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Bodies found in Laredo Deceased man and woman in their 20s, 30s By César G. Rodriguez THE ZAPATA TIME S
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The bodies of a man and a woman were discovered Monday in the Laredo Ranchettes area off Texas 359.
A man and a woman were found dead Monday in the Laredo Ranchettes area off Texas 359, police and county authorities said. Authorities have not identified the deceased. Investigator Joe E. Baeza,
of ironing out the preliminary information,” Baeza said. At 6:30 p.m., law enforcement responded to the macabre discovery by the intersection of Estrella Road and Arco Iris Drive. “The neighbors around the area reported the two bodies that ap-
peared to have been placed there,” said Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar. The Sheriff ’s Office started the investigation. However, the location where the bodies were found was within city limits, prompting the response by Laredo police, Cuellar said.
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Laredo Police Department spokesman, said it appears the man and woman were in their 20s or 30s. “At this point, we don’t know the manner of death,” Baeza said. LPD’s crimes against persons detectives took over the case. “We’re in the process
GOOD TIMES NOT YET ROLLING Signs of recovery? By Jennifer Hiller SAN ANTONIO EXPRE SS-NEWS
Clinton, Trump focus on attacks By Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
DADE CITY, Fla. — Donald Trump could draw the United States into nuclear war, Hillary Clinton warns. Clinton would plunge the country into a constitutional crisis, he says. As the caustic presidential race lurches toward the finish line, each candidate is aggressively casting the other as a catastrophic choice for the White House. Making an affirmative case about their own qualifications and vision has become a secondary priority. It’s an ugly conclusion to a contest featuring two Clinton of the most unpopular presidential candidates in modern American politics. The sexual assault accusations that have trailed Trump in the race’s closing weeks and a new FBI review into Clinton’s email habits seem likely to only reinTrump force the public’s negative perceptions, leaving the candidates to essentially argue to voters that they’re the best of two unappealing options. “I would rather be here talking about nearly anything else,” Clinton said Tuesday during a rally in Florida where she leveled a series of attacks on Trump’s character and preparedness for the White House. “But I can’t just talk about all of the good things we want to do.” Indeed, Clinton’s speeches in this final full week of campaigning have overwhelmingly focused on Trump. On Election continues on A10
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A Diamondback Energy oil rig drills for oil and gas Sept. 14 outside of Midland.
MIDLAND — The oil bust arrived by 18-wheeler and FedEx to some anonymous, low-slung warehouses off a dusty road in the Permian Basin. It came in 10,000 narrow boxes heavy as bricks, loaded in truck after truck that bumped over railroad tracks and past a wire-topped chain link fence. Delivery went to Cindy Smith, who catalogs good times and bad at the International Sample Library at Midland, a grandly named collection of dirt. The new arrivals represent a multiyear drilling spree — the rock samples collected in thousands of new oil and gas wells. The boxes started coming in late Recovery continues on A11
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Report: Disabled children care takes hit as funding declines sharply By David Warren ASSOCIATED PRE SS
DALLAS — A drop in state funding and shrinking reimbursement rates are contributing to a sharp decline in the number of young children receiving care for often debilitating development and physical disabil-
ities, according to a report released Tuesday. A nonprofit child advocacy group, Texans Care for Children, argues in the report that the number of children enrolled in the state’s Early Childhood Intervention program fell from about 59,000 in 2011 to approximately 50,000 four years
later. A slumping amount of state money coupled with flagging Medicaid reimbursements have caused service providers to drop out, according to the report. There were 58 providers statewide in 2010 and that number has dwindled to 47 today, with contractors in El
Paso and Tyler withdrawing in recent weeks and a third in Wichita Falls planning to cease services, the advocacy group said. “They are required to meet the needs of each child that comes through the door but they don’t have the financing to necessarily meet Children continues on A10