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Fallen Air Force captain remembered at service
faced expression Kristin admitted We-
ber had been practicing “for months”)
was a stark contrast to the photos of a
chubby-cheeked baby cautiously
peeking over his fathers shoulder. But
as Weber grew, so did his bravery, hu-
mor, sense of adventure and love of
gummy bears.
His longtime friend David Quack-
enbush said Weber was always good at
finding “unknown restaurants” and
“YouTube videos with zero views.”
Quackenbush held the title of Webers
spades partner and said the pair rarely
ever lost the card game.
“Out of all the games we played, we
only got caught cheating once,” he joked.
Mark Weber, 29, died
in Iraq helicopter crash
suits and women in hospital scrubs
filled the sanctuary to honor the memo-
ry of 29-year-old Mark Weber, a U.S.
Air Force captain from Bartonville who
was killed along with six other military
members earlier this month when his
helicopter crashed in Iraq.
Whatever silence had settled over
the crowd outside quickly dissipated
once people started sharing stories.
“We had heard about Mark’s military
service but didn’t realize until now that
our brother was basically Captain Amer-
ica,” his sister Kristin Weber said as the
crowd let out a collective chuckle. “It’s an
impressive feat considering he had coo-
ties for the first few years of his life.”
Indeed, the portrait of a square-
jawed airman (complete with a stone-
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HIGHLAND VILLAGE - With
Easter weekend on the horizon, a
strange silence fell over the Village
Church in Highland Village on Thurs-
day night. Though a meandering line of
people spilled out of the doors of the
church, the only sound to pierce the air
was the clanking of metal eyelets
against flag poles as dozens of Stars and
Stripes fluttered in the wind.
Law enforcement officers, military
members, motorcycle riders, men in
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Air Force Capt. and combat rescue officer Mark Weber was remembered
in a Thursday memorial service.
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For the Denton Record-Chronicle
DALLAS — People need to realize,
Fox News’ Melissa Francis said, that
news is a business. Whether it’s her net-
work, a local newspaper or a social me-
dia website, people inside these organi-
zations get paid to distribute informa-
tion to the masses.
And today, with companies like
Facebook leading the way in informa-
tion distribution, Francis said it’s easier
than ever before to give people exactly
what they want, just so they’ll keep
clicking and the organizations can keep
making money.
It’s important, she said, for people to
look around and see that echo cham-
bers are rapidly being created, that one’s
personal beliefs are being fed to them
over and over again with the use of algo-
rithms — which analyze what people
say and “like” on social media, then cre-
ating timelines of posts containing ide-
as one already believes and supports.
“If you don’t have somebody who
comes in and shakes it all up, then you
can’t move forward,” she said.
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A small group of demonstrators calling themselves “street preachers” hold signs with controversial messages on Thursday at
the University of North Texas Library Mall. The demonstration drew a large group of UNT students, who counter protested.
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A federal judge on
Wednesday left in place
her nationwide order
blocking last year’s Trump
administration’s ban on
transgender troops while
she awaits fresh legal
briefings on the impact of
a policy shift announced
last week.
Street preachers’ with controversial
signs draw large crowd at UNT
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The preachers had been attending the
National Street Preachers Conference in
Arlington, according to two preachers at
the campus. One of the men, 26-year-old
Sebastian Bryan, described the group as
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill@dentonrc.com
About 20 self-described “sheet preach-
ers,” some of whom held anti-gay and anti-
Black Lives Matter signs, caused a stir
Thursday on the University of North Texas
campus, where more than 300 students
gathered to counter protest or watch the
ordeal.
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INTERNATIONAL
Russia announced the
expulsion of more than
150 diplomats, including
60 Americans, on Thurs-
day and said it was clos-
ing a U.S. consulate in
retaliation for the wave of
Western expulsions of
Russian diplomats over
the poisoning of an ex-spy
and his daughter in Brit-
Lawsuit: Atmos never
repaired leaks before
explosion killed girl
Veterans honored at Roadhouse
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for comment Thursday.
Lawyers for the Rogers family
argue that Atmos’ failure to
maintain its gas lines as required
by federal and state law led to the
girl’s death and injuries to her
family and neighbors. The law-
suit alleges that the company’s
pipeline system in her communi-
ty is a patchwork of bare steel,
coated steel, plastic and “old to
ancient cast iron pipes,” with in-
ferior components.
Linda, called “Michellita” by
family and friends, died in her
parents’ arms, the lawsuit says,
and her brother and grandmoth-
er were severely injured in the
blast. The morning she died, she
was preparing for cheerleading
competitions at school.
Though Atmos identified
By Cary Aspinwall, Holly K.
Hacker and Jennifer Emily
The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — Atmos Energy
never repaired dangerous leaks
to its “mismatched Frankenstei-
nian” pipeline system before the
February explosion that killed a
12-year-old Dallas girl, her family
contends in a lawsuit filed Thur s-
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Linda Rogers’ family filed a
wrongful death lawsuit in Dallas
County court, seeking more than
$1 million in damages due to
what the suit calls the company’s
“gross negligence.”
Atmos has repeatedly blamed
heavy rains in February and
“unique” soil composition for the
disaster, which executives de-
scribed as “sudden and unex-
plainable.” The company did not
immediately respond to requests
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Sharon Grizzle, left, and Vietnam veteran Randy Grizzle, view a veterans memorial that
was unveiled during a Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Day event at Texas Roadhouse.
The restaurant offered free meals to Vietnam War veterans. Members of the Denton fire
and police departments, as well as local members of the U.S. Marine Corps, were on hand
to shake hands and thank veterans for their service.
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