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Wednesday, October 31,2012
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briefly_Women’s Health Program
starting anew hursday
GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) —
Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to pro-
mote the state’s new Women’s
Health Program that excludes
Planned Parenthood.
He will make an appearance
today with state Health and
Human Services Commissioner
Kyle Janek to talk about the new
program, which starts on Thurs-
day.
The Women’s Health Program
provides preventive care and con-
traception to poor women. Perry
and Republican lawmakers have
worked to ban any clinic or doctor
from the program if they have ties
to an abortion provider.
That rule ran into trouble with
the federal government, which
said it violates a woman’s right to
choose her own doctor. Official
said they would cut 90 percent of
the funding on Oct. 31.
Perry announced the state
would fund its own program, but
critics question whether enough
doctors will participate.
Rick Perry
Show highlights 1 Texas square mile
EDN News Service
editor@ennisdailynews.com
One Square Mile: Texas is a doc-
umentary television series that ex-
plores Texas life and culture from
the microcosm of a square mile.
There are 268,820 square miles
in Texas, and OSMTX wants to
know what makes yours special.
The selected square mile could in-
clude a neighborhood in a large
city, a small town or a suburb. The
goal of the series is to encompass
the diversity of Texas1 people and
landscapes through a first person
perspective of contemporary life
in Texas.
Learn more about the series
and nominate your favorite com-
munity on the One Square Mile:
Texas website at
www.OSMTX.com. Submission
deadline is 11:59 p.m. Nov. 30, 2012.
One Square Mile: Texas is being
produced in conjunction with Bra-
zos Film & Video and PBS stations
across Texas. In addition to airing
in 2013, the series will stream on-
line for viewers. OSMTX is cur-
rently developing a teacher’s
online curriculum portal where
students can learn more about
Texas and their own one square
mile community.
“OSMTX is an educator’s
dream,” said Wayne Nichols, Lead
Content Teacher for Fort Worth
ISD. “It takes the student beyond
mere data, and helps them gain an
enduring understanding of diffi-
cult concepts. It is very engaging,
hooking the viewer with its hu-
manity, providing an experiential
context for the knowledge that not
only helps the student learn his-
tory, geographic themes and eco-
nomic concepts, but more impor-
tantly, it is a launch point that
makes students at all levels want
to learn more.”
One Square Mile: Texas is the
successor to the Emmy award win-
ning series One Square Mile:
America. The Brazos Film & Video
produced series has received nine
Lone Star Emmy nominations and
three awards including Best Docu-
mentary Series in 2010 and 2011
and Best Magazine Series in 2011.
Brazos Film & Video has produced
documentary content for Texas au-
diences since 1999 — including the
Emmy nominated PBS and ITVS
series Women & Girls Lead. Bra-
zos Film & Video is located in Fort
Worth and is owned and operated
by husband and wife producers
Carl and Betsy Crum.
Widow: Man who ki lled pastor mentally ill
Ex-police chief
gets 3 years for
indecency
MCKINNEY (AP) — A
former North Texas police
chief has been sentenced
to three years in prison on
multiple counts of molest-
ing a child.
A judge in McKinney
on Tuesday accepted the
plea agreement with ex-
Sulphur Springs police
Chief Donald “Donnie”
Gene Lewis. Investigators
accused Lewis of having
sexual relations with a girl
between 2001 and 2004.
A Collin County grand
jury last year indicted
Lewis on three counts of
aggravated sexual assault
of a child, eight counts of
indecency with a
child/sexual contact and
five counts of sexual as-
sault of a child.
He pleaded guilty to 10
counts of indecency with a
child. Lewis was a Sulphur
Springs officer for more
than 25 years before retir-
ing in 2001. He later moved
to Dallas.
Sulphur Springs is 75
miles northeast of Dallas.
Burglary suspect
arrested
with son, 3
HOUSTON (AP) —
Houston police say a man
suspected in more than a
dozen burglaries had his
3-year-old son along in
the car while breaking
into a home.
Police today announced
the arrest of Bernard Car-
denas of Pasadena. Carde-
nas was being held
without bond on five
counts of burglary of a
habitation and being a
felon in possession of a
gun. Investigators say Car-
denas was arrested Oct. 18
after patrol officers saw
him kick in the front door
of a house.
Police say the sus-
pect’s son was un-
harmed. Further details
weren’t immediately re-
leased Wednesday on cus-
tody of the child.
Investigators believe
Cardenas carried out the
burglaries since July
2011. A gun recovered
when he was arrested
was reported stolen days
earlier. Online jail
records did not list an at-
torney for Cardenas.
Texan convicted
in bank fraud,
mortgage cases
HOUSTON (AP) — A
Houston-area man faces
up to 300 years in prison
in a $20 million fraud and
mortgage scam case.
A federal judge in
Houston on Tuesday or-
dered Patrick Cody Mor-
gan of Alvin to remain in
custody pending sentenc-
ing in February. A jury
convicted Morgan of con-
spiracy to commit bank
fraud and nine counts of
bank fraud.
Investigators say Mor-
gan and several co-con-
spirators from mid-2004
through September 2007
ran a condominiums
loan scam.
Co-defendants would
recruit individuals with
good credit to seek loans,
then would fail to repay
the money. The scheme
involved about 100 prop-
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lost. Morgan represented
himself at trial and faces
up to 30 years in prison
per count. Five co-defen-
dants pleaded guilty and
await sentencing.
Texans
sentenced for
fraud using art
as collateral
DALLAS (AP) — A for-
mer North Texas man
must serve five years in
prison in an international
fraud and investment
scam with artwork as col-
lateral.
A federal judge in Dal-
las on Tuesday sentenced
Eugenio D. Leo and or-
dered him to pay $3.4 mil-
lion in restitution. His
wife, Jody L. Meyer, re-
ceived five years of proba-
tion and must repay near
$432,000.
The couple in May
pleaded guilty to mail
fraud in the 2004 scheme.
Leo was a commodities
broker who told investors
their money would be used
to make short-term loans
to museums in Europe.
Prosecutors say Leo
falsely told investors that
artwork from the muse-
ums would be the collat-
eral. Leo and Meyer
instead used the money to
buy and resell artwork for
themselves. Leo and
Meyer now live in Har-
wood Heights, 111.
Ex-con set to die
for Texas slaying
HUNTSVILLE (AP) —
Convicted killer Donnie
Lee Roberts is headed to
the Texas death chamber
for fatally shooting his
girlfriend nine years ago
and stealing from her East
Texas home to finance his
drug habit.
The 41-year-old had
dropped out of a
Louisiana drug treatment
program, violating his
probation for a robbery
conviction, when he was
charged with killing 44-
year-old Vicki Bowen. Au-
thorities said she was shot
for refusing Roberts’ de-
mand for money
He was arrested at a
drug house in Livingston,
about 75 miles northeast
of Houston, when a truck
he stole from Bowen’s
home near Livingston was
spotted there.
The U.S. Supreme Court
earlier this week refused
to review Roberts’ case.
The lethal injection set
for Wednesday evening in
Huntsville would be the
12th this year in Texas.
FOREST HILL (AP) —
The widow of a man who
beat a pastor to death at his
Fort Worth-area church
says her spouse was men-
tally m.
Shanellia Birdow says
she does not know why
Derrick Birdow attacked
the minister Monday
Speaking at a prayer vigil
for the Rev Danny Kirk Sr.
Tuesday night, she de-
scribed her spouse as "re-
ally sick" and "mentally ill."
Investigators say Der-
rick Birdow rammed his
car into the Greater Sweet-
home Missionary Baptist
Church and beat the pastor
to death with an electric
guitar. Police used a stun
gun on Birdow, who was
later found dead in a patrol
car.
Shanellia says her hus-
band had sought treatment
at a hospital a couple of
days before the attack.
Kirk's funeral is set for
Saturday at Great Commis-
sion Baptist Church in Fort
Worth.
Worried after a week of
increasingly bizarre con-
versations with his
younger brother, Glen Bir-
dow drove to Fort Worth
last weekend, hoping to un-
derstand why his brother
was saying people were try-
ing to kill him and that
someone had stuck a nee-
dle in his arm.
Derrick Anthony Bir-
dow was fidgeting and act-
ing paranoid, but refused
to check himself into a hos-
pital. The 33-year-old mar-
ried father of four insisted
he was fine, his brother
said.
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holding
down ex-
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keeping up
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list goes on and on. In short, you
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sure your business can support
your family. But if you want to
keep the business in the family
after you're gone, you'll need to
prepare a strategy - and the sooner
you start, the better.
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transfer your business to family
members through the use of a will.
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ness could help contribute to a
considerable estate tax burden for
your heirs. (The future of estate
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Buy-sell agreements
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your child as a beneficiary. You
could choose term insurance,
which will be fairly inexpensive,
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