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Monday, January 25, 2016
Denton Record-Chronicle
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TODAY
CHATTER PROM OUR SITES
Stephen Scott, the Denton man
accused of murdering his par-
ents, was injured with head
trauma while in the Denton
County Jail. While many com-
menting online rejoiced in his
punishment, others showed their
sympathy toward Scott.
NBC 5 meteorolo-
gists (from left):
Samantha Davies,
Grant Johnston,
David Finfrock,
Rick Mitchell and
Remeisha Shade.
TODAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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EVENTS
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1 p.m. — “iPad for Seniors: The
Basics,” a free class at North
Branch Library, 3020 N. Locust St.
Learn how to connect an iPad to
Wi-Fi, explore external features,
discuss battery issues and practice
essential navigation skills. Bring
your own iPad. Free, but registra-
tion is required. Call 940-349-8752.
6 to 7:30 p.m. — Advocating
for Children Workshop at North
Branch Library, 3020 N. Locust St.
Victoria Calvin with Court Appoint-
ed Special Advocates of Denton
County will teach how to recognize
signs of abuse and neglect, commu-
nicate and build relationships with
youths, and become an advocate
for children who need help. Free.
Call 940-349-8752.
8 p.m. — Eric Nestler on sax-
ophone with Xiao Wang on piano,
in Voertman Flail at the UNT Music
Building, at Avenue C and Chestnut
Street. Free. Call 940-565-2791 or
visit www.music.unt.edu.
PRECIPITATION
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Every since I heard about
this, I just can’t get mad at
him. Oh, I feel for him and I
pray for him and I hope
others are praying for his
soul and his mind.”
— Trayce Lea Chambers,
via Facebook
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Chess Night at 6 p.m. at North
Branch Library, 3020 N. Locust St.
Players of all ages and skill levels
welcome. Free. Call 940-349-8752.
Conservative Toastmasters
meets at 7 p.m. at Denton Regional
Medical Center's Educational Build-
ing, 3535-A I-35E. Email lebbo@
miaincusa.com or mzerger@earth
link.net.
Denton Community Chorus
practices at 7 p.m. at Christ the
Servant Lutheran Church, 2121E.
University Drive. Contact Monty
Naylor at montynay@gmail.com or
940-368-8034, or visit
www.dentoncommunitychorus.org.
Denton County Amateur Radio
Association meets from 7 to 9
p.m. on the fourth Monday of each
month at the Denton County Emer-
gency Services building, 9060
Teasley Lane.
Denton Lions Club meets at 6
p.m. on the second and fourth
Mondays of the month at the
Smokehouse, 1123 Fort Worth Drive.
Call 940-497-3989.
Denton Senior Center exercise
classes are from 11 to 11:40 a.m. at
509 N. Bell Ave. Those age 50 and
older are invited. No advance sign-
up required. Call 940-349-8720 or
940-566-5242.
Denton Toastmasters public
speaking club meets from 7 to 8:30
p.m. at Lake Forest Good Samaritan,
3901 Montecito Drive, in the activity
center. Visit www.dentontoast
masters.org.
North Texas Toastmasters
public speaking club meets from
noon to 1 p.m. in the conference
room of UNT's Crumley Hall, 1621W.
Highland St. Visit http://northtexas
toastmasters.toastmastersclubs.
org or email kaysi.overby@
gmail.com.
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our hearts, if we can, to pray
for him, if we pray.”
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Vehicle stolen while driver
was delivering pizza
Denton police located a vehi-
cle that was reported stolen
around midnight Saturday from
an apartment complex in the
2400 block of Charlotte Street.
The caller told police he was
delivering pizza to an apartment
when his car was stolen.
Police recovered the vehicle
within an hour and filed a re-
port. No arrests have been made
and the case is pending.
Other reports
500 block of West Uni-
versity Drive — A panhandler
with outstanding warrants was
arrested and cited for drug para-
phernalia at 11:55 a.m. Saturday.
900 block of Bernard
Street — A car was broken into
at about 2 a.m. Saturday and
speakers and various sound sys-
tem parts were stolen.
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of court threats
State to survey
are often left to decide whether
they want to open a full investi-
gation, according to spokes-
woman Melinda Urbina.
How authorities should pro-
ceed with a threat should begin
with assessing the informant’s
credibility, said Frederick Cal-
houn, who created a process
used by the U.S. Marshals Ser-
vice to assess threats against fed-
eral judicial officials.
“If I thought the threat was
not credible, why bother the
judge?” Calhoun said.
A gunman opened fire on
Kocurek at her home on Nov. 6
after she returned from a high
school football game. She hasn’t
spoken publicly about the at-
tack.
can Statesman reported Sun-
shooting but haven’t charged
anyone. Kocurek hasn’t said
when she will return to the bench
but has filed for re-election.
At the federal level, the U.S.
Marshals Service investigated
768 threats and inappropriate
communications last year, ac-
cording to the agency. A 2005
courthouse shooting in Atlanta
that killed a judge prodded Tex-
as lawmakers to pass a law re-
quiring authorities to report
threats against the court system
to the state, but experts say
counties appear to be ignoring
that rule.
Practices appear to differ
even among the biggest Texas
counties. Harris County assigns
detectives to look into threats
and notify judges if they appear
in danger, spokesman Thomas
Gilliland said. Dallas County,
meanwhile, handles threats on a
“case by case” basis and judges
Judge’s shooting
shines light on
counties’ protocols
day.
Tracking threats made
against Texas judges and prose-
cutors is murky because of
loosely defined protocols that
vary from place to place. There
were five instances last year of
threats made against a judge,
court staff or juror in Texas, and
while that was down from 18 in-
stances in 2014, counties appear
to be under-reporting incidents
despite a state law requiring
them to do so.
“We are trying to get a sense
of the situation so we can deter-
mine howto move forward,” said
David Slayton, director for the
Texas Office of Court Adminis-
tration. “I think it has always
been a concern, but certainly the
events in November have
brought it to the forefront.”
Authorities have identified a
person of interest in Kocurek’s
AUSTIN (AP) - The shoot-
ing of a Texas judge in the drive-
way of her Austin home has ex-
posed inconsistencies statewide
over how threats against the
court system are handled and
whether judges are made aware
of potential danger.
State District Judge Julie Ko-
curek, who was shot in Novem-
ber and plans to keep her job,
was never told about a threat
made against her weeks earlier
after investigators determined
that a phoned-in tip wasn’t cred-
ible. Now the state plans to sur-
vey counties across Texas to de-
termine what procedures, if any,
authorities have for responding
to threats, the Austin-Ameri-
TUESDAY
Roundup
From 7 a.m. Saturday to 7
a.m. Sunday, Denton police
posted 16 reports online.
— Rhiannon Saegert
Denton County Crime Stoppers will
pay a reward of up to $1000 for
information leading to an arrest in
these or other crimes. Callers will
remain anonymous. Call
1-800-388-TIPS (8477). Reach the
Denton police narcotics tip line at
940-565-5801
EVENTS
9 to 11 a.m. — Denton County
Transportation Authority open
house meeting at the TWU Student
Union, Room 207, 304 Administra-
tion Drive. Officials are seeking
public input and feedback on how
DCTA can improve services.
4 to 5 p.m. — Alzheimer’s
Association Caregiver Support
Group meets at Emily Fowler
Central Library, 502 Oakland St.
Free. Call the Alzheimer's Associa-
tion 24/7 Helpline at 1-800-272-
3900.
5 to 7 p.m. — Denton County
Transportation Authority open
house meeting at the Brock Down-
town Denton Transit Center, 604 E.
Hickory St. Officials are seeking
public input and feedback on how
DCTA can improve services.
5 to 7:30 p.m. — Volunteer
Income Tax Assistance for low-
to moderate-income families at
North Branch Library, 3020 N.
Locust St. To qualify, participant's
annual income must be $50,000 or
less. Free. Call 940-566-2688.
7 p.m. — Anime Club for high
school and college students at
North Branch Library, 3020 N.
Locust St. Free. Call 940-349-8752
Slayton said the upcoming
survey by his office also will seek
information about the type of
protection judges have at work
and home.
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE STATE
Austin
Paxton’s criminal case
lingering on appeal
State Attorney General Ken
Paxton is unlikely to know until
spring whether an appeals court
will throw out criminal charges
accusing the state’s top prosecutor
of defrauding wealthy investors.
Lawyers for Paxton have un-
til late February to make their
case to the 5th Court of Appeals
in Dallas. The judge who would
oversee Paxton’s trial has already
refused to dismiss the felony in-
dictments, which carry a possi-
ble prison sentence if the Re-
publican is convicted.
Paxton has pleaded not guilty
and says he won’t step down. His
lawyers this month confirmed
that a grand jury is investigating
more possible wrongdoing by
Paxton over his profiting from a
land deal.
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Charlotte Kelly Bryant, president of the Blue Triangle Multi-Cultural Association, and member
Lucy Bremond are shown in the association’s building in Houston. The building, which the
group bought in 2000, has a 1953 John Biggers mural that is endangered by a leaking roof.
Newsroom
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9 a.m. — Denton County Com-
missioners Court meets in the
Commissioners Courtroom at the
Courthouse on the Square, 110 W.
Hickory St.
6:30 p.m. — Denton City Coun-
cil meets at City Hall, 215 E. McKin-
ney St. Work session precedes the
meeting at 1 p.m. Visit www.cityof
denton.com.
Leaky roof threatens Houston mural
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HOUSTON (AP) - As a
leaky roof threatens a million-
dollar work by a muralist depict-
ing the contributions of black
women to life and education, a
Houston multicultural associa-
tion says it doesn’t have the
funds for repair.
The 1953 work by John Big-
gers, Contribution of Negro
Women to American Life and
Education, sits directly below
water-stained ceiling tiles at the
Blue Triangle Multi-Cultural
Association’s headquarters, the
Houston Chronicle reports.
Charlotte Kelly Bryant, the
association’s founding president
and current executive director,
says that since acquiring the
building in 2000, the group has
used its shoestring budget to
patch the roof. But she says, “To
keep the mural safe, I want the
roof above it to be soundly re-
paired — not just patched.”
There has never been a fund-
raising campaign to fix the roof or
restore the painting, but the ur-
Museum of Modern Art. In 1949
he was recruited to start and
lead the art department of what
became Texas Southern Univer-
sity in Houston.
Bryant said a decade-old ap-
praisal estimated the painting’s
value at $L3 million. But Mi-
chael Rosenfeld, whose New
York City gallery represents the
Biggers estate, estimates that a
major piece of public art like
that would be worth between $ 2
million and $3 million.
“John Biggers is a very im-
portant artist,” Rosenfeld said.
“The subject and the narrative of
the piece is extraordinary”
gent need has nudged supporters
to begin making appeals.
A waterproofing solution on
the two small roofs that affect
the mural would cost $45,000,
according to an estimate the as-
sociation received last year. An-
other
$205,000 to completely replace
the roofs that cover the commu-
nity center complex.
Biggers, who died in 2001,
created the painting when the
building was owned by the Blue
Triangle YWCA, which served
black women and girls in segre-
gated Houston. The building is
now a state historic landmark.
The work features Harriet
Tubman and Sojourner Truth as
dominant figures. The piece also
depicts the work of 18th-century
poet Phillis Wheatley as well as
the hands and feet of laborers to
portray working people.
Biggers was among the
young black artists whose work
was included in a landmark ex-
hibit in 1943 at New York City’s
Benbrook
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EVENTS
6:30 to 7:30 a.m. — Denton
Breakfast Kiwanis Club meets
at El Chaparral Grille, 324 E. McKin-
ney St. Call 940-453-2688 or
940-206-5177, or visit www.
dentonbreakfastkiwanis.org.
10 a.m. — Budding Artists:
“String Painting” for ages 2-5 at
South Branch Library, 3228 Teasley
Lane. Free. Call 940-349-8752 or
visit www.dentonlibrary.com.
11 a.m. — Mo Willems Story
Time for ages 1-5 at Emily Fowler
Central Library, 502 Oakland St.
Free. Call 940-349-8752.
Noon — Argyle Chamber of
Commerce networking lunch at
Wildhorse Grill at Robson Ranch,
9428 Ed Robson Circle in Denton.
Cost is $15 per person, plus tip. Call
940-464-9990.
Authorities are investigating
the cause after a large fire
destroyed a firing range in rural
Tarrant County and injured one
firefighter. Benbrook Fire Chief
Tommy Davis told the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram that Sat-
urday’s fire started in the firing
range in Wheatland.
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