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AUSTIN (AP) — Changes to an Austin Energy program intended to help pay for wind power investments have drawn criticism from some industry experts who say the program no longer has a direct link to the city’s renewable energy goals.

Austin Energy launched GreenChoice in 2000, opening an opportunity for its customers to help support the company’s wind contracts, the Austin American-Statesman reported. They could enroll for 10-year contracts that tied their rate to what the utility was paying for wind.

The company changed the program earlier this year, disposing of the longterm contracts. Instead of a price tied to wind contracts, customers now pay an electricity rate that is higher than the standard rate. The extra revenue goes toward paying for wind power.

The company wants to generate 35 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. Without the program’s money, the utility company said chasing that goal would have required spreading the cost across all ratepayers.

Some industry experts said the new changes to the program don’t show a direct link to Austin’s renewable energy objectives.

“It doesn’t really provide the value to the customer it once did,” said president Mike Sloan of Virtus Energy, a renewable energy consulting firm.

But Austin Energy said the changes have been popular with its customers.

More than 2,300 of its customers have signed up for the new program in its first five months this year.

Texas abortion clinics ask judge to stop new law AUSTIN (AP) — Nearly threequarters of Texas’ abortion facilities would be forced to close by the end of this month if one of the nation’s toughest new anti-abortion laws is allowed to take effect, attorneys for clinics challenging the law told a federal judge Monday.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin will rule on the latest challenge to the sweeping abortion restrictions that Texas’ Republican-led Legislature passed last year. Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican who is the favorite to become governor next year, is defending the restrictions.

The trial began as a federal judge in Alabama on Monday blocked a law in that state requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges.

There are currently 18 abortion clinics operating in Texas. All of them would close if Yeakel upholds a law set to take effect Sept. 1 that would require the clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers.

That would leave just seven places for women to legally terminate a pregnancy in Texas — all surgical centers in major cities, including four operated

by Planned Parenthood.

Women living near the Mexico border would be most affected, as many would face a four-hour drive to get to the closest U.S. abortion provider.

Attorneys for the state contend that the distance doesn’t pose an undue burden, saying women in El Paso could quickly reach an abortion provider by driving across state lines.

“We all know they can go 10-15 minutes down the street into New Mexico,” said Jimmy Blacklock, a deputy attorney general.

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CASEY STEGALL, A junior human development and family studios major from Crosbyton, was fired from Children’s Home of Lubbock after the president of the home found out he was gay.

Casey Stegall said he loved his job working as a child caregiver at the Children’s Home of Lubbock.

Stegall said he was required to stay with a group of teenage boys from Friday to Sunday acting as a guardian to them.

The junior human development and family studies major from Crosbyton said he was fired from the Children’s Home of Lubbock for being gay last month.

“My direct supervisor knew I was gay and knew my fiancé,” Stegall said. “She was very supportive of us both, but I never talked about it at work.”

Stegall’s was terminated July 10 after he took five teenage boys to the water park to celebrate the Fourth of July. Stegall’s fiancé was in attendance to help him keep an eye on the boys, but he was not introduced as Stegall’s fiancé, he said.

“He was just there so I had an extra set of eyes watching,” he said, “because we were at Water Rampage so there was a lot of kids there. One of my kids was a high risk kid so I had to pay extra attention to him.”

Stegall said his supervisor at Children’s Home of Lubbock knew his fiancé was helping him watch his children that day and knew of his sexual orientation before he was hired.

“I was what was called ‘weekend relief staff’ for the house parents in that cottage,” Stegall said. “I loved my job, and working there, I saw so many things that blew my expectations. I never imagined things that those kids went through were even possible.”

Stegall said he is striving toward becoming a child life specialist and working at the Children’s Home of Lubbock was a great way to prepare him for his future career.

“It was a big culture shock for me,” he said, “but those kids blessed me every day that I worked, they touched my heart in so many ways. I loved that job very much and

being let go was heart breaking.”

Stegall said before he was hired, he went through the paper work and saw nothing pertaining to sexual orientation, and if he would have he would not have applied for the position.

“The closest thing I read was that it said they adhere to Christian based morals and standards,” he said, “which I am a Christian, my fiancé is a Christian so I did not see it being a problem.”

Stegall said he was terminated by Lynn Harms because of his lifestyle choices and his policy-breaking behavior while at the water park with the children.

“He told me that we were butt bumping, which I really don’t know what that is, making out in front of my kids, and making them feel uncomfortable the entire time,” he said.

Lynn Harms, president of the Children’s Home of Lubbock, said the policy-breaking incident that caused Stegall’s termination is confidential.

“Casey’s termination was for violating policies, and he has chosen to paint it as a ‘poor me, I was fired because I am homosexual,’ without owning responsibility for the reasons he was terminated, and so obviously, we had a personal issue,” Harms said. “I cannot go into all of those details, but he was fired for cause.”

Stegall said he was urged by a member of his church to share his story and now it has been talked about across the nation.

Reverend Tony Thieman-Somora, of the Metropolitan Community Church of Lubbock, said Stegall is involved in his church, and he and the church family support Casey on the grounds that everyone has rights.

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Department of Transportation Tech chess members compete at World Chess Olympiad gathers Lubbock opinions Beginning Friday, five Texas Tech chess members are representing their home countries as the World Chess Olympiad.

The event will last through Aug. 14 and is hosted in Tromoso, Norway, according to a Tech news release.

It is held every two years and about 1700 people come to play, representing 160 international teams, according to the release.

Each team consists of the nation’s top five chess players, according to the release.

The members of Tech’s team participating are Alex Onishchuk, coach rep-

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ALISON REAVES AND John Kelly discuss road conditions and traffic with Norma Nash during a Department of Transportation meeting Thursday. The meeting was an open house for residences of Lubbock to come and talk with Department officials about their concerns.

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

The Texas Department of Transportation asked Lubbock residents to come out to their offices Thursday evening to take part in an interactive event as a way to share the department’s transportation opinions.

The event was walk-through style and had several graphs and charts as well as explanations about the budgeting process for attendees to view and better understand what steps go into making a budget for the department.

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“I had to go for a class, but I actually liked the event,” she said. “The interactive tool was by far my favorite part and I thought it was cool that they were taking my answers and using them as citizen opinion data. It was more fun then filling out just a paper with the same questions.”

The interactive tool allowed attendees to log the transportation concerns that are most important to them, such as road condition and other transportation options like light rail, then make their own budget that focuses on these things.

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resenting the U.S., Elshan Moradiabadi, Iran, Sammy Shoker, Egypt, Luis Torres, Mexico, and Carla Heredia, Ecuador, according to the release.

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Human Sciences hosts family event

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Balloons and the sounds of laughter filled the air around Project Intercept, a Lubbock Independent School District disciplinary alternative education program, on Saturday as the College of Human Sciences hosted a summer family event for families in eastern Lubbock.

The event was hosted to promote life management, health and wellness and unity, according to a news release from the college.

Julia Hernandez, a Lubbock resident and mother of two, attended the event with her two daughters.

“I like that they invited the whole family,” she said. “There are so many events for our kids to learn and get help but not a whole lot for all of us to work together.”

Hernandez said she believes there are

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several families that will benefit from the help, lessons and day of fun the college offered at the event.

The event was a part of the East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood grant, according to the release.

The grant was awarded to Texas Tech, the Lubbock Independent School district and other partners December 2012 by the U.S. Department of Education, according to a Tech news release. The grant is dispersed over five years and is devoted to communitybased service learning to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in education, according to the release.

“The girls’ favorite activity today is the jump roping,” she said. “They got me out there for a little bit but maybe not the whole time. They just never get tired.”

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Texas Tech’s Family Therapy Clinic offers pre-marital workshops called ‘Great Start’.

Cody Heath, Family Therapy Clinic coordinator, said the free workshop is offered on certain Saturdays during the summer and the fall and spring semesters.

“We usually try to offer them once a month,” Heath said.

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She said she learned more about transportation, and the information helped her realize why every road might not be flawless all the time.

“There’s other things our tax dollars go to,” she said. “Freeing up congestion and maintaining bridges should sometimes take more importance than making sure University is as smooth as can be.”

Melanie Dirkman, a Lubbock resident, said she attended the event to understand the planning

Olivia Hamlin, Family Therapy Clinic assistant said the workshop is open to both the community and students at Tech.

Participants range from all ages.

“The workshops help them decide if they are prepared no matter if they are young or old,” she said. “After they are done with the 8-hour workshops, they can kind of decide as a couple if they feel prepared or if there are other things they need to

work out.”

Hamlin said, the workshops usually have five to six couples in a group setting talking about how to achieve and maintain a good relationship. Student therapists facilitate the clinic.

“The therapists that are putting it on meet program requirements first and then they have to be trained and certified to do it, so it is just not any student,” Heath said. “You have to be

certified within the program and outside the program as well.”

He said the students putting on the workshop are students,working forwards their masters degree, and their ages vary from 23 to 60.

“The workshop allows couples that are about to get married, married couples or partnered couples to come in and learn research-based skills that promote healthy marriages and healthy

process better. cities including Houston and She said she D a l las and likes to be a part of the decisions made gauge in the community t h e and understand opinwhat changes i o n s f r o m might take place.

“That’s why I those vote,” she said. “I w h o want to exercise attend my civic duty as a l l other much as possible and really have a events hand in anything to then MELANIE DIRKMAN that goes on.” comLUBBOCK RESIDENT The departprise ment will hold t h e walk-through events in other data into something that will

help them make a new transportation plan, according to the department’s website.

The plan is an update to the 2035 Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan with the Te x a s Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n P l a n 2040, according to the website, and when completed will serve as the long-range, performance-based transportation plan to guide planning and programing decisions.

“I understand all the money in the world isn’t available for these projects,” Dirkman said, “but I like that they’re asking for my opinion how it should be spent.”

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The topics covered are financial issues such as sharing finances, increasing intimacy during times when couples are fighting, problem solving, bettering communication, how to affair proof your marriage and sexual intimacy, he said.

“It covers how to get through and prepare for the rough times but also how to promote the good times and the closeness,”

he said, “and how to make a relationship last.”

Couples who go through this workshop will earn a $60 voucher to apply towards getting their marriage license, according to Tech’s website.

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Porch killing defendant: ‘I wasn’t going to cower’ DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man said Monday that he was afraid when an unknown woman showed up on his porch before dawn one morning last year, but that he refused to be a victim in his own home.

“I wasn’t going to cower in my house,” Theodore Wafer told jurors at his trial for the Nov. 2 killing of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, who was drunk but unarmed.

Wafer is charged with seconddegree murder and could be sentenced to up to life in prison with the chance for parole, if he’s convicted. He says he shot McBride in self-defense, but prosecutors argue that Wafer could have stayed safely behind his locked doors and called 911 instead of confronting

McBride, whom he didn’t know.

Softly and methodically, Wafer told the Wayne County Circuit Court jury how he followed loud bangs from his front door to his side door and back to the front again before fetching his 12-gauge shotgun.

He said he opened the front door slightly and saw that the outer, screen door was damaged. He then opened the inner door further and “this person came out from the side of my house so fast. I raised the gun and shot,” he told jurors after taking the stand on the seventh day of testimony.

Wafer, 55, also said he thought there could have been more than one person outside of his 1,100-square-foot home near Detroit’s far west side. He said he

pulled the trigger “to defend myself.

It was them or me.”

When police arrived, McBride lay in a pool of blood just off the porch.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, civil rights activists questioned whether race may have been a factor. Wafer is white and McBride was black, and some likened the killing to that of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. But race faded as an issue and wasn’t mentioned as a factor by prosecutors or defense attorneys during court hearings that preceded the trial.

Earlier in the trial, prosecutors played a recording of Wafer telling an officer that he didn’t know the gun was loaded. They contend that Wafer didn’t need to use deadly

force against McBride An autopsy found McBride’s blood-alcohol level was about 0.22, which is nearly three times Michigan’s legal limit for driving.

About 3½ hours before Wafer killed her, McBride crashed her car into a parked vehicle on a Detroit street about half away.

To acquit Wafer, the jury would have to find that he shot McBride because he had a reasonable and honest fear for his life.

Occasionally rubbing the right side of his head and speaking with his eyes closed, Wafer testified that he bought the shotgun about six years ago.

Wafer’s lawyer, Cheryl Carpenter, asked if he had a security system installed at his home. He said no.

Gov’t closing emergency child immigrant shelters WASHINGTON (AP) — Fort Sill is expected to close as The government said Monday it early as Friday, the Health and will soon close three emergency Human Services Department shelters it established at U.S. said. Shelters in Texas at Joint military bases to temporarily Base San Antonio-Lackland house children caught crossing and in California at Naval Base the Mexican border alone. It Ventura County-Port Hueneme said fewer children were being will wrap up operations in the caught and other shelters will next two to eight weeks, agency be adequate. spokesman Kenneth Wolfe said.

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housed at the three military bases since shelters there opened in May and early June. They stayed an average of 35 days.

Since Oct. 1 more than 57,000 unaccompanied children, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been caught crossing the Mexican border illegally.

A 2008 law requires that unaccompanied child immigrants from countries that don’t border the United States be handed over to the Health and Human Services Department within 72 hours of being apprehended. The children are cared for by the government until they can be reunited with a relative or another sponsor in the United States while they await a deportation hearing in immigration court.

The crush of Central American children caught at the border in recent months has strained resources across the government and prompted President Barack Obama to ask Congress to approve an emergency $3.7 billion spending bill to deal with what he described as a humanitarian crisis. Members of the House of Representatives left town for the August recess without acting on the request.

Last month the Homeland Security Department reported that the number of child immigrants crossing the border alone had started to decline, from as many as 2,000 each week in June to about 500 each week in mid-July. Administration officials said at the time that multiple factors likely contributed to the decline.

The number of people caught crossing the border illegally typically declines during the hottest summer months.

Administration officials have said as many 90,000 child immigrants could cross the border by the end of the budget year in September.

The military base shelters could reopen if the number of young border crossers spikes again in the near future, Wolfe said.

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Tech police arrest intoxicated individuals on, off campus Thursday

2:40 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license after a traffic stop in the 3100 block of 18th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:42 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while intoxicated in the 1600 block of University Avenue following an observed traffic violation. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:43 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated and possession of drug paraphernalia in the Weeks Residence Hall parking lot after an observed traffic violation. The student was also charged for the possession of a controlled substance and possession of a dangerous drug.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Friday 2:56 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor to two students and one

non-student. One student was also issued a Lubbock County citation for driving while under the influence of alcohol by a minor after an observed traffic violation in the 1800 block of Akron Avenue. All involved individuals signed the citations and were released.

Saturday 9:48 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for criminal trespass at the Transportation and Parking tow lot. The non-student entered the secured and posted tow lot by crawling under the fence and was observed looking at bicycles The non-student was also issued a criminal trespass warning for all Tech property and transported to Lubbock County Detention Center.

9:15 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication and one outstanding Lubbock County warrant after the report of a possible intoxicated individual at the United Supermarket’s Arena. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:15 p.m. — A Tech officer

arrested a non-student for three outstanding City of Lubbock warrants after a traffic stop on the 3200 block of 4th Street.

Charges for driving with an invalid license will also be filed against the non-student.

12:37 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a vehicle accident at Texas Tech Parkway and Quaker Avenue.

2:22 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while intoxicated and a nonstudent passenger was arrested for public intoxication after a traffic stop in the 4600 block of 4th Street. They were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Sunday 11:19 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for a Lubbock County warrant after a traffic stop in the 3400 block of Landmark Lane. The non-student was also cited for driving with an invalid license and was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

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SHELBI ANDREA, A junior biology major from Houston, swims laps Monday outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Syracuse University ranks as No. 1 party school BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse University has claimed the title of nation’s top party school.

The No. 1 ranking was revealed Monday by The Princeton Review based on a nationwide survey of 130,000 students.

Syracuse’s student newspaper ranked second best among the 379 colleges surveyed, and its sports scene, rated third best, likely helped the party mood.

University officials were disappointed by the private university’s showing in the 2015 edition of “The Best 379 Colleges.” The book contains 62 top-20 lists gauging student satisfaction with professors, financial aid awards, athletic facilities, food and other factors.

“We do not aspire to be a party school,” Syracuse said in a statement citing its “long-established reputation for academic excellence with programs that are recognized nationally and internationally as the best in their fields.”

Rounding out the top 5 party schools were: the University of Iowa (last year’s winner), the

Star witness in ex-Va. governor trial: No affair RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The key prosecution witness in former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s trial testified Monday that he never saw any signs the governor’s marriage was crumbling, and that he never had any intimate physical contact with the first lady.

A prosecutor asked Jonnie Williams about Bob and Maureen McDonnell’s marriage to counter a defense attorney’s assertion last week that the first lady, feeling neglected by her frequently absent husband, had developed a crush on Williams and that he had led her on.

“I didn’t know she had any interest in me until this past week,” Williams sheepishly said on the stand.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dry asked specifically whether Williams and Maureen McDonnell had any intimate contact.

“I never had any contact with Mrs. McDonnell — no physical contact, period,” he said.

Williams also said Maureen McDonnell never told him her marriage was on the rocks, and he saw no signs that it was. To further make the point, the prosecution showed two photos of the McDonnells at public events. They were holding hands in one, and Bob McDonnell was kissing his wife on the cheek in the other.

The McDonnells are charged with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from Williams, the former CEO of dietary supplements maker Star Scientific Inc., in exchange for helping promote

his company’s products. They could face decades in prison if convicted.

Williams testified under imm u n i t y, s t a r t i n g We d n e s d a y afternoon and concluding at lunchtime Monday.

Bob McDonnell’s attorney, Henry Asbill, questioned Williams about his immunity agreement. He reminded Williams that he testified that a company’s first responsibility is to stay in business.

“Would you agree the second rule of business is not to go to jail?”

Asbill asked.

Williams, who has said repeatedly that he has done wrong, replied: “I don’t think any businessman wants to go to jail.”

Asbill, attempting to undermine Williams’ credibility, questioned Williams about lawsuits he and Star faced over allegations of securities violations. Williams said he thought most of the half-dozen “nuisance suits” by Star shareholders had been settled or soon would be, but Asbill noted that two were put on hold at the request of prosecutors in the

McDonnell case.

Defense attorneys last week noted that Williams and Maureen McDonnell had exchanged text messages and phone calls more than 1,200 times in less than two years, suggesting that the relationship between Williams and the McDonnells was not strictly business as Williams has said. Dry put that number in context, though, by mentioning Monday that during the same period Williams made or received about 109,000 calls and texts.

“I’m a busy man,” Williams said.

Asbill asked Williams whether having the governor call the businessman’s father on his 80th birthday was business or personal.

Williams said it was personal, but it wouldn’t have been possible without his spending on the McDonnells.

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Former White House press secretary dies WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — James Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a personal crusade for gun control, died Monday. He was 73.

“We are heartbroken to share the news that our beloved Jim “Bear” Brady has passed away after a series of health issues,” Brady’s family said in a statement. “His wife, Sarah, son, Scott, and daughter, Missy, are so thankful to have had the opportunity to say their farewells.” The statement did not say where Brady was when he died.

Brady suffered a bullet wound to his head outside the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981. Although he returned to the White House only briefly, he was allowed to keep the title of presidential press secretary and his White House salary until Reagan left office in January 1989.

Brady, who spent much of the

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rest of his life in a wheelchair, died at a retirement community in Alexandria, Va., where he lived with his wife.

The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, a federal law requiring a background check on handgun buyers, bears his name, as is the White House press briefing room.

“He is somebody who I think really revolutionized this job,” said Josh Earnest, President Barack Obama’s press secretary. “And even after he was wounded in that attack on the president, was somebody who showed his patriotism and commitment to the country by being very outspoken on an issue that was important to him and that he felt very strongly about.”

Earnest said Brady leaves a legacy “that certainly this press secretary and all future press secretaries will aspire to live up to.”

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement that

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because of Brady’s work on gun control “an estimated 2 million gun sales to criminals, domestic abusers and other dangerous people have been blocked. As a result, countless lives have been saved. In fact, there are few Americans in history who are as directly responsible for saving as many lives as Jim.” Of the four people stuck by gunfire on March 30, 1981, Brady was the most seriously wounded. A news clip of the shooting, replayed often on television, showed Brady sprawled on the ground as Secret Service agents hustled the wounded president into his limousine.

Reagan was shot in one lung while a policeman and a Secret Service agent suffered lesser wounds.

Brady never regained full health. The shooting caused brain damage, partial paralysis, shortterm memory impairment, slurred speech and constant pain.

The TV replays of the shooting did take a toll on Brady, however.

He told The Associated Press years later that he relived the moment each time he saw it: “I want to take every bit of (that) film ... and put them in a cement incinerator, slosh them with gasoline and throw a lighted cigarette in.” With remarkable courage, he endured a series of brain operations in the years after the shooting.

On Nov. 28, 1995, while he was in an oral surgeon’s office, Brady’s heart stopped beating and he was taken to a hospital.

His wife, Sarah, credited the oral surgeon and his staff with saving Brady’s life.

Brady was a strong Republican from an early age — as a boy of 12 in Centralia, Ill., where he was born on Aug. 29, 1940, he distributed election literature for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In a long string of political jobs, Brady worked for some well-known bosses: Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, Sen. William V. Roth Jr. of Delaware, and

John Connally, the former Texas governor who was running for president in 1979. When Connally dropped out, Brady joined Reagan’s campaign as director of public affairs and research. There, his irrepressible wit made him popular with the press, but not necessarily with the Reaganites.

He once ran through the Reagan campaign plane shouting “Killer Trees! Killer Trees!” as the aircraft flew over a forest fire. It was a jab at his own candidate’s claim in a speech that trees cause as much pollution as cars.

Brady remained as transition spokesman after Reagan’s election.

But Reagan’s advisers appeared hesitant to give him the White House job. Nancy Reagan was said to feel the job required someone younger and better-looking than the 40-year-old, moon-faced, balding Brady.

“I come before you today not as just another pretty face, but out of sheer talent,” Brady told reporters.

A week later, he got the job.

Previously, he had worked in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford: as special assistant to the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as special assistant to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as an assistant to the defense secretary.

He was divorced from the former Sue Beh when, in 1973, he courted Sarah Jane Kemp, the daughter of an FBI agent who was working with him in a congressional office.

Sarah Brady became involved in gun-control efforts in 1985, and later chaired Handgun Control Inc., but Brady took a few more years to join her, and Reagan did not endorse their efforts until 10 years after he was shot. Reagan’s surprise endorsement — he was a longtime National Rifle Association member and opponent of gun control laws — began to turn the tide in Congress.

East Ukraine city dying under siege DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Residents say the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk is dying. The power grid was completely down Monday, the city government said, and fuel is running dry.

Store shelves are emptying fast, and those who haven’t managed to flee must drink untreated tap water.

With little medicine left, doctors are sending patients home.

As Ukrainian government forces slowly tighten their ring around the city — one of two major pro-Russian rebel strongholds — traveling in and out has become a perilous undertaking.

In an impassioned statement released over the weekend, mayor Sergei Kravchenko described a situation that is becoming more unsustainable by the day.

“As a result of the blockade and ceaseless rocket attacks, the city is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Kravchenko said.

“Citizens are dying on the streets, in their courtyard and in their homes. Every new day brings only death and destruction.”

Luhansk, a city of more than

400,000 people at peacetime, now has seen its population dwindle as citizens flee violence and deprivation. Located about an hour’s drive from Russia, which Ukraine insists is supplying rebels with weapons and manpower, Luhansk is being fiercely fought over by all sides of the conflict.

Shelling is a daily occurrence and the targets apparently quite random.

On Saturday, eight buildings were damaged by rockets. These included a school, a supermarket and several multistory apartment blocks, Luhansk city government said.

Last week, a crucial electrical transformer in Luhansk was hit by a shell, leading to an 80 percent drop in power supplies, according to a report issued Monday by an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitoring mission.

Rebels accuse the army of waging a vicious bombing campaign against the civilian population. Authorities deny they have used artillery against residential neighborhoods and in turn accuse rebels of shelling civilians as a way of discrediting the army.

This claim is faithfully repeated

by almost all Ukrainian media, although it has been questioned by Human Rights Watch and others.

With gas reserves all but exhausted, even those willing to brave a drive out of the city for supplies struggle to refill their cars.

A little is getting through all the same, mainly from Russia. Pro-rebel online television station Luhansk-24 on Sunday carried a report about a consignment of medicinal supplies reaching the city from the southern Russian city of Saratov.

This was a visible reminder that supply lines to Russia remain intact.

With clashes taking place at several spots surrounding the city, however, maintaining a steady convoy of goods convoy is complicated.

The fight for control over the frontier has been bitter.

Authorities concede that more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) of the Russian-Ukrainian border remains in rebel hands. The government says that Russia has been flagrantly smuggling large amounts of heavy weaponry and manpower to aid the separatist cause.

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and rebel fighters, government forces have succumbed to routine defeats and humiliations, even as they appear to slowly gain the upper hand in the fight to regain control of the last rebel strongholds.

On Monday, a Russian border security official said more than 400 Ukrainian soldiers crossed into Russia.

The Russian official said the soldiers deserted the Kiev government and that the Russian side had opened a safe corridor. A Ukrainian military official, who did not give a number for the soldiers involved, said the troops were forced into Russian territory by rebel fire after running out of ammunition.

Border control official Vasily Malayev later said 180 of the soldiers were being returned to Ukraine at their own request.

One of the soldiers, medic Anton Shingera, said he was uncertain how Ukraine would treat them upon their return, but “no matter what, the main thing is that I am alive.” Other soldiers, who declined to give their names, said they had fled because they had run out of ammunition.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government said Monday it will soon close three emergency shelters it established at U.S. military bases to temporarily house children caught crossing the Mexican border alone. It said fewer children were being caught and other shelters will be adequate.

A shelter in Oklahoma at Fort Sill is expected to close as early as Friday, the Health and Human Services Department said. Shelters in Texas at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and in California at Naval Base Ventura County-Port Hueneme will wrap up operations in the next two to eight weeks, agency spokesman Kenneth Wolfe said. About 7,700 children had been housed at the three military

bases since shelters there opened in May and early June. They stayed an average of 35 days.

Since Oct. 1 more than 57,000 unaccompanied children, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been caught crossing the Mexican border illegally.

A 2008 law requires that unaccompanied child immigrants from countries that don’t border the United States be handed over to the Health and Human Services Department within 72 hours of being apprehended. The children are cared for by the government until they can be reunited with a relative or another sponsor in the United States while they await a deportation hearing in immigration court.

ATLANTA (AP) — Missionary Nancy Writebol, one of two known Americans stricken with Ebola, wasn’t looking to abandon her overseas work. But Jeremy Writebol believes his 59-year-old mother can yield a greater good from her impending return to the United States amid West Africa’s worst-ever outbreak of the oftendeadly virus.

The attention focused on her case “might help develop a cure and resources to help those who are suffering,” the younger Writebol said.

“I am sure hopeful for that.”

A Liberian government official has confirmed that a medical evacuation team is scheduled to fly Nancy

Writebol back to the United States early Tuesday. She will receive treatment at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital alongside one of her mission partners, Dr. Kent Brantly, who was admitted Saturday.

The American cases make headlines as dozens of African heads of state converge on Washington for the Monday opening of the U.S.Africa Leaders Summit, a three-day gathering hosted by President Barack Obama. Among the stated purposes: discussing how to help African nations overcome systemic challenges, including disease.

Brantly and Writebol contracted Ebola after working on the same medical mission team treating victims of the virus around Monrovia, Liberia.

More than 1,300 people have been stricken, killing at least 729 of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Ebola has no vaccine or antidote.

However, both Brantly and Writebol were given an experimental treatment last week, according to international relief group Samaritan’s Purse. Brantly is a physician with the group, and the group originally said that only Writebol got the treatment.

Brantly also received a unit of blood from a 14-year-old boy, an Ebola survivor, who had been under his care, according to the organization.

Emory, where Brantly already is quarantined, boasts one of the nation’s most sophisticated infectious disease units. Patients are sealed off from anyone not in protective gear. Lab tests are conducted inside the unit, ensuring that viruses don’t leave the quarantined area. Family members see and communicate with patients through barriers.

Writebol and her husband, David, had been in Liberia since August 2013, sent there by the Christian organization SIM USA and sponsored by their home congregation at Calvary Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.