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Drug lord moved to Mexican prison

Endorsing Trump the cause

By Patrick Danner SA N A NT ONI O E XPRE SS-NEWS

Friday’s fundraiser in San Antonio for presidential candidate Donald Trump — co-hosted by IBC Bank Chief Executive Dennis Nixon — has triggered a backlash on social media, with some calling for customers to close Nixon their accounts or boycott the bank altogether.

Nixon’s support for Trump, who has come under fire from many for wanting to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and for incendiary remarks about minorities, highlights the perils businesses can face when top

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This is the IBC Bank building on Broadway, in San Antonio. The bank's chairman and CEO, Dennis Nixon, is co-hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump.

executives take such a public stance in heated elections.

Nixon risks offending a large portion of the bank’s customer base in both South Texas, which is largely Latino and Democrat, and in Mexico, where it does a lot of business.

“Due to what Mr. Dennis Nixon and his folks have

done at IBC regarding hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump, I am withdrawing my money” from IBC, said Jose Borjon, an aide to U.S. Rep Filemon Jr., a Brownsville Democrat. “I’ve enjoyed my time with IBC Bank, but … I can’t support a bank that would do this.”

He added he has between $20,000 and $30,000 spread

over checking, savings and money-market accounts with IBC in Brownsville.

Wrote @atjared on Twitter, “very disappointing to see @IBCBank donating to fund trump’s campaign of bigotry despite being a hispanic friendly biz. might close my accts.” The author and others who wrote similar comments on social media couldn’t be reached for comment.

The blowback follows a June 8 fundraising letter from Nixon to “friends and colleagues” urging them to support Trump, the presumptive Republic nominee. The letter was written on Nixon’s personal letterhead and made no reference to Laredo-based IBC or his position there.

While citing “major disagreements with (Trump) on trade, immigration, and his attitude toward Mexico,” Nixon wrote the other choices — voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton or not voting at all — are unacceptable.

Nixon added, “we need a Bank continues on A8

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Hector ‘El Guero’ Palma awaits trial for murder

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Mark Stevenson ASSOCIATED PRE SS

MEXICO CITY — Drug lord Hector “El Guero” Palma, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, returned to his native Mexico after serving almost a decade in a U.S. prison and was immediately transported to another maximum-security lockup where he will await trial for two murders.

U.S. authorities handed over Palma in Matamoros, across the

border from Brownsville, Texas, according to a statePalma ment from the Mexican Attorney General’s Office.

Palma had been released from federal prison in California on Friday and put into the custody of U.S. immigration officials.

The drug lord was flown to Mexico City late Wednesday and then transported to the Palma continues on A8

TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER SECURITY

Eradication of Carrizo cane remains stalled State officials scramble to fund elimination project

By Julián Aguilar TEXAS TRIBUNE

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The Zapata Lions Club congratulates their sponsors for a very successful golf tournament. Pictured from left to right is Lion Jerry Garcia, Lion Jose Luis Saenz, Carlos Saenz (winner),Epi Martinez (winner), Luis J. Gonzalez (winner), Andy Gonzalez (winner), Lion Aaron Cruz, Lion President Sergio Ramirez, Lion Secretary Jose Luis Morales, Lion Eddie Martinez Sr., Lion Mike Martinez and Lion Daniel A Gonzalez

Despite Texas lawmakers’ urgent calls to secure the border and fill in gaps they say the federal government has left wide open, a key effort Gov. Greg Abbott deemed a priority in 2015 isn’t off the ground yet.

And it's looking like money to get the project going will come from that same federal government after state lawmakers decided against funding the task themselves.

During the 84th Legislature, Abbott included on his list of border security items a state effort to rid the

banks of the Rio Grande of Carrizo cane, an invasive species that provides a natural cover for dope smugglers and illegal crossers and impedes law enforcement officers’ line of sight.

Abbott asked the Legislature for $9.8 million to start wiping out cane along the border, but a Senate bill that directed the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board to develop an eradication plan was never funded. Money for the program wasn't included in a sweeping $800 million package of legislation for border security efforts.

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AROUND THE NATION

TODAY IN HISTORY

SATURDAY, JUNE 18

ASSOCIATED PRE SS

1

El Centro de Laredo Farmers Market. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Jarvis Plaza.

Free and open to the public. Free cooking demo; fresh, local, seasonal produce available for purchase; breakfast and lunch; live music and much more.

1 Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium shows. The Little Star That Could at 2 p.m., Origins of Life at 3 p.m., A Starry Tale at 4 p.m. and Space Next at 5 p.m. General Admission is $4 for children, TAMIU students, faculty and staff, and $5 for adults. For more information, call 326-DOME (3663).

1 Elysian Social Club Father’s Day Scholarship Dance. 9 p.m.–1 p.m.

Laredo Civic Center Ballroom. For more information, contact Laura Rodriguez at 220-0485 or Sonia Merla at 235-4811.

Today is Saturday, June 18, the 170th day of 2016. There are 196 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.

Rick Bowmer / AP file

TUESDAY, JUNE 21 1

Take the challenge and climb the Rock Wall. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Fun exercise for all ages and it's free. Must sign release form. For more information call 956-795-2400 x2520.

THURSDAY, JUNE 23 1

Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium shows. TAMIU. “Zula Patrol: Under the Weather” at 3 p.m., “Cosmic Adventure” at 4 p.m. and “A Starry Tale” at 5 p.m. General admission is $3. For more information, call 326-3663.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25 1

Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium shows. The Little Star That Could at 2 p.m., Origins of Life at 3 p.m., A Starry Tale at 4 p.m. and Space Next at 5 p.m. General Admission is $4 for children, TAMIU students, faculty and staff, and $5 for adults. For more information, call 326-DOME (3663).

MONDAY, JUNE 27 1

Laredo Parkinson’s Disease Support Group. 6:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, 1st Floor, Tower B in the Community Center. The meeting is open to anyone with Parkinson’s disease, a friend or family member of a PD patient, and primary care givers of patients with PD who are interested in learning more about the disease.

Pamphlets with more information in both English and Spanish are available at all support group meetings.

For more information, call Richard Renner at 645-8649 or 237-0666.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 1

Take the challenge and climb the Rock Wall. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Fun exercise for all ages and it's free. Must sign release form. For more information call 956-795-2400 x2520.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30 1

Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium shows. TAMIU. “Zula Patrol: Under the Weather” at 3 p.m., “Cosmic Adventure” at 4 p.m. and “A Starry Tale” at 5 p.m. General admission is $3. For more information, call 326-3663.

1 Spanish Book Club. 6–8 p.m.

Laredo Public Library – Calton. For more information, contact Sylvia Reash at 763-1810.

SATURDAY, JULY 2 1

Book sale. 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Widener Book Room, First United Methodist Church. No admission charge.

Everyone is invited.

MONDAY, JULY 4 1

Cancer Friends Meet. 6 p.m. Every first Monday of the month. Doctors Hospital at the Community Center.

Having cancer is often one of the most stressful experiences in a person’s life. However, support groups help many people cope with the emotional aspects of cancer by providing a safe place to share their feelings and challenges and learn from others who are facing similar situations. For more information, call Nancy Santos at 956-285-5410.

TUESDAY, JULY 5 1

Alzheimer’s Disease Support Group. 7 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, 1st Floor, Tower B in the Community Center. Meetings are open to individuals who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as family, friends and caregivers of Alzheimer’s disease patients. Those interested in learning more about the disease, as well as gather more information on resources available, are invited and encouraged to attend. For more information, call Melissa Guerra at 956-693-9991 or Laredo Medical Center at 956-796-3223.

1 Take the challenge and climb the Rock Wall. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Fun exercise for all ages and it's free. Must sign release form. For more information call 956-795-2400 x2520.

THURSDAY, JULY 7 1

Cancer Friends Meet. 6 p.m.

Laredo Medical Center, A.R. Sanchez Cancer Center, Tower A, 1st Floor. For more information, call the A.R. Sanchez Cancer Center at 956-796-4725.

In this photo, Utah Sen. Stephen Urquhart, left, R-St. George, embraces Lt. Gov. Spencer J. Cox after the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature passed an anti-discrimination bill.

GOVERNOR SPEECH VERY EMOTIONAL

By Lindsay Whitehurst ASSOCIATED PRE SS

SALT LAKE CITY — Amid the outpouring of grief after the Orlando nightclub massacre that left 49 people dead, a Republican lieutenant governor in a deepred state stood at a vigil organized by an LGBT group and apologized.

In an emotional speech, Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox honored the slain and said he was sorry for how he treated kids growing up in his small hometown who he now realizes were gay.

“Over the intervening years, my heart

‘Rare, dangerous’ heat headed to parts of Western US LOS ANGELES — It’s a dry heat, Phoenix residents like to say about Arizona’s hot weather. That bravado may vanish as the thermometer flirts with 120 degrees this weekend.

Phoenix won’t be alone in the oven. A strengthening ridge of high pressure lifting out of Mexico is on course to

has changed,” he said in the Monday speech. “You have treated me with the kindness, dignity, and respect — and love — that I very often did not deserve. And it has made me love you.” His words have since resonated around the country and been tweeted by people like Dan Rather and Hillary Clinton.

“There is almost nothing that she and I agree on politically, but if we can agree on this, then that’s something,” Cox said in an interview Friday.

People have thanked him for articulating empathy with LGBT people.

also scorch other parts of Arizona and Southern California, bringing potentially recordshattering temperatures.

Though accustomed to triple digits, the upcoming heat spell is a rarity in Phoenix, a desert metropolis of 1.5 million people, raising concerns of heat stroke.

Temperatures are predicted to hit 118 degrees in Phoenix on Sunday and peak at 119 degrees Monday. Such heat is “rare, dangerous and deadly,” according to a National Weather Service warning.

“This is extreme even for our standards,” said Matthew Hirsch, a weather service meteorologist in Phoenix.

The hottest day on record in Phoenix occurred June 26, 1990, when the thermometer reached 122 degrees.

Extreme heat is likely to become more common, scientists say, blaming man-made greenhouse gas pollution.

“It is what global warming feels like,” climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck said.

— Compiled from AP reports

One year ago: In dueling decisions about free speech, the Supreme Court upheld Texas’ refusal to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag and struck down an Arizona town’s restrictions on temporary signs put up by a small church.

Charges sought for seven in the rape of Brazilian teen

Silvia Izquierdo / AP

Photos of gang rape suspects are displayed on a screen during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, on Friday.

ry,” perhaps the result of her drugged state during the attack or the trauma suffered.

Bento said one video that circulated online may have confused the victim. In it, a suspect says: “This one here, she got pregnant by more than 30,” gesturing toward the naked and unconscious teen.

The videos and other materi-

al that appeared on social media and message sharing sites alerted police to what happened and helped them in their investigation and to identify suspects. Along with four men authorities believe were directly involved in the attack, Bento has asked for charges to be brought against two others.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND TEXAS Unemployment rate for May steady at 4.4 percent AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ statewide unemployment rate held steady in May at 4.4 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday.

The jobless average last month remained the same as the April figure. Nationwide unemployment for May was 4.7 percent, according to a TWC statement.

Ten years ago: Phil Mickelson’s bid for a third consecutive major ended with a shocking collapse on the final hole, giving the U.S. Open to Geoff Ogilvy.

Five years ago: President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the U.S. and Afghan governments had held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation’s nearly 10-year war.

AROUND THE WORLD

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro police said Friday they’re asking for charges to be filed against seven people in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl.

The case has made international headlines because videos showing men posing with the unconscious victim were shared on social media.

The May 21 attack, which took place in an abandoned building in Rio’s Morro do Borao slum, shocked Brazil and became a symbol of the Latin American nation’s problem of violence against women.

The officer overseeing the investigation, Cristiana Bento, said evidence collected so far shows that three men and a minor took part in the actual gang rape, not 33 people as the victim initially suggested. Bento said she believes the victim’s statement was a “false memo-

On this date: In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War. In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.

In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, New York, of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)

In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.” Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his countrymen after the fall of France to Nazi Germany.

In 1953, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board.

Egypt’s 148-year-old Muhammad Ali Dynasty came to an end with the overthrow of the monarchy and the proclamation of a republic.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

In 1986, 25 people were killed when a twin-engine plane and helicopter carrying sightseers collided over the Grand Canyon.

In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials. Entertainer Peter Allen died in San Diego County, California, at age 48.

In 1996, Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, California, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma. (Davis remains on death row.) Two Army transport helicopters collided and crashed during training exercises near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing six.

Today’s Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock is 77. Rock singercomposer-musician Sir Paul McCartney is 74. Actress Constance McCashin is 69. Actress Linda Thorson is 69.

Rock musician John Evans is 68.

Former Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., is 66. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 64.

Actress Carol Kane is 64. Actor Brian Benben is 60. Rock singer Alison Moyet is 55. Rock musician Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses) is 53. Figure skater Kurt Browning is 50. Country singermusician Tim Hunt is 49. Rock singermusician Sice (The Boo Radleys) is 47.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is 45. Singersongwriter Ray LaMontagne is 43.

Rapper Silkk the Shocker is 41. Actress Alana de la Garza is 40. Country singer Blake Shelton is 40. Rock musician Steven Chen (Airborne Toxic Event) is 38. Actor David Giuntoli is 36. Actress Renee Olstead is 27. Actor Jacob Anderson is 26. Actress Willa Holland is 25.

Thought for Today: “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” — Bernard M. Baruch, American businessman and statesman (1870-1965).

CONTACT US Amarillo had the lowest jobless rate in Texas last month at 2.8 percent. The AustinRound Rock area had a 2.9 percent unemployment rate for May, the TWC said. The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area had the highest statewide unemployment rate at 7.0 percent, commission officials said.

Texas has added an estimated 171,800 seasonally adjusted jobs over the past year, including 200 nonfarm positions added in May. The state has added jobs in 13 of the last 14

months, the Texas Workforce Commission reported.

Employment rose in the financial activities industry by 4,800 jobs in May. Education and health services added 3,700 positions, according to the state agency.

“We must continue to build and support partnerships that connect employers to workers efficiently and equip job seekers with skills that help them succeed,” TWC chairman Andres Alcantar said.

— Compiled from AP reports

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Students volunteer for building projects in Texas, Oklahoma

By Sakshi Venkatraman TH E DALLAS MORNI NG NEWS

DALLAS — While the average teenager might spend summer days playing video games or binge watching TV shows, 60 Texas middle school and high school students are arriving at a worksite at 7 a.m. for a full day of manual labor.

And they’re paying $279 to do it.

As part of Bounce Student Disaster Recovery, a ministry of Texas Baptists, teenagers are spending a week of summer vacation improving homes for families in Dallas.

The Dallas Morning News reports Bounce worked with the People Helping People charity to find community members in need of home

repair and to obtain materials. People Helping People is part of Dallas’ housing/community service department that assists elderly and disabled homeowners with minor exterior home repairs. The volunteers are providing necessary labor such as painting, siding, roofing and yard work.

Volunteering “is a great way to outwardly show faith through actions,” Frisco Reedy High School junior Tanner Holt said. “It’s an eye-opening experience because you realize how other people live sometimes and you get blessed in the process, being able to serve and be humbled to that.”

Throughout the first week of the program, students worked to reha-

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Kelsey Unger, with the Bounce Student Disaster Recovery, a Texas Baptists ministry, works on a home in South Dallas.

bilitate 12 homes in the Dallas area. In the next four weeks, Bounce will

move on to Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Mineral Wells; Waco; and Hous-

ton to work on more homes.

This week, First Baptist Church in Duncanville hosted 175 students and student leaders, giving them a place to eat, sleep, shower and worship.

“We are excited to be mobilizing students for our third year this summer for community rehabilitation and disaster recovery,” Bounce director David Scott said.

“People may at times feel hopeless because of their living conditions. It’s my hope that our participants might be able to help restore hope in the lives of the people they serve as well as improve their home situation.”

The volunteers work from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m., climbing on roofs, layering insulation and

vinyl, and painting.

“This has been a really good experience,” Frisco High School freshman volunteer Faith Dalwood said.

“You get to see how much you truly have and you get to see people around you that love their community so much that they want to help.”

Through summer community service, Bounce hopes to foster a love for helping people and a strengthened faith in God among the student volunteers.

“When students serve, it changes them,” Scott said. “That’s what we want to do. We want them to see missions as a lifestyle as opposed to something we come and do once a week during the summer.”

Reprieve for man set to die for slaying daughter

By Michael Graczyk A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Attorneys who contended “junk science” was used to send a father to death row for killing his 2-year-old daughter 14 years ago have won a reprieve blocking the Texas inmate’s execution set for next week.

Robert Roberson III, 49, was set to die Tuesday for the February 2002 death of his daughter, Nikki Curtis, at his home in Palestine in East Texas.

But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals sent his

case back to his Anderson County trial court late Thursday to review claims he is innocent of capital murder. There is no timetable for the appeal to be resolved. One judge on the nine-member court, Lawrence Meyers, voted to refuse the reprieve and dismiss the appeal.

Lawyers argued Roberson’s conviction was based on “junk science” and “false, misleading and scientifically invalid testimony” and that new scientific evidence establishes he would not have been convicted.

The child had serious

head injuries, and Roberson contended she accidentally fell from a bed. Medical staff at a Palestine hospital called police because they considered the injuries suspicious. Physicians who examined her said bruises to her chin, cheek and jaw and a subdural hematoma — bleeding outside her brain but inside her skull — likely were intentional and no accident.

Nikki died the next day, Feb. 1, 2002, and a medical examiner ruled blunt force head injuries as the cause.

Defense attorney Benja-

min Wolff told the appeals court that Nikki’s death could be attributed to a number of things, such as undiagnosed meningitis, an accidental injury before Roberson began caring for her the day she died, a fall from the bed he didn’t see or a fatal congenital condition.

The Anderson County District Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a message left Friday.

According to court records, she’d been living with Roberson and his girlfriend, Teddie Cox, for about three months after a

court awarded him custody of the child.

Testimony from Cox, who was not the child’s mother, showed he had no interest in caring for his daughter, but was her sole caretaker for the first time on Jan. 31, 2002, and was not pleased.

Prosecutors initially said Roberson sexually assaulted the 2-year-old, based on statements from a hospital nurse, but dropped that element of the capital murder charge late in the trial when evidence could not conclusively support it.

“But by then, the dam-

age had been done,” Wolff said in Roberson’s appeal.

“The state used this rank speculation to drive home its view that Robert was not just a poor, mentally impaired father struggling with sobriety, but a deviant — capable of raping and brutally shaking his own daughter to death.”

Roberson was a parolee with previous convictions for burglary and theft and parole violations.

At least seven other Texas inmates have executions scheduled for the coming months, including one in July and four in August.

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After wake of Orlando, we need to talk real policy

By Mary Sanchez TH E KA NSAS CI T Y STAR

Omar Mateen may have committed the worst gun mass murder in U.S. history, but his terrorist act will change little in America.

Occurring as it did six months before the presidential election, politics has gotten in the way of the reflection and deliberation that should be happening.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Congress’ first notable response to the Orlando shootings was a 15-hour filibuster, led by Sen. Christopher Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut. He was pushing for a vote on two pieces of legislation, one for expanded background checks and the other to keep people on the terror watch list from buying guns. As he ended the filibuster, he seemed to have prevailed.

By the next morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out that the Republicans had merely conceded that the Senate would vote on two amendments to the appropriations bill for the Commerce, State and Justice department. There had been no consensus from his side on which amendments they would agree to consider.

So a vote, but no deal on what it will be for or against. And it very likely will be against what the Democrats want. Senate Democrats even skipped a classified briefing on the Orlando investigation just so they could continue the filibuster.

None of this theater would have occurred if both political parties had been focused on making an impact beyond showboating for their base voters. If they were, the nation would have heard a lot less emotional pontificating and far more thoughtful analysis and study.

The stagnation in Congress allowed the NRA to keep harping that the goal should be to defeat radical Islam, as if it is a spot on the map rather than an ideology that is propagated all over the world, including to the U.S., via the internet.

By mid-week, investigators seeking to unravel the Orlando shooter’s motives revealed his pledge of allegiance to the Islamic state but could demonstrate no real association with the group. They did uncover a history of domestic violence and what appeared to be his internal conflicts about homosexuality and a

range of other factors.

The issue is keeping such a person — the socalled lone wolf — away from the weaponry that allows him to take multiple lives. And that’s gun control.

The fact that Omar Mateen had been on the government’s terror watch list understandably took center stage in the week after the murders. Surely the government has a compelling interest in denying anybody on that list the right to buy weapons.

But those discussions will go nowhere until it can be demonstrated that any such government watch list is accurate and that its management is above suspicion.

McClatchy reported that 1.1 million names, representing 440,000 people were on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment as of December 2013, according to the National Counterterrorism Center. About 25,000 were U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.

Another 16,500 are taken off every year. In 2014, that included Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter.

But government studies have found problems with the list. One report indicated that up to 35 percent of the names shouldn’t have been included. McClatchy’s reporting details a lawsuit that questions how a fouryear-old in California ended up on the list.

Until those sorts of questions are cleared up, groups as different as the NRA and the ACLU will find themselves in the same camp, arguing that government watch lists are unreliable and therefore a threat to people’s constitutional rights. It’s a valid argument. But it’s a fear that can be allayed if effort is made to improve the lists, to give the FBI and other terrorism investigators the resources to maintain more accurate records, accessible to other relevant agencies, so that everyone is hyper focused on the same goals.

In the case of Mateen, there is also the question of how a person can be investigated intensely, be dropped from the list and then go on to commit the worst act of gun violence in U.S. history.

Study the mentality of mass shooters, be they homegrown loners, selfradicalized or directed by the Islamic State. The red flags are there to see. It’s how we react to those clues and how our laws allow us to respond that is the problem.

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Trump is playing right into terrorists’ hands

By Trudy Rubin THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Donald the Demagogue has outdone himself in the wake of the Orlando, Fla., outrage.

With inflammatory rhetoric not heard since the McCarthy era, Trump has slurred all American Muslims for domestic terror attacks in California and Florida. "They knew" about the bad guys but "didn’t turn them in," says Trump, with his customary lack of evidence. He wants to ban immigration from virtually all Muslim countries and has said he wouldn’t give any visiting Muslims visas.

Trump even hints that President Barack Obama has a soft spot for jihadis and says the president should resign if he doesn’t use the words radical Islam.

Nothing so vividly illustrates the danger posed by a potential Trump presidency to the fight against terrorists than his obsession with these two magic words.

For Trump, those words have become code for turning a battle against radical Islamists into a war against an entire religion.

Note that I used the word Islamists rather than Islam. This is more than semantics.

The term Islamists has a specific definition. It refers to those Muslims who want to remake and rule societies according to a fundamentalist interpretation of religious texts.

The most extreme Islamists of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda cherry pick Koranic verses to justify horrific acts.

Yes, the verses are there, and we shouldn’t pretend that they aren’t; radical movements in all religions have always found justifications in

Trump’s defaming of an entire religion and an entire U.S. religious community is more than un-American. It is a threat to us all.

Trump used the Orlando massacre to predict that America was on the eve of destruction, under siege by hordes of Muslim immigrants who were potential terrorists.

Trudy Rubin, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer

scripture. The Islamic State ideology - the new ism of the decade - can be labeled radical Islamism.

In other words, it does not involve the totality of Islam.

Obama has chosen not to dwell on such labels for a very specific reason (and not because he is a secret Islamic State supporter). As the president rightly noted, using another name for the Islamic State, "Groups like ISIL and al-Qaeda want to make this war a war between Islam and America or between Islam and the West. They want to claim they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims around the world. . They us want to validate them by implying they speak for Islam."

The president’s reasoning is endorsed by many security experts.

But in his determination not to dignify Islamic State by publicly linking them to the religion of Islam, I think Obama has overdone it. Refusing to acknowledge that relationship just feeds into Trump’s demagogic rant.

Better for the president to talk more openly and frequently about the war within Islam, stressing that an extremist minority is trying to hijack an entire religion.

Americans need to understand that, to combat this minority, our government needs coopera-

tion from leaders in moderate Muslim-majority countries and from Muslim-American community leaders.

Here is where Trump’s defaming of an entire religion and an entire U.S. religious community is more than un-American. It is a threat to us all.

Trump used the Orlando massacre to predict that America was on the eve of destruction, under siege by hordes of Muslim immigrants who were potential terrorists.

He decried the "tremendous flow of Syrian refugees" - when the 2011-2015 number of Syrians is only 1,800, and not many since then. "If we don’t get tough," he claimed, "we’re not going to have a country anymore - there will be nothing left."

The Donald called for a ban on any immigration from any part of the world with "a proven history of terrorism" which would include not only the Mideast but much of Asia and Africa.

It might even include Britain, Belgium and France, whose jihadis were home grown.

Presumably Trump will soon repeat his previous call to ban all foreign Muslims from entering our country - with, perhaps, a few exceptions.

What kind of message does this send to government officials from allied

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countries, or to foreign students or tourists who happen to be Muslims?

Answer: Just as Islamic State would have it, America is at war with the entire Muslim world.

Even more disturbing is Trump’s defaming of all American Muslims, in language that harks back to the internment of citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. With a broad brush, he painted American Muslims as a fifth column who knew about jihadi attacks but kept the information secret. "You know what, they didn’t turn them in, and we had death and destruction . these people have to have consequences, big consequences."

If Trump is elected president, will internment camps for Muslims be next?

Of course Muslim Americans are already working in their communities to counter extremism, as has been documented over and over.

Moreover, unlike Trump’s ugly portrayal, American Muslims rarely live in European-style ethnic ghettoes but are integrated into American society at every level.

But facts are irrelevant when a politician seeks to gain votes by providing fearful voters with an enemy to blame.

So when you hear Trump rant about Obama’s rejection of the term radical Islam, don’t get snookered. Yes, jihadi radicals base their ideology on Islamic scripture, but using Trump’s mantra won’t help defeat them.

On the contrary, his demonization of the Islamic faith and all of its adherents plays straight into their hands.

Trudy Rubin is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Led Zeppelin guitarist dodges court questions, riffs air guitar

By Brian Melley David Goldman / AP

Crosses, one for each victim, line a walkway as a memorial to those killed in the Pulse nightclub.

Tourism in Orlando is uncertain

By Beth J. Harpaz A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

Experts say it’s too soon to gauge whether a week of horrific news out of Orlando will hurt tourism there. But travel agents are not seeing widespread cancellations, and many travelers say they’re committed to visiting.

“I had more people worrying last year about, ‘Should I postpone my trip because of Ebola?”’ than are worried about going to Orlando, said Cindy Minor, owner of Small World Big Fun, a travel agency specializing in Disney vacations based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Orlando has been rocked in the past week by three events: the mass murder of 49 people in a nightclub, the fatal shooting of singer Christina Grimmie after a concert, and a 2-year-old killed by an alligator at a Disney World resort lagoon. It remains to be seen whether the bad news will shake Orlando’s status as the top tourist destination in the U.S., with 66 million visitors in 2015.

“Not one person has said, ‘Put the trip off,’ or ‘We were thinking about it but we want to wait,”’ Minor said. For many travelers, she added, the choice comes down to this: “Are you going to sit and be scared in your house? Or are you going to live your life and make memories with your family?”

Karen L. Brown of Glasgow, Scotland, was among many who posted hearts on Visit Orlando’s Facebook page. She and her extended family of six pledged to stick with plans for a 2017 Orlando trip. “We love everything Orlando,” she said in an email. “I haven’t even considered cancelling.”

Lori Pennington-Gray, a professor at the University of Florida’s Tourism Crisis Management Initiative, said travelers who’ve already booked trips “may be less inclined to cancel” than those who “are still deciding where to go” later this year.

“Disney is one of those big trips where it’s quite costly, it’s an important

family proposition, and it’s not something someone who has saved up all year for may be willing to walk away from,” she said.

Travelers who do cancel trips may or may not get refunds, depending on how they booked.

Airlines typically levy steep cancellation fees, but theme park tickets may be refundable, especially if purchased as a package deal and cancelled 30 days ahead of the reservations.

Ray Bromley, who teaches city and regional planning at the State University of New York at Albany, agreed that the biggest impact may be in future bookings as travelers weigh alternative destinations, including California’s Disneyland.

Bromley predicts Orlando tourism will take a hit of 5 to 15 percent over the next year, with hotels and attractions discounting to spur demand.

For now, though, airfares have held steady.

“We are not seeing any fire sales to Orlando, although fares in general have been quite reasonable,” said AirfareWatchdog.com founder George Hobica.

Pennington-Gray said future bookings partly depend on “the response by the destination and the tourism industry to reinforce what they’re doing to keep visitors safe. If they can do that effectively, they can minimize the impact.”

Jennifer Galluzzo of Brewster, New York, heads to Orlando in July with her three children and said she has been reassured by the response of Orlando authorities: “It’s likely going to be safer than ever there now.”

Not all travelers were so sanguine. “I actually had a big potential client in Orlando that I was going to see, but I canceled my trip,” said Andrew Reeves, CEO of Luxe Translation Services.

Helen Marano, of the World Travel & Tourism Council, said research shows that when terror attacks are not directed at tourists, they have “less of a long-range impact.”

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LOS ANGELES — Led Zeppelin works that include “Stairway to Heaven” had revenues of nearly $60 million over the past five years, an economist testified Friday in a lawsuit accusing the band of lifting a passage from another songwriter’s tune for its best known work.

Michael Einhorn told jurors in federal court in Los Angeles that songwriters Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have received $58.5 million since 2011 for dozens of works, including “Stairway,” their band’s 1971 hit and most recognizable song.

Einhorn was the final witness for plaintiffs in the copyright infringement case brought against Led Zeppelin, Page and Plant by the band Spirit and the estate of Spirit’s late guitarist Randy California.

The action claims Led Zeppelin lifted a passage from the Spirit instrumental “Taurus.”

Under cross-examination, Einhorn said some of the $58.5 million in revenues were under terms of a 2008 contract that covered the band’s catalog of 87 songs.

Led Zeppelin lawyers have challenged the inclusion of the contract in the case, contending it falls outside the statute of limitations.

Page has testified that he never heard “Taurus” until years after Led Zeppelin released “Stairway to Heaven.”

The instrumental was written by California, whose real name was Randy Wolfe and who died in 1997.

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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, left, and singer Robert Plant appear at a press conference.

On the witness stand Thursday, Page was reluctant to compare the harmony, tempo or structure of the two songs, thwarting the lawyer representing Wolfe’s estate in the suit that also targets several music companies.

“You want to step through it,” attorney Francis Malofiy asked as he tried to get Page to discuss the “Taurus” sheet music, which is the work protected by copyright.

“Not necessarily,” Led Zeppelin’s lead guitarist replied, sending a ripple of comic relief through the gallery during an otherwise dull day of testimony.

Page, 72, had entered the courtroom carrying a guitar but wrapped up testifying without playing a note. The closest he came was during a break when he briefly struck a jamming pose and played air guitar and laughed with Plant in the courtroom.

Jurors and a packed audience in court did get to hear the familiar opening chords of “Stairway,” but they came not from Page but from an expert who said he found it strik-

ingly similar to “Taurus.”

Kevin Hanson, a guitar instructor and former member of Huffamoose, played passages from both songs on acoustic guitar, concluding they are virtually identical.

“To my ear, they sound like they are one piece of music,” he said.

On cross-examination, however, Hanson, who doesn’t have a college degree and is not a musicologist, said he can easily tell the songs apart.

Another plaintiff expert, Alexander Stewart, a music professor at the University of Vermont, said he found five categories in which both songs had significant similarities, including a descending chord progression, notes lasting the same duration and a series of arpeggios and similar pairs of notes.

Stewart said the descending chord progression and other elements have been found in songs dating to the 1600s. But he testified that of more than 65 songs the defense has said have a similar construction, including “My Funny Valentine,” the Beatles’ “Michelle,” and “Chim Chim Cher-ee”

from the movie “Mary Poppins,” none contained all five elements shared by “Taurus” and “Stairway.”

“Not one of them came close,” Stewart said, though he acknowledged on cross-examination that the notes in both songs didn’t all line up in the same places.

One of the biggest challenges for the plaintiffs is showing that “Stairway” is substantially similar to the sheet music for “Taurus” because that’s what’s filed at the U.S. Copyright Office.

The recording of “Taurus,” which contains a riff very similar to the opening of “Stairway” is significantly different from videos of experts playing the sheet music.

Because the recording is not protected by the copyright, jurors can’t consider it and it can’t be played in court.

Malofiy tried several times to get Page, who said he never heard “Taurus” until comparisons began popping up online a few years ago, to compare the two songs. Page’s lawyer successfully objected and the question was never answered.

However, when Page was asked to compare “Stairway” to the “Taurus” sheet music, he said he preferred to hear it.

“I’m asking if I can hear what was played,” he said, knowing he couldn’t.

To demonstrate the shortcomings of sheet music, though, Malofiy showed Page the copyright version of “Stairway to Heaven.”

Page, who said he composed the music and Plant wrote the lyrics, said he had not written the sheet music he was shown.

Teen in Ohio shooting cited bad home life

By Dan Sewell ASSOCIATED PRE SS

CINCINNATI — A 15-year-old boy who opened fire on fellow students in a school cafeteria complained about his home life when questioned about why he did it, a detective states in a report released Friday.

James Austin Hancock pleaded guilty to four attempted murder counts and one count of inducing panic in the February shooting at Madison Local Schools near Middletown. A judge earlier this month ordered him held in juvenile detention until he turns 21, when he will be free if he stays out of trouble.

The boy’s motive hasn’t been clear. He said before sentencing that he wanted the victims to know they

weren’t targeted.

In a Butler County sheriff’s report released Hancock after a public records request by The Associated Press and other news organizations, a detective says Hancock gave his “home life” as the reason for the shootings.

He said the boy had taken a Sig Sauer P238 handgun from his grandmother’s home the night before.

“His mom doesn’t watch any of his sporting events and dad was on his case for his grades and he has a lot of chores. Hancock further stated he was always grounded,” the report by Detective Michael Barger said. The report said a female stu-

dent was going to report that Hancock had a gun in his backpack, and he started shooting because “he knew he didn’t want to go home.”

A message was left Friday for his attorney, Charles H. Rittgers. Rittgers said on the day of sentencing that Hancock’s family was happy the case was handled in the juvenile system and was hopeful he could get any help he needs while in custody.

Barger said Hancock didn’t have a specific target, but “just fired at a group of kids.” Two students were wounded by gunfire; two others were hurt by shrapnel or while running away.

Two other students still face misdemeanor charges of not reporting a crime. Authorities said

they knew Hancock took a gun to school.

Barger’s report showed that Hancock first displayed the gun to other students at 7:30 a.m. in the cafeteria at breakfast and, three hours later, took the gun from his backpack and put it into his lunchbox. He went into the bathroom with two other students at 10:58 a.m. to load the gun, put the safety on, and then he went back into the cafeteria and displayed the gun again, the report stated.

The other students’ names were redacted.

The report states that Hancock started firing at 11:17 a.m., then fled the school and gave himself up, at 11:39 a.m. according to another police report, in a nearby field after being surrounded by police.

Fancy to whimsical: Rivers belongings up for auction

By Leanne Italie A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

NEW YORK — Joan Rivers was many things: brash and brassy comedian, queen of QVC, petite mistress of great big gowns.

Lesser known, perhaps, was her penchant for collecting — all things, from Faberge objets d’art to fine French furniture.

Her East 62nd Street penthouse, a former ballroom, was filled with it and nearly two years after her death at 81, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, felt it time to clean house.

With the help of Christie’s New York, she made her way through rooms and rooms of memories,

deciding what she couldn’t emotionally part with, what she would hold onto for archival purposes and what she would donate to charity so they could put on auctions of their own.

What was left is now the Private Collection of Joan Rivers, with more than 200 lots to be auctioned in a live sale at Christie’s on June 22 and about 80 more offered online at Christies.com through June 23.

Melissa Rivers, in an interview Thursday, was not ready to use the word “cathartic.” After all, she said, “It hasn’t even been two years.” Instead, she’s in survivor mode, “taking care of business” in a way

Mark Lennihan / AP

A beaded evening gown owned by the late comedian Joan Rivers is displayed at Christie's in New York.

she knows her mother would appreciate.

“She never believed that everything should be kept in storage or a bank vault. She always said,

‘Use your things, enjoy the things you have,’ so I don’t have the guilt of ‘I need to keep these dishes because this was the set that she used every third

Thanksgiving but it’s not my favorite.”’

The auction house opened its doors to the media Friday for a preview. There, a couple of Joan’s elegant sitting rooms were set up, her inlaid Yearwood desk and chair near a favorite painting by Edouard Vuillard, titled “Dans l’atelier.” It dates to about 1915 and is valued at $120,000 to $180,000.

Faberge was a favored brand for the former Beatrice Grushman Molinsky, the daughter of Russian immigrants, furriers who served the court back in the old country. Staying tony in the United States was sometimes a struggle that

Joan never forgot. It fueled her furious work ethic. But she believed in using the fine things she and her late husband, Edgar, amassed.

Joan died on Sept. 14, 2014. Many of her zingers were printed on walls for visitors to enjoy as they ogled items up for sale, including this one that speaks volumes about the things she collected: “Marie Antoinette would have lived here if she had money.”

Her approach was far from hands off when it came to sharing her world. Furniture and housewares, whether they were fancy or a tag sale find, were mixed and matched and enjoyed.

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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE TORNEO DE FÚTBOL DE BANDERA 1 Se invita al primer torneo de fútbol de bandera por el Día del Padre, el 18 de junio y el día 19 de junio, en caso de ser necesario a partir de las 8 a.m. en el Zapata Boys & Girls Club, E 6th Ave y calle Lincoln en Zapata. Habrá dos categorías. Informes con Christopher Dávila al 956-2519986 o escribiendo a chris_davila_2014@yahoo.com ACADEMIA ROMA FC SOCCER 1 Se invita a participar en la escuela infantil Academia Roma FC Soccer para niños de 3 años a 10 años de edad.

Cuota de 40 dólares que incluye uniforme. Registro es martes y jueves de 6 p.m. a 8 p.m. en el Roma Park Soccer Field. Participan en juegos de fin de semana y torneos.

Informes en el 956437-2700 ó 956437-9112.

LABORATORIO COMPUTACIONAL 1 La Ciudad de Roma pone a disposición de la comunidad el Laboratorio Computacional que abre de lunes a viernes en horario de 1 p.m. a 5 p.m. en Historical Plaza, a un lado del City Hall.

Informes en el 956849-1411.

DÍA DE INDEPENDENCIA La Cámara de Comercio del Condado de Zapata anuncia que el día 4 de julio las oficinas permanecerán cerradas por la celebración del Día de la Independencia CAMINATA/ CARRERA 1 La Cuarta Caminata/Carrera y Competencia Infantil Anual de 5K PFC Ira “Ben” Laningham IV se realizará el sábado 16 de julio a partir de las 8 a.m. con salida del Palacio de Justicia (Courthouse) del Condado de Zapata. Habrá trofeos para ganadores en cada categoría. Cuota de participación es de 15 dólares, si se inscriben con anterioridad visitando active.com o 20 dólares el mismo día. Precio especial para estudiantes y niños.

PRESENTACIÓN DE LIBRO 1 Se invita a la presentación del libro “La música y el vértigo” de Daniel Baruc Espinal, el sábado 18 de junio a las 5 p.m. en Estación Palabra de Nuevo Laredo, México. Presentación a cargo de Baruc y de los escritores Jorge Santa Anna y Juan Miguel Pérez.

Celebran Batalla de San Gertrudis 1 En visita a Camargo, México, el Gobernador de Tamaulipas Egidio Torre Cantú, encabezó la ceremonia del 150 aniversario de la Batalla de Santa Gertrudis. Se montó una guardia de honor y depositó una ofrenda floral al pie del obelisco erigido en honor a los héroes de esta lucha armada que determinó un nuevo rumbo para la nación el 16 de junio de 1866.

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CIUDAD MIER, MÉXICO

Arrestan a ex fiscal de Jalisco

Policías hieren a sospechoso

Por Jason Buch y Guillermo Contreras ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Oficiales federales en San Antonio han arrestado a un ex fiscal mexicano, pieza clave en ayudar a los Estados Unidos en atrapar a figuras del cartel, por cargos de fraude y lavado de dinero.

Sergio Guadalupe Adame Ochoa fue arrestado el jueves, acusado en una acusación federal por realizar declaraciones fraudulentas para obtener préstamos bancarios para un desarrollo comercial en el Rio Grande Valley. Él tambiéén está acusado con conspiración con supuestos integranes de un cartel mexicano para lavar dinero. Él es una de las 15 personas acusadas en una acusación abierta el viernes, conforme fiscales también tomaron un paso inusual para acusar a cinco entidades empresariales supuestamente ligadas al grupo.

De ser encontrado culpable, enfrenta hasta 20 años de prisión por el cargo de lavado de dinero.

Adame fungió como director de seguridad e inteligencia para el estado de Jalisco y fue un asesor del entonces Gobernador de Jalisco, Luis Carlos Nájera. Ex oficiales de EU, quienes hablaron bajo condición de anonimato, dijeron que Adame fue clave en ayudar a los Estados Unidos ha formar casos en contra de líderes de las drogas en la década de 1990, incluyendo a líderes del Cartel del Golfo.

Fiscales también acusaron a uno de aquellos acusados con Adame por el cargo de lavado de dinero al haber utilizado dinero de las dorgas para comprar caballos de cuarto de milla.

Reymundo “Mundito” Villarreal Jr. está acusado de lavado de dinero junto con Adame y también de ser parte de una conspiración para envíar ganancias de las drogas desde San Antonio para comprar caballos, en una subasta ocurrida en septiembre del 2011 en Oklahoma.

Gilberto Villarreal Villarreal, Juan Antonio Villarreal, Jesús Jaime An-

drade y Denis Winn están acusados con lavado de dinero en un cargo independiente de Adame, pero como parte de la misma acusación.

Los alegatos en ése cargo son similares a aquellos realizados en un caso en la corte de Austin, acusando al hermano de los líderes del cartel de las drogas de Los Zetas con lavado de dinero. En 2013, un jurado en Austin condenó a José Treviño Morales de utilizar dinero obtenido por la venta de drogas de sus hermanos para comprar y cuidar de caballos cuarto de milla en los EU. La mayoría de los coacusados de Adame fueron arrestado el jueves por la división de Investigación Criminal del Internal Revenue Service, una de las agencias que investigó la operación de los caballos cuarto de milla de Los Zetas.

Un vocero para la agencia declinó hacer comentarios el viernes..

La acusación también busca la confiscación de 11 propiedades en el Rio Grande Valley.

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Arrestan a tres; decomisan armas TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

El Grupo de Coordinación Tamaulipas informa que la tarde del jueves 16 de junio, en el municipio de Mier, policías estatales de Fuerza Tamaulipas lograron la detención de tres integrantes de un grupo delincuencial que los agredieron, además de asegurarles armas largas y granadas.

Los hechos se registraron alrededor de las 18:20 horas cuando los policías estatales realizaban recorridos de vigilancia. Al circular por la calle Eusebio Rodríguez, entre Zaragoza e Iturbide, fueron agredidos por los tripulantes de una camioneta cerrada, por lo que repelieron el ataque en defensa de sus vidas.

Tras una persecución, los elementos de

Fuerza Tamaulipas lograron someter a los agresores, uno de los cuales resultó herido, brindándosele atención médica. En lo que corresponde a los policías estatales, ninguno salió lesionado.

En el operativo se logró el aseguramiento de tres armas largas, tres granadas de mano, equipo táctico, un arma corta, un casco táctico, un chaleco antibalas y la camioneta.

Los nombres de los agresores no se dan a conocer porque las investigaciones se mantienen activas, aunque quedaron a disposición de un Agente del Ministerio Público de la Federación junto con las armas, granadas y otros objetos como cargadores y cartuchos útiles.

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TAMAULIPAS GANA PRIMER LUGAR Estudiantes participaron en Olimpiadas E SPECIAL PARA TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Cinco estudiantes representando al estado de Tamaulipas, México, lograron obtener el primer lugar durante la Olimpiada Nacional del Conocimiento Técnico y Automotriz que se celebra en Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, a inicios del mes de junio.

Fernando Daniel Jiménez Martínez, José Luis Pérez Ávila, José Ricardo López Pérez, José Raúl Ramos Nava y Francisco Guadalupe Narváez Villanueva, alumnos del sexto cuatrimestre del programa académico de Ingeniería en Sistemas Automotrices de la Universidad Politécnica de Victoria (UPV), obtuvieron el mayor puntaje posible, es decir 12 puntos en las dos

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Fernando Daniel Jiménez Martínez, José Luis Pérez Ávila, José Ricardo López Pérez, José Raúl Ramos Nava y Francisco Guadalupe Narváez Villanueva, alumnos de Ingeniería en Sistemas Automotrices de la Universidad Politécnica de Victoria ganaron primer lugar en Olimpiadas del Conocmiento.

rondas de las que consistió el certamen.

“Participar en un evento de tal magnitud y conseguir el primer lugar nos inspira para seguir preparándonos”, comentó Pérez Ávila.

La olimpiada fue organizada por el Instituto Tecnológico Roshfrans, dentro de la Expo Mecánico Automotriz Internacional 2016 El equipo tamaulipeco se enfrentó en la ronda

final a los representantes de Yucatán, quienes eran considerados los participantes más fuertes de la competencia.

Narváez Villanueva dio a conocer que las áreas de conocimiento consid-

eradas fueron lubricación, sistema de frenos, sistemas electrónicos y los distintos tipos de transmisión.

“Una de las satisfacciones más grandes para los cinco ganadores, es que pudieron demostrar el nivel y la calidad académica de excelencia de la Universidad Politécnica Victoria”, señala el comunicado de prensa. “La preparación fue ardua toda vez que dedicaron intensas horas de estudio después de su horario de clases”.

López Pérez destacó que el haber participado fue importante por los conocimientos y experiencias recibidas, ya que la mayoría de los equipos participantes representaban a asociaciones de técnicos de todo el país con más años de experiencia laboral y con un gran nivel de preparación.

La siguiente Olimpiada Nacional del Conocimiento Técnico y Automotriz tendrá como sede Pachuca, Hidalgo, México, en diciembre.

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Trasladan capo de Cártel de Sinaloa Por E. Eduardo Castillo ASSOCIATED PRE SS

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO— El futuro de Héctor “El Güero” Palma, uno de los fundadores del cartel de Sinaloa a quien Estados Unidos devolvió a México tras cumplir parte de una condena por narcotráfico, estará marcado por dos crímenes ocurridos hace poco más de dos décadas.

Recluido en un penal de máxima seguridad, Palma está acusado de ordenar el asesinato en 1995 de un subdirector policial del estado occidental de Nayarit y a una persona que lo

acompañaba, en una aparente represalia por haberlo traicionado, dijo el Palma jueves a The Associated Press un funcionario federal con conocimiento del proceso contra el capo.

El entonces mando policial supuestamente trabajaba al servicio del cartel de Sinaloa pero decidió colaborar con sus rivales, los hermanos Arellano Félix del cartel de Tijuana, añadió el funcionario quien comentó el caso bajo anonimato por

no estar autorizado a hablar públicamente sobre el mismo.

La acusación impidió que Palma pudiera caminar como un hombre libre tras ser deportado el miércoles a México desde Estados Unidos. El capo fue trasladado por la noche al penal de máxima seguridad del Altiplano, el mismo del que en 2015 se fugó Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, el hombre con el que fundó el cartel de Sinaloa.

Palma fue detenido en junio de 1995 en el oeste de México y en 2007 fue extraditado a Estados Unidos donde se declaró culpable y fue sentenciado

a una pena de 16 años de prisión por transportar 50 kilos de cocaína.

Las autoridades de ese país dijeron que tras cumplir 85% de su pena y haber tenido buena conducta alcanzó los requisitos para poder salir de la prisión en la que estaba.

Palma fue entregado por agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas a autoridades migratorias mexicanas en Matamoros, en la frontera con Brownsville, Texas.

Ya en México, la Fiscalía de Nayarit le notificó una orden de arresto por los homicidios, aunque la procuraduría no dio de-

talles.

El funcionario federal dijo que Palma envió a un sicario a asesinar al jefe policial para cobrar venganza por haberse ido con sus enemigos del cartel de Tijuana.

Algunos expertos consideraban que si Palma no era acusado de ningún delito y quedaba en libertad en México, existía la posibilidad de que intentara reincorporarse al narcotráfico.

Palma dejó la prisión en EU el 10 de junio y había quedado bajo custodia de autoridades migratorias de ese país mientras se procesaba su deportación.

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FROM THE COVER BANK From page A1 candidate who can cut the red tape and lift the regulatory burdens off the backs of business, so that companies can grow, expand, and create jobs. I do believe that if Donald Trump wins, he will engage in the traditional thinking of solving real problems and getting our fiscal house in order.”

Nixon did not respond to a request for comment.

IBC has 206 overall, according to its website.

Besides being IBC’s CEO, Nixon serves as chairman and president of the bank’s publicly traded financial holding company, International Bancshares Corp. It’s relatively uncommon for the head of a public company to publicly endorse a candidate because it might roil customers, employees and shareholders, according Douglas Schuler, an associate professor of business and public policy at Rice University.

“So if you really care about your company …,

PALMA From page A1 Altiplano prison outside the capital, the same prison that Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped from in 2015.

Palma was detained under an arrest order from the western state of Nayarit.

He is accused of ordering the 1995 killings of a deputy police chief and a person who was with the officer, a federal official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Thursday. The official was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The person said the deputy police chief appar-

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why do something as perilous, stupid and unnecessary as hosting a fundraiser?” Schuler said in an email.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich recently scheduled and then canceled a fundraiser for Trump. The website Recode, citing anonymous sources, reported the planned event generated “significant outrage within the ranks at Intel.” Krzanich wrote on Twitter, “I do not intend to endorse any Presidential candidate. We are interested in engaging both campaigns in open dialogue on issues in technology.”

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France’s decision to back Trump threatened efforts to broaden the sport’s appeal among minorities and jeopardized ties with corporate sponsors, the Associated Press reported in March.

An alliance of Democratic state lawmakers representing border districts criticized Nixon in a June 11 letter to IBC’s board of directors.

“It is is unfathomable

that a financial leader of the border region would host a fundraiser for an individual who supports building a border wall and who has insulted Mexican Americans,” state Rep. César Blanco, an El Paso Democrat who chairs the House Border Caucus, said in the letter to the board.

International Bancshares, IBC’s parent, bills itself as the largest minority-owned organization in the U.S. Its largest shareholder is director Antonio Sanchez Jr., chairman of Houston-based Sanchez Oil & Gas Corp. and the son of one of the bank’s founders. Sanchez, the Democratic candidate for governor in 2002, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Leonardo Salinas, who served as a senior executive vice president at the bank and retired after 35 years in 2000, said he had no problem with Nixon’s letter.

“Trump has come up with different ideas to move the U.S. and the economy,” Salinas said. “I think he’s the best choice.”

ently worked for the Sinaloa Cartel but decided to switch loyalties to the Arellano Felix brothers of the Tijuana Cartel, and allegedly was killed in retaliation.

If authorities had not brought charges against Palma, he would have gone free.

Palma was arrested in June 1995 in western Mexico and later extradited to the U.S. where he pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking charges and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The U.S. Embassy said Palma received early release for good behavior.

Some experts believed that Palma could have returned to drug trafficking if allowed to walk free, but would have faced a world that has changed since he helped Guzman

found the Sinaloa cartel in the early 1990s.

“He could try to get involved, but I don’t know how directly,” said Mexico City-based security analyst Alejandro Hope. Palma may have lost much of his money and his connections since he was arrested following a plane crash.

Once released, he could have just disappeared into Mexico’s hinterlands, “just like Caro Quintero,” Hope noted, referring to the last major old-guard drug lord released, Rafael Caro Quintero.

Freed by apparent judicial misconduct in 2014, and currently sought on a re-arrest warrant, Caro Quintero hasn’t been seen since. Caro Quintero’s release was a major embarrassment for the Mexican government.

A subsequent plan to transfer $500,000 from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department was also scrapped after Abbott’s office told the agency it found another source of funding.

On Tuesday, Abbott’s office said it will use about $190,000 — less than 2 percent of what was originally proposed — in funds from a federal justice assistance grant.

A spokesperson in Abbott’s office said the same amount will be available next year, but the money isn’t likely to make a huge dent in the problem. The money will fund the eradication of about 700 acres, but there are tens of thousands more along the banks of the river, said Aaron Wendt, a natural resources policy analyst with the conservation board.

“We’re not going to call it a demonstration project because it’s not, but that’s what it will look like,” he

said. “We’ve got interest in quite a few areas and quite a few counties. Our estimates that people have given us is anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000 acres of cane.”

Wendt said the amount requested was so small because it was what remained of the grant and needed to be used.

“It’s old money in the grant, so it has to be spent,” he said.

Abbott’s office said the Carrizo eradication is another step toward the governor’s goal of securing the border and follows efforts that have already been funded.

“With Governor Abbott having already signed into law the toughest border security plan in the nation, the additional funding from the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division to eliminate Carrizo cane will remove another obstacle to allow border officials to better detect illegal and criminal activity,” spokesman John Wittman said in an email. Wittman added that the funding

will increase to $500,000 over the current biennium, which ends next summer.

The Texas Border Coalition, an advocacy group composed of elected officials and community and business leaders from the Texas-Mexico border, has been following the state’s effort and contends more needs to be done.

Monica WeisbergStewart, chairwoman of the coalition's immigration and border security subcommittee, praised the state’s efforts but said officials needed to communicate with their federal counterparts to find a permanent fix.

“It’s pretty mind-boggling that there isn’t a solution that can be easily done,” she said. “It’s kind of sad that 10 years later, we’re talking about the same thing.”

She said part of the solution could be educating people who aren’t from the border that there is more to security than equipment and more guns.

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BUSINESS

Crude oil advances most in two months as the US dollar declines

By Mark Shenk B L OOMBE RG NEWS

Oil climbed the most in two months, paring a weekly decline as a weaker dollar bolstered the appeal of commodities to investors.

Futures rose 3.8 percent in New York as aauge of the dollar fell for a third day. Global stocks rebounded from a fourweek low amid speculation the U.K. is less likely to vote to exit the European Union. Low crude prices may persist for 10 to 15 years, Russian Oil Minister Alexander Novak said in a Bloomberg TV interview.

"Oil is ripping to the upside as the dollar falls," said Bob Yawger, director of the futures division at Mizuho Securities USA in New York. "After six days of getting hammered the

market was ready to move higher and the dollar is offering a reason."

Oil’s advance from the lowest level in more than 12 years in February stalled earlier this week on speculation higher prices will encourage more U.S. output just as global disruptions ease.

ConocoPhillips has restarted almost threequarters of oil-sands wells at its Surmont facility in Canada after wildfires forced producers to halt output.

For a story on oil bosses seeing crude stabilizing at around $50, click here.

West Texas Intermediate for July delivery rose $1.77 to settle at $47.98 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It’s the biggest gain since April 12. Futures fell 2.2 percent this week. The

Charlie Riedel / AP file

Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. Oil climbed the most in two months.

contract slid 3.8 percent to $46.21 Thursday, the lowest close since May 13.

Total volume traded was 22 percent below the 100-day average.

Brexit Campaign Brent for August settle-

Apple hit with setback in Beijing patent ruling

By David Ramli B L OOMBE RG NEWS

Apple Inc. suffered another legal setback in China where officials in Beijing slapped the company with a patent violation on some iPhone models, ruling in favor of a small local rival.

Apple was quick to downplay the ruling, saying an appeal had already been lodged, allowing the phones to stay on the market in the Chinese capital pending the outcome.

Still, the decision is another sign that Chinese officials are scrutinizing the company more closely and comes as Apple, already grappling with slowing iPhone sales, prepares to roll out the next version of its iconic smartphone. China shut down Apple’s book and movie service in April for violating foreign publishing regulations, and last month a Beijing court ruled that a little-known accessories maker could use the iPhone label for a range of wallets and purses. Billionaire Carl Icahn said in April he sold out of his position in Apple because of concerns about the company’s relationship with China.

ment rose $1.98, or 4.2 percent, to $49.17 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. It’s the biggest gain since May 11. The global benchmark crude closed at a 61-cent premium to WTI for August

delivery.

Commodities and equities advanced as campaigning in Britain’s referendum on European Union membership was suspended a second day following the killing of Jo Cox, a Labour lawmaker who was an advocate for staying in the EU. "In the short term prices move on market sentiment," said Tim Evans, an energy analyst at Citi Futures Perspective in New York. "Today’s movement is mostly about sentiment and is unrelated to the fundamentals of oil."

There are risks that oil prices will fall if production in Canada, Libya or Nigeria rebounds after supply disruptions in those countries, Russia’s Novak said Thursday in St. Petersburg. At current prices, U.S. shale output

will probably start recovering early next year, he said.

Some Rebalancing “There is some rebalancing, and I believe the oil price will be in the region of $50, maybe $55 for the rest of the year,” Paolo Scaroni, deputy chairman at NM Rothschild & Sons and former chief executive officer of Eni SpA, said in a Bloomberg television interview.

“I personally believe there is a cap. If prices go beyond $60, shale oil producers will start all over again.”

Rigs targeting crude in the U.S. rose by 9 to 337 this week, capping the first three-week gain since August, Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday.

Explorers have dropped more than 1,000 oil rigs since the start of last year.

Stocks end week lower as British vote remains focus

By Ken Sweet ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Gilles Sabrie / New York Times

Visitors at an Apple store handle some iPhones in Beijing.

In the face of such obstacles, Apple has made efforts to remain on good terms with the Chinese government, including a visit by Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook in May during which he announced a $1 billion investment in China’s car-sharing service Didi Chuxing Technology Co. In 2013, Cook apologized after state media accused Apple of shoddy customer service and inadequate warranties.

Beijing’s Intellectual Property Office said the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus infringe on patent rights held by the company Shenzhen Baili because of similarities to its 100C phone, according to its ruling Friday. China’s largest smartphone makers, by unit shipments,

were Huawei Technologies Co., Oppo and Vivo in the first quarter, with Lenovo Group Ltd. and Xiaomi Corp. close behind, according to research firm International Data Corporation.

While the decision covers only Beijing, future lawsuits against Apple could take the case as a precedent, potentially influencing the outcomes of litigation elsewhere in China. Baili is one of scores of smartphone brands trying to cash in on the country’s mobile boom. Xu Guoxiang, the inventor who holds the patent and listed as a Baili representative on yellowpages site czvv.com, did not answer calls seeking comment.

Analyst Tim Long doesn’t think the Chinese ruling is meaningful.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks closed out a difficult week on a modestly lower note Friday, as investors continued to monitor Britain’s frenzied debate on whether to leave the European Union. The debate took on a new level of concern after the killing of a member of parliament.

Technology stocks were among the biggest decliners. Apple fell as a patent dispute in China threatened to jeopardize futures sales of iPhones in the world’s second-largest economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 57.94 points, or 0.3 percent, to 17,675.16. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 6.77 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,071.22 and the Nasdaq composite fell 44.58 points, or 0.9 percent, to 4,800.34.

Anxiety over the British referendum coming up next Thursday continued to dominate trading.

Stocks have fallen six out of the past seven trading days. This week the Dow

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Caterpillar Inc. signage is displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

and S&P 500 each lost 1 percent while the Nasdaq gave up almost 2 percent.

The campaigning in Britain became heated this week, and took an alarming turn when a well-regarded politician in favor of staying in the EU was killed. Polls have been tight or have shown, on occasion, a slight likelihood that Britain could leave the EU. Many have predicted that could harm the British economy.

Investors interpreted the assassination as something that could sway more voters to stay in the EU. U.K. and European stocks and the British

pound rose against the euro and dollar. The pound rose to $1.4375 compared with $1.4205 the day before.

“This tragic event may have dampened the ‘leave’ campaign’s momentum somewhat,” said Daniel Vernazza, analyst at UniCredit bank. He noted the movement in the pound was the most significant indicator that investors believe this would be positive for the ‘remain’ campaign.

Germany’s DAX index rose 0.8 percent, France’s CAC-40 rose 1 percent and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 index rose 1.2 percent.

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SOCCER: COPA AMERICA

Mexico humming along El Tri faces Chile in quarterfinals Saturday

By Janie Mccauley ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Ronald Martinez / AP

LeBron James scored 41 points and the Cavs beat the Warriors 115-101 Thursday night to force a Game 7.

LeBron lifts Cavs to cusp of title

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

— Juan Carlos Osorio has Mexico winning his way.

Osorio’s mixing-andmatching methodology for his lineup might be scrutinized by some and far from universally popular back home. Yet at least some of his players believe it gives El Tri a much-needed edge that is working pretty well if not completely consistently just yet.

Everybody must stay sharp and ready, because you don’t know when your name might be called in this Copa America tournament. A little

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CLEVELAND — LeBron James’ family, closest friends and some hangers-on who wanted a glimpse waited for him in the arena’s hallways like they have since he was an unequalled Ohio high school star, the best player on any court.

They greeted him early Friday after Game 6 of the NBA Finals, when James dropped 41 points on Golden State for the second straight game and dominated Stephen Curry, staring down the MVP and taunting him after a dismissive block.

As Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas and Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx looked on, James kissed his mom, Gloria, and hopped into his Mercedes-Benz luxury van for the ride to Akron.

“One more game left,” he said moments earlier.

One more win from the greatest comeback in Finals history and one more win from a championship, the one James came home for.

Playing at a level few have touched, James has pushed Cleveland to the brink of its first professional sports championship since 1964. With

back-to-back epic performances, he’s given hope to generations of fans who have known mostly sports misery that the drought will end Sunday in Game 7 — on Father’s Day. Down 3-1 in the series, the Cavaliers reverted to a strategy that has served James well: Give him the ball. Get out of the way.

Hesitant in Games 1 and 2, he’s been in attack mode, posting up Curry for layups and short turnarounds when the Warriors inexplicably switch on screens and leave the 6-foot-3 point guard at the mercy of a 250-pound wrecking ball crammed inside a No. 23 jersey.

And when Golden State sags defensively to help stop his drives, James is finding the open man or pulling up and making his outside jumper, considered the weakest aspect of his otherwise resplendent game.

The shots are falling.

The Warriors are fading.

On Thursday night, James was as good as ever, making three 3pointers and adding 11 assists, eight rebounds, four steals and three blocks. He scored 18 straight points bridging the third and fourth quarters, and scored or assisFinals continues on B2

healthy competition? You bet.

The coach strays from steady, predictable deci-

sions and seems to go with his gut depending on opponent and situation — and who’s got the

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COWBOYS MOVING TO NEW FACILITY

James has had back-to-back 40-point games

By Tom Withers

Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle

Jesus Manuel Corona scored for Mexico in the final group match on Monday. El Tri faces off with Chile on Saturday in the Copa America quarterfinals.

hot foot.

No arguing the results.

And Mexico hopes that winning its group is just the start of a special Copa America run.

Up next is a quarterfinal matchup against defending Copa champion and fifth-ranked Chile on Saturday night at sold-out Levi’s Stadium. With 70,000 people expected, it very well could be the most hyped atmosphere yet for a sporting event at the 2-year-old, $1.3 billion stadium — perhaps topping this year’s Super Bowl. Hugely popular, Mexico is almost a home team in this Copa, being played

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This development, named The Star, will be home to the Cowboys' offices, two outdoor practice fields and a 12,000-seat indoor stadium that will be shared with the Frisco Independent School District.

‘The Star’ estimated to cost about $800 million

By Schuyler Dixon ASSOCIATED PRE SS

FRISCO, Texas — Charlotte Jones Anderson wants to save a few special details for her father to see when Dallas owner Jerry Jones moves into the team’s new headquarters this summer.

None of those surprises will involve money, though.

The billionaire boss of the Cowboys knows full well how much he’s spending to forge a unique relationship with Texas high school football, part of a sprawling complex centered around a 12,000-seat indoor stadium and eventually including a hotel, sports medicine facility, restaurants and maybe even something the Jones

family hasn’t thought of yet.

Once the idea took hold in Frisco, a sportscentric suburb 30 miles north of Dallas, Jones grew comfortable with the idea of spending more on The Star — world headquarters of America’s Team — than he personally did on his $1.2 billion stadium in Arlington less than a

decade ago.

“I will say there is not a dollar spent that he doesn’t know about,” said Jones Anderson, chief marketing and brand officer. “As the vision grew, so did the checkbook.”

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Duo representing West in CWS UC Santa Barbara, Arizona aim to change perception

By Eric Olson ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Mike Theiler / AP

Andrew Calica, left, Dempsey Grover and UC Santa Barbara are in Omaha for the first time.

OMAHA, Neb. — UC Santa Barbara and Arizona were best in the West.

Thing is, the perception throughout college baseball is that the level of play was down in that part of the country this year.

The Gauchos and Wildcats are in position to change some minds now.

“Fly the flag for the West? Yeah, I would say there’s a bit of that feeling, considering two teams from the West made it to

the World Series when there wasn’t a (regional) host in the West. That’s a very difficult and challenging thing to do,” Santa Barbara coach Andrew Checketts said Friday.

The Gauchos are 5-0 in the NCAA Tournament after freshman Sam Cohen hit a pinch walk-off grand slam to complete a super-regional sweep at No. 2 Louisville last Sunday and send them to Omaha for the first time.

The Wildcats have won six of seven, with Cesar Salazar’s two-out, basesloaded single in the bot-

tom of the 11th inning giving them a walk-off win at Mississippi State last Saturday. The Wildcats are here for the first time since winning the 2012 national title.

Sunday’s Bracket 2 openers pit No. 5 Texas Tech (46-18) against TCU (47-16) and No. 1 Florida (52-14) against first-time CWS participant Coastal Carolina (49-16). The winners in double-elimination bracket play advance to the best-of-three finals beginning June 27.

As the Atlantic Coast Conference and South-

eastern Conference dominated this season, Arizona tied for third in the Pac-12 behind a Utah team that had an overall losing record and Santa Barbara finished third in a Big West ranked eighth in conference RPI. Eleven teams from the West made the NCAA Tournament, but for the first time since 1994 no team west of Lubbock, Texas, hosted a regional.

Also, no western team was higher than No. 21 in the RPI after the regular season.

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SPORTS

Miller makes it clear he’d sit out 2016

By Arnie Stapleton A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

— The Denver Broncos’ summer break began with an ominous message from superstar Von Miller. The Super Bowl MVP suggested he’ll sit out the 2016 season if general manager John Elway doesn’t meet his contract demands over the next month.

One day after saying on Chelsea Handler’s new Netflix show that there was no way he’d consider skipping the season, Miller posted a photo on Instragam and said: “I love my Teammates, Coaches, and My Fans” but there is “No Chance” I play the 2016 season under the Franchise tag.”

If the sides can’t agree on a long-term extension

by July 15, Miller would have to play this season on the franchise tag of $14.129 million — or he could choose to sit out the season altogether.

If he played for the tender, the Broncos could

SOCCER From page B1 in the United States for the first time with a special 100th anniversary tournament featuring six nations from North and Central America and the Caribbean.

Osorio has used three different goalkeepers in as many matches so far this Copa America, and 21 of his 23 players on the

FINALS From page B1 ted on 27 in a row and 35 of 36 while saddling his teammates and 20,000 fans on those broad shoulders and carrying them to the cusp of a title.

“He told us one point in time late in the fourth, ‘Get stops and I’ll take care of the other end,”’ said forward Richard Jefferson.

In two elimination games, James has 82 points, 24 rebounds, 18 assists, seven 3-pointers, six blocks and just three turnovers, despite handling the ball on nearly every possession.

He has almost singlehandedly punctured the Warriors’ will, leaving the defending champions with little time to figure out how to slow him down. It may be too late.

“Special, very special,” said guard Kyrie Irving, who followed his own 41-point effort in Game 5 with 23 to help the Cavs notch the series. “You try not to sit back and watch because you’re trying to make sure that you create space for him and able to give him outlets when he needs it, but when a guy’s got it going like that, it’s just unbelievable to be a part of.”

With forward Andre Iguodala dealing with a back issue, Golden State coach Steve Kerr may have to switch Draymond Green on James for Game 7. He’d do that at the risk of the temperamental Green, who was suspended for Game 5, losing

BASEBALL From page B1 “Hearing that the West is down and this and that, it’s like if you’re in the trenches of competing the way this team had to every weekend to have success, I don’t look at it that way,” first-year Arizona coach Jay Johnson said. “I know how good a coach Coach Checketts is.

I know the quality in the Big West. I’ve coached in

money kicks in a month after the next Super Bowl.

This would seem to set both a new benchmark and blueprint for a megadeal with Miller, who was a one-man wrecking crew of Cam Newton in Denver’s 24-10 win over the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl four months ago after clobbering Tom Brady in the AFC championship.

After collecting five sacks in the playoffs, Miller skipped the team’s

offseason program that wrapped up Thursday with a final weight lift and a team photo. His only appearances with teammates came this month when he accompanied them on their White House visit and to their championship ring ceremony at their stadium.

At that ring ceremony, Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe took a serving tray and turned it into a collection plate, imploring everybody to pitch in and help GM John Elway sign Miller. The tongue-incheek gesture actually netted some greenbacks.

After the Broncos took a pause in talks with Miller’s agent and pivoted to finishing a four-year, $32 million deal with linebacker Brandon Marshall, Miller took his first social media swipe at Elway.

He cropped his boss out of a photo teammate DeMarcus Ware originally posted on Instagram that featured Miller, Ware, coach Gary Kubiak, Peyton Manning and

Elway.

Miller appeared to extend an olive branch to the front office on Wednesday when he made an appearance on Chelsea Handler’s new show on Netflix and said he’s still hoping for a long-term deal to get done: “The franchise tag, it’s a oneyear deal. I would like a little bit more stability. I want to be a Bronco forever. I just want the feeling to be the same from the Broncos.”

When Handler asked him if there’s a chance he’d sit out the upcoming season, Miller said: “No, I mean ... we still have a month. I just can’t see myself with any other team. My boys — T.J. Ward, Aqib Talib, Kayvon Webster, DeMarcus Ware, all those guys, I built very, very close relationships with those guys, and I would like to continue to build that for the rest of my career.”

Then came Thursday’s Instagram salvo when he made it clear he wants an extension or else.

streak, its best ever, topping an unbeaten stretch of 21 by the 2004-05 team coached by Argentinian Ricardo La Volpe.

Both teams will try to set the tone by attacking from the opening kickoff.

Aguilar is expecting another “back-and-forth” game, and Mexico knows its group-stage win will mean little if it can’t get past a Chile squad that was runner-up to Argentina in Group D.

El Tri Mexico beat Chile 1-0 in an exhibition matchup June 1 in San Diego, getting a goal in the 86th minute from Javier Hernandez but not playing its top soccer.

“The Mexican team has a style of play that when you make a mistake they make you feel it, so we have to be very focused. It’s going to be a tough match like the one in San Diego,” Chile defender Jose Pedro Fuen-

zalida said. “We will try to play our best game at this stage of the championship to keep advancing.”

Both sides know that their last game only a few weeks ago has little meaning now.

“Chile was not playing at the same level as before, but we are getting there. People remember what we did last year but it’s hard to sustain that level,” Fuenzalida said.

“We also have a new manager and you have to adapt to new methods and that takes time, but we are getting closer to what we want.”

Mexico and Chile, playing the 2015 Copa America at home, played to a 3-3 draw in the group stage last year. Chile went on to beat Argentina and Lionel Messi 4-1 on penalty kicks for La Roja’s first Copa championship.

control. Kerr also doesn’t have center Andrew Bogut, whose series-ending knee injury has deprived the Warriors of one of their best rim protectors, inviting James to assault the basket without fear.

Coach Tyronn Lue’s decision to make James, and not Irving, Cleveland’s primary playmaker has swung the series.

James’ ability to survey the defense and expose its weak spots has transformed the Cavs’ offense, which lacked rhythm and connection. This is how James played in Miami, where he and Dwyane Wade tag-teamed their way to two titles.

The third one, the one James craves most, is within reach.

He didn’t promise a championship when he came back in 2014, only to inspire. “In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given,” James said. “Everything is earned. You work for what you have.”

King James nearly has his crowning moment, his crescendo.

“Not many people in the history of sports have said: ‘Everyone get on my back. The city, state, organization, team, get on my back. If we win or fail I’ll take the blame, but I’m going to lead you.’ How many people have ever said that?” Jefferson said.

“I can’t think of too many players who have put that type of pressure on themselves and then have delivered more times than not.

“He’s doing this for his teammates. He’s doing it for everyone.”

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2009. The last practice at the 31-year-old facility in Irving was the final day of minicamp Thursday.

The deal with Frisco came together quickly three years ago, with the city’s total capped at $90 million on the stadium and a parking garage.

The school district agreed to contribute $30 million. The original plan didn’t call for any money from the Cowboys up front, only for them to handle remaining costs and assume responsibility for developing most of the 90-acre site.

Ron Patterson, Frisco’s assistant city manager, says the current cost of the city-owned stadium and garage is around $260 million. Jones estimates that the club ultimately will spend more than $1.5 billion on the site. There has been little known opposition in an area that has gained national attention over costs of high school stadiums.

“You could almost say that Jerry Jones has been writing the city of Frisco checks,” Mayor Maher Maso said. “We have a well-educated community. And they understand the finances of what the Cowboys can bring to the community. I think that’s been borne out in a multitude of ways, that this is a return to the city.”

The five-story headquarters building is on the south side of the practice fields. Fans will be able to see the fields from the main entrance or offices on the top

three floors. Team executives and other personnel will be on the first two floors. That includes Jones having an office view of the fields, something he didn’t have at Valley Ranch.

The team sold out 800 memberships for a private club that will also have a view of the practice fields, and will be open as many as 18 hours a day with the idea of members eating, working and socializing there.

“You don’t see that around the NFL cities around the country,” Maso said. “They’re fairly independent, fairly private for their practice and their corporate home. What the Jones family has done here is the exact opposite of that. They’ve opened it up and said to us, let’s sit down and figure out some new things we can do.”

The financial return for Jones figures to be similar to what he pioneered not long after buying the Cowboys when he fought for the right to break from the NFL’s sponsorship deals in order for money to flow directly to the team.

“I think what you’re really trying to see team owners do throughout sports is leverage their brands in a way to generate non-shared revenue,” said David Carter, executive director of the University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute. “I think it’s about building brand and about generating

incremental revenue.”

And Carter sees Texas high school football as a brand as well.

“Marry that with arguably one of the biggest sports brands in the world and do it in that kind of a complex, which will have so much offer all the visitors ... it’s very consistent,” Carter said.

The team’s rehab facilities will include a pool with an underwater view for athletic trainers, and one of the state’s largest hospital networks just announced plans for a facility on site that will specialize in sports medicine.

Jones Anderson said “A-plus” real estate in a high-growth area was one of the catalysts for the family’s latest spending spree.

Rather than bleachers, the Cowboys wanted chair-back seats likes those at AT&T Stadium, and a video ribbon that is a staple in most pro arenas. The plaza leading to the main stadium entrance will have a shorter turf field where youth can play under bright lights and video boards.

“It’s one of a kind and quite possibly irreplicable,” Jones Anderson said. “It’s actually not smart business to be in the high-rent district if you’re running a football team, unless you can build a community around it. And that’s what we’ve done.”

Only after Jerry Jones grew comfortable with another billion-dollar spree.

the Mountain West and West Coast Conference and now in the Pac-12. It’s great baseball out there.”

Things to know as the 70th CWS begins:

Saturday to name his starter. On Sunday, Texas Tech’s Steven Gingery (4-2, 3.25) will go against TCU’s Jared Janczak (7-3, 2.40) and Florida’s Logan Shore (12-0, 2.24) will be matched against Coastal Carolina’s Andrew Beckwith (12-1, 2.12).

was made top seed for the tournament. Coach Kevin O’Sullivan said the SEC schedule, particularly late road series, helped prepare his team for the final leg of its quest to win the program’s first national title. “I don’t know if there’s any more pressure now than there was from the beginning,” he said.

“Our players have handled it as good as they could have. They’re excited about having the draft behind them. Since last

Friday, the second day of the draft, I noticed a big sigh of relief and everyone was excited to move forward.” Eight Gators were drafted.

HOMER BINGE: A total of 208 home runs have been hit in 121 NCAA Tournament games, the most since the change in bat standards took effect in 2011. There also have been 11 grand slams, two

by Miami. The homers should slow down at the cavernous TD Ameritrade Park. There were 15 hit in 16 CWS games in 2015, the first year of the flat-seam ball put into play to tweak offense.

use their exclusive franchise tag on him again next year, putting him in the same situation.

If he didn’t suit up in 2016, they’d only be able to use a non-exclusive franchise tag on him in 2017. That would allow other teams to swoop in and offer him a megadeal that would be difficult for Denver to match.

That’s a risky proposition, a superstar missing a season in his prime and watching his popularity and marketability take a hit. The offseason began with Miller declaring 12 hours after the Super Bowl in which he starred that his contract negotiations would be peaceful.

The six-year, $114.5 million offer included $38.5 million in guarantees over the first two seasons, far below the going rate for elite players. The Broncos offered a third year at $19.5 million that would only kick in after the 2017 season.

Miller wants that third year fully guaranteed from the start. His price

assuredly has risen in the last week, too, because a couple of days after the negotiations between Miller and the Broncos hit a standstill, Eagles defensive lineman Fletcher Cox signed a six-year extension that runs through 2022 and includes $63 million in guarantees.

That’s the most ever for a non-quarterback. And he’ll get $55 million of that within the first nine months because a big portion of the guaranteed

roster have suited up for at least one game.

“I’m all up for the rotations because that helps you to stay in top shape all the time knowing that you have a shot to be the starter every game,” defender Paul Aguilar said. “We respect what the coach is doing and, for me, it helps to stay focused.”

Mexico is ranked 16th in the world and riding a 22-game undefeated

STARTING PITCHERS: Santa Barbara’s Shane Bieber (12-3, 2.84 ERA) will be matched against Oklahoma State’s Thomas Hatch (8-2, 2.04), and Miami will go with Michael Mediavilla (11-1, 3.11). Arizona’s Johnson said he would wait until

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Von Miller suggested he'll sit out the 2016 season if GM John Elway doesn't meet his contract demands.

with the giant video board hanging over the home field of the Cowboys.

The new outdoor practice fields will be a right turn out of a footballshaped locker room adjacent to the stadium.

But when quarterback Tony Romo and company come home from training camp in California in August, the Texas heat will likely mean several weeks of left turns to the indoor field — the same one that Frisco high schools will use on game nights in the district’s third stadium.

“This just totally has blown me away in terms of what we can do, the visibility, the tying it in the football, then regular athletics,” Jones said.

“This area will be a template and an example far beyond Frisco, all over the country, of an example of Romo walking off on Thursday, Friday practicing and then high school quarterbacks coming in to play football, side by side, talking to each other about the game tonight. I can see that.”

Jones acknowledged a case of “stadium fatigue” financially coming off the massive project in Arlington, about 35 miles to the southwest. But the Cowboys knew they were getting closer to replacing their aging Valley Ranch complex, which had its indoor field destroyed in a storm in

FEELING PRESSURE? Florida entered the season as the favorite to win the national championship, was No. 1 in the polls for most of the season and

POKE PITCHING: Oklahoma State has a 1.00 ERA in five national tournament games with 44 strikeouts against 16 walks. Hatch and fellow starters Tyler Buffett and Jensen Elliott have allowed three earned runs over 34 innings.

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Dear Heloise: When people get home from the beach, they may find that the SEASHELLS they brought with them can have a terrible smell.

Dead shells from the beach should be boiled in a solution of bleach and water for 20 to 30 minutes. -- A Reader, Naples, Fla. A walk along the beach -- what a great way to spend a carefree spring or summer afternoon!

When picking up shells, make sure they are empty. Soaking the shells in a 50/50 solution of bleach and water is sufficient.

The time to soak varies, depending on how many shells you have. After soaking, you may want to wipe dry.

They can make wonderful art projects, so if you have a lot of shells, see if a church or youth group can use some for summer art. -- Heloise CHEAP CLIP Dear Heloise: I have a good use for pants hang-

ers with spring clips at the end.

Remove the clips (I use tin snips) from the hanger, and you have instant bag clips. I hope this is helpful. -- Tom T., Warren, Ohio PATTERN WRAPPER Dear Heloise: I have a hint for packing fragile items -- picture frames, dishes, vases, ornaments, etc. I purchase fabric patterns from secondhand stores for 5 cents to 50 cents each. I have covered a lot of breakable treasures with these.

Some I put in plastic bags and write on the bag to identify. -- Shirley E., Otho, Iowa The patterns are printed on lightweight tissue paper -- a great way to repurpose! -- Heloise

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