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Thursday, November 26, 2015
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Denton, Texas
Weather may disrupt holiday plans
Wichita Falls, and the accumulating
snow and ice in the Texas Panhandle
will slow you down. If you’re traveling
south to Houston or east toward Louisi-
ana, the return home may be compli-
cated by heavy rains and localized
flooding.
Denton County residents can expect
3 to 5 inches of rainfall this weekend,
according to National Weather Service
meteorologist Matt Stalley.
Rain, including some thunder-
storms, should begin during the day on
Thanksgiving, with widespread rainfall
Friday and Saturday. Localized rainfall
totals could be higher, Stalley said.
“As you approach the Red River, the
closer you get to the 7-inch mark [for
rainfall totals],” Stalley said.
As the system pushes east, the rain
goes with it, he said.
No severe weather outbreaks are ex-
pected with the system. Even though
the cold front comes with sub-freezing
temperatures, meteorologists aren’t
calling for snow and ice in Denton
County The ground and the upper at-
mosphere — as high as 17,000 feet —
are too warm, and the approaching lay-
er of cold air is too shallow for that to
happen, Stalley said.
“Parts of the upper atmosphere are
as high as 50 degrees,” Stalley said.
“There’s just no way to get snow out of
that.”
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc. com
Mother Nature has her own plan for
your holiday plans.
A slow-moving cold front could driz-
zle on Denton’s first Turkey Trot this
morning, storm on shoppers this eve-
ning and dump buckets on Mean Green
fans tailgating at Apogee Stadium for
Saturday’s football game against the
University of Texas at El Paso Miners.
A flash flood watch is in effect for
Denton County through 6 a.m. Sunday.
It won’t be much better for travelers,
meteorologists say.
If you’re heading north to Oklaho-
ma, flooding Friday could affect your
route. Head much farther west and
north than a line between Abilene and
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Early fall was dry across most of
North Texas, but the last month of
heavy rain has wiped out the drought
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Passengers walk down a stairway to board an Amtrak train heading for
New Orleans ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday Wednesday in Atlanta.
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Department receives
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By Bj Lewis
Staff Writer
blewis @ dentonrc. com
The University of North Texas Police
Department has again been accredited as
a law enforcement agency.
It is a lot of work — documentation
and adhering to rigorous policy — but ac-
cording to UNT Police Chief Ed Reynolds,
accreditation means his department is op-
erating under best practices recognized
across the country.
“It’s a desire on the part of the depart-
ment to elevate our professionalism as an
agency” Reynolds said.
Accreditation comes from the Com-
mission on Accreditation for Law En-
forcement Agencies, an organization
formed in 1979 as the authority to grant
law enforcement agencies their accredita-
tion.
Prepare yourself, body
and soul, for the holiday
balancing act.
Denton Time
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Salvation Army intern Wesley Shepard helps load food for a family of lion Wednesday at the nonprofit’s site at 1508
E. McKinney St. in Denton. Arcedalia Guima and Yahayra Almaquer, in background, pick up bags of food to help load.
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called “gift baskets” and include all the
fixings for a Thanksgiving dinner such
as cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie mix
Food Bank.
“We’re running short on turkeys for
Thanksgiving,” Jackson said. “So my se-
nior people and singles will get a packet
of chicken. But they’ll still have food to
eat. Nobody will be hungry on Thanks-
giving.”
The food pantry is normally busy on
By Christian McPhate
Staff Writer
dmcphate @ dentonrc. com
A young Salvation Army intern pulls and stuffing mix.
a red wagon down a small hallway fined
with donated food, weaving through the social worker, said some of the gift bas-
people showing up to drop off and pick kets were donated by local churches and
Masonic lodges, while others were pro-
Several sacks — some yellow, others vided by Denton families and nonprofit
brown — fill the red wagon. They’re organizations such as the Tarrant Area
U.S. personnel who killed
and wounded civilians in
a strike on an Afghan
hospital violated U.S.
rules of engagement and
were suspended, military
officials said Wednesday.
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According to its mission statement, the
purpose of CALEA accreditation pro-
grams is to improve the delivery of public
safety services primarily by maintaining a
body of standards, developed by public
safety practitioners, and covering a wide
Brenda Jackson, a Salvation Army
up items for Thanksgiving.
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Thousands of kids illegally cross border in Oct.
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CROSSWORDS
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DEAR ABBY
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DEATHS
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2015 federal fiscal that ended Sept. 30. declining through summer and fall, Isac-
The 4,973 unaccompanied children son said. But there was an uptick in fami-
tions of lower numbers due to the colder caught at the border last month is the lies and children crossing in July, and the
winter months coming, better enforce- highest number that Washington, D.C.- numbers have stayed over 4,000 each
based think tank Washington Office on month since.
Latin America has recorded for October “Rather than a big jump, it’s been a
tral American migrants to the U.S. since their records began in 2009, said steady bum,” he said. “I think we are al-
Though tens of thousands of women and Adam Isacson, a border expert and senior most in crisis mode with this many
Also, in the figures released Tuesday, children from Central America were analyst. months of sustained arrivals.”
the number of family members crossing caught at the border in summer 2014, it The high numbers buck the typical -
together nearly tripled from October 2014 had dropped by nearly half during the trends of crossings peaking in spring then See BORDER on 15A
— from 2,162 to 6,029.
The numbers spiked despite expecta-
OPINION
By Seth Robbins
Associated Press
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SAN ANTONIO - Nearly 5,000 un-
accompanied immigrant children were
caught illegally crossing the U.S. border ment along the border and efforts by Mex-
with Mexico in October, almost double the ican authorities to stem the stream of Cen-
number from October 2014, according to
U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
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