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Report says Mexico state officials ignored massacre Police told to neglect calls for help

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches the U.S.-Mexico border on Oct. 3 in El Paso, Texas.

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case

By Maria Verza A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

MEXICO CITY — Mexican drug gang bosses furious at suspected turncoats sent commandos aided by local police to seize dozens — perhaps hundreds — of people, murder them and dispose of their bodies in a town near the Texas border, yet state and federal officials ignored the massacre for years, according to a government-backed report released Sunday.

The long delay in the investigation makes it impossible to determine just how many people were killed in the town of AllenZetas continues on A11

By Julián Aguilar THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

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Rosario Villanueva and Yolanda Moran hold pictures of their missing sons Oscar German Herrera and Dan Jeremeel Fernandez, who disappeared in 2009 and 2008 respectively, as they attend the presentation of the independent inquiry into the massacre of 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas in August 2010 and the disappearance of residents of Allende, Coahuila, in 2011, at the Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City on October 9, 2016.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday it would consider a controversial Texas case involving a cross-border shooting that ended with the death of a 15-year-old boy at the hands of a Border Patrol agent.

Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca was killed in 2010 by agent Jesus Mesa Jr., who was patrolling the banks of the Rio Grande in El Paso during what was called a “rock-throwing incident.”

Hernandez was on the Mexican side of the international boundary in Ciudad Juárez when Mesa fatally shot him from the Texas side.

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2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

EDUCATION

TRUMP BAGS $5 MILLION IN S.A., DALLAS EVENTS

Schools want to make it easier to transfer Forces join in Texas

By Matthew Watkins TH E TEXAS T RI BUNE

The path has been open for decades to students who want a bachelor’s degree: If a student doesn’t have the tuition money or isn’t ready to leave home, community college is a good place to start.

But financial, logistical and psychological barriers often get in the way. More than threequarters of first-time college students who enroll in community colleges don’t transfer to a four-year school within six years.

Lately, universities across the state have teamed up with community colleges to try to change that. Many have formed new partnerships designed to make the transition from one school to the other seamless. The deals reflect a growing commitment in the state and nationwide to promote two-year colleges as a cost-effective way to begin working toward a four-year degree.

“Programs like these are an ideal way to steer around all the pitfalls,” said David Fonken, a dean at Austin Community College.

Perhaps no Texas university has made a bigger effort in recent years than Texas A&M University. Officials there have Schools continues on A11

Jerry Lara / San Antonio Express-News

Protestors gather outside the Grand Hyatt Regency where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a fundraiser in San Antonio, Tuesday.

No cancellations cited after controversial comments

By John W. Gonzalez and Fauzeya Rahman SAN ANTONIO EXPRE SS-NEWS

Making scant reference to negative developments in his campaign, GOP presidential candidate Donald

Trump got a rousing reception from San Antonio donors on Trump Tuesday in what could be his final South

Texas swing of the campaign.

Addressing a sold-out luncheon with several hundred guests at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Trump said he’s “all in” for the final weeks of battle with Democrat Hillary Clinton, even

though some leading Republicans including House Speaker Paul Ryan aren’t at his side, attendees said.

Trump said he expects his poll numbers to improve soon, even as he duels with fellow Republicans who were

angered by recent revelations about Trump comments that denigrated women.

It was preaching to the choir for the San Antonio audience, which Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick described as Trump continues on A11

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CALENDAR

AROUND THE NATION

TODAY IN HISTORY

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12

ASSOCIATED PRE SS

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SRX Chess Club. Every Wednesday, 4–5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Learn the basics of chess and compete with friends.

Limited chess sets available for use.

1 Relay For Life 2017 Kickoff. 6 to 8 p.m. Firefighters’ Union Hall, 5219 Tesoro Plaza.

1 City Council District IV Forum.

6:30 p.m. Laredo Community College’s Kazen Student Center. Hosted by the Laredo Next Generation Rotary Club. Gain knowledge on the candidates and what they plan to do if elected.

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 12, the 286th day of 2016. There are 80 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 12, 1492 (according to the Old Style calendar), Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 1

Wii U Gaming. Every Thursday, 4–5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Game with friends on Wii U. 1 Laredo Area Retired School Employees Association monthly meeting. 11 a.m. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2219 Galveston St.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 1

DUPLO Fun Time. Every Friday, 10:30–11:30 a.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco Street. LEGOs for toddlers.

1 Rodeo for The Cure featuring the third annual Youth Ranch Hand. 7 p.m.

LIFE Downs. Hosted by Brush Country Trail Riders.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 1

First day of the annual Pumpkin Patch. 7 a.m.–7 p.m. First United Methodist Church lawn, 1220 McClelland Ave. 1 11th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Trail Ride. 9 a.m. LIFE Downs.

Hosted by Brush Country Trail Riders.

1 St. John Neumann Church Jamaica. 4 p.m.–10 p.m. St. John Neumann Church, 102 W Hillside Road. Delicious food, entertaining games, and plenty of music and entertainment. Fun for the whole family.

1 Rodeo for The Cure featuring the 2nd Women’s Ranch Rodeo. 4 p.m.

LIFE Downs. Hosted by Brush Country Trail Riders.

1 Rodeo for The Cure featuring the seventh annual Ranch Rodeo for The Cure. 7 p.m. LIFE Downs. Hosted by Brush Country Trail Riders.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 1

Pumpkin Patch. Noon–7 p.m. First United Methodist Church lawn, 1220 McClelland Ave. 1 The Laredo Phil presents “Heavenly Peace.” 3–5 p.m. TAMIU Recital Hall. $20. The theme for this season is “Music of Peace, Joy & Love.” Dr. Fritz Gechter, associate professor of piano at TAMIU will perform as the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 38. Show is free for full time students with ID. For tickets and more information visit the Laredo Phil website at www.laredophil.com or call 326-3042.

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Austin Snowten stands in a flooded street caused by remnants of Hurricane Matthew on Tuesday in Fair Bluff, North Carolina. Thousands of homes have been damaged as a result of the storm.

N.C. BRACES FOR MORE FLOODING GREENVILLE, N.C. — A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea.

Matthew’s death toll in the U.S. climbed to 33, more than half of them in North Carolina, in addition to the more than 500 feared dead in Haiti.

In Greenville, a city of 90,000, officials warned that the Tar River would over-

Feds to bring contempt charge against sheriff PHOENIX — Prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge Sheriff Joe Arpaio with criminal contempt-of-court for defying a judge’s orders to end his signature immigration patrols in Arizona, exposing the 84year-old lawman to the possibility of jail time and clouding his political future as he seeks a seventh term.

The announcement in federal

whelm every bridge in the county by sundown, splitting it in half before the river crests late Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered there and in such communities as Goldsboro and Kinston, as rivers swelled to some of the highest levels ever recorded. Tens of thousands of people, some of them as much as 125 miles inland, have been warned to move to higher ground since the hurricane drenched the state with more than a foot of rain over the weekend during a run up the East Coast from Florida.

— Compiled from AP reports

court sets in motion criminal proceedings against the sheriff less than a month before Election Day and comes as he has taken on a prominent role on the national political stage in 2016, appearing alongside Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on several occasions.

Arpaio has acknowledged violating the order to stop the immigration patrols but insists his disobedience wasn’t intentional.

U.S. District Judge Murray Snow previously recommended

criminal contempt charges against Arpaio but left it up to federal prosecutors to actually bring the case.

Prosecutor John Keller said in court that the government will bring a misdemeanor contempt charge, with the next step being a court filing, possibly in the next day, that’s akin to a criminal complaint.

Arpaio could face up to six months in jail if convicted of misdemeanor contempt.

— Compiled from AP reports

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 1

Pumpkin Patch. 11 a.m.–7 p.m. First United Methodist Church lawn, 1220 McClelland Ave. 1 Flu Vaccine Clinic. 1–4 p.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco Street. $20.

Cash, credit cards or checks accepted.

Free for those with Medicare Part B or Blue Cross Blue Shield. Proof of insurance required. For adults only. Vaccines provided and administered by the City of Laredo Health Department.

1 Chess Club. 4–6 p.m. Every Monday. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Compete in this cherished strategy game played internationally.

Free. For all ages and skill levels.

Instruction is offered.

1 Movie and Popcorn. Every Monday, 4–5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Enjoy a family movie and refreshments.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 1

Pumpkin Patch. 11 a.m.–7 p.m. First United Methodist Church lawn, 1220 McClelland Ave. 1 Rock wall climbing. 4–5:30 p.m.

LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Take the challenge and climb the rock wall! Fun exercise for all ages. Free. Bring ID. Must sign release form. Every Tuesday. For more information, call 795-2400 x2520.

1 LEGO Workshop. Every Tuesday, 4–5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Create with LEGOs, DUPLOs and robotics.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19

AROUND TEXAS

Ten years ago: Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel prize in literature.

Five years ago: A Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab defiantly told a federal judge in Detroit that he had acted in retaliation for the killing of Muslims worldwide.

One year ago: Princeton University’s Angus Deaton won the Nobel prize in economics for work that helped redefine the way poverty was measured around the world, notably in India. Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News’ medical unit, drowned while on vacation in Hawaii; she was 31.

‘Beardog’ discovery offers clues to how canines evolved For decades a fossilized carnivore jawbone sat largely unnoticed in a drawer at Chicago’s Field Museum.

Now the scientist who grew curious when he opened that drawer has established with a colleague that the fossil belonged to an early, long-extinct relative of dogs, foxes and weasels known as a beardog. The Field Museum fossil and another at the University of Texas each represent a new genus, the taxonomic rank above species.

The researchers believe these beardogs, which lived up to 40 million years ago, may eventually tell the world more about the evolution of dogs and other carnivores and how animals adapt to changes in climate.

According to a paper to be published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open

On this date: In 1810, the German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia, at age 63.

In 1915, English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during World War I. Former President Theodore Roosevelt, speaking to the Knights of Columbus in New York, criticized native-born Americans who identified themselves by dual nationalities, saying that “a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”

In 1933, bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber.

In 1942, during World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance.

Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.

In 1964, the Soviet Union launched a Voskhod space capsule with a three-man crew on the first mission involving more than one crew member (the flight lasted just over 24 hours).

In 1976, it was announced in China that Hua Guofeng had been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party; it was also announced that Mao’s widow and three others, known as the “Gang of Four,” had been arrested.

In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.

In 1986, the superpower meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.

In 1997, singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53.

In 2000, 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.

In 2002, bombs blamed on alQaida-linked militants destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians and seven Americans.

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This undated illustration provided by The Field Museum in Chicago shows an artist’s reconstruction of a beardog.

Science, the jawbones belonged to two closely related types of Chihuahua-sized beardogs, new genera now named Gustafsonia and Angelarctocyon.

The Field Museum fossil set off the research by post-doctoral researcher Susumu Tomiya, who works at the museum and spends much time taking care of its large collection of fossils.

The fossil was discovered in Texas in 1946 and 30 years ago was loosely classified as some type of carnivore. But no one knew where it fit into the carnivore family, said Tomiya, who authored the paper with Jack Tseng of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE WORLD

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Antonia Rey is 89. Comedian-activist Dick Gregory is 84. Former Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, is 84. Singer Sam Moore (formerly of Sam and Dave) is 81.

Broadcast journalist Chris Wallace is 69. Actress-singer Susan Anton is 66.

Rock singer-musician Pat DiNizio is 61.

Pop/rock singer/songwriter Jane Siberry is 61. Actor Hiroyuki Sanada is 56. Actor Carlos Bernard is 54. Jazz musician Chris Botti is 54. Rhythmand-blues singer Claude McKnight (Take 6) is 54. Rock singer Bob Schneider is 51. Actor Hugh Jackman is 48. Actor Adam Rich is 48. Country musician Martie Maguire (Courtyard Hounds, The Dixie Chicks) is 47. Actor Kirk Cameron is 46. Olympic gold medal skier Bode Miller is 39. Rock singer Jordan Pundik (New Found Glory) is 37. Actor Brian J. Smith is 35.

Actor Tyler Blackburn is 30. Actor Marcus T. Paulk is 30. Actor Josh Hutcherson is 24.

Thought for Today: “To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.” —Minna Antrim, American writer (1861-1950).

CONTACT US

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Pumpkin Patch. 11 a.m.–7 p.m. First United Methodist Church lawn, 1220 McClelland Ave. 1 SRX Chess Club. Every Wednesday, 4–5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Learn the basics of chess and compete with friends.

Limited chess sets available for use.

1 Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America. 7 p.m. TAMIU Student Center Ballroom, 5201 University Blvd.

International Bank of Commerce Keynote Speaker Series presentation featuring Tamara Draut. The event is free and open to the public.

Colombian youth set up tent city to demand peace deal BOGOTA, Colombia — Dozens of activists have raised a multicolored, makeshift tent city in Bogota’s main square to demand the government and rebels save a deal meant to end a half century of conflict — part of a belated outburst of activism across the country by Colombians stunned at last week’s unexpected defeat of the peace

accord in a referendum.

The mostly youthful demonstrators at what’s called the “Peace Camp” reject any political affiliation. Organizers say their only goal is to make sure the peace deal signed last month by the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia isn’t scuttled.

The first two tents were raised the night of Oct. 5 after as many as 25,000 people poured into the streets of downtown Bogota to back the rejected accord. Within less

than a week, the impromptu encampment has grown to 70 tents surrounded by bunting in the color of the Colombian flag and adorned with white balloons and flowers symbolizing peace. Hundreds of other Colombians joined the group in Bogota’s Plaza Bolivar on Wednesday to sew a giant quilt with the names of 1,900 victims of the conflict. Each of the names was written in giant block letters stenciled in ash on individual pieces of white cloth.

— Compiled from AP reports

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LOCAL & STATE Death row inmate Danny Bible loses at US Supreme Court

By Michael Graczyk A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an appeal from Texas death row inmate Danny Paul Bible, who was convicted of the 1979 icepick slaying of a woman who went to his house in Houston to use a telephone and was found later stabbed 11 times, raped and dumped on the bank of a bayou.

The high court offered no comment on its rejection.

Bible, 65, does not yet have an execution date.

Court Bible records show Bible has confessed to four killings, including 20-year-old Inez Deaton, whose slaying went unsolved for nearly two decades. He wasn’t tied to her death until 1998 when he was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, for a Louisiana rape and told authorities about killing Deaton in Houston and a woman and her baby west of Fort Worth in North Texas.

Bible previously served prison time after pleading guilty in 1984 in Palo Pinto County to killing another woman.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice records show he arrived in prison with a 25-year sentence for that slaying plus 20 years for a robbery conviction in Harris County but was released in February 1992 to Montana.

While out of prison on a form of parole known as mandatory supervision, Bible “lived a life of extreme violence,” according to a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year when Bible’s appeal of his death sentence was rejected. It’s that appeal that went to the Supreme Court.

At his 2003 capital murder trial in Houston for Deaton’s death, prosecutors provided evidence of robberies, thefts, assaults and abductions, including the rape of an 11-year-old girl in Montana and his confessions to repeated sexual assaults of young nieces from 1996 to 1998.

Bible contended in his appeal that his lawyers, during the punishment phase of his capital murder trial in Houston, were deficient for not objecting to prosecutors’ re-enacting a rape and how Bible tried to stuff his victim into a duffel bag. He also said in the appeal that he is disabled and in permanent pain after the prison van carrying him to death row in 2003 crashed, killing a corrections officer and the driver of another vehicle involved in the wreck.

Bible’s appeals attorney, Margaret Schmucker, said Tuesday that her next option could be to seek clemency from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, although Abbott and previous governors have little history of commuting death sentences to life in prison.

Bible is “not a danger to anybody,” Schmucker said. “He can’t get out of a wheelchair by himself.

He can’t lift his arms. He can’t do anything.”

He also has a Louisiana sentence of life without parole, she said.

Martha Gonzalez Keiser, left, and Krizia Pacheco pose for a photograph Monday morning at the Bartlett Soccer Complex in Laredo where a ground breaking ceremony was held for the Krizia L. Keiser Memorial Garden.

The City of Laredo, Keep Laredo Beautiful and the Krizia L. Keiser Memorial Foundation will set up the garden in honor of the the 18-year-old who gave life to three people by donating her organs after she died in June 2013 from a massive brain aneurysm.

Disability Alliance Job Fair coming up in Laredo SPECIAL TO THE TIME S

Workforce Solutions South Texas is reminding Zapatans that the third annual Laredo Disability Alliance Job Fair will take place this month.

The event is Thursday, Oct. 27 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Ambassador Event Center, 7128 Rosson Lane in Laredo.

Workforce Solutions South Texas serves Jim Hogg, Webb and Zapata counties.

The Workforce Center in Zapata is located at 605 U.S. Hwy 83, Suite B. For more information, you can call 765-1804

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Laredo garden named for teen

Investigators ordered to work OT to check on at-risk kids ASSOCIATED PRE SS

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In this June 7 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Cruz says he’s still standing by Trump after vulgar video ASSOCIATED PRE SS

AUSTIN — Sen. Ted Cruz says he’s standing

by Donald Trump, refusing to withdraw support that he offered in a surprising about-face barely two weeks ago.

Cruz said while visiting the small Texas town of Muleshoe on Monday, “I am supporting the Republican nominee because I think Hillary Clinton is an absolute disaster.”

He didn’t name Trump, but added that he’d “articulated at great length”

his differences with the businessman during the Republican primary.

Cruz spent months as a Trump holdout only to announce his support last month — two weeks before a 2005 video surfaced Friday showing Trump making vulgar comments about women.

Cruz had previously denounced Trump’s “disturbing and inappropriate” comments, but not said whether he’d join some Republicans in urging Trump to step aside as GOP presidential nominee.

AUSTIN — Texas officials ordered child welfare investigators to work overtime this weekend to ensure that kids at risk of abuse are being seen and evaluated.

State Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins told The Dallas Morning News the workers will have face-to-face visits in Bexar, Dallas and Harris counties.

State records released earlier this week show that investigators are still not promptly checking on thousands of kids as Texas grapples with a shortage of caseworkers.

Around the Houston area alone, nearly 270 kids considered at serious risk never had a

face-to-face visit with an investigator from March to September.

Overtime will be paid to investigators and supervisors for several weeks, according to an agency email obtained by the newspaper. CPS workers elsewhere in Texas also are being asked to travel this month to Dallas, Houston or San Antonio to assist with cases for at least a week.

Crimmins said in an email Friday to the newspaper that not everyone assigned to the metro areas is required to work this weekend, “just whoever has kids they have not seen or who have not documented attempts or actual visits.”

“Getting to children

who may be in danger before they are harmed is why CPS exists, and we obviously have to do a better job,” he said.

The data released Tuesday by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which oversees CPS, is more evidence of a troubled system that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to overhaul. He appointed new leadership in April but scores of at-risk children are still going unseen.

Texas struggles to retain low-paid caseworkers and had a turnover rate of 33 percent last year.

An Abbott spokesman has said the governor will continue pushing reforms.

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OTHER VIEWS

COLUMN

Trump’s sad, lonely life The point of town hall debates is that regular voters get to ask questions. In every town hall I’ve seen, the candidate turns to the voter, listens attentively and directs the answer at least partially back to that person.

The candidates do that because it’s polite, because it looks good to be seen taking others seriously and because most of us instinctively want to make some connection with the people we are talking to.

Hillary Clinton, not exactly a paragon of intimacy, behaved in the normal manner Sunday night. But Donald Trump did not. Trump treated his questioners as unrelatable automatons and delivered his answers to the void, even when he had the chance to seem sympathetic to an appealing young Islamic woman.

That underlines the essential loneliness of Donald Trump.

Politics is an effort to make human connection, but Trump seems incapable of that. He is essentially adviser-less, friendless.

His campaign team is made up of cold mercenaries at best and Roger Ailes at worst. His party treats him as a stench it can’t yet remove.

He was a germaphobe through most of his life and cut off contact with others, and now I just picture him alone in the middle of the night, tweeting out hatred.

Trump breaks his own world record for being appalling on a weekly basis, but as the campaign sinks to new low after new low, I find myself experiencing feelings of deep sadness and pity.

Imagine if you had to go through a single day without sharing kind little moments with strangers and friends.

Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision.

You would be a twisted, tortured shrivel, too, and maybe you’d lash out and try to take cruel revenge on the universe. For Trump this is his whole life.

Trump continues to display the symptoms of narcissistic alexithymia, the inability to understand or describe the emotions in the self. Unable to know themselves, sufferers are unable to understand, relate or attach to others.

To prove their own existence, they hunger for endless attention from outside. Lacking internal measures of their own worth, they rely on external but insecure criteria like wealth, beauty, fame and others’ submission.

Most of us derive a warm satisfaction when

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DAVID BROOKS

we feel our lives are aligned with ultimate values. But Trump lives in an alternative, amoral Howard Stern universe where he cannot enjoy the sweetness that altruism and community service can occasionally bring.

Bullies only experience peace when they are cruel.

Their blood pressure drops the moment they beat the kid on the playground.

Imagine you are Trump. You are trying to bluff your way through a debate. You’re running for an office you’re completely unqualified for. You are chasing some glimmer of validation that recedes ever further from view.

Your only rest comes when you are insulting somebody, when you are threatening to throw your opponent in jail, when you are looming over her menacingly like a mafioso thug on the precipice of a hit, when you are bellowing that she has “tremendous hate in her heart” when it is clear to everyone you are only projecting what is in your own.

Trump’s emotional makeup means he can hit only a few notes: fury and aggression. In some ways, his debate performances look like primate dominance displays — filled with chest beating and looming growls. But at least primates have bands to connect with, whereas Trump is so alone, if a tree fell in his emotional forest, it would not make a sound.

It’s all so pathetic.

On Monday, one of Trump’s conservative critics, Erick Erickson, published a moving essay called “If I Die Before You Wake… .” Erickson has been the object of vicious assaults by Trump supporters. He and his wife are both facing serious health ailments and may pass before their children are grown. Yet as the essay makes clear, both are living lives of love, faith, devotion and service. Both have an ultimate confidence in the goodness of creation and their grace-filled place in it.

You may share that faith or not, but Erickson is living an attached life — emotionally, spiritually, morally and communally.

Donald Trump’s life, by contrast, looks superficially successful and profoundly miserable. None of us would want to live in the howling wilderness of his own solitude, no matter how thick the gilding.

David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times.

OP-ED

Many struggles won religious freedom

By James A. Haught TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Freedom of religion means that nobody — not the government nor the surrounding culture — can tell you what to believe. All people are free to reach their own conclusions about faith.

Oct. 27 is International Religious Freedom Day, so it’s a good time to ponder the many, many battles that won this precious right.

In past centuries, religious wars, persecutions and cruelties were common. Crusades against Muslims, Reformation wars between Catholics and Protestants, pogroms against Jews, Inquisition tortures of nonconformists, witch hunts, eradication of Anabaptists, bloody jihads, etc.

— history is full of horrors.

Physician-scholar Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of blood, was burned at the stake in Calvinist Geneva in 1553 for doubting the Trinity. His own books were used for his pyre.

Philosopher-scientist Giordano Bruno was burned in Rome in 1600 for teaching that the universe is infinite, with many stars that might be accompanied by planets.

The Enlightenment gradually changed western civilization, instilling a new sense that faith is personal, not to be dictated by authorities. It slowly bred the separation of church and state, forbidding the use of government force to impose beliefs. But many struggles were required to achieve it. Here’s an example:

When Quakers first began expressing their beliefs in the 1600s, England’s ruling Puritans under Oliver Cromwell denounced and persecuted them. Many fled to the New World — unfortunately to Puritan Massachusetts, where they were persecuted anew.

Massachusetts law required that all residents attend Puritan worship.

In 1658 the Massachusetts legislature decreed that Quakers must be banned, on pain of death. Quakers arriving by ship were seized and jailed, and their books burned.

But Quakers stubbornly defied expulsion, returning repeatedly to hold worship services in homes. Persecution intensified. New laws decreed that Quakers would be flogged, or have their ears cut off, or their foreheads branded, or their tongues burned through by a hot iron.

Any resident who sheltered a Quaker was fined.

Quaker resistance finally forced a showdown. In 1659, three unrepentant Quakers — Marmaduke Stevenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer — were tried on capital charges and sentenced to death. The two men were hanged in Boston Commons on Oct. 27, 1659, but the woman was reprieved and banished. However, she stubbornly returned to defy the Puritan law, and was hanged in 1660. The following year a fourth Quaker, William Leddra, also was hanged.

By this time, some Massachusetts Puritans became revolted by their colony’s cruelty and tried to soften Quaker punishments. In 1661 King

Charles II ordered the colony to halt executions.

He sent a royal governor who passed a Toleration Act allowing some believers to hold unorthodox beliefs. It was a breakthrough for freedom of religion.

Peaceful acceptance of all sorts of religious views is central to democracy. Separation of church and state was locked into the First Amendment of America’s Bill of Rights.

Virginia’s historic Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and finally passed in 1786, declares "that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion."

Similar guarantees of church-state separation later were written into France’s Rights of Man and the Citizen, and into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations.

By coincidence, the first Boston Quakers were hanged on Oct. 27 — the same calendar date that skeptic Michael Servetus was burned in Geneva. So that date eventually was adopted for International Religious Freedom Day, one of many observations little-known to the public. Meanwhile, America has a different Religious

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Freedom Day, Jan. 16, marking the date that Jefferson’s statute was signed into law.

Here’s another religious freedom breakthrough: During the patriotic fervor of World War II, some Jehovah’s Witnesses in West Virginia enraged neighbors because they refused to salute the flag and wouldn’t let their children do so in public schools. They said their religion required them to swear allegiance only to God. Some Witness families were brutalized or humiliated.

Witness children were expelled from school for their "unpatriotic" behavior. But the American Civil Liberties Union fought their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the children in a famed 1943 decision (West Virginia State Board of Education v.

Barnette). The court said personal beliefs are "beyond the reach of majorities and officials." Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote eloquently: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."

Today — although few people know that Oct. 27 is a special day of observation — freedom to believe as one wishes is locked securely in the heart of democracy.

James A. Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail.

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Will Clinton move to the right? Liberals are watching

By Ken Thomas A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

WASHINGTON — Liberals say they’re watching.

Some Democratic activists say Hillary Clinton’s private speeches to Wall Street bankers and other moneyed interests in 2013 and 2014 confirm their long-held suspicions she will revert to more moderate positions — and choose like-minded members of her Cabinet and administration — if she’s elected president.

The speech revelations have been overshadowed by the past week’s firestorm over presidential rival Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about women. But Clinton’s comments will surely be

an undercurrent in her transition and the start of her presidency if she wins the White House.

“Wall Street doesn’t pay a quarter of a million dollars for her to come and tell them how bad they are. What she said is pretty much exactly what we expected,” says Charles Chamberlain of Democracy for America, which unsuccessfully tried to draft Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren into the 2016 campaign and then backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“The day after she’s elected president, progressives will have to hold her accountable and fight with her to make sure she passes powerful, progressive populism,” he said.

Clinton’s campaign has

neither confirmed nor denied the content of the material that emerged after campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal email account was hacked by the WikiLeaks organization. But a summary of potentially troublesome comments flagged in a January 2016 email from Clinton’s campaign research director underscored concerns about how the speeches might be perceived by Democratic primary voters.

Clinton spoke of a need for political deal-making, telling real estate investors “you need both a public and private position,” and told another group that both political parties should be “sensible, moderate, pragmatic.” Before Deutsche Bank, she said

Doug Mills / New York Times

Hillary Clinton pauses during a campaign event with former Vice President Al Gore at the Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus in Miami, Monday.

financial reform “really has to come from the industry itself.” On trade, she said she dreamed of a “hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”

In a 2013 discussion with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Clinton said there was a bias in politics “against people who have led successful

and/or complicated lives.”

She also told Morgan Stanley that the findings of the Simpson-Bowles commission to cut the national debt, which called for raising the retirement age for Social Security, achieved the right framework. “You have to restrain spending, you have to have adequate revenues, and you have to

have growth,” she said.

In a matchup against Trump, whose campaign has been rocked by his 11-year-old caught-on-tape comments about women, Sanders supporters have largely rallied behind Clinton as their best chance of championing progressive causes like economic equality and debt-free college.

Senate, House Dems see new opportunity from Trump tapes

By Erica Werner and Alan Fram A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

WASHINGTON — Democrats trying to retake the House and Senate see new opportunity from the tape of Donald Trump talking about women in crude, predatory terms.

The footage has already prompted ads in at least four House races as well as the hard-fought New Hampshire Senate contest, and may be giving new life to Democratic efforts to tie Republican candidates to the GOP presidential nominee.

Such efforts have had mixed results so far, and it remains to be seen how much the new audio and video tape of Trump talking about groping and kissing women will

change that. Several GOP Senate candidates in toptier races, including New Hampshire, announced over the weekend they were pulling support from Trump. House Speaker Paul Ryan declared Monday that he will not campaign for or defend the nominee, giving House Republicans permission to dump him.

But officials in both parties say they will not know the extent of the damage to Trump, or the impact on down-ballot races, until polling results filter in later this week and next.

For now, though, the reaction is optimism on the part of Democrats, and concern from Republicans.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi told

Obtained by The Washington Post

Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on “Days of Our Lives” in 2005 with actress Arianne Zucker.

upbeat House Democrats on a conference call Tuesday that if the election were held today, Democrats would take back the House — although few are quite that bullish, given the Republicans’ 246-186 seat advantage.

“We are expanding our universe of opportunities,” Rep. Ben Ray Lujan,

chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said on the same conference call.

Lujan pointed to new polling showing Democrats had opened up the biggest advantage on the question of which party voters preferred to control Congress since Republicans shut down the

government two years ago.

The comments were confirmed by a Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the private conference call.

In an open House seat in Wisconsin, Democrat Tom Nelson is airing an ad using the new Trump audio and attacking opponent Mike Gallagher, who’s been favored to win.

An ad supporting GOP Rep. Darrell Issa’s Democratic challenger in San Diego, Doug Applegate, uses repeated clips from the Trump tape along with photos showing a smiling Issa clasping hands with Trump.

In an open seat in Pennsylvania, an ad by Democrat Christina Hartman shows some of the

footage along with clips of Republican Lloyd Smucker praising Trump.

“Trump and Smucker, wrong for women, wrong for us,” the ad says.

In Minnesota, Democratic challenger Terri Bonoff talks to the camera in an ad hitting GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen for not distancing himself from the Republican presidential candidate until now.

And in the New Hampshire Senate race, Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan uses the new Trump footage, and a clip of Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte saying during a debate that she would “absolutely” view Trump as a role model. Ayotte later said she misspoke, and on Saturday she withdrew her endorsement of Trump.

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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE FERIAS DE SALUD 1 La Oficina de Servicios Fronterizos de DSHS y el Consejo Binacional de Salud SMAC, invitan al público a acudir a dos ferias de salud.

Una se llevará a cabo en Colonias Unidas en Río Grande City el 13 de octubre de 8 a.m. a 11 a.m.; la segunda se realizará el mismo día en el Centro Comunitario Roma de 2 p.m. a 4 p.m. Informes al 956-729-8600.

REUNIÓN ANUAL 1 La Asociación de Derechos de Propiedad del Sur de Texas invita a su 11ava.

Reunión Anual y Recaudación de Fondos en el centro Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Center desde las 2:30 p.m. a las 7 p.m., el 13 de octubre. John Cornyn, Senador de EU será el orador invitado, además de otros conferencias.

Habrá cena, espectáculo, rifas y subastas silencias y en vivo.

CURSOS DE LENGUAJE DE SIGNOS (ASL) 1 El Departamento de Educación Especial local está ofreciendo clases de Lenguaje Americano de Signos para el personal profesional y paraprofesional así como para padres, estudiantes o administradores del distrito Zapata County Independent School District, todos los jueves desde el 20 de octubre al 15 de diciembre (ocho semanas de duración). En el horario de 4:15 p.m. a 5:15 p.m. en el laboratorio de computadoras de la escuela primaria Zapata North Elementary School.

Mayores informes al (956) 285-6877.

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Dos sospechosos son detenidos en México Por Judith Rayo TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Dos individuos que eran buscados para ser interrogados en conexión con el doble homicidio de una pareja en Lakeside, fueron detenidos por las autoridades mexicanas, confirmó la policía de Laredo.

A finales de junio, George O. Rodríguez, de 20 años de edad, y Alondra Arroyo, de 19 años de edad, fueron encontrados muertos en un lote vacío en la subdivisión Lakeside.

Francisco Villarreal Jr.

y Ernesto Rodriguez Jr. fueron arrestados el pasado miércoles en Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, después de un enfrentamiento con la policía, reportaron diversos medios de comunicación. Durante el enfrentamiento, Villarreal Jr. recibió un disparo en la pierna y fue llevado al Hospital Universitario. Ambos individuos fueron acusados por posesión de cocaína.

El departamento de policía de Laredo busca a Villarreal Jr. en conexión con el tiroteo

de Esteban Yruegas, de 22 años de edad, ocurrido el 13 de Junio. Rodriguez y Villarreal Jr. habían llegado a la casa de Yruegas a recolectar el impuesto por vender drogas ilegales.

La policía de Laredo emitió una orden de arresto para Rodriguez y Villarreal Jr. Ambos fueron acusados de asalto agravado con un arma de fuego.

Después del tiroteo, Rodriguez y Arroyo fueron reportados como desaparecidos.

TAMAULIPAS

COLUMNA

INICIA SEMANA NACIONAL DE SALUD Foto de cortesía

Prisioneros huertistas frente al viejo Palacio de Gobierno, Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., 1913.

Un homicida gobernaría Tamaulipas Por Raúl Sinencio Chávez

EXHIBICIÓN DE ÁRBOLES FAMILIARES 1 El Museo de Historia del Condado de Zapata y la Sociedad de Genealogía Nuevo Santander invitan a la exhibición de árboles familiares y cocina en sartenes de hierro fundido el viernes 21 de octubre y sábado 22 de octubre de 10 a.m. a 2 p.m. El evento se llevará a cabo en el Museo de Historia del Condado de Zapata.

FIESTA FAMILIAR DE HALLOWEEN 1 La Patrulla Fronteriza y el Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre invitan a la fiesta familiar del terror el viernes 29 de octubre en el Parque Municipal de Roma.de 5 a 9 p.m.

Habrá concursos de disfraces para todas las edades, juegos, comida y mucho más.

FESTIVAL DE OTOÑO 1 La comunidad de Zapata y los comerciantes locales invitan al 1er. Festival de Otoño que se realizará el lunes 31 de octubre, desde las 5 p.m., en los terrenos de la feria del Condado de Zapata.

MUSEO EN ZAPATA A los interesados en realizar una investigación sobre genealogía de la región, se sugiere visitar el Museo del Condado de Zapata ubicado en 805 N US-Hwy 83. Opera de 10 a.m. a 4 p.m.

Existen visitas guiadas.

Foto de cortesía

George O. Rodríguez, de 20 años de edad, y Alondra Arroyo, de 19 años de edad, fueron encontrados muertos en un lote vacío en la subdivisión Lakeside a finales de junio

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Foto de cortesía | Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas

El Gobernador de Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca junto a su esposa, Mariana Gómez, presidenta del Sistema DIF, dieron arranque a la Tercera Semana Nacional de Salud. Del 10 al 14 de octubre se llevarán a cabo diversas acciones para proteger y prevenir la salud de la niñez tamaulipeca.

Proyectan administrar miles de vacunas a menores E SPECIAL PARA TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas— El Gobernador Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca y su esposa Mariana Gómez de García Cabeza de Vaca, Presidenta del Patronato del Sistema para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF) Tamaulipas, pusieron en marcha la Tercera Semana Nacional de Salud en la que se realizarán casi dos millones de acciones como aplicación de dosis de vacunas, distribución de sobres de Vida Suero Oral, entrega de vitaminas y pláticas de salud a los tamaulipecos.

Del 10 al 14 de octubre se administrarán un total de 111 mil 561 dosis de vacunas, que incluyen dosis contra el Virus de Papilo-

ma Humano, Tétanos y Difteria, también la vacuna Pentavalente, contra la Hepatitis B; Rotavirus, Neumococo, Sarampión, Rubeola y Parotiditis, entre otras.

“Durante estos días tendremos el apoyo de todo un ejército de hombres y mujeres, un ejército compuesto por más de ocho mil 672 elementos entre vacunadores, voluntarios, personal de unidades de salud, personal de sitios de concentración y brigadistas así como el funcionamiento de mil 860 puestos de vacunación de los cuales 535 serán fijos, mil 325 semifijos”, señaló el Ejecutivo Estatal En el evento fue celebrado en la Escuela Primaria “Cámara Nacional de Comercio”,

Por su parte La Presidenta del Patronato del Sistema DIF Tamaulipas, declaró oficialmente el inicio de esta Tercera Semana Nacional de Salud al tiempo que resaltó la importancia de este tipo de campañas que ayudan a prevenir enfermedades en el futuro en la niñez tamaulipeca.

La Secretaria de Salud Lydia Madero García, explicó que durante esta semana se conjuntarán los esfuerzos de todas las instituciones del Sistema Estatal de Salud, de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, de las instituciones educativas, de los gobiernos municipales y de la sociedad en general, para que de manera coordinada se lleven a cabo todas estas acciones de prevención.

De Ciudad Victoria huyen fuerzas de Victoriano Huerta el 18 de noviembre de 1913. En parapetos defensivos quedan los cuerpos acribillados de numerosos ancianos, como Juan Padrón, víctimas de abusiva leva. Acomodándose retorcido bigote, encabeza la enorme columna el general Antonio Rábago Maldonado, cuyos turbios antecedentes pasan hoy desapercibidos en Tamaulipas.

Ansiosos de restablecer viejas canonjías porfirianas, los traidores desbordaban ríos de sangre.

Mediante fallido cuartelazo abren la Decena Trágica en la Ciudad de México el 9 de febrero de 1913.

Repuestos, el miércoles 19 arrancan las renuncias del presidente Francisco I. Madero y del vicepresidente José María Pino Suárez, cautivos ambos.

Pedro Lascuráin asume por 45 minutos la presidencia, sólo para entregársela a Huerta.

Madero y Pino Suárez son ultimados e igual suerte corren después el senador Belisario Domínguez y los diputados Serapio Rendón y Adolfo Gurrión, críticos de la tiranía. El Congreso termina sustituido por la fuerza.

Matías Guerra da pronto reconocimiento al magnicida que ocupa el Palacio Nacional. Por último, le entrega de manera servil la gubernatura. Con el propósito de que la asuma, Huerta envía a Rábago Maldonado, dispensándole amplias confianzas.

Rábago nace en Celaya, Guanajuato. Bajo el régimen de Porfirio Díaz se incorpora al instituto armado y desarrolla com-

plicidades. En resumidas cuentas, ni posee la ciudadanía de Tamaulipas, ni alcanza estatus civil.

Rábago Maldonado resulta por decreto gobernador el 24 de julio de 1913. Impone a despótico visitador político en los municipios del sur y el Ayuntamiento de Tampico se desintegra. Ya inminente la pérdida de Ciudad Victoria, sede capitalina asediada por revolucionarios, disuelve el cuerpo legislativo del estado y encarcela a varios de sus componentes.

Sin titubeos, pone luego pies en polvorosa.

Cincuentón, al general de agudo mostacho la caída del porfiriato lo sorprende en Chihuahua.

Allá combate la rebelión de Pascual Orozco contra el nuevo gobierno. Participa a las órdenes de Huerta, precisamente, quien ve frustrarse la tentativa de fusilar a Pancho Villa, con todo y prestarle éste valiosos servicios. Trasluciéndose infames padrinazgos, Antonio Rábago se vuelve jefe de la correspondiente zona militar.

Con dicho puesto, enseguida del golpe huertista captura al gobernador chihuahuense Abraham González. No obstante arrebatarle la investidura, lo mantiene preso e incomunicado. Dejándolo en manos de huestes con falsas instrucciones de trasladarlo a la capital mexicana, sienta las bases de horrible crimen. Porque aquellos hampones asesinan el 7 de marzo de 1913 a don Abraham.Victoriano Huerta abandona el país y de frecuentes borracheras muere en 1916.

Antonio Rábago Maldonado se le adelanta en Chihuahua, el año previo.

(Con autorización del autor según se publicó en Puras Historias)

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

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Romo’s return pushed back

Ron Jenkins / Associated Press file

It looks more likely that Dallas quarterback Tony Romo will return to action on Nov. 6 against the Cleveland Browns, one week later than the original prognosis.

Most likely to play Nov. 6 against the Browns

By Clarence E. Hill Jr. FO RT WORT H STAR-T E LE GRAM

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t has long been speculated that the target date for Tony Romo’s return from the fractured bone in his back was the Oct. 30 match-up against the Philadelphia Eagles following the next week’s bye.

That put it right at the eight-to-nine week scenario from the original injury date of Aug. 25.

Still, the date has always been a moving target and its now looking more like the Nov. 6 game against the Cleveland Browns, per a source.

Again nothing has been set in stone.

But while the healing of the bone is on schedule and he has had no setbacks, the sensational play of rookie quarterback Dak Prescott has afforded the Cowboys the opportunity to kick the can down the road a little bit on Romo’s return and the pending quarterback decision, especially if they get a win at the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

Given that coach Jason Garrett acknowledged that Romo won’t start working back into any team-related drills until during the next week at the earliest, he would be hardpressed to be ready for game action just one week later. Romo has been idle for two months with no real intense real rehab, conditioning or throwing.

That will be ratched up this week.

The timing will still be a challenge.

There will likely just be two practices days at the most during the bye. Monday is an off day. Tuesday is normally just a film day, though they could do some work. Then there is Wednesday. Garrett will give them Thursday and Friday off.

Then the following week leading up to the Eagles game is the regular work schedule with just three days of real practice - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

So would five practices, at the most, be enough for Romo to be ready and in

sync for a crucial division showdown against the Eagles?

As much as the team is loyal to Romo, this is not show feelings, it’s show business.

Given Prescott’s play, there is really no reason to chance it. It makes more sense for the Cowboys to wait at least another week for Romo’s return, putting him in play for the Nov. 6 match-up at the winless Browns.

If you are going to make the decision to bench Prescott for Romo, then do it against the hapless Browns in what should be nothing more a practice game and an opportunity to gain confidence.

Consider Tom Brady’s triumphant return to the New England Patriots last Sunday after missing the first four weeks under NFL suspension. He feasted on the Browns, passing for 406 yards and three touchdowns in a 33-16 victory.

If you are going to bring Romo back, put him in position to have most success possible. That

would be against the Browns, if at all.

Of course, given that Prescott’s rise resembles that of Brady’s when he took over for an injured Drew Bledsoe in 2001, that also might be a blueprint for the Cowboys to consider.

The Patriots stayed with a hot Brady and the team on a roll rather than simply giving the job back to Bledsoe out of loyalty and financial considerations. They won the Super Bowl that year and three more.

A healthy Romo is the superior quarterback in terms of passing ability and experience.

But the Cowboys have something special going with Prescott, whose mistake-free play is exactly what this team needs right now.

Sure, there is a great chance the Cowboys could be even better if Romo is hitting on all cylinders.

But it’s not like they are just getting by now. This mojo with Prescott is real.

Do they really want to mess with it?

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: BOSTON RED SOX

No hits left for Big Papi and Red Sox

By Kyle Hightower A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

BOSTON — David Ortiz didn’t want it to end.

With his team trailing the Cleveland Indians by two runs in Game 3 of the AL Division Series, Boston’s biggest star trotted to first base after an eighth-inning walk Monday night and turned toward the Red Sox fans who had cheered him through so many memorable moments for 14 seasons.

Raising his hands high above his head , he tried to clap the Fenway Park crowd into a frenzy one more time.

It wasn’t to be.

After providing so many huge hits for the franchise, winning three World Series championships and becoming a beloved figure in Boston, it was time for Big Papi’s story to end.

That four-pitch walk turned out to be the final

Charles Krupa / Associated Press

David Ortiz went into retirement early after a three-game sweep by the Indians in the ALDS.

plate appearance of his storied, 20-year major league career. He was soon replaced by a pinch runner and left to a standing ovation. But he could only watch from the dugout in a red pullover when Travis Shaw hit a game-ending flyout an inning later as the Red Sox were swept out of the playoffs with a 4-3 loss.

After the final out, the crowd of 39,530 — the largest at Fenway since at

least World War II — chanted “We’re not leaving!” and “Thank you, Pa-pi!” for more than 10 minutes, drawing Ortiz back onto the field.

The 40-year-old slugger strolled out to the mound to cheers and tipped his cap in all directions, tapping his heart and eventually wiping tears from his eyes as a year’s worth of emotions flowed through him.

“I went through like three different times where emotions popped.

But they’re different,” Ortiz said.

His initial thoughts were about the loss of his friend and Miami Marlins star Jose Fernandez, killed in a boating accident last month. It wasn’t until later that Ortiz thought about his own career .

“Tonight when I walked to the mound, I realized that it was over,” he said. “Even if things didn’t end up the way we were looking for, I believe that in baseball, especially in the baseball game that we play in today’s day, it’s a big step because it’s like going from bad to good, from day to night.”

After a career that included a 2013 World Series MVP award and 10 All-Star appearances, Ortiz had two chances Monday to deliver another one of the clutch postseason hits he’s become so well known for.

Daniel Gluskoter / Associated Press file

San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick was named the 49ers‘ starting quarterback by coach Chip Kelly on Tuesday.

49ers name Kaepernick starting quarterback Kaepernick lost starting job last season ASSOCIATED PRE SS

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

— The San Francisco 49ers are putting their future back into Colin Kaepernick’s hands.

Coach Chip Kelly announced the decision Tuesday to bench Blaine Gabbert and to give back the starting job that Kaepernick lost midway through last season.

Kaepernick has only played briefly in the opener but has generated attention with his refusal to stand for the national anthem as a form of protest.

“We were very analytical and sat down as a staff and watched tape and went over everything,” said Kelly. “We’ve had a couple days to digest everything where we are. I think offensively, we just need to be better and we just need to make a move.”

Gabbert has struggled this season for San Francisco (1-4). He is last in the NFL in yards per attempt (5.9) and has the second-worst passer rating (69.6) in the league.

“It’s not Blaine’s fault,” said Kelly. “I think as a group, offensively we need to be better in a lot of ways. So we’re going to see what we can do and make a move here.

It’s really one of the only maneuvers we can make based on our depth.”

Kelly said Kaepernick’s ongoing protest had no bearing on his decision.

After leading the Nin-

ers to the Super Bowl following the 2012 season and the NFC title game the following year, Kaepernick has struggled. He lost his job to Gabbert midway through last season and then had three operations that limited his work in the offseason.

“I’m ready to play,” Kaepernick said Tuesday. “It’s been about a year since live-game action. So I’m itching to get back out there.”

Kaepernick said looking at the offense, “there’s just small things here and there that we need to clean up, we need to correct, as a whole.

“Hopefully those are things that we progress on this week and show Sunday,” he said.

Kaepernick confirmed there have been discussions with the team about restructuring his six-year contract extension, but he said he feels “no pressure” to get the deal done before Sunday’s game.

The 49ers have lost consecutive home games to the Cowboys and Cardinals while both teams started backup quarterbacks the last two weeks.

“I don’t like it,” Gabbert said. “I don’t like not playing. I’m very forward about that. But at the same time, I’m going to come into work the same way I’ve always come into work the three years that I’ve been here.”

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ENTERTAINMENT

Boy who was ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ dies at 90

Kim Kardashian West sues online media outlet for libel

By David Sharp

By Larry Neumeister

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PORTLAND, Maine — Donn Fendler, who as a boy survived nine days alone on Maine’s tallest mountain in 1939 and later wrote a book about the ordeal, has died at 90.

Fendler collaborated with Joseph B. Egan on a book, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” which was required reading for many fourth-graders in Maine.

He also enjoyed visiting schools to tell his story.

He died Monday in Bangor, Maine, after being hospitalized for failing health, family members said.

“He loved Maine. He loved kids. He loved telling his story to kids to help them keep their cool if they get lost,” his niece, Nancy Fendler, said.

Fendler said he used techniques learned as a Boy Scout to survive on Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.

As a 12-year-old, Fendler got lost while hiking and made his way down the mountain and through the woods to the east branch of the Penobscot River, where he was found more than 30 miles from where he started. Bruised and cut, starved and shoeless, he’d survived by eating berries. He had lost 15 pounds.

The book became a children’s classic. A graphic novel, “Lost Trail, Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness,” was published five years ago. A movie is now in the works.

His family issued a statement Tuesday, saying his survival story “will stand forever as a testa-

Michael C. York / AP file

In this Nov. 19, 2011, file photo, Donn Fendler chats with a young reader at a book signing in Bangor, Maine.

ment to the mercy and miracles of God, faith in God, prayer and determination to never give up.”

Fendler never seemed to tire of recounting the tale to children.

“I tell every one of them they have something inside them they don’t know they have,” he told The Associated Press in 2011.

“When it comes up to a bad situation, they’re going to find out how tough a person they are in the heart and the mind — it’s called the will to live.”

Fendler retired in Clarksville, Tennessee, but had a summer home in Newport, Maine, the town where his family, from Rye, New York, was vacationing at Sebasticook Lake when he got lost.

Many feared the worst

when Fendler became separated from the others on Katahdin, setting off a search by state troopers, National Guardsmen, paper mill workers, loggers and guides.

He later received a medal from President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, was honored with a parade and featured in Life magazine.

Fendler’s twin, Ryan Fendler, said the trauma of spending so many nights lost in the woods didn’t lessen his brother’s affection for Maine. He and his brother celebrated their 90th birthdays together in August in Maine.

“He had a great heart and a great sense of humor,” Ryan Fendler said, describing his brother as a

natural-born athlete who beat the rest of the party to the top of Katahdin before starting down on his own.

Ryan Cook, who’s working on a movie adaptation of “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” was one of those who drew inspiration as a boy from hearing Fendler speak about the importance of grinding through obstacles.

“He always tried to put a positive spin on things.

It goes to speak as to why he made it through the woods. His attitude was there’s no point in wallowing in things, you’ve got to push forward,” Cook said.

A private funeral will be held in Clarksville, Tennessee. There also will be public memorial in Maine.

NEW YORK — Kim Kardashian West sued an online media outlet for libel Tuesday, saying she was wrongly portrayed as a liar and thief after she was attacked in Paris.

The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court seeks unspecified damages from MediaTakeOut.com.

It said Kardashian West, traumatized by the Oct. 3 armed robbery, was victimized a second time when the website reported hours afterward that she faked the robbery and lied about the assault.

The website’s owner, Fred Mwangaguhunga, didn’t answer his phone when comment was sought Tuesday. A message left with the website wasn’t immediately returned.

Police said armed robbers forced their way into a private residence where the reality TV star was staying, tied her up and stole $10 million worth of

jewelry.

She was in Paris for fashion week.

No arrests have Kardashian been made.

The lawsuit said the website lacked any factual support when it published a series of articles referring to her as a liar and a thief and alleged that she faked the robbery, lied about the violent assault and filed a fraudulent claim with her insurance company to cheat her carrier out of millions of dollars.

The lawsuit said the “malicious publication of the articles, which paint the victim of a serious crime as a criminal herself, is libelous.”

The website also ignored her demand that it publish a retraction and apology for calling her a liar and a criminal, the lawsuit said.

According to the lawsuit, Kardashian was assaulted and robbed by two masked men.

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WHO urges countries to raise taxes on sugary drinks

By Jamey Keaten A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

GENEVA — The U.N. health agency on Tuesday recommended that countries use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks like sodas, sport drinks and even 100-percent fruit juices as a way to fight obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.

The World Health Organization, in a statement timed for World Obesity Day, said that the prevalence of obesity worldwide more than doubled between 1980 and 2014,

when nearly 40 percent of people globally were overweight.

In a 36-page report on fiscal policy and diet, WHO also cited “strong evidence” that subsidies to reduce prices for fresh fruits and vegetables can help improve diets. It said that tax policies that lead to a 20-percent increase in the retail prices of sugary drinks would result in a proportional reduction in consumption.

Drawing on lessons from campaigns to fight tobacco use, WHO says imposing or increasing

US stock indexes head sharply lower; oil falls

By Alex Veiga A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

A batch of disappointing company earnings news helped put investors in a selling mood Tuesday, pulling U.S. stocks sharply lower.

Health care companies led the broad market slide, which more than wiped out gains from the day before. Materials, utilities and technology stocks were among the big decliners. Energy stocks also closed lower as crude oil prices declined.

Several companies, including Alcoa, reported quarterly results that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. While investors will get to size up earnings from many more companies in coming weeks, the downbeat start to the third-quarter earnings season weighed on the market, said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.

“It’s just a bad tone to get us started,” Kinahan said. “We’ve also been in a really low-volatility environment. This is the first day we’ve seen some heavier trade in a while.”

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 200.38 points, or 1.1 percent, to 18,128.66. Earlier, the average was down as much as 267 points. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 26.93 points, or 1.2 percent, to 2,136.73. The Nasdaq composite index slid 81.89 points, or 1.5 percent, to

5,246.79.

Indexes headed lower from the start of trading Tuesday and never got out of the red. Traders hammered shares in Alcoa and genetics research company Illumina after the companies reported results that fell short of financial analysts’ forecasts.

Alcoa, which is due to split into two companies on Nov. 1, slid $3.60, or 11.4 percent, to $27.91. Illumina sank $45.86, or 24.8 percent, to $138.99.

Fastenal also delivered quarterly results that failed to impress investors. The maker of industrial and construction fasteners fell $2.16, or 5.1 percent, to $39.96.

Traders also sold shares in St. Jude Medical after the medical device maker warned that the lithium battery in some of its implanted heart devices may run out of energy prematurely. The stock lost $2.87, or 3.5 percent, to $78.41. Shares in Abbott Laboratories, which in April agreed to buy St. Jude for $25 billion, also fell. Abbott slid $2.34, or 5.4 percent, to $41.16.

Some companies benefited from others’ bad news.

Apple was got a slight boost after rival Samsung announced it was discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 phone permanently because of overheating handsets. The Galaxy Note 7 competed with Apple’s iPhone. Apple gained 25 cents to $116.30.

Seth Perlman / AP file

In this May 18 file photo, sodas and energy drinks are stacked and line the shelves in a grocery store.

taxes on sugary drinks could help lower consumption of sugars, bringing health benefits and more income for governments such as to pay for

health services. The health agency has long recommended that people keep intake of sugar to less than 10 percent of their total energy needs.

“Consumption of free sugars, including products like sugary drinks, is a major factor in the global increase of people suffering from obesity and diabetes,” says Dr. Douglas Bettcher, who heads WHO’s department for preventing non-communicable diseases. “If governments tax products like sugary drinks, they can reduce suffering and save lives.”

The World Health Organization receives funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, which supports raising taxes on

sugary drinks to reduce consumption.

The International Council of Beverages Associations, which represents Coke and Pepsi, said in a statement that it is disappointed that the “discriminatory taxation solely of certain beverages” is being proposed as a solution to the “very real and complex challenge of obesity.”

WHO officials say that the U.S. is no longer the leading consumer of sugar-sweetened beverages — Chile and Mexico are now in front.

Samsung halts sales of Galaxy Note 7 after new troubles

By Brandon Bailey and Audrey McAvoy ASSOCIATED PRE SS

SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung said Tuesday it is halting sales of the starcrossed Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after a spate of fires involving new devices that were supposed to be safe replacements for recalled models.

The company ordered the suspension of sales on the recommendation of South Korean safety officials, who say they suspect a new defect in the replacement phones that may not be related to its batteries.

“We would have not taken this measure if it had looked like the problems could be easily resolved,” Oh Yu-cheon, a senior official at the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards that oversees product recalls, said in a phone interview. He said it would take more time than the agency originally thought to figure out what’s wrong.

In the meantime, the agency is urging consumers not to use the phones.

Last month, Samsung issued a global recall. It blamed a tiny manufacturing error in the battery that it said made the phones prone to catch fire.

Oh said the investigators are studying a different defect from the one Samsung said it had found in the first batch of Galaxy Note 7s.

“The improved product does not have the same defect. That’s why we think there is a new defect,” Oh said.

In a statement issued late Monday, Samsung

Shawn L. Minter / AP

This Sunday photo shows a damaged Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after it caught fire earlier in the day.

Electronics Inc. said consumers with original Note 7 devices or replacements they obtained after the recall should turn them off and seek a refund or exchange them for different phones.

Officials from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission echoed that advice, saying they are investigating at least five incidents of fire or overheating reported since a formal recall in the U.S. was announced on Sept.

15.

“No one should have to be concerned their phone will endanger them, their family or their property,” said Elliot Kaye, chairman of the safety commission, in a statement. He called Samsung’s decision to stop distributing the device “the right move” in light of “ongoing safety concerns.”

New overheating incidents The announcement follows several new incidents of overheating last week and deals a further blow to the world’s largest

smartphone company.

Leading wireless carriers have already said they would stop distributing new Note 7 phones as replacements for the earlier recall.

Samsung said it would ask all carriers and retailers to stop selling the phones and providing them as replacements for recalled devices. It said consumers should return their phones to the place where they purchased them. They can also get information from the company’s website .

Analysts say the new problems pose a crisis for the South Korean tech giant, which is locked in fierce competition with Apple and other leading smartphone makers.

“This has been a real black eye on the product,” said Ben Bajarin, a consumer tech industry analyst with the Creative Strategies firm.

What’s causing the fires?

The new reports also raise questions about the cause and extent of the

problem. Samsung has not said which of its two battery suppliers made the faulty batteries in the earlier Note 7s or clarified whose batteries are used in which Note 7 smartphones.

“What’s happened in the last few days just complicates things enormously,” said analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research.

“It calls into question their ability to manage quality control and everything else that goes into that.”

Samsung did not indicate if it knows what caused the latest problems.

“We are working with relevant regulatory bodies to investigate the recently reported cases involving the Galaxy Note7,” the company said in its statement. It said “consumers’ safety remains our top priority.”

Earlier, a spokesman for the U.S. safety commission said his agency is investigating five Note 7 incidents reported since Sept. 15, although he said investigators had not confirmed whether all five involved recall replacements. But four consumers have told the Associated Press that their replacement phones caught fire — including two in Kentucky, one in Minnesota and one in Hawaii.

A blow to Samsung The Note 7 is not Samsung’s most popular device; Samsung sells far more units of its Galaxy S7 phones than the more expensive Note 7. But analysts say the issue could hurt the company’s reputation and overall standing with consumers.

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Obama takes issue with Trump and his supporters in Congress

By Darlene Superville A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Exposing the nation’s sharp political divisions as Election Day nears, supporters of Republican Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted President Barack Obama on Tuesday as he urged North Carolina Democrats to take advantage of early voting and cast their presidential ballots for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Obama also delivered a sharp indictment of Republicans who continue to support Trump’s bid despite hearing him on a recently released video recording from 2005

SCHOOLS From page A1 made a priority of meeting the state’s workforce needs and have set a goal of having 25,000 engineering students by 2025, compared to 15,000 in 2015.

School officials hope to find more diversity, given that 78 percent of its current engineering undergraduates are men and 70 percent are white or Asian.

Community colleges are one of the key places they are looking. The colleges often attract poor and minority students that major universities have a hard time recruiting.

That’s in part because the price is so low and students can enroll while still living at home. The average tuition and fees at a two-year public college in Texas is $2,446, compared to $8,347 at four-year universities, according to the

ZETAS From page A1 de in 2011, according to the report sponsored by the federal Executive Commission for Attention to Victims. The Coahuila state file lists 42 missing people related to the case.

But a Zeta drug gang member told a U.S. court in 2013 that 300 died, though it was not clear if all the deaths occurred in the same incident.

A witness testified that many of the bodies of victims were incinerated to the point of making identification of remains almost impossible.

The report written by Sergio Aguayo, a human rights activist and academic at the elite College of Mexico, is based on testimony gathered by Mexican prosecutors, government and independent human rights organizations, as well as U.S. records.

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TRUMP From page A1 “very enthusiastic. There were no cancellations.

We didn’t have anything but support in the room,” Patrick said.

Between the San Antonio event and another Tuesday night in Dallas, “we’ll raise over $5 million,” Patrick said.

Patrick, who introduced Trump for his 20-minute speech, said he warmed up the private luncheon crowd by declaring “we cannot let Hillary become the next president,” and “we cannot elect a president who will try to dismantle the oil and gas industry.”

With guests paying as much as $100,000 to attend, Trump mingled with top-level donors and posed for photos with some. Trump held a similar fundraiser in August at Oak Hill Country Club.

“Each time, we raise

talking in vulgar terms about making unwanted sexual advances toward women.

“The fact that now you’ve got people saying, ‘Well, we strongly disapprove. We really disagree. We find those comments disgusting. But we’re still endorsing him.

We still think he should be president.’ That doesn’t make sense to me,” Obama told several thousand people at a raucous outdoor rally.

“Now I hear then some people saying, ‘Well, I’m a Christian so I’m all about forgiveness because nobody’s perfect,”’ Obama said. “Well, that is true. I am certainly not perfect ... and I, too, believe in

forgiveness and redemption, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to elect the person president.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was “sickened” by Trump’s comments on the recording, and he rescinded an invitation for Trump to join him at a weekend rally in his Wisconsin congressional district. But Ryan has not pulled his endorsement of Trump, as some other Republicans have. Still, he has told fellow House Republicans he would not defend Trump or campaign with him and would focus on protecting the House GOP majority.

Obama said some Republicans were trying to

have it both ways.

“You can’t repeatedly denounce what is said by someone and then say, ‘But I’m still going to endorse him to be the most powerful person on the planet’ and put them in charge,” he said.

Several minutes after Obama started speaking, a young man and a woman who appeared to be Trump supporters moved toward the stage and revealed T-shirts that said “Bill Clinton Rapist.”

They were quickly escorted out by security.

Immediately before Sunday’s presidential debate in St. Louis, Trump appeared with three women who have accused former President

Bill Clinton of committing sexual crimes against them. Clinton was never charged in those cases.

The women later attended the debate.

Obama joked that the protesters were “auditioning for a reality show.” Trump is the former host of the NBC reality show “The Apprentice.”

After the president resumed speaking, someone could be heard shouting “Bill Clinton is a rapist.” Minutes after that outburst, a man ripped up one of the blue “North Carolina Together” placards that attendees were given to wave during the rally.

“This is our democracy

at work. This is great,” Obama said, as the largely supportive crowd began to boo.

Obama contrasted Clinton’s experience, qualifications and penchant for “sweating the details” with Trump, who Obama said doesn’t have the temperament, judgment, knowledge or “basic honesty a president needs to have. And that was true even before we heard about his attitudes toward women.”

Obama also criticized Trump for threatening during Sunday’s debate to jail Clinton for using nongovernment email servers when she was secretary of state in Obama’s first term.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Over the past 18 months, A&M has announced the opening of five engineering academies on community college campuses across the state. At those academies, students can apply to co-enroll at A&M. They take their non-engineering classes from the local school and take engineering classes taught by A&M professors who visit their campus. Then, if they keep their GPAs up, they can transfer to A&M’s College Station campus for the last two years of school.

For students like Shams Al Bayati, the programs can be life-changing. After graduating from Memorial High School in Houston, she wanted a four-year degree in engineering but chose a community college to save money. Last year, she enrolled in the A&M engineering academy on

campus and began taking classes from A&M professors. Her enrollment in the program also took her on field trips to the College Station campus for football games, career fairs and student orientations.

By the time she was done at HCC, she felt ready to move on to A&M and study petroleum engineering.

While many community college students feel hesitant about the academic rigor or unfamiliar culture of their new school, she said she had no problem adjusting.

“I don’t feel like I am a new student,” said Al Bayati, who is now a junior at A&M. “I have already been exposed to the programs and how I should study and what kind of paths I should take.”

A&M academies have already opened at community college campuses in Dallas’ El Centro College,

Brenham’s Blinn College and Houston Community College. Others are in the works in Austin and Brownsville. The university hopes to have 500 students enrolled by the start of next school year and may grow the program from there.

“We thought of it as a program where we can reach out to excellent students across the state no matter what the circumstance,” said Katherine Banks, dean of engineering at A&M. At Tarrant County College, meanwhile, many students are now basically automatically admitted in nearby University of Texas at Arlington after two years. Any student who ever expresses an interest in UT Arlington is signed up for the two schools’ early transfer identification program, or E-TIP, which pre-admits students who meet certain GPA requirements. The

two schools share data on students’ progress. And as soon as students enter the program, their tuition at UT Arlington is frozen, so they won’t be charged more if UT Arlington raises its prices before they officially enroll.

The goal, UT Arlington President Vistasp Karbhari said, is to eliminate non-academic barriers to reaching a four-year college.

“If there are obstacles, it should be studying hard.

It should not be filling out a form,” he said.

Similar programs are popping up across the state. Austin Community College also has co-enrollment deals with the University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University. And Lone Star College in Houston announced deals with Prairie View A&M University and Texas Southern University to provide fee waivers or discounts and scholarship

opportunities for students looking to transfer from the community college.

Meanwhile, state lawmakers are also working to ease the transition statewide. The higher education committees in the state House and Senate are studying the issue this year. And last year, the Legislature required all community colleges to adopt an interdisciplinary studies degree that was designed for students looking to transfer into universities.

The efforts are young, and it will take time to figure out their full impact, officials say. But their creators say they are hopeful they will help the state achieve its goal of raising the number of young people who earn college degrees.

Fonken, who oversees math and science education at ACC, said: “They give students security in an insecure world.”

about 23,000 people on the crossing of two roads leading to the Texas border, one toward Eagle Pass and the other to Del Rio, making it a strategic drug route — one controlled by the brutal Zetas cartel, which reportedly paid members of the local police force roughly $5,000 a month to cooperate.

According to the report, Miguel Angel and Omar Trevino, brothers who controlled the Zetas in the region, believed that other gang members had stolen as much as $10 million in drug profits.

Over the weekend of March 18 to 20, 2011, they ordered at least 60 gunmen to hunt down everyone who shared the family name of Garza and kill them. The report says police were ordered to help detain some victims, and otherwise to ignore calls for help.

The report says police and gang members took the victims, including

women and children, to two ranches, where they were killed. One Zeta witness said the bodies were burned for hours, “cooked” until nothing recognizable remained.

The gang also encouraged neighbors to loot the homes of the victims, and then destroyed 32 houses, some using bulldozers and other heavy equipment, according to investigators.

The report says the killings may have continued sporadically, nothing the disappearance a year later of four people named Garza: a couple and their two children.

Yet state prosecutors didn’t begin to collect evidence in the case until 2014, the report says.

It says such massacres are not isolated cases, and show the Zetas’ tight connections with local police and mayors, “who in the best of cases were decorative figures,” as well as the indifference or inefficiency of state and

federal officials.

It also criticizes the U.S. government for refusing to share some information with Mexican authorities and complains that Mexican prosecutors declined to share information with the Victims’ Rights investigation.

The report also looks at the Zeta murder of 72 migrants, mostly Central Americans, in neighboring Tamaulipas state in 2010.

While that case caused an international uproar, the Inter-American Human Rights Commission chastised Mexican authorities for a response that “oscillated between indifference and opacity.”

Federal records say Coahuila had 1,618 cases of disappeared people in recent years, and Tamaulipas has had 5,701. Nationally, officials acknowledge 27,887, though human rights groups say the true figure is far higher.

BORDER From page A1 The teen’s family initially sued the federal government, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security and Mesa, alleging the teen’s civil rights had been violated.

A district judge initially dismissed the charges, because Hernandez was a Mexican national and was on Mexican soil when the shooting occurred. But an appellate court ruled in 2014 that Mesa could be sued in his individual capacity although the American agencies could not.

In April 2015, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt the family another setback when it sided with the agent and said the case could not proceed because Hernandez was south of the Rio Grande when the shooting occurred.

The case sparked out-

rage in Ciudad Juárez after a video of the shooting surfaced and showed Hernandez was unarmed.

But the American government said the teen was a “coyote” or smuggler that helped undocumented immigrants traverse the desert landscape into El Paso from the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Hernandez's family said the boy wasn't a criminal.

The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the family for stepping forward and filing suit, arguing that agents needed to be “held accountable for shocking and outrageous abuse” according to a statement in 2014. But the United States Border Patrol union said that allowing the suit to move forward would make agents more likely to question whether to use deadly force and in turn, place themselves in harm’s way.

A date for the oral arguments has not been set.

more money, there’s more enthusiasm and more voters,” Patrick said. Trump’s latest controversies simply weren’t discussed, Patrick said.

“Not a person, no one even brought it up — not even in private. They’ve accepted his apology,” Patrick said.

A subject that came up in Trump’s first visit — the San Antonio Spurs — did resurface, Patrick said.

“He talked about how he’s a big fan of Tim Duncan and the entire Spurs organization. He said if the country was run like the Spurs, we’d be better off,” Patrick added.

Also attending the luncheon was Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.

Attendees Grace Jones, 30, and Valene Smith, 50, enjoyed seeing Trump in person. They said he spoke about border protection, a strengthened military and the econo-

my.

Jones said Trump was “personable, funny and very positive,” and said he seems to be “just a regular person.”

“It gave me chills,” Smith said.

Before leaving downtown San Antonio, Trump’s entourage stopped at his national web services provider, Giles-Parscale, to thank its workers and Texas Federation of Republican Women volunteers at a phone bank there.

Bexar GOP Chairman Robert Stovall said Trump appeared lighthearted throughout the luncheon, making jokes about Clinton and others.

He got a roar of approval when he mentioned his performance in Sunday’s debate with Clinton, Stovall said.

“He did bring up Paul Ryan and the small part of the party that was not in full support of him, but he said ‘I’m moving on. I know how to win.

Stick with me and we’re going to win,’” Stovall said.

The local GOP official said he’s not expecting another return visit by Trump, who’ll concentrate on more competitive states in the campaign’s final four weeks. Trump hasn’t held an open rally in the Alamo City, only the two fundraisers.

Trump’s decision not to hold a rally here wasn’t surprising to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, one of several San Antonio-area Democrats who mobilized to counter the media attention that Trump garnered. Castro, who held a news conference to denounce Trump, said Trump hasn’t held a rally here because his support isn’t deep in Texas.

“Not to say there aren’t Republican donors who are going to contribute to him,” Castro said.

“I know some of them, and some of them are great people, and quite

honestly, I’m embarrassed for them that they would put on an event here in San Antonio for a man like that. It’s sad to see,” Castro said.

State Rep. Ina Minjarez, D-San Antonio, said “Donald Trump has a long history of making sexist and mysogynistic remarks,” and “no man that respects women has any business voting for the most unqualified, unfit presidential candidate in American history.”

District 5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales said “Texas families know full well the damage Donald Trump’s divisive policies and hateful rhetoric would cause to America.”

Trump’s luncheon appearance attracted demonstators, pro and con, outside the Grand Hyatt.

Bonnie Hernandez, 26, came to protest Trump but not necessarily support Clinton. She hoped

people would get the message to not vote for Trump, but vote for “someone else,” whether it be a third-party candidate, instead.

Ann Chick, 70, was dressed in red and white and held a sign saying “Two Chicks for Trump.”

This would be her second time voting in her life, citing Trump’s honesty as the main push to bring her to the polls.

Clinton supporter David Alicea, 26, had a sign that offered a double dig at Trump and U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, who is up for reelection in a competitive race against Democrat Pete Gallego. Holding a sign that read “Trump is AbsHURD,” the Sierra Club organizer said both Hurd and Trump had failing grades when it came to climate policy.

After the San Antonio visit, which lasted less than three hours, Trump traveled to Dallas still accompanied by Patrick.

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