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Governor released from hospital
TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Abbott was being treated for sustaining burns By Will Weissert ASSOCIATED PRE SS
Tony Gutierrez / AP file
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was released from the hospital Friday for treatment of severe burns suffered while vacationing last week.
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was released from the hospital Friday after a four-night stay for treatment of severe burns suffered while vacationing last week. Abbott left San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center and returned to the governor’s mansion in Austin, spokesman Matt Hirsch said, adding that the governor was in “good spirits.” “He was staying there to get
a better grasp on the healing,” Hirsch said of the hospitalization. “So far, everything’s been successful.” Abbott’s office subsequently announced that he will “continue to recover and carry on with a schedule,” though Abbott already said he won’t attend next week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where he had been set to chair Texas’ 155-member delegation. Hirsch said Abbott, who has used a wheelchair since 1984, may have to return to San Abbott continues on A6
FRENCH RIVIERA TOWN OF NICE
TERROR ATTACK VICTIMS Father, son from Texas among those killed
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
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This photo shows the Copeland family, from left, Sean, Maegan, Brodie, Austin and Kim. Davis, a family friend, said Sean Copeland and his son Brodie were killed Thursday when a Frenchman of Tunisian descent drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day.
“overwhelmed” and will not be talking to reporters, Davis said. The Copeland’s vacation was in part to celebrate the birthdays of Copeland’s wife, Kim, and his son, Austin, Davis said. Kim Copeland will turn 40 on Monday and Austin Copeland turned 22 on July 6. Maegan Copeland, Sean Copeland’s 29-year-old daugh-
By Kiah Collier
ter, also was on the trip. Austin and Maegan Copeland are Sean’s children from a previous marriage. Sean Copeland was a vice president for North and South America at a software division of Lexmark Inc., a business automation firm. Lexmark spokesman Jerry Grasso described Copeland as
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man John Kirby said earlier that two Americans were among the scores of people killed, but he didn’t identify them citing privacy. Davis said State Department officials would accompany two of Sean Copeland’s brothers when they fly to Nice to bring the family home. The surviving Copeland family members in Nice are
Student’s STAAR scores improve Elementary and middle school students appear to be performing better on required state exams after four years of stagnant scores, according to passing rates the Texas Education Agency released Thursday for 2016 exams. But the improvement is compared to old passing standards that no longer apply and which some critics of the current test say are too low of a bar. Late last year, then-Education Commissioner Michael Williams announced he would increase the number of questions 3rd through 8th graders would have to get right on 2016 exams in order to pass. Students in those grades take exams on reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies. Compared to the old passing standards, 3rd through 8th graders this year performed better on 13 of 17 the exams than they did in 2015, some by significant margins. But compared to the new, higher ones, they performed better on only six assessments and worse — or the same — on 11 of them. The difference in performance under the old and new passing standards was particularly stark for math exams. Under the old passing standards, performance for all grades improved from last year with passing rates in the upper 70-percent range. But under the new, harder passing standards, students in most
By Michael Graczyk
HOUSTON — An Austinarea father and son who were vacationing with their family are among the victims of the deadly truck attack in Nice, France, relatives said Friday. Sean Copeland, 51, and his son Brodie, 11, were killed Thursday evening in what French authorities have described as a terror attack, family friend Jess Davis said. “We are heartbroken and in shock over the loss of Brodie Copeland, an amazing son and brother who lit up our lives, and Sean Copeland, a wonderful husband and father,” the Copeland family said in a statement released by Davis. “They are so loved.” Davis said the Copeland family from Lakeway, 20 miles northwest of Austin, were on a European vacation that began in Spain with the running of the bulls in Pamplona. “Then on to flamenco dancing in Barcelona and they had been celebrating Bastille Day in Nice when this unthinkable and unfair act of terror took Sean and Brodie from the world far too soon,” Davis said. “It is a terrible loss.” State Department spokes-
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According to the Texas Education Agency, elementary and middle school students appear to be performing better on required state exams after four years of stagnant scores.
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Dump investigation didn’t confirm student fire By Maria Verza A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
MEXICO CITY — The most recent forensic investigation of the southern Mexico garbage dump where the government says 43 students were incinerated did not confirm there was a fire there that night. The report from international fire experts convened by the government was obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. It shows the experts found evi-
dence the Cocula dump had been the site of at least five fires, but could not determine when. Remains of 17 people were also found, but it was unknown when they were burned. “The duration and dates of the fires could not be established based on the available physical data,” the report said. In April, when the Attorney General’s Office and one of the fire experts publicized the findings, they said only that there was evidence of a large fire at
the dump and that remains of at least 17 adults were found. They did not release the report itself, citing confidentiality, and left the impression the investigation supported the government’s theory that the students were burned there. The 43 students from a rural teachers college in Guerrero state were detained by local police in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26, 2014, and were turned over to a crime gang. After an initial investigation, the government said it had determined
the “historical truth” and said all of the students were killed and their bodies were incinerated at the dump and then tossed into a river. A team from the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, which spent months reviewing the government’s investigation, had criticized the April presentation by the Attorney General’s Office, suggesting it gave a false impression. The nine-page report established that it drizzled the night the students were taken and
the following morning. But the experts did not say whether the recorded rain amounts would have impeded a fire of the magnitude needed to incinerate 43 bodies. There was no information about the identities of the 17 remains found, but it was known that the remote dump had become a place to dispose of bodies for some time in an area where hundreds have gone missing. A previous forensic examMexico continues on A6
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AROUND TEXAS
TODAY IN HISTORY
SATURDAY, JULY 16
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1 Second Annual Super Shredder Day. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Laredo Fire Department Administration Building, 616 East Del Mar across from St. Patrick Church. Citizens are urged to bring their documents of up to 50 pounds to shred for privacy at no charge. A free will donation to the South Texas Food Bank mission of feeding the hungry will be requested.
Today is Saturday, July 16, the 198th day of 2016. There are 168 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
MONDAY, JULY 18 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 Pink To Do membership recruitment dinner. 5:30 p.m. Mirage Reception Hall, 5411 McPherson Road. $10. Open to men and women. No children. Call or text 333-5096 to confirm attendance.
TUESDAY, JULY 19 1 Take the challenge and climb the Rock Wall. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Fun exercise for all ages and it's free. Must sign release form. For more information call 956-795-2400 x2520.
THURSDAY, JULY 21 1 Cancer Friends Meet. 6 p.m. Every third Thursday of the month. Laredo Medical Center, A.R. Sanchez Cancer Center, Tower A, 1st Floor. Having cancer is often one of the most stressful experiences in a person’s life. However, support groups help many people cope with the emotional aspects of cancer by providing a safe place to share their feelings and challenges and learn from others who are facing similar situations. For more information, call Nancy Santos at 956-285-5410.
MONDAY, JULY 25 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 Laredo Parkinson’s Disease Support Group. 6:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, 1st Floor, Tower B in the Community Center. The meeting is open to anyone with Parkinson’s disease, a friend or family member of a PD patient, and primary care givers of patients with PD who are interested in learning more about the disease. Pamphlets with more information in both English and Spanish are available at all support group meetings. For more information, call Richard Renner at 645-8649 or 237-0666.
TUESDAY, JULY 26 1 Take the challenge and climb the Rock Wall. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Fun exercise for all ages and it's free. Must sign release form. For more information call 956-795-2400 x2520.
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Dallas Police Honor Guard members salute during a ceremony for slain Dallas police officer Michael Krol at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.
GUNMAN DID NOT HAVE BOMB PILE By Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRE SS
DALLAS — The gunman who killed five Dallas police officers did not have a large stockpile of bomb-making materials at his suburban home, two officials said Friday, contradicting earlier claims that Micah Johnson possessed enough explosives to stage a larger attack. Officers who searched Micah Johnson’s home Friday found small amounts of an explosive known as Tannerite as well as acetone, which can be used as an accelerant in explosives, according to the offi-
cials, who are familiar with the investigation. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly. Both Tannerite and acetone are legal and easy to purchase. Tannerite is often found in small targets that emit powder when hit by a gunshot, such as those at gun ranges. Acetone is commonly sold as nail polish remover. In greater quantities, Tannerite can be used to create large explosions. An advisory posted by the company says its intended use is 1 pound.
County to submit proposal for new immigrant center
Perry spent over $2.6M on attorneys to beat felony case
Two Nigerian citizens plead guilty to romance scam
SAN DIEGO, Texas — Officials in a South Texas county say they plan to submit a proposal to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to turn a shuttered nursing home into a new immigrant family detention center. Duval County officials plan to partner with Serco Inc. to operate the facility in San Diego, located about 130 miles south of San Antonio.
AUSTIN — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent more than $2.6 million of his state campaign funds beating a felony abuse-of-power case that he says hurt his second presidential bid. The San Antonio Express News tallied Perry’s campaign finance filings over the past18 months. It reported that about $2.65 million went to Perry’s legal team.
HOUSTON — Federal prosecutors say two Nigerian citizens living outside Houston and posing as South African diplomats have pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a $2 million romance scam conspiracy. Kunle Mutiu Amoo and Lanre Sunday Abeobad said they participated in a scheme to defraud victims. — Compiled from AP reports
THURSDAY, JULY 28 1 Spanish Book Club. 6–8 p.m. Laredo Public Library–Calton. For more information, call Sylvia Reash at 763-1810.
SATURDAY, JULY 30 1 7th annual Cat Appreciation Day Cat Contest. 2 p.m. Petco, 2450 Monarch Dr. There will be a contest for live cats and photos of cats. $1 for each category. All donations will go toward projects to protect community cats, including a trap, neuter and return program for Laredo. Cats will be available for adoption. Sponsored by Gateway Gatos of Laredo.
MONDAY, AUGUST 1 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 Cancer Friends Meet. 6 p.m. Every first Monday of the month. Doctors Hospital at the Community Center. Having cancer is often one of the most stressful experiences in a person’s life. However, support groups help many people cope with the emotional aspects of cancer by providing a safe place to share their feelings and challenges and learn from others who are facing similar situations. For more information, call Nancy Santos at 956-285-5410. 1 Ray of Light anxiety and depression support group meeting. 6:30–7:30 p.m. Area Health Education Center, 1505 Calle del Norte, Suite 430. Every first Monday of the month. People suffering from anxiety and depression are invited to attend this free, confidential and anonymous support group meeting. While a support group does not replace an individual's medical care, it can be a valuable resource to gain insight, strength and hope.
AROUND THE WORLD Turkish military says it ‘fully seized control’ of country ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s armed forces said it “fully seized control” of the country Friday and its president responded by calling on Turks to take to the streets in a show of support for the government. A loud explosion was heard in the capital, Ankara, fighter jets buzzed overhead, gunfire erupted outside military headquarters and vehicles blocked two major bridges in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an interview over FaceTime with the CNN Turk, dismissed the action as ‘’an attempt at an uprising by a minority within our armed forces.” His office declined to disclose his whereabouts saying only that he was in a secure location. ‘’I’m making a call out to my people. I’m inviting them out to all our public squares. I’m
inviting them out to our airports. Let us gather in our squares, at our airports as the people and let that minority group come upon as with their tanks and artillery and do whatever they wish to do,” Erdogan said. Soldiers blocked entry to Ataturk Airport where four tanks were stationed, according
to the private Dogan news agency. Two other tanks and a military vehicle were stationed in front of the VIP terminal. The report said the soldiers had entered the tower and stopped all flights. The military said it seized control “to reinstall the constitutional order.” — Compiled from AP reports
AROUND THE NATION Medical marijuana dispensaries can open in Hawaii
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 1 Alzheimer’s Disease Support Group. 7 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, 1st Floor, Tower B in the Community Center. Meetings are open to individuals who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as family, friends and caregivers of Alzheimer’s disease patients. For more information, call 956-693-9991.
Emrah Gurel / AP
Turkish soldiers secure the area, as supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in Istanbul's Taksim square.
HONOLULU — Medical marijuana dispensaries can now legally open in Hawaii, but not one is ready to do so. The state Department of Health said none of the state’s eight dispensaries was approved to open by July 15, the first day they were allowed by law. One big hurdle is the state hasn’t certified a lab to test the
dispensaries’ products. “On the dispensary front, they’re all doing their best to open their doors with as diverse a product line to serve all of the many needs of the patients and all the qualifying conditions that are out there,” said Chris Garth, executive director of the Hawaii Dispensary Alliance. “Until those products can be tested in a clinical capacity, no dispensary will be able to open their doors, no matter how perfect their product is.”
On this date: In 1790, a site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area became Washington, D.C. In 1862, Flag Officer David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the United States Navy. In 1912, New York gambler Herman Rosenthal, set to testify before a grand jury about police corruption, was gunned down by members of the Lennox Avenue Gang. In 1935, the world’s first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City. In 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to Tinian Island in the Marianas. In 1951, the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger was first published by Little, Brown and Co. In 1964, as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” In 1970, Three Rivers Stadium, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates, officially opened as the Pirates lost to the Cincinnati Reds 3-2. (The stadium was demolished in 2001.) In 1979, Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq. In 1980, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Detroit. In 1981, singer Harry Chapin was killed when his car was struck by a tractor-trailer on New York’s Long Island Expressway. In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush and other Group of Eight world leaders meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, urged Israel to show “utmost restraint” and blamed Hezbollah and Hamas for escalating violence in the Middle East. Five years ago: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left his country for Cuba to begin chemotherapy, vowing to win his fight against cancer and calling for his political allies to stay united in his absence. One year ago: A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines and a sailor before he was shot to death by police; authorities identified the gunman as Kuwaiti-born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, of Hixson, Tennessee. President Barack Obama visited the medium-security El Reno Federal Correctional Institution near Oklahoma City to press his case that the nation needed to reconsider the way crime was controlled and prisoners were rehabilitated. Today’s Birthdays: Former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh is 84. Soul singer Denise LaSalle is 82. Soul singer William Bell is 77. International Tennis Hall of Famer Margaret Court is 74. College Football Hall of Famer and football coach Jimmy Johnson is 73. Violinist Pinchas Zukerman is 68. Actor-singer Ruben Blades is 68. Rock composer-musician Stewart Copeland is 64. Playwright Tony Kushner is 60. Dancer Michael Flatley is 58. Actress Phoebe Cates is 53. Actor Paul Hipp is 53. Actor Daryl “Chill” Mitchell is 51. Actor-comedian Will Ferrell is 49. Actor Jonathan Adams is 49. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders is 48. Actress Rain Pryor is 47. Actor Corey Feldman is 45. Rock musician Ed Kowalczyk (Live) is 45. Rock singer Ryan McCombs (Drowning Pool) is 42. Actress Jayma Mays is 37. Actress AnnaLynne McCord is 29. Actor-singer James Maslow is 26. Actor Mark Indelicato is 22. Pop singer-musician Luke Hemmings (5 Seconds of Summer) is 20. Thought for Today: “If sentiment doesn’t ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.” — J.D. Salinger (1919-2010).
CONTACT US The state hasn’t yet received any applications from interested laboratories, said Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Department of Health. Spectra Analytical Lab is working on an application, but the lab needs to be certified as meeting international standards, said Michael Covington, lead chemist. “It’s a big deal for a lab to get that certification, and that’s why nobody’s applied yet,” Covington said. — Compiled from AP reports
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NATIONAL Psychologist gets six years for 1995 killing By Amy Taxin ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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Police investigate shrapnel from a Wednesday night bombing that killed one person in Panaca, Nev. Arizona police announced Friday the discovery of improvised bombs and explosives in the home of a man who traveled to Nevada, and set off bombs that killed him.
Explosives found linked to Nevada bombings By Sally Ho and Ken Ritter A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
LAS VEGAS — Arizona police announced Friday the discovery of improvised bombs and several pounds of explosives in the home and car of a man who traveled to a quiet Nevada town and set off bombs that killed him and showered the community with shrapnel and debris. The material was found in Kingman, Arizona, by officers searching the 40-foot motorhome, storage shed and car of the 59-year-old suspect, Glenn Franklin Jones, said Kingman Deputy Police Chief Rusty Cooper. He died Wednesday night in Panaca, about a four-hour drive from Kingman, after detonat-
ing a bomb in the rental car outside a house also destroyed by explosives just after a woman and two girls inside fled for their lives. Officers were still searching Jones’ motorhome Friday after finding the material Thursday and evacuating about 100 people from the mobile home park where Jones had parked the recreational vehicle to live in several months ago, Cooper said. They also discovered part of an improvised explosive device in his car parked at the rental company lot where he rented the car that he blew up. The blasts in Panaca, a Mormon enclave near the Utah border, hurled car parts, building materials and bomb fragments across the town with
some debris landing up to a mile away. Electric lines were severed and underground water lines broke in the small farming community. A young boy on a bicycle nearby was hit in the chest by flying debris, suffering minor injuries. Authorities have not disclosed a motive but Panaca residents identified the occupants of the house destroyed by the blasts as Joshua and Tiffany Cluff, who previously worked with Jones at the Grover C. Dils Medical Center in the neighboring town of Caliente. Hospital administrator Jason Bleak said Friday that the Cluffs and Jones were nurses but that they voluntarily quit their jobs at various times over the past two years. Joshua Cluff was previously Jones’ supervisor. “I have no reason to believe this was due to disgruntlement towards the hospital,” Bleak said. The Arizona search of the bus-like motorhome and storage shed with a remote-controlled robot
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In this Dec. 8, 1960 file photo, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington with their son, John F. Kennedy Jr., following a baptism for the infant.
JFK Jr. documentary looks back at America’s prince By William J. Kole A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
BOSTON — America’s prince is getting a new documentary. “I Am JFK Jr. — A Tribute to a Good Man,” which hits select theaters on July 22, captures the fascination with John F. Kennedy Jr., from his early days toddling around the White House to his death in a plane crash in 1999. Network Entertainment’s Derik Murray made the film in the mold of his other “I Am” movies, including “I Am Bruce Lee,” “I Am Chris Farley” and “I Am Evel Knievel.” The film also airs on Spike TV at 9 p.m. EDT on Aug. 1, and a DVD release is set for Aug. 16. The film captures JFK Jr. as John John, the tousle-haired toddler of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, saluting his father’s casket after his 1963 assassination. Highlights include JFK Jr.’s time as an assistant district attorney in New York, his 1988 People magazine Sexiest Man Alive cover and his 1995 debut as publisher of the splashy but short-lived magazine
George. Interspersed are snippets of interviews with celebrities and politicians who knew him well. They include supermodel Cindy Crawford, who famously posed as a midriff-baring George Washington, complete with powdered wig, for the inaugural issue of George; actor Robert De Niro; boxer Mike Tyson; journalist Christiane Amanpour; Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt; former Brown University roommate Chris Oberbeck; and Grateful Dead songwriter John Perry Barlow. “John Kennedy Jr. was destined for greatness, the heir apparent to his father’s legacy, and he knew that,” Murray said. But the son, a student of history’s great men, had an overriding interest in goodness over greatness. “After reading about them and who they were at home, how they treated their families, he thought it was more important for him to commit to being a good man,” Murray said. “In his mind, that was often missing in great men.” Not surprisingly, the film focuses on JFK Jr.’s
death at age 38 on July 16, 1999, when the singleengine private plane he was piloting from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard en route to a family wedding on Cape Cod crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Killed with Kennedy were his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren Bessette. Friends, acquaintances and pundits reflect on a life cut short and speculate on what he might have become. President, for instance? A clip of an interview that JFK Jr. gave to Oprah Winfrey is telling. She insists he surely must have thought about running for office, and he responds, somewhat coyly, “There is this great weight of expectation and anticipation.” But maybe not. “John was smart enough to know, ‘I’m Junior. I’m not my father,”’ another presidential son, Michael Reagan, says in the film. “I believe that he had greatness in him,” CNN journalist Chris Cuomo tells the producers. “And I don’t give a damn if that meant anything about politics.”
is expected to last into the weekend, Cooper said. A temporary shelter has been set up at a high school for the evacuated residents of the mobile home park. “We’re still trying to determine what exactly we have,” Cooper said. In Panaca, about 30 people who had been evacuated from four homes near the house destroyed by the blast were allowed to return home, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said. Messages left on the home and cell phones of Joshua and Tiffany Cluff were not returned. They have three daughters. Bleak said he never saw any signs of problems between Jones and the Cluffs while they worked at the medical center. “I never thought anything like this would happen,” he said. Panaca, population about 900, began as a Mormon settlement in 1864 before Nevada became a state. It is a tourism gateway to five state parks.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former psychology professor was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for the 1995 killing of a man she says raped her while she was a Southern California college student. Norma Patricia Esparza, 41, pleaded guilty in 2014 to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for the sentence in the death of Gonzalo Ramirez. She did not speak as she was sentenced with two codefendants. Esparza pointed out Ramirez at a bar in 1995 to former boyfriend Gianni Van and others who kidnapped and killed him, authorities said. His bloodied body was found by the side of a road in Irvine, but the case went cold for years. Esparza was arrested in 2012 while visiting the United States from France. Born in Mexico, Esparza grew up in California, obtained a doctorate in psychology and worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization and as a professor in Switzerland. Her case drew international attention and stoked an outcry from campus sexual assault victims’ advocates, who
said Esparza’s arrest sent a chilling message to rape survivors. AuEsparza thorities charged four people with the death of Ramirez, who Esparza said raped her after she met him at a bar while she was a student at Pomona College. Esparza pointed out Ramirez at the bar weeks later, prosecutors said. Van and two others followed him in a van and rear-ended him, attacked and kidnapped him, later hacking at his body with a meat cleaver, prosecutors said. In 2013, Esparza’s husband, Jorge Mancillas, told reporters his wife had confided to Van about the rape and Van took matters into his own hands. She was later forced into a sham marriage with Van to prevent her from testifying against him as police began looking into the murder, Mancillas said. Esparza was arrested after she and Van had divorced. After a jury trial, Van was sentenced last year to life without parole for the killing. Esparza and co-defendant Diane Tran testified against Van in exchange for their plea deals.
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Woman leader could be spark that U.N. needs By Trudy Rubin TH E P H ILADE LPHIA I NQUIRER
At a time of overwhelming global crises, when the U.N. is flagging and international institutions are under attack, might a female leader provide the spark to rejuvenate the world body? That’s a question member states are pondering. Even Ban has weighed in, saying it is "high time for a secretary-general to be a woman." That would be a big jump for an organization that had a reputation for rampant sexism not so long ago. The top U.N. official is selected by the Security Council in what used to be a secretive process that generally rotated the job by region. Last year, the rules were changed to produce a more transparent selection process; six of the 12 candidates are women, and the betting is that this year’s choice will come from Eastern Europe. The Security Council will still make the final cut - and will conduct an informal "straw poll" on July 21. I sat down in a Left Bank café with Irina Bokova, one of the leading candidates, who is a Bulgarian diplomat and the first female directorgeneral of the Paris-based United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). I asked the elegant, gray-haired Bokova, who is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Russian as well as her own language, why she thought a woman secretary-general could make a difference. "We need a critical mass of women to take up serious positions, so it becomes natural," she told me. "I don’t say we are better than men, (but) it changes the overall culture of doing politics." The implication is that a woman might do better at promoting programs for mediation and prevention of war. Perhaps, although we seem to be entering a global phase in which testosterone-driven violence trumps efforts at conflict resolution. Still, there is every reason that qualified women should have the chance to show their stuff, and Bokova has become a role model for them. "I put a stress on gender equality by making half my management team women," she said. Under Bokova, UNESCO has worked intensively to expand education prospects for girls and women in poor countries. Of course, the challenges facing the United Nations go far beyond gender parity. With xenophobic nationalism on the rise in the West, as well as in Russia and China, the future of multination-
al organizations is in question. As civil wars and terrorism increase, U.N. negotiating efforts to end the Syrian conflict have failed, and its agencies have been deluged by refugee crises and pandemics such as Ebola. Meantime, peacekeeping operations (with 104,000 troops) are in a negative spotlight after allegations of sexual abuse by some its troops. As for the job itself, the U.N.’s chief executive must simultaneously function as mega-manager, fund-raiser, mediator, and global proselytizer for peace, economic development, and human rights. Even when members aren’t listening. I asked Bokova why she would even want the job. "My husband asks me the same question," she replied with a laugh. But she insists - despite a world moving in the opposite direction - that she still fervently believes in multilateralism and the possibilities of preventive action. She is no stranger to uphill battles. On her watch, UNESCO, whose member states often take anti-Israel positions, developed a teachertraining program and curricula on preventing genocide and on Holocaust education. Last year, she blocked a resolution by UNESCO’s executive board to reclassify the Western Wall of Jerusalem’s Old City as part of a holy Muslim complex while ignoring its status as Judaism’s holiest location. And she successfully fought to get jihadi looting and destruction of ancient Mideast cultural sites, such as Palmyra, officially labeled a war crime. However, when UNESCO members recognized the state of Palestine in 2011, triggering a cutoff of U.S. dues, Bokova had to manage a 30 percent cut to her budget. Whether Bokova’s experience at UNESCO and as acting Bulgarian foreign minister will suffice to manage, let alone reform, a balky U.N. staff of 44,000 is a question. She must also overcome rumors, which she strongly denies, that she is close to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. She notes that both her children live in the United States, one is a U.S. citizen, and her brief meetings with Putin were part of official U.N. delegations. But by promoting female U.N. leadership by her example, Bokova has already done the world body a service. Men have few bragging rights when it comes to running the United Nations. So why not give a highly qualified woman the chance? Trudy Rubin is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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A matador dies for senseless sport PITT SBURGH P O ST-GAZETTE
Most people limit their exposure to bullfighting to old Ernest Hemingway novels. The thousands of men - and women - who make annual pilgrimages to Pamplona and other cities in Spain to run with the bulls are in the minority of humanity. You don’t have to be an animal-rights activist to be absolutely creeped out by the masochistic danger that results from antagonizing angry, 2,000pound bulls. Injuries to those who wish to experience the adrenalin high of running with the bulls has increased 5.1 percent annually since 1980, according to news reports.
While running with the bulls has always been stupid, what happened on Spanish television recently was horrifying. Victor Barrio, a 29-year-old bullfighter, was gored to death while millions watched. The young matador, who had performed a dance of death with bulls many times since 2010, either ran out of luck or finally met an opponent that was too fast and too inscrutable even for him. Barrio’s lungs were punctured as a horrified nation looked on. Though he was treated at the scene, his wounds were too extensive. By the time he reached the hospital, he was close to death, if
not dead already. He was the first fatality among matadors this century. Bullfighting is a cherished part of Hispanic culture, rooted in a way that is difficult for others to appreciate. There’s no chance that it will go away anytime soon. That’s too bad because it should. The bull, of course, is in a no-win situation. If the matador is to live, the bull must die. The matador engages in a dance to kill the bull, which is appalling all by itself. Occasionally, the bull "wins" and either kills or injures the matador. But the bull is then put to death for having defended itself. Apologists for
bullfighting see something "redemptive" about the whole ritual while others just see it for what it is - naked barbarism. This year’s running of the bulls in Pamplona produced various injuries, some of them serious. Fortunately, there hasn’t been a death at Pamplona since 2009. At Pedreguer, a 28-year-old was killed recently during a bull run through the streets of that city. There is much ritual and national pride wrapped up in bullfighting. Still, that doesn’t mean that a serious discussion about the place of such a barbaric spectacle at the center of Spanish life isn’t long overdue.
largely unheard and uninspiring. It isn’t so easy to do the right thing, even when it’s obvious. "We ask the police to do too much, and we ask too little of ourselves," Obama said at the Dallas memorial service. The same can be said of presidents. The expectations we have for presidents are juvenile. Problems are always the fault of someone else, some other group, some other party, some other part of America other than ours. The last three two-term presidents - Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - were shackled by scandals and inquisitions by the end. Congress is the least trusted major institution in the country, the polls say. Mere survival is difficult at the top in the modern public arena. For many reasons, we diminish and then devour the people we elect. I don’t see that changing any time soon. Obama has not only survived; he has done it with dignity, discipline and purpose. His administration has been remarkably free of scandal and
corruption. The Affordable Care Act is likely to be the most enduring, important legislative accomplishment since the creation of Medicare. The U.S. economy recovered from the Great Recession better than any in the world. None of that means Obama is popular or appreciated, which is sad. I am confident that he will be deeply appreciated and respected as time passes and historians look back. He has faced unprecedented obstacles at a precarious moment in history. Obama’s approval ratings have been ticking up over the past few months. But the posse of truly rabid Obama haters isn’t shrinking. They have been systematically and relentlessly stoked by a Republican Party that is now facing an existential crisis named Trump. The coming campaign is likely to be even more disheartening and disillusioning, if that’s possible. So before it all gets any uglier, it’s a good time to say, Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thanks again.
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Mr. President, from an ungrateful nation, thanks again By Dick Meyer SCRIPP S WASHINGTON BUREAU
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are by far the most unpopular presidential candidates in modern history. That isn’t a fluke. It isn’t a coincidence that both parties produced profoundly disabled candidates; it happened because our civic metabolism is unwell. In this extraordinary context, Obama’s accomplishments and leadership are all the more impressive. It also has become clear this year that the world’s other large, rich democracies have similar but more severe fractures. England is the prime example. America’s economy, however, is the strongest and Obama should get some credit for that - but he doesn’t. Throughout the past year, the country has been reminded of how deep
and enduring racial conflicts and resentments are and will be. Obama’s election was a genuinely hopeful summit, but high expectations of fast change were naive and doomed. Some blame the president for making relations worse, which is absurd. It is painfully clear as his terms wind down that prejudice and racism were more insidious burdens for the first black president than we thought and hoped in 2008, obstacles no prior president has had to confront. The country neared a boiling point on that front in recent days. Obama again reminded us again of what we’ll miss when he’s gone. After atrocities in Orlando, Baton Rouge and Minnesota, Trump was destructive and divisive; after Dallas he was silent. Throughout, Clinton has been well-spoken and well-intentioned, but
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U.S. economy looks resilient as retailers and industry surge By Martin Crutsinger and Paul Wiseman A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
WASHINGTON — Americans spent more money at retailers and factories revved up production in June, offering encouraging signs of the U.S. economy’s resilience in the face of global headwinds. Industrial production shot up 0.6 percent, fueled by a big rebound in auto output. It was the best showing since last August. Meanwhile, retail sales also rose 0.6 percent last month, three times the gain in May, with demand strong in a number of areas. Inflation pressures remained modest, with consumer prices climbing 0.2 percent in June. Prices are up just 1 percent from a year ago, still well below the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. The new reports Friday came a week after the government’s blockbuster jobs report, which showed the economy created 287,000 jobs in June. It marked a major bounce
back after a dismal gain of just 11,000 jobs the previous month. May’s result, coupled with a lackluster showing in April, had raised worries that the U.S. jobs machine was starting to sputter. Analysts said the strong job growth in June and solid consumer spending should provide good momentum for the economy heading into the second half of the year. The economy grew at an anemic 1.1 percent rate in the first quarter, as measured by the gross domestic product, held back by a slowdown in consumer spending and troubles in manufacturing. Analysts are hopeful that GDP growth strengthened to 2 percent or better in the second quarter, and many are looking for further acceleration in the current quarter. “It is beyond doubt that consumers have shaken off their winter blues,” said Chris G. Christopher Jr., director of consumer economics at IHS Global Insight. “Despite rising gasoline prices, consum-
ers are opening their wallets.” Christopher said that consumer spending and housing would help bolster growth going forward. Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, said he believed GDP would be closer to 3 percent in the spring quarter, led by a surge in consumer spending. “Economic growth is through the roof in the second quarter,” Rupkey said. “There are a lot of dollars going through cash registers out there.” Analysts were also encouraged by the latest improvement in industrial production, which followed a 0.3 percent decline in May. The key manufacturing sector showed a 0.4 percent increase, which reflected a jump in autos and auto parts. Utility output expanded 2.4 percent, stemming from higher electricity production as warmer weather boosted demand for air conditioning. Even the country’s beleaguered energy sector recorded gains. Mining,
which covers oil production, inched up 0.2 percent. It was the second small monthly increase after eighth straight monthly declines as this sector struggled with a plunge in oil prices. Manufacturing overall has struggled for more than a year amid weakness in global markets and a strong dollar, which has also hurt exports by making American products more expensive overseas. Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said she believed manufacturing was starting to show “upward momentum.” Other economists, however, cautioned against reading too much into June’s rebound, contending that obstacles remained in manufacturing. “The bulk of manufacturing faces the same problems today that it faced a year ago — too much inventory in the system at home and too strong of a dollar ... in the world market,” said Michael Montgomery, U.S. economist at Global Insight.
BP estimates cost of 2010 spill at $61.6 billion By Cain Burdeau ASSOCIATED PRE SS
NEW ORLEANS — Oil giant BP PLC has put a final price tag on what its catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill cost the company, and it’s a hefty sum: $61.6 billion. The company issued the estimate Thursday, the first time it has put a total cost on the catastrophe. BP said it expects to spend a total of $44 billion after tax deductions are factored in. The new estimate included $5.2 billion in new pre-tax costs. In 2010, one of the company’s deep-sea wells blew out off the coast of Louisiana, leading to the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Eleven rig workers were killed in the explosions and millions of gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf for 87 days. BP said the cost estimate included all “remaining material liabilities.” The company has settled the majority of the claims filed against it by companies, local, state and
federal governments and individuals, such as scores of fishermen. It said its new pre-tax $5.2 billion cost estimate covers “all outstanding business and economic loss claims” stemming from litigation filed by individuals and companies. In April, a federal judge approved a $20 billion settlement over economic and environmental damage between BP and state and federal governments, one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history. “Importantly, we have a clear plan for managing these costs and it provides our investors with certainty going forward,” Brian Gilvary, BP’s chief financial officer, said in a news release. The cost estimate was not far from what was expected, analysts said. “It’s important to put a figure on it and move on,” said Eric Smith with the Energy Institute at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Oil settles near $46 amid Nigeria force majeure, U.S. fuel glut By Jessica Summers B L OOMBE RG NEWS
Oil closed near $46 a barrel in New York as the market weighed a force majeure declared by Exxon Mobil Corp. on crude shipments out of Nigeria against excess U.S. oil and product inventories. Futures rose 0.6 percent after fluctuating between losses and gains in New York. Exxon declared force majeure on shipments of Nigeria’s biggest crude export grade. China processed a record amount of crude in the first half of 2016 as economic growth last quarter exceeded estimates, adding support to the market. U.S. crude production, on the other hand, rose for the first time since early June last week and fuel stockpiles climbed, according to an Energy Information Administration report released on Wednesday. “We have bullish news. We have bearish news. It’s a moody market,” Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago, said by telephone. “The big bear case is we have this flood of product and
it’s going to take some time to overwork that.” West Texas Intermediate crude for August delivery rose 27 cents to settle at $45.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after earlier dropping as low as to $45.05. Total volume traded was about 8 percent below the 100-day average. WTI posted a 1.2% gain for the week. Brent for September settlement climbed 24 cents, or 0.5 percent, to end the session at $47.61 a barrel on the Londonbased ICE Futures Europe exchange and posted a 1.8 percent gain for the week. The global benchmark crude traded at a 96-cent premium to WTI for September delivery, the widest since June 30. Weighing options “The market seems to be at the point where it’s weighing its options whether or not it can move higher,” Harry Tchilinguirian, head of commodities research at BNP Paribas SA in London, said by telephone. “There’s still a bit of uncertainty in Nigeria, but then again, the situation in Nigeria isn’t
biggest economy’s gross domestic product rose 6.7 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, compared with 6.6 percent seen by economists Bloomberg surveyed.
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A worker waits to connect a drill bit on Endeavor Energy Resources's Big Dog Drilling Rig 22 in the Permian Basin outside of Midland, Texas. Oil closed near $46 a barrel in New York as the market weighed a force majeure declared by Exxon Mobil Corp. on crude shipments out of Nigeria against excess U.S. oil and product inventories.
something new.” Force majeure -- a legal clause that allows Exxon to stop shipments without breaching contracts -- was declared on Qua Iboe crude after “a system anomaly observed during a routine check of its loading facility,” the company said in an e-mailed statement Friday. Qua Iboe is the third Nigerian crude grade to be declared under force majeure currently, joining a force majeure declared on Brass River in May and Forcados in
February, according to information from companies compiled by Bloomberg. China processed a record amount of crude on a daily basis in the first half of 2016 as plants boosted operations after getting import licenses. The country’s domestic oil production dropped 4.6 percent to 101.59 million metric tons in the period, the lowest for that period since 2012, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday. The world’s second-
$40 oil Oil has traded between about $44 and $51 a barrel since early May and has climbed from a 12-year low in February amid a string of supply disruptions including attacks in Nigeria. While there’s still a consensus that the worst of the oil glut is over, the International Energy Agency cautioned this week that “the road ahead is far from smooth” amid seasonal weakness in demand and the return of some halted supply. Analysts including BNP Paribas SA and JBC Energy GmbH warned prices may sink toward $40, due in part to seasonal demand weakness. Crude fundamentals are weaker than many realize, according to Julius Walker, senior consultant at JBC Energy in Vienna. “Inventories are still high, both for crude and products. Refining margins have been weak and
there have been some reports of run cuts in the U.S. and Asia,” Michael Wittner, the New Yorkbased head of oil-market research at Societe Generale SA, said by telephone. “It’s not a bullish market. It’s a market that deserves caution.” U.S. inventories are brimming after two years of surplus production and demand for gasoline -- the key driver of prices in summer -- is proving to be disappointing. Stockpiles of the fuel rose by 1.21 million barrels last week and refiners reduced operating rates by 0.2 percentage points to 92.3 percent of capacity, according to the EIA report. Drilling activity in the U.S. rose for a third straight week through Friday with companies adding six oil rigs, leading to a total of 357, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc. “We haven’t sorted out our excess supply problems,” Tchilinguirian said. “Unless you see visible reductions in inventories and more pronounced declines in U.S. shale production, the market will have to go back to $40.”
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CIA papers focus on Argentina art exhibit By Almudena Calatrava A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa has turned declassified CIA documents into an exhibit focused on one of Latin America’s darkest periods. The show, which also includes videos, audios and paintings, opened this week in Buenos Aires at the Museum of Latin American Art, known as MALBA. For more than a decade, Jarpa collected Cold War-era declassified
documents that span from 1948-1994. A large portion of the information shows the CIA’s involvement with the region’s dictatorships that killed and forcibly “disappeared” thousands of people during the 1970s and 1980s. Hundreds of copies of papers documenting the brutalities of the regimes have been hung from the high ceilings of the museum’s main hall for the exhibition, “In Our Little Region Over Here.” “This seeks to construct an image of Latin America through the
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Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa poses for a picture with her paintings of Latin Americans who were killed or died as victims of unsolved crimes that are now being investigated or revisited, at the MALBA museum in Buenos Aires.
documents that the U.S. has declassified about the Cold War,” Jarpa recently told reporters at the museum. “We wanted to interpose this huge architectural space with these declassified files to show the enormity of their volume.” Many pages contain information about the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in
Chile. At least 3,095 people were killed during Pinochet’s rule, and tens of thousands more were tortured or jailed for political reasons, according to government figures. Pinochet died in 2006 under house arrest without being tried on charges of illegal enrichment and human rights violations. Another part of the
exhibit centers on 47 prominent Cold War-era Latin Americans who were killed or died as victims of unsolved crimes that are now being investigated or revisited. Depicted in hand-painted portraits on bronze plaques, they include Cabinet ministers, judges, priests and former presidents. Some Latin American
personalities are featured in a mural representing a collective funeral, while their stories are recorded in folders filled with legal documents. Speeches of human rights advocates, including slain Salvadoran Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, can also be heard in Jarpa’s first exhibit in Argentina.
Mexican president to visit Obama after GOP convention By Eric Martin B L OOM BE RG NEWS
MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto will visit President Barack Obama at the White House the day after the Republican convention, where Donald Trump is expected to become the party’s nomi-
ABBOTT From page A1 Antonio next week for follow-up treatment, and then could see doctors in Austin, about 80 miles away. The governor sustained extensive secondand third-degree burns on his lower legs and feet after coming into contact with hot water and being scalded July 7. His office has refused to answer questions about exactly what occurred except to say that it happened while Abbott was staying with his family in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Abbott was paralyzed from the waist down when an oak tree fell on him while jogging in a freak accident. Still, the governor has nerve receptors in his legs which have caused him to feel pain as they react to being burned, Hirsch said. While recovering, Abbott sustained a “minor infection” and was admitted to the medical center’s burn unit. Abbott underwent a successful skin graft Tuesday but had to stay in the hospital to heal, Hirsh said. Abbott’s injury oc-
MEXICO From page A1 ination by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which worked the site alongside government investigators at the request of the students’ families, confirmed that at least one set of the 17 remains at the dump did not belong to any of the missing students. It had a dental piece that none of the missing students had. The latest forensic examination of the dump was organized by the government after previous investigations contradicted the official version of events. It was supposed to scientifically clarify
nee, highlighting cooperation between the two nations amid a Peña Nieto wave of anti-immigrant and anti-NAFTA campaign rhetoric. Peña Nieto and Obama
will meet July 22. They will discuss topics including economic competitiveness, security, the fight against organized crime and immigration, Paulo Carreno, Mexico’s deputy foreign minister for North America, said in an interview Thursday in Mexico City. While Carreno said the
timing of the visit is coincidental, Trump launched his campaign a year ago by pledging to make Mexico build a wall on the U.S. border to keep out immigrants, whom he called murderers and rapists. Trump has also pledged to end or renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Obama said at the conclusion of a meeting with Pena Nieto in Ottawa last month that he had invited the Mexican leader to visit him one last time before he leaves office next year. "The reality is that these are two countries that are working together, that have an intense commercial, political and
social relationship," Carreno said. "There’s a big difference between campaign rhetoric and reality." The White House confirmed the meeting in an emailed statement, saying it will build upon the progress made in Ottawa and deepen the partnership between the nations.
Abbott’s injury occurred the same day a sniper killed five Dallas police officers. Abbott defied doctors’ orders not to travel, rushed to Dallas and held a news conference the following day curred the same day a sniper killed five Dallas police officers and wounded nine others. Abbott defied doctors’ orders not to travel, rushed to Dallas and held a news conference the following day. He did not divulge his injury despite facing cameras in orthopedic shoes and with his legs wrapped under his pants. Word of it wasn’t confirmed until two days later. His office later said that Abbott didn’t want to deflect attention away from the Dallas tragedy. The governor also skipped the Dallas memorial service where President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush spoke Tuesday.
where the students ended up, but created more argument because the government presented the findings as though they supported its theory. At the presentation by the Attorney General’s Office, fire expert Ricardo Torres said more tests were needed to determine whether 43 people could have been burned at the dump, but he added there had been a large controlled fire there and 17 sets remains were recovered. No more details were offered and questions were not taken. The full report warned about the limitations of reaching any firm conclusion about the dump because it had not been
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A girl leaves a teddy bear at a makeshift memorial on the Promenade des Anglais, where 84 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded the night before as a driver plowed through a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France.
VICTIMS From page A1 “a terrific leader in the company ... (and) a phenomenal person who will be dearly missed.” The Austin AmericanStatesman reported that
guarded for a month. “It is certainly plausible that unknown persons may have entered the site and/or contaminated the site,” the report said. The Argentine team had previously advised of shell casings that suddenly appeared at the site and were later touted by the government as evidence that the students were executed at the dump. Before departing Mexico at the end of April, the team from the InterAmerican Human Rights Commission urged the government to drop its theory and explore details in the investigation that point to other possible destinations for the students’ remains.
Brodie played on a youth baseball team where his father was the coach. He had just completed the fifth grade at Lakeway Elementary School where he was a member of the honor choir and active in athletics, Principal Sam Hicks said in a
statement released through the Lake Travis School District. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement that every attack is tragic but “this latest one hits close to home.” The French flag was flown over the Texas
Governor’s mansion in Austin in remembrance. “Now, more than ever, we must unite with our allies around the globe to end the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism that threatens our freedoms and civilization itself,” he said.
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cation Commissioner Mike Morath, Williams’ successor, in a statement. The new education chief noted that progress came despite widespread problems school districts reported with this year’s STAAR administration under a new testing vendor. Those technical and logistical issues prompted Morath last month to cancel a final retesting for 5th and 8th graders who hadn’t passed required exams — students in those grades are supposed to pass reading and math exams to advance to the next grade — and also to drop that grade retention consequence. “Despite unanticipated
issues associated with the transition to a new testing vendor, Texas students are generating results for a majority of the grades 3-8 assessments that are better than prior years, providing additional confidence in their use,” Morath said. But parents involved in the anti-testing movement were quick to dismiss the announcement. They view the test as developmentally inappropriate and unnecessarily high-stakes. “Test scores are meaningless,” read a post on Texas Parents Opt Out of State Tests, one of many anti-STAAR Facebook pages.
grades — 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th — performed worse with passing rates in the lower 70-percent range. (4th graders did better and 5th graders performed about the same.) Still, 5th and 8th graders improved on science exams under both passing standards, while 8th graders improved on social studies exams. The improvement as compared to the old passing standards “reflects the day-in, day-out hard work of teachers in the classroom throughout our state,” said Edu-
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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE Caminata/Carrera La Cuarta Caminata/Carrera y Competencia Infantil Anual de 5K PFC Ira “Ben” Laningham IV se realizará el sábado 16 de julio a partir de las 7:50 a.m. con salida del Palacio de Justicia (Courthouse) del Condado de Zapata. Habrá trofeos para ganadores en cada categoría. Cuota de participación es de 20 dólares. Precio especial para estudiantes y niños.
STFB El Second Annual Super Shredder Day, se realizará el sábado 16 de julio, de las 8 a.m. a las 2 p.m. en el Edificio Administrativo del Departamento de Bomberos de Laredo, 616 East Del Mar. Se invita a los ciudadanos a llevar sus documentos, hasta 50 libras, para ser triturados de manera gratuita. Se invita a la comunidad a realizar un donativo a beneficio del Banco de Alimentos del Sur de Texas. Informes llamando a Salo Otero en el (956) 324-2432.
Asistencia para Uniformes Las solicitudes para asistencia para uniformes estarán disponibles el lunes 18 de julio en el cuarto 6 de las oficinas de administración del Zapata County Independent School District, 1302 Glenn St., en horario de oficina. Padres de familia deben presentarse con comprobante de identificación y comprobante de asistencia de gobierno. Los uniformes se distribuirán el viernes 28 de julio de 7 a.m. a 5 p.m. en las mismas oficinas.
Pink To Do La Asociación para Atención al Cáncer de Seno “Pink To Do” realizará una cena para reclutar integrantes el lunes 18 de julio a las 5:30 p.m. en Mirage Reception Hall, 5411 McPherson Road. Abierto a hombres y mujeres. Costo 10 dólares. No se aceptan niños. Confirme asistencia en el (956) 333-5096
Encuesta para padres Zapata County Independent School District (ZCISD) pide a los padres de familia, cuyos hijos estudiarán el Pre-K 4 en el ciclo escolar que inicia en agosto, que respondan una encuesta. Los padres de familia pueden responder la encuesta visitando el sitio surveymonkey.com/ r/6VPWSHJ
Regreso a la Escuela ZCares Community Reach Project del ZCISD invita a la tercera academia para padres “Bienvenido de Regreso a la Escuela” el jueves 18 de agosto, de 5 p.m. a 7 p.m. en Zapata High School, 2009 State Highway 16. Los participantes recibirán una caja con útiles escolares para sus hijos (mientras haya disponibles). tiempo@lmtonline.com
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AUSTIN — Un hombre del área de Austin y su hijo que estaban de vacaciones en Europa con su familia son dos de las personas que murieron durante el ataque en Niza, Francia, confirmaron el viernes los familiares de las víctimas. Sean Copeland, de 51 años, y su hijo Brodie, de 11 años, murieron el jueves por la noche en lo que según las autoridades francesas fue un ataque terrorista, dijo el amigo de la familia Jess Davis. “Estamos desconsolados y conmocionados por la pérdida de Brodie Copeland, un hijo y hermano increíble que alumbró nuestras vidas, y Sean Copeland, un esposo y padre maravilloso”, dijo la familia Copeland en un comunicado divulgado por Davis. Davis dijo que la familia Copeland, de Lakeway, a unos 32 kilómetros (20 millas) al noroeste de Austin, habían comenzado sus vacaciones en Pamplona, España, donde fueron a ver los tradicionales encierros de la feria de San Fermín. “Luego fueron a ver bailar flamenco a Barcelona y habían estado celebrando el Día de la Bastilla en Niza cuando este acto terrorista, impensable e injusto, se llevó muy pronto de este mundo las vidas de Sean y Brodie”, dijo Davis. “Es una pérdida terrible”. El portavoz del Departamento de Estado John Kirby dijo previamente que dos estadounidenses eran algunas de las 84 personas asesinadas pero
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Autoridades revisan un camión luego que fue usado para atropellar a gente durante una celebración por el Día de la Bastilla en Niza, Francia, el jueves.
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Sean Copeland y su hijo Brodie.
no los identificó por respeto a su privacidad. Davis dijo que los sobrevivientes de la familia Copeland siguen en Niza. Dijo que están “desconsolados y no quieren atender pedidos de entrevistas”. El diario Austin American-Statesman reportó que Sean Copeland era vicepresidente de una empresa de software en Austin. Investigación El saldo fatal del jueves, de al menos 84 muertos, representó uno de los ataques motorizados más letales en
años recientes. Aunque aún no está clara la motivación del ataque, el conductor tunecino atropelló a la gente que estaba viendo los fuegos artificiales durante la celebración del Día de la Bastilla. Contrario a ataques con vehículos cargados de explosivos, el alto número de muertes parece haber sido causado por el peso y la velocidad del camión, arremetiendo contra la gente en el paseo al lado de la playa. “El uso de vehículos para realizar ataques es una táctica bien establecida de Al Qaeda y el
grupo Estado Islámico”, dijo Matthew Henman, subdirector del Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, de IHS. “El uso deliberado de un camión pesado para enfocarse en una muchedumbre demuestra lo que pasa con un ataque como este y podría ser el precursor de otros ataques”. Simpatizantes de Al Qaeda y el grupo Estado Islámico alabaron el ataque el viernes, pero nadie lo reivindicó por el momento. El grupo extremista ha pedido a sus simpatizantes usar cualquier cosa para realizar ataques. Los últimos atentados en los últimos años han sido con aviones, aplanadoras, tractores y otros vehículos, así como con armas de fuego, cuchillos, machetes, bombas y explosivos. Contribuyeron a este despacho los periodistas de The Associated Press Paisley Dodds, Lori Hinnant en Perigueux, Francia; Kathy Gannon en Islamabad; y Tia Goldenberg en Jerusalén.
ELECCIONES 2016
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Ubican a grupo; intentan escapar TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump anunció el viernes que eligió al gobernador de Indiana, Mike Pence, como compañero de fórmula. El anuncio buscaría atraer experiencia política y buena fe conservadora a su campaña como virtual candidato presidencial republicano. Trump anunció su decisión en Twitter la mañana del viernes, coronando unas 24 horas frenéticas de conjeturas sobre su elección. Trump precisó que él y Pence ofrecerán una conferencia de prensa en Nueva York el sábado por la mañana para dar detalles de su campaña contra la demócrata Hillary Clinton y quien la acompañe como compañero de fórmula en las elecciones de noviembre. El magnate de los bienes raíces le ofreció a Pence competir por la vicepresidencia el jueves y el gobernador tomó un vuelo a Nueva York a la espera de que el anuncio se hiciera el viernes, según una fuente republicana enterada de las
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — Los cinco integrantes de una familia fueron muertos en su propio domicilio en Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, al ser atacados por sujetos armados. El Grupo de Coordinación Tamaulipas, responsable de la seguridad en la entidad, informó el viernes en un comunicado que los muertos son dos mujeres y tres menores de edad. En el interior del domicilio fue hallada un arma larga y varios cargadores. Hasta el momento se desconocen los motivos del ataque y quién o quiénes fueron los agresores, pero en los últimos días se han reiterado los sucesos violentos que las autoridades atribuyen a una lucha entre facciones enfrentadas del crimen organizado. El fin de semana 15 personas fueron ejecutadas, 11 de ellas también de una misma familia, mientras dormían. Desde fines de 2015 la violencia se ha incrementado notablemente en Ciudad Victoria porque dos facciones del cártel de Los Zetas, los “Zetas vieja escuela” y el “Cártel del Noreste”, se disputan la capital tamaulipeca. Esta última escisión está comandada por la familia de Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, detenido en 2013. La disputa ha cobrado al menos un centenar de vidas desde fines de 2015.
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El pre-candidato presidencial Republicano, Donald Trump, sale de la casa del gobernador de Indiana, Mike Pence, en Indianapolis. Trump ha seleccionado a Pence como su compañero de fórmula.
gestiones, que pidió no ser identificada debido a que no estaba autorizada para hablar en público sobre el tema. Sin embargo, poco después de que Pence llegó a Nueva York, Trump anunció bruscamente que decidió posponer su anuncio a causa del ataque mortal en Niza, Francia, que dejó más de 80 muertos. El candidato dijo en varias entrevistas televisadas el jueves por la noche que no había tomado una decisión “final, final”, lo que dejó abierta la posibilidad de que Trump, conocido por su carácter errático e impredecible, cambie de opinión. En una entrevista con Fox News el viernes por la
mañana, el jefe de la campaña de Trump, Paul Manafort, descartó los rumores de que Trump tomó una decisión y luego se arrepintió. El retraso provocó conjeturas, pero el hombre de negocios puso fin a los rumores el viernes cuando tuiteó que estaba “contento” de anunciar a Pence como su número dos. Pence dijo en Twitter que se sentía honrado de aceptar competir como compañero de fórmula de Trump y de “trabajar para hacer grande a Estados Unidos de nuevo”. Pence, un conservador de 57 años de edad, sirvió seis mandatos en el Congreso antes de ser elegido gobernador y podría ayu-
dar a Trump en las negociaciones con los legisladores. Pence es respetado por los cristianos evangélicos, sobre todo después de que promulgó una ley que según sus críticos permitiría a las empresas denegar el servicio a los homosexuales por razones religiosas. Tener a Pence como candidato vicepresidencial le daría a la campaña de Trump una dosis de experiencia y seriedad. Pence es un conservador acérrimo de carácter imperturbable y con contactos en Washington. La elección por parte de Trump sería indicio de que el magnate está tratando de aliviar temores entre las filas republicanas por su propia ideología conservadora y su falta de experiencia. La campaña de Clinton se movió rápidamente para descalificar a Pence. “Al escoger a Mike Pence como su compañero de fórmula, Donald Trump ha apuntalado algunas de sus creencias más inquietantes, con la elección de un compañero de fórmula increíblemente divisivo e impopular”, dijo John Podesta, presidente del equipo de campaña de Clinton.
Un grupo compuesto por nueve migrantes de origen centroamericano fueron ubicados en el municipio de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, el jueves. Elementos de la policía del estado realizaban un recorrido por la calle Martín Chapa, en el poblado Valadeces en Díaz Ordaz cuando notaron una vivienda en malas condiciones que estaba habitada, reportó el Gobierno de Tamaulipas en un comunicado de prensa. Cuando un grupo de personas notaron la presencia de los oficiales, así como del personal del Instituto Nacional de Migración, empezaron a correr para ocultarse dentro del domicilio. “En el interior del inmueble fueron asegurados nueve migrantes que declararon a las autoridades que pretendían cruzar a los Estados Unidos de manera ilegal”, agrega el reporte. El grupo estaba compuesto por cinco hombres de Honduras, dos hombres de Guatemala y dos mujeres de Guatemala. Se les brindó atención médica a los inmigrantes para después ser puestos a disposición del Instituto Nacional de Migración donde recibirán asistencia consular para regresar a su país de origen.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: BAYLOR BEARS
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Tom Brady will drop his appeal and serve his four-game suspension for the “Deflategate” scandal.
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Baylor interim football coach Jim Grobe has a masters degree in counseling, which comes in handy dealing with student-athletes on and off the field. Yet, Baylor’s acting head coach knows that doesn’t qualify him to handle issues such as domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Grobe focused on Bears’ character, integrity By Stephen Hawkins A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
WACO, Texas — Jim Grobe has a master’s degree in counseling that comes in handy dealing with athletes on and off the field. Yet, Baylor’s acting head coach knows that doesn’t qualify him to handle issues such as domestic violence and sexual assault. “We coach and we recruit,” Grobe said.
“That’s our expertise. That’s what we do.” The 64-year-old Grobe had put in 19 years as a head coach in the Bowl Subdivision and just two months ago was semiretired, living in a lakeside home with plans for Hawaiian trips and cruises with his wife. Now he is back in the spotlight and then some, leading a Baylor program reeling from allegations that it didn’t properly handle claims of sexual
misconduct against some of its players in the past. Grobe’s task is seemingly immense: He has to help the Bears move forward from scandal — lawsuits against the world’s largest Baptist university are still pending — and keep Baylor among the top teams in the Big 12, one that was on the verge of the first College Football Playoff two seasons ago and still in that mix late last year. But Grobe said the play-
ers and staff have to “focus on, first and foremost, our character and integrity.” And he is making it clear that any potentially egregious issues in the future will be turned over to university officials. “At the first hints of if we suspect in any way that there’s been something really bad that’s happened, we know to go to (Title IX coordinaBaylor continues on B2
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady said Friday he will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block his four-game “Deflategate” suspension, ending his fight in a scandal that tested the power of the NFL commissioner and tarnished the reputation of one of the sport’s greatest players. “It has been a challenging 18 months and I have made the difficult decision to no longer proceed with the legal
process,” the New England Patriots quarterback said in a Facebook post . “I’m going to work hard to be the best player I can be for the New England Patriots and I look forward to having the opportunity to return to the field this fall.” The decision by the four-time Super Bowl champion comes two days after his case was turned aside by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Brady’s only remaining hope to take the field when the Patriots open the season Brady continues on B2
2016 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: ROYAL TROON
Mickelson shines in wind and rain By Doug Ferguson A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
TROON, Scotland — Phil Mickelson wore a black rain suit that he didn’t need until he approached the far end of Royal Troon and already had stretched his lead. Henrik Stenson opened the curtains at his house expecting to see rain com-
ing down sideways and was pleasantly surprised by the calm. Good golf and the good end of the draw is tough to beat in the British Open. Mickelson hit a wedge that spun back toward the cup until it stopped about two postage stamps away on the par-3 eighth hole, the signature shot in his
2-under 69 that allowed him to back up his record-tying start and take the 36-hole lead in a major for the first time in three years. “I thought it was a good round to back up the low round yesterday,” Mickelson said. “I played kind of stress-free golf again. I made one or two bad Golf continues on B2
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Phil Mickelson followed his record-tying 63 with four more birdies in a round of 2-under 69 Friday, and holds a one shot lead after two rounds at the Open Championship.
MLB: CHICAGO CUBS 6, TEXAS RANGERS 0
Rangers start second half with loss By Dave Royse ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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Rougned Odor and the Rangers started the second half of the season with a 6-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs Frday afternoon.
CHICAGO — The Texas Rangers started the second half of the season the way they ended the first, struggling to get back to the form that has given them the best record in the American League. The Chicago Cubs beat Texas 6-0 on Friday, handing the Rangers their eighth loss in 10 games — and their third straight going back to before the All-Star break. Addison Russell’s tworun single keyed a fiverun sixth inning for the Cubs, and Kyle Hendricks (8-6) combined with four relievers to hold the Rangers to five hits. While the Cubs’ sixth-
inning outburst chased Rangers starter Martin Perez (7-6), Texas manager Jeff Banister said his club’s pitching wasn’t the problem — it was the pitching performance by the Cubs’ Hendricks. “He was extremely stingy with the middle part of the plate today,” Banister said. “We couldn’t get anything off the barrel.” One of the Cubs’ runs in the sixth came on a throwing error by Prince Fielder, in a rare start at first base due to interleague play. “The sixth inning got away from us,” Banister said. “I felt like Martin was still making good pitches, still had life on his pitches. We just didn’t
help him out.” Perez said the Rangers weren’t worried by the recent slump. Despite the loss, Texas (54-37) still has the most wins in the AL. “We just have to go back tomorrow and stay focused and find a way to go back to winning,” Perez said. The Cubs are trying to come out of their own slump, winning for just the seventh time in 22 games. Cubs manager Joe Maddon said Hendricks’ emergence as a solid starter has been key as aces Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester have struggled. “Kyle’s one of the best pitchers in the National League right now and nobody is talking about it,” Maddon said.
Carl Edwards Jr. struck out two in a perfect seventh and Travis Wood, Pedro Strop and Justin Grimm combined for the final six outs in Chicago’s eighth shutout. The Cubs, who entered percentage points ahead of Texas for the secondbest record in the majors behind San Francisco, had seven hits on an unseasonably cool, drizzly day with the wind blowing in. The breeze kept Anthony Rizzo’s drive to right in the park in the sixth that helped load the bases and extend his hitting streak to 10 games. Two batters later Russell came through. “We played poorly the last three weeks or so and Rangers continues on B2
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SPORTS
Miller signs record-breaking deal with Broncos By Arnie Stapleton A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Super Bowl MVP Von Miller practiced both pirouettes and patience this offseason. While his dance moves didn’t earn him the title on “Dancing With The Stars,” Miller’s staredown in contract negotiations paid off Friday when he signed a sixyear, $114.5 million deadline deal with the Denver Broncos that includes
BAYLOR From page B1 tor) Patty Crawford,” Grobe said. “Then get out of the way, and be cooperative.” When Grobe arrived in late May, within days after two-time Big 12 champion coach Art Briles was dismissed following the release of a scathing report , the former Wake Forest coach found a Baylor team that was discouraged, sad and embarrassed. He has discovered something much more encouraging during his short time on campus. “The thing that I think’s gone unnoticed is how many great kids that we have here,” Grobe said. “That’s been
GOLF From page B1 swings that led to bogeys. But for the most part, kept the ball in play.” He just couldn’t shake Stenson, who timed his birdies perfectly. The Swede made three straight birdies before the wind showed up and the clouds began to spit rain. He added two more during lulls in the increasingly bad weather. And he wound up with a Friday-best 65 that enabled him to close within one shot of Mickelson. “I was five back of Phil from yesterday, so of course I was hoping to gain a little,” Stenson said. “And the way it turned out, I gained quite a lot. It’s still early in the tournament, though. We’re only halfway through. But so far, so good. I’m happy with the way I played the course. It’s not easy out there.” Try telling that to the players who had to endure an afternoon of
BRADY From page B1 against Arizona on Sept. 11 had been a stay from the nation’s highest court, which accepts about 1 percent of the appeals submitted. More worrisome for Brady and the Patriots, though, was the chance that he would receive a stay — which would require only the blessing of a single Supreme Court justice, in this case Ruth Bader Ginsburg — only to have the whole court later refuse to hear the case. That could allow the suspension to fall at a more inconvenient time in the season, perhaps including the playoffs. “This decision was made in the interest of certainty and planning for Tom prior to the New England Patriots season,” the NFL Players Association said in a statement Friday. The union said it was still considering whether to seek on its own a Supreme Court ruling that would limit Commissioner Roger Goodell’s authority to punish players. Dropping the case now
$70 million guaranteed. That’s almost double the guaranteed money the Broncos were offering him in June. Miller received $23 million at signing and will earn $61 million over the first eight months of the blockbuster deal that makes him the highestpaid player outside of quarterbacks in NFL history. Miller thanked team owner Pat Bowlen, president and CEO Joe Ellis, general manager John
Elway and coach Gary Kubiak “for making this possible.” “I’m also thankful for the way my teammates and our fans have supported me,” Miller said in a statement. “I’m excited for the future and ready to get back to work.” Miller and agent Joby Branion parlayed patience into a recordbreaking deal in terms of overall value and guarantees. Last month, Miller’s camp rejected the $38.5
million the Broncos offered in guarantees, and Miller threatened to sit out the season barring a long-term deal. Elway bolstered the offer over the last week and now the man who almost single-handedly destroyed Carolina’s championship dreams will lead Denver’s title defense that begins Sept. 8 against those Panthers. “I’m happy that both sides were able to broker a deal that works for both sides,” Branion
said. “That’s the mark of a good negotiation. The Broncos are happy to have Von back and Von’s happy to be back.” Miller was in Utah on Friday for an appearance with Whitney Carson, his partner on “Dancing With The Stars, and Elway was overseas. “Congrats (at)Millerlite40! Excited for what the future holds for you & our team,” Elway tweeted. “Proud of everyone for getting it done.” The cornerstone of the
league’s best defense accepted the Broncos’ blockbuster offer two hours before Friday’s deadline, tweeting a photo of himself in his orange No. 58 jersey with the caption “For Life.” Both the overall value of the deal and the guaranteed money are records for nonquarterbacks. The only player with more guaranteed money is Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, the league’s highest-paid player.
a real pleasant surprise for me, because when you first come into this situation, all of the outside seem to think that we were a program rife with aggressive kids and kids that were kind of out of control, and that’s not the case at all. We’ve got a great group of kids.” Still, the Bears, who have won 50 games the past five seasons, are down to about 70 scholarship players. That includes only about half of Baylor’s highly touted spring signing class of 22 players; six were eventually released from their letters of intent without enrolling and three others left after going through spring practice. Then backup sophomore quarterback Jarrett Stidham decided this month
that he was leaving. Briles and the school mutually settled on his departure last month and he has moved away from Waco, though the former coach was seen this week leaving a popular taco joint close to the Baylor campus. “Just hanging with the guys, coaches,” Briles told KCEN-TV as he got into his truck. Asked about his future plans , Briles said, “I’m going to coach again” without indicating where. Grobe has a reputation of unimpeachable character and running clean programs. He has been a coach most of the past four decades, serving as head coach at Ohio (19952000) and Wake Forest (2001-13) before being away from coaching the past two seasons.
He plans to handle any serious allegations at Baylor the way he has in the past when issues have been identified. Grobe said he has no problem holding players out of games or practice if accused of egregious acts until they are able to prove their innocence. “Treating these things in a serious nature, you have to start with the victim, with somebody that’s accusing your players. You have to start there — we always love our players and we’d like to believe everything our players tell us, but honestly sometimes, they’re not as forthcoming as they need to be,” Grobe said. “The problem is as a coach, you can’t deal with the issues we’re talking about.” Briles’ son, Kendal, is
still Baylor’s offensive coordinator and the former coach’s son-in-law, Jeff Lebby, is also part of the offensive staff. An attorney for a former Baylor student who said she was hit and choked by a former Baylor player said the woman exchanged text messages with Lebby about the incidents in 2014 , and nothing was done other than to tell the player to stay away from her. While Grobe was given authority to make any changes, all the Baylor assistants have been retained. Grobe said his goal was to try to make as few changes as possible, and that he has seen a loyal group of coaches who care about the players. “What I’ve tried to do
with our coaching staff is let them coach, and not get in the way too much,” said Grobe, who for now is signed only for the 2016 season. “As far as X’s and O’s, things aren’t broken here.” Like the players, the younger Briles was still in shock when Grobe first arrived. “But as time has gone on, I think he’s great right now,” Grobe said. “I don’t think he could be any better. I think he understands that being successful would be good for everybody, and I think Kendal feels a great responsibility to his players and to this offensive football team and to his coaches.” The Bears open the season Sept. 2 at home against Northwestern State.
gusts that topped 30 mph and rain so heavy at times it was hard to see. “Some draws go your way,” Rory McIlroy said, “and some draws don’t.” Just look at the leaderboard. Mickelson was at 10under 132, the best 36hole total ever to lead at Royal Troon. Stenson, a runner-up to Mickelson at Muirfield in 2013, was one shot behind. Soren Kjeldsen and Keegan Bradley each shot 68 and were three shots behind. The top 14 players going into the weekend all played Friday morning. Of the 26 players still under par, only four of them played in the afternoon. The nature of links golf, and this championship, is getting the good side of the tee times. Mickelson was soaked when he walked off the course, though he managed to get in eight holes before the rain arrived. On the ninth hole, he had his caddie hold the umbrella over
would leave in place what the union called this week a “broken system that must be fixed.” But even if the union fights on, Brady would still sit out the first four games of the season, when the Patriots face the Cardinals, Dolphins, Texans and Bills. Backup Jimmy Garoppolo, who has spent the last two years as the backup, is expected to start for New England instead. Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who has split with longtime league allies over the punishment, renewed his complaint that the suspension was “unprecedented, unjust and unreasonable.” “Unfortunately, this stopped being about air pressure a long time ago,” he said in a statement . “This entire process has indelibly taken a toll on our organization, our fans and most importantly, Tom Brady. His reluctant decision to stop pursuing further action and to put this situation behind him is what he feels is best for the team in preparation for this season and is fully supported by me and our entire organiza-
his ball on a 10-foot par putt, walking away at the last minute to watch his boss roll in into the cup, like he’s been doing all week. Jordan Spieth? He was lucky to still be playing. Spieth battled through the worst of the elements to play the final six holes in even par for a 75 to finish at 4-over 146. Two hours before he finished, that looked as if it would earn him a trip back to Texas. Instead, he made the cut on the number. “It’s tough when we all realize before we go out that you’re kind of what would be the bad end of the draw before you even play your second round,” Spieth said. Then again, he wasn’t sure it mattered the way he was playing. “But at 4-over par, my game is not major championship-winning caliber those first two rounds,” he said. “It just made it pretty interesting and actually somewhat nervous on the last five, six holes because I’d really
like to play the weekend.” McIlroy got within five shots of the lead until the weather and a few bad shots gobbled him up, and the four-time major champion dropped four shots in five holes. He had to settle for an evenpar 71 and was eight shots behind, along with U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson (69). Jason Day, the world’s No. 1 player, had a 70 and was among three players who broke par in the afternoon. “I felt like I shot a low-career round out there today with just how tough the conditions were,” Day said. Mickelson’s made his first bogey when he pulled an iron off the tee into the rough, missing a gorse bush by about two paces. He dropped another shot on the 15th when he pulled his drive into the rough and couldn’t reach the green. Those were the mistakes, offset by a 25-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole
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Tom Brady’s decision to drop his appeal comes two days after his case was turned aside by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
tion.” Brady is eligible to return in Week 5, when New England visits the Cleveland Browns. Despite the suspension, the Patriots remain overwhelming favorites to win the AFC East for the 13th time in 14 seasons, and the gambling website Bovada listed them as the top choice to win the Super Bowl. An NFL spokesman said the league would have no comment. Originally suspended four games after the league concluded the Patriots intentionally underinflated the foot-
balls used in the AFC Championship game on Jan. 18, 2015, Brady embarked on an odyssey to clear his name that has now stretched into its third season. A federal judge overturned the suspension, allowing Brady to play last season, but the 2nd Circuit reinstated it this spring. Along the way, prominent scientist have questioned the league’s conclusions and legal scholars have doubted whether Goodell abused his power by punishing Brady a hefty four games merely for being “at least generally aware” of the
when he played his tee shot off the back side of a bunker and let it feed toward the hole. He looked like a links specialist the way he used the ground. Then again, his name is on the silver claret jug for a reason. And he wouldn’t mind seeing it there again. “I don’t feel the pressure like probably a lot of players do to try to win the claret jug because I’ve already won it,” he said. “The desire to capture that claret jug puts a lot of pressure on. The fact I’ve done it relieves some of that. I would love to add to it, but having already done that was big.” Only two other players have started a major with rounds of 63-69. One was Raymond Floyd, who went on to a wire-to-wire victory at Southern Hills in the 1982 PGA Championship. The other was Greg Norman, who shot 78 in the final round of the 1996 Masters and lost a six-shot lead.
deflation scheme. Organized labor argued that the commissioner’s actions threatened workers everywhere. But the appeals court panel found that the commissioner was acting with the wide-ranging authority granted to him by the collective bargaining agreement. Local fans stood by their quarterback, lashing out at the league and chanting “Free Tom Brady” not just at Patriots games but also when watching the Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics. Kraft, who was instrumental in forging the labor deal that included the process upheld by the courts, took the nearly unprecedented step of opposing the league in court. “What Tom has had to endure throughout this 18-month ordeal has been, in my opinion, as far removed from due process as you could ever expect in this country,” he said. “From day one, I have believed in Tom and given him my unwavering support in his pursuit to rightfully clear his name of any wrongdoing.” A two-time NFL MVP
RANGERS From page B1 showed our vulnerability and humanity as a team,” Cubs president Theo Epstein said. “In the long run that might be a good thing because it means we know how hard we have to work and how well we have to play to get where we want to go.” Rangers: LHP Jake Diekman, who cut his left index finger on a beer mug earlier this month in Boston, was placed on the 15-day disabled list. It’s retroactive to July 6. ... RHP Keone Kela (elbow) was activated. ... LF Shin-Soo Choo (back) was out of the lineup. Ryan Rua replaced him, while Odor led off. PEREZ’S HIT Perez recorded his first major league hit with a swinging bunt toward third base in the second. He had been 0 for 9. “I’m not a fast guy, I just hit the ball and I looked at third base and I just said, ‘He’s far from the ball,”’ said Perez, who was charged with five runs in 5 2/3 innings.
who has led New England to the Super Bowl six times, Brady will be allowed to practice with the team when it reports to training camp on July 27 and play in any exhibition games. His suspension will take effect on 4 p.m. on Sept. 3, when rosters are trimmed to 53 players. Brady will not be allowed to have any contact with the team until the suspension ends on Oct. 3, a day after Game 4 against the Buffalo Bills. Garoppolo relieved Brady six times as a rookie and completed 19 of 27 passes for 182 yards, including a 13yard touchdown to Rob Gronkowski on his fourth career pass attempt. Although he spent last year on the cusp of replacing Brady while the Deflategate appeals wended their way through the courts, he did not throw a pass in 2015. “Whether you’re a starter (or) backup, you’ve got to have a starter mentality,” Garoppolo said on the eve of the season. “You never know when your number’s going to get called.”
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Dear Readers: It's VACATION season. But what's a vacation without our beloved dogs along? Here are some hints for their safe and healthy travels: * This is not the time to have Fido sampling new foods. Keep the diet the same, and ensure that he has plenty of fresh water. * Carry the animal's vaccination records in your bag. Not up-to-date? A visit to the vet is in order. * A strong leash, a recent picture, collar and tags are absolute musthaves; a microchip is a good backup to ID the dog. * What's your mode of transportation for your vacation? Holding the dog in a crate is the best way to safely move Fido. * Ensure that you and your pet always have good airflow (ventilation) wherever you go. * Always check with the hotelier, airline and
veterinarian about your travel specifics. -- Heloise SUBSCRIPTIONCARD MAGICIAN Dear Heloise: Before I read a magazine, I tear out all of those pesky subscription cards and sheets that don't belong in there. Then I heave a sigh of relief, and I can relax and look at my magazine! -- Nona G., Hartley, Texas TOOTHBRUSH/MUSTACHE BRUSH Dear Heloise: I've had a mustache for 50 years. I have used many different combs and brushes to keep it well-groomed. While replacing my toothbrush, I gave it a try on my mustache. I found it to be of perfect size, and the bristles worked perfectly. So guys, before surfing the internet looking for an inexpensive mustache brush, try a mediumbristle toothbrush. -Sam L., Huntington Beach, Calif.
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