Marietta Times
    [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
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    Shirley Ann Babcock, Marietta
    Joan M. Barton, Coal Run, Ohio
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    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
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    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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    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
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    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
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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.
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    By Mary E. O’Leary
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    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-
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    insurance system financed
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    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
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    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.
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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
    South Florida Sun Sentinel
    Fleet week gets underway in Fort Lauderdale as the USS Farragut is greeted while it heads into Port Everglades.
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    FLEET WEEK ARRIVES
    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
    South Florida Sun Sentinel
    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
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    Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are
    scheduled to meet with President Trump on Tuesday.
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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 gunfire; 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 rifle Saturday and started shooting,
    Synagogue shooting wounded
    – and united – 2 congregations
    Chris Woodyard USA TODAY
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    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 officials, 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 benefit from the
    Many don’t trust industry.
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    John Singleton,
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    Rod Rosenstein
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    Deputy attorney general appointed
    special counsel Robert Mueller
    IN MONEY
    Facebook plans to
    return users’ privacy
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    he intends to do it at F8 conference
    IN SPORTS
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    WASHINGTON – President Donald
    Trump and congressional Democrats
    will meet Tuesday in search of a fix for
    the nation’s crumbling infrastructure,
    but they’ll first have to swerve around
    an escalating battle over special coun-
    sel Robert Mueller’s report.
    The meeting, which will mark the
    first 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 officials involved in the Muell-
    er investigation into Russian election
    interference.
    Trump and Democratic lawmakers
    have flirted with a bipartisan infra-
    structure deal since the president took
    office, 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 flying.
    “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.
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    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
    See Bourgoin, page A9
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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
    legislation that would require
    public water systems to test
    for a class of potentially toxic
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    Today
    JAZZ ENSEMBLE
    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-
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    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
    See Alleged, page A5
    PHOTO BY JON OLENDER
    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
    outdoor summer paradise for recreational activities, including camping,
    fishing, hiking, biking and golf. ❚ But in recent days, Onekama — which
    local residents also write as “1,” — posted a social media warning for visi-
    tors who enjoy the outdoors: Once again, it appears that it’s “going to be a
    bad summer.” ❚ Ticks become most active from April to September and
    are increasingly becoming a statewide threat. They also are spawning
    new health concerns, including some rare cases that have linked tick bites
    to life-threatening allergies to red meat.
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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 officer 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 profiled 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
    officer of the Marine veteran, but heard about
    the case on the news and decided to contact
    ICE, said the ACLU.
    Officer 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-filled 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 officials: Army veteran’s California terrorist plots stopped
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    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
    its back on science and the en-
    vironment, I am proud to join
    with states that are leading
    the way towards new climate
    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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    Meadville Tribune reporter Keith Gushard (left) holds numbered lots as Crawford County sheriff candidates Neil Fratus (center)
    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
    Former Vice
    President Joe
    Biden speaks
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    campaign stop
    of his 2020
    presidential bid
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    CraterWorks, a makerspace for Central Point residents and students, is set open May 18.
    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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    opening of
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    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
    SEE WORKSPACE, A4
    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-
    tified as a female Sunday — was
    spotted in thick brush that runs
    along the Sovana Inn’s east
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    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
    Student pranksters at the
    Massachusetts Institute of
    Technology have struck again,
    drawing inspiration from
    America’s hottest movie.
    MIT students over the week-
    end draped the university’s
    signature Great Dome with a
    giant cloth version of Captain
    America’s red, white and blue
    shield. Their efforts drew
    a Twitter “Very cool!” from
    actor Chris Evans, the Mas-
    sachusetts native who plays
    Captain America in “Avengers:
    Endgame.” The shield went up
    Saturday night and was taken
    down Monday morning. MIT
    students have for generations
    centered similar pranks, which
    they call “hacks,” on the dome.
    A realistic police cruiser was
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    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,
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    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
    on Route 309 in West Penn Township hit a storage building. COPYRIGHT LARRY
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    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
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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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    Carbon County
    students got
    an introduction
    to the court
    system Monday.
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    from the annual
    Law Day event.
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    photos from
    the Blue
    Mountain vs.
    Jim Thorpe
    track meet
    Monday. See
    the gallery.
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    town as the Syracuse Mets
    visit the Lehigh Valley
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    Former
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    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-
    tively minor wind gusts.
    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.”
    By Garrett Andrews
    The Bulletin
    By Gene Johnson
    The Associated Press
    By Gillian Flaccus
    The Associated Press
    By Maxine Bernstein
    The Oregonian
    By Markian Hawryluk • The Bulletin
    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.
    The Bulletin regrets the
    errors.
    See Robbery / A4
    • Ex-juvenile officer
    threatened couple
    with a hammer
    Grant
    See Abortion / A7
    ABORTION
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    As the group grew, it just started losing what I always wanted in practice,
    which was a very personable, one-on-one interaction with my patients. I
    wanted to hear from the horse’s mouth, if you will, the story.”
    — Dr. Rod Wigle, who practiced at various local clinics since 1982
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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 ’
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    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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    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).
    n See FISHING, Page A3
    n See YOUTH, Page A3
    HEALTH
    SANDUSKY | ‘BETWEEN THE LINES’
    Fishing remains
    popular in Ohio,
    but certain kinds
    of fish should only
    be eaten rarely.
    Register file photo/
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    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.
    COP CARS
    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
    Register photo/ERIN CALDWELL
    Erie County Sheriff Paul Sigsworth stands next to his 2011 Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser on Wednesday in Perkins Township.
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    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
    Prayer Event
    Thursday
    BY RANDY TRAMP
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    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
    PLANT | PAGE 3
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    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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    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-
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    off location with Talbot County Sheriff’s
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    Talbot County had been used frequent-
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    has a large elderly population, a lot of
    residents want to dispose of all expired
    prescriptions.
    Connors said the office put on simi-
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    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-
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    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.”
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    By KAYLA RIVAS
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    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-
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    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
    CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
    Dr. Jodi E. Colman has been appointed to the po-
    sition of Easton Middle School principal effective
    July 1, 2019.
    Hit-and-run driver
    damages police vehicle
    CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
    A stock photo of a silver/gray
    2002-2006 Nissan Altima is
    shown.
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    House passes
    gas-tax hike
    DFLers say funds
    needed for roads;
    GOP Senate is
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    Trump rebuffs
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    Sri Lanka
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    Rosenstein set
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    By STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
    [email protected]
    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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    NC Ninth District Con-
    gressional candidate Chris
    Anglin filed suit in North Car-
    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
    Anglin’s rights by doing so.
    Anglin said: “Taxpayers pay
    for the Party’s nominating
    primary. As well, the Party
    SEE ANGLIN/PAGE A5
    Ninth District candidate Anglin files suit
    STAFF REPORT
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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.
    SEE VOTES/PAGE A7
    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.
    The horses can reach about 45 miles per hour when they sprint.
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    ‘I AM PROUD TO BE
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    Matt Easton, the 2019
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    Young University, used his
    speech at commencement
    to come out as gay. 2A
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    In Sacramento, the booming
    beer industry is being
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    police officers. 1C
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    A judge ordered the release
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    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.
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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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    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-
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    to enrich themselves and their
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    themselves and for their com-
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    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
    SPORTS
    NEW BASKETBALL
    COACH NAMED AT
    ALTON HIGH
    Dana Morgan, a former
    assistant at East St. Louis
    High School, is the new
    Alton basketball coach. 1B
    SPORTS
    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
    BY JOSEPH BUSTOS
    [email protected]
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    TOP NEWS, A2
    RodRosensteinsubmits
    hisletterofresignation
    The deputyattorneygeneral on
    May11 ends a nearlytwo-year
    run defined byhis appointment
    ofspecial counsel Robert Mueller.
    METRO, B1
    DeKalbschoolsrescinds
    itstopteacherhonor
    TheHendersonMillElementary
    PEinstructorwassuspendedafter
    beingbeenaccusedofmakinga
    studentstandintherain.
    BUSINESS, A7
    BurgerKingiskeen
    onnewveggieburger
    The chain’s month-long test of
    the ImpossibleWhopperin St.
    Louis has gone sowell itwill start
    testing it in additional markets.
    INDEX
    Business A7
    Classifieds D4
    Comics D6
    Crossword D3
    Volume71,Number120
    w(h22011*KKKKMl(V
    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]
    INDEX American Scene A7 | Commentary B1 | Comics B10 | Dear Abby A11 | Editorials B2 | Horoscope A11 | Inside the Beltway A2 | Metro A12 | Nation A6 | Politics A3 | Sports B12 | Television A11 | World A8
    VOLUME 37, NUMBER 86
    7 7
    02803 87040
    POLITICS
    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 WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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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    » see TRUMP | A9
    » see BIDEN | A10
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    By Oula Miqbel
    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.
    Index Local 2
    Opinion 4
    Panorama 5
    Obituaries 7
    Business 8
    Sports 9-10
    Classified 11-12
    Comics 13
    Weather 73 52
    high low
    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
    .”
    ALLEN J. SCHABEN/
    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
    RACHAEL ZIMMERMAN
    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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    $1 • D • Volume 156, Issue 249 • A Lee Enterprises Newspaper • Copyright 2019 Follow us online: facebook.com/NapaValleyRegister twitter.com@NapaRegister instagram.com/naparegister
    William G. ‘Bill’ Donovan, Gregory E. Hunt, Betty Ann (Laznicka) Kelly
    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
    (Oplopanax horridus), the
    bane of any bushwhacker,
    grows delicious buds,
    packed full of nutrients
    BY ERIN ANAIS HEIST
    WILD
    EATING
    SEE CHEEKS | Page A6

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    RAZI SYED
    [email protected]
    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
    Nonprofit also aims
    to continue summer
    program fo rkids
    Harvest Community Center, in an e ort led by Mayra Ramos, is planning to build a
    transitional housing facility on unused parcels of land owned by the church.
    al-Baghdadi
    Rosenstein
    Please see HOUSING, Page A7
    Please see SUSPECT, Page A7
    Please see MEASLES, Page A7 Please see ROSENSTEIN, Page A7
    Please see LEADER, Page A7
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    HIKES
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    The Federal
    Reserve seems
    content to
    maintain the
    status quo for the
    foreseeable future
    Former infantryman
    had converted to Islam,
    allegedly planned to
    bomb Long Beach
    event, and other targets
    By Brian Melley
    The Associated Press
    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]
    See BODY, A4
    See PLOT, A4

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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
    National Day of Prayer set for Thursday at the courthouse
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    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.
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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
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    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
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    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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    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
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    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
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    for what that might be.
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    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.
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    Attorney General Letitia
    James has made no bones
    about her dislike of the
    NRA, calling it a “terrorist
    organization.

    “I never thought this
    thing would ever get to the
    level it got,
    ” Joel Friedman,
    an NRA board member
    since 2002, told The As-
    sociated Press before the
    76-member board met to
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    say they’re shocked and saddened by the attack. A3
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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
    South Florida Sun Sentinel
    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.”
    Alex Martins,
    Orlando Magic CEO

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    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.
    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
    MORE COVERAGE
    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
    National Day of Prayer set for Thursday at the courthouse
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    straight region title
    TUESDAY
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    McPherson
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    Nettles
    Javonta
    Jones
    Ashley
    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
    modeled on stage during
    the Juneau Rotaract’s Wild
    West Roundup Fashion
    Show at the Red Dog
    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.
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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
    By BEN HOHENstAtt
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    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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    Churches and religious groups across
    the country will be commemorating the
    National Day of Prayer Thursday and it
    is no different locally as the Alexander
    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
    See PRAYER • Page 9
    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
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    news, sports, opinion pieces and
    obituaries.
    As TPI continues to advance
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    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
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    publisher Steve Baker said. “The
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    story’s relative importance and
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    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
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    See SEJIN • Page 11
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    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.
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    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
    The Associated Press
    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.”
    INVESTIGATION
    Dems vow
    to enforce
    subpoenas
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    SEE GROWTH, A3
    SEE LOST, A3
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    FRANKFURT, Germany — Not far
    from the glass and steel towers of Ger-
    many’s banking capital, a 22-year-old
    Arabian mare is causing a stir with her
    languid daily strolls through a Frankfurt
    neighborhood.
    Owner Werner Weischedel says his
    old nag Jenny, who’s recently found
    social media fame after a local news
    show about it went viral, has been
    taking her 12-mile daily jaunts for
    14 years — preferring to escape the
    confines of her home field to nibble
    on tasty vegetation on the Main river
    banks.
    “Everybody knows her,” the 79-year-
    old said Tuesday.
    Jenny ambles along cobblestone
    streets and pedestrian paths, avoiding
    joggers, families and vehicles.
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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.
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    where attendees were treated to pizza, games, T-shirts, special
    performers, and other activities.
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    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-
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    The committee approved what
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    bump in the budget allocated for
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    LOCAL
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    support for art, museum upgrades
    SEE ART, A7
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    WEATHER One in hospital after
    fire in Big Oak Valley
    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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    Protection District
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    OBITUARIES
    INDEX
    ‘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
    Earth Day
    Sierra College student Skyler Cotton fills out information after talking to Debbie Gibbs at the Nevada County Climate
    Action Now booth last week during Sierra College’s Earth Day and Health Fair event. The climate action group is push-
    ing for the county to be on 100% renewable energy.
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    Staff Writer
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    PRIEST, A6
    Council opts
    to strengthen
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    WIRELESS, A6
    List includes
    former Grass
    Valley priest
    NEVADA CITY
    ABOVE: Informational booths and displays, including these Tesla elec-
    tric vehicles, were available for Sierra College students and members
    of the community to peruse during the Earth Day and Health Fair
    event last Thursday.
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    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
    The Associated Press
    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
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    A woman holds a pinwheel, a national symbol for child abuse
    prevention, during the Hands Around the Courthouse event Tuesday.
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    Courthouse at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center.
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    rules for asylum-seekers that would make it more dif-
    ficult 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 effort to stem
    what he described as an asylum “crisis” that has been
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    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 notified, but few details were of-
    fered about the search warrant.
    One witness said Visalia police and Tulare County
    detectives spent hours excavating an empty field 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 officers, who asked to remain anonymous, officers
    were looking for bodies.
    By Monday morning, law enforcement had cleared
    the area. It's unclear if officers found what they were
    looking for.
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    Tulare Regional Medical Center is no
    more.
    The hospital is now officially 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 officials 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
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    Center in this 2018 file photo. The hospital, now managed by Adventist Health, closed last October.
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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 reflect inflation 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 reflect 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 first 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 first 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 first $250 million, then the state for the rest.
    Those figures 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-
    Revised LA
    Olympics
    budget
    nearly $7B
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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
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    James Anderson
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    See PRIMARIES, Page 2A
    A Loveland police officer 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 officer fired at the male
    suspect, who was taken to the Medical Cen-
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    Man accused
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    USA TODAY NETWORK
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    POLITICS
    Biden supporters seek
    one-term pledge to
    ease age concerns. A3
    METRO
    Hogan signs university
    reform bill aft er football
    player’s death. A10
    WORLD
    El-Sissi prods Trump
    to brand terror label on
    Muslim Brotherhood. A8
    NATION
    Fastest growing U.S.
    regions concentrated
    in West, South. A6
    ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES
    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.
    » see VENEZUELA | A9
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    © 2019 The Gazette
    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.
    COMING SUNDAY: A LOT OF DEMOCRATS WANT TO BE PRESIDENT
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    Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids . Biden is making his first visit to Iowa after
    announcing his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. This is Biden’s third presidential campaign.
    ● Former Democratic
    Vice President Joe
    Biden begins his Iowa
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    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
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    ● 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
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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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    Gwendolyn Benoit and Haylie Price glue tissue paper cherry blossoms on branches to make a spring decor Tuesday
    during a craft workshop at the Lake Arthur Library.
    See TRIAL, A3
    ‘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
    See UPFRONT, A5
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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.”
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    Former Epis-
    copal Bishop
    Heather Cook,
    who pleaded
    guilty in the
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    driving hit-
    and-run death
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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
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    integrity.”
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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.”
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    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
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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
    SEE FEES, A3
    Todd Flood’s ouster follows a fi nd of records his boss says weren’t properly vetted
    SEE LINE 5, A3
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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
    By Stephanie Saul
    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
    Tuesday, April 30, 2019
    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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    Weather
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    First-year Wolf Pack head coach Steve Alford final-
    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 fills 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
    Trump, Dems agree
    on infrastructure fixes
    During her career as a flight attendant, Laura Heneveld had a
    checklist to remind her what to do in the event of a fire. ❚
    “The most important thing on an airplane is fire, whether
    you are on the ground or whether you are up in the air,”
    Heneveld said. “I’m very attuned to how quickly fire 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 fire checklist. ❚
    Only this time it’s to remind her and her husband, emergency room phy-
    sician Ed Heneveld, what to take if they’re escaping a forest fire. ❚ “Forty
    years ago, we had a much healthier forest, now we are dealing with an
    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 traffic 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 wildfire. The couple worries
    a proposal to add hundreds of homes
    and nearly 300,000 square feet of
    commercial development at Squaw
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    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 wildfire 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 finance violations.
    Then, five 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
    finance
    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 flooding — 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
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    STORY, 4A
    The owners of Westfield 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 officials 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
    Westfield 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 Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus will undergo a
    transformation with housing, dining, outdoor space and shopping.
    TARIQ ZEHAWI AND DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/NORTH JERSEY RECORD
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    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
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    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
    first unsuccessful bid for the Borough
    Council. In 1995, Caramagna made his
    first 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
    fight back — are flocking to gun ranges.
    Saturday’s attack, in which a 19-
    year-old gunman opened fire 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
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    9:15 The American reader and the newspaper
    9:45 History and anatomy of page one
    10:20 BREAK
    10:30 Language of design
    11 Modular design and designing modules
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    3 Putting it all together
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    4 Conclusion

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