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Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Hundreds rescued from San Jose flooding
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
ones who fell victim to drugs are
leading the fight against the na-
tion’s deadly opioid-abuse crisis,
drawing on tragic personal ex-
perience to attack the problem.
A Minnesota state senator
whose daughter died of a heroin
overdose in a Burger King park-
ing lot — a friend hid the needles
instead of calling for help —
spearheaded a law that grants
immunity to 911 callers. In Wis-
consin, a state representative
has introduced more than a doz-
en opioid-related bills in the
years since his daughter went
from painkillers to heroin to
prison. A Pennsylvania lawmak-
er whose son is a recovering her-
oin addict championed a state
law that expanded availability of
an antidote that can reverse an
overdose.
‘We’re all here because we
have this empty void in our
lives,” said Minnesota state Rep.
Dave Baker, whose son started
out taking prescription drugs for
back pain and died of a heroin
overdose in 2011.
More than 52,000 people
died of a drug overdose in 2015,
and roughly two-thirds of them
had used prescription opioids
like OxyContin or Vicodin or il-
legal drugs like heroin, accord-
ing to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Those
overdoses have jumped 33 per-
cent in the past five years alone.
Columbus, Ohio
Court considers Ohio
execution process
A federal appeals court plans
to consider arguments over the
constitutionality of Ohio’s lethal
injection process as the state
tries to start carrying out execu-
tions once again.
At issue is whether a contest-
ed sedative, midazolam, is pow-
erful enough to put inmates into
a deep state of unconsciousness
before two subsequent drugs
paralyze them and stop their
hearts.
A related issue is whether
Ohio has a realistic chance of
finding an alternative drug — a
barbiturate called pentobarbital
— that once was widely used in
executions but has become diffi-
cult or, in Ohio’s case, impossible
to obtain.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Cincinnati had
scheduled arguments for Tues-
day, but reset them for March 7.
The court’s ruling, likely a few
weeks afterward, will be closely
watched not just in Ohio but in
other states that use midazolam
or might be looking to try it.
Storms put nearly
half of Calif, under
flood advisories
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and Marcio J. Sanchez
Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Rescu-
ers chest-deep in water steered
boats full of people, some with
babies and pets, from a San Jose
neighborhood inundated Tues-
day by water from an overflow-
ing creek.
Further north, farmers used
tractors to shore up an endan-
gered levee in California’s agri-
cultural heartland, officials
opened a spillway at the Don
Pedro reservoir for the first time
in 20 years, and a Sierra Nevada
highway threatened to collapse
after the latest downpours
swelled waterways, leaving
nearly half of the state under
flood advisories.
In San Jose, at least 225 resi-
dents were taken to dry land and
rinsed with soap and water to
prevent them from being sick-
ened by floodwaters from the
Coyote Creek that had traveled
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Rescue crews take out residents from a flooded neighborhood Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. The
neighborhood was inundated by water from an overflowing creek.
to creep up into the front door. It
kept getting worse and worse,”
said Alex Hilario, who walked in
knee-high water to get to his car
and leave the area.
“We didn’t get a chance to get
anything out,” Hilario added.
The rains were the latest pro-
duced by a series of storms gen-
erated by so-called atmospheric
rivers that dump massive quan-
tities of Pacific Ocean water on
California after carrying it aloft
from as far away as Hawaii.
In the Sierra Nevada moun-
tain range, part of Highway 50,
one of the main routes to Lake
Tahoe, was in danger of collaps-
ing after a roadway shoulder
gave way following heavy
storms, leaving a gaping hole
about 40 feet long and 17 feet
wide, Caltrans engineer Jarrett
Woodruff said.
debris and over sewer lines, San
Jose Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow
said.
Rescuers went door-to-door
searching for people who need-
ed to leave the neighborhood.
Only residents who could prove
they had been cleaned of the
floodwaters were allowed to
board buses to shelters.
“The water started to seep in
the driveway, and then it started
Durham, N.H.
Maple syrup producers
face climate challenges
Justices divided on boy’s death near border
New Hampshire’s maple syr-
up producers say they are feeling
the impact of climate change, as
winters become warmer and
frigid nights so critical to their
business become fewer.
Producers joined climate ex-
perts and Democratic U.S. Sen.
Maggie Hassan of New Hamp-
shire on Tuesday to talk about
the state’s changing climate and
how it is affecting one of the
state’s most important indus-
tries.
June 2010 shooting in the wide,
concrete-lined ditch — actually
the dry bed of the Rio Grande riv-
er — that separates El Paso from
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The agent was on the U.S.
side of the border when he fired
his gun, striking Sergio Adrian
Hernandez Guereca, who was
on the Mexican side.
U.S. officials chose not to
prosecute Agent Jesus Mesa Jr.
in the killing of the Mexican
teenager, and the Obama ad-
ministration refused a request to
extradite him so he could face
criminal charges in Mexico.
Lower courts dismissed the
parents’ lawsuit. The Supreme
Court is considering whether
noncitizens who are injured or
killed outside the United States
can have their day in American
courts.
The parents argued that the
lawsuit is their only chance for
some measure of justice in their
son’s death, and some justices
appeared to agree.
In past cases, courts that have
limited the right to sue have
“been able to point to some al-
ternative remedy,” Justice Elena
Kagan said. ‘And here, there re-
ally is nothing.”
Kagan and the other three
liberal justices indicated they
would support the parents’ law-
suit because the shooting hap-
pened close to the border in an
area in which the two nations
share some responsibilities, in-
cluding for upkeep.
But Justice Anthony Kenne-
dy and other conservative justic-
es suggested that the boy’s death
on the Mexican side of the bor-
der was enough to keep the mat-
ter out of U.S. courts.
Kennedy noted the court has
been reluctant to allow civil
rights lawsuits like the one the
parents filed, especially when
they may affect international re-
lations. “This is a sensitive area
of foreign affairs where the polit-
ical branches ought to discuss
with Mexico what the solutions
ought to be,” Kennedy said.
Other justices worried about
a decision that could open court-
house doors to victims of U.S.
drone strikes, or other military
actions. “How do you analyze
the case of a drone strike in Iraq
where the plane is piloted from
Nevada?” Chief Justice John
Roberts asked.
Lawyer Robert Hilliard, re-
presenting the parents, said the
court easily could limit its deci-
sion to incidents that occur near
the border.
The Trump administration,
like its predecessor, is arguing
that the location of the teen-
ager’s death, in Mexico, should
be the end of the story.
Parents sue after
Border Patrol gunfire
kills Mexican teen
New York
Wal-Mart keeps working
to make inroads on web
By Mark Sherman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Examin-
ing a tragic shooting death on
the U.S. border with Mexico, a
divided Supreme Court on Tues-
day puzzled over the rights of
foreigners to sue in American
courts.
The case involving a Mexican
teen slain by a U.S. Border Patrol
agent’s gunshot, which traveled
across the border, elicited ques-
tions about how a ruling could
affect victims of American drone
strikes. The court battle over
President Donald Trump’s ban
on travelers from seven majority
Muslim nations also lurked in
the background: While the legal
issues are different, both issues
have courts weighing the rights
of foreigners.
A 4-4 tie could provide Judge
Neil Gorsuch an early opportu-
nity to cast a key vote if he is con-
firmed to the court before the
term ends in late June.
Tuesday’s case arose from a
The nation’s largest retailer
keeps working to make headway
against the largest online seller.
Wal-Mart drew more shop-
pers to its namesake stores in the
United States and its online
sales soared 29 percent in the
fourth quarter, which covers the
critical holiday shopping season.
That’s an indication that its ef-
forts to lower prices and im-
prove web services are helping it
compete better against Amazon,
which has built loyalty with its
Prime two-day shipping pro-
Some producers talked of
seeing a steep drop in the
amounts of sap they are getting,
while others are dealing with an-
other trend attributed to warm-
er temperatures in which the sap
goes up to the top of the trees
rather than down to taps.
“When I purchased the farm
in 2000, “I was getting 75 gal-
lons of sap,” said Ray LaRoche of
LaRoche Farm in Durham.
‘With the environmental chang-
es we’ve been seeing, it’s down to
15 gallons.”
gram.
like other traditional retail-
ers, Wal-Mart has been trying to
improve its online operations to
challenge Amazon, which ac-
counted for 33 percent of total
U.S. online sales last year, ac-
cording to the research firm Eu-
romonitor. Wal-Mart moved in-
to second place last year ahead
of eBay. But Wal-Mart’s online
sales still only account for about
3 percent of its global sales, or
about $14 billion.
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