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In deep South Texas, a daily tide of poor migrants MISSION (AP) — The influx of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has grown so large that it now requires its own transportation system: government buses that spend each night idling on a Texas roadside, awaiting the latest arrivals.

The buses, joined by a fleet of Border Patrol vans, illustrate the immense and grindingly routine task facing Border Patrol agents in the 5-mile slice of deep South Texas that has become the epicenter of the recent surge in illegal immigration.

An Associated Press reporter recently spent several days in this arid terrain, revealing a daily tide of migration that sends impoverished families into a harsh landscape bristling with cameras, lookout towers and heavily armed patrols.

Against that backdrop, human smugglers and drug cartels match wits with overwhelmed American authorities.

Deputy Rudy Trevino was patrolling a park along the border when he spied movement in the darkness. Swinging his spotlight toward the motion revealed 14 women and children who had just sneaked across the Rio Grande in a small boat.

Voter gloominess shapes race for Illinois governor CHICAGO (AP) — The people of Illinois are feeling particularly gloomy about their state, with its high unemployment, billions of dollars in debt, decades-long battles against corruption — and another possible tax hike waiting for them after the November election.

The bad mood surfaces in publicopinion polls that startle even the pollsters, with one survey showing that more people want to leave Illinois than anywhere else in the U.S. It’s also evident in the voting booth, where turnout in the March primary was the lowest on record. Now the cynicism is shaping one of the nation’s most competitive governor’s races, too.

“People are down in the dumps,” said Rod Spears, a retired Army officer and conservative activist from southern Illinois who says he hears the same concerns from his golfing buddies, all union members and lifelong Democrats.

The governor’s contest essentially boils down to the incumbent’s insistence that it’s not as bad as it used to be versus the challenger’s exhortations to throw the bums out and start over.

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he said. “I’m looking forward to getting to know him.”

The Board of Regents announced Duncan as the sole finalist after a national search May 19.

Duncan was formally chosen as Kent Hance’s, now chancellor emeritus, successor June 12. Hance announced his retirement Oct.11.

Mickey Long, chairman of the Board, said in a Tech System news release Duncan is qualified to take on the chancellor position.

“To have someone of Senator Duncan’s stature who is available and ready to take the chancellor’s chair speaks to the quality of our universities,” he said. “We look forward great things being accomplished under the leadership of Chancellor Duncan.”

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TEXAS TECH SYSTEMS Chancellor Robert Duncan speaks with a family attending Red Raider Orientation on Monday inside the Student Union building. Monday was Duncan’s first official day as Chancellor.

During his first day on the job, Robert Duncan eased into a leather chair behind his new desk in the Texas Tech Administration building.

“It felt good,” the new Tech System chancellor said.

Monday was Duncan’s first day on campus as the chancellor. Around noon the former Texas state senator took the time to meet with his new constituents on campus.

Current and prospective students, professors and parents had the chance to meet and speak with Duncan.

Hayden Hatch, president of the Student Government Association, said Duncans visit is a testimony to his new pledge to Tech.

“I think he will be very willing to hear students’ concerns and work closely with us,”

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Lubbock residents gather to celebrate Fourth of July

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FLOATS IN LUBBOCK’S annual Fourth of July parade drive down Broadway.

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Lubbock natives and visitors alike gathered to celebrate Fourth of July by participating in events that were a part of the Fourth on Broadway festival Thursday and Friday.

The events included a parade, several concerts and a fireworks show at the end of the day on Friday.

Richard Ortiz, Lubbock native and father of three, said his family has been attending the festival and fireworks show for 35 years.

“We started attending when we first moved to Lubbock,” he said. “All three of our kids have been raised with this festival

and now they bring their kids too.”

Jennifer Ortiz, Richard’s daughter, said her favorite part of the festival is the fireworks and it is her children’s favorite as well.

The fireworks, she said, are a way to bring a community together. She said she also likes popping her own fireworks while waiting for the fireworks show to begin.

“I’m the oldest,” Jennifer said, “so I remember when we first moved her and started attending the festival. It’s just grown over the years and there are more and more people and bigger and bigger acts performing. The fireworks have even gotten bigger and the actual show is longer.”

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FIREWORKS FILL THE sky above Mackenzie Park on Friday. The fireworks were part of the park’s Fourth of July Celebration.

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FORMER TEXAS TECH baseball player Elliot Richoux died Friday after slipping below the water at Lake Conroe.

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The Texas Tech Police Department has sent original documents from the investigation of an aggravated assault that involved two Tech athletes to the Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.

Captain Stephen Hinkle said the department presented the case last week.

“Because it was an aggravated assault,” he said, “which is a felony in the state of Texas, once the DA’s office accepts it then it should be scheduled for grand jury sometime.”

However, the office has the option to not accept the charge.

The office can reject the charge altogether, or it can send it back to the Tech Police Department and request further investigation, Hinkle said.

During a basketball game, Nigel Bethel,a former Tech football player, struck Amber Battle, a Tech women’s basketball player, and caused “serious bodily injury” to Battle’s face Saturday June 30 at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, according to a previous The Daily Toreador article.

Bethel was dismissed from the football team

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NEWS 2 JULY 8, 2014 Tech in final stages of picking assistant vice president The Office of the Vice President for research is in the final stages of selecting an assistant vice president to direct the Department of Environmental Health and Safety.

The position, according to an email from Robert Duncan, vice president for research, partners with faculty, staff and administrators to establish strong safety programs at Tech.

There are four finalists, according to the email, and each will visit the campus in July to give a presentation at the Lubbock town hall as well as answer any questions attendees may have.

The four finalists, according to the email are Roger Riddlemoser, Lance Franklin, Carolyn Keierleber, and Matthew Roe. Each presentation, according to the email, will take place in room 120 of the Experimental Sciences Building.

Riddlemoser, according to the email, is currently the assistant director of environmental health and safety at Florida State University.

His presentation will take place 3 p.m. Thursday.

Franklin, according to the email, is currently the director of the division of administrative services at the office of environ-

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mental health and safety services at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His presentation will take place at 3 p.m. July 17.

Keierleber, according to the email, is currently the director of environmental health and safety services at Scripps Research Institute. Her presentation will take place 3 p.m. July 24.

Roe, according to the email, is currently the environmental safety manager and occupational safety manager at the department of environmental health and safety at Tech. His presentation will take place 3 p.m. July 24.

We are extremely saddened to hear this tragic news involving Elliot.

STUDENTS AND EMERGENCY personnel stood outside the Mechanical Engineering building after responding to a fire alarm Monday afternoon. A student witness said the alarm sounded after a lab experiment went wrong in the building.

NYC man gets 18 years in college essay rape case NEW YORK (AP) — She never told her family that her then-stepfather had raped her when she was 8, then revealed the allegation in a college application essay. Telling her painful story to a jury finally put it to rest, she wrote in a statement read Monday as her ex-stepfather was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

“Getting closure and justice on this horrible situation is the best thing I could have gotten from this experience,” she wrote, adding that after testifying, “I felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders.”

“I feel a lot happier than before,” wrote the woman, who didn’t attend the sentencing. “I will not forget

what happened, but I will move on from it.”

The 63-year-old man, who came into the Brooklyn courtroom carrying a Bible, stayed silent as he heard her words and his sentence, hanging his head. His lawyer noted that he plans to appeal.

“He denies he committed the crime,” attorney Ernes Hammer said, calling the case “a difficult matter and a very, very unattractive one.”

The Associated Press is withholding the man’s name because disclosing it could identify his accuser.

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Shelly Sterling struck the deal to sell the Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer after Donald Sterling’s racist remarks to a girlfriend were publicized and the NBA moved to oust him as team owner.

In order to do so, she had two doctors examine her 80-year-old husband and they declared him mentally incapacitated and unable to act as an administrator of The Sterling Family Trust, which owns the Clippers.

The terms of the trust say incapacitation can be determined by two licensed doctors without ties to the family who are specialists in their field. A trustee must cooperate with such exams.

A court must find that Shelly Sterling acted in accordance with the trust and that the deal still applies — even though the trust has since been revoked by Donald Sterling — for the sale to proceed.

Donald Sterling’s attorneys say that his wife “blindsided” him and he submitted to examinations under false pretenses. They allege there was undue influence in the doctors’ findings, and that the exams and letters regarding his mental capacity were defective and incomplete.

They say that if he had been properly informed, he would have participated at a more convenient time instead of being pulled out of legal meetings.

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The Ortiz family was not the only one setting off fireworks before the event started.

The show took place in Mackenzie Park and people were settled in tents, lawn chairs, and on blankets over the whole park.

Before the show, show-goers young and old set off their own fireworks near Prairie Dog Town.

“The first time we came I remember being really scared,” Jennifer said. “It really looks like you’re going to get hit with the fireworks or they’re going to hit something else and blow it up.

I’ve come this far and I’m safe so now I just like watching them.”

Those putting on their own displays used several kinds of fireworks, including fountains, ground spinners, parachutes and sparklers.

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Duncan is a Tech alumnus who received his law degree from the Tech School of Law, according to a previous The Daily Toreador article. Duncan also served as Tech Student Body President.

“I love Texas Tech University, and I love this System,” he said. “A lot has been accomplished over the years, and I feel

come forward publicly.

The man was charged with the 2003 rape nine years later, after the woman penned an essay to apply to a Florida Christian college, prosecutors said. She’d been asked to write about what made her who she is.

She responded with an account of how her churchgoing childhood was upended after her mother embarked on a marriage that “changed my life forever.” While her exstepfather seemed all right at first, “toward the end of the marriage he began to rape me,” his accuser wrote. At the time, “I never told anyone ... at that point in my life, I was scared,” she added.

Linda and John Dale were also in attendance at the show, but this was their first time to visit Lubbock on the Fourth of July.

“We’re from Clovis, New Mexico,” John said, “and we just came out here as a mini vacation to see something new.”

The Dales sat in a different part of the park from the Ortiz family, Joyland Amusement Park, and said they were not sure what to expect from the show.

The said they wished it had been more organized.

“We’re sitting out here,” he said, “but we’re really not sure where to look. There are people gathered everywhere so we can’t even just go where the most people are. I hope by sitting here we’re not missing the fireworks.”

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such a great responsibility.”

Before becoming chancellor, Duncan was serving as a Texas state senator for District 28. He served on the Senate Finance Committee and was a member of the Committee on Higher Education, Natural Resources Committee and the Education Committee. He also served as chairman of the State Affairs Committee, according to his website.

While in office, Duncan said he has worked with each Tech chancellor throughout the years.

“I’ve had the opportunity to learn a whole lot over the years how this works and what are some of the issues,” he said, “and to understand the nature of a higher institution and try to make sure you manage the system in a way that’s appropriate to maintain the growth of the system. I think that’s what we bring to the table here, and I’m really excited.”

Duncan also said he will continue to put the Tech System on a path to Tier One status, a goal that former Chancellor Kent Hance also wanted.

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Students attend conference, win national championship ment of Animal and Food Science said.

Attendees were able to participated different informational sessions that covered all aspects of the meat industry and meat science she said.

“There are general sessions and specific, individual sessions you can pick and choose to attend,” Ron said.

She used this as an opportunity to attend a session on a topic she did not know too mucn about.

“Most of my education has been in beef and pork, so I don’t know as much about poultry and turkey,” Ron said, “so I went to some sessions that dealt with

Texas Tech students traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to the American Meat Science Association’s Reciprocal Meat Conference in late June.

Undergraduate students were able to compete in a quiz bowl competition and an Iron chef competition, and graduate students competed in a poster competition where they were able to showcase what they have been researching at their universities, Olivia Ron, graduate assistant in the Depart-

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Jurisdictional issue delays Sterling trial Fireworks↵ LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jurisdictional issue delayed Monday’s scheduled start of a trial focusing on whether Donald Sterling’s estranged wife had the authority under terms of a family trust to unilaterally negotiate a $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Lawyers for Donald Sterling moved late last week to shift the case to federal court due to alleged medical privacy violations.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas delayed the start of the trial while Donald Sterling’s lawyers sought a decision from a federal judge on whether to take the case.

The motion was assigned to a U.S. District Court judge to consider and Levanas ordered parties to return to his court at 2:30 p.m. PDT. “It may very well be this is not going to be in my hands,” Levanas said.

Shelly Sterling was present for the day’s initial court session but her husband was not.

“Unfortunately the case is in procedural limbo,” said her attorney,

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said, according to the release. “We two closer.

“It was July 4th and I had just got want to offer our condolences to his mother, Deborah, and father, David. done with my baseball game,” he said, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Our thoughts and prayers are with you “and I got a text from a former teammate that said, Tim Cade, lieutenant at Montgom- and your family ‘Did you hear ery Country Precinct 1, said there were at this very difabout Elliot?’ a lot of boats out Friday, busier than ficult time.”

The memoand I was like, normal because it was a holiday.

‘No, I haven’t,’ Other accidents took place at the rial service will and he was lake during the week, he said, including be hosted 3 p.m. like, ‘Well he’s one June 30, where two boats collided, Wednesday at dead.’ I sat killing two and injuring three.

Crossroads Bapthere for 30 According to the police report, tist Church in minutes and Richoux leaped into water five feet deep The Woodlands, was just in and surfaced briefly before going under Texas, and, ac“We recovered the body a little cording to The shock.”

TIM TADLOCK Gates said more than 30 minutes after he was last Woodlands onTEXAS TECH line, in lieu of he watched seen,” Cade said.

BASEBALL COACH the firework Paramedics tried to revive him, flowers, The Elliot show last night according to the report, but were ulti- Richoux Foundain honor of the tion is being set up mately unsuccessful.

Richoux was a three-year letterman to collect funds to pay for underprivi- Fourth of July thinking about Richoux.

“I was just thinking about him,” at The Woodlands High School, earned leged children to play baseball. ass-state honors as a senior, was named David Gates, a friend and former he said. “I was just thinking about him an All-American at Howard College in teammate, said he first met Richoux when I was watching the fireworks 2012 and played one season at Tech in playing baseball at Howard College. because he loved doing stuff like that.

2013 with J-Bob Thomas, according to Gates was the catcher and Richoux was I knew he would be there just shooting fireworks with me and his girlfriend the pitcher, he said. a Tech news release.

The two also lived together during and it would be good. I really was just “We are extremely saddened to hear this tragic news involving Elliot,” the off-season at Tech, he said, and the thinking about him that night.”

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turkey slaughter, chicken slaughter and poultry production.”

Some of the topics discussed covered, according to the AMSA website, were processed meats, fresh meat, packaging, food safety, new innovations, agricultural extension and shelf life.

The conference was put on for students and industry members across the country according to the AMSA website.

“There were lots of networking opportunities,” Ron said. “Representatives from all areas of the meat industry were there.”

Though the conference was educational, the public was not in attendance, she said.

“We were in a very liberal area, so we were trying to not attract a protest or anything,” Ron said. “Some of them might get upset. There was one session for rendering animals unconscious, and if someone doesn’t know about that they might get upset.”

She said one of the major aspects of the conference was the networking opportunity it offered including the career fair.

“I got to so many different faculty

and industry members, and I got insight about different career opportunities and what I can go into with a graduate degree in meat science.”

While in attendance of the conference, the Texas Tech University’s Meat Science Academic Quiz Bowl Team earned the title of National Champions at the 67th Reciprocal Meat Conference against 27 other teams from 19 different universities, according to the Texas Tech website.

Deshea Hanagan, a junior agricultural communications major from Artesia, New Mexico said Tech brought

two teams to the competition finishing both first and third.

“It is an all day event, double elimination bracket,” Hanangan said. “There are 40 questions total in each round. They pair you up with someone from the other team for 20 questions, and the next 20 questions anyone can answer.”

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Gutierrez breaks College Kenny Williams named to Paul Hornung Award Watch List Home Run Derby record Eric Gutierrez, a Texas Tech sophomore university studies major and first baseman from Mission, hit 52 home runs at the College Home Run Derby, Thursday, breaking the previous record of 20 home runs.

The event took place in Omaha, Nebraska, at TD Ameritrade Park, according to a Tech news release, and 22,352 spectators were in the audience.

Gutierrez did not end up winning the championship, according to the release, and was ousted by Texas University freshman catcher, Tres Barrera, one of Gutierrez’s former high school teammates, hit 25 home runs during the finals,

while Gutierrez hit 18.

“It was a crazy night,” Gutierrez said, according to the release.

“Having the opportunity to come back to Omaha, especially with my Dad throwing to me, was just incredible. It was also a special experience to be there in the finals with Tres - being able to represent the Big 12 Conference and Sharyland High School with him was great. It felt like old times back in high school when we would take batting practice together. Overall, it was just an amazing night.”

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New York City mourns ‘hero’ firefighter NEW YORK (AP) — Purple and black bunting hung from the firehouse. Firefighters embraced and wiped away tears. Neighbors, grateful for the man they recently called a hero and stunned by his sudden death, stopped by to say farewell.

Sorrow permeated the New York City neighborhood Sunday where Lt. Gordon Ambelas worked, echoing from Ladder 119 and Engine Company 211 — where he heard his final call Saturday night — to the publichousing high-rise where he was overcome with smoke and flames while searching for possible victims in a cluttered apartment.

As the news spread of the fire department’s first line-of-duty death in more than two years, fellow firefighters congregated with community leaders at the firehouse in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood to grieve together and share their remembrances.

“He died a hero — that’s how he lived,” firefighter, friend and former roommate Eric Bischoff said. Ambelas, he said, was “truly one of the best human beings that anyone would ever want to meet.”

Fire officials said Sunday that a preliminary investigation showed a pinched electrical cord in a cluttered apartment started the blaze on the 19th floor of the 21-story building. Flames quickly spread to the 17th and 18th floors. Ambelas was among the first firefighters in the building.

Fellow firefighters found Ambelas unconscious and carried him out of the building. They worked with emergency rescuers to try to revive him, but he died at a hospital, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Smoke inhalation and thermal burns caused Ambelas’ death though the manner is still under investigation, a spokeswoman for the city’s medical examiner said Monday. Fire officials declined to detail what transpired in the apartment leading up to his death, citing the ongoing investigation.

A funeral was planned for Thursday morning at St. Clare’s Church on Staten Island.

Ambelas, a 40-year-old married father of two daughters from Staten Island, had been promoted to lieutenant 10 months ago.

Throughout a 14-year career he helped the city through its darkest hours, including the recovery from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Superstorm Sandy.

In May, months after a transfer to Williamsburg, Ambelas helped save 7-year-old Mendy Gotlieb, who became trapped in a roll-down gate. The boy was pulled 15 feet off the ground when his arm and head got stuck. Two weeks ago, the local Orthodox Jewish community honored Ambelas and his Ladder 119 comrades for their heroics.

Ambelas said at the time that the incident “shows that FDNY members are always ready to help others. It was great teamwork all around.”

K e n n y Wi l l i a m s , s e n i o r nutritional science major and running back from Pflugerville, was named to the Paul Hornung Award Watch List, Monday.

The award, according to a Texas Tech news release, is presented by Texas Roadhouse and

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READING, Pa. (AP) — Fortysix years after a Philadelphia teen’s disappearance and slaying, the girl’s family accepted her cremated remains Monday and asked for the public’s help in finding her killer.

A month after the body was positively identified through DNA testing, the family of Sandra Ann Stiver accepted her remains at a news conference at the Berks County coroner’s office near Reading.

“We’re sad and we’re hurt and we’re mad,” said Sandy’s sister, Hazel DeMoss, of Richfield, Ohio. “We want to know who did it.”

Sandy Stiver, 14, and her sisterin-law Martha Stiver, 17, disappeared in 1968 after running away from home in Philadelphia.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two days before former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin learns his punishment for convictions stemming from years of corruption before and after Hurricane Katrina, his lawyer is hoping to avoid what he calls a “virtual life sentence” for the man once seen as a reformer.

Defense attorney Robert Jenkins filed a motion Monday asking permission to file more paperwork in a back-and-forth with prosecutors over how federal sentencing guidelines should be applied in the case.

Nagin — a Democrat who served from 2002 to 2010 — stands before U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan for sentencing on Wednesday. In papers filed last month, Jenkins said the 20-plus years sought by prosecutors amount to a “virtual life sentence” for the 58-year-old Nagin and would deprive his teenage daughter of her father.

Prosecutors’ say a stiff sentence is just, given the seriousness of the crimes and Nagin’s repeated denials.

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Hazel DeMoss said both teens were “wild,” but the family doesn’t know what compelled them to flee that summer day.

Sandy’s body was found in August 1968, about a week after authorities said she had been shot several times with a .22-caliber weapon. Martha’s remains were recovered the following April about five miles away in French Creek State Park in Elverson.

Her cause of death could not be determined, but authorities say she was also murdered.

Neither victim could be identified and no connection to the Philadelphia missing-persons case was made. The teens were buried in adjoining, unmarked graves in a

potter’s field outside Reading, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

The family moved to Ohio, but never stopped searching, and wondering.

“You’re always looking at somebody on a street corner and thinking it’s them,” said Tom Stiver, brother of Sandy and husband of Martha.

Decades later, Hazel DeMoss found information about two unidentified murder victims on the website of the Doe Network, a group of amateur sleuths that seeks to attach names to unidentified bodies, and suspected they might belong to her family members.

Authorities used an old cemetery map and ground-penetrating

radar to locate the bodies. They were exhumed last fall and sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.

Sandy’s elderly mother, Elizabeth Stiver, choked back tears and held a tissue over her mouth as Berks County Coroner Dennis Hess slid a metal box with her daughter’s ashes in front of her. The remains of Martha Stiver will be sent to her family separately.

“If there’s anyone out there with any kind of information from 1968, when these murders took place ... please, it’s time to have a conscience and it’s time to fess up,” Hess said Monday.

State police say they are pursuing active leads.

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They say his actions harmed the city before — and especially after — the 2005 hurricane laid waste to the city.

Nagin was a cable television executive and political newcomer when he captured the mayor’s office in 2002 with a promise to clean up corruption. He is perhaps best known for a radio interview three years later in which he made an emotional, sometimes profane plea for steppedup federal help days after levees breached during Katrina. Most of the city had flooded, hundreds died, and tens of thousands were stranded in the Superdome and the city’s convention center with no power or working sewerage and little food or water.

In the ensuing months and years, Nagin’s public image took a beating, in part because of remarks such as the racially charged “New Orleans will be chocolate again” and his comment that a burgeoning violent crime problem “keeps the New Orleans brand out there.” Proposals to aid the city’s recovery, such as opening new

casinos or bottling the city’s drinking water for sale, went nowhere. And, although he won re-election in 2006, by the time he left office in 2010 his popularity had plummeted.

Nagin was convicted Feb. 12 of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes — money, free vacation trips and truckloads of free granite for his family business — from businessmen who wanted work from the city or Nagin’s support for various projects.

Prosecutors outlined more than $500,000 in ill-gotten gain that Berrigan already has ruled Nagin will have to forfeit.

Pre-sentence reports by prosecutors and others have not been made public. But a memorandum outlining the government’s rationale for a harsh sentence, based on complicated federal guidelines, was filed in public court records last week.

In it, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Coman compares Nagin’s crimes with those of other public officials who drew stiff sentences,

including former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (28 years), former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (14 years) and former Birmingham, Alabama, Mayor Larry Langford (15 years).

“Nagin’s widespread and corrosive breach of the public trust — lasting through much of his tenure in office — equals even the worst of these state and local corruption cases,” Coman wrote.

Jenkins argues that Nagin had “an otherwise untainted life” apart from the crimes outlined by prosecutors and that the “extreme and excessive impact on his young family must be considered.”

Coman notes that the schemes that led to Nagin’s conviction included two family members: his two grown sons were never charged with a crime but they were part of the family business that received free granite from a contractor. And, what Jenkins calls an “aberration” was behavior that spanned six years and involved multiple contractors, Coman said.

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DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — After Ukrainian forces’ seizure of a key rebel stronghold in the east, the major cities of Donetsk and Luhansk could be the next focus of major fighting. Three bridges on roads leading to Donetsk were blown up Monday — possibly to hinder military move-

ments, though the rebels claim it was the work of pro-Kiev saboteurs.

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have called for the Kremlin to send in troops to protect the pro-Russia insurgents, but President Vladimir Putin, wary of more sanctions being imposed by the West, has resisted.

Separatist fighters driven out of the city of Slovyansk and other eastern towns by the Ukrainian army over the weekend are regrouping in Donetsk, a major industrial city of 1 million where pro-Russia rebels have declared independence as the Donetsk People’s Republic. Pavel Gubarev, the region’s self-described governor, had promised “real partisan war around the whole perimeter of Donetsk” before thousands of supporters at a rally Sunday.

Ukrainian authorities meanwhile

say their strategy is to blockade Donetsk and the rebel-held city of Luhansk, the two largest cities in the separatist east, in order to cut off rebel supply lines. Civilians would be allowed to leave and seek aid elsewhere, national security council spokesman Andrei Lysenko said Monday, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

Battles between Ukrainian forces and the separatists have left over 400 people dead and thousands homeless since the uprising began in April.

Ukraine’s government ended a shaky, unilateral 10-day cease-fire last week, and has since stepped up its fight against the rebels.

It was not clear who blew up the highway and rail bridges Monday.

Their destruction would most benefit the rebels by blocking avenues for military advances, but the rebel Donetsk People’s Republic issued a statement blaming two of the blasts on Ukrainians aiming to interfere with rebel supply lines.

In the village of Novobakhmutivka, where a rail line crosses over a highway out of Donetsk, an 11-wagon cargo train was perched perilously Monday on the collapsed bridge. The road leads toward Slovyansk, a former insurgent stronghold that was recaptured Saturday by Ukrainian troops.

Anatoly Krasov, who was driving along the road Monday, said he saw an explosion before the bridge collapsed with a large cargo train on it.

He said a group of men dressed in the camouflage uniforms often worn by the rebels then got into their cars and drove back toward Donetsk.

Two other bridges on roads leading from Slovyansk to Donetsk were also destroyed Monday in the villages of Zakitne and Seleznevka, the Road Transportation Agency of Donetsk Region said.

The insurgents control the regional administration building in Donetsk and checkpoints on the city’s outskirts. They also face little internal resistance from police forces or government officials in the city, who have done nothing in recent months to hinder their free movement around Donetsk.

Europe takes rehab approach to Islamic extremists BERLIN (AP) — Chris Boudreau’s son Damian told her over dinner on a November evening in 2012 that he was going to Egypt to study Arabic, the language of Islam.

She never saw him again.

“He flew to Seattle, then Amsterdam, then into Istanbul,” said Boudreau. “There was a training camp just outside the city where radicals train prior to crossing the border into Syria.”

Fourteen months later, the 22-year-old Canadian convert to Islam was dead, apparently killed in fighting between rival groups of Islamic militants in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Boudreau was left to wonder what she could have done to stop her son from becoming a jihadi foot soldier. For answers she’s turning to Europe, where authorities are increasingly using outreach programs to prevent and even reverse radicalization. Initiatives include school counseling, emergency hotlines and even programs to help find jobs for returning jihadists.

The West has grappled with preventing radicalization since 9/11, when a Hamburg terror

cell emerged as a key force in the attacks. The conflict in Syria, where thousands of Westerners are believed to be fighting, has added urgency to the challenge.

In May, a 29-year-old man who had fought in Syria was arrested in France on suspicion of shooting dead four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

“So far, as a society we’ve only reacted when it was too late,” said Kemal Bozay, the son of Turkish immigrants in the German city of Bochum. “This is the first time we’re approaching the problem pre-emptively.”

Bozay runs a project called Wegweiser, which means ‘signpost’ in German. It seeks to prevent radicalization among Muslim teenagers in the city, which has a large Islamic community, with the help of schools, families, religious leaders and job centers.

Besides Bochum, there are two Wegweiser centers in Bonn and Duesseldorf — all three aimed at engaging troubled youths before they fall into radical Islam.

The centers send out social workers who intervene when they see recruiters approaching teenagers on playgrounds,

football fields and school yards, or when they carry out Islamic conversions on market squares.

The workers engage the youths in conversation and try to offer solutions that steer them away from fundamentalism.

The centers, which were launched in April, have the backing of the security service in Germany’s most populous state, North-Rhine Westphalia. The state has seen a jump in the number of Salafists, adherents of an extreme fundamentalist version of Islam that has authorities worried. Their numbers have grown to 6,000 in Germany, according to official figures, with 1,800 in North-Rhine Westphalia alone.

“Salafism is a lifestyle package for young people because it offers them social warmth, a simple black-and-white view of the world, recognition by their peer group — basically everything they lack in real life,” said Burkhard Freier, who heads the state’s domestic intelligence service.

Most of those drawn to fundamentalism in the West are the children or grandchildren of Muslim immigrants, but a siz-

able number of Islamic radicals are converts like Boudreau’s son, Damian Clairmont, who found religion at 17 after battling depression.

Initially Islam appeared to help Clairmont. “He became very peaceful, calm and happy again,” said Boudreau. But as time passed her son became more fundamentalist in his beliefs. “We were never made aware that this type of issue was a problem in Canada,” she said.

“Nor did we really understand anything about radicalization or foreign fighters.”

Two years ago, Germany launched a national telephone hotline for people worried that their friends or relatives might be turning to radical Islam. It is funded and operated by the government, but callers are quickly referred to one of four civil groups that handle the actual case work.

So far, the hotline has received more than 900 calls, resulting in 250 cases, says Florian Endres of Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

Each week two or three more are added.

Quake slams Mexico, Guatemala; at least 3 dead GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A magnitude-6.9 earthquake on the Pacific Coast jolted a wide area of southern Mexico and Cen-

tral America Monday, killing at least three people while damaging homes, hospitals and churches.

The U.S. Geological Survey

said the quake hit at 6:23 a.m. (7:23 a.m. EDT; 11:23 GMT) on the Pacific Coast 1 mile (2 kilometers) north-northeast of Puerto Madero, near the Guatemala border. It initially calculated the magnitude at 7.1 but later lowered the figure to 6.9.

The national spokesman for local fire departments, Raul Hernandez, said at least two people died in their homes from collapsed walls in the Guatemalan town of Pati, in the border province of San Marcos, and another woman in Quetzaltenango died from a heart attack.

But Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said later in a press conference that the only officially confirmed death so far was of a newborn hit by a piece of false ceiling in a San Marcos hospital. He said it wasn’t clear if the woman’s heart attack was earthquake related.

Civil protection officials in the Mexican state of Chiapas raised the toll to two dead, and said at least a dozen people were injured by falling tiles and other debris.