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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES

Zika prevention strategy unaltered Recent Florida cases won’t change state officials plans

By Madeline Conway and Edgar Walters TH E TEXAS T RI BUNE

News that four people in South Florida likely caught the Zika virus from mosquito bites presented a new milestone for the disease in the continental United States, where previous cases had been related to international travel.

But in Texas, health officials aren't sounding new alarms.

They say they’ve been anticipating and preparing for local Zika transmission — and that the news does not change their plans.

“This is exactly what we’ve been on alert for in Texas,” Carrie Williams, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said via

email. “We have a strong plan in place, and we’ve been blanketing the state with information about how people can protect themselves.”

Williams said if mosquito-tohuman transmission of the virus begins in Texas — a scenario that public health officials have said is likely to happen on a small scale — the state will quickly announce where the geographic risk areas are.

So far, there is no evidence of local transmission in Texas.

“Our central focus is ultimately protecting unborn babies from Zika and the damage

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it can do, and we’ll move fast to protect people if we detect local transmission here,” Williams said.

There have been 84 reported cases of Zika in Texas to date, and all are related to overseas travel in areas with active transmission of the virus. In one case, a man who had contracted the disease abroad transmitted it sexually to a man in Dallas County.

Researchers have linked the Zika virus in pregnant women to microcephaly, a condition causing babies to be born with abnormally small brains and

skulls. A small proportion of Zika infections may also trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome, an illness that targets the nervous system, scientists say.

William Schaffner, the chairman of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said the Florida news confirms what health experts had “all anticipated,” given that “we can’t put up a wall to keep Zika out.”

Schaffner described the response in Florida as “prompt and comprehensive” and warned against panic. “The Zika continues on A12

WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

FLYING HIGH OVER TEXAS Glider began in Zapata SPECIAL TO THE TIME S Hector Guerrero / Getty Images

Mexico's Federal police members stand guard outside the federal maximum security prison.

Drug lord ordered to house arrest

By Peter Orsi A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

MEXICO CITY — Drug lord Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca Carrillo, who was convicted in the 1985 killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, was transferred from prison to house arrest Thursday to serve out the remainder of his sentence.

The 86-year-old co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel was taken overnight to a house in Mexico State, which borders the capital, and was entrusted to the care of his wife, federal prisons chief Eduardo Guerrero said in comments broadcast by the Televisa network.

Guerrero said Fonseca will be required to wear an electronic bracelet and the home will have four guards posted around the clock, as well as closed-circuit cameras monitoring the perimeter. He said officials fought for over a year to keep Fonseca in prison but ultimately had to obey a judge’s order of house arrest.

“From the government’s perspective, we believe it is not right that someone who did so much damage to this country is today serving the end of this sentence on the outside. ... He did a lot of damage to society and he should still be, according to all the studies, inside a federal prison,” Guerrero said.

The prisons chief added that authorities made various security checks at the house including ensuring there was no tunnel through which Fonseca could potentially escape.

Fonseca, who was convicted in the 1985 kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, has nearly 10 years remaining on his 40-year sentence. His family successfully petitioned a judge to grant him house arrest for the remainder due to his poor health and advanced age.

“We exhausted all legal recourses we had at our disposition to prevent Ernesto Fonseca from getting out,” said Guerrero, adding that he had no knowledge of whether Fonseca may still be dangerous or involved in a criminal organization.

Yoanna Fonseca, “Don Neto’s” daughter, said Arrest continues on A12

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Professional hand glider Jonny Durand took to the skies of west Texas to break the world record for longest open distance flight, starting in Zapata, Texas on June 23.

Several weeks ago professional hang glider Jonny Durand took to the skies of West Texas to break the world record for longest open distance flight. The Australian had the goal of flying for nearly the entire length of the Lone Star State from south to north.

After several attempts during consistently unfavorable weather conditions, Jonny had to abort the World Record attempt after a still-impressive final flight of 9.5 hours in the air and 302 miles traveled, short of his 475-mile goal.

The 35-year-old glider knew breaking the record would be a tall order. Unlike many other world records where conditions are static, this particular record attempt had enough atmospheric variables to make a meteorologist’s head spin.

When taking into account all factors, Mother Nature would’ve had to cooperate with near-perfect conditions to make the day-long Flying continues on A12

CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS

Brothers plead guilty to bribery

By John MacCormack SAN ANTONIO EXPRE SS-NEWS

Former City Council members Roel and Rogelio Mata became the latest Crystal City defendants to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a three-year investigation of public corruption.

The brothers were among six people indicted early this year as FBI agents conducted a predawn raid on the city, 130 miles south of San Antonio, making arrests and seizing city documents.

Roel, 44, and Rogelio, 43, pleaded guilty in federal court in Del Rio Thursday to one count each of bribery. Sentencing has not

Rogelio Mata

been set. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison plus fines and monetary judg-

ments.

According to the U.S. attorney’s office, the defendants admitted using their official positions to enrich themselves by soliciting and accepting cash bribes from people seeking to do business in Crystal City.

In June, Ngoc Tri Nguyen, a North Texas businessman who operated an eight-liner parlor in Crystal City, pleaded guilty to bribing a city official in

exchange for favors. He is set to be sentenced in November.

The relatRoel ed cases of Mata three other former city officials, Mayor Ricardo Lopez, City Manager James Jonas III and Councilman Gilbert Urrabazo, remain unresolved.

The central figure in the corruption case is Jonas, who was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of bribery.

Jonas was a down-on-his luck lobbyist when he surfaced in Crystal City in 2012 as its new city attorney. He later also became city man-

ager, earning $216,000 a year and deep resentment in the low-income city of 7,500 residents.

Each of the other city officials was charged with a single count of conspiracy and a single county of bribery.

Their arrests in February and subsequent ousters from the council ended a long-running political crisis in Crystal City. Since then, residents have elected a new mayor and three new council members.

Urrabazo is set to appear before U.S. District Judge Alia Moses on Aug. 25, apparently to make a plea, while Jonas and Lopez are set for trial on Nov. 15 in Del Rio.

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AROUND THE WORLD

TODAY IN HISTORY

SATURDAY, JULY 30

ASSOCIATED PRE SS

1

South Texas Blood & Tissue Center blood drive. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Jett Bowl North, 5823 McPherson Road. All presenting donors will receive a certificate for a free game at Jett Bowl and a T-shirt.

1 Eckankar bilingual discussion.

1–2:30 p.m. Laredo Public Library, 1120 E. Calton Road. Discover how past lives, dreams and soul travel can help you experience God. 1 Greens of Guadalupe donation request. 1–5 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1700 San Francisco Ave. Donations in good condition are needed, but anything and everything will be accepted. Call Birdie at 2867866 to arrange for a different delivery time.

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.

1 Chicken Plate Sale. Shiloh Variety Meat Mart/TKO parking lot. Sponsored by Best Friends For Life. Proceeds go to help spay and neuter the cats and kittens they rescue. Tickets are $5 and available for purchase at Puppy Palace, 517 Shiloh, or LAPS.

SUNDAY, JULY 31 1

Elementary chess tournament. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Free. For 4th and 5th-grade students. Must register in-person. First 40 players. Tournament is non-rated and trophies will be awarded to the top three finishers.

Free snacks will be available for children.

1 Greens of Guadalupe donation request. 1–5 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1700 San Francisco Ave. Donations in good condition are needed, but anything and everything will be accepted. Call Birdie at 2867866 to arrange for a different delivery time.

MONDAY, AUGUST 1

Today is Saturday, July 30, the 212th day of 2016. There are 154 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 30, 1916, German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, New Jersey. Although casualties were limited (about a dozen people were killed), the explosion was so huge, it was felt throughout New York City and damaged the Statue of Liberty.

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A fire department helicopter flies over as part of an exercise drill. Olympic team members were forced to evacuate their lodgings after a fire caused smoke to fill the stairwells.

OLYMPIC MEMBERS EVACUATE LODGE

By Stephen Wade ASSOCIATED PRE SS

RIO DE JANEIRO — Australian Olympic team members were forced to evacuate their lodgings on Friday at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after a small fire in a basement parking area caused smoke to fill the stairwells.

Australian team spokesman Mike Tancred said about 100 athletes and officials were evacuated from their building in the sprawling athletes’ village. The compound contains 31 buildings and will accommodate 18,000 athletes and officials at the

peak of the games, which open in a week.

“The stairwells filled with smoke, but the fire was confined to the carpark and no one was injured,” Tancred said in a statement.

The fire will once again draw attention to Rio’s spotty preparations, which have been marred by the Zika virus, severe water pollution, crime, and slow ticket sales.

Tancred said team members returned to their rooms after 30 minutes. This comes after a tension-filled week in which Australia refused to occupy its building.

1

Family Gardening Club. 10–11 a.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Free and for all ages. Fun gardening activities and gardening science.

1 Greens of Guadalupe donation request. 1–5 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1700 San Francisco Ave. Donations in good condition are needed, but anything and everything will be accepted. Call Birdie at 2867866 to arrange for a different delivery time.

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.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2 1

Greens of Guadalupe donation request. 1–5 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1700 San Francisco Ave. Donations in good condition are needed, but anything and everything will be accepted. Call Birdie at 2867866 to arrange for a different delivery time.

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

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 1

Greens of Guadalupe donation request. 1–5 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1700 San Francisco Ave. Donations in good condition are needed, but anything and everything will be accepted. Call Birdie at 2867866 to arrange for a different delivery time.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 1

Greens of Guadalupe Rummage Sale. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1700 San Francisco Ave. Donations in good condition are needed, but anything and everything will be accepted.

UN extends South Sudan peacekeeping mission UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations extended the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, delaying decisions on giving the force a more robust mandate in the face of rising violence in the world’s youngest nation.

The Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the mission until Aug. 12 to give diplomats more time to consid-

er other options such as the inclusion of a regional force to beef-up the U.N. mission and a possible arms embargo.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power justified the short extension saying it would give diplomats time to draft a stronger resolution.

“We have to get this right but it also must be done with great urgency. Let us not be fooled into believing that time is on our side. It is not. Events in recent weeks have demonstrated how quickly violence can re-ignite and how devastating

are the human consequences when it does,” Power told the council.

The peacekeeping force currently has about 12,000 armed troops mandated to use lethal force to protect civilians but Power said the peacekeeping force, as it is currently configured, has proven itself “unable and in some cases unwilling” to fulfill their mandate.

South Sudan has been riven by ethnic violence nearly since it was founded in 2011, with civil war breaking out in 2013.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION Navy ship to be named after Harvey Milk SAN FRANCISCO — The late gay rights leader Harvey Milk already has schools, streets and parks named in his honor. Soon, a U.S. Navy ship will join the list.

A Navy official said Friday that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus notified Congress earlier this month that a new fleet of replenishment oilers being built in San Diego will be named for Milk and five other civil and human rights icons. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because a public announcement is expected in the near future. More than two decades before he became one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office, Milk spent four years in the Navy, first as an enlisted man and then as an officer in San Diego. He was serving on the San Francisco Board of Su-

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In this April 1977 photo, San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk sits in the mayor's office.

pervisors when a former political colleague assassinated him and Mayor George Moscone at City Hall in 1978.

The GLBT Historic Task Force of San Diego County and former U.S. Rep. Bob Filner wrote Mabus in 2012 to suggest Milk as a fitting subject for a ship name tribute.

The news that Mabus had

granted the request first was reported Thursday by U.S. Naval Institute News. The other ship name honorees include abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Robert F. Kennedy, suffragist Lucy Stone and Georgia Congressman John Lewis.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND TEXAS College suspends assistants for jokes at women’s clinic COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M has suspended two assistant football coaches for two weeks for what they described as a “failed attempt at humor” this week at a football clinic for women.

Coach Kevin Sumlin announced Friday night that offensive line coach Jim Turner and special teams coordinator

On this date: In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland, was founded.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.

In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is remembered for his poem “Trees.”)

In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” — WAVES for short.

In 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived.

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year.

In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

In 1980, Israel’s Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

In 1996, actress Claudette Colbert died in Barbados at age 92.

Ten years ago: Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon after its bombing of a Lebanese village that killed 29 people. Congo held its first multiparty election in four decades (incumbent President Joseph Kabila later won a runoff).

Five years ago: NATO jets bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli, targeting a propaganda tool in Moammar Gadhafi’s fight against rebels.

One year ago: The Afghan Taliban confirmed the death of longtime leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and appointed his successor, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 82. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 80. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 77. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 77. Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder is 76. Singer Paul Anka is 75. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 71.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 69. Actor William Atherton is 69. Actor Jean Reno is 68.

Blues singer-musician Otis Taylor is 68. Actor Frank Stallone is 66. Actor Ken Olin is 62. Actress Delta Burke is 60. Law professor Anita Hill is 60.

Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 58.

Country singer Neal McCoy is 58.

Actor Richard Burgi is 58. Movie director Richard Linklater is 56. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 55. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 53. Bluegrass musician Danny Roberts (The Grascals) is 53.

Country musician Dwayne O’Brien is 53. Actress Vivica A. Fox is 52. Actor Terry Crews is 48. Actor Simon Baker is 47. Actor Donnie Keshawarz is 47.

Movie director Christopher Nolan is 46. Actor Tom Green is 45. Rock musician Brad Hargreaves (Third Eye Blind) is 45. Actress Christine Taylor is 45. Actor-comedian Dean Edwards is 43. Actress Hilary Swank is 42. Olympic gold medal beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor is 39. Actress Jaime Pressly is 39. Alt-country singermusician Seth Avett is 36. Actress April Bowlby is 36. Actress Yvonne Strahovski is 34. Actress Gina Rodriguez is 32. Actor Nico Tortorella is 28.

Thought for Today: “The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.” — Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (born this date in 1890, died in 1975).

CONTACT US Jeff Banks have been suspended without pay and will have to serve 20 hours of community service.

The assistant coaches’ presentation at the Chalk Talk clinic Wednesday night included slides with tips for blocking that had double entendre and what could be construed as sexual references.

“There is absolutely no place in our program or in our University community for inappropriate conduct or degrading comments towards women, or

anyone, regardless of intent,” Sumlin said. Sumlin said he attended the event but was interacting with attendees and was unaware of the content in the presentation by Turner and Banks until Friday. “On behalf of Aggie Football, I want to apologize for the comments at Chalk Talk and also for my failure to review their individual presentations,” Sumlin said.

“I want to thank the almost 700 women who came out this week who participated.”

— Compiled from AP reports

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Benefit dance aims to ‘give cancer the boot’ S P ECIAL T O T HE T I ME S

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IBC Bank aims to ‘give cancer the boot’ with a dance to benefit the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The event will be Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 at 8 p.m. at the Zapata Community Center.

Musical guests include La Mafia and Vidal.

Individual tickets are $50, while they last.

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Lucchese Sponsorship $1,500 1 Ten tickets to the event with preferred table location.

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The event is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 11 at the Zapata County Pavilion located at 405 E. 23rd

Avenue.

Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. with the program set to begin at 9 a.m.

Topics will include: 1 History of the Fever Tick 1 Vaccinations and Pest Management 1 Laws and Regulations

dealing with the Fever Tick Three CEU’s will be given and the program fee is $10.

RSVP by Monday, Aug. 8.

For more information contact Zar Rodriguez at 956-765-9820.

Video of a black woman thrown down sparks review A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin’s police chief says his department’s chain of command needs to be reviewed in the wake of a video showing a white officer throwing a black Texas teacher to the ground during a traffic stop.

More than a year passed between the traffic stop and Chief Art Acevedo’s condemning what happened. The Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday

that there were at least four opportunities for Acevedo to have been notified of the video sooner.

Department officials say Acevedo wasn’t notified when Richter’s supervisors reviewed the incident months earlier.

Top officials also said they weren’t told that King’s attorneys had asked for video from the patrol cars of Richter and Patrick Spradlin, the other officer involved in the traffic stop.

The video shows Rich-

ter nearly throwing King into an adjacent truck in the parking lot of a Wendy’s after pulling her over for going 15 mph over the speed limit around lunchtime. Spradlin eventually handcuffed her and took her to jail. He is caught on tape suggesting blacks might be more prone to violence.

Both officers have been placed on desk duty. A grand jury is expected to soon review the case, and a city councilwoman has called for a review of how it was handled.

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COLUMN

Can CNN gain from downfall at Fox News?

By Matt Kempner COX N EWSPAPE RS

Don’t expect life to get easy for CNN now that its chief tormentor, the guy who built Fox News into a media juggernaut, is out.

Roger Ailes spent the last two decades proving he may be the smartest, most ferocious executive in the TV news and talk news business. I can’t picture even a 76-yearold Ailes really leaving the media and politics industry or walking away from a fight.

But he did leave his post as chairman of Fox News (stuffed with a reported $40-millionplus payout) amid allegations of sexual harassment, including a suit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

Donald Trump was asked recently whether Ailes will join his campaign. The Donald didn’t say yes. Didn’t say no.

Remember that during one of Trump’s dust-ups with anchor Megyn Kelly, Fox News criticized the candidate’s “endless barrage of crude and sexist verbal assaults” and said “his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land.”

I assume Ailes penned that one.

He and Trump know how to work the TV business. And Ailes certainly knows how to be a political operative. He massaged the messages of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush before launching Fox News for Rupert Murdoch (who now is taking over the network’s chairmanship, but whose sons are increasingly calling the shots).

“It is never a good idea to count Roger Ailes out,” former CNN chief Tom Johnson told me.

(He also said he considers Ailes a friend, though it “startles some of my good friends who find it unimaginable.”

“Roger is one hell of a competitor.”

CNN, once the revolutionary in TV news, got out-revolutionized by Ailes.

It took him maybe five years or so to go from zero to deep-sixing CNN in the ratings race.

I covered the media industry back then.

Shortly after winning the title of most watched cable news network, Ailes told me: “We’re

going to continue to kick their ass up around their ears every day. I’m looking forward to doing that for some time in the future.”

It’s nice to enjoy your work.

Ailes employed a scorched-earth operation when it came to rivals.

After veteran Paula Zahn jumped from Fox News prime time to launch a CNN morning show, he bought billboard space right outside CNN’s Atlanta offices. It proclaimed that the “Fox & Friends” morning show was “Warmer. Younger.

Smarter.”

An Ailes spokesman told me “Paula Zahn’s supposed attempt at reinventing herself as a journalist is like putting a fresh coat of paint on an outhouse.”

My jaw dropped a lot when I talked to Fox News PR folks back then.

Bigger, but graying Fox News’ audience is far bigger than CNN’s and growing this political year. And it soared with the GOP national convention, though CNN did better on the first night of the Democratic version.

It also has more young and middle-age viewers than CNN does. That matters because advertisers adore youth.

Still, Fox News is graying. The median age of its viewers is 67 (versus 60 for CNN). And for younger viewers, the previous three years marked its lowest ratings in about 15 years.

Meanwhile, CNN’s ratings were up last year as well as this year and in spots it narrowed a bit of the gap with Fox News.

CNN learned a lot from its rival over the years.

Back in the day, CNN looked frumpy. Fox News was snappy and colorful.

It highlighted conversations and opinion shows.

It played up personalities when CNN execs were saying that “news is the star” and pointing to awards, veteran journalists and numerous bureaus that they said delivered more scoops and context to viewers. Whatever.

Of course, Ailes’ biggest success was that he targeted people frustrated — enraged even — by CNN and lots of other news outlets (including The Atlanta JournalConstitution) that they saw as biased lefties.

Matt Kempner writes for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

COLUMN

GOP were dead right to highlight fears

By Christine Flowers PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS

The Republican National Convention was, despite conservative objections to the contrary, a dark affair. But to say that is not to be critical. To say that is to be practical, clear-eyed and observant.

Donald Trump earned his nomination by playing on the justified fears of his audience - Americans who had been served a steady diet of terror, bloodshed and angry protest both here and abroad. San Bernardino, Orlando, Nice, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Munich, St. Paul, Dallas.

It was not just about ISIS, or Islamic jihad. It was about anger in our own city streets, cops shooting civilians, and those same civilians targeting police officers like a sniper hunts its prey.

Whether the motivating factor of the violence was a belief in a warrior god who hates the infidel Christian, or a sense that the white man hates his black brothers, and the black man his white brothers, the end result was death and division.

So those sunny-souled Pollyannas who were quick to point fingers at the ghoulish Republicans singing their partisan dirges were naive.

I came out of the RNC depressed, disturbed, but not surprised. To believe that everything will be all right and that, as that red-headed orphan sang, the "sun will come out, tomorrow," is the height of arrogance and shallow Hallmark sentiment. For many, it will not come out. The New York Times recently carried a front-page story accompanied by a pictures of some of the

247 people murdered by global terrorism during a two-week period in March. They are forever deaf to the happy sounds of renewal and hope, which permeated the next convention, the one that was praised for its light and uplifting message.

I watched both conventions, the dark one in Cleveland that played to our fears and our reality, and the glittering spectacle in my own hometown of Philadelphia that asked us to reject pessimism and embrace the philosophy synthesized in these words from a man I do love, Vice President Joe Biden: "We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society."

I listened to speaker after speaker, to Michelle Obama with her maternal focus on what is good for our children, to Cory Booker who has the looks of a movie star and the histrionic delivery of a silent movie star, to Bill Clinton, who sang a pitch perfect but incomplete love song to his wife, to Tim Kaine, who is sweet but found a way to bore me in two languages, to a president who led a pep rally for the woman who waited her turn, and to mothers who’d lost their sons to gun violence, but not to the widows of police officers, and I was struck by one thing: There was no mention of those who had been killed by ISIS. It wasn’t until deep into third evening of the convention that there was a reference to the assassination of Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered by Islamic jihadists in the middle of celebrating the sacred Mass.

I waited for some reference, some moment of silence, some raised

prayer in song or uplifted hands. All I got was Alicia Keys in some kitchen towels and no makeup wailing away about something and a slickly executed video with a DNC "Fight Song."

But, you will probably say, why would the Democratic National Convention show respect for a priest who had been slaughtered by Islamists in church? That’s so dark, and Democrats don’t do dark. They do sunshine, lollipops and flowers, except when they are talking about brutal police officers, bigoted religious conservatives or rich one-percenters. Then, they are fully capable of going to the dark side, raining invective down on those who disagree with them.

But usually, they look to mountaintop of human experience, and advocate for those things that elevate the spirit and increase the potential of everyone regardless of color, class and creed. As a recent caller to my radio show said, liberals are all about fairness. That, in fact, is why the Democratic platform includes a provision that would nullify the Hyde Amendment and allow for taxpayer funding of abortion.

After all, poor women and rich women should have the absolute same right to kill their unborn children. Oh, sorry, that’s dark and this is the DNC. I’ll rephrase: All women should have equal access to reproductive healthcare. Better?

So I listened to this high-minded rhetoric about how united we are, how decent we are, how we can’t let petty irrelevancies like race, and religion, and "who we love" divide us into the

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armed camps that are exploited by conservatives. According to the Democrats, all we need is love.

Well, excuse me for thinking that love wasn’t enough to save Father Hamel as he fought for his life at God’s altar.

This is a dangerous world, and to ignore that fact in pursuit of some rosy fantasy that smells of patchouli and resounds with "Kumbaya" is suicide.

I am not a fan of Donald Trump, or his less than eloquent sound bites. I do not share his nihilism, his expectation of the worst from us instead of his hopes for our better angels. He is a pragmatist, a businessman who has not always managed his affairs wisely and well, an opportunist and even, in some ways, a grifter.

But he is a realist, and he doesn’t pretend that the murder of a Catholic priest in France is irrelevant to our necessary actions at home. Not one of the major speakers at the DNC had the courage to promise that the evil soldiers of an evil cult would face annihilation.

They held hands, spoke Spanish (Tim, you need to work on your accent), chanted about historic firsts (with the people of Pakistan, India, Germany, Great Britain, Myanmar, Israel, Liberia and even Iceland smirking) and acted like the "grown-ups."

Grown-ups would have mentioned that a priest had been martyred. But they were too busy crowning a queen and living happily ever after.

Christine Flowers is a lawyer and a special contributor to the Philadelphia Daily News.

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Policing protests when the protest is about police

By Lisa Marie Pane ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Thad Allton / AP file

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach speaks in Topeka, Kan. Kansas must count potentially thousands of votes in state and local races from people who’ve registered without providing citizenship documents.

Judge: Kansas must count disputed votes

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TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas must count potentially thousands of votes in state and local races from people who’ve registered without providing citizenship documents, a county judged ruled on Friday.

The order from Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks came only four days before Tuesday’s primary election. Hendricks blocked an administrative rule from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of three prospective voters earlier this month, a week after a state board allowed Kobach to impose the rule temporarily — through the November election — without a public hearing. It applies to people who register to vote at state motor vehicle offices without providing proof of their U.S. citizenship as required by a 2013 state law.

The affected voters were to receive provisional ballots to be reviewed later, and county election officials are directed to count only their votes for federal offices, not state and local ones. Ahead of the primary, about 17,600 people registered at motor vehicle offices without providing citizenship papers, and the rule could apply to 50,000 people in November.

Kobach’s action was a response to a federal judge’s ruling in May in another lawsuit that people who register at motor vehicle offices are entitled to vote in federal races even if they’ve not met the proof-of-citizenship requirement.

After the ruling, Kobach said he would not appeal because it was too late before the primary election next Tuesday. But he criticized the judge’s decision.

“It essentially knocks a huge loophole in that law,” he said of its impact on the citizenship requirement.

The ACLU had argued that setting up a two-tiered election system violates the affected voters’ constitutional rights by treating them unequally.

Its solution was to allow their votes in all races to be counted.

Kobach, a conservative Republican, has championed the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirement as an anti-election fraud measure. He argues that in complying with the federal judge’s order, he’s still required to enforce the proof-of-citizenship law as much as possible.

Critics of proof-of-citizenship requirements say they suppress voter turnout — particularly among young and minority voters — far more than they combat fraud. Alabama, Arizona and Georgia have similar requirements, but Kansas has gone the furthest to enforce its law.

The Kansas proof-of-citizenship law and its enforcement have been the subject of multiple federal and state-court lawsuits.

A federal law requires states to allow people to register at motor vehicle offices when they’re obtaining or renewing driver’s licenses.

States can impose “necessary” registration restrictions, but the federal judge ruled in May that people document their citizenship by signing a statement on the registration form, facing criminal penalties if it’s not true.

ATLANTA — The images offer a sharp contrast: In some places, police in SWAT gear wield batons or carry long guns as they patrol streets teeming with protesters. Elsewhere, officers are seen riding bicycles, mingling with demonstrators and even posing for selfies.

In this era of protest, which is the best way to protect both public safety and constitutional rights?

And what happens when police themselves are the very target of the protest?

The public recently saw both approaches when demonstrators gathered to speak out against two fatal shootings by police. Protesters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where a man was pinned to the ground and shot to death outside a convenience store, were confronted by officers in riot gear. At a similar event in Dallas, police wore regular uniforms and moved easily among the demonstrators.

Adam Bates, a policy analyst who specializes in civil liberties at the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, said the police response to protesters goes to “the core, fundamental constitutional values of our society,

the right to protest and to dissent.”

“So there’s a very high interest and a very high value in protecting those rights,” he said. And there can be “a chilling effect on those rights when you have this faceless kind of law enforcement that threatens to escalate situations where things can get out of hand.”

Aggressive police tactics at protests are nothing new.

They conjure up images from the civil rights or Vietnam War eras, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago or the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992.

Now the debate has been renewed as smartphones have made it possible for virtually anyone to record encounters with police and post those videos online. At the same time, many local law enforcement agencies have been able to buy leftover military equipment from the federal government.

Law enforcement experts say much of the outcome of any protest depends on what happens beforehand. Discussions between police and protest organizers are key: Are demonstrators aiming for a peaceful protest and can both sides work together to plot out a good route? Or are protesters bent on a more violent display? Is

Scott Clause / AP file

In this July 10 photo, police officers watch protesters gathering against another group of protesters in Baton Rouge, La. In some places, police in SWAT gear wield batons or carry long guns as they corral streets teeming with protesters.

there a middle ground that allows the protest message to get out and still keep the peace?

Terrence Cunningham, chief of police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley and president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, called it a “balancing act” that requires the police department to be in touch with its community and in touch with demonstrators.

Cunningham said law enforcement understands that the nature of most protests is to be disruptive to amplify the message. But he warns protesters that they could risk turning people against a movement if their day-to-day lives, such as driving along a highway, are affected.

Those conversations and the effort to work with protesters, he said, are a stark difference from the law enforcement practices of the 1960s and 1970s.

“It just wasn’t a tactic back then,” he said.

Darrel Stephens, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, who got his start in law enforcement during the tumultuous 1960s, said police are mindful of how it looks when their response seems threatening, which is how it played out in Ferguson, Missouri, where demonstrators protesting the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer were met with law enforcement teams using military equipment.

The equipment that included armored vehicles and body armor raised more questions: Does the military display provoke violence or prevent it? Does showing up in street uniforms help keep people calm or make police more vulnerable to attack?

“The optics are incredibly important,” Stephens said.

Ferguson “didn’t look good.

That’s where a lot of concern came about militarization.

The optics were key in a lot of the outrage we saw in the country.”

Crews find wreckage of small medical plane; two confirmed dead ASSOCIATED PRE SS

CRANNELL, Calif. — A medical transport plane with four people aboard crashed in a densely forested mountain range in Northern California early Friday after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit.

Searchers found the crash site hours later and confirmed at least two deaths.

The Piper PA31 was carrying a flight nurse, a transport medic and a patient about 360 miles from Crescent City, near the Oregon border, to Oakland when the pilot declared an emergency around 1 a.m.

The pilot planned to return to Crescent City but the plane vanished from radar 5 miles north of the Arcata-Eureka Airport on the far northern coast, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.

Rescue teams led by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department found the crash

Shaun Walker / AP

Wreckage from a medical transport plane that crashed is shown on a road east of Crannell, Calif. Authorities found the wreckage of a small medical transport plane with four people aboard and confirmed at least two deaths on Friday.

site hours later on land owned by a private timber company in Humboldt County, about 280 miles north of San Francisco.

Lt. Wayne Hanson said searchers looking from a distance could see two bodies inside the plane. It wasn’t

immediately clear what happened to the other two aboard.

No identities or other information about the victims was released.

The plane was part of CalOre Life Flight, which transports patients throughout

Northern California and Oregon. Don Wharton, a spokesman for parent company REACH Air Medical Services, said nighttime flights are common.

The National Transportation and Safety Board will investigate the crash.

Teen wants to plead guilty, mentally ill in school stabbings

By Joe Mandak ASSOCIATED PRE SS

PITTSBURGH — A teen who slashed and stabbed 20 fellow high school students and a security guard wants to plead guilty but mentally ill.

Alex Hribal’s attorney filed the document Friday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review first reported.

Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey has acknowledged Hribal committed the attacks at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville in April 2014, but he has argued it was fueled by the defendant’s mental health problems. A judge must hold a hearing and agree that Hribal was mentally ill at time of the crimes in order to accept the plea.

“It’s a way to help people with mental illnesses who are going to be incarcerated,” Thomassey said late Friday in explaining the reason for the plea.

“How can I try this case, to be candid about it,” he told The Associated Press. “Alex wasn’t completely insane at the time of the offense but this enables us to get him some help.”

Hribal, who is now 18, is charged with 21 counts each of attempted homicide and aggravated assault, and one count of bringing a weapon to school. He faces potentially decades in prison if convicted, but if the judge accepts the plea, he could wind up serving some or all of his sentence in a mental health facility, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck said Friday.

Hribal, who was then 16, used two 8-inch kitchen knives from home to attack his victims in the hallways shortly before classes began.

Witnesses have said Hribal walked robotically as he slashed and stabbed his way through the school.

Psychological experts

hired by the defense and prosecution have previously testified Hribal was trying to emulate Columbine school killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people and wounded 24 others before killing themselves at their high school in suburban Denver in 1999. Hribal carried out his attack on Harris’ birthday — April 9, 2014 — because school wouldn’t have been in session on his preferred date, April 20, 2014, the 15th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, the experts said.

Four of Hribal’s victims were critically injured, including one who required a liver transplant, but all survived and have since recovered.

Despite the previous psychiatric testimony, Peck said it’s not a foregone conclusion that Hribal was mentally ill.

The earlier testimony about Columbine “would indicate premeditation,” Peck

said Friday. “He was imitating them, so he had a conscious purpose. His actions would reflect the same ideas that motivated the Columbine killers.”

To accept Hribal’s plea of guilty but mentally ill, the judge must find that Hribal had a mental defect or illness and lacked the “substantial capacity to either appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the law,” Peck said.

If the plea is accepted, the judge must then determine whether Hribal was still mentally ill at sentencing. If he is, Hribal could be sent to treatment and then potentially moved to prison when deemed no longer mentally ill, Peck said.

Peck wouldn’t say whether he plans to oppose the plea, because he hasn’t seen what evidence Thomassey intends to present.

A date for the plea hearing hasn’t been set.

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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE INSCRIPCIONES 1 Zapata County ISD estará realizando el periodo de inscripciones de los grados PK al 12 en las escuelas respectivas a partir del lunes 1 de agosto. Se requiere la siguiente documentación: prueba de residencia (factura de servicios), certificado de nacimiento, tarjeta del número de seguro social, identificación con fotografía del padre o tutor.

El lunes 1 de agosto, y martes 2 de agosto, en las escuelas primarias y preparatoria de 9 a.m. a 1 p.m. y de 2 p.m. a 4 p.m.; secundarias de 9 a.m. a 12:30 p.m. y de 2 p.m. a 6:30 p.m.

El miércoles 3 de agosto, en las primarias y preparatorias de 1 p.m. a 7 p.m.; secundarias de 9 a.m. a 12:30 p.m. y de 2 p.m. a 6:30 p.m.. Jueves 4 de agosto, las escuelas primarias y preparatorias de 9 a.m. a 1 p.m. y de 2 p.m. a 4 p.m.; secundarias estará cerrado.

FIN DE SEMANA LIBRE DE IMPUESTOS 1 Los compradores locales podrán disfrutar de un fin de semana libre de impuestos sobre las ventas locales y estatales del 5 al 7 de agosto. Como en años anteriores, la ley exenta de impuestos a artículos como ropa, calzado, útiles escolares y mochilas. Un listado completo de los artículos está disponible a través del sitio de Internet de Texas Comptroller.

CAMPAMENTOS EN MUSEO 1 El Gobierno Municipal de Nuevo Laredo, México, invita al Campamento en los Museos, del 8 al 12 de agosto, para niños de 6 a 12 años de edad. Habrá clases de pintura, autoretratos, creación de fósiles, pedernales, funciones de cine y visitas guiadas al Museo de Historia Natural y al Museo Reyes Meza.

El horario será de 9 a.m. a 12:30 p.m. en la Sala de Servicios Educativos del Centro Cultural Nuevo Laredo. Informes e inscripciones 867717-5960.

BACKPACK BASH 1 La Ciudad de Roma informa que el Backpack Bash se realizará el jueves 11 de agosto a partir de las 9 a.m. en Roma Guadalupe Plaza.

Los primeros 500 estudiantes recibirán mochilas con útiles escolares. Evento gratuito.

ACADEMIA PARA PADRES. 1 Zapata County ISD invita a los padres de estudiantes desde Prekinder hasta 12avo. Grado a la Academia para Padres que se llevará a cabo el jueves 18 de agosto, de 5 p.m. a 7 p.m. en las instalaciones de Zapata High School, 2009 State Highway 16. Todos los participantes recibirán una caja de útiles escolares mientras duren las existencias.

INICIO DE CLASES 1 Zapata County ISD informa que el primer día de clases para todos los grados escolares será el 22 de agosto.

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Ley permitirá portar armas E SPECIAL PARA TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

A partir del lunes, la ley para portar armas en las universidades (Campus Carry) entrará en vigor para todas las universidades estatales públicas y colegios, incluyendo Texas A&M International University en Laredo.

Las universidades privadas pudieron optar por no imponer la ley y los colegios comunitarios la implementarán a partir del 1 de agosto de 2017.

Conocida como la Ley 11 del Senado, y firmada por la Sesión Legislativa 84, la ley para portar armas en las universidades autoriza a las personas con licencia para portar armas de mano a portar de manera oculta un arma de mano en edificios universitarios e incluye una provisión permitiendo a las instituciones establecer reglas de límites en cuando al almacenamiento de pistolas en el los dormitorios universitarios y prohibiendo áreas o premisas para los portadores de armas ocultas. La Ley 11 del Senado efectivamente expandió las áreas donde los portadores de licencia para cargar armas pueden portar un arma legalmente, ya que las pistolas y los rifles han estado permitidos en las universidades desde 1995.

Trevor Liddle, vicepresidente asociado de TAMIU para la administración y presidente la Fuerza de Trabajo para la Portación de Armas en la Universidad de TAMIU

comentó sobre las reglas de TAMIU y delineó las medidas de la ley para portar armas en universidades.

“Guiando nuestro pensamiento al implementar esta ley estuvo la preservación de los derechos de la ley que rigen a los ciudadanos de Texas y, como agencia del Estado sujetos a su ley, debemos cumplir enteramente con la ley”.

“Nuestras Reglas de TAMIU crean zonas de exclusión donde la ley estatal actual impide o provee guías sobre la portación legal de armas ocultas, como los son nuestra Academia de Texas de Estudios Internacionales STEM, los centros estudiantiles y de consejería, y áreas donde las personas con licencia para portar armas no podrían cumplir con su deber conforme a la ley— como son áreas controladas de recreación en las instalaciones”.

“Al evaluar todas estas áreas, nuestra regla no elimina efectivamente el derecho de las personas con licencia para portar armas a portar su pistola en la universidad, y así cumplimos con la ley”, explicó Liddle.

Información adicional sobre la ley para portar armas en TAMIU se encuentra localizada en un sitio web especializado.

Estas son reglas específicas a la universidad localizadas bajo Seguridad para Empleados y Estudiantes.

Los individuos que planeen portar un arma oculta en la universidad

deben cumplir con todos los requisitos de elegibilidad como es explicado en el Código 411.172 de Texas.

Acercándose a la implementación, la universidad estableció una Fuerza de Trabajo para la Ley de Portación en Universidades para aconsejar sobre la implementación de la Ley 11 del Senado.

Esa fuerza de trabajo fue liderada por Liddle, e incluía a estudiantes, docencia y personal. Los fórums universitarios para discutir la implementación de la ley fueron realizados para obtener retroalimentación sobre la comunidad universitaria.

La universidad trabajó junto con las oficinas de los sistemas de Universidades Texas A&M incluyendo la oficina del Rector, Cumplimiento y Ética, Consejería General y la Junta de Regentes.

TAMIU presentará su regla para la legislatura como es indicado por ley en septiembre de 2016.

TAMIU regularmente ha compartido las noticias del proceso de implementación con la comunidad universitaria vía su portal Uconnect, y en un sitio especial para la ley de portación de armas. La portación de armas está siendo incorporada a los contratos universitarios, comunicaciones y orientación.

Para mayores informes llame al Departamento de Policía de la Universidad al 956-326-2100, o visite tamiu.edu/adminis/campuscarry

Foto por J. Scott Applewhite | AP

Hillary Clinton y su compañero de fórmula Tim Kaine en el último día de la Convención Demócrata.

Clinton habla de unidad al ser nominada Por Julie Pace y Robert Furlow ASSOCIATED PRE SS

FILADELFIA — Prometiéndoles a los estadounidenses una mano firme, Hillary Clinton se presentó el jueves como un factor de unidad en épocas de división, una líder experimentada forjada para un mundo inestable, y puso en tela de juicio agresivamente la capacidad de Donald Trump para hacer lo mismo.

Clinton subió al escenario en medio de un aplauso atronador de delegados que ondeaban banderas en la última noche de la Convención Nacional Demócrata, saboreando su nominación como la primera mujer en encabezar uno de los dos principales partidos del país.

Pero su auténtico público eran los millones de votantes que seguían sus palabras desde casa, muchos de los cuales pueden ver con buenos ojos su experiencia como secretaria de Estado, senadora y

primera dama, pero tienen dudas sobre su carácter.

Clinton reconoció brevemente esas preocupaciones al decir “entiendo que algunas personas simplemente no saben qué impresión llevarse de mí”.

Pero centró su discurso en convencer a los estadounidenses de que no se dejen seducir por las vagas promesas de Trump de restaurar la seguridad económica y combatir las amenazas externas.

Con la nominación demócrata ya oficialmente suya, Clinton tiene algo más de tres meses para convencer a los estadounidenses de que Trump no es apto para instalarse en el Despacho Oval y superar la visceral conexión que tiene el magnate, que la demócrata no ha establecido.

Clinton aceptó su reputación de estudiosa disciplinada, una política más cómoda con las propuestas de ley que con las florituras retóricas. “Me esfuerzo en los detalles de la política”, dijo.

DEPORTES

MÁS DE 300 MILLAS Australiano Jonny Durand visitó Zapata en junio TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Con el objetivo de romper el récord mundial por el vuelo abierto a distancia más largo, Jonny Durand, de Australia, visitó Zapata a fin de intentar volar desde el Sur de Texas hasta el norte, a finales de junio.

Después de varios intentos debido a clima desfavorable, Durand abortó el intento de buscar el Récord Mundial no sin antes lograr un vuelo final de 9,5 horas en el aire y 302 millas viajadas, quedando corto por 475 millas para su meta.

“Siento que este año nunca produjo un día que tuvieran todos los elementos principales requeridos para el vuelo

de más de 11 horas que necesitaba a fin de romper el record”, dijo Durand, de 35 años de edad.

“Parece que teníamos principlmente cielos azules y muy pocos días que produjeron nubes que requería para que me llevaran a la distancia (necesaria) éste año, lo que afectó negativamente nuestras oportunidades”.

Aún así, él ya ha roto otros record. En marzo del 2008, a los 27 años, salió de un lado de su casa y voló 517 kilómetros en aproximadamente 10 horas.

El video del vuelo de Durand es posible disfrutarlo visitando la página de Red Bull, patrocinador del deportista.

Foto de cortesía | Michael Clark/Red Bull Content Pool

Jonny Durand buscando romper el record de distancia deslizándose en un Ala delta desde Zapata el 23 de junio.

ENTRETENIMIENTO

‘Pokémon Go’ tratará de ser respetuoso con la realidad Por Derrik J. Lang ASSOCIATED PRE SS

LOS ANGELES — Los creadores de “Pokémon Go” dicen que están trabajando para retirar sitios reales que no quieren ser parte del juego. El director de mercadotecnia de The Pokémon Company J.C. Smith dijo en una entrevista esta semana

que estaban actualizando el juego de realidad aumentada para que se mantenga divertido para los jugadores pero al mismo tiempo sea cuidadoso con el mundo real.

El juego basado en el mundo real provee objetos virtuales a los jugadores que visitan sitios designados como “Poképaradas”. Lugares como el

Parque Memorial de la Paz de Hiroshima en Japón o el Cementerio Memorial de Arlington en Washington han pedido ser retirados de “Pokémon Go”.

Desde que se lanzó el juego gratuito para dispositivos móviles el 6 de julio y se convirtió en la aplicación más descargada, algunos jugadores se

han lesionado al buscar monstruos o se han distraído jugando mientras manejan.

“Nos estamos asegurando de que la experiencia de juego se haga adecuadamente”, dijo Smith.

Smith no dijo cuándo entrarán en efecto estas actualizaciones. La desarrolladora de “Pokémon

Go”, Niantic, tiene una forma en internet para solicitar que un sitio sea retirado del juego, pero los cambios no son automáticos.

Para algunos lugares ya ha habido cambios. El vocero del Museo Memorial del Holocausto, Andrew Hollinger, dijo que la institución fue retirada del juego tras solicitarlo.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Rapper Nas ventures into filmmaking, building brand

By Jonathan Landrum A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

ATLANTA — Nas, one of music’s most revered lyricists and story tellers, is taking his talents into filmmaking.

The rapper has traded performing onstage to work behind-the-scenes as an executive producer on projects including Netflix’s “The Get Down” and IFC Films’ “The Land,” which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday. Nas said he’s looking to make a mark in film like he has done in music.

“I’m right on track of what I’m supposed to be doing in my life,” the 42year-old said in an interview this week. “It’s been my dream to work in films. I share a love for films as much as I feel it

for music. This is my calling.”

“The Land,” which stars R&B singer Erykah Badu, focuses on four teenagers who have aspirations of becoming professional skateboarders and hopes to escape the streets of Cleveland. But their plans are derailed when they get caught in a drug dispute with a local queen pin.

Nas found and placed songs for the film’s 14-song soundtrack, which features Kanye West and Pusha T. It’s the first soundtrack released under Nas’ indie label, Mass Appeal Records.

“It gave us a little idea of what is cut out for us for future projects,” he said.

“We got wings behind our back, so we’re just flying with it. We’re looking to do more in the future.”

On “The Get Down,” Nas wrote all the lyrics including poems and battle raps that will appear in the 13-episode series, co-created by Baz Luhrmann. The show, which premieres Aug. 12, delves into the birth of hip-hop in New York in the 1970s and rap icon Grandmaster Flash is also an associate producer on the project.

Luhrmann said Nas played an integral part of the filmmaking process.

“He completely dedicated himself to getting it done,” said Luhrmann, who also directed “Moulin Rouge!” and “The Great Gatsby.”

“He wrote rhymes for every act. It’s his voice. He is an executive producer, and it’s not just a title. He helped me with bringing a lot of creative ideas to the

table. He was a go-to guy,” Luhrmann continued. “I would call him at 2 a.m. in the morning for his opinion. So, he’s been great like that.”

It’s not the first time Nas has ventured into film: He had roles in the 1998 movie “Belly” and “Black Nativity” in 2013.

But these days, Nas is continuing to learn the different aspects of filmmaking so he can one day create his own movie. He wants to get more involved as a screenwriter and director.

Luhrmann believes Nas has the potential to do just that.

“His raps are very wellwritten narratives, and filmmaking is storytelling,” Luhrmann said. “If Nas would make a film, it would be something to see.”

Internet star hospitalized after bike accident

By Derrik J. Lang ASSOCIATED PRE SS

LOS ANGELES — Internet celebrity and former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Hayes Grier is recovering after a dirt bike accident.

A spokeswoman for the 16-year-old social media star says Hayes is “under great care” at a hospital in North Carolina.

Grier’s spokeswoman, Natalie Geday, said he suffered a concussion, broken rib, bruised lung and multiple skin lacerations.

“Thankfully, he is OK and currently resting and recovering in the hospital surrounded by his family, where he will remain for the next few days,” said Geday.

Grier appeared in the

21st edition of the ABC ballroom competition “Dancing with the Stars.” He Grier has over 14 million followers across Facebook, Vine, Instagram and YouTube.

Variety reported July 18 that Grier is scheduled to appear in the Verizon streaming comedy series “Top Grier,” where he attempts to run his family’s 19-acre farm in Moorseville, North Carolina.

Verizon said in a statement: “Our thoughts are with Hayes and the entire Grier family. Our only concern is with Hayes’ health and that he is resting, recovering and spending time with his family.”

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BUSINESS

Stocks close mostly higher, helped by technology

By Ken Sweet A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

NEW YORK — Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by betterthan-expected quarterly results from Google’s parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon and a modest recovery in oil prices.

However, the gains were held back by disappointing results from Exxon Mobil as well as news out of the Bank of Japan, which did not announce as much stimulus as many had hoped.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 24.11 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,432.24.

The Dow was held back partly by a drop in the oil giant Exxon Mobil. The company reported its smallest quarterly profit in 17 years, well below what analysts were looking for, due to the continuing weakness in oil prices.

Its major competitor,

Chevron, fared slightly better. While earnings dropped sharply from a year ago, Chevron’s results still beat analysts’ expectations.

Exxon fell $1.25, or 1.4 percent, to $88.95. Chevron climbed 69 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $102.48 after being down earlier in the day.

Broader market indicators ended higher.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 3.54 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,173.60 and the Nasdaq composite increased 7.15 points, or 0.1 percent, to 5,162.13.

Wall Street is finishing out its busiest week of corporate earnings, which was dominated by mostly strong results from technology companies including Apple, Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon and others.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, jumped $25.50, or 3.3 percent, to $791.34. The company reported earn-

ings of $8.42 a share, well above the $8.04 that analysts were looking for.

Amazon rose $6.20, or 1 percent, to $758.81. The online retail giant reported a profit of $1.78 per share, well above the $1.11 a share that analysts expected. Amazon reported it sold $30.4 billion in goods in the quarter, up 31 percent from a year earlier.

The strong results from Amazon and Google, as well as the results from other tech companies, helped lift the technologyheavy Nasdaq 1.2 percent this week, while the Dow lost 0.8 percent. The S&P 500 closed the week down slightly. It was the first weekly loss for the S&P 500 after four weeks of gains.

So far, corporate profits appear to be coming well ahead of what were very low expectations. Earnings in the S&P 500 so far are down 2.4 percent from a year ago, which is better than the 5.2 percent de-

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Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by better-than-expected quarterly results from Google’s parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon.

cline expected when earnings season started, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

“Expectations were exceptionally low for the second quarter. While consumers goods and technology has been better than expected, the energy sector continues to show challenges,” said Kate Moore, chief equity strategist for BlackRock.

Investors remain cautious, however. The runup earlier this month made stocks more expensive than investors are historically comfortable with. The S&P 500 is trading at 18.5 times its expected earnings for the

next year, noticeable above the 12-14 times investors typically look for.

The presidential election will continue to grow as an issue for markets in the next several months.

Investors dislike uncertainty, and the unexpectedly close presidential election and mostly unknown policies of Donald Trump puts them on edge.

Next week another fifth of the S&P 500 will report their results, including Proctor & Gamble, General Motors, Kraft Heinz, 21st Century Fox and Allstate, among many others.

Moore also pointed out the July jobs report, released August 5, will give

investors direction since the June and May jobs reports showed two clashing directions for the U.S. economy.

Japan’s central bank ended a policy meeting Friday by announcing it will expand purchases of exchange traded funds from financial institutions to help inject more cash into the world’s thirdlargest economy and pursue its 2 percent inflation target. But the measures fell short of hopes for more aggressive action.

That helped the yen surge as investors priced in fewer yen in circulation.

The dollar dropped to 102.03 yen from 105.45 yen.

US regulators: Cheaper oil sends Exxon and Still heavy risk in Chevron to worst quarter in years big bank loans

By David Koenig ASSOCIATED PRE SS

By Marcy Gordon A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators say risk remains heavy in large loans made by banks and other financial institutions, though lending standards have improved.

The Federal Reserve and other agencies cite increasing risks in loans to oil and gas producers as oil prices have fallen to three-month lows. The regulators said their latest examinations also showed continued high risk from loans made to companies that are already heavily in debt.

The steep decline in oil prices has hurt many energy companies, making it harder for them to repay their loans. The amount of large oil and gas loans that are at risk of failing or already in default doubled in the first quarter from the same period in 2015, according to the agencies’ semi-annual review

released Friday. Those loans jumped to $77 billion from $38.2 billion.

Overall, the review found that loans at risk of failing or already in default, plus those showing potential weakness, remained high at 10.3 percent of the total $4.1 trillion in large loans.

That was up from 9.5 percent of a total $3.9 trillion a year earlier.

The review found that the level of problem loans remained higher than in previous periods of economic recovery and growth, raising concern that future loan losses could increase significantly in the near future.

The regulators said banks have improved their lending standards for loans to heavily indebted companies — something they have been pushing banks to do.

Loans in the oil and gas industry represent 12.3 percent of total large loans outstanding.

DALLAS — Cheaper oil is leading to the lowest summer gasoline prices in years, and it is causing heartburn for oil companies and their shareholders.

On Friday, Exxon Mobil Corp. reported its smallest quarterly profit in nearly 17 years — although it still earned $1.7 billion. Chevron Corp. lost money.

The reports from the two biggest U.S. oil companies followed weak second-quarter results from BP and Royal Dutch Shell.

Exxon Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson said the results “reflect a volatile industry environment.”

The companies have slashed spending on exploration and cut budgets to offset lower prices, but that has yet to create a sustained rebound in oil prices.

U.S. crude rallied from below $30 a barrel in February to above $50 in early June. But more recently oil

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Semi trucks are parked behind a roadside Exxon station outside Aurora, New Mexico.

prices have faded again, with crude inventories remaining stubbornly high and the global economy mired in a funk. This week, U.S. oil hit a threemonth low.

Production of oil in U.S. shale fields has fallen, and wildfires in Canada and unrest in Nigeria have also interrupted oil flows at times this year. Still, major players like Saudi Arabia continue to pump away.

The outlook is good for drivers, bad for anyone working in, or investing in, the energy sector. The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that oil will average $43.57

this year and $52.15 next year.

“Oil prices shot up to $50 sooner than we all thought,” said Brian Youngberg, an analyst with Edward Jones. “In the near term they could fall back a little farther, but I’m confident oil prices will be in the $50s for most of 2017.”

For consumers, that’s like money in the bank, at least compared with two years ago. The average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline stood at $2.14 on Friday, the lowest price since April, according to auto club AAA. Gasoline prices are

skidding because of high inventories. The decline in pump prices defies the usual pattern of higher prices during summer, when people drive more.

Motorists are filling up on the cheapest July gasoline in 12 years, the auto club says.

Exxon said its profit fell because of lower oil and gas prices and weaker margins from its refining operations, which had been one of the company’s strengths.

“When crude prices collapsed, (refiners) decided to make as much gasoline as they could,” said Stewart Glickman, an analyst for S&P Global Market Intelligence.

While those inventories have come off their highs, he said, remain near the top of the five-year average.

Exxon’s net income tumbled 59 percent from a year ago, and also fell below the first-quarter earnings of $1.8 billion. It was the Texas company’s smallest profit since $1.5 billion in the third quarter of 1999.

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NATIONAL

Court order sharply narrows Prince’s potential heirs

By Kyle Potter A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota judge overseeing Prince’s estate narrowed down the wide pool of potential heirs for the late superstar’s fortune on Friday, ruling out nearly 30 claimants while ordering genetic testing for six purported family members.

Carver County Judge Kevin Eide’s order requires genetic testing for Prince’s sister, Tyka Nelson, plus three half-siblings: Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson and John Nelson. Ken Abdo, the attorney for the three half-siblings declined to comment. Tyka Nelson’s attorney did not immediately return a voicemail.

Eide also ordered testing for Brianna Nelson, who has claimed to be Prince’s niece, and possible grand-niece Victoria Nelson. The pair has claimed Briana Nelson’s father was Prince’s halfbrother. Their attorney, Andrew Stoltman, declined to comment.

It’s unclear why the judge did not order testing for Omar Baker or Alfred Jackson, two men who were listed as halfbrothers in the original petition for the court to name a special administrator to the estate, but Eide’s order includes a note that the court “is not aware of any objection or dispute” that all six siblings or half-siblings are legitimate heirs.

Jackson’s attorney, Justin Bruntjen, declined to comment. An attorney

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Prince performs during the halftime show of the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. A Minnesota judge overseeing Prince's estate said he'll consider allowing cameras in court on a hearing-by-hearing basis.

for Baker could not be immediately reached.

Prince died April 21 of a drug overdose. The process of determining his heirs and parceling out his estate has fallen to the courts because he had no known children and left no will. A DNA test has already ruled out a Colorado prison inmate who claimed to be Prince’s son.

Barring any others who could come forward claiming ties, Eide’s order drastically limits who may benefit from Prince’s fortunes — an estimated $300 million or more — or gain control of his legacy.

Among those excluded from potential heirship in Eide’s order are five unidentified people with shaky claims that Prince was their biological father. For example, one woman who said she was adopted claimed Prince was her father because

“based upon the general description of the lifestyle of her biological parents, her fascination with the Decedent and physical similarities.”

The order also tosses out a handful of claimants who alleged that Prince’s father was someone other than John L. Nelson, who is listed in court records as Prince’s father.

Among those claimants was Venita Jackson Leverette, whose attorney, James Selmer, called Eide’s decision “a travesty” and said he’s considering an appeal. Selmer opined that his client would be banned from undergoing testing while a man serving an eightyear prison sentence in Colorado was given a DNA test.

“The better course would be to allow people that have a plausible connection to him to have a blood test,” he said.

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Pope Francis visits Auschwitz, begs God to forgive ‘so much cruelty’

By Frances D’Emilio and Vanessa Gera A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

OSWIECIM, Poland — Choosing silence to convey his sorrow, Pope Francis visited the former Nazi death factory at Auschwitz and Birkenau on Friday, meeting with concentration camp survivors as well as aging saviors who helped Jews escape certain doom. In a guest book entry he made an anguished plea: “Lord, forgiveness for so much cruelty!”

Wearing unadorned white robes, Francis entered Auschwitz on foot, passing through the gate that bears the cynical words “Arbeit Macht Frei” — Work Sets you Free.

One by one, he greeted 11 survivors, among them 101-year-old Helena Dunicz Niwinska, who played the violin in a death camp orchestra, and two other centenarians. One survivor, Valentina Nikodem, helped deliver babies born to Auschwitz inmates.

Elzbieta Sobczynska, who was 10 when she was brought to Auschwitz in 1944 from the Warsaw ghetto, said that in his silence, Francis

spoke volumes.

“You don’t need words. Prayer was enough,” Sobczynska said, speaking to Poland’s TVN24.

Francis, she said, “came here with humility, he came here to find the shadows of those who were stripped of the most precious thing — life.”

The pope then traveled to nearby Birkenau, a sprawling complex where people were murdered in factory-like fashion in its gas chambers.

There he greeted 25 Holocaust rescuers, including Anna Bando, who as a child helped her mother smuggle bread hidden in their handbags to Jews forced

by Nazi occupiers to stay in Warsaw’s ghetto.

Francis’ visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Adolf Hitler’s forces put to death more than 1 million people, most of them Jews, came on the third day of a five-day trip to Poland that included meetings with young Catholic pilgrims gathering in Krakow for World Youth Day, a global celebration of faith.

Except for the brief exchange with the survi-

vors and rescuers, Francis spent his nearly two hours at the death camps in quiet prayer and reflection.

The pope wanted an “atmosphere of silence, silent compassion, silent prayer,” said Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

His only public words were in a guest-book entry, where he wrote in his native Spanish: “Lord, have mercy on your people! Lord, forgiveness for so much cruelty!” He then signed his name in Latin, “Franciscus.”

Later, however, Francis spoke with passion about his Auschwitz visit to a crowd of young people gathered outside the archbishop’s residence where he was staying for the night.

“How much pain! How much cruelty! Is it possible that we humans created in God’s image are capable of doing these things?” the pontiff said of the atrocities 70 years ago.

Then he added: “I don’t want to make you bitter, but I have to say the truth. Cruelty did not end in Auschwitz, in Birkenau. Even today ... people are being tor-

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Pope Francis walks in the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland on Friday.

tured. Many prisoners are tortured, just to make them talk.”

“Today in many parts of the world where there is war the same thing is happening.”

Francis is the first pope to visit Auschwitz who did not himself live through the brutality of World War II on Europe’s soil.

Unlike his predecessors, St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who were young men during the Nazi rule and occupation of much of Europe and had a personal or historical connection to the site, Francis was a toddler when World War II broke out far away from his Argentine homeland.

John Paul, who visited in 1979, witnessed the unspeakable suffering inflicted on his native Poland during the German occupation. His visit, the first ever by a pontiff, was part of his overall efforts aimed at healing centuries of bit-

terness between the Vatican and Jews.

His successor, Pope Benedict XVI, who visited in 2006, was a German who served in the Hitler Youth for a time as a teenager.

At Auschwitz, Francis prayed silently for more than 15 minutes before speaking individually to the survivors, shaking their hands and kissing them on the cheeks. He then carried a large white candle to the Death Wall, where prisoners at Auschwitz were executed.

At the dark underground prison cell that once housed St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar who sacrificed his life to save a fellow prisoner who had a family, Francis prayed again. A few shafts from a tiny window were the only light cast on the pontiff.

He then traveled two miles (three kilometers) to Birkenau, where Christian Poles who

saved Jews during the war and other guests stood in respect as the pope arrived, his vehicle driving alongside the rail tracks once used to transport victims to their deaths there.

At the Birkenau ceremony, Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, recited, in Hebrew Psalm 130, beginning with the words: “From the depths I have cried out to you, Oh Lord.”

Friday’s theme exploring suffering included a Way of the Cross procession that drew 800,000 young Catholics to a Krakow meadow.

Calling on the young pilgrims to show mercy to refugees and other persecuted people, the pontiff then asked: “Where is God when innocent persons die as a result of violence, terrorism and war.”

These are questions, he added, that “humanly speaking, have no answer.”

Muslim blasts extremists Turkey’s Erdogan slams US reaction to failed coup at Friday prayer with Christians

By Suzan Fraser and Elena Becatoros ASSOCIATED PRE SS

By Alex Turnbull and Elaine Ganley A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

SAINT-ETIENNE-DUROUVRAY, France — Muslims and Catholics joined in Friday prayers at the mosque in the Normandy town where an elderly priest was slain this week, with one imam chastising the extremists as non-Muslims who are “not part of civilization.”

Muslims came from other parts of France for the service shared with Christians.

The killing Tuesday of 85-year-old Rev. Jacques Hamel as he celebrated morning Mass sent shockwaves around France and deeply touched many among the nation’s 5 million Muslims. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as the July 14 truck attack in Nice, where 84 people were killed by a man who plowed his truck down a seaside promenade.

The head of the main Muslim umbrella group, Anouar Kbibech, who attended Friday’s gathering, reiterated a call for Muslims to visit churches on Sunday to show solidarity with Christians as they pray. But one imam made a rare direct strike at the killers who claimed to act in the name of Allah.

“You have the wrong civilization, because you are not a part of civilization. You have the wrong humanity, because you are not a part of humanity,” said Abdelatif Hmitou.

“You have the wrong idea about us (Muslims), and we won’t forgive you for this.”

“How,” he asked, addressing the extremists, “did the idea reach your mind that we might loathe those who helped us ... to pray to Allah in this town?

How could you think that, Mr. killer? Mr. criminal?”

He was referring to the

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Muslim worshippers gather in front of the memorial of the Saint Etienne church after the Friday prayer.

help by the Sainte Therese church, which is adjacent to the mosque in the northwestern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

The church sold the plot to Muslims for a symbolic sum so they could build a house of worship.

The two 19-year-old attackers were killed Tuesday by police as they left St. Etienne church, where they had held two nuns and an elderly couple hostage as they slit the priest’s throat. A third nun escaped and gave the alert. That church has now been sealed shut.

Another 19-year-old was handed preliminary charges on Friday for “criminal terrorist association” after investigators found a video at his home showing one of the slain teens — Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean — warning of a “violent action” to come, a judicial official said. The discovery was made a day before the church attack when the man was arrested.

While investigators are seeking information on the July 26 church attack, they were also making arrests in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 victims. An Algerian and a Pakistani transferred recently to France from Austria were also handed preliminary charges Friday of “criminal terrorist

association,” the official said.

Investigators were reaching across France to unravel the church attack plot. A Syrian refugee was detained on Thursday in the Allier region of central France because a photocopy of his passport was found at the home of one of the attackers killed by police, Adel Kermiche, the official said.

Also being held was a cousin of Kermiche’s accomplice, Petitjean, on suspicion he was aware of the attack plan based on information culled from social networks, the judicial official said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

A 16-year-old arrested just after the attack remained in custody.

How Kermiche, from northwest Normandy, concocted the attack plot with Petitjean, from Aixles-Bain in the Alps of eastern France, remained unclear. What is known is that Petitjean arrived in Kermiche’s town just three days earlier, apparently staying at his home, according to the judicial official.

Kermiche wore a tracking bracelet after arrests with false ID’s trying to go to Syria but had four hours a day of freedom.

Petitjean had no criminal record.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s president slammed the United States on Friday, claiming it was not standing firmly against a failed military coup and accused it of harboring the plot’s alleged mastermind, as a government crackdown in the coup’s aftermath strained Turkey’s ties with key allies.

Turkey has demanded the United States extradite Fethullah Gulen, a cleric living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania whom it accuses of being behind the violent July 15 coup attempt that left more than 200 people dead. It is accusing Western nations of not extending sufficient support to its efforts to counter further threats from followers of the Gulen movement, which it says have infiltrated the country’s state institutions.

Turkey considers Gulen’s movement a terrorist organization. Gulen has denied any prior knowledge of the plot and says his movement espouses interfaith dialogue. The United States has asked Turkey for evidence of his involvement, and said the U.S. extradition process must take its course.

“Instead of thanking this nation that quashed the coup in the name of democracy, on the contrary, you are taking sides with the coup plotters,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an angry speech Friday at a police special forces headquarters in Ankara.

The facility was bombed and fired upon during the attempted coup, and 47 police officers were killed.

“The putschist is already in your country,” Erdogan said.

The president also lashed out at an American military official who expressed concern that the failed coup may have

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People with Turkish flags gather at the 15 July martyrs square in Ankara, Turkey on Friday.

longer-term effects on the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.

Gen. Joseph Votel said Thursday the unrest could affect U.S. relations with the Turkish military, noting that some of its leaders have been jailed.

“We’ve certainly had relationships with a lot of Turkish leaders, military leaders in particular. And so I’m concerned about what the impact is on those relationships as we continue to move forward,” Votel said at the Aspen Security Forum.

Erdogan criticized the comment.

“It’s not up to you to make that decision. Who are you? Know your place,” he said, and hinted the United States could be behind the failed plot.

“My people know who is behind this scheme ... they know who the superior intelligence behind it is, and with these statements you are revealing yourselves, you are giving yourselves away,” he said.

Speaking later in the evening at an event in Ankara to commemorate the dead and wounded, Erdogan said nobody from the European Union or the Council of Europe had visited Turkey to express their condolences for those killed in the coup.

He noted the West simply offered condolences and then followed up with messages of concern about those suspended or

fired.

“You simply send a message of condolence, and you follow it up with nine kinds of advice?”

Erdogan said. “Keep that to yourself.”

The president insisted a broad crackdown on the Gulen movement was necessary and would continue.

“Some say ‘you’ve dismissed 10,000, 20,000.’

We will purge tens of thousands of whomever they are,” Erdogan said.

“It is not possible for them to remain in this country’s institutions, those who rained bombs purchased with taxes on my pristine people,” he added.

Speaking earlier in the day, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey wanted Gulen’s extradition process to conclude rapidly and has asked the United States to make sure he does not escape to another country.

He also criticized Turkey’s European and Western allies for their stance on the government’s broad crackdown, which has included a purge of the civil service, military, judiciary and education sectors, and the closures of hundreds of schools and dozens of media outlets. “We are disturbed by our European and Western friends’ approach,” Cavusoglu told reporters. “Very few have given us clear support against the coup.”

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outbreak, if you can call it that, is very, very limited, just a few cases,” he said.

Texas, Schaffner said, has cause to prepare for Zika, given its proximity to affected countries in Central and South America, similar to Florida’s exposure to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. But given that health officials in Texas have already anticipated an outbreak, he said he did not expect the news in Florida to change their strategy.

“They will stay their course,” Schaffner said.

“They have been alert; they will continue to be alert.”

Even if it does little to affect how Gulf Coast states prepare for the virus, the news from Florida may add new urgency to the debate over federal funding for Zika prevention.

Despite urgings from health experts and the White House, Congress failed to pass a Zika funding bill before lawmakers left Washington for their summer recess earlier this month. One proposed bill would have allocated $1.1 billion to fighting the virus, but it stalled in the Senate when Democrats opposed it in part because of a provision that would have stripped funding from Planned Parenthood.

Peter Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said the congressional recess “exactly coincided” with the peak period for mosquitoborne illnesses like Zika: late July into August and September. He said leaders should act on the assumption that Zika will spread locally in coastal Texas this summer, making the funding conversation all the more important.

“That’s the peak period, and now Congress has gone AWOL,” Hotez said.

flight possible. To break the record it would’ve taken a combination of wind blowing in the right direction for a full day, strong thermals and cumulus clouds which would help Jonny’s glider fly faster and farther.

“I felt like this year never produced a day that

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“Because of his age, his 86 years, and his various ailments, it is necessary,” she said in an interview with Uno Noticias outside the penitentiary in Jalisco

had all of the key elements required for the 11 plus hour flight I needed in order to break the record,” Jonny elaborated.

“We seemed to have mostly blue skies and very few days which produced the clouds I needed to carry me the distance this year, which adversely affected our chances.”

Despite not having all of these key elements for the length of time needed

to break the record, Jonny was still able to travel over 300 miles in less than stellar atmospheric conditions, still an incredible feat only few pilots in the world are capable of doing, and a strong testament to his abilities. The images and video now available will show just how impressive a flight Jonny had, and what hard work it took to get that close to the record.

Jonny Durand rolls out his hang glider on the morning he took off for the distance world record for hang gliding which started in Zapata, Texas on June 22.

state where Fonseca had been incarcerated. “He shouldn’t be denied his right to life and to health, which is a human right.”

Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico did not immediately reply to messages seeking comment.

Michael Vigil, former head of international operations for the DEA, said it’s doubtful Fonseca would be in a position to once again head up a drug

operation, but he likely still has cartel contacts in Mexico and Colombia and could potentially act as an adviser to existing gangs.

“He can certainly provide advice, provide political connections, things of that nature,” Vigil said. He called Fonseca a “psychopathic killer of the first magnitude” and said he believes even the 40-year sentence was lenient.

“It really is very frustrating to the DEA simply

because he was responsible for the killing of Enrique Camarena in the most horrific manner,” Vigil added. “And when you take into consideration all the people that he was responsible for killing, you know, they were never given any kind of reprieve by this individual and they were shown absolutely no mercy.”

Another co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero, was

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released from prison in 2013 after an appeals court overturned his own conviction in Camarena’s killing on jurisdictional grounds. Mexico’s Supreme Court annulled that ruling three months later and a warrant was issued for Caro Quintero to be rearrested, but he remains at large. The U.S. government offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his recapture.

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PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: BALTUSROL

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RIO DE JANEIRO OLYMPICS

Spieth in contention at PGA Championship Six shots behind leaders

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Runners from the Kakuma refugee camp will compete in the Rio Olympics this summer.

By Doug Ferguson ASSOCIATED PRE SS

Mike Groll / AP

Jordan Spieth shot a 67 Friday at the PGA Championship, the first time he had a sub-70 score in a major since the opening round of the Masters this year.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Jordan Spieth warmed up on the range, rode the side streets in a van to get to the 10th tee and was ready to go Friday in the PGA Championship when he had to stand around for nearly an hour because of a rain delay.

No matter. He still came out firing.

And he hit just enough shots, and holed just enough putts, to get back into the mix at a major championship.

Spieth made three birdies in his opening four holes, along with a careless three-putt from just off the 12th green, to work his way up the leaderboard at Baltusrol. He wound up with a 67, the first time he had a sub-70 score in a major since the opening round of the Masters this year.

He still had plenty of work to do.

At 3-under 137, he was three shots behind British Open champion Henrik Stenson after the morning wave, and in danger of falling behind Emiliano Grillo, a close friend dating to their junior golf days.

“I’m striking the ball beautifully,” Spieth said. “Driver went a little astray, but overall, I feel like I’m in a good position to make a run. I just need a couple good rounds.”

That’s better than his last two majors.

Golf continues on B2

Refugees run long, inspiring road to Rio Part of the IOC’s first ever refugee team

By Tom Odula ASSOCIATED PRE SS

NAIROBI, Kenya — They were used to running barefoot on baking ground. They were raw, untrained. All eager.

Each day, the five runners who grew up in the Kakuma refugee camp pounded the dusty tracks past thousands of makeshift tents to pass the time.

Until there was a lifeline.

Workers from the foundation of former marathon world-record holder Tegla Loroupe arrived to

hold athletic trials, and the five excelled. For this group of runners, many with no family and all with little schooling, running could offer food, a solid house. Proper shoes.

“When I started the project, I said ‘What can I do with these people?”’ coach Volker Wagner said.

What he didn’t have to worry about was their “eagerness to run.”

The five runners are refugees, five of 65 million across the world who have been displaced from their homes. Now, they’re also track athletes, and Olympics continues on B2

NASCAR: PENNSYLVANIA 400 AT POCONO RACEWAY

JEFF GORDON HAPPY TO FILL IN Will race for second straight weekend in place of Earnhardt Jr.

By Dan Gelston ASSOCIATED PRE SS

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Jeff Gordon came out of retirement to fill in for the injured Dale Earnhardt Jr. and will race for the second straight week Sunday at Pocono.

LONG POND, Pa. — Jeff Gordon weaved his way through a mob of fans lined the outside the media center, all screaming for an autograph from a driver they thought would never again wear a firesuit.

He stepped over the tripod legs of three TV cameras lined against a side wall, patted a reporter on the back and took a seat on the dais where he was peppered with questions about how long his comeback tour might last.

“I’ll be here as long as they need me,” Gordon said. “I say that very

loosely.”

At Pocono Raceway, Gordon made it seem for hundreds of fans on Friday like he never left racing.

Gordon 2.0 will last only as long as Dale Earnhardt Jr. remains sidelined with concussion-like symptoms. Earnhardt will miss his third straight race Sunday and Gordon will drive the No. 88 Chevrolet for the second straight weekend. There is no timetable on Earnhardt’s return.

What should have been a leisurely first summer of retirement for a driver once sponsored by AARP has instead turned into a NASCAR continues on B2

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DENVER BRONCOS

Sanchez brushing up on new playbook and new language

By Arnie Stapleton A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

— Players joining a new NFL team say that digesting their new playbook is a lot like learning a new language.

Then that goes double for Mark Sanchez, who

isn’t just absorbing the parlance of Gary Kubiak’s West Coast offense in Denver but also mastering the tongue of his Mexican-American roots.

“I think it’s important to learn Spanish,” Sanchez said. “One, because it’s my heritage and two, because I’m fortunate

enough to live in a country that celebrates where you come from. And I think when you learn another language like that, I think it’s good for your brain. You just continue to advance in knowledge. And then the most important thing was to be able to connect with

those fans.”

Sanchez said his parents spoke Spanish “to each other, just not to me,” while he was growing up in Mission Viejo, California, and his only real exposure to the language came in the classroom.

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Broncos QB Mark Sanchez is learning Spanish in addition to the Denver playbook this summer.

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SPORTS

Russian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics

By James Ellingworth A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

MOSCOW — Russia is confident that most of its Olympic team will be able to compete in Rio de Janeiro, but its efforts to reinstate banned athletes are a mixed bag.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko on Friday told local media that 272 of the country’s athletes had been approved by international sports federations, out of an original team of 387, adding that the number could rise.

More than 100 Russian athletes have been excluded by sports federations, including a blanket ban on the track and field team and more than 30 rejected under new International Olympic Committee rules.

After the World AntiDoping Agency accused the Russian government of directing a vast doping cover-up, the IOC said it would not allow Russians to compete in Rio if they had previously been

GOLF From page B1 After squandering a great opportunity at Augusta, where he had fiveshot lead on the back nine, Spieth hasn’t had a chance in the other two majors. He was eight shots behind at Oakmont after two rounds, and he was 14 shots behind at Royal Troon going into the weekend.

Spieth finished up Thursday with two birdies in his last three holes to scratch out a 70, and he opened strong at Baltusrol on Friday, getting within one shot of the lead with back-to-back birdies on par-5 closing holes.

But it’s not where he needs it to be, especially on the greens, and occasionally off the tee. Spieth hit only two fairways on the back nine, and he was particularly wild on the third hole until a risky play — a 3-iron under the trees, with just enough pop to clear a creek. He pitched to 6 feet and saved par.

He wasn’t as fortunate on the seventh, where he took double bogey on the opening round from a wild tee shot into the trees. The ball again started out to the right, and Spieth said to himself, “I need a better break than I got yesterday.”

And that he did.

His ball went just beyond a pine onto a cart path, but because of so much rain, it was in a puddle. Spieth brought in PGA rules official Brad Gregory to get relief in a ruling that took nearly 10 minutes and so many drops that Spieth kept

OLYMPICS From page B1 they’re going to the Olympics.

The runners, all from South Sudan, are part of the IOC’s first 10-member refugee team. It’s a team of athletes whose roads to Rio de Janeiro have surely been harder, but whose journeys might ultimately be more heartwarming, than any of the other 10,000-plus athletes who will compete at the globe’s biggest sports event.

“When we go to Rio we are going to give a message that a refugee can do anything any other human being can do,” said Yiech Pur Biel, a 21-yearold 800-meter runner who now trains with the group at a base in the foothills just outside of

banned for doping, were implicated in the alleged cover-up or had not been tested often enough internationally.

Most federations have not excluded Russians on the basis of a lack of testing, but rowing and weightlifting are the exceptions.

All of Russia’s weightlifters were banned from the Rio Olympics late on Friday for doping for what the international federation called “extremely shocking” results that brought the sport into “disrepute.”

The eight competition spots have been offered to other countries.

The International Weightlifting Federation said the “integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians.” It called the punishment an “appropriate sanction” to “preserve the status of the sport.”

To replace the eight

Russian lifters, five countries were offered places in the men’s competition — Belarus, Croatia, El Salvador, Mongolia and Serbia. For the women, Albania, Georgia and Moldova became eligible.

Because of the lateness of the decision, the IWF said it was not clear whether all the spots would be filled.

World Rowing, meanwhile, has barred 19 Russians, most for insuffient tests. Testing in Russia does not count under IOC rules because of the repeated allegations made against Russia’s drug testing agency and national lab, both of which have been suspended.

An appeal is being prepared against World Rowing’s decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Russian Rowing Federation head Veniamin But told The Associated Press. That could potentially send the 19 to Rio days before the games start, if the case is heard

cleaning the ball with his glove instead of throwing it to his caddie to wipe off with a towel.

He wanted relief from the casual water, not the gravel cart path, because it kept an opening to the hole. Once the spot was determined where Spieth could play the shot he wanted, he had the option to play a different shot, even if his stance was still in casual water.

Gregory told him he was satisfied with the drop, so Spieth was good to go.

There was discussion on television, and after his round, that’s about all anyone wanted to ask him about.

“It was as complicated as I’ve ever really had it.

Took about as much time as I’ve ever taken on a free drop,” Spieth said.

Ultimately, it was a good break that he let get away. His shot through a gap in the trees bounced over the green, and he was fooled by the thickness of the grass and left his chip some 20 feet short, missing the par save.

He missed a lot of putts, including a 12-foot birdie attempt on the par-3 ninth that caught spun out of the cup. And that remains his biggest concern.

“I just can’t get a putt to go in outside 10 feet,” he said. “And from 10 to 20 feet, the amount of opportunities I’ve had that aren’t that difficult. Up to my putting standards I would be five, six, seven strokes better right now. ...

I haven’t really adjusted to the speed here. Once that comes and my putting gets back, then I’m firing on all cylinders.”

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the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

The refugee team is made up of sportsmen and women who have talent and drive, and the same dreams of competing on the world’s largest stage as athletes from all over the globe. But they have no way of representing their countries, countries they were forced to flee. So they’ve been given a flag, the Olympic flag, to march behind at the opening ceremony in Rio and to compete under at the games.

They have stories of unfathomable hardship.

Yiech was a 9-year-old boy caught up in the Sudanese civil war in 2005 when his mother — with no food and no other hope — left him with a neighbor and went in search of something to eat for her

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The International Weightlifting Federation has banned the Russian federation and all its weightlifters, including 2012 silver medalist Tatiana Kashirina, from the Rio Olympics.

and approved in time.

“They’re now in Portugal,” But said. “They’re training and they’re ready to go.”

World Rowing’s approval process left just six rowers eligible to compete for Rio, meaning Russia could only compete in one event, the men’s four, and meant reserve crews from around the world have rushed to Brazil to compete.

There was good news for Russia on Friday when the Russian Taekwondo Union said it had received notification from the World Taekwondo Federation that all three of its entries could compete in Rio. However, Russia’s bestknown track and field athlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist Yelena Isinbayeva, said she had been refused in her last attempt

to make the team for Rio following the blanket ban on Russia in that sport.

Isinbayeva had applied again for an individual exemption but was refused by the IAAF, track’s world governing body.

“Unfortunately they didn’t make an exception for me,” she wrote on Instagram. “They didn’t admit me for the Olympics in Rio. The miracle didn’t happen.”

least one more race. Gordon, a four-time NASCAR champion who turns 45 on Thursday, would make his 800th career start at the Glen.

“It’s pretty cool that he has the opportunity to come out of retirement,” Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch said. “It’s neat to have him here, of course.”

Busch led the most laps last week at the Brickyard en route to his second straight Indy win. Gordon was 13th in his sentimental return to Indy.

“I never saw him on the racetrack,” Busch said.

Gordon could be more of a factor at Pocono, and maybe beyond.

“It’s even more odd that it went from one race to two races,” he said. “And then will it be more? I don’t know.”

Gordon and Earnhardt chat via FaceTime and Junior has offered some advice on the 88. Gordon has assured his one-time teammate that his recovery should be his only priority.

“Just get well at the

pace that is the right pace to do it,” Gordon said.

“Nobody is putting any pressure or time frame on that.”

Gordon battled through his own health woes over the second-half of his career, suffering in stretches from consistent, shooting back pain.

“I could fight through it longer if I had to. I prefer not to,” he said.

Gordon should be cashing in on the perks of retirement.

Imagine, Gordon at home dealing cards on the blackjack table presented

by Las Vegas Motor Speedway while his gambling buddies take turns sipping from the 24 bottles of bourbon presented

by Kentucky Speedway, or enjoying a perfect pour from an 18-liter wine bottle from Sonoma Raceway.

Outside, the Shetland ponies from Texas Motor Speedway are stabled nearby to the Bandolero car from Atlanta Motor Speedway.

OK, not quite.

Gordon was feted with

dozens of retirement presents from tracks in 2015, and he’s too appreciative of the gestures to re-gift them to other friends.

Most of the souvenirs are in storage.

“We haven’t done any blackjack and haven’t drank any whisky or wine or any of those things,” he said.

He paused and laughed, “Well, I mean I have; I drank plenty but it’s just not from the collection I was given as a gift.”

Gordon would surely make an exception if he could bust open a bottle of bubbly in victory lane on Sunday.

Gordon paused before he returned to the garage for a brief chat with track President Brandon Igdalsky (”ever been to the south of France?”) and opened the door where the crowd of pesky autograph seekers had grown.

“I like seeing him,” Igdalsky said as Gordon left, “but I wish I didn’t have to see him.”

When the New York Jets drafted him out of USC in 2009, Sanchez said he was embarrassed when fans would speak to him in Spanish and all he could respond with was, “Gracias.”

So, he started listening to language tapes in his car on the way to work as his career took him from New York to Philadelphia. He also vacationed

in Mexico every summer.

Sanchez said his philosophy with a new team is three-fold: quickly get to know your teammates, devour the playbook and become involved in the community.

After the Broncos acquired him from the Eagles on March 11, Sanchez figured that with Colorado’s large Latino population, it was time for some advanced language lessons.

So, every day at team headquarters he peppers

one of the team’s chefs, Alfredo Gonzalez, with questions in Spanish.

“I try to talk to him as much as I can about whatever I can, whether it’s ordering food or just asking questions about his family and listening to what he says and asking him more questions just to continue to practice,” Sanchez said.

With training camp underway, Sanchez, who is vying with Trevor Siemian and Paxton Lynch for the starting job,

is clearly comfortable both in his communication on the football field and in his bilingual abilities away from it.

Sanchez is so capable in Spanish now that he conducted this interview with The Associated Press in both Spanish and English.

“I’m just happy that I took the time and effort to be able to communicate with fans,” Sanchez said.

“I felt so embarrassed my first couple of years that I couldn’t.”

family. She didn’t come back. Yiech was sent, alone, to the vast Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya.

James Nyang Chiengjiek wasn’t much older, a child who herded cattle, when soldiers tried to kidnap him and force him to go to war. He ran away and also ended up at Kakuma, a camp teeming at one time with nearly 200,000 people, all homeless, many of them hopeless.

Scrambling to hide when her village was attacked by a rival tribe, Rose Nathike Lokonyen came across the dead bodies of her grandparents. She was 7.

Paulo Amotun Kokoro’s childhood memories are of running, but not for fun or for sport. He ran for his life as bullets whizzed

past his head.

Anjelina Nadai Lohalith was separated from her parents as a child more than a decade ago. The 21-year-old hasn’t heard from them since, and can only hope that the news passed on to her that they are still alive is true.

“What I want to be is a champion,” said Nadai Lohalith, whose event is the 1,500 meters. “One day, one time.” She hopes for a successful Olympics but, more than that, a reunion with the parents she hasn’t seen in more than 10 years.

The rest of the team is made up of two swimmers from war-torn Syria who, separately, made the treacherous voyage across the Aegean Sea on flimsy inflatable boats to reach Europe. They then trekked from country to coun-

try seeking shelter.

There are two judokas from Congo, rescued from war as children only to be abused, starved and locked in cages by their handlers as they pursued a sport they loved. And a marathon runner who left Ethiopia in fear for his life, who now drives a taxi in Luxembourg to make ends meet, trains alone, and still wins races.

Make no mistake their places at the Olympics have been earned: All 10 have met qualifying criteria.

It’s still a steep curve, especially for the South Sudanese. They have only been in formal training for a few years at the most, some of them just months. But after the hardships they endured early in life, this challenge isn’t that scary.

“If I compare the training or the duration of training with other people I am going to compete with, (it) is not the same.

But, I do not fear that,” Nadai Lohalith said.

They’ve come a long way, but Wagner said if any of them get through the qualifying heats at the Olympics, it’ll be huge.

But that’s not the point.

It was never the point.

“When you give these people hope,” coach Wagner said, “that made this project successful.”

They look forward to being at the Olympic village in Rio and meeting other athletes. They look forward to having their own uniforms and running shoes. They look forward to being part of a team.

Most of all, they look forward.

hectic world tour for Gordon. He was vacationing in France when team owner Rick Hendrick asked him to come out of retirement. He returned to racing at the Brickyard in Indianapolis. Then it was off to a sponsorship commitment in Mexico.

This weekend, he looks to extend his track record for wins with his seventh.

His busiest task?

“Doing some laundry,” Gordon said, smiling.

Gordon can handle the busy load, though he’s unsure how many more weeks he will be needed as NASCAR’s most popular substitute. Earnhardt warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned.

No decision has been made by Hendrick Motorsports about next week’s race at Watkins Glen.

With an off week following that, the smart move could involve benching Earnhardt at

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Dear Readers: DOGS AND HOT CARS. This is a combination that should NEVER happen.

Dogs cannot survive in a hot car, even if you're running errands and will be away from the car for just a few minutes. Leave the dog at home, or if it's a smaller breed in a carrier, bring the dog in with you. Businesses shouldn't have a problem with you bringing the dog in.

The temperature in a car on a hot day will climb rapidly. For example, if the temperature outside is 80 degrees, the temperature inside a parked car will rise to 100 degrees in only 10 minutes; add another 10 degrees for another 10 minutes.

Dogs don't perspire to cool down, like people do; they can't cool themselves. They are susceptible to heatstroke. And parking in the shade and/or "cracking the window"? Pointless.

If you come across a dog someone has left in a hot car, stay by the vehicle and call 911 immediately. Check all doors to see if one is unlocked.

In Texas, the law states that a civilian can legally break a vehicle's window if the animal is in "apparent distress." -Heloise RING MASTER Dear Heloise: One hot summer afternoon, I took my wedding ring to the jeweler for cleaning. I retrieved my hand cream to make removing the ring easier.

However, my jeweler said he had something better, and he sprayed my finger with ammonia glass cleaner. The ring slipped off easily. -- Martha C., Springfield, Ill., via email

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