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American Pharoah rst horse to win Triple Crown in 37 years
Special
session
to be held
for budget
Bentley vetoed plan

passed by lawmakers
By Kim Chandler
The Associated Press
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Victor Espinoza, above and below, reacts after crossing the finish line with American Pharoah to win the 147th running of the
Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park on Saturday in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah is the first horse to win the Triple
Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978. For more about the race, see Page 1C.
By Beth Harris
NEW YORK | Finally, a Triple

Crown winner, and after 37
years of waiting, this one was
never in doubt.
American Pharoah led all the
way to win the Belmont Stakes
by 5 lengths on Saturday, becoming the first horse since
1978 to sweep the Kentucky
Derby, Preakness and Belmont
Stakes one of the sporting
worlds rarest feats.
Wow! Wow! jockey Victor
Espinoza said moments after
crossing the nish line. I can

only tell you it is just an amazing thing.
The bay colt with the unusually short tail easily defeated seven rivals in the grueling 112 -mile race, covering
the distance in 2:26.65
sixth-fastest in Belmont history to end the longest
stretch without a Triple Crown
champion in history.
That little horse, he deserved it, trainer Bob Baffert
said. Hes the one that did it.
We were basically just passengers.
American Pharoah is the

12th horse and rst since Af rmed in 1978 to win three
races on different tracks at
varying distances over a veweek span. He won the Derby
by one length on May 2 and
then romped to a seven-length
victory in the rainy Preakness
two weeks later before demolishing his rivals Saturday.
I still cant believe it happened, said Baffert, at 62 the
second-oldest trainer of a Triple Crown winner.
Baffert and Espinoza ended
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MONTGOMERY | Alabama legislators are

heading to special session sometime this
summer after arriving at an impasse over
the states general fund budget.
The session ended with a vetoed spending
plan and plenty of nger-pointing over who
was to blame. Getting a budget this summer
will depend on something in short supply
this spring: agreement.
The Legislature was not ready to solve
this in February. They were not ready. They
have become more ready, Gov. Robert
Bentley said.
Republicans control both the governors
ofce and a lopsided majority in both chambers of the Alabama Legislature. Being of
the same party, however, did not shield state
ofce holders from sharp disagreements on
how to handle a $200 million shortfall in the
scal year that begins in October, and unfunded needs in prisons and Medicaid.
Bentley proposed $541 million in new
taxes, but his push was rejected by lawmakers. Senators one night debated a bill that
would shift some funds from the betterfunded education budget. However, senators said House members essentially killed
the bill by adjourning early. House Republicans at one point backed a $151 million tax
package, but the bills didnt get a vote after
Senate leaders indicated the bills would fail
in that chamber.
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Bill to split
county jobs dies
in Legislature
By Ed Enoch
More U.S. jobs dont mean more security

Though more positions open,
pay growth remains weak
By Josh Boak
and Christopher S. Rugaber
WASHINGTON | The U.S. economy is churning out a lot of jobs

these days but not a lot of nancial
security for many of the people
who hold them.
Pay growth, though improving,

remains tepid. Many workers have
few opportunities to advance. Others have taken temporary, parttime or freelance jobs, with little
chance of landing full-time permanent work with benets.
As a result, many jobs dont deliver as much economic punch as
they used to. Part of the reason is

that U.S. workers have grown less
efcient in recent months. When
they produce less per hour of
work, their ear nings power
shrinks. So the economy doesnt
fully benefit from the fuel that
healthy job growth normally provides.
The result is a disconnect between the high number of job
gains and a nagging dissatisfaction among some, both job holders
and job seekers.
Lena Allison lost her job as a
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teacher in layoffs in September.
Allison, 54, of Los Angeles has
since worked temp jobs and struggled to nd permanent work. Online job listings, she said, have
made it hard to get face-to-face interviews.
More people may be working
jobs, but theyre like these serial
part-time jobs, she said. Theyre
not life-supporting jobs.
Allisons experiences, shared by
millions of other workers, contrast
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A local bill that would have functionally

split the positions of Tuscaloosa County probate judge and chairman of the county commission died as the 2015 regular session of
the Alabama Legislature concluded this
week.
The bill, introduced in late May by Sen.
Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, was still awaiting a second reading in the Senate as the
session came to a close.
The bill would have allowed Hardy McCollum, the current probate judge and commission chairman, to remain the head of the
county government while resigning from the
probate judge seat. The two positions would
have become permanently separate with McCollums resignation as probate judge.
State law prohibits anyone older than 70
to run for an elected judicial seat, including
probate ofces.
McCollum, now 67, is unable to run again
for probate judge in 2019 when his current
term ends. He was rst elected in 1976.
Im reaching mandatory retirement, and
now would be the time to separate them,
McCollum said in a previous interview with
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Revenue chief: Combine solutions

State must rethink
taxes, rein in
spending, he tells
crowd in Fairbanks.
By DERMOT COLE
and NATHANIEL HERZ
Alaska Dispatch News
FAIRBANKS
Restrain
public spending. Enact individual taxes. Look again at oil
and gas taxes. And make wise
use of the states existing -
DORM LIFE: Participants

call UAF home. A-8
nancial assets.
State Revenue Commissioner Randy Hoffbeck said
all or some of those steps are
needed to resolve the Alaska
nancial challenges brought
on by the twin problems of declining oil production and prices. He said that while the Legislature remains in a little
bit of an impasse on the nal
Developers
reluctant
amid heavy
demand in
Anchorage
budget details for the next scal year, the spending plans
under review in Anchorage
would cut about $800 million
from the budget.
The actions by Gov. Bill
Walker and the Legislature
over the past six months to
study state spending have advanced to the point where its
time to talk about revenue, he
said.
But we do have to act. And
if we fail to act, we take the
challenge and we turn it into
a crisis, he told more than 200

people attending the Building a Sustainable Future discussion at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks. In an overview of revenue options for the
state, he said there are no easy
answers to balancing a $3 billion budget gap and maintaining services that people want.
He said holding down
spending will be essential to
getting Alaskans to accept
the idea of tax increases, adding that Walker has made that
commitment.
Hoffbeck said one of his favorite quotes is from a 1910
speech by Teddy Roosevelt in
which Roosevelt talked about
the man in the arena whose
place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat.
He said those words are a
mantra for this time in Alaska and that it is no time to be
timid: The discussions are
going to be incredibly difcult
Elodea grows
on DeLong
Lakes north
end on Friday.
The state
plans to apply
an herbicide
to Sand Lake,
Little Campbell Lake and
DeLong to kill
the invasive
weed.
but the discussions need to be

had. And the decisions are going to be even more difcult
but the decisions need to be
made.
The second day of the weekend gathering was all about
difcult discussions and decisions about the Alaska budget.
Were going to have taxes that impact individual Alaskans. Were going to have to
look at changes to oil and gas
See Page A-8, CONFERENCE
Herbicide plan
hailed, hated
by lakesiders
Clear need for urban housing not

enough to trigger building boom.
By JEANNETTE LEE FALSEY
A cluster of overgrown vacant lots on an unremarkable section of C Street near downtown

Anchorage seems ripe for residential development. Surrounded by modest townhouses and
an apartment complex, the properties sit directly across the street from two schools and
arent far from the trail system.
Weidner Apartment Homes, Alaskas largest private residential landlord, bought the lots
nearly ve years ago but, despite high demand
for rental housing in the city, has yet to break
ground. Called City View II, the proposed development illustrates the difculties of expanding Anchorages tight housing supply.
The companys vision for what would be the
biggest and tallest building on the block is not
shared by local residents, who complain that
thickening trafc, crowded street parking, obstructed views, intercepted sunlight and poor
aesthetics will mar their quiet neighborhood.
The South Addition Community Council has
passed at least two resolutions opposing the
project.
Aside from the neighbors concerns, Weidner asserts that certain municipal land use
regulations could make City View II and other
higher-density projects nancially unfeasible
in a place where building costs tend to exceed
those in much of the United States by a signicant margin.
Projects such as City View II pose a dilemma for city leaders worried about a growing
population and a shrinking stock of land that
can be easily developed.
On one hand, they want to encourage the
spread of taller, urban-style units rather than
the sprawl of single-family and modestly sized
multifamily complexes typically found here.
See Page A-9, HOUSING
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Ancient shing method is waning
In Spain, the 3,000-year-old tradition of trapshing has started to disappear in favor of
farming for tuna as consumer demands continue to trump sustainability. Page A-5
States perplexed by White House

silence on health law contingencies
With the fate of President Barack Obamas
top legislative accomplishment hanging in
the balance, state ofcials are increasingly
concerned by the administrations refusal
to discuss contingency plans for insurance
markets should the Supreme Court strike
down 2010 health care law subsidies for
6.4 million low- and middle-income people.
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Photos by MARC LESTER / Alaska Dispatch News
Learn To Row Day on Saturday gave people a close-up view of the elodea infestation on Sand Lake. Alaska Rowing Association founder Marietta
Hall said the common aquarium plant constantly gets tangled in equipment. For more rowing photos, visit adn.com/multimedia.
Waterweed chokes life out of city lakes and its spreading

By ZAZ HOLLANDER
Sand Lake, a West Anchorage

haven for oatplanes and waterfront living, is so choked with a
submerged plant called elodea
that by midsummer, green ropy
tendrils snare boats.
It actually slows us down,
said Marietta Hall, founder of
the Alaska Rowing Association,
which is based at the lake. It gets
tangled on our skegs and it gets
Jockey Victor
Espinoza
celebrates
after guiding American
Pharoah to
win the 147th
running of
the Belmont
Stakes at
Belmont Park
on Saturday.
American
Pharoah became the rst
horse since
Afrmed in
1978 to win
the Triple
Crown.
wrapped around our oars. Im

sure plane owners can feel it on
their pontoons too.
Given the heavy oatplane trafc there, the state wants to quash
the outbreak of the invasive waterweed in Sand Lake and two others
before it spreads to other Anchorage or Matanuska-Susitna Borough waters. Its believed a oatplane already carried sprigs from
Sand Lake to Alexander Lake, the
remote Susitna Valley destination
where elodea turned up last year.

Elodea is a leafy plant that is often seen undulating inside aquarium tanks. But the weed can infest
lakes and slow-moving streams
with dense mats that foul oatplane rudders and hinder boat
trafc, choke out native plants,
drive down property values and
suck up oxygen that salmon and
other aquatic life need to survive.
Thats why the Alaska Department of Natural Resources wants
to apply an herbicide called uridone to kill elodea in Sand Lake,

as well as Little Campbell and
DeLong lakes. The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service is providing
$110,000 for the project.
While some on the lake say its
about time somebody poisons the
plants, others say the herbicide
plans are premature or even risky.
See Page A-9, ELODEA
Gate nally swings wide

on road to immortality
American Pharoah seizes
and holds Belmont lead
to win Triple Crown.
By JOE DRAPE
The New York Times
BILL KOSTROUN / Associated Press
ELMONT, N.Y.
As American
Pharoah came out of the far turn and
squared his shoulders to let his rider,
Victor Espinoza, stare down the long
withering stretch of Belmont Park, a
sense of inevitably surged through
this mammoth old grandstand as a
capacity crowd strained on tiptoe
IN SPORTS: Columnist Sally

Jenkins says American Pharoah
made it look easy. Page B-1
and let out a roar from deep in their
souls. It was going to end, nally
this 37-year search for a great racehorse.
No, a battered old sport was looking for an immortal thoroughbred,
one worthy to stand alongside Sir
Barton and Assault, War Admiral
and Whirlaway, Count Fleet and Citation, a horse able to earn the title
See Page A-8, BELMONT
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / SETH WENIG
American Pharoah enjoys the attention of a throng of people in the winners circle after Saturdays win in the Belmont
Stakes made him just the 12th horse in history to win the Triple Crown. The bay colt, with Victor Espinoza aboard,
galloped to a 5-length victory in the 1-mile race to go along with wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness last
month. The win also made Nogales, Ariz., native and UA grad Bob Baffert, in suit with red tie, the 11th man to win the
Triple Crown. American Pharoah is the rst horse to accomplish the feat since Affirmed won it in 1978. Sports, B1.
UA joins the game, adds

onlinebachelorsdegrees
By Carol Ann Alaimo
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
When Starbucks recently went

searching for a school to provide
online education for baristas, it
didnt look twice at the University
of Arizona.
The UA had nothing to offer the
worlds largest coffee chain since
none of its bachelors degrees is
available online. Now thats about
to change.
The Stars weeklong series, Mission Critical,

concludes today with a series of recommendations
for protecting Tucsons Air Force base.
Our view: Start by hiring a full-time point person
to coordinate the regions advocacy on behalf of
D-M.
Sen. John McCain: D-M needs our sustained
and vocal support.
Rep. Martha McSally: Pursue four strategies,
rst among them to continue to protect the A-10.
Col. Kent Laughbaum, USAF (Ret): Call, write,
email and visit your elected officials the mayor,
city council, congressional representatives and
senators to demand they stand in support of
D-M for the defense of our homeland.
Read all four opinion pieces on A8 and A9.
Then join us Monday at 11 a.m. for a live chat with
Star publisher Chase Rankin and members of the
Stars editorial board. Readers can submit questions and comments to the chat now at
tucson.com/dmchat
The entire reporting project
by Sarah Garrecht Gassen
and David Wichner is online
at tucson.com/dm
beginning with the fall semester.

The move could help create thousands of new Wildcats worldwide,
A full list of the University of Arizoand is expected to add tens of milnas new online bachelors degrees is
lions of tuition dollars to the UAs
available at http://uaonline.arizona.
coffers, officials said.
edu/programs/undergraduate
It also offers UA dropouts a
chance to resume their studAfter years of delay, the UA is ies without returning to campus.
launching a new chapter in its his- Instead, they can interact with
tory by offering some of its undergraduate degrees over the Internet,
See ONLINE, A4
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Family pushes for racial unity in Tucson churches

By Johanna Willett
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
The day after their sons funeral, Martha and William Wills
stepped into his shoes to put on
the 27th conference by the Racial
Reconciliation Community Outreach Network.
He would have wanted it that
way.
Their son, the Rev. William O.
Wills Jr., started the conference
in 1987 out of a desire to see racial
and cultural unity among Tuc-
school and learned to stay in

your place because you didnt
want to ght, didnt want to get
killed.
After becoming a licensed
practical nurse, she met William
while they both served in the Air
Force. His childhood, unlike hers,
inspired their son.
William O.
The Rev. WilGrowing up in New York City,
Wills Sr.
liam O. Wills Jr.
William participated in a church
Although Martha Wills, 86, between Christian communities outreach program that brought
together children from New
grew up in church, she never gave and race.
She attended a segregated York and Vermont to interact in
much thought to the interplay
sons churches.
The Willses, now in their 80s,
expect hundreds of people to attend the 29th conference, which
kicks off on Thursday. For two
years they have continued without their son to carry on his legacy.
And Tucson is better for it.
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For a lot of people, it was the
rst time they had any type of relationship with black youth, William, 83, says of some of the white
children. I dont think we had
any preconceived notions, basically because our schools were integrated.
Williams career in the Air Force
took the family around the country and to England. Wherever they
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TITANIC
Senator calls for

changes to laws
over Stanley case
TEETH
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Visitors take an up-close look at the Tyrannosaurus Rex replica on Friday at the Discover the Dinosaurs exhibit at the
Hot Springs Convention Center. The event continues from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Admission is charged, except for
children 2 years old and younger.
State. Sen. Alan Clark, R-District

13, has sent a seven-page letter to Gov.
Asa Hutchinson regarding the Hal and
Michelle Stanley case, suggesting that
some of the laws applicable to the
state custody of their children need to
changed.
The Stanleys children were removed from their home by the Garland
County Sheriffs Department in early
January after responding to possible
child abuse and neglect allegations that
were made by two citizens to the Child
Abuse Hotline.
The younger children were kept in
custody of the Department of Human
Services until being released back to
the parents in mid May.
Clark said he began investigating
the case shortly after the Stanley chil-
Help
coming
soon
for jails
dren were removed from their home

in January after being contacted by
several constituents, as well as concerned citizens across the state and
some legislators.
However, Clark said none of the
findings from his investigation lets the
Stanley family off the hook.
If not for the Stanley family itself,
there would have been no allegations.
Without the Stanley family themselves
and their actions, there would be no
removal of the children from the home,
no keeping them in DHS custody for
months, and no intervening measures
installed in the home. But dysfunction
is not abuse.
Some future flare ups in the home
will no doubt be blamed on the authorities intervention in the familys lives.
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Triple
triumph
Multiple Oaklawn
winner captures
historic crown
DAVID SHOWERS
The Sentinel-Record
Act 1201, passed during the

90th General Assembly, coupled
with appropriations assigned
the highest priority in the states
funding formula promise relief
for counties holding state inmates.
Effective Oct. 1, the Arkansas
Department of Correction will
have to remit reimbursement
payments within five business
days of receiving counties certified invoices that list the number of state prisoners held in a
county detention center and the
length of their stays.
The invoices originate with
the ADC, which has software
that tracks the length of time
each inmate is in county custody. Sheriffs departments verify
the invoices and return them to
JAILS, PAGE 3A
BOB WISENER
Sports editor
CROWN FOR A PHAROAH: Victor Espinoza reacts after crossing the finish line with American Pharoah (5) to win the
147th running of the Belmont Stakes Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah is the first horse to win the
Triple Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978.
School board filings open

JAY BELL
The Sentinel-Record
Today is the first day candidates for

local school boards who will file by petition for the September election can collect
signatures.
The annual school elections will be held
Sept. 15. Early voting will begin Sept. 8.
Candidate petitions must contain at
least 20 registered voters who live in the
school district. The county clerk cannot
count signatures dated more than 100 days
before the election. Signatures dated June
7, which is 100 days before the election, or
after will count toward the requirement.
June 30, 77 days before the election, is
the first day a candidate filing by petition
can file a petition of candidacy, political
practice pledge and the affidavit of eligibility with the county clerk. The filing period
is open for one week until noon on July 7.
Write-in candidates can file a notice of
intent to be a candidate during the same
window. The deadline for write-in candidates is also noon on July 7.
All seven public school districts in Garland County will see terms end for at least
one seat per board.
The three-year term for an at-large position on the Fountain Lake School Board expires this year. Former board member Becky
Furnas resigned from the position in May.
The board has called a special meeting
for Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the district administration building, 4207 Park Ave. Candidates for the vacancy will be interviewed
by current members.
Positions 1 and 2 on the Jessieville
School Board will be up for vote. The term
for Position 1 will have four years remaining
after September. The candidate voted into
Position 2 will serve the full five-year term.
Position 2 was among the seats announced for the 2014 election, along with
Positions 3 and 5, which were vacated
during the 2013-14 school year. Board member Sonya Eisenhauer, Position 2, and Jack
Wells both filed last summer to run for
the seat.
It was later discovered the term for
Position 1 expired in 2014 and the Position
2 term expires this September. Wells candidacy for the school board election was
disqualified.
Former board member Mike Semmler
could have remained in Position 1 after the
election because no candidates filed for the
seat. He announced last August he would
resign after the election.
Six candidates were publicly interviewed in October and David Morrow
was appointed to the board. Morrow was
elected president of the board at the next
regular meeting.
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Musician Bradley Loudis, of Birdsboro, Pa., rehearses on timpani for the percussion piece Toccata, composed
by Carlos Chavez, on Friday at Oaklawn Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School. Loudis is a student apprentice in this years Hot Springs Music Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2015. The Festival Chamber
Players concert to include Chavezs work will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Oaklawn School. Rehearsals and
performances continue through June 13. See Page 2C for todays schedule and information on purchasing tickets.
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American Pharoah became an Arkansas idol Saturday, his cheering section

based locally at Oaklawn Park.
Winning the 147th Belmont Stakes
at New Yorks Belmont Park, American
Pharoah brought welcome publicity to
the track that horse racings 12th Triple
Crown winner made his first two starts
of the year.
History was made today, said Oaklawn general manager Eric Jackson. He
did it with an exclamation point.
When American Pharoah crossed the
finish line at Belmont Park 5 1/2 lengths
ahead of second-place Frosted, racegoers
in the Oaklawn grandstand reacted like
Arkansas had beaten Texas in football.
It was American Pharoah Day both
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Auto title
loans snag
the unwary
High-cost firms are
pushing consumers to
borrow against their
cars as rules on other
lending are tightened.
By Jim Puzzanghera
Cash-strapped consumers are being shown a new
place to find money: their
driveways.
Short-term
lenders,
seeking a detour around
newly toughened restrictions on payday and other
small loans, often are pushing Americans to borrow
more money than they need
by using their debt-free
autos as collateral.
So-called auto title loans
the motor vehicle version
of a home equity loan are
growing rapidly in California
and 24 other states where
lax regulations have allowed
them to flourish in recent
years.
Their hefty principal and
high interest rates are creating another avenue that
traps unwary consumers in
a cycle of debt. For about 1
out of 9 borrowers, the loan
ends with their vehicles being repossessed.
I look at title lending as
Seth Wenig Associated Press
AMERICAN PHAROAH , with jockey Victor Espinoza, crosses the finish line in the Belmont Stakes to
become the 12th horse to win the Triple Crown and the first since Affirmed in 1978.
HORSE RACINGS
CROWN PRINCE
American Pharoah ends 37 years of frustration

By David Wharton
ELMONT, N.Y. Thirty-seven
years of waiting ended with a ferocious charge down the homestretch.
Decades of near-misses and disappointment gave way to a horse that
had a sense of history from the start.
On a spring afternoon when a gray
sky turned sunny, American Pharoah
won the Belmont Stakes by more
than five lengths to complete thoroughbred racings vaunted and elusive Triple Crown.
The way he runs, jockey Victor
Espinoza said, you dont even feel it
Modern-day Secretariat
American Pharoah took the
country on a joy ride, writes columnist Bill Dwyre. SPORTS
when he goes that fast.
Pure speed translated into one of
those moments that seemed to transcend sport, captivating a nation that
had been closely following the quest.
Only a dozen horses have won all
three of racings biggest events the
Kentucky Derby, the Preakness
Stakes and the Belmont over the
last 96 years. The last was Affirmed in
1978.
American Pharoah emerged from
the Southern California stables of
trainer Bob Baffert to join that list in
convincing fashion.
I really felt I had the horse, Baffert said. I told Victor in the paddock,
Dude, he is ready.
Baffert qualifies as a rock star in
his sport, quick with a quote, instantly recognizable by his white hair
and sunglasses. The son of an Arizona
rancher made a name for himself with
quarter horses at Los Alamitos Race
Course in Orange County before
jumping to the more glamorous world
of
thorough- [See Belmont, A8]
Acquiring Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm paid

off big for Walt Disney
Co. and its fearless
dealmaker, CEO Robert Iger. BUSINESS
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as Broadway celebrates theaters biggest night of the year.
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By Thomas Curwen
The Santa Ana River is a robust and
beautiful sight these days. Five miles west
of the Prado Dam in Yorba Linda, the water has cut a narrow channel in a sandy bed
and courses briskly over submerged rocks
and tree limbs.
The water is a complicated cocktail
that comes from many sources. As it flows
96 miles from its headwaters to the ocean,
it provides a glimpse of the future: a picture
of water management set into place nearly
50 years ago that can be seen as a model for
Californias long effort to keep the state
from withering away.
The rushing burble, quickening
through narrow shallows, mingles with
bird song and the sound of passing cars

whose drivers, if they have paid attention
to reports of Californias demise, must be
astonished by the sight of the water below.
National headlines ask: The End of
California? News stories track the diminishing snowpack and disappearing reservoirs, and a small fish in the Delta is scapegoated, almond growers and consumers
are shamed and the mythology of Western
resolve is questioned.
The crisis has led many to wonder
whether the state has lost its historic resilience.
But the drama hides reality and for
those who have studied Californias long
relationship with its water, the drought is
serious but hardly a disaster.
[See Drought, A10]
BOSTON Rep. Kevin

McCarthy celebrated his
first election to Congress at
an In-N-Out Burger, sipping
sodas from paper cups at
Formica tables with his wife
and children. The understated evening fit perfectly
into the Bakersfield Republicans image as a firefighters son who started his
first business, a deli, with
proceeds from a winning lottery ticket.
Eight years later, as the
new House majority leader,
McCarthy commands a
multimillion-dollar political
operation featuring lavish
Better water management may result from crisis
Value in millions of dollars

$334.8
2013
$234.3
2012
$133.9
2011
Sources: California Department of
Business Oversight, California
Department of Corporations
Los Angeles Times
legalized car thievery, said

Rosemary Shahan, president of Consumers for Auto
Reliability and Safety, a Sacramento advocacy group.
What they want to do is get
you into a loan where you
just keep paying, paying,
paying, and at the end of the
day, they take your car.
Jennifer Jordan in the
Central Valley town of Lemoore, Calif., lived that financial nightmare, though a
legal glitch later rescued her.
Jordan, 58, said she
needed about $400 to help
her pay bills for cable TV and
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and Evan Halper
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Kevin McCarthys
multimillion-dollar
political operation is
key to the Bakersfield
Republicans success.
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coordinated approach to managing its watershed could become a model.
Auto title loans surged in

California from 2011 to 2013.
Funding, not
ideology, fuels
majority leader
Reanimating the
Disney brand
AFTER FLOWING 96 MILES , the Santa Ana River enters the ocean. The
Driven to borrow
WILL YOU?
Rich Pedroncelli AP
FIRST elected to Con-
gress in 2006, Kevin McCarthy has risen quickly.

meals, opulent getaways
with lobbyists and privately
chartered aircraft.
In the two years leading
up to last falls election, McCarthy, through his reelection campaign and leadership PAC, spent $140,000 at
steakhouses alone. He paid
$426,000 to companies that
charter private jets, cover[See McCarthy, A12]

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Doss pact
up in air
BY PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Over the past 10

years, Doss Aviation
has given over 11,500
Air Force, Navy and
Marine flyers their
first experience of
military aviation by
teaching them to fly
over the prairie around
Pueblo Memorial
Airport.
The two-seater DA20 training aircraft are
a familiar sight over
the city and the training flights can add up
to as many as 170 a day.
Its not well-known,
but every Air Force
pilot and navigator
starts their flying
career here in Pueblo
at Doss 30-day Initial
Flight Screening program, where they find
out quickly whether
they have the stomach
and mental skills to go
on to more advanced
flight training.
Its just part of the

(contracting) process
and competition is
good. But weve been
very successful here
in Pueblo and we
fully intend to get the
contract extended
another 10 years.
RANDY DAVIS
DOSS CEO
About 90 percent
do.
We dont have any
doubt that the Air
Force has been satisfied with the job were
doing for them, said
Randy Davis, chief executive officer at Doss
and a former Air Force
fighter pilot.
But the 10-year
CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/JOHN JAQUES
Arturo Rodriguez (right) hugs his friend Bryan Bunch as they watch their horse they bet on, American Pharoah, win
racings Triple Crown. They were watching the action at Southern Colorado Gaming and Events Center on Saturday.
TRIPLE CROWN
Thrill of the race

American Pharoah
wins Belmont and
hearts of local fans
SEE DOSS, 2 A
BY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
From the time the gates

opened until the end of
the race, the screams and
cheers coming from the
hundreds who gathered
at the Southern Colorado Gaming and Events
Center Saturday to watch
and bet on the Belmont
Stakes were deafening.
Those screams and
cheers raised even a
few more decibels
when American
crossed the finish line
in first place as those
in attendance realized
they just watched a
piece of history.
American won
the Belmont Stakes
CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/FILE
A member of the Doss Aviation flight program pilots

a plane at Pueblo Memorial Airport.
RESCUE OPERATION
A sea of
migrants
Victor Espinoza celebrates atop

American Pharoah after winning the
147th running of the Belmont Stakes
horse race at Belmont Park on Saturday.
This summer, 500,000

could cross Mediterranean
BY FRANCES DEMILIO
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME Naval vessels from Italy, Britain,

Ireland and other
countries steamed
toward the waters off
Libya on Saturday
to rescue the latest
wave of migrants from
smugglers boats. British authorities warned
that up to 500,000
people could attempt
the perilous crossing
this summer.
Capt. Nick CookePriest, on the British
warship HMS Bulwark,
told reporters aboard:
Indications are there
that there are 450,000
to 500,000 migrants in
Libya who are waiting at the border for
voyage from the North
African countrys
Mediterranean coast
in hopes of reaching
Italian shores.
Also aboard the Bulwark, part of a multination patrol and
rescue force, was British Defense Secretary
Michael Fallon. We
could see hundreds of
thousands trying to
cross this summer,
Fallon told reporters
who asked about the
captains half-million
figure.
During Saturday,
a total of 3,480 migrants had been safely
rescued in 15 separate
operations, the Italian coast guard said.
Calls for help went
out via satellite phone
earlier in the day from
the smugglers boats,
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Saturday and in doing so

claimed horse-racings
Triple Crown, becoming
the first horse since 1978
to achieve that feat.
The anticipation at the
Southern Colorado Gaming and Events Center
Saturday was palpable as
hundreds filled into what
became a warm, humid
room by the time the race
got underway.
Most people placed
bets, grabbed a beer and
sat back to watch on
flat-screen televisions
suspended high on a wall
in the room or on older,
tubular television sets that
sat in the back.
And a lot of people,
including Harold Jacobs,
placed bets on the overwhelming favorite AmeriSEE RACE, 2 A
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Some tough talking headliners

Russia on
the minds of
world leaders
this weekend
Police
walk past
demonstrators
Saturday
during a
protest in
GarmischPartenkirchen,
Germany,
against the G-7
summit.
BY JULIE PACE
WASHINGTON
Behind the tough talk on
Russia expected from
President Barack Obama
and other leaders gathering in Germany this
weekend is a stark reality.
None of the world powers believes the economic
and diplomatic punishments levied on Russia
for its alleged aggression
AP PHOTO/
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SCHRADER
in Ukraine are changing President Vladimir

Putins calculus, yet there
are no plans to shift strategies.
At most, leaders hope

to emerge from two days
of talks in the Bavarian
Alps with an agreement
to keep U.S. and Euro-
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tech to
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AMERICAN PHAROAH WINS TRIPLE CROWN AT BELMONT STAKES
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Plan includes new use of data,

focus on areas where shots fired
By Ryan Flynn
rflynn@nhregister.com
@RyanFlynnNHR on Twitter
The technology that allows police

in New Haven to remotely detect gunfire soon
will cover a third of the city.
ShotSpotter, an acoustic surveillance technology, now covers 1 square miles of New Haven.
That will more than triple by October, according
to police Chief Dean Esserman, stretching to five
square miles in total.
New Haven has utilized ShotSpotter for the
past six years. The gunshot acoustic surveillance
technology originated in Silicon Valley, California,
where ShotSpotters headquarters are still based.
NEW HAVEN >>
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GUNSHOT PAGE 2
Victor Espinoza reacts after crossing the finish line with American Pharoah to win the 147th running of the Belmont
Stakes horse race at Belmont Park on Saturday, in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah is the first horse to win the Triple
Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978. See full story in Sports, Page C1.
YALE UNIVERSITY
Alums seek
diversity in new
college names
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
Plan to tax school property still alive

Sharkey wants
measure brought up
in special session
By Kate Ramunni
kramunni@nhregister.com
@kateramunni on Twitter
A state bill that would require

Quinnipiac University to start
paying taxes on the single-family
homes it owns and rents to students that would add almost half
a million dollars to Hamden coffers failed to pass the state Senate but will probably be addressed
during the special session that
will be held in the coming weeks.

An Act Concerning the Preservation of Municipal Tax Bases, introduced by House Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Rep. Michael
DAgostino, both D-Hamden, as
well as Rep. Philip Miller, applied
to both colleges and universities
and hospitals. Under the bill, residential properties owned by a private tax-exempt colleges and used
for student housing, would be part
of a host towns grand list, Sharkey said, though several universities, including Yale University,
would be exempt because of separate agreements they already have
in place with the state.
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By Ed Stannard
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@EdStannardNHR on Twitter
NEW HAVEN >> Might Henry Roe Cloud, the first

Native American to graduate from Yale University, have his name adorn one of the two new residential colleges when they open in 2017?
Or perhaps Edward Bouchet, the son of a freed
slave who earned his doctorate at Yale the first
black man to do so in America or Mary A.
Goodman, a domestic worker who was the first
donor of color to the university, will join John C.
Calhoun, who is honored by having one of the 12
existing colleges named after him.
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The Biden family gathers as Beau Bidens casket is brought into St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington on Saturday morning.
A MIGHTY HEART
President Obama eulogizes Beau Biden as a family man, advocate, patriot
CRIS BARRISH AND JONATHAN STARKEY
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WILMINGTON Three days of public mourning for
Beau Biden ended Saturday with an emotional twohour funeral at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church,
where President Barack Obama called his vice presidents son a man of character whose death at age 46
has left a gaping void in the world.
Obama spoke for 25 minutes before about 1,000
mourners, including former President Bill Clinton and
his wife, Hillary, a 2016 presidential candidate, who
said their last goodbyes to Beau before a national television audience.
Beau Biden, Delawares former attorney general
and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, died May 30
after a nearly two-year battle with brain cancer. Rather
than seeking a third term in November, Beau had said
he would instead run for governor in 2016.
Obama echoed other speakers, including Beaus
younger brother and sister, who praised Bidens love of
his family, fellow citizens and his country. The presi-
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Vice President Joe Biden shares a hug with President Barack

Obama after Obama eulogized Biden's son, Beau.
dents words left those in pews choking back tears.

He did in 46 years what most of us could not do in
146. He left nothing in the tank, Obama said..
He lived a life where the means were as important
as the ends. He made you want to be a better daughter
or son or a better brother or sister. And better at your
job, a better soldier. He made you want to be a better
person.
Isnt that finally the measure of a man, the way he
lives, how he treats others no matter what life may
throw at him? We do not know how long weve got here,
Obama said. We dont know when fate will intervene.
We cannot discern Gods plan.
The funeral was the last in a three-day memorial for
Biden. Thousands attended viewings Thursday at Dovers Legislative Hall and Friday at St. Anthonys, some
waiting several hours to file past the American flagdraped casket and one by one, embrace members of the
Biden family.
Hunter Biden, 45, recalled the aftermath of the
See BEAU BIDEN, Page 11A
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The complete remarks by President Barack Obama

in eulogy in honor of Beau Biden. 10A
Community, crowds gathered around the church

during Beau Bidens funeral Mass. 12A
Beau Bidens closest friends gathered Saturday to laugh

and remember a side few saw publicly. 14A

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while cooking at Mesa de Notte Ristorante. The kitchen at Mesa
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Summerfield is a small bakery.
Just Donna Maynard and her
mother, Theresa Hackney, whip
up confectionery delights daily,
as they have done for 12 years.
Because its so compact, its
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clean, in fact, that Maynard
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her otherwise unblemished
147th BELMONT STAKES
A crown for Pharoah

American Pharoah wins Belmont, is first Triple Crown winner in 37 years
record, Maynard displays a

framed copy of the most-recent
routine inspection report on the
wall, right next to her occupational license.
If you want to take a look at
my kitchen, go ahead, she said.
I want to make sure I have a
clean place to work in.
Considering how many of us
buy prepared foods or go out to
eat spending more than $709
billion each year and eating as
inspections on Page 7A
Medicaid
issue not
going away
By Zac Anderson
GateHouse Media Services
The decisive vote Friday in the Florida House

against using federal money to provide more low
income individuals with health insurance dealt
supporters of coverage expansion a major
setback, but it does not mean the issue is going
away.
Many Florida businesses will soon be hit with
fines for having uninsured employees and the
states health care funding problems will only get
worse next year, resulting in continued pressure
on the Legislature to consider accepting additional federal Medicaid funds to insure an estimated
800,000 low-income Floridians.
Senate leaders who pushed for Florida to adopt
a modified version of Medicaid expansion say
they expect to revive the issue next year.
We are committed to it, said Bradenton
Republican Sen. Bill Galvano, a future Senate
president.
Yet while the debate is likely to continue,
passage of legislation still seems like a long shot
in the near future. Fridays lopsided House vote is
sure to throw some cold water on the issue and
cause some senators to re-evaluate whether it is
worth the effort, especially with the political
dynamics unlikely change in the short term.
The Senate will continue to fight an uphill battle
as long as House leaders and the governor remain
opposed to drawing down federal Medicaid
dollars.
HEALTH CARE on Page 7A
Victor Espinoza reacts after crossing the finish line with American Pharoah to win the Belmont Stakes
at Belmont Park on Saturday in Elmont, N.Y. With the win, American Pharoah, broken in Marion County,
becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978.
By Fred Hiers
Staff writer
arion County-connected American Pharoah

ended Saturday the
decades-long Triple
Crown drought. He
won the Belmont
Stakes by 5 lengths
and accomplished a
feat carved out by only the greatest
thoroughbreds.
The 3-year-old colt, broken in
Citra by horseman J.B. McKathan,
now belongs to the elite thoroughbred club made up of only 12 horses
that have won the grueling marathon of races made up of the
Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes
and Belmont. The previous winner
was Affirmed in 1978, also broken
and trained in Marion County.
It is phenomenal, an emotional
McKathan said from Belmont Park
TODAY:
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in Elmont, New
York, after the
Affirmed trainer
race. We always
Melvin James
thought he was a
thought American
very, very good
Pharoah would
horse, but the
win. See Page 7A
question was
there whether he was a great horse.
It takes a great horse to win the
Triple Crown. He is a great horse.
Im just so proud of my horse and
the owners of American Pharoah,
he said. He was brilliant. Hes the
best horse Ive ever trained.
This, the 147th running of the
Belmont Stakes, was McKathans
third attempt at a Triple Crownwinning connection after losing
bids in 1997 with Silver Charm and
a year later with Real Quiet.
McKathan had broken and
trained Silver Charm, which in
1997 won the Kentucky Derby and
Preakness only to lose to Touch
Gold by half a length in the Belmont.

A year later, Real Quiet, also
broken by McKathan, won the first
two legs of the Triple Crown, only
to lose the Belmont Stakes in New
York by a nose to Victory Gallop.
This time, 3-5 favorite American
Pharoah came slow out of the five
post but took the lead along the rail,
followed by Materiality in second
and Mubtaahij following a close
third. American Pharoah held that
lead wire to wire in the $1.5 million
race and soon after coming into the
stretch, with nearly a 1,000 feet to
go to the finish line, the colt by
Pioneerof the Nile easily put
distance between himself and
those who would have robbed him
of his crown.
(I knew we would win) in the first
turn. He broke a little step slowly,
Inside
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2a
obituaries 6b
PEOPLE
2a
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1c
television 4f
travel
3f
Rubios real estate dealings

often a drag on his finances
During Marco Rubios first year in the Florida

Legislature in 2000, the 29-year-old lawmaker
filled out the required forms detailing his personal finances. On the line listing his net worth,
Rubio wrote: 0.
Since then, he has risen to lead the state House
as speaker, won election to the U.S. Senate and
earned at least $4.5 million at a series of six-figure jobs and by writing a best-selling memoir. Yet
his net worth has improved only modestly.
Like many Americans in the days since the
recession, Rubio and his family he has four
children have struggled in the housing market.
Factor in some questionable moves with money
and a hefty load of student loans, and its clear
that the Republican presidential candidates real
estate dealings often have been a drag on his
finances despite an income most would relish.
RUBIO on Page 6A
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Tasers used 195

times at jail in 14
Devices pulled from facility
as reviews continue in wake
of Savannah mans death
times in 2014, according to records

produced by the sheriffs office at the
request of the Savannah Morning News.
The newspaper asked the county for
records of use of force involving TasBy DASH Coleman
ers after the death of inmate Matthew
Ajibade at the jail on New Years Day.
912-652-0360
The 21-year-old Savannah man, who
dash.coleman@savannahnow.com
was arrested on a domestic violence
Tasers were used on inmates at the charge Jan. 1, reportedly fought with
Chatham County jail more than 190 deputies at the jail during the booking
process and was eventually left in an

isolation cell.
At some point, a Taser was used on
him. A coroner last week said Ajibades
death was homicide by blunt-force
trauma.
Last month, Chief Deputy Roy Harris
ordered all Tasers removed from the jail
and is making staff get retrained before
theyre brought back.
With use of force at the jail com-
ing under scrutiny since January, the

Chatham County Sheriffs Office has
begun revising policies on Taser use
and documentation. Ajibades name
has hardly faded from the public consciousness, with clergy and community
members gathering in Savannah on
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Chatham County
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WEST SAVANNAH RESIDENTS, officials AIM TO IMPROVE NEIGHBORHOOD
Photos by Eric Curl/Savannah Morning News
James Hall, right, sits inside the shoe repair business he has operated on Augusta Avenue since 1961. Along Augusta Avenue, the neighborhood includes a mixture of businesses and homes,
as well as a memorial of stuffed animals, top left, for Charles Smith, who was killed by a police officer in September.
Striving for the best in the West

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Officials building better neighborhood in spite of controversial shooting

By eric curl 912-652-0312 eric.curl@savannahnow.com
The pile of stuffed animals left as a memorial for Charles Smith sits
next to a line of recently planted crepe myrtles along Augusta Avenue.
The newly planted trees were one aspect of a corridor revitalization
plan adopted by the city in 2012 that includes new sidewalks, parks
and public transportation amenities.
The plans adoption came more than two years before West Savannah became national news when Smith was fatally shot in September
by Savannah-Chatham police officer David Jannot. In February, a
Chatham County Grand Jury ruled the shooting was justified.
The neighborhood deserves to be known for more than that
incident, said West Savannah Community Organization president
today
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Ronald Williams.
Its a fine group of people out here, Williams said. We just have
a few that want to disrupt it.
Bounded by West Bay and Comer streets to the north and south,
and East Lathrop Avenue and Interstate 516 to the east and west, the
West Savannah neighborhood had about 4,500 residents by 2010,
according to U.S. Census numbers cited in the Augusta plan. More
than 70 percent of those residents were African Americans with
more than one in three living below the poverty line.
Williams regularly walks the neighborhood to engage with
residents and see what issues need to be addressed when he is not
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A virtual staff ride tour of a 2008 battle in Afghanistan

hits close to home for members of the UH ROTC program
By William Cole
a farflung firefight were part of the

bargain.
Here, it was personal.
The platoon leader killed while
orty to 50 times across the
looking out for his men, 1st Lt.
country last year, the Armys
Jonathan Brostrom, 24, was a 2006
Combat Studies Institute pregraduate of the UH ROTC program.
sented a computer-generated virtual staff ride tour of a 2008 pitched A memorial plaque with his picture
hangs in the hall.
battle in the mountains of eastern
Brostroms father, Dave, a retired
Afghanistan that killed nine U.S. solArmy colonel and Aiea resident, sat
diers and wounded 27 others.
in the front row, the pain of his
The four-hour Battle of Wanat
sons loss visible on his face.
presentation, the most requested
A soldier who was wounded in
in the Armys Iraq and Afghanistan
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inventory, recently came to the
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Median
prices
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strong
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By Rob Shikina
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Strong demand kept Oahus

median home and condominium prices up in May.
The median prices for single-family homes and condos
were $698,000 and $375,000,
respectively, according a
Honolulu Board of Realtors report released Sunday.
This past May saw median
prices for single-family homes
and condominiums rise, said
Jack Legal, president of the
Honolulu Board of Realtors, in
a statement. Were seeing improvement in the inventory of
homes and condos, but demand remains high for housing at all points of the pricing
system.
Prices climbed in May when
compared to April, but came
up short of the peak median
price for homes set in March
$700,000 and the peak
median price for condos set in
January $381,500.
Prices have been fluctuating
the past year with the highest
median price for homes reaching $719,500 in November. The
highest median price for condos was in January.
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point at which half the prices
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The Triple Crown, so elusive since Affirmed won the

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was fit for a Pharoah, it turns out. American Pharoah,
ridden perfectly again by jockey Victor Espinoza, blew
away the field Saturday at the Belmont. SPORTS, S1, 3
Every area surveyed in Ada

County saw increases in
residential property value
for 2015. Cynthia Sewell reports the numbers, which
bode well for further economic recovery. NEWS, A5
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FORENSICS
NURSES BECOME
CRIME FIGHTERS
Agrowing number of ER
nurses are being trained to
collect evidence from rape
victims, which has resulted
in the arrest and conviction
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But these days, normal means a lot of wildfires, and the light snowpack
up north could return blazes to the asbestos forest that burned in 1910
EDITORIAL
Trustees misstep
in West Ada
The action taken by Carol
Sayles emailing from a
school district account an
election choice on the eve of
voting, and exposing secrets
about an employees departure to boot certainly merit punishment. DEPTH, D1
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Sea lions get last

laugh as fake orca
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Its a story as old as the United States: Weeds run roughshod over land needed to
nourish wildlife, but these
weeds provide no nourishment. Stopping the spread is
nearly impossible. NEWS, A4
An average of 648,000 acres have burned in Idaho annually since1992, and though persistent
rain this spring has pushed back the start of the fire season, experts say we can expect the smoke,
backcountry closures and even evacuations that have become normal as fires burn hotter and
later into the fall. Above, Paul Unser, left, and firefighters Jay Bird and Tyson Vogen watch the
massive Elk Complex Fire in August 2013. Rocky Barker and Audrey Dutton look at the numbers
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AN ISSUE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR
RICHMOND HILL EXPLOSION TRIAL
$119
SAVINGS
UP TO
INSIDE
TODAY
Charter
schools
$50M
loan pool
Funding program slipped

in budget raises questions
Tony Cook and Kris Turner
tony.cook@indystar.com
In the final days of this years

legislative session, Republican lawmakers dropped into the massive
state budget bill a provision giving
charter schools access to $50 million in low-interest state loans.
The measure was a last-minute
effort to appease Gov. Mike Pence,
who had sought more funding for
charter schools, and it received virtually no public scrutiny.
Now some critics including the
Senates chief budget writer are
sounding an alarm about the new
program, given the significant debt
of many charter schools.
The main concern: Who will be on
the hook if charter schools dont repay the loans?
Some of these charter schools
have some pretty enormous debt
See CHARTERS, Page 10A
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MARK LEONARDS TRIAL:

LONG, COMPLEX, COSTLY
MAJOR PLAYERS
1. Mark Leonard: He is the lead suspect in the 2012
fatal explosion in the Richmond Hill subdivision and is
facing trial this month. He is charged with two counts
of felony murder and 46 counts of arson.
2. Monserrate Shirley: She is Mark Leonards exgirlfriend and owner of the house that exploded. In
January, she pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for her cooperation with prosecutors. She is
expected to testify at the trial.
3. Denise Robinson: She is the lead prosecuting
attorney who also is the supervisor of the Marion
County prosecutors offices Special Crimes Unit. She
has handled other high-profile cases, including the trial
of former Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer David Bisard.
4. Diane Black: She is the lead public defender for
Mark Leonard and the chief trial deputy for the Marion
County public defenders council. This is the first highprofile case she has handled.
5. Judge John Marnocha: He is the St. Joseph County
Superior Court judge presiding over Mark Leonards
trial. He joined the bench Jan. 1, 1999, and is serving a
term that expires Dec. 31, 2020.
6. Robert Leonard: He is the half-brother of Mark
Leonard and a suspect in the Richmond Hill explosion.
He is scheduled for trial in January in Fort Wayne.
7. Gary Thompson: He is a former employee of Mark
Leonard and the fourth suspect to be arrested in connection with the explosion.
8. Glenn Hults: He is a friend of Mark Leonard and the
fifth and last suspect to be arrested in connection with
the explosion.
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he explosion that came RICHMOND HILL

from a typical suburban
house at 8349 Fieldfare EXPLOSION
Way the night of Nov. 10, When: Nov. 10, 2012.
2012, sent tremors to Where: Richmond Hill subdivision,
other parts of the citys near South Sherman Drive and East
Southeastside.
Stop 11 Road.
And the next morning the neigh- Deaths: John Dion and Jennifer
borhoods shock was illustrated in Longworth.
staggering numbers.
Injuries: A dozen people were
More than 200 people evacuated. injured.
About 100 first responders and in- Damages: Eighty-six homes were
vestigators at the scene. Eighty-six either damaged or destroyed. At
homes damaged or destroyed. Doz- least two dozen had to be demolens demolished. The damage cost? ished. The total cost: $4 million.
$4 million. And, worst of all, two Suspects: Mark Leonard, Robert
people, John Dion and Jennifer Leonard, Monserrate Shirley, Gary
Longworth, died in the burning rub- Thompson and Glenn Hults.
ble of the house next door.
At the epicenter, prosecutors
say, was a small-time criminal named Mark Leonard, who was more
See TRIAL, Page 17A
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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst speaks at the

starting point of her Roast & Ride.
Roast & Ride

revs support
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernsts inaugural Roast &
Ride fundraiser was a made-for-themedia spectacle part Harley parade
and part pig cookout, with speeches on
top that revved up feelings of patriotism and an appetite for politics.
Metro & Iowa, Page 4A
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Mu Mu, a refugee from Burma, plays with her children Ju Aye, 9, left, and Jobmu, 6, in their Des Moines apartment.
A WIDOWS WISH
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MANY BURMESE FAMILIES DONT HAVE

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Thousands of pop culture

fans set to descend for
Wizard World event
LEE ROOD LROOD@DMREG.COM
If Way Moo had struck his son back in the Mae

La refugee camp in Thailand or in the hill villages of southeastern Burma, where many of his
people still live, no one would have batted an
eye.
Jobmu, his 5-year-old, had been acting up
back in December at McKinley Elementary
School in Des Moines. The fathers choice
of discipline: hitting the boy with a clothes
hanger.
But in Iowa a place that couldnt be
more different from the lawless camps
where Way Moo and his wife, Mu
Mu, lived for more than 15 years
bruises led to child protection
workers and many questions.
In mid-January, Way Moo, 32,
walked into the cavernous Polk County
River Place building on the near-north side,
looking for someone to translate a letter. It
was the first time the depressed, out-ofwork father of two had sought any help
since he was accused of child abuse a
month before.
What happened after Way Moo learned
the contents of that letter has shaken all
those who crossed paths with his family
since they moved to Des Moines in 2007.
Way Moo, sitting alone in his living
room, covered himself with a blanket.
In a brief phone call, he told his wife he
loved her and asked her to look after their
children.
Then he took a .22-caliber rifle and shot himself twice in the chest.
COURTNEY CROWDER
CCROWDER@DMREG.COM
On a Monday morning that

dripped with sticky heat last August, Spider-Man, Batman, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Black
Widow and a cadre of zombies
gathered at the Des Moines airport.
As businessperson after businessperson walked by, members
of the out-of-place crowd readied
themselves for a special pair of arriving passengers, according to
Greg Edwards, CEO of the Greater Des Moines Convention and
Visitors Bureau. The superheroes
struck their best poses; the zombies rumbled their deepest
growls.
They were waiting for the delegates of Wizard World.
A pop culture convention juggernaut, Wizard World plans to
hold events in 26 cities in 2015. The
representatives were visiting to
see if Des Moines could host one of
their activity-packed cons (short
for conventions).
As it turns out, the city could
and it will.
Tens of thousands of pop culture fans are expected to descend
on the capital city June 12-14 for
Wizard World Comic Con Des
Moines, the first convention of its
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Fifty shades
... of
Hutch?
By Mary Clarkin
The Hutchinson News
mclarkin@hutchnews.com
Shes a dog groomer by day, but by night, woman

whos led a colorful life writes in pencil a sizzling
tale set in 1940s Salt City.
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Sondra Wood, author of The Remainder Man, talks about how she handwrites in a spiral
notebook, then transcribes her writing into a laptop computer at her home.
By Kathy Hanks
The Hutchinson News
khanks@hutchnews.com
ts easy to overlook the House of

Canine because the simple sign out
front is partially obscured by vines.
Plus, a tall fence hides the 89-yearold building that is set back from
North Main Street.
But thats OK. Those who need to find
the business owner, Sondra Wood, manage
to do so.
By day, she and two employees groom and
care for dogs. By night, she writes in long
hand, using a pencil, working on the sequel
to her first novel, The Remainder Man.

House of Canine serves both as a dog
grooming business and a publishing company.
Were a well-kept secret, said Wood,
who laughs easily and often.
A Kansas native, Wood is a licensed
commercial real estate agent who lived in
Colorado, New York and Vermont before returning home to Hutchinson in 1984. Thats
when she began weaving the reality of her
life, and all her girlfriends lives, with her
imagination into a book some consider a
titillating page turner.
Afterward, when
Lewis lay softly snoring, their bodies no
longer slick with sweat,
tears of mixed emotion
coursed silently out of
the corners of Maggies
eyes. Lovemaking was
okay, but far from wonderful, she thought.
The earth hadnt
moved for her, but it
had been interesting to
see it move for Lewis.
The recollection made
her feel somehow
powerful.
***
Did my husband
make love to you?
Maggie watched Mrs.
Albright carefully as
the woman decided
whether to answer the
question.
Yes, she said finally,
unashamed. Lewis
married you on the
rebound. It was unfair
of him to drag you into
this. Enough people
have been hurt already
because of us.
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Hutchinson Rep.
Jan Pauls deserves
credit for the maneuver in the Kansas
Legislature to prevent
furloughs this week
of thousands of state
employees, according
to Rep. Steven Becker,
R-Buhler.
On Saturday, the
House and the Senate
passed the legislation
to prevent furloughs
by 106-0 and 39-0 votes,
respectively. Gov. Sam
Brownback signed
House Substitute for
SB 11, a bill that designates all state workers
as essential ...
Becker called the
legislative move the
brainchild of Pauls,
a Republican and
longtime legislator.
Near the end
of the late-night
session Friday in the
House, the House
Appropriations
Committee recommended a bill be
amended to insert
language pertaining
to essential state
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didnt know each other, or live in the same community, and they led very disparate lives.
The three did have a lot in common, however,
including that they dedicated their lives to serving
others, all were husbands and fathers and they
died from complications contracted during service
in the Vietnam War.
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this month through induction into the Vietnam
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N.O. transgender community

reacts to Caitlyn Jenner
Yari Mercado: For her to wait

so long and still be able to
achieve what she wanted, I give
her props for that
Elizabeth Lizzy Jenkins:
People might learn that were

just human beings who happen
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condition
AJay Strong: Lets just hope
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The St. Bernard is on the map,

and they dont play /
Ask me how I know, Im from
around the way.
Ricky B, Shake Fa Ya Hood
By Alison Fensterstock
Staff writer
ick Bickham, bet ter known as rapper

Ricky B, has been living in Baton Rouge
since the late 1990s, but his
roots in the St. Bernard housing development area are still
deep and strong.
Nearly 25 years ago, he met

his wife there, pulling up suavely at the bus stop to offer her
a ride as she waited on a hot
New Orleans summer day. As
he honed his stage skills, he
competed in and often won
talent shows in clubs around
the neighborhood.
Cruising through the development on a recent afternoon, he
pulled up where Foy Street ends
at the edge of a grassy swath
and got out to point out where
the basketball court used to be.
This is where we brought
the DJs out, two DJs across the
Rick Bickham, better known as

rapper Ricky B, is proud of his
roots in the St. Bernard housing
development, now rebuilt and
renamed Columbia Parc. I cant say
Columbia Parc, he said. I always
say St. Bernard.
OUR
Ricky B on the places that

shaped bounce
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By Jessica Williams
Staff writer
Its a rainy Memorial Day.

Christian Frost has shaved his
mustache, and as he descends
the stai rs in the family s
Metairie house, hes dodging
any inquiries. Did you steal
my razor? asks his brother, Connor.
Christian mostly keeps
quiet and heads to the kitchen table, where their mother
offers to dab the nick above his
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Local twins drive

beats out cerebral palsy
lip. Christian hadnt shaved in

a while, Stacey Frost explains,
to which Connor counters:
Well, he can use his own razor.
He doesnt have to steal mine.
Its banter youd expect of
twin brothers who have spent
much time together. Similarities abound: They are identical, for one, and both are
whip-smart, if near-perfect
ACT scores and long-held
spots on school honor rolls are
any indicator.
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local sisters
escaped
the horror
of the Holocaust
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bounce songs, A-8
Personal BEST
She waited until her 60s to

transition from man to woman,
wonders if she waited too long,
but is gratified to have been a
father to her children.
Perhaps more than most,
Elizabeth Lizzy Jenkins, the
68-year-old president of Louisiana Trans Advocates, can
relate to Caitlyn Jenner, 65,
whose appearance on the cover
of Vanity Fair this week brought
transgender issues to the forefront of public dialogue.

Jenkins struggle mirrors
Jenners in important ways: I
said Id rather face my demons
and finish my life as I am than
go on like I am, miserable and
depressed, she explained.
LTA, which is based in New
Orleans, counsels people struggling with the challenges associated with gender dysphoria,
recognized by the American
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he was just 4 years old at the time, but Anne

Levy of Metairie remembers when World
War II began. Levy, whose maiden name is
Skorecki, was living in the city of Lodz, in western
Poland, with her parents and her younger sister,
Lila. The middle-class Jewish family, which had
recently returned from their summer vacation,
lived in a large apartment across the street from a
large synagogue.
The first thing the Germans did was they went
into the synagogue and started throwing things
out in a heap in front of it and burned everything,
Levy said.
And the reason I remember it is because my
mother was crying. She was looking through the
window. It was September 1939.
That was the Germans showing were here.
JAMES
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Group finds temporary

homes for Maine children
and creates an extended
support system for parents
By Lindsay Tice
STAFF WRITER
LEWISTON Michelle and her three

children were, essentially, homeless.
They had a place to stay short-term,
but it didnt feel safe. She needed her
children out of that situation and fast.
Years ago, Michelles choices would
have been: keep her kids in a dangerous
place, find a spot in a shelter or deliver them into state foster care, hoping it
would be temporary.
But last fall, she found a new option:
Safe Families for Children.
They helped us a great deal, said
Michelle, who asked that only her first
name be used. Theyre loving. Theyre
caring. Theyre not out to take your
kids.
Her daughters and son, now 14, 11 and
10, stayed for a couple of months with a
local volunteer host family, vetted by
Safe Families.
If Safe Families didnt exist, the

state would have stepped in and
taken my children, and I dont
know if I would have ever gotten
them back. They kept our family
together.
MICHELLE, LEWISTON MOTHER OF THREE
The children got a safe, loving place

to live for a while and the chance to stay
in their regular schools. Michelle got to
visit and talk with them over the phone
whenever she wanted. The host family
got to help.
Its the kind of connection Safe Families has made more than 700 times since
it started operating in Maine five years
ago.
Sort of like an aunt or uncle, for people who dont have aunts and uncles,
said Robin Chamberlain, executive director of the Safe Families Maine chapter.
The program is private, free, driven by volunteers and spearheaded by a
Christian nonprofit based in Illinois.
Some Maine lawmakers arent so sure
about it yet.
Essentially, youve got a kind of hybrid foster home scenario, one that has a
different standard than a regular foster
home, said state Rep. Barry Hobbins,
D-Saco, during a Judiciary Committee
hearing on a bill to tweak Maines temporary power of attorney law to make it
more applicable to parents who use Safe
Families.
But the Maine Department of Health
and Human Services which runs the
See SAFE FAMILIES Page A4
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Victor Espinoza crosses the finish line with American Pharoah (5) to win the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont
Park on Saturday, in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah is the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978.
American Pharoah becomes first horse to win

Triple Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978
NEW YORK (AP) At long last, the Triple
Crown drought is over.
American Pharoah led all the way to win
the Belmont Stakes by 5 lengths on Saturday, becoming the first horse in 37 years to
sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and
Belmont Stakes one of the sporting worlds
rarest feats.
Wow! Wow! jockey Victor Espinoza said
moments after crossing the finish line. I can
only tell you it just an amazing thing.
The bay colt with the unusually short tail
defeated seven rivals in the grueling 1-mile

race, covering the distance in 2:26.65 to end
the longest stretch without a Triple Crown
champion in history.
American Pharoah is the 12th horse and
first since Affirmed in 1978 to win three races on different tracks at varying distances
over a five-week span. He won the Derby by
one length on May 2 and then romped to a
seven-length victory in the rainy Preakness
two weeks later before demolishing his rivals Saturday.
I still cant believe it hapMore

pened, said Bob Baffert, at
Belmont
62 the second-oldest trainer
coverage.
of a Triple Crown winner.
Baffert and Espinoza endSports D8
ed their own frustrating histories in the Triple Crown.
Baffert finally won on his record fourth Triple try, having lost in 1997, 1998 (by a nose)
and in 2002. Espinoza got it done with his reSee TRIPLE CROWN Page A5
Maine country inn going THOUSANDS

to winner of essay contest PROTESTING
LOVELL (AP) A woman who ran a
Maine country inn for more than two decades can retire now that shes found a
new owner through an essay contest.
Janice Sage from the Center Lovell Inn
& Restaurant announced Saturday that
a winner had been picked from among
hundreds of 200-word essays on the subject: Why I would like to own and operate a country inn. She said shed be revealing the winners name in about a
week.
Sage, 68, took ownership of the inn the
same way by winning an essay contest
22 years ago.
The 210-year-old inn with seven guest
See ESSAY CONTEST Page A5
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The Center Lovell Inns roadside sign is

seen Friday in Lovell.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) Thousands of demonstrators packed a German Alpine resort town
on Saturday to protest a wide range of
causes, from climate change to free trade,
before the arrival of the leaders of the
Group of Seven industrialized democracies for a two-day summit.
Though the demonstration in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was largely peaceful, a small group of protesters clashed
with police as they marched through the
town, charging at officers who responded
with pepper spray. At least two protest-
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On Saturday, Republican presidential

contenders fought for an edge among
motorcycles, puppies, war heroes and
roasted pork, having swapped dark
suits for blue jeans to meet Iowans eight
months before they cast the first votes of
the 2016 presidential primary.
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A jubilant Victor Espinoza celebrates after riding American Pharoah to victory in the Belmont Stakes and the first Triple Crown since
Affirmed in 1978. Despite concerns about his ability to compete over Belmonts 112 miles, American Pharoah won by 512 lengths.
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ELMONT, N.Y. American Pharoah

broke one of the most famous dry spells in
sports Saturday, joining Secretariat, Seattle
Slew and Affirmed as one of 12 Triple
Crown winners in thoroughbred racing
history.
He did it with a brilliant wire-to-wire
win in the Belmont Stakes, the grueling
112-mile test that had stopped 13 gifted
contenders over the past 37 years.
For more than a year, seasoned observers had told owner Ahmed Zayat and
trainer Bob Baffert that they were raising a
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roah a muscular brown colt marked by

his short tail and misspelled name left no
doubt on the biggest stage possible.
Hes just a great horse, Baffert said,
looking dazed as a sellout crowd of 90,000
roared and danced around him. It takes a
great horse to do it.
This is for the sport! a giddy Zayat
shouted. After 37 years. We need stars.
Baffert had trained three of the near-
misses, and American Pharoahs jockey,

Victor Espinoza, had ridden two of them.
Finally they found a horse who could deal
with all the obstacles inherent to the most
difficult test in their sport.
American Pharoahs run at the Triple
Crown began with a gutsy outing May 2 in
the Kentucky Derby, where he could never
find his speed and still won. Espinoza
whipped him more than 30 times as he
held off hard-charging Firing Line.
The scene then moved on May 16 to
Baltimore, where he glided through a
torrential downpour to win the Preakness
by an easy seven lengths, even as the city
recovered from April riots and track
See TRIPLE CROWN, page 18
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Former Maryland governor

tries to reach voting bloc
that propelled Obama
By John Fritze
The Baltimore Sun
HANOVER, N.H. Martin OMalley

came to this New England college town
bearing pizza, and a message he hopes will
click with the young voters who could be
critical tohis long-shot bid for president.
One thing Ive been struck by is a big
generational shift underway in our country, OMalley told about 100 students
gathered in a small library meeting room at Dartmouth College

last week. Ive rarely met someone under 40 who denies climate
change is real. I rarely meet
anyone under 40 who wants to
scapegoat immigrants.
The line brought murmurs of
agreement from the crowd of
young Democrats.
OMalley
As the former two-term
Maryland governor sets out on an ambitious campaign for president, he is courting the type of young voters who fueled
Barack Obamas victories in 2008 and 2012.
He relies on words like this generation
and new leadership to make a not-so-
A decades-old practice of dispensing

birth control to students in Baltimore is
generating new debate as schools are again
offering a long-acting hormone implant as
an option.
After Baltimore schools became the first
in the nation to provide Norplant to
students more than 20 years ago, city
leaders say they continue to be pioneers in
adolescent reproductive health. The school
birth control program now offers an array
of contraceptives and has been credited
with reducing the citys teen pregnancy
rates to a record low.
But the ability of city students to obtain
contraceptives on their way to class
including condoms, birth control pills and
the morning-after pill remains controversial.
This school year, the city began offering
the hormone implant Nexplanon, which is
implanted under the skin and lasts up to
three years. Such an option hasnt been
available since Norplant was taken out of
schools several years ago amid public
controversyandlawsuitsoveritssideeffects.
Eight health centers in city schools that
are run by the Baltimore City Health
Department offer birth control to students
in elementary through high school, though
no grade-schoolers and only a handful of
middle-schoolers obtained contraceptives
through the program this school year. By
state law, students dont need parental
See CONTRACEPTION, page 19
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont are also working to lock
down the potentially powerful
constituency.
Whoever inspires them will have an
important advantage in the Democratic
primaries next year, and the general
election in November. In 2014 there were
46 million eligible voters under 30, comSee OMALLEY, page 13
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was born with the
body of a female,
but the mind and
psyche of a male.
He felt like a boy,
thought like a
boy, played like
a boy, dressed
like a boy. He had
crushes on girls
in the way boys
do. Hormone
therapy and
reconstructive
surgery have
changed his
physical appearance. After the
surgery, he was
able to get the
gender changed
on his Kentucky
birth certicate.
Barney the Clown shakes hands

with a boy Saturday during the
annual Do-Dah Parade.
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Gooness was
on the march
Satire and silliness ruled the

streets of downtown Kalamazoo
on Saturday morning when the
annual Do-Dah Parade stepped
off.
The parade was just one of
many events drawing people
downtown for the June Jubilee,
start of the local summer festival season. The KIA Art Fair, Art
on the Mall, the Kalamazoo
Greek Fest and Kalamazoo
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from Bruce Jenner and transgender
issues are moving more to the forefront, Hamilton offers the perspective
of a 40-something professional who
risked the rejection of family and
friends to finally have what he calls
an authentic life.
See full story inside, A13
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By Rosemary Parker
might be torn down that sent

folks reeling last week.
The Catholic nuns who live at
Nooooooooo, wrote one comthe corner of Nazareth and Gull
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roads have been a huge part of
Runners Facebook page. The
Kalamazoos history.
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Nazareth, MI, 49074 lies within the Kalamazoo Marathon, has
Kalamazoo limits and retains its served as a photo backdrop for
own zip code.
thousands of area runners.
The area is known these
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4.25 percent of your earnings,
no matter now much you make.
But Democrats see an opportunity to move from this flat tax to
a graduated rate, where that tax
rate rises with income.
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American Pharoahs
Belmont win ends
37-year Triple
Crown drought
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LOW-COST HOUSING LOSES GROUND

Critics say its scarcity, especially in suburbs, is a troubling sign
By Bob Shaw
bshaw@pioneerpress.com
PIONEER PRESS: SCOTT TAKUSHI
The monthly rent for Lois Bystroms apartment in Arden Hills is rising from
$756 to $1,025, and she says she will be forced to move due to the cost.
Lois Bystrom gets depressed just

talking about it.
When the rent on her Arden Hills
apartment soon jumps by a third,
the 76-year-old widow will have to
leave her home of the past eight
years.
Bystrom, whose checkout-clerk
pension already is stretched thin,
says she wont be able to afford living there anymore.
This is just incredible. I dont
have any extra money, she murmured as she slumped into a chair.
I never thought at this stage of my
life that this would happen.
Her next move wont be an easy
one. Low-cost housing in the metro

area is drying up, to what by some
measures is an all-time low.
According to a growing chorus of
critics, the problem is that the suburbs including Arden Hills are
not building housing that Bystrom
and renters like her can afford.
This is a matter of fairness, said
Sue Watlov Phillips, executive
director of Metropolitan Interfaith
Council on Affordable Housing
(MICAH), a nonprofit advocacy
group that recently filed complaints
with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She said government policies
have piled more low-rent housing
into low-income neighborhoods,
concentrating poverty, crime and
racial minorities in certain areas.

Suburbs have dodged these innercity problems by foot-dragging on
affordable housing even though
its cheaper to build it in the suburbs.
Defenders of the suburbs are
fighting back. They argue that putting more low-rent housing in
urban areas is necessary because it
gives low-income people access to
mass transit and services.
The debate and the blame is
intensifying as low-cost housing
becomes harder to find. The construction of new, affordable units
slid to a record low in 2013, the latest year that figures are available.
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Decision could lead to
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Linda Penrose, the wife of pastor Joe Penrose of the Open Range Cowboy Church in Ham Lake, worships with other churchgoers last Sunday. For more photos, go to photos.TwinCities.com.
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WASHINGTON As the U.S. Supreme

Court nears its decision in the King v. Burwell
case, lawmakers, insurers, the Obama administration and millions of Americans are stuck
in a state of uncertainty, trying to prepare for
a legal hurricane that may never make it
ashore.
Later this month, the high court is expected
to decide whether consumers in the 34 states
that use the federal health insurance marketplace can continue to receive subsidies to
help them purchase coverage.
The plaintiffs cite a section of the Affordable
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State. The Obama administration says a full
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Its worship with a Western theme in Ham Lake, where bootsand-hat-wearing parishioners listen to no-nonsense sermons
By Bob Shaw
bshaw@pioneerpress.com
Joe Penrose leads Sundays service,

titled Winning the Battle Inside of Me,
from a lectern adorned with horseshoes.
TwinCities.com
Even in the most liberal translations,

the Bible doesnt mention 10-gallon hats
or roping cattle.
Nevertheless, Minnesotas first cowboythemed church is thriving in Ham Lake.
The Open Range Cowboy Church drew
60 Wild-West worshippers last Sunday to
hear a rootin-tootin straight-shootin
sermon.
Afterward, they moseyed out to linger
under a corrugated metal roof and sip
coffee from a chuck wagon.
I love it! said Sam Adamczak of
Andover, scanning the cowboy hats of
the crowd. I like the country style of this
church. Its fun, its small and everyone is
friendly.
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at pioneerpr.es/MinnesotaCamping.
In Texas, the yippee-ki-yay style of worship would be a natural. But pastor Joe
Penrose was asked if there are any real
cowboys in Minnesota.
I think everyone, he said, adjusting
his hat, has a little bit of cowboy in
them.
Adamczak chimed in: You dont have
to be in Texas to be a cowboy.
True to the cowboy spirit, the church
had humble beginnings.
Five years ago, Penrose joined the
American Fellowship of Cowboy Churches, a Texas-based group with more than
200 parishes. After three months training offered through the association, he
was ready to start.
In a dirt-floor horse barn in northern
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fanatics, including cosplayers who don
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The Biloxi Shuckers take on the Mobile BayBears in the long-awaited home opener at the new MGM Park on Saturday. It was a long night, too, but the Shuckers won in 14 innings.
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Experience in the Vieux Marche on Saturday afternoon.
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hat an opening day for the Biloxi Shuckers, who played late into the night Saturday for a 5-4 victory over the Mobile BayBears in 14 innings.
It was 86 degrees at game time, but even hotter earlier
in the day when fans filled downtown for the organizers
Game Day Experience pregame event.
Warmest of all, though, was the welcome the Shuckers
got from their new hometown fans, whod sold out MGM
Park for the first home game.
After 55 games on the road, the team didnt arrive in
Biloxi until 4 a.m. Saturday from an extra-innings win Fri-
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Coast students doubled or tripled testing time in 2014-15

By REGINA ZILBERMINTS
rzilbermints@sunherald.com
Educators across South

Mississippi said they gleaned
useful data from the multitude of testing required during the past school year
information they can use
to better serve students in
the future.
But it came at a cost.
Students, teachers and administrators all had to devote

more time to state testing for
the 2014-15 school year.
This year was the first for
three new state-mandated
rounds of testing: kindergarten assessments, a thirdgrade reading test and Common Core assessments.
Accountability is a great
thing, said Rebecca Lad-
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ner, of the Bay St. Louis

Waveland schools superintendent. But the amount of
time spent testing was very
new to us.
Now, educators and state
officials are examining those
results to see what worked
and what didnt in the classroom, and what they need to
change for next year to better educate students.
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At the same time, officials with the state Department of Education are examining ways to collect the
same amount of data with
less test time.
iness assessment in fall 2014,

the results confirmed what
education officials had long
suspected: Two out of three
students entering school didnt
have the skills to learn how
to read. They didnt know to
associate letters with sounds.
What we learned
When handed a book, many
When more than 40,000 didnt even know how to
children took the states first hold it.
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percent of students tested
as transitional readers
a level expected to set them
up for success in literacy
and 91 percent of students
scored above what, in the
fall, would have been the cutoff for kindergarten readiness. Every school district
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Real
students
praise
virtual
schools
But online
programs lack
accountability,
could divert
district funds,
detractors say
BY ALEX STUCKEY
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JEFFERSON CITY Talk to
Daja Washington today and

its hard to imagine that she
often found herself in fights at
Roosevelt High School during
the 2013-14 school year.
Washington got in trouble a
lot. And her schoolwork suffered for it.
But when she enrolled in St.
Louis Public Schools online
education program to make
up lost credits, everything
changed.
Now I get more help in
classes and Im able to achieve
more, said Washington, a junior with college plans and a
dream of opening a fashion
store.
Stories like hers are what
proponents of online education also known as virtual
schools point to in touting
its merits. Not every student
GEPHARDTS
ABOUT-FACE
GEPHARDT IN
CONGRESS
BY CHUCK RAASCH
In 1998 he
called for
Congress
to solemnly
remember
the
genocide
We must
always keep
that fact,
those real
facts, in our
mind.
WASHINGTON As a member
of Congress, Dick Gephardt often spoke passionately about
the need for the United States to
recognize as genocide the mass
deaths of as many as 1.5 million
Armenians under the Turkish
government that began one century ago.
But as a lobbyist for Turkey
since leaving Congress in 2005,
Gephardt, a Democrat, has taken
the opposite side. His behindthe-scenes work has been cited
as a factor in the annual failure of
Missouri offers a state-run

virtual instruction program.
About 500 students sign up per
year.
ALONG FOR THE RIDE
GEPHARDT AS
LOBBYIST
In 2007 he
told the
Post-Dispatch
he was
working
toward a
reconciliation
that would
avoid a
genocide
declaration.
RAILROAD
RETALIATION?
COLUMN A2
NIXON
AND
THE
NFL
See LOBBYING Page A4
SPORTS C1
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT
ONLINE EDUCATION
IN MISSOURI
Kansas City schools offer a

program similar to St. Louis.
A&E D1
As congressman, he backed Armenian claims of genocide

at hands of Turkey. Hes become wealthy since then,
partially by opposing the same claims.
See VIRTUAL Page A5
St. Louis Public Schools

program began in 2013; 1,400
students participated last year.
NEW
LIFE
AS A
HOUSEWIFE
PHOTOS BY J.B. FORBES jforbes@post-dispatch.com
Evita Caldwell talks

about looking back
at her elementary
school and finding
former classmates
to see how they have
fared.
Doe Run damage

gives neighbors
a sinking feeling
Speculation is that company got
greedy, blasted mines support pillars
Excessive levels of lead, zinc, cadmium
have been pumped into water
Fifteen years
ago, a reform
effort at Jefferson
Elementary in
St. Louis offered
promise for fifthgraders such as
Evita Caldwell.
Now shes spent a
year measuring
the results of those
reforms through
the lives of her
former classmates.
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IN STLSUNDAY B1
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In the pink
TODAY
BY JACK SUNTRUP
BUNKER, MO. Tom Elmore

lives down a gravel road, past a
cemetery and on the other end
of a narrow concrete crossing
over the West Fork Black River.
Seekers of peace and seclusion would enjoy his homestead, with its peach trees and
chicken coop, but not the underground blasts that rattle
his dishes in the middle of the
night.
The closest thing Elmore has
to a next-door neighbor is the
Doe Run Co., which mines lead
and other materials here in ru-
ral Reynolds County, about two

hours south of St. Louis.
For years, the mining company and its neighbors coexisted without too much friction, but that changed in April
2014.
That is when Doe Run officials told government agencies about a pair of sinkholes
and a damaged mine shaft that
eventually led to water flooding their West Fork mine. More
sinkholes appeared in June
2014, including one that damaged the companys research
building.
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How to buy rental property
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By Lee Enterprises newspapers
o, youre ready to become the next Donald Trump and embark on your real estate empire. Or maybe youre just looking to diversify
your investment portfolio. Here are nine tips to consider when buying investment property:
RENTAL
RACES
Know the market
Look at the areas rental vacancy rate. If its

below 5 percent, its a landlords market. If the
rate has been declining, thats also a good sign.
Anything above that may mean theres adequate
rental housing on the market and your property
could sit vacant between renters.
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Apartment
Consider how much the property would

take to bring to code. Once you flip a house or
property to rental, it may need work to bring
it to code instead of having it be a primary
residence. Calculate the cost of repairs and
what youd have to charge in rent by looking at
comparable properties. If the math doesnt add
up, its not a good buy.
weather make it
busy for landlords,
tenants
D1 loan
Not your typical
Dont expect a typical mortgage. Banks

reason: If you have cash flow problems, which
mortgage are you likely to pay first your
home that you live in or your rental property,
said First Interstate Bank Vice President Brian
Brown. Most banks consider loans for investment properties higher risk and require:
Good credit scores
25 percent downpayment.
Five to six months of reserves in the bank.
GOOD
DIRT
Know the
neighborhood
How close is it to amenities like parks, shopping areas and grocery stores? And what kind
of parking does it have (for example, a garage)?
Is it located in a quiet area or on a busy street?
All of these factors will determine how easy it
is to rent and what other properties youll be
competing against. You may also check on the
crime rate, which could mean youll have to
discount the rent.
Up to code
2shortage,
warm
HITTING
HOME
Materials
found around
the home can
make the ideal
compost E1
Dont just consider the upfront costs to

purchasing rental properties. Walter Molony, an
economic spokesperson for the National Association of Realtors, said a property owner should
have six months of caring costs saved to cover
expenses if properties become vacant.
8
5
Counting the cost
Managing
Some investors dont want the hands-on

aspects of being a landlord. Property management firms can manage your property and may
take care of arranging showings, leasing and
other maintenance issues that arise. However,
the landlord will still be responsible for the
costs, and property management will likely run
between 7 to 10 percent of the monthly rent.
At Belmont and beyond,

fans celebrate
9
American Pharoahs Triple Crown win
Five plus
Banks may look more favorably on properties with more than four units because they
carry less vacancy risks. But experts say: With
more units comes more management. Be sure
youre ready to meet the needs of four or more
tenants which may require more maintenance,
regular upkeep and paperwork.
Real estate author and expert Brandon Turner

said that in addition to having an investment
plan with an exit strategy, some landlords
dont consider all the costs of ownership before
determining feasibility. Those costs include:
Water and sewer
Garbage (possibly commercial service for
larger properties)
Legal fees (including eviction)
Other utilities electric, gas, Internet
Vacancy costs
Scheduled maintenance (heating, cooling,
roofing)
Capital improvements
Race shown on scoreboards at Major

League games in Boston, Los Angeles
Associated Press
NEW YORK From Belmont Park to Fenway
Park and far beyond, it was a party that horse racing had been waiting 37 years to throw.
All over, there were cheers as American
Pharoah galloped away Saturday with the Triple
Crown fans had waited almost four decades to
Victor Espinoza crosses

the finish line with
American Pharoah
to win the Belmont
Stakes on Saturday.
American Pharoah is
the first horse to win
the Triple Crown since
Affirmed in 1978.
Paperwork
Whether you select a property management

firm or do it yourself, expect more paperwork.
Youll now have to keep careful records of rents,
leases, expenses, maintenance and deposits.
Even if you have a bookeeper or accounting
service (which adds to your expenses), tracking down the paperwork adds time, and will be
required for tax purposes.
Leading wire-to-wire, American Pharoah

runs into history, C1
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witness again.
I feel like I was honestly a part of history
today, said New York City resident Zach Witkoff,
22, who last year left the Belmont Stakes dejected
after California Chromes failed bid at one of
sports most elusive feats. I think all the fans felt
that way.
Please see Celebration, A7
Prairie professional
Former Billings man helps run Montanas largest private plains reserve
Farm group
breaks silence
on climate
change
Records kept by farmers
show some planting,
harvesting occurring
earlier than ever
By TOM LUTEY
tlutey@billingsgazette.com
BRETT FRENCH/Gazette Staff
During his tenure at the American Prairie Reserve, Damien Austin has become a font of knowledge about the areas wild inhabitants and
flora, easily ticking off the names of different cacti.
American Prairie Reserve

owns 305,000 acres in
north-central Montana
Story and photos
by BRETT FRENCH
french@billingsgazette.com
Husker the hound was panting heavily in Damien Austins ear and slobbering
on his arm as Austin steered a bouncing
pickup across the spring-green prairie.
Actually, I have about 40 favorite
places in the area, he said, all of which
are spread across the 305,000 acres that
his employer, American Prairie Reserve,
owns in north-central Montana.
Stopping above Box Elder Creek and
stepping outside, it was easy to understand why this overlook of the twisted
stream in a deep draw had caught his
fancy. To the northwest a small herd of
bison watched nervously before moving off at a trot. Across the valley to the
southeast, two bachelor bull bison lazed
on a grassy hillside. To the east, the top of
the Larb Hills pushed up to greet the bottom of a bank of dark storm clouds.
Great place, great job, he said.
Bottom floor
Austin, 34, is the operations manager
the top guy on the ground for the
American Prairie Reserve, a sprawling
and ambitious conservation effort begun
in 2004 with a goal of creating the largest wildlife reserve in the lower 48 states
while preserving prairie grasslands,
some of which have never been tilled.
Its so amazing to be a part of this,
getting in at the beginning of something
thats going to last for generations and
help forge what its going to look like in
the future, Austin said.
2015 The Billings Gazette

130th year, No. 36
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Its been seven bruising political years since farm organizations

dared talk about it when discussing extreme weather and drought,
but farmer Alan Merrill says climate change cant go unmentioned any longer.
Were just trying to educate
people that it is here, and maybe
if there is something we can do
about it, as people living on farms
or people living in cities, we should
take a look at it, Merrill told The
Gazette.
Merrill is president of the Montanas Farmers Union. The group
began publishing reports this
week about how climate change
is affecting Montana agriculture.
The reports are based on research
by Montana State University.
Please see Climate, A7
More about the APR

To read about American Prairie
Reserves bison herd, see todays
Outdoors page, C6 in the Sports section.
To watch a video about the APRs
new Enrico Education and Science Center, click on the link in this story
at billingsgazette.com.
The reserve is a landscape of deep

draws, wind-shredded hills and the occasional lush creek bottom. The property
is located in scattered parcels just north
of the Missouri River and Fort Peck Reservoir with the idea that one day they will
all be joined together. The APR also abuts
portions of the 1.1-million-acre Charles
Please see Land, A6
LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff/
Winter wheat fields form a backdrop

for a singing meadowlark, Montanas
state bird. The Montanas Farmers
Union began publishing reports
last week about how climate
change is affecting Montana
agriculture. Harvest is coming sooner
for crops like winter wheat.
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Lincoln quilter draws

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Short staff,
long hours,
high stakes
In the first session of the 104th

Legislature, senators accomplished their primary responsibility: to pass a balanced
two-year budget for
2015-17.
In all, 664 bills were
introduced this session, which ended May
29, and 243 of those
were passed and signed by Gov.
Pete Ricketts.
Five were vetoed and did not
have overrides: a bill (LB70) and
its attached spending bill (LB70A)
that would have imposed a new
occupation tax on video gaming
terminals; a bill (LB89) and its
attached spending bill (LB89A)
that would have changed Aid to
Dependent Children benefits; and
a bill (LB498) that would have
placed a sales tax on all-terrain
and utility type vehicles. LB89 was
reworked into another bill, passed
and signed.
Guard retention hard at Tecumseh

By PETER SALTER
and LORI PILGER
INSIDE, A2: Read the highlights

from the Legislatures landmark
2015 session.
Lincoln Journal Star
ECUMSEH They earn $15.15 an

hour whether theyve been on the
job 10 years or 10 days to guard
Nebraskas most violent criminals.
Theyre unarmed, outnumbered and often inexperienced.
Theyre assaulted, spat upon, splattered
with urine and feces.
Theyre supposed to work eight-hour
shifts but frequently are ordered to work
16, locked in their own prison at quitting
time so their supervisors can fill staffing
holes in the incoming shift.
All of this has been taking a toll on
correctional officers and other prison employees at the Tecumseh State
Correctional Institution. Between January and mid-May, a reported 71 staffers

quit Nebraskas newest prison. More than
a dozen of those departures came after last
months Mothers Day riot.
The uprising left two prisoners dead
at the hands of other prisoners and three
more injured. It left the state with a
$500,000 repair bill, much of that to a
housing unit where prisoners tore down a
wall, shattered windows and set their mattresses ablaze.
Prison administrators have said little
about what started the siege. After the staff
regained control and the smoke cleared,
though, the issue of prison staffing or,
more accurately, understaffing emerged
as a prevailing problem inside the walls at
Tecumseh.
See TECUMSEH, Page A8
Jockey Victor Espinoza celebrates

atop American Pharoah after they
became the first duo to win the
Triple Crown since 1978.
Finally,
a Triple
Crown
Lincoln fans
cheer American
Pharoah.
By MICHAEL SHORO
Lincoln Journal Star
As American Pharoah ran away

from the field in New York on Saturday, horse racing fans in Lincoln
celebrated a Triple Crown winner
and something more.
Horse racing aint dead in
Lincoln.
Thats how Lincoln resident
Gary Anderson put it. Look
around, he said.
IN SPORTS Those jammed
Read complete into the Lincoln
coverage of
Race Course were
Saturdays
still buzzing from
historic
American PharoBelmont
ahs Triple Crown
Stakes. C1
victory Saturday
afternoon, the first since Affirmed won in 1978.
The horse racing industry has
changed a lot since celebrating
the last Triple Crown winner.
Take Lincoln, where the State Fair
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Jockey Victor Espinoza, aboard American Pharoah, celebrates after winning the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes, capping the
first Triple Crown in 37 years, on Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
First Triple Crown winner in 37 years cruises to 5 1/2-length win

By SALLY JENKINS
THE WASHINGTON POST
ELMONT, N.Y.
merican Pharoahs bay coat
turned almost black with
sweat from effort, yet in
full stride he left such an
impression of ease that he appeared
to hover and flutter over the deep
sand of Belmont Park. His jockey,
Victor Espinoza, rode such a perfect
race he seemed almost motionless
until he crossed the finish line, when
he became a flash of turquoise silk,
writhing with joy until he threatened
to come out of the saddle on his victory
lap.
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The first Triple Crown winner in

37 years will be remembered for that
signature sense of supple ease, the
limber mobility that made something
so difficult seem so natural. His
5-length victory in the Belmont
Stakes was visually striking for the
amount of air between him and his
inferiors and between his hooves and
the ground.
All week, trainer Bob Baffert had
talked about the good vibe around
his horse, and thats what he ran like, a
weightless emanation that left a crowd
of 90,000 roaring with appreciation, not
just because they were lucky enough
to see history but because he was
beautiful.
As soon as I sit in the saddle, it was

such power, Espinoza said.
How long can 90,000 people scream
with their mouths wide open? Several
minutes-worth. Thats what racing
history sounded like, a sustained
throbbing wave for the horse,
jockey and trainer. It built down the
backstretch and then hit a sustained
peak as he crossed the finish line.
All I did was just take in the crowd,
Baffert said. It was thundering.
On 12 previous occasions since 1978,
horses had come to the Belmont with
a chance to win the Triple Crown, and
SEE PHAROAH PAGE 18A
Baffert, Zayat sensed their horse was prepared
CROWD AT BELMONT STAKES DOES SOMETHING FRESH AND UNHEARD OF FOR A GENERATION PAGE 1C
Just like any other day, Las Vegas

police officer Troy Nicol planned out
the lunch schedule for his squad.
As is often the case, officers heading
out on the morning shift planned to eat
in pairs.
But this particular day, June 8, 2014,
would not be a routine Sunday.
When he heard the radio traffic say
two officers on their break had been
shot at a CiCis Pizza near Stewart
Avenue and Nellis
Boulevard,
Nicol
looked at his watch.
At 11:22 a.m.,
only two officers
from his squad in
that area were on
break.
Within minutes, Officer Alyn
much of the depart- Beck
ment knew officers
Alyn Beck and Igor
Soldo were down.
It would take several more hours to
understand how it
happened.
Nicol, 48, has
spent much of his
12-year career patrolling the same Officer Igor
part of the valley Soldo
as Soldo, in the
Northeast
Area
Command. The two
worked in sister
squads for a while
and were in the
same unit on the
day of the shooting.
Much of the
training Nicol said
hes received with Joseph Wilcox
Metro,
including defensive and
close-quarter tactics, came from Beck.
He was renown for his expertise as a
training officer before transferring
back to patrol and to the Northeast
Area Command just months before the
ambush.
The morning was going smoothly
for the squad for the first few hours.
Nicol and his partner were at the Clark
SEE AMBUSH PAGE 20A
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Cash-strapped entity forcing participants to pay even more
By NEAL MORTON
Howard Hancock didnt blame anyone when his husband got cancer.
But he certainly isnt thanking the
Clark County School District or the
Clark County Education Associations
Teachers Health Trust, which is teetering on the verge of financial collapse,
for making the chemotherapy his husband needs affordable.
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Hancock, a math teacher at Sawyer

Middle School, recently balked when
he received a notice from the cashstrapped trust informing him that participants will soon be required to pay
20percent of the cost for doctors office
visits and all medical expenses. Thats
on top of teachers current copayments.
The increased financial burden on
teachers stems from the trusts need to
resolve immediate cash flow issues.
With his husband only halfway
through a chemotherapy plan to treat

his non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Hancock
estimated the couple will have to shoulder several thousand dollars per treatment round under the new coinsurance
rate.
When was the last time (the teachers union) was able to negotiate an additional contribution to our health care
plan from CCSD? he asked.
Employees had to increase their
contribution to THT last year, and yet
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OFFICERDOWN.US AIDS FAMILIES

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WILCOX FAMILY STILL GRIEVES

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MEMORIAL CEREMONY
Metro plans to honor the lives
of officers Igor Soldo and Alyn
Beck and Joseph Wilcox on the
one-year anniversary of their
deaths. The event is set for 6 p.m.
Monday at the Metropolitan Police
Departments Northeast Area
Command office, 3750 Cecile Ave.
Officers from Soldo and Becks
squad will help dedicate trees for
each of the three slain men.
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Boston | Woman was hit in the head by
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By KEN POWTAK
BOSTON A fan hit by a

broken bat at Fenway Park
is expected to survive after
suffering life-threatening
injuries during a game between the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox.
Officer Rachel McGuire
said Saturday that the woman is recovering.
Tonya Carpenter was
struck in the head by the
broken bat of Oaklands
Brett Lawrie on Friday
night. Carpenter is now in

serious condition, her family said in a statement.
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CONCORD The question of whether New Hampshire can keep voters from
sharing a ballot selfie
picture to confirm their
election preference will be
aired Monday in federal
district court.
The hearing before U.S.
District Court Judge Paul
Barbadoro will be the latest
step in the debate between
free speech and the sanctity
of the polling place that has
been going on since 2013,
when The Telegraph bought
up the issue after two Nashua candidates posted photos
of their ballots to Instagram
and Facebook during an
election.
The debate stepped up
a notch in 2014 when New
Hampshire
lawmakers
tightened a long-standing
law about marking ballots.
The law (RSA 659:35-I) now
says that displaying photographs of your own marked
ballot, via social media like

Facebook or otherwise, is
a violation punishable by a
fine of up to $1,000.
Secretary of State Bill
Garners office has argued
repeatedly that it sees the
law as a necessary update
to century-old practices
against voter bribery and
coercion. It has begun prosecution against at least four
people, including state Rep.
Leon Rideout, R-Lancaster,
a vocal opponent of the law
who flouted his own ballot
selfies in 2014, but those
cases are on hold pending
the federal courts decision.
The anti-ballot-selfie argument goes like this: Because such photos provide
confirmation of what happened in the voting booth,
they make voter manipulation feasible. Without confirmation, theres no incentive to threaten or bribe a
voter, because theres no
way to determine what
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NH schools give
dual admission
Education | Community colleges, 4-year
institutions collaborate to help students.
By TINA FORBES
Staff Writer
CONCORD With the

launch of the New Hampshire Dual Admission program, state higher education officials are hoping to
create a seamless path for
students between community colleges and four-year
universities.
The New Hampshire
Dual Admission program
is a clear pathway that enables students to be admitted to both institutions, to
earn an associate degree
and a bachelors degree
through a route that is affordable and supportive
and helps to retain high
school graduates in-state
and for employment in New
Hampshire, Ross Gittell,
Community College System

of New Hampshire chancellor, said in a statement on
Friday.
Students hoping to save
money on education can enroll in the program starting
this fall.
This is positive for New
Hampshire students and
families and also for the
states economy, Gittell
said.
New Hampshire residents face the highest average in-state tuition rates in
the country, at $14,576, and
graduates from New Hampshire colleges have an average debt load of $32,698, the
second-highest in the country, according to the Project
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CONCORD, N.H. A recurring

theme is emerging in Gov. Chris
Christies expected 2016 candidacy: Its 1979 all over again, and
the governor is Ronald Reagan,
reincarnate.
2015 reminds me of 1979,
Christie said in a speech last
month at the University of New
Hampshire, where he unveiled his
plan to simplify the U.S. tax code
and slash tax rates.
In that fateful year, Christie
said, he was watching gas lines,
double-digit inflation and interest
rates, the Soviets in Afghanistan,
hostages in Iran, and a president
who ran on a single idea Trust
me and who was now telling us
that the problems we had were
too tough to handle.
A week earlier, speaking at a
New Hampshire town hall
meeting, Christie lamented that I
remember Jimmy Carter: It was
everybody elses fault. But
remember this: Jimmy Carters
economy? Better than this one.
At first blush, 2015 isnt 1979.
Adjusted for inflation, gas is
cheaper today. Unemployment is
lower. Consumer confidence is 33
SEE CHRISTIE, PAGE A13
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LEGRAND FOCUSES ON REHAB, ENSURING CURE FOR PARALYSIS IS FOUND
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WEST ORANGE The customized van with the

No. 52 rims pulls up in front of Kessler Institute
for Rehabilitation and the door opens. A ramp is
lowered and the 270-pound man uses a mouthpiece to direct his motorized wheelchair toward
the door.
Sunny with winds out of the northeast at 5-9

mph. Partly cloudy at night.
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Eric LeGrand emerges, wearing a Team LeGrand T-shirt and the wide smile that seemingly
never leaves his face. As LeGrand rolls down the
walkway and into the rehab facility, a woman stops
him. She recognizes LeGrand from his many media
appearances and asks if she can take a picture.
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The way to Liberty National

takes one down a pockmarked,
two-lane road just off the New
Jersey Turnpike, through an
industrial part of Jersey City. It is
a deceiving entrance for the
exclusive golf course reclaimed
from a contaminated wasteland.
Just past the guarded unmarked gate, a gleaming glassand-steel clubhouse looks out
over New York Harbor, where the
towers of Manhattan and the
Statue of Liberty offer a breathtaking backdrop for the expansive
course.
It is here where a Massachusetts venture capitalist wants to
build a $4 billion casino resort
that would be known as Liberty
Rising a gaming palace of
restaurants and clubs, topped by
a towering hotel of 1,500 rooms.
Less than 12 miles away in the
Meadowlands, yards from where
the NFLs Giants and Jets play
football at MetLife Stadium, Hard
Rock International wants to build
a casino by the side of the new
Meadowlands Racetrack.
Presented with the glitz of a Las
Vegas show, the company last
week was joined by political and
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The New Mexican
By Mark Mazzetti, Nicholas Kulish,

Christopher Drew, Serge F. Kovaleski,
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They have plotted deadly missions

from secret bases in the badlands of
Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have
engaged in combat so intimate that they
have emerged soaked in blood that was
not their own. On clandestine raids in
the dead of the night, their weapons of
choice have ranged from customized
carbines to primeval tomahawks.
Around the world, they have run spying stations disguised as commercial
boats, posed as civilian employees of
front companies and operated undercover at embassies as male-female pairs,
tracking those the United States wants
to kill or capture.
Those operations are part of the hidden history of the Navys SEAL Team 6,
one of the nations most mythologized,
most secretive and least scrutinized
military organizations. Once a small
group reserved for specialized but rare
missions, the unit best known for killing
Osama bin Laden has been transformed
by more than a decade of combat into a
global manhunting machine.
That role reflects Americas new way
of war, in which conflict is distinguished
not by battlefield wins and losses, but
by the relentless killing of suspected
militants.
Almost everything about SEAL Team
6, a classified special operations unit,
is shrouded in secrecy the Pentagon
does not even publicly acknowledge
that name though some of its exploits
have emerged in largely admiring
accounts in recent years. But an examination of Team 6s evolution, drawn
from dozens of interviews with current
and former team members, other military officials and reviews of government
documents, reveals a far more complex,
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Walatowa Charter High School students Tyrell Vigil, left, and Marley Perea make drums under the watchful
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By Robert Nott
The New Mexican
JEMEZ PUEBLO
hen Jemez Pueblo student Marley
Perea entered Walatowa Charter High
School in the ninth grade, she was
reading at the seventh-grade level.
Now, she prepares to enter her senior year with her
reading on par with a college student.
School is not my favorite thing to do, Perea
said. Im not a big fan of writing or English. But
the teachers there really pushed me and helped me.
Everyone at Walatowa is really close. I guess you
could say theyre like a second family.
She plans to graduate next year and go to college.
She does not know what she will study but said
she wants to bring whatever she learns back to the
school as a gift for what it has given her confidence in herself.
She is not alone.
As Native American students across the country
continue to lag behind their non-Native peers in
Please see UNIT, Page A-5
educational achievement, this small charter school,

which for years has operated out of three portable
buildings among the sandy red hills of Jemez Pueblo,
has found remarkable success in making sure its students graduate.
The graduation rate for Native Americans nationally hovers at about 50 percent compared to just
over 80 percent for all U.S. students. But at Walatowa, the graduation rate is 91 percent a figure
that outranks the state average for Native American
graduates (64 percent) and most other charter high
schools in New Mexico. All but five of the schools
68 students are Native American.
Principal Arrow Wilkinson likes to call Walatowa
the little school that could.
Students credit Walatowas small, welcoming community which stresses the teaching of Native values,
culture and the pueblos traditional language, Towa.
The school is not well-known outside of the Jemez
Valley, and it doesnt have its own permanent facility.
But school and pueblo leaders, who dedicated them-
Once again, state Sen. John Arthur

Smith has endured. Maybe hes even
prevailed.
Smith, who chairs
the Senate Finance
Committee, had the
unenviable task of
representing Senate
Democrats in talks to
negotiate a compromise for a $295 million
public works bill that
Sen. John
everyone could supArthur Smith
port.
Republican Gov.
Susana Martinezs staff initially mocked
Smith, formerly her political ally. But by
last week, Martinez announced that a
deal on the bill finally had been struck
in the spirit of bipartisan compromise.
This came after several days of Smith
talking with Martinezs staff as well
as his own Democratic caucus to
iron out what he called the last few
wrinkles of contention.
Getting all sides to agree on anything in
this Legislature is a real accomplishment,
especially considering the intensely partisan nature of the regular session. Smith,
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Center for the Study of

Southwestern Jewelry
A permanent exhibit devoted to the
history and development of Navajo/
Din and Pueblo metalwork, lapidary
and related traditions; events include
artist demonstrations, traditional
dances, food and storytelling.
Grand-opening events run 10 a.m. to
4 p.m., Wheelwright Museum of the
American Indian, 704 Camino Lejo,
Museum Hill, 982-4636.
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A challenging story to tell

As Manhattan Project park
takes shape, questions loom
By Margaret Wright
The New Mexican
From left, statues of Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie R.

Groves stand on the south side of Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos.
A new national historic park will be opening in Los Alamos and
other sites to commemorate the Manhattan Project and its contributions to winning World War II. Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
Roger Rasmussen knows the ground in Los

Alamos where the worlds first atomic bombs
were developed and assembled for the topsecret Manhattan Project. Now 95 years old,
he was among a group of young engineering
students deployed by the U.S. Army to what
was then a remote military post atop a dusty
mesa. Thanks to last years signing of the
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Act, some of the sites from that era will eventually be open to a much wider audience.
Yet Rasmussen said he struggles to comprehend how the jubilant atmosphere sur-
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rounding the parks designation fits with

what he experienced firsthand.
Im just fascinated with all these people
who are just thrilled with this whole thing,
he said. I dont know what were celebrating.
My view of it is not about the place, which
is gone, but the time and who was there. It
wasnt a big celebration. It was survival.
Rasmussens struggle to understand the
significance of the Manhattan Projects
National Historical Park designation highlights the central challenge as the park takes
shape, especially as the full cost, logistics and
financing remain open questions.
Whats left of New Mexicos Manhattan
Project work sites are locked behind closely
guarded gates of the Los Alamos National
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This article is by Mark Mazzetti, Nicholas Kulish, Christopher
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American Pharoah, under the guidance of the jockey Victor Espinoza, winning the Belmont Stakes in 2 minutes 26.65 seconds.
Riding Into History by Five and a Half Lengths Hastert Rushed

To Earn Money
American Pharoah Is
Amid Payouts
First Triple Crown
By JOE DRAPE
As American Pharoah came

out of the far turn and squared
his shoulders to let his rider Victor Espinoza stare down the long
withering stretch of Belmont
Park, a sense of inevitability
surged through this mammoth
old grandstand. The fans in a capacity crowd strained on the tips
of their toes and let out a roar
from deep in their souls. It was
going to end, finally this 37year search for a great racehorse.
No, a battered old sport was
looking for an immortal thoroughbred, one worthy to stand
alongside Sir Barton and Assault,
War Admiral and Whirlaway,
Count Fleet and Citation, a horse
able to earn the title of a Triple
Crown champion.
There had been only 11 of them
in history, and America had elect-
Winner Since 78
ed five presidents, fought three
wars and lived through at least
three economic downturns since
Affirmed had last completed the
feat in 1978. In the interim, 12 other very good racehorses had
pulled into the starting gate at
this grand old racetrack on Long
Island with a chance to become
the next great horse, only to fall
short at the hands of a great rival,
as Sunday Silence did to Easy
Goer in 1989 or as Real Quiet did
in 1998 in a heartbreaking photo
finish, or to find the mile-and-ahalf distance of the Belmont
Stakes just too much, as California Chrome did last year.
But as American Pharoah

bounded into the stretch amid a
deafening roar, the memories of
the gritty Affirmed, the speedy
Seattle Slew (1977) and that tremendous machine Secretariat
(1973) were summoned from
backside to grandstand, and
rightfully so.
No one doubted that American
Pharoah was about to enter the
history books. He was bouncing
down the lane as if jumping from
one trampoline to another, and no
one was going to catch him.
The colts trainer, Bob Baffert,
was transported. He, too, had
previously come here certain
that he had a horse that belonged
among the giants of racing, only
to feel his heart ascend to his
throat. In 1997, Silver Charm had
been caught two jumps before the
wire by Touch Gold, a rival he did
not see. In 1998, Baffert watched
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A steel pipe cut by inmates to escape a New York State prison.
With Power Tools and a Ruse,

2 Killers Flee New York Prison
By JESSE McKINLEY and ASHLEY SOUTHALL
DANNEMORA, N.Y. Two

convicted murderers serving life
sentences in adjoining cells
staged an elaborate escape from
New Yorks largest state-run
prison between Friday night and
Saturday
morning,
fooling
guards with makeshift dummies
made out of sweatshirts and using power tools to drill out of
their cells and past the prisons
30-foot-tall walls, officials said.
The men remained at large late
Saturday as law enforcement
personnel conducted an extensive manhunt radiating outward
from the Clinton Correctional Facility here, where residents
hoped for a quick end to an unprecedented occurrence.

Police officers in bulletproof
vests and armed with rifles
manned roadblocks on routes
leading to and from the town,
peering into cars and checking
trunks as red flares lit up the
pavement on a chilly night.
Floodlights filled the street
around the maximum-security
facility, whose thick walls loomed
high over the north side of the
towns main street, which was
closed to most traffic. Dozens of
law enforcement officials stood
guard in a nearby neighborhood
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WASHINGTON Hillary
Rodham Clinton appears to be
dispensing with the nationwide
electoral strategy that won her
husband two terms in the White
House and brought white working-class voters and great
stretches of what is now red-state
America back to Democrats.
Instead, she is poised to retrace Barack Obamas far narrower path to the presidency: a
campaign focused more on mobilizing supporters in the Great
Lakes states and in parts of the
West and South than on persuading undecided voters.
Mrs. Clintons aides say it is
the only way to win in an era of
heightened polarization, when a
declining pool of voters is truly
up for grabs. Her liberal policy
positions, they say, will fire up
Democrats, a less difficult task
than trying to win over independents in more hostile territory
even though a broader strategy
could help lift the party with her.
This early in the campaign,
however, forgoing a determined
outreach effort to all 50 states, or
even most of them, could mean
missing out on the kind of spirited conversation that can be a
unifying feature of a presidential
election. And it could leave Mrs.
By ERIC LIPTON
WASHINGTON After a relatively slow start to his career as a

consultant and lobbyist, J. Dennis
Hastert, the former speaker of
the House of Representatives, became very busy in 2010. He was
traveling to spots including Singapore and Montreal, meeting
with clients about ventures as
varied as futures trading and
Formula One racing.
He also made an unusual request to one of his business associates: to find a financial adviser
who could come up with a plan
for an annuity that would generate a substantial cash payout
each year. According to the associate, J. David John, the former
speaker also asked that the adviser not be told of Mr. Hasterts
involvement.
The request came just a few
weeks before Mr. Hastert, according to charges in a federal indictment, made his first payment
to a man known as Individual A
in what was to be a total of $3.5
million. The money, two people
briefed on an F.B.I. investigation
of Mr. Hastert said, was paid to
prevent the man from publicly
saying Mr. Hastert sexually
abused him decades ago, when
Mr. Hastert was a high school
teacher and wrestling coach in
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Sam Martin was browsing in a

Boston record store 23 years ago
when an unusual photography
book caught his eye. Mr. Martin
flipped through its pages, which
featured portraits and interviews
with women who had become
men, and started to cry.
I thought, Oh, my God, Im
not the only one, said Mr. Martin, 43, who started transitioning
to male from female after he
bought the book. When I was
growing up, I never saw people
like me in movies or books.
Mr. Martin is now on a mission
to change that. He belongs to a
small group of emerging authors
who are writing childrens literature that centers on transgender
characters, hoping to fill the void
they felt as young readers. His
debut work of fiction a semiautobiographical story about a
transgender teenage boy who
The president and a former president

were among the mourners at the funeral
Mass in Wilmington, Del., for Beau Biden, elder son of Vice President Joseph
PAGE 21
R. Biden Jr.
falls in love with an older boy on

the beach in Cape Cod will be
published in a collection this
month by Duet, a new young
adult publisher that specializes in
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen-
A memoir by a transgender
teenager from Oklahoma.
der and queer fiction.

My goal was to write stories
that would have helped me feel
less alone at that age, said Mr.
Martin, who works as a Starbucks barista in Washington and
writes at night.
A few years ago, gender fluidity was rarely addressed in childrens and young adult fiction. It
remained one of the last taboos in
a publishing category that had already taken on difficult issues
like suicide, drug abuse, rape and
sex trafficking. But childrens literature is catching up to the
broader culture, as stereotypes of
transgender characters have given way to nuanced and sympathetic portrayals on TV shows
like Orange Is the New Black
and Transparent.
Recently, the highly publicized
transformation of the reality TV
star and former Olympian Bruce
Jenner into Caitlyn Jenner reContinued on Page 18
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Recession Still Hitting Schools
Pope Urges Bosnia to End Rifts
Mark of a Champion
What Makes a Woman?
The impact of the recession may have

eased in many places, but not for a maPAGE 16
jority of school systems.
On a visit to Bosnia, Pope Francis called

for greater religious reconciliation and
an end to the sectarian conflicts that still
PAGE 11
threaten the country.
Serena Williams, ailing, started strong

but needed a third set to top Lucie Safarova in the French Open final. Novak
Djokovic also was tested in defeating
PAGE 5
Andy Murray in a semifinal.
When Lawrence H. Summers was president of Harvard and suggested that

women and men have different brains,
he was immediately branded a sexist
and a troglodyte. But when Bruce Jenner said much the same thing in an interview with Diane Sawyer in April, he
PAGE 1
was lionized for his bravery.
Seeking Unity Against Russia
Funeral for a Biden Original
Members of SEAL Team 6 and other units parachuted over the

Indian Ocean for the rescue of Richard Phillips, a ship captain.
Transgender Childrens Books Breaking a Taboo
INTERNATIONAL 4-15
NATIONAL 16-23
They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the

badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they have
emerged soaked in blood that
was not their own. On clandestine raids in the dead of the night,
their weapons of choice have
ranged from customized carbines
to primeval tomahawks.
Around the world, they have
run spying stations disguised as
commercial boats, posed as civilian employees of front companies
and operated undercover at embassies as male-female pairs,
tracking those the United States
wants to kill or capture.
Those operations are part of
the hidden history of the Navys
SEAL Team 6, one of the nations
most mythologized, most secretive and least scrutinized military
organizations. Once a small
group reserved for specialized
but rare missions, the unit best
known for killing Osama bin
Laden has been transformed by
more than a decade of combat
into a global manhunting machine.
That role reflects Americas
new way of war, in which conflict
is distinguished not by battlefield
wins and losses, but by the relentless killing of suspected militants.
Almost everything about SEAL
Team 6, a classified Special Operations unit, is shrouded in secrecy the Pentagon does not
even publicly acknowledge that
name though some of its exploits have emerged in largely
admiring accounts in recent
years. But an examination of
Team 6s evolution, drawn from
dozens of interviews with current
and former team members, other

military officials and reviews of
government documents, reveals
a far more complex, provocative
tale.
While fighting grinding wars of
attrition in Afghanistan and Iraq,
Team 6 performed missions elsewhere that blurred the traditional
lines between soldier and spy.
The teams sniper unit was remade to carry out clandestine intelligence operations, and the
SEALs joined Central Intelligence Agency operatives in an
initiative called the Omega Program, which offered greater latitude in hunting adversaries.
Team 6 has successfully carried out thousands of dangerous
raids that military leaders credit
with weakening militant networks, but its activities have also
spurred
recurring
concerns
about excessive killing and civilian deaths.
Afghan villagers and a British
commander accused SEALs of
indiscriminately killing men in
one hamlet; in 2009, team members joined C.I.A. and Afghan
paramilitary forces in a raid that
left a group of youths dead and
inflamed tensions between Afghan and NATO officials. Even
an American hostage freed in a
dramatic rescue has questioned
why the SEALs killed all his captors.
When suspicions have been
raised about misconduct, outside
oversight has been limited. Joint
Special Operations Command,
which oversees SEAL Team 6
missions, conducted its own inquiries into more than a halfdozen episodes, but seldom referred them to Navy investigators. JSOC investigates JSOC,
and thats part of the problem,
said one former senior military
officer experienced in special opContinued on Page 12
At a meeting of the Group of 7 world

powers, President Obama plans to press
for a strong, united stand against RusPAGE 8
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A Water Grab in California

Farmers who can afford to are drilling
deeper for water, but those new wells
are turning neighbors into foes. PAGE 1
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The Campaign Trail Start-Up
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,

29, has swiftly gained more power than
any Saudi prince has ever had. PAGE 10
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and hire staff at a pace that would make
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BY GLEN LUKE FLANAGAN
Staff Writer
Morganton fitness buffs will have

a new spot to build their muscles
when a Marion-based fitness center
expands to the Fiddlers Run shopping center this month.
Club Fitness is slated to move into
the building Dollar Tree just va-
cated, said property owner Arthur

Whedon.
The center will consist of 8,000
square feet, and will be Club Fitness
third location and the first location outside Marion.
In addition to this outfit, we probably had two national fitness franchises contact us as well, Whedon
said. Apparently, Morganton has
been a laggard in fitness clubs and is

starting to get attention.
The fitness industry is expanding
nationally, Club Fitness owner and
operator Danny White said, and
Morganton is ready to take part in
the trend.
Every town is going to have one,
White said. Every big town is going
to have two or three. Morganton is
just ready for big-time fitness.
The center will hire locally, and
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Golden LEAF grant

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BY GLEN LUKE FLANAGAN

Staff Writer
Contractors with the city of Morganton are working to keep wastewater

down in the sewers and rainwater out of
the sewers as part of an ongoing manhole rehabilitation project.
With many of the citys manholes at
least a half a century old, theyre in danger of not holding a seal as well as they
should, said Brad Boris, director of the
Water Resources Department. Were
saving ourselves a lot of headaches,
Boris said. Its not only saving the city
money; its also showing were good
stewards of the environment.
The projects goal is to prevent rainwater from getting into the sewage system
and prevent wastewater from backing
up and creating a stink. When rainwater
enters the system, the city is required by
law to process it, but doesnt make any
revenue from it.
Lets say we got a lot of rain and it gets
into the pipes that will hydraulically
overload the system, Boris said. If you
have it build up into a manhole and
theres cracks in it, it could seep out and
potentially have a sewer spill.
With the program entering its second
year, the city has seen about $2 saved for
every $1 spent on rehabilitation, Boris
said. The project had $100,000 in funding for the 2014-15 fiscal year, and this
year, the director has requested double
that amount.
The contractors currently are focused
BY SHARON MCBRAYER
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Ludwin Melendez heads into a manhole in downtown Morganton to make sure

its up to standards.
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It wasnt the whole shebang, but a community college is getting a huge chunk
of a grant it applied for to expand a program to teach skills manufacturers say are
needed.
Western Piedmont Community College
received word last week that it has been
awarded a $750,000 grant from Golden
LEAF Foundation for expansion of the
colleges engineering building and its mechatronics program. The total grant application was around $1.3 million.
We are deeply grateful for the foundations decision to fund our proposal and
we believe their support is the catalyst that
will make this project successful, said Atticus Simpson, vice president for student
development at WPCC. We are also very
proud of our internal grant development
team for putting such a strong proposal
together. They put a lot of hard work and
thought into this proposal, and their efforts have served us well.
Simpson said the award would not have
been possible without the Burke County
Board of Commissioners, which provided
a financial commitment and encouragement.
Burke Countys proposed budget for
2015-16 includes a $433,000 match for
the Golden LEAF Foundation grant. Even
though the foundation didnt award the
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A customer looks over shotguns on a rack Saturday at Mon-Dak Sports Center

& Pawn in Dickinson. With the rise of online classified sites, pawn shops say
theyre still the best way to make a firearm transaction between individuals, since
they can do background checks.
Old couches, kitchen appliances, used clothes, phones and cars

are some of the things you expect
to find while scrolling through
online classified sites. But in
addition to those more common
items, you can also find weapons,
including knives and guns for
sale.
In a retail setting, these items
are regulated, restricting who can
own them based off a background
check.
But restrictions on private
sales are limited and difficult to
enforce.
Its definitely a loophole in the
law, Capt. Dave Wilkie said.
The state does prohibit supplying a firearm to a person the
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transferor knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is prohibited from possessing a weapon,
which constitutes a Class A misdemeanor.
However, several law offices
in Dickinson reported that these
types of cases rarely, if ever,
come across their desk.
Wilkie said private sellers could
do a quick background check on
a potential buyer through the
states court system, but added it
is unlikely anyone does so before
selling a weapon.
If you are selling on one of
these sites, like Craigslist, they
will probably give it to the highest bidder, he said.
Despite that, he suspects 99
percent of private transactions
are legal.
Its really that 1 percent, he
said. But thats what we deal with.

If a business carries weapons,
they are required to conduct
background checks on potential
buyers.
Dakota Loan & Pawn manager
Raymond Gentry said firearms
frequently change hands at his
store.
The transaction is one that
is regulated on both ends, first
when the gun is brought into the
shop and again when an individual
expresses interest in purchasing
a weapon.
When a seller brings a weapon
in to pawn, Gentry said he works
closely with law enforcement officials to ensure that it is not stolen
or tied to a crime. If it is, he said,
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BISMARCK The newest chairman

of North Dakotas Republican Party is
from Dickinson.
Sen. Kelly Armstrong was unanimously elected by
the party Saturday
afternoon during a
statewide GOP committee meeting at the
Doublewood Inn.
Armstrong
will
serve a two-year
Armstrong
term as he chairs
the GOPs executive
committee. The position primarily takes
the lead for Republican messaging and
candidate recruitment in the state.
I think I can bring some things to
the table that help the Republican Party
experience success in the future, Armstrong said in a phone interview.
Former GOP Chairman Robert Harms
announced to party officials Friday
morning that he would not seek re-election to a second term.
Armstrong said he intends to keep his
District 36 senate seat. He was elected
in 2012 and will seek re-election in 2016.
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Grace Umuhire, a Rwandan genocide survivor and

an organizer of Kwibuka, an event being held in
Dickinson next Saturday to remember the genocide,
beleives its important for Rwandans to teach about
their experiences in that time.
21 years after genocide, Rwandans in Dickinson plan remembrance

By Andrew Haffner
ahaffner@thedickinsonpress.com
Though the Great Plains of North Dakota

are far from the equatorial mountains and
savannahs of Rwanda, human connections
have created deep bonds between these places in recent years as an increasingly diverse
globalized work force has settled in the state.
In a more sobering example of this, Dickinsons Rwandan Tutsi community will be holding a commemoration next Saturday to mark
21 years since the end of the 1994 genocide
against them.
The gathering that begins at 4 p.m. at the
Elks Lodge is part of the Kwibuka series
of remembrance events held by Rwandans
across the world and will be the first to take
place in North Dakota.
Grace Umuhire, a genocide survivor and an
organizer of the event, said it is important for
Rwandans to teach about their experiences in
that time and the often personal nature of the
killings.
We were neighbors, we were friends, but
we were different tribes Hutu and Tutsi,

she said. One day, things changed and they
came to kill my family.
Andrew Ndayambaje, another event organizer, said Saturdays sessions will be beneficial
not only for Tutsi immigrants and survivors,
but for the town as a whole.
We welcome everybody to come because
rather than just remembering our own, which
is so personal and important to us Rwandans,
we also think its important for the people that
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North Dakota, a center of the U.S. shale
revolution, say OPEC made a questionable bet when it decided on Friday
to stick with a policy that aims to push
higher cost American producers out of
the market by keeping output high.
Here, in the top U.S. oil state after
Texas, oil companies have slashed
costs over the last seven months to
reach fighting weight one that will
allow them to profit despite the more
than 40 percent drop in prices over the
past year and solidify the new American role as the worlds swing supplier.
The policy OPEC first adopted in
November has brought stress, but not

catastrophe. Oil companies say they
have recalibrated their operations to
survive even if prices stay lower for a
long while.
High commodity prices hide a lot
of inefficiencies in the system, said
Tommy Nusz, chief executive of Oasis
Petroleum, which pumps about 58,000
barrels per day in North Dakota.
Most companies will come out of
this cycle stronger.
Indeed, while the number of North
Dakota drilling rigs has plunged sharply
so far this year the count sat at 81
on Friday, down from 146 in early February the states oil production has
proven resilient.
Output fell slightly in January and

February, but jumped in March, highlighting the potential of shale wells to
ramp up or down quickly, regardless of
the cartels actions.
OPEC still is our main competition,
said Lynn Helms, head of North Dakotas Department of Mineral Resources
and the state oil industrys main regulator and promoter.
But what youre seeing now is the
Bakken becoming the swing producer,
something that has happened relatively
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Lisa Roberson
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ELYRIA It was a long walk for

such little legs.
Thursday afternoon, Braylon Malone, whom teachers crowned the
leader of the pack, took a few
sheepish steps along a stretched-out
roll of red construction paper laid
out to resemble a red carpet in the
gymnasium of Elyrias Franklin Elementary School. Dressed like he was
more than ready to start his summer
vacation white T-shirt and green
shorts 5-year-old Braylon had a

slow but determined gait and a shy
smile on his face.
On each side of him were his
classmates parents, some community friends and several teachers
seated in rows of chairs. In front of
him stood his teacher, urging him
with an outstretched hand to come
to her.
And, he almost made it to the end
uninterrupted.
Then Braylon spotted two familiar
faces: his aunt, Celess Santanio, and
mother, Alissa Santanio. He
stopped, cocked his head to one side

and tried to slide into the aisle next
to them.
He has loved school this year,
Alissa Santanio said of her son
before the ceremony started. He
cant wait for kindergarten to come.
He said summer is going to take too
long.
Despite Braylons shy demeanor,
Celess Santanio nudged her nephew
on. He had to go up front and take
his seat with the rest of his class. The
See FIRST, A2
KRISTIN BAUER / CHRONICLE
Pharoah rules
Horse wins first
Triple Crown
in 37 years
Franklin Elementary
Preschool graduate
Braylon Malone, 5,
visits with his aunt,
Celess Santanio, of
Elyria, while making
his way down the
aisle during his
graduation
ceremony
Thursday. Braylon
was named
Leader of the
Pack for his
preschool class.
Church
saves for
pastors
journey
Lisa Roberson
The Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA A plaque commemorating years of service or maybe a celebratory dinner church congregations have numerous ways to honor a
pastor for a milestone anniversary.
But in 2014, the membership of
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist
Church decided it wanted to do
something grand for senior pastor the
Rev. Marcettes L.
Cunningham and his
wife, Felicia. The couple came to lead the
church in November
1994.
As a result, the Cunninghams ventured to
Greece for a 10-day Cunningham
land and sea journey
last month that had them following in
the footsteps of Apostle Paul, who visited many European countries to
spread Christianity after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.
While Paul was not one of Jesus original 12 disciples, he spread the word
of Christianity more than anyone else
and to follow his remarkable journey
set thousands of years ago was an
awe-inspiring experience for Cunningham.
At Mount Zion we believe its Gods
ultimate plan for us to be the best testimony for Jesus Christ we can be for
Elyria and surrounding areas, he
said. In the last two decades, we have
certainly grown numerically and
financially, but I am most thankful for
our spiritual growth.
Mount Zion has about 320 members with about 150 to 175 members
attending services each Sunday.
Last year marked Cunninghams
20th year at the church and it was a
full year of celebration that capped off
with a service where the sabbatical
trip was announced. That also was
done in an elaborate way with three
members of the church coming to the
pulpit with a gift-wrapped box in
hand with instruction for Cunningham to pick one. However, each contained the gift of the trip.
It was a breathtaking moment
when we gave him this gift because he
is a wonderful man of God, said
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American Pharoah, with jockey

Victor Espinoza, runs during the
147th Belmont Stakes horse race
Saturday in Elmont, N.Y.
E1 AND E4
Fans go wild as American Pharoah earns rare honor

Pharoah on Saturday as he pulled ahead decades to witness such a feat again.
I feel like I was honestly a part of history
down the final stretch, jumping and hugging
today, said New York City resident Zach
as
the
bay
colt
crossed
the
finish
line
and
NEW YORK It was a party racing has
Witkoff, 22, who last year left Belmont Park
rode into history with the Triple Crown.
been waiting 37 years to throw.
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Jubilant fans cheered on American Spectators have waited more than three
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The seniors stand for
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Avon Lake High School
Principal Dr. Joanie
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graduating class
Saturday evening during
commencement
exercises.
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When OUdoctoralcandidatesJoseph Frederickson and

Janessa Doucette-Frederickson
began digging in 2010, neither
expected to make a discovery of
a lifetime.
Three 100-million-year-old
fossils found in Tarrant County,
Texas are believed to be the

remains of a giant Cretaceous era
shark. Details of the discovery
were published Wednesday and
are free at PLOS ONE, an online
journal for researchers. Both are
doctoral students at the University of Oklahoma.
The fossils are part of a collection for researchers at the
Sam Noble Museum of Natural
History.
As undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
the couple started a paleontology
club and set out to dig all over
the U.S. They decided to dig at
the Duck Creek Formation near
Fort Worth, Texas for extinct
marine creatures, where Janessa
ended up in the right place at the
right time.
I tripped over a rock that had

a fossil in it, Janessa said. We
discovered it was something not
at all expected. We were really
surprised at the size this is way
bigger than its supposed to be.
The edge of the fossil that she
tripped on, known as lamellae,
are lines that helped identify the
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Master Gardener Patricia Welty demonstrates

proper hospitality for red wiggler worms
By Joy Hampton
Senior Staff Writer
Cleveland County Master

Gardener Patricia Welty doesnt
mind getting her hands dirty. Like
many gardeners, Welty believes
soil has healing properties above
and beyond the psychologically
therapeutic value of gardening.
Welty also doesnt mind running
her fingers through one of the best
organic fertilizers around worm
castings. Worm castings is polite
societys term for worm poop
which looks like very rich dirt.
Theres no odor, Welty said.
She should know, shes had
worm bins for about 15 years.
Welty taught a vermicomposting (composting with worms)
If you build one, I suggest

you build something where
you can collect the liquid at
the bottom.
Patricia Welty,
Cleveland County
Master Gardener
workshop on Saturday at the

Cleveland County Master Gardeners teaching garden in the
southwest corner of the county
fairgrounds, 615 E. Robinson
Street in Norman.
At the Cleveland County Master
Gardeners teaching garden, the
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Saturday at the Cleveland County teaching garden.
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bounds in Oregon over the
past few decades.
Oregon culture evolves from hunting to hiking

By Zach Urness |
Statesman Journal
Once upon a time in Oregon and the United

States, if you identified yourself as an outdoorsman, there was a good chance you were talking
about hunting and fishing.
The ethos of Ernest Hemingways hunting and
fishing stories and the philosophical nature of
Norman Macleans A River Runs Through It
permeated a culture in which men traveled to the
forest with a rifle or fishing rod in hand.
In the 1970s, one in four Oregonians went fishing and one in seven went hunting, according to
the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
That was the culture that I grew up with. In my
family, you didnt go hiking without a gun or boating without a way to catch fish.
But as the decades have passed, the concept of
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Stand-up paddle-boarding has become increasingly

popular for those exploring rivers in the Pacific
Northwest.
outdoor recreation has undergone a slow but

steady transformation. The outdoor experience is
no longer dominated by fishing and hunting but
has broadened with the expansion of traditional
activities such as hiking and new activities such as
stand-up paddle-boarding.
Despite a statewide population that has almost
doubled, there are fewer fishers and hunters in
Oregon today than in the 1970s.
The rate of participation has declined by half,
Fish and Wildlife says, with one in eight Oregonians fishing and one in 17 hunting since 2010.
So what happened?
Well, a number of things.
The decline of fisheries and game is one major
factor.
See OUTDOORS, Page 6A
Hunters, anglers fear proposed license fee raise

By Henry Miller | Statesman Journal
Many anglers and hunters who have shouldered the bulk of the financial load for the Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife say proposed
license and tag increases will be the straw that
breaks their backs.
Even the department estimates that the incremental license and fee increases in the 201517 budget proposal working through the Oregon
Legislature would lead to 10,000 dropping out.
If we lost 10,000 customers, the last thing
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Brooks Eilertson, of Sherwood, who works at
Fishermans Marine & Outdoor in Portland.
Some said they were already feeling the
pinch.
I cannot afford these fee increases any
longer, said Don Voeks, of Gresham, who
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annual license and has gone to individual days.
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annual licenses anymore. These fees are too

much.
Voeks is not a casual angler. He is a member
of the Sandy River Chapter of the Association of
Northwest Steelheaders and a volunteer anglereducation instructor for the department.
Examples of fee hikes

Under the proposal, a resident hunting license
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Justice Department
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By Liz Navratil
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Firm, CMU partner
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Victor Espinoza reacts Saturday after crossing the finish line with American Pharoah to win the 147th running
of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah became the first horse to win the
Triple Crown since Affirmed won it in 1978.
American Pharoah
wins Triple Crown
By Eric Crawford
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American Pharoahs owner basks

in glory of horses Triple Crown
victory. Sports, C-1
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At a tiny college in Virginia, students and faculty are desperately trying

to prevent its closing. At the center of the controversy is their past president,
Jo Ellen Parker now president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
At Sweet Briar,
a sour feeling
Obama seeks
to reinforce
isolation
of Russia
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
The New York Times
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Above: Sweet Briar College faculty members acknowledge

graduates after being recognized during an emotional
commencement on May 16 near Amherst, Va. The school is likely
to close after 114 years. Left: Jo Ellen Parker, the president of the
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, in her office on April 2014.
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Minorities seek greater representation

Only 3 members of
Governor Raimondos
cabinet are people of color
By Edward Fitzpatrick
Journal Political Columnist
When you look at Governor Raimondos 26 cabinet membersand

the 112 appointments she has made
to state boards and commissions,
you see that 23.2 percent of that

totalare people of color nearly
identical to Rhode Islands overall
racial makeup.
But if you take a closer look, you
see that just 3 of those 26 cabinet members are people of color
(two African-Americans and one
Latino). And, of the people Raimondo has appointed who now
chair boards and commissions, all
nine are white.
IN RHODE ISLAND
It is not enough. It is time to
get with the times, said Dr. Pablo
Rodriguez, president of Rhode
Island's Latino Public Radio and

founding president of the Rhode
Island Latino Political Action
Committee. The challenge for
the future is having true power in
the hands of the diverse community having African-Americans,
Latinos, Asians and Native Americans in visible positions of power.
Rodriguez noted Latinos make
up 14 percent of Rhode Islands
population, yet the governors
cabinet includes just one Latino

Melba Depena, director ofthe state
Department of Human Services.
Its not like 30 years ago when
there were hardly any Latino professional and qualified people to
serve in a number of roles, he said.
We have enough talent. Not to
mention, she went out of state [to
find some cabinet members].
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R.I. ECONOMY
OVERDOSED: RHODE ISLANDS DRUG EPIDEMIC
No clear
verdict on
Raimondos
incentives
Taking the ght

to the streets
Some developers hail

governors plans to
kickstart growth, but
experts are split on
their effectiveness
By Patrick Anderson
Journal Staff Writer
Second in a series on Governor

Raimondo's plans for economic
growth
Rhode Islands tallest building
remains empty, mostly dark and,
during the cooler months, heated
by a trailer-mounted furnace
parked on Westminster Street.
Known as the Superman Building, the 26-story Industrial
National Bank building has come
to symbolize the weakness of the
Rhode Island economy since Bank
of America moved out in April
2012.
Even before its boiler failed, the
cost of renovating the 1928 landmark was going to be expensive.
But if demand for downtown
Providence real estate were
stronger and companies were
clamoring for Financial District
offices, someone, if not the current
Outreach workers say scarce supply of Narcan

inhibits effort to save lives lost to drug overdoses
By Lynn Arditi
Journal Staff Writer
ENTRAL FALLS Down the

block from a convenience store,
the doors of a yellow van slide
open and a team of outreach
workers spills onto the sidewalk.
Keith Thompson, red baseball cap
cocked to the side, works the block like
a salesman chatting up customers. He
can spot a heroin addict: Glassy eyes.
Swollen hands. Skin sores.
A middle-age man leaves the store and
Thompson moves in.

Hello, sir?
Thompson reaches into a paper bag
and pulls out the bait wrapped in
shiny foil. The free condoms make the
younger guys laugh, but almost nobody
turns them down. And it fills precious
seconds while Thompson waves over
his co-worker for the harder sell: naloxone. The medication, known by its
brand name Narcan, is an injection or
nasal spray that can resuscitate people
SEE OVERDOSED, A10
Ray Johnson, of AIDS Care Ocean State, shows

someone on a street in Central Falls an overdose
prevention kit, containing naloxone and needles.
In the background is Keith Thompson, a member
of the team of outreach workers who look for
people on the street who might use the kit to
save lives. At top are items from the kit including
vials of the antidote and syringes.
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doses waiting to be distributed. Also, the
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U.S. JOB MARKET
More jobs
but not
nancial
security
By Josh Boak
and Christopher S. Rugaber
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WASHINGTON The U.S.

economy is churning out a lot of
jobs these days but not a lot of
financial security for many of the
people who hold them.
Pay growth, though improving, remains tepid. Many workers
have few opportunities to advance.
Others have taken temporary,
part-time or freelance jobs, with
little chance of landing full-time
permanent work with benefits.
As a result, many jobs dont
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their earnings power shrinks. So
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growth normally provides.
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Moving farewell
Politicians, military leaders
and celebrities from across the
country came to bid farewell
on Saturday to former
Delaware Attorney General
Beau Biden, whose death at
age 46 opened yet another
chapter of grief for his father,
Vice President Joe Biden.
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Victor Espinoza raises an arm in victory after American Pharoah crosses the
finish line Saturday to win the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at
Belmont Park and the coveted Triple Crown. More coverage in sports, C1.
NEW YORK Finally, a Triple

Crown winner, and after 37 years
of waiting, this one was never in
doubt.
American Pharoah led all the
way to win the Belmont Stakes by
5 lengths on Saturday, becoming
the first horse since 1978 to sweep
the Kentucky Derby, Preakness
and Belmont Stakes one of the
sporting worlds rarest feats.
Wow! Wow! jockey Victor
Espinoza said moments after crossing the finish line. I can only tell
you it just an amazing thing.
The bay colt with the unusually
short tail easily defeated seven SEE PHAROAH PAGE A10
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More to come
Developers and local officials
believe Rite Aid Corp.s new
distribution facility, currently
under construction, will set the
stage for future large-scale
industrial projects. PAGE A11
Putin problem
Behind the tough talk on
Russia expected from
President Barack Obama and
other leaders gathering in
Germany this weekend is a
stark reality. None of the world
powers believes the economic
and diplomatic punishments
levied on Russia for its alleged
aggression in Ukraine are
changing President Vladimir
Putins calculus. PAGE A3
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A New York man who sought
help from a fortuneteller to fix
a romantic relationship says
she scammed him out of more
than $700,000. PAGE A4
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Wage growth weak,
many struggle to
find full-time work
By JOSH BOAK
and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
ate some synergy for the entire

area.
Private investment already
has risen into the tens of millions. Based on a similar facility in Wellington, Fla., the Tryon
International Equestrian Center is
expected to employ 500-600 parttime and seasonal workers and
will add more full-time employees
as hotels and other facilities at the
resort come online in the coming
years.
The development is on its way.
WASHINGTON The U.S.

economy is churning out a lot of
jobs these days but not a lot of
financial security for many of the
people who hold them.
Pay growth, though improving,
remains tepid. Many workers have
few opportunities to advance. Others have taken temporary, parttime or freelance jobs, with little
chance of landing full-time permanent work with benefits.
As a result, many jobs dont
deliver as much economic punch as
efficient in recent months. When
they produce less per hour of work,
their earnings power shrinks. So
the economy doesnt fully benefit from the fuel that healthy job
The result is a discon nect
between the high number of job
gains and a nagging dissatisfaction
among some, both job holders and
job seekers.
Lena Allison lost her job as a private-school kindergarten teacher
in layoffs in September. Allison, 54,
of Los Angeles has since worked
temp jobs and struggled to find permanent work. Online job listings,
she says, have made it hard to get
face-to-face interviews.
More people may be working
jobs, but theyre like these serial
part-time jobs, she said. Theyre
not life-supporting jobs.
Allisons experiences, shared
by millions of other workers, contrast with the economic momentum suggested by the May jobs
report released Friday. The government added a solid 280,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate ticked up
slightly to 5.5 percent, but for a
positive reason: More people decided to start seeking a job, and some
didnt find one.
Hiring surged in the health care,
retail, construction and hospitality
and leisure sectors. Many analysts
and investment managers cheered
as average hourly wages rose at an
annual rate of 2.3 percent from 2.2
percent in April, slightly ahead of
inflation.
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Next up: budget

While the South Carolina
Legislatures regular session
is officially over, the work is
far from done. Legislators
primary task when they return
for a special session June 16
will be passing a budget for the
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rivals in the grueling 1-mile race,

covering the distance in 2:26.65
sixth-fastest in Belmont history
to end the longest stretch without a
Triple Crown champion in history.
That little horse, he deserved
it, trainer Bob Baffert said. Hes
the one that did it. We were basically just passengers.
American Pharoah is the 12th
horse and first since Affirmed in
1978 to win three races on different
tracks at varying distances over a
five-week span. He won the Derby
by one length on May 2 and then
romped to a seven-length victory
in the rainy Preakness two weeks
later before demolishing his rivals
Saturday.
I still cant believe it happened,
said Baffert, at 62 the second-oldest
trainer of a Triple Crown winner.
Baffert and Espinoza ended
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The Tyron International Equestrian Center celebrated its official opening Saturday. The day featured a grand prix, craft
beer festival, carousel rides and the watching of the Belmont Stakes on a JumboTron. See more photos at GoUpstate.com.
Equestrian center trots out

the best for grand opening
By JASON SPENCER
jason.spencer@shj.com
MILL SPRING, N.C. Thousands of people descended on Polk

County Saturday for the grand
opening of the Tryon International Equestrian Center.
Calling the equestrian center a
world-class facility is not hyperbole. The facility is the anchor development of the planned 1,400-acre
Tryon Resort in the Carolina Foothills. Members of the equestrian
press, who travel to similar venues
around the globe, were awestruck
at whats been built so far.
I hope this is the beginning of
a great opportunity for this community to reinvent itself, or just
re-energize itself, said Mark
Bellissimo, who heads the group
of private investors behind the
resort. To build what we have
built in 12 months is nothing short
of a miracle.
The night featured a $210,000
grand prix, a craft beer festival,
the unveiling of a Rolex clock
tower and the live broadcast of
the Belmont Stakes on a JumboTron. Bellissimo and N.C. Gov.
Pat McCrory raised their clasped
hands in celebration as American
Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes
and became the first Triple Crown
winner in 37 years.
Immediately after, four members of the U.S. Special Forces
parachuting team jumped into the
George Morris Arena, one carry-
Members of the U.S. Special Forces parachuting team descend into the George
Morris Arena for the opening ceremonies Saturday.
ing a giant American flag, as country music star Lee Greenwood
sang his hit single God Bless the
U.S.A.
The 6,000-seat George Morris
Arena was full, and organizers
estimated at least another 1,000plus people around the venue.
Three permanent restaurants are
on site, along with a number of
other vendors renting space on a
weekly basis.
To have this incredible new
investment, all at one time, it will
help the entire Carolinas region,
McCrory said. Its going to cre-
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Could save up to $32M per year, avoid Cadillac plan tax

By Ryan Poe
poe@commercialappeal.com
901-268-5074
Nearly a year after cuts to

health insurance benets and
changes to the pension plan
outraged many city of Memphis
employees and retirees, a new
report commissioned by the
city is expected to recommend
more changes that could save as
much as $32 million each year
and avoid a hefty tax in 2018 on
so-called Cadillac plans.

The Memphis City Council
called a special executive session
Wednesday at 11 a.m. to hear a
presentation on the report from
national benets and human
resources consulting rm The
Segal Group.
Probably the single biggest
change recommended by Segal,
according to a draft of the report
obtained by The Commercial
Appeal, is to add a health plan
option for active employees and
retirees without Medicare that

couples a high deductible with a
personal health account. Adding
the option, which is not uncommon in the private sector, could
save the city between $5 million
and $10 million from the citys
current annual health care expenses, according to the report.
The report also recommends
several changes to how the citys
retiree benets package works
with Medicare that could save
$10 million to $12 million. Rec-
ommendations include requiring retirees to enroll in Medicare

Part B, which covers medically
necessary and preventive services; implementing a Medicare Advantage plan that costs retirees
more for out-of-network medical services and restructuring
retiree health subsidies to give
higher subsidies for more years
of service.
Segal also recommended
changes to the citys prescription
drug plan, primarily aimed at
promoting use of generic drugs
We all knew
there would
have to be certain
changes due to the
poor decisions made
by the administration.
But this would be
much more doable.
This wouldnt leave
anybody behind.
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Fran Triplett, wife of

Memphis police officer
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American Pharoah rst to sweep since 1978
Ridden by jockey Victor Espinoza, American Pharoah (far right), leads Materiality and the rest of the eld down the back stretch Saturday during the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, N.Y., to become the rst Triple Crown winner claiming victories in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont
in the same year since 1978 when a thoroughbred named Afrmed took the honor. See story, 1D.
I-55/Crump work skirts French Fort

Historic neighborhood quiet, secluded
By Tom Charlier
charlier@commercialappeal.com
901-529-2572
Marvin Housley lives in an enclave so tranquil and close-knit he

can venture out to ride his bike at
4 a.m., cruising under the streetlights past neighbors hes known
for decades, with few worries
about crime or traffic.
The only thing I worry about
(running into) is the paper man,
he said.
Housley, a 50-year-old building engineer, doesnt reside in a
gated community in the suburbs.
His home is barely a mile from
Downtown Memphis, in the historic French Fort neighborhood.
Like many other residents
in the subdivision, he says he
wouldnt want to live anywhere
else. Theres a seclusion here that
we want to keep.
After several years of discus-
sions with the Tennessee Department of Transportation over

its plans to rebuild Interstate 55
at Crump Boulevard, Housley
and residents in the other 140 or
so homes in French Fort are getting their wish. Although TDOTs
original plans would have run a
six-lane interstate through the
northeastern corner of the neighborhood, taking as many as nine
homes, the department has revamped the project to avoid it
entirely.
The $57 million project, which
will require the nine-month closure of the Memphis & Arkansas
Bridge in 2017, is designed to eliminate the hazards and congestion
created when vehicles negotiate
the tight, outmoded cloverleaf interchange just east of the bridge.
It replaces the cloverleaf with
a sweeping curve between the
bridge and the nearby alignment
of I-55 though Southwest Mem-
STAN CARROLL/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
After years of discussions with the Tennessee Department of Transportation

over its plans to rebuild Interstate 55 at Crump Boulevard, the 140 or so residents of French Fort will get their wish the neighborhood will not be touched.
phis, while also separating city

street traffic from the interstate.
Construction will begin next year
and last three years.
TDOT was able to spare the
neighborhood by changing the

geometry of the curve, swinging
it farther east while also avoiding
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WASHINGTON U.S.Sen.Bob
Corker could have been a
presidential contender, but
he decided instead to focus
on his new role as the GOPs
top foreign-relations guru.
Gov. Bill Haslam was
occasionally mentioned as
a possible candidate, but he
prefers the statehouse to the
White House.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn ended speculation
about her political future
when she announced back
in January that, no, she
would not run for president.
Americans on the left and
the right will have plenty of
choices when they decide
next year who will succeed
President Barack Obama.
But one option they wont
have is sending a Tennessean to the White House.
For the second election in
a row, the state that gave the
country three presidents
Andrew Jackson, James K.
Polk and Andrew Johnson
has no one running for
the highest elective office in
the land.
The last time back-toback presidential elections
took place without a Tennessean on the ticket was
four decades ago in the 1972
and 1976 races. Even then,
Tennesseans werent totally
out of the game. President
Gerald Ford seriously considered naming then-Sen.
Howard Baker as his vice
presidential running mate
in 1976 but ended up picking
Bob Dole instead.
So why are no Tennesseans running in a year in
which the GOP eld is the
largest in recent memory
and the contest is packed
with long shots like Republicans Lindsey Graham and
Rick Santorum and Democrats Martin OMalley and
Lincoln Chafee?
The answer is not that
the state is lacking political
talent or suffering a diminished reputation on the national stage. It has more to
do with the ambitions and
goals of the current crop of
state leaders, the state of the
two major political parties
and the changing dynamics
of the presidential contests
themselves, analysts say.
You have to really, really
want to run for president,
said Tom Ingram, a veteran
political consultant who has
been involved in numerous
statewide races in Tennessee. It gets tougher every
cycle, with the process and
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Belmont Stakes ends a 37-year
drought for the Triple Crown
title. For jockey Victor Espinoza,
far right, the race was his third
attempt at netting the historic win.
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Picture perfect
Seasons end
McAllen Arts Council

congratulates art winners.
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Hidalgo Pirates baseball

has playoff run halted.
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UTRGV recruiting instructors like mad

UTPA president:
University missed
major target time
for faculty hires
BY SKY CHADDE
STAFF WRITER
Hiring professors takes about

nine months. The regions new
public university is trying to do
it in half the time.
Because of the amount of
time the University of Texas Rio
Grande Valley went from bill to
building, the time it took to secure funding and to receive approval for its new departments,
faculty job postings went up
later than at a more-established
school, administrators said.
Despite that, UTRGV officials
said they expect to have teachers even if its contingency
faculty for all the classes they
plan to offer.
We missed the major target time for faculty hires, said
Havidn Rodriguez, the University of Pan Americans interim
president and a member of
A student
holds a sign
Dec. 13,
2013, as
the board
of regents
announces
that UT Rio
Grande Valley
is the name
of the new
university in
South Texas.
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UTRGV President Guy Baileys

transition team. Weve been a
little late to the game.
Department heads are working hard to fill as many positions
as possible before school starts
Aug. 31, said Cynthia Brown,
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McAllen takes
another look at
civic center site
Officials have been considering proposal
for retail space, according to memo
BY SKY CHADDE
STAFF WRITER
Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com
Police presence
A member of the Edinburg Vice Unit stands outside a home May 29 on South 29th Street in Edinburg.
Edinburg vice unit targets street-level crime

BY LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER
ictor Garza sat on a folding chair in the front porch

of his home his hands cuffed behind him, his
head down.
The 19-year-old man could only

sit and watch as SWAT team members guarded the perimeter of his
home in the 400 block of South 29th
Street moments after they and
members of the Edinburg Police
Vice Unit raided the suspected drug
house.
Garza and two women, who
were home when SWAT members
Inside: See a rundown of
the vice units investigations.
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pounded on their front door, were

handcuffed and interviewed in
the driveway area of the home as
See VICE | 12a
ABOUT
Edinburg
Vice unit
Formed: Nov. 2013

Vice Squad
responsibilities:
>> Infiltrate streetlevel drug-dealing
>> Prostitution
eradication
>> Organized crime
interdiction
>> Disrupt gambling in
the city
Cash seized to date:
$249,548
McALLEN The northwest corner of South 10th

Street and Expressway 83
used to be reserved for traveling plays, dance recitals
and mariachi performances.
But soon, the McAllen Civic Center property
could be home to dinner
reservations.
Over the past several
months, city commissioners have been considering
a proposal to remake the
See civic center | 13a
Hidalgo County to
pay more to ship
inmates elsewhere
La Villa prison
changes ownership,
raising costs from
overcrowding jail
BY KRISTEN MOSBRUCKER
AND JARED TAYLOR
STAFF WRITERS
EDINBURG A new
owner at the detention center in La Villa prompted Hidalgo County to sign a new
deal to send inmates at its
overcrowded jail elsewhere.
GEO Group in February
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civic center property into a

retail space complete with
shops, restaurants, bars
and a hotel, according to a
city memo.
Theres nothing concrete yet, said District 6
Commissioner Veronica
Vela Whitacre. That is a
focal point of our city. We
want to do it right.
Because no deal has
been signed, the commissioners
interviewed
for this story declined to
acquired the East Hidalgo

Detention Center, which was
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would reach contract.
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a common
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In the aftermath of a pay-forplay scandal that has his two predecessors facing multiple criminal charges, newly minted Utah
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While there may have been a
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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney looks on as Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman joins eventual 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain at a GOP fundraiser at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. To Romneys chagrin, Huntsman endorsed McCain. Romney and Huntsman later squared off as presidential candidates in the run-up to the 2012 election.
2006 Southern Republican

Leadership Conference knew
the lyrics the opening lines to
the theme song from the Disney
television series Davy Crockett. Romney, though, changed
the last line, turning his impromptu concert into a tepid
joke about Tennessee Sen. Bill
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Doc-torrr, Doctor Bill Frist,
king of the wild frontier.
The crowd chuckled politely.
One columnist winced.

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Clark Griswold gooness made
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Repeating last seasons success, the Cavaliers win a trip to the College World Series
Virginia baseball players scale the outeld fences at Davenport Field after defeating Maryland, 5-4. With the win, the Cavaliers punched their ticket to the College World Series.
BY ANDREW RAMSPACHER
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The University of Virginia

baseball team is going back to
the College World Series.
As crazy it sounds. As wild as
it played out.
Freshman Ernie Clement hit
a walk-off two-run single in
the ninth inning as the Cava-
liers rallied for a 5-4 win over

Maryland on Saturday afternoon to clinch the programs
second straight trip to Omaha, Nebraska, and its fourth
since 2009.
This ones really, really special, said UVa coach Brian
OConnor.
On the outside of the ACC
Tournament three weeks ago,
Virginia has yet to lose a game

in this NCAA Tournament.
Saturday, it appeared the
Wahoos would nally crack.
But they strung together ve
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Wehunginthere,OConnor
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we found a way.
The dramatic ending was
the perfect encore to Fridays
For its 25th anniversary, free speech

center wants a mobile monument
BY DEREK QUIZON
dquizon@dailyprogress.com | 978-7254
In 1997, the Thomas Jefferson

Center for the Protection of Free
Expression brought the Rev. Jerry
Falwell and pornographer Larry
Flynt together for a debate on
freedom of speech and expression.
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a free society is toleration, Flynt

said at the start of the debate with
the outspoken conservative pastor. You have to tolerate things
that you dont necessarily like.
That is one of the chief messages the Thomas Jefferson Center has advocated throughout its
25-year history. Not surprisingly,
Director Josh Wheeler and former
Director Bob M. ONeil both cite
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right, Westboro Baptist Church
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rst game of this series.
Kevin Doherty, with his
bases-clearing double in the
eighth inning, was the hero
then. Clement, UVas No. 9 hitter, played the role Saturday.
The Cavaliers (39-22) will
open College World Series
play next week against the Arkansas-Missouri State winner.
Charlottesville City Council
Many Democrats on ballot,

but many different opinions
BY CHRIS SUAREZ
csuarez@dailyprogress.com | 978-7274
If history repeats itself, the

candidates who earn the Democratic Partys nomination in
Tuesdays primary will end
up on the Charlottesville City
Council next year.
While the biennial Democratic primaries have made
the November
general elections for the
City
Council
somewhat predictable, it does
not mean the
partys candidates are homogenous.
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SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Walking the beat

in others shoes
Officers volunteer for enhanced training to better serve
those with mental illness, substance abuse issues
By the numbers
60%
Workers
struggle
to make
a living
Employment rate
ignores job quality,
financial security
By Josh Boak
and Christopher Rugaber
Associated Press
WASHINGTON The
U.S. economy is churning
out a lot of jobs these days
but not a lot of financial security for many of the people who hold them.
Pay growth, though improving, remains tepid.
Many workers have few
opportunities to advance.
Others have taken temporary, part-time or freelance
jobs, with little chance of
landing full-time permanent work with benefits.
As a result, many jobs
dont deliver as much economic punch as they used to.
Part of the reason is that
U.S. workers have grown
less efficient in recent
months. When they produce less per hour of work,
their earnings power
shrinks. So the economy
doesnt fully benefit from
the fuel that healthy job
The result is a disconnect between the high
number of jobs gained and
a nagging dissatisfaction
among some, both job holders and job seekers.
Lena Allison lost her job
as a private-school kinder-
More than 60 percent of local jail inmates had

some type of mental illness, according to a 2006
Bureau of Justice Statistics study. Spokane patrol
Officer Shane Phillips estimates a quarter to a fifth
of his calls involve someone dealing with a mental
illness or substance abuse issue.
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DAN PELLE danp@spokesman.com
Spokane police Officer Michele Kernkamp, left, talks with Jen Wagner in the Spokane Regional
Health District building after a crisis intervention training session at the countys methadone clinic in April.
By Rachel Alexander
rachela@spokesman.com, (509) 459-5406
Without
Putin, G-7
summit
underway
By Julie Pace
Associated Press
hen Jen Wagner told her story, her last encounter with law enforcement
was fresh in her mind.
The 26-year-old college student is a patient at the Spokane Regional
Health District methadone clinic, which helps people with addictions to heroin or
other opioids get their lives back on track.
In early April, she was pulled over by a state
trooper because she swerved while trying to grab a
pacifier for her daughter from the back seat, she
said. The trooper asked if she was on any drugs, and
she explained she was on a prescribed dose of
methadone. He got verbally aggressive and
threatened to call CPS, she said, her voice shaking
as she related the story.
Spokane police Officer Michele Kernkamp, who
works patrol on the North Side, was visiting the
clinic that April morning to hear stories like
Wagners. She listened intently as patients shared
stories about how methadone treatment has
changed their lives. More than once, she shook her

head and said Wow or I had no idea.
What it comes down to is were nave, the
officer said to Wagner after hearing her story. We
have no idea what methadone is.
Kernkamp is one of 13 Spokane police officers
working to replace that navet with knowledge.
They volunteered to go through more than 60 hours
of training to help them better respond to crisis
situations and work with people who have mental
illnesses or struggle with substance abuse.
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WASHINGTON Behind the tough talk on Russia expected from President Barack Obama and
other leaders gathering in
Germany this weekend is a
stark reality.
None of the world powers believes the economic
and diplomatic punishments levied on Russia for
its alleged aggression in
Ukraine are changing
President Vladimir Putins
calculus; yet there are no
plans to shift strategies.
At most, leaders hope to
emerge from two days of
talks in the Bavarian Alps
with an agreement to keep
U.S. and European Union
sanctions against Russia in
place, and perhaps a pledge
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Music festival promotes reviewing
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properties
ENTERTAINMENT: JEWEL CITY JAMBOREE
American
Pharoah wins
Triple Crown
American Pharoah
led all the way to
win the Belmont
Stakes by 5
lengths on Saturday, becoming the
first horse since
1978 to sweep the
Kentucky Derby,
Preakness and Belmont Stakes one
of the sporting
worlds rarest feats.
Sports / 1B
Some may be reused,

some could be sold
By LACIE PIERSON
The Herald-Dispatch
lpierson@herald-dispatch.com
Event hosts 11
musical acts on
second full day
Photos by Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch
ABOVE: Southridge performs during the Jewel City JAMboree on Saturday at Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington. The
three-day festival continues Sunday.
HUNTINGTON School is out for

summer, but some Cabell County Schools
facilities are closed, or about to be closed,
for good.
By the end of the 2015-2016 school year,
the district will be in possession of five
properties, including four school buildings,
that will be vacant.
District officials have started a review
process to determine what will become
of the properties that span from Milton to
Huntingtons West End, which means some
buildings will be demolished and others
will be sold to the most qualified bidder.
The properties in question are the rear
portion of the former Milton High School,
Enslow Middle School, Peyton Elementary
School, Geneva Kent Elementary School
and a lot in the West End where West
Middle School once had a practice field.
Please see SCHOOLS/4A
BELOW: Along with music, the Jewel City JAMboree offers

shopping with several vendors at Harris Riverfront Park in
Huntington.
By LACIE PIERSON
The Herald-Dispatch
lpierson@herald-dispatch.com
Allied veterans and

families of their
fallen comrades
gathered Saturday
at the U.S. cemetery overlooking
Omaha Beach in
France to mark the
71st anniversary of
the D-Day invasion
of World War II.
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W.Va. Legislature to revive talks on drug tests

Most (TANF) recipients are people who are
working. They are working for a low income,
and, in many cases, theyre already being drug
tested ... In states where it has been done,
its been very expensive and non-productive.
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Enslow Middle School has not been the

site of any classes since it consolidated
with Beverly Hills Middle School to create Huntington East Middle School during
the 2013-14 school year. Cabell County
Schools Superintendent Bill Smith said the
district plans to use it as a site for a new
Highlawn Elementary School in the future.
CHARLESTON Members
of the West Virginia Legislature
will hear more information about
drug testing recipients of public
assistance during the interim
session running Sunday and
Monday, June 7-8, at the Capitol.
The House of Delegates gave
serious consideration to such a
policy, getting House Bill 2021
through committee and onto the
floor during this years session.
The bill, which was overladen
with amendments and objections, was eventually tabled on
second reading in the House on
March 3.
Rochelle Finzel, group director
of the National Conference of
State Legislators, is scheduled
to give a presentation on the
Del. Don Perdue

D-Wayne
topic to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and

Human Resources from 11 a.m. to
noon Monday.
The original legislation from
this years session would have
established drug tests for recipi-
ents of Temporary Assistance for

Needy Families (TANF) recipients, pulling the aid in the result
of a positive test.
Del. Don Perdue, D-Wayne,
saw the bill as an effort on behalf
of its authors to show the public they were targeting welfare
abuse, but Perdue said it went
after the wrong people.
The TANF program is specifically designed for helping
working families attain self-sufficiency and keep the family unit

together.
Most (TANF) recipients are
people who are working, Perdue
said. They are working for a
low income, and, in many cases,
theyre already being drug tested ... In states where it has been
done, its been very expensive
and non-productive.
In 2014, the entire state of West
Virginia averaged 17,576 cases a

month where residents received
TANF benefits, according to the
U.S. Office of Family Assistance.
Comparatively, in 2013, there
were 44,008 households per
month receiving Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) benefits in the states
3rd Congressional District alone.
While it could be argued more
fraud occurs within the SNAP
program, Perdue said state legislators cant touch it because its a
federal program.
They were going after the
people they could go after, which
again would be unproductive,
expensive and stigmatizing,
he said. Its a response to the
perception that all people who
receive public assistance are
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held in France
HUNTINGTON For those who

might feel like theyre missing out
on the Appalachian Uprising music
festival, dont worry.
Huntington knows your jam.
Specifically, the Jewel City JAMboree, which launched full force
into its second day Saturday with
11 musical acts in as many hours
starting at noon sharp in Harris
Riverfront Park along the banks of
the Ohio River.
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WEDC writes off millions
Budget
weakens
shoreland
protection
$7.6 million in bad debt removed from jobs agencys balance sheet
By MARY SPICUZZA and JASON STEIN
mspicuzza@journalsentinel.com
Stiffer zoning rules

would be barred
By LEE BERGQUIST
lbergqui@journalsentinel.com
The Legislatures Joint Finance

Committee wants to weaken provisions in state law that have allowed
counties to adopt stricter regulations to protect lakes, rivers and
streams.
On May 29, the Republican-controlled finance panel tucked a motion into the 2015-16 state budget
that would bar counties from imposing stiffer zoning requirements
along shorelines than those in state
law.
Environmental groups are opposed to the changes. Four organizations representing county officials also say the restrictions would
limit counties ability to tailor zoning laws to fit local situations.
The zoning laws can dictate lot
sizes, how close structures can be to
water and the amount of vegetative
buffers along shorelines. Instead of
county-by-county limits, the committee changes adopt a one-size-fitsall approach.
All of the committees work must
be approved by the GOP-controlled
Assembly and Senate and signed by
Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Supporters say limits on the
counties would give uniformity to
what they see as a hodgepodge of
rules governing shoreland development.
Sen. Tom Tiffany (R-Hazelhurst)
emphasized state water quality
standards are not changing. In-
The states top jobs agency has

written off $7.6 million in taxpayerfunded loans since it was created by
Gov. Scott Walker about four years
ago.
The write-offs include 28 different loans removed from the balance
sheets of the Wisconsin Economic
Development Corp., with some
companies receiving multiple
loans. The majority of those loans,
which officials typically write off
paign contributor William Minahan. That loan was written off by

the WEDC last year.
The $500,000 given to BCI
amounts to about 7% of the loans
totaling $7,607,013 as of early June
that the agency has written off
since it was created in 2011.
Walker, a Republican governor
and likely 2016 presidential candidate, said that problems with loans
have
decreased
at
WEDC
after determining the likelihood of

collecting the debt is small, were
awarded by the former state Department of Commerce, the predecessor to the WEDC.
One of those loans, which was
awarded by the WEDC to Building
Committee Inc., set off a firestorm
of criticism in recent weeks after it
was revealed that some of Walkers
top aides and a powerful lobbyist
pushed for a $500,000 unsecured
loan to the now-defunct company,
which was owned by Walker cam-
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$7,607,013
in bad loans written off
$4,682,379
in loans to Flambeau operations
28
loans to companies, some more than

once
Once a troubled teen, McHenry now leads neighborhood center
Please see SHORELAND , 21A
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RICK WOOD / RWOOD@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM
Anthony McHenry takes time from his role as executive director to offer some tips and advice to young people at a basketball practice at Silver Spring Neighborhood Center, a nonprofit organization that serves Milwaukees northwest side. See a gallery at jsonline.com/photos.
Gov. Scott Walker takes part in a motorcycle ride in Iowa on Saturday.
Finding a purpose and passion
LOCAL
By GARY DAMATO
gdamato@journalsentinel.com
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Back in Iowa: Gov. Scott Walker
returns to Iowa, this time for a

Harley ride and other appearances
as he continues a hectic out-of-state
travel schedule in the weeks before
he is expected to formally announce a presidential run. 3A
WORLD
Pope in Bosnia: Pope Francis

visits Sarajevo and urges Muslims,
Orthodox Christians and Catholics
to put the barbarity of the past
behind them and work for a peaceful future. 19A
D-Day remembrance: Veterans
and families of their fallen comrades gather at the site of the DDay invasion for the 71st anniversary. 22A
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ts a day in the late 1980s, and the sun has

set in Columbus, Ga., which generally
means trouble is about to find Anthony
McHenry, or the other way around.
On this night, he is sitting in a car with
friends when another car pulls up alongside
them.
Trouble has arrived.
McHenry watches the window roll down
and sees the gun, but theres no time to
react. Shots ring out payback for a fight
earlier in the night and bullets whiz past
his head.
I literally could not only hear the bullets,
but I could smell them, he says more than
25 years later. Somehow, he missed us.
It was not the only time McHenry escaped
danger unscathed as a kid making bad
choices on a daily basis. Sure, he was a star
Deaths ........................5D
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Tap ..............................1E
Movies ........................3E
I tell kids I cant stand in

judgment of anybody. Most
of the things theyve done,
Ive done or done worse.
on Carver High Schools powerhouse football team, but Friday night glory left six
other nights to run the streets, to break the
law, to tempt fate.
McHenry doesnt want to go into specifics
about what he did back then, other than to
say he had two or three near-death experiences, had handcuffs slapped on his wrists
several times and did things that should
have landed me in prison. But despite his
reckless lifestyle and his frequent brushes
with the law, he says he was never hurt and
was never charged with a crime.
Years later, he knows why.
I think I had a purpose in life, he says.
Anthony McHenry,
executive director
of Silver Spring Neighborhood Center
Sometimes, it seems as if McHenry has

been successfully cloned.
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gas station could TO OPEN ROADS
AROUND LUSK
be redeveloped
reopened Saturday, the
Wyoming Department of
Transportation said. Crews
were still working to reopen
U.S. 18-20 between Lusk and
Orin Junction at Interstate
25, U.S. 85 north from Lusk
to Mule Creek Junction and
By Bob Moen
Highway 270 from Manville
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to its junction with U.S. 85.
Flash flooding early
CHEYENNE Road crews
Thursday
washed out a culhave reopened sections of
vert on U.S. 18-20 near
highway damaged by flooding in eastern Wyoming this Manville, collapsed a bridge
on the north side of Lusk on
week, and the wet weather
U.S. 85 and caused other
pattern that has gripped the
damage that forced the transstate for the past few weeks
appears to be easing.
portation department to shut
A 20-mile section of U.S. 20 down traffic in and out of
from Lusk to the Nebraska
Lusk on Thursday and Friday
state line, a 50-mile stretch
except for local residents and
of U.S. 85 south of Lusk to
emergency responders.
Lingle, and a 35-mile section
Were making progress
of state Highway 270 all
slowly but surely, depart-
After Thursdays flash

flooding, progress is
being made slowly
but surely, says a
WYDOT spokesman.
The shuttered Fast Break gas station and convenience store at the corner of East
Lincolnway and House Avenue could be demolished soon. The Cheyenne City Council
will vote Monday on a zone change that would permit the lot to be redeveloped into a
retail area. Tommy Martino/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
The Fast Break could eventually be replaced by a cellphone

retailer if a City Council vote OKs a zone change on Monday
would house a cellphone
retailer.
While the councils
CHEYENNE A shut- Public Services Committered gas station and
tee recommended
convenience store down- approval of the zone
town could be razed soon change last week, there
and replaced with a
were some concerns
retail store.
raised about the project.
The City Council will
Thomas Redding, who
vote Monday whether to described himself as a
approve a zone change
concerned citizen, said
that would pave the way he is worried that a retail
for the redevelopment.
store in that location will
The plan is to replace
increase traffic problems
the former Fast Break
along East Lincolnway.
gas station at the corner
There is major traffic
of East Lincolnway and
congestion there all day
House Avenue with a
long, Redding said.
Now they want to put up
new building that likely
By Lucas High
lhigh@wyomingnews.com
this huge retail building

for a telephone store.
That is just going to create more congestion.
Councilman Mark
Rinne challenged this
assessment.
I cant see how having
a retail store of that nature is going to make the
traffic worse than what it
was as a convenience
store, he said. It would
actually probably downsize the amount of traffic
there.
Acting city engineer
Nathan Beauheim
echoed this sentiment.
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Workers clear
away the
wreckage of a
U.S. 85
overpass that
collapsed onto
the railroad
tracks below
Friday in Lusk.
Parts of Lusk,
Manville and
other areas of
Niobrara
County were
flooded early
Thursday
when intense
rains caused
the Niobrara
River to
overflow its
banks.
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Casper
Star-Tribune
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On the Web
ment spokesman Bruce

Burrows said Saturday.
The U.S. Postal Service
has resumed mail deliveries
to areas where carriers can
reach.
Many rural residents rely
on the mail for checks and
medications, postal spokesman David Rupert said. Its
kind of a lifeline for a lot of
those people, he said.
Meantime, residents of
Lusk and other communities
in Niobrara County continued to clean up from the
flood. They were being aided
by various state agencies,
including the Wyoming
National Guard.
The Red Cross estimated
about 30 homes in Niobrara
County were destroyed and
Crews will begin installing bike lane striping

along Carey and Pioneer avenues this week.
The lanes will run along those streets between West Lincolnway and Lions Park.
While the lanes will be wide enough to handle parked cars and trash cans on the streets in
most of the area, there are a few blocks where
on-street parking will be eliminated, acting
city engineer Nathan Beauheim said.
On Pioneer Avenue, on-street parking will
be eliminated along the block just north of
Pershing Boulevard.
On the west side of Carey Avenue, parking
will be eliminated between Sixth Avenue and
Eighth Avenue. On the east
side of the street, parking will
be eliminated between First
Avenue and Sixth Avenue.
Weather permitting, the
striping installing will be
done by the end of next
week, Beauheim said.
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