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Denton Record-Chronicle
Friday, March 2, 2018
Shootings aren't big factor in 2018 primary
the National Rifle Associations
national convention in May.
“It’s hard. Texas is hard,” said
Elva Mendoza, a leading Texas or-
ganizer with Moms Demand Ac-
tion for Gun Sense in America
Republicans on the ballot have
not softened on gun rights, and
Texas Democrats are still heavily
focused on other issues, such as
immigration, while much of the
rest of their part}' mounts its
strongest push in year’s for tighter
restrictions on firearms.
The Florida assault spurred
Mendoza’s group to survey can-
didates nationwide on gun-con-
trol measures before Election
Day in November. But those re-
sults will not be ready for the
Texas primary because of the
early vote, which comes two
months before primary elec-
tions really kick olf in the U.S.
Even before the Florida
shooting, Texas candidates were
land Springs, Republican Jenif-
er Sarver doesn’t recall getting a
single question about the Sec-
ond Amendment before the
Florida massacre. She said
Thursday that now “not a day
goes by” where it doesn’t come
up. But she is skeptical of the
idea that voters will cast ballots
solely on the gun debate.
“It’s not likely this is going to
be a bellwether on one specific
issue,” Sarver said.
By Paul J. Weber
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The first primary
of 2018 could offer a test of the
re-energized gun-control move-
ment, but the issue has not dom-
inated races in gun-loving Texas,
even though the state recently
endured a massacre that was
deadlier than the Florida high
school shooting.
The results of the Texas pri-
mary on Tuesday might be ex-
pected to give some early indica-
tion of whether voter attitudes
toward weapons have changed
in the two weeks since a gunman
killed 17 people at Marjory Sto-
neman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida. But that now
seems less likely because the at-
tack has not emerged as a deci-
sive factor in the final stages of
the Texas campaign. The state
has some of the most relaxed
gun laws in the U.S. and hosts
not talking about the even worse
massacre that happened in their
own backyard just four months
ago. A gunman with an AR-15-
style rifle shot and killed 25 peo-
ple at a rural church in tiny
Sutherland Springs. Authorities
put the official death toll at 26.
One of the victims was preg-
nant, and more than half of the
dead were children.
Running for a congressional
seat just an hour from Suther-
Gas service stops for thousands
Texas teen arrested
with rifle, ammo
near high school
Leaks push
Dallas residents
from homes
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The Dallas home
where Linda Rog-
ers, 12, died Feb. 23
Is shown from
above. Natural gas
service was shut
down to thousands
of homes in Dallas
on Thursday.
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ROWLETT (AP) - A
Dallas-area teenager was be-
ing held on $1 million bond
Thursday after a police officer
encountered him sitting in his
car outside a high school
sporting event with a semi-
automatic rifle and 100
rounds of ammunition.
Rowlett police arrested
Diego Hoita, 17, Tuesday
night on drug and weapons
charges. Officer Cruz Her-
nandez, a spokesman for the
department in Rowlett about
20 miles northeast of Dallas,
said the officer approached
the teen while patrolling near
Rowlett High School and the
city’s community center as
two sporting events were
wrapping up.
“We re glad that our officer
encountered him early,” Her-
nandez said. “He had the
weapon, ammunition and a
mask ... Whatever we pre-
vented, the outcome was go-
ing to be bad.”
An earlier release from the
Rowlett Police Department
said police had no specific evi-
dence to substantiate beyond
a reasonable doubt that Hor-
ta planned to harm anyone.
Hernandez said with the re-
cent school shooting in Park-
land, Florida, the department
has been exercising added
caution.
By David Warren
Associated Press |
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lowing a series of leaks that has
brought repeated evacuations in
the wake of a house explosion
that killed a 12-year-old girl.
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about 2,800 homes northwest 'v''"
of downtown as gas lines are re-
placed and other work is done systems, described it as "a natu- merit complex,
by more than 120 Atmos Energy ral-gas fueled explosion.” A school and fire station,
crews, authorities said at a news young girl, Linda Rogers, was Atmos executives, who over-
conference. killed and members of her fami- see a network that includes
Dallas-based Atmos, the ly injured. more than 3 million customers
country’s largest natural gas dis- Two other homes on the in eight states, say the events in
tributor, will compensate resi- same block were damaged by Dallas are unprecedented. At-
dents who choose to stay in ho- fire earlier that week and NTSB mos also operates in Colorado,
tels or incur other expenses dur- investigators are determining Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
ing the disruption. whether leaks were contributing Virginia, Louisiana and Missis-
Thursday’s announcement factors,
by Atmos was the latest develop- Over the ensuing days, some
ment to roil an area of the city were allowed to return to their
where hundreds have been evac- homes while other blocks were
uated since an explosion Friday evacuated as crews worked to
knocked a home off its founda- pinpoint leaks. Dallas County Heavy rains have inundated
tion and collapsed its roof. The Judge Clay Jenkins, the county’s North Texas in recent weeks — quickly as possible, and take
National Transportation Safety top administrator, said Thurs- the National Weather Service other steps.
Board, which investigates acci- day that one line alone had more says the month of February saw “We will hold them account-
dents occurring during the than two-dozen leaks, hi addi- record rainfall in the region of able and make sure they live up
transport of natural gas and oth- tion to the hundreds of homes, more than 11 inches — and Kev- to those promises,” Dallas City
er products through pipeline authorities evacuated an apart- in Akers, senior vice president Manager T.C. Broadnax said.
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for Atmos, said the water caused
underground pressure that
pushed two different rock for-
mations upward.
“That means with the ex-
tended rain that we have, the
amount of rain and runoff and
how that flows underground,
causes... those formations to ex-
pand up and puts pressure on
our system, thus causing leak-
age,” Akers said.
Atmos has promised to re-
place mains in the area, get resi-
dents back in their homes as
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