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LOLITA C. BALDOR officials estimated that as many as that others remained. ministration officials who ex- to end the fighting and release Associated Press 40,000 Russian forces had massed “They are not where they need pressed new concerns Thursday a group of international moni- ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY along the border with eastern to be and won’t be until all of their about rising violence in eastern tors who have been detained in AIRCRAFT — U.S. defense of- Ukraine that has been wracked troops that they positioned along Ukraine, including the destruc- eastern Ukraine since earlier this ficials said Thursday that Russia with violence between govern- that border a couple of months tion of a military helicopter by week. has pulled most of its forces away ment security forces and pro-Rus- ago are gone,” he said. pro-Russian rebels in Slovyansk Before the incident, Secretary of from the Ukraine border, a with- sian separatists. The U.S. has called on Russia that killed 12. State John Kerry spoke to his Rus- drawal the U.S. has been demand- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel repeatedly to help de-escalate ten- The White House and State De- sian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, ing for weeks. told reporters traveling with him sions in Ukraine, including with- partment both said a de-escala- on Wednesday to reiterate con- They said about seven battal- at the start of an overseas trip that drawing troops stationed near the tion of the crisis was imperative cerns about the deteriorating situ- ions remained, amounting to a thousands of Russian troops are border. and called on Russia to exert pres- ation in Ukraine, the State Depart- couple of thousand troops. U.S. moving away from the border but Hagel was among Obama ad- sure on the separatists to get them ment said. Egyptians elect new president Rocket site in South Texas nears approval Federal review determines wildlife will not be harmed

CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press McALLEN — Building and operating a private rocket launch site along the coast in the southern- most tip of Texas is unlikely to jeopardize the exis- tence of protected animal species and would create few unavoidable impacts, according to a final fed- eral environmental review. The Federal Aviation Administration released the statement for -based SpaceX on Thurs- day. It does not guarantee that the FAA would issue launch licenses there, but it is an essential step in that direction. SpaceX has proposed launching 12 rockets a year from the site but did not make any promises Thurs- day. If built, it would be the first commercial orbital launch site. SpaceX spokeswoman Hannah Post said several more steps have to be cleared. “While the timing of some of these critical steps is not within SpaceX’s control, we are hopeful that these will be complete in the near future,” she said. Amr Nabil / Associated Press The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raised concerns Supporters of newly elected President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi celebrate on Thursday at Tahrir Square in Cairo. El-Sissi eas- about possible impact on habitat for some endan- ily triumphed over his opponent Hamdeen Sabahi, winning more than 92 percent of the vote, according to his campaign. gered species, but concluded “the project is not But low turnout and public skepticism cast a shadow on what el-Sissi had hoped would be a more resounding victory. likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed or proposed-to-be-listed species nor adverse- ly modify piping plover critical habitat.” But wildlife officials don’t expect the project to be harmless. They anticipate that several miles of Tepid turnout makes for bittersweet victory beachfront used by nesting sea turtles could be dis- turbed by security vehicles. HAMZA HENDAWI worst of the multiple elec- SpaceX has agreed to a list of measures aimed at Associated Press tions held the past three minimizing the environmental impact including CAIRO — The election of years, but below the nearly 52 educating workers about threatened and endan- Egypt’s former military chief percent turnout in the 2012 gered animals. It also plans to adopt a 3-mile section to the presidency may be election that Morsi won. of the beach and participate in beach cleanups and remembered for its central The victory was tainted educational programs. irony: He won in a historic by the extraordinary means The Texas launches would create unavoidable landslide‚ only to shatter his used by the military-backed noise in a nearby neighborhood and alter the land- image of invulnerability in government to get even that scape of sand dunes, wetlands and grasses, but the process. many voters to the polls. After other environmental impacts can be mitigated, the Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s win signs that the turnout Mon- report said. was never in doubt, but what day, the first of two scheduled the retired 59-year-old field days of voting, was as low as marshal wanted was an over- 15 percent, the government whelming turnout that would declared the next day a na- give legitimacy to his July tional holiday to free people Deal reached to go to polls. ouster of Egypt’s first freely Amr Nabil / Associated Press elected president‚ Moham- The election commission med Morsi‚ and show critics Defeated presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi, center, is threatened to slap fines of cheered on by his supporters during a press conference. at home and abroad that his $70‚ a hefty sum for most in Clippers sale, action reflected the will of the Egyptians‚ on those who did people. In his last interview The reality was more tepid. ing his sole rival, leftist politi- not vote. before polls opened, he told According to unofficial re- cian Hamdeen Sabahi. When Tuesday polling still insider says Egyptians he wanted more sults announced by his cam- However, turnout nation- seemed low, the commission than 40 million of the nearly paign early Thursday, el-Sissi wide was around 46 percent, abruptly extended the elec- Associated Press 54 million registered voters to won more than 92 percent of according to Adly Mansour, turn out. the vote, resoundingly beat- interim president — not the Please see EGYPT, Page 2 LOS ANGELES — An individual with knowledge of negotiations to sell the said Shelly Sterling has reached an agreement to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO for $2 billion. Google not up to par on diversity The individual, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Of 26,600 Google employees, 61 percent MARTHA MENDOZA day with “PBS NewsHour.” Ballmer and the Sterling Family Trust have a binding are white and 70 percent are male. Associated Press Google said that in one year there agreement. The deal must be presented to the NBA. were just two black people with new Shelly Sterling negotiated the sale after her hus- EMPLOYEE RACE SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google has had doctorates in computer science on the band, Donald, made racist remarks that were made more trouble diversifying its work- job market. The company hired one of public. must also approve the final Hispanic force than its computer scientists have them, and Microsoft hired the other, agreement as a 50 percent owner. His attorneys said 3% Asian Black had writing programs that respond to Bock said. that will not happen. 30% 2% search requests in the blink of an eye or But the educational choices of some Ballmer is said to have beat out bids by Guggen- designing cars that can navigate traffic minorities do not entirely account for heim Partners and a group includ- White without a human behind the wheel. the lack of diversity at technology com- ing former NBA All-Star Grant Hill. 61% That seemed to be the conclusion panies. It is unclear if the deal will go when the Silicon Valley giant issued Google sells $50 billion in advertising through. The individual said that a gender and ethnic breakdown of its annually, a task that required more than though Donald Sterling was not in- workforce this week that showed that 2,900 salespeople in the U.S. as of Au- volved in the negotiations, “at the of its 26,600 U.S. employees nearly two- gust. Just 79 of them, or less than 3 per- end of the day, he has to sign off on thirds were white and only one-third cent, were black. A total of 127, about the final process. They’re not going were women. Blacks and Hispanics 4 percent, were Hispanic. More than to sell his 50 percent without him EMPLOYEE GENDER make up about 30 percent of the na- 2,000, or nearly 70 percent, were white. agreeing to it.” Women tion’s population. Google attributes the racial gap to Ballmer That is despite a May 22 letter 30% Men “Google is miles from where we want “unconscious biases” that have histori- obtained by The Associated Press 70% to be,” said Laszlo Bock, head of person- cally favored white people. and written by another one of Sterling’s attorneys nel at Google. To address the issue, Google has put that said “Donald T. Sterling authorizes Rochelle He said the biggest factor in the diver- more than 20,000 employees through Sterling to negotiate with the National Basketball sity disparity is a shortage of students 90-minute training sessions during the Association regarding all issues in connection with majoring in computer science or other past year to help them become more a sale of the Los Angeles Clippers team.” technical fields in college. aware of biases. It included the line “read and approved” and Don- “There is an absolute pipeline prob- lem,” he said in an interview Wednes- Source: Google Please see GOOGLE, Page 2 Please see CLIPPERS, Page 2 Friday, May 30, 2014 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 — Page 2 Dow Jones interns head for newsrooms Thirteen college students and recent col- organizations, are as follows: lege graduates are headed to paid copy ed- • Alicia Balog, Kent State University, The iting internships on daily newspapers after (Portland) Oregonian. completing 10 days of intensive preparation • Katie V. Bast, University of Wisconsin- at The University of Texas at Austin. Eau Claire, The Sacramento Bee. The interns are among a select group • Tara Bryant, University of Kansas, Bay of undergraduate and graduate students Area News Group-East Bay, Pleasanton, placed in internships in copy editing, sports California. copy editing, business reporting and digital • Chloe McCall Gonzales, University of journalism. Texas at Arlington, Austin American-States- The highly competitive national program man. is funded by the News Fund, a foundation of • Casey Hutchins, University of Kansas, the Dow Jones Co.; and participating news- Corpus Christi Scripps newspapers produc- papers and digital media services. More tion center. than 700 students applied for the program. • Ethan Metcalf, Midwestern State Uni- Applicants were required to take a test and versity, Corpus Christi Scripps newspapers complete an extensive application before production center. being considered. • Lyndsey Ruble Nuckols, Harding Uni- The School of Journalism at UT Austin, versity, Orange County Register. one of five pre-internship training sites for • Elizabeth Robinson, University of Texas Bradley Wilson / Southwest Journalist newspaper print and online copy editors at Austin, The Beaumont Enterprise. Dow Jones News Fund interns spent 10 days sharpening their skills at the University of and designers, has been part of the News • Jordan Shapiro, University of Missouri, Texas workshop. Seated: Katie Bast. Ethan Metcalf, Frannie Sprouls, Elizabeth Robin- Fund program since 1998. The . son and Bradley Wilson (faculty). Standing: Zane Sparling, Lyndsey Nuckols, Rebekah Participants in the UT workshop were • Zane S. Sparling, Willamette University, Wahlberg, Bill Hall, Tara Bryant, Jordan Shapiro, Casey Hutchins, Alicia Balog, Chloe involved in newspaper copy editing, design Houston Chronicle. Gonzales, Griff Singer (faculty), Beth Butler (faculty) and Amy Zerba (faculty). and production assignments and operated • Frannie Sprouls, University of Nebras- a parallel online news operation. ka-Lincoln, The Denver Post. ter the internships are eligible for a $1,000 and Dan Cunningham, deputy managing Newspaper professionals, visiting faculty • Bill Hall, Cal State University-Chico, San scholarship provided by the News Fund. editor of the Houston Chronicle. and UT journalism faculty moderated the Francisco Chronicle. Directing the UT workshop were S. Grif- Kathy Blackwell, a senior editor of the sessions in this 17th residency program at • Rebekah Wahlberg, California Baptist fin Singer, director; George Sylvie, assistant Austin American-Statesman, coordinated UT Austin. University, Alabama Media Group, Birming- director; and Lourdes Jones, senior admin- the interns’ visit to that newspaper. In the latter half of the pre-internship ham. istrative associate of the UT School of Jour- Other newspaper training centers were training, participants produced three issues Grants from the News Fund and contri- nalism. at Temple University, the University of Mis- of a live, model newspaper, the Southwest butions from participating newspapers cov- Faculty included Beth Butler, assistant souri, Pennsylvania State University and the Journalist, as well as a companion online er the participants’ pre-internship training, workshop director, from Kent State Univer- University of Nebraska. A digital journalism product, swjournalist.com. including housing, meals, transportation sity; Bradley Wilson, assistant professor of workshop was held at Arizona State, and a The UT-News Fund interns serve intern- and instruction. journalism at Midwestern State University; business reporting workshop was conduct- ships of 10 to 14 weeks. Participating newspapers also pay interns Amy Zerba, a senior staff editor of The New ed at New York University. Participants in the UT Austin workshop, a weekly wage for their internship work. York Times; Linda Shockley, deputy director including their universities and host news Students returning to their universities af- of the News Fund, Princeton, New Jersey; Last boat floating GOOGLE: Firm looks for more minority hires —Continued from Page 1

The firm is also trying to do more recruiting at colleges with large minority enrollments. During the past year, Google has dispatched a specialist to work with historically black Howard University on a cur- riculum that will give its graduates a better chance of competing for technology jobs. The program will be extended to five other campuses this fall. Google is one of many high-tech companies pledging to diversify their workforces this spring un- der pressure from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who made a similar effort 15 years ago. “I’m disappointed. For the most part they have not improved,” Jackson said Thursday. “Look at their board of directors and their c-suites. There’s a cul- ture of exclusion.” Google’s attempts come amid a renewed bout of advocacy from Jackson and Rainbow PUSH Coali- tion, which have been leading delegations to share- holder meetings this spring at such companies as Google, Facebook, eBay Inc. and Hewlett-Packard. In 1999, when Jackson launched his first Silicon Valley initiative, 89 percent of Silicon Valley chair- Torin Halsey / Associated Press men and CEOs were white, while the white-collar Andy Lopez, left, and Josh Cook prepare to go down with their ship during the annual Zundy Junior High Cardboard Boat workforce was about 60 percent white and 31 per- Float at Plum Lake in Wichita Falls on Thursday. The eighth-grade class studied a variety of principles on how to construct cent Asian. Those figures have barely budged. boats using only cardboard, masking tape, caulk and paint before piloting them across a section of the lake. “Silicon Valley moves at a pace that is unbeliev- able. It is a breakneck marketplace. So when you’re adding people, you don’t take time to cast a wider net,” said Russell Hancock, president of Joint Ven- ture Silicon Valley, an organization focused on the EGYPT: Lukewarm voter turnout local economy. at polls taints landslide victory CLIPPERS: Bid

—Continued from Page 1 But the puncturing of his image is no will not be OK’d, “The popular hero didn’t small blow. tion to a third day. The state made bus find the masses marching The boycott by the Brotherhood, and train travel free to allow migrants which has the country’s strongest get- attorney says to return to home districts to vote. To to the ballot boxes to lift out-the-vote machine, heavily gouged many, it was clear the state was trying to him to the palace. The the turnout numbers. —Continued from Page 1 help its favored candidate, reminiscent Many others who declined to vote‚ of machinations during the 29-year-rule shock here is the state’s and even some who voted for el-Sissi‚ ald Sterling’s signature. of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, toppled in a need to use its old tools to said he seemed to take Egyptians for Donald Sterling’s attorney, Bobby Samini, said 2011 pro-democracy uprising. granted and lacked solutions for mil- Sterling has had a change of heart primarily because And el-Sissi was not supposed to need defend its nominee.” lions living in poverty. They were struck of “the conduct of the NBA.” He said NBA Commis- a boost. WAEL ABDEL-FATTAH by how he showed little tolerance for sioner acted as a “judge, jury and execu- For the past 10 months, the govern- dissent, was dismissive of freedoms and tioner” when he decided to ban Sterling for life, fine ment and the media have made him the El-Sissi can genuinely claim he comes rights and was backed by former mem- him $2.5 million and try to oust him as an owner. object of relentless adulation, describing into office with an impressive tally of bers of Mubarak’s ruling party‚ all fuel- “They’re telling me he should stand back and let him as efficient, empathetic, manly and votes. His campaign said he won 23.38 ing concerns that he would bring back them take his team because his opinion on that par- handsome, insisting he is the sole figure million votes. Official results are expect- Mubarak’s autocratic ways. ticular day was not good, was not popular?” Samini able to lead. ed in early June. “This man will seal the gates of de- said. “That his team should be stripped from him? It “The popular hero didn’t find the That is more than the 13 million that mocracy behind him with a lock and doesn’t make sense. He’s going to fight.” masses marching to the ballot boxes Morsi won, and even more than the chain. It will be our last elections and it is The person with knowledge of the deal said that to lift him to the palace,” Egyptian col- around 18 million votes that went to a farce,” said Ramadan Salem, a 57-year- any buyer would have to ensure the team remains umnist Wael Abdel-Fattah wrote in the Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and allied old boycotter who was sitting among fel- in Los Angeles and be someone with whom Shelly Lebanese daily As-Safir. “The shock here parties in the first post-Mubarak parlia- low taxi drivers. Sterling could work if she decides to retain a small is in the state’s need to use its old tools to mentary elections, the Islamists’ most “When he fails, it will be us failing, not stake. An attorney representing Shelly Sterling de- defend its nominee.” resounding electoral showing. him,” he said. clined to comment.

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Alicia Balog Casey Hutchins Jordan Shapiro Kent State University University of Kansas University of Missouri Volume 17 — May 21-30, 2014 The Oregonian, Portland Scripps Production Center The Los Angeles Times Corpus Christi Center for Editing Excellence Katie Bast Zane S. Sparling School of Journalism University of Wisconsin Ethan Metcalf Willamette University The University of Texas at Austin Eau Claire Midwestern State University Houston Chronicle The Sacramento Bee Scripps Production Center Corpus Christi Frannie Sprouls S. 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San Francisco Chronicle Friday, May 30, 2014 INTERNATIONAL — Page 3 INTERNATIONAL Turkish court: Peru ghost town fights to survive YouTube ban RODRIGO ABD Associated Press HUEPETUHE, Peru — This violates rights nearly half-century-old Amazon ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s boomtown has gone bust with the highest court on Thursday ruled government’s recent restriction on that the country’s two month-old illegal gold mining. ban on YouTube violates con- Mayor Marco Ortega estimates stitutional rights to freedom of more than 22,000 people have left expression, a setback for Prime Huepetuhe since the government Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, halted gasoline shipments in April who wanted the website shut and sent troops to destroy heavy down. machinery used in mining that it The Constitutional Court said deemed illegal. it would order telecommunica- He said only about 3,000 people tions authorities to ensure that remain. the rights violation is removed, “The gold buyers, the hardware the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. stores, hostels and all kinds of Restrictions on YouTube were businesses have shut down. We imposed in late March after the are nearly a town without people,” leak of an audio recording of a Ortega said. government security meeting. The government officials over- In the recording, senior officials seeing the crackdown has said au- appeared to be discussing a thorities plan to provide work for possible military intervention in miners rendered jobless, but Orte- Syria. ga said no assistance has arrived. A lawyer representing Rodrigo Abd/ Associated Press According to official figures, il- YouTube, the Turkish Bar A miner arrives for work in Huepetuhe after the Peruvian government’s crackdown on illegal mining in legal miners have extracted 159 Association and legislators from the Madre de Dios region. The government pledged to find work for the affected miners, but the town’s million metric tons of gold worth Turkey’s main opposition party mayor said no such assistance has arrived. Those who remain now mine using rudimentary gold extrac- $7 billion over the past decade appealed to the high court, seek- tion including buckets, shovels and pickaxes. from the Madre de Dios in south- ing to overturn the ban. eastern Peru region that includes Erdogan said his government Huepetuhe. would comply, even though it did The environmental cost of the not respect the decision. mining has been high, with scars gouged out of the rainforest that CIA winds down drone are visible from outer space and strike program in Pakistan tons of mercury , a toxin used to bind mined gold flecks, released WASHINGTON — The CIA’s into the environment that con- targeted killing program in taminated the food supply. Pakistan is winding down. American officials say oppor- tunities for drone attacks will SEE MORE ONLINE dwindle further as the CIA and For an expanded photo gallery the military leave Afghanistan. Before being reduced to working with shovels, the Mining equipment stands idle after it was destroyed of the Madre de Dios region Obama announced this week a miners were able to extract $7 billion in gold over as part of the mining restrictions. More than 22,000 and Peruvian mining towns visit plan to pull nearly all American the last decade, a total of 159 million metric tons. have fled the area as a result. swjournalist.com. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016. The targeted killing program in Pakistan relies on drones flown from, and intelligence gathered in, U.S. bases in Afghanistan that Aches won’t Rape, killing of girls would then be closed. In a major foreign policy speech at the U.S. Military deter royal Academy, Obama said the U.S. stirs Indian protest would continue to carry out occasional drone strikes against D-Day trip BISWAJEET BANERJEE community, also called “untouch- terrorist targets. Armed drones Associated Press ables” and considered the lowest are still flying over Pakistan’s LUCKNOW, India — Two teen- rung in India’s age-old caste sys- tribal areas, and CIA targeting GREGORY KATZ age sisters in rural India were tem. Associated Press officers are still nominating mili- raped and killed by attackers who Records show a rape is commit- tants to the kill list, according to LONDON — The queen’s hung their bodies from a mango ted every 22 minutes in India, a anonymous U.S. officials. joints are creaky and her hus- tree, which became the scene of nation of 1.2 billion people. For as long as they are able to band has recently battled seri- a silent protest by villagers angry Activists say that number is low fly over Pakistan, CIA drones will ous illness, but the royal couple Associated Press File Photo about alleged police inaction in because of an entrenched culture hunt for senior al-Qaida figures, won’t let aches and pains keep the case. of tolerance for sexual violence, U.S. officials say. A younger Queen visits the them away from a grand over- British Cemetary in Bayeux, Two of the four men arrested so which leads many cases to go un- seas commemoration: the 70th France, on D-Day’s 50th anni- far are police officers. reported. China preps for more babies anniversary of the D-Day inva- versary in 1994. Villagers found the girls’ bod- Women are often pressed by after one-child plan change sion. ies hanging from the tree early family or police to stay quiet Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Many believe that this may Wednesday, hours after they dis- about sexual assault, and those BEIJING — China is preparing Philip have for the most part be the final overseas trip for the appeared from fields near their who do report it are often sub- for 2 million extra babies a year jected to public ridicule or social stopped traveling abroad, but queen, whose stamina and mo- home in Katra village in Uttar as a result of a loosening of its stigma. next week they intend to be bility have lately been affected Pradesh state, police Superinten- one child birth limits, health offi- in Normandy for ceremonies India tightened its anti-rape by joint pain, Beevor said. dent Atul Saxena said. cials said Thursday. to honor those who sacrificed laws last year, making gang rape The monarch has recently The girls, who were 14 and 15, The party in power announced their lives to liberate Europe punishable by the death penalty, ceded more of her duties to had gone into the fields because in November that couples in from the Nazi grip. even when the victim survives. which one parent was an only Prince Charles in what has been there was no toilet in their home. The perils of World War II di- Hundreds of angry villagers The new laws came after the fatal child would be allowed to have characterized as a partial transi- rectly shaped the lives of Eliza- stayed next to the tree throughout gang rape of a 23-year-old woman a second baby in some areas. tion. beth, 88, and Philip, 92. Wednesday. on a bus in New Delhi that trig- Previously, both parents had to The queen is also relying in- Historian Antony Beevor, a Indian TV footage showed the gered nationwide protests. be an only child to qualify for this creasingly on the younger gen- renowned chronicler of World villagers sitting under the girls’ Health workers, police and exemption. eration of royals, led by Prince War II, said Elizabeth and Phil- bodies as they swung in the wind, women’s rights activists say wom- Local authorities have been William and his wife Kate. told to build more health facili- ip want to show their solidar- and preventing authorities from en and girls face the risk of rape The queen does plan, how- ties for women and children and ity with the remaining veter- taking them down until the sus- and harassment when they go out add maternity beds, said Zhang ans, including those still strong ever, to attend a remembrance pects were arrested. into fields or bushes because of Shikun, an official with the com- enough to attend the events service and to meet personally Police arrested two police offi- the lack of toilets in their homes. mission in charge of women and next week. with veterans in addition to tak- cers and two men from the village More than a half-billion Indi- children’s health. “I think it will mean a huge ing part in the main ceremony later Wednesday and were search- ans lack access to toilets. A recent The ruling Communist Party amount to the veterans,” Beevor at Sword Beach, one of the land- ing for three more suspects. study said about 30 percent of introduced birth limits in 1980 said.“The queen and Philip are ing spots where Allied Forces Autopsies confirmed the girls women from poor families faced to curb population growth and both well aware that this is the faced fire from entrenched Ger- had been raped and strangled be- violent sexual assaults every year demand for resources. China last time a reasonable number man troops and tanks. fore being hanged, Saxena said. because they did not have access had 18.5 million births in 2013, of veterans will be able to at- After events in Normandy, The villagers accused the chief to a safe toilet. according to UNICEF. The fore- tend. So it’s very important to the queen and Philip will attend of the local police station of ignor- Last month, the head of Uttar cast increase would be almost both of them.” a state banquet Friday at the ing a report by the girls’ father on Pradesh state’s governing party, 11 percent of that. Elysee Palace hosted by French The figure of 2 million addi- The queen was a teenager Tuesday night that the girls were the regionally prominent Sama- tional births is at the top end of during the war. She joined the President Francois Hollande. missing. jwadi Party, told an election rally forecasts by experts based on Women’s Auxiliary Territorial The next morning she and The station chief in Katra, 180 the party opposes the law calling the less restrictive policy. Some Service, serving as a driver and Philip plan to fly home in time miles southwest of the state capi- for gang rapists to be executed. say the figure might be lower mechanic. Philip was on active to attend the Derby at Epsom tal, Lucknow, has since been sus- “Boys will be boys,” Mulayam due to the growing acceptance duty in the Royal Navy. Downs Racecourse. pended. Singh Yadav said. “They make in China of smaller families. The family belongs to the Dalit mistakes.” Thailand’s junta bans all anti-coup protests BANGKOK — More than Earth on verge of 6th extinction, study says 1,000 Thai troops and police sealed off one of Bangkok’s SETH BORENSTEIN Research in Brazil. The No. 1 issue busiest intersections Thursday Associated Press is habitat loss as more places are to prevent a planned protest, as built up and altered by humans. authorities said they would no WASHINGTON — Species of plants and animals are becoming Other factors are invasive species longer allow any demonstrations crowding out native species, cli- against last week’s military coup. extinct at least 1,000 times faster mate change affecting where spe- The anti-coup demonstrations than they did before humans ar- have been generally small and rived on the scene, and the world cies can survive, and overfishing, mostly leaderless, but protesters is on the brink of a sixth great ex- Pimm said. had planned to gather Thursday tinction, a new study says. The buffy-tufted-ear marmoset and called for a mass rally on The study, published by the is a good example, Jenkins said. Sunday. journal Science on Thursday, looks Its habitat has shrunk because of Gen. Somyot Poompanmoung, at past and present rates of extinc- development in Brazil, and a com- the deputy national police chief, tion and finds a lower rate in the peting marmoset has taken over said the small protests would no past than scientists had thought. where it lives. Now, it is on the in- longer be allowed. Species are now disappearing ternational vulnerable list. “We know their rally is mainly from Earth about 10 times faster Pimm and Jenkins said there is for symbolic reasons, but it’s hope. Both said the use of smart- than biologists had believed, said Stuart Pimm / Associated Press against the law,” he said. phones and applications such study lead author noted biologist The buffy-tufted-ear marmoset’s habitat is shrinking because of devel- Last week, the army seized Stuart Pimm of Duke University. as iNaturalist will help ordinary power, overthrowing a govern- opment in Brazil and a competing marmoset species. Habitat loss is people and biologists find species “We are on the verge of the sixth the No. 1 factor contributing to species disappearing. ment that won a landslide elec- extinction,” Pimm said from re- in trouble. Once biologists know tion victory three years earlier. search at the Dry Tortugas, a small where endangered species are The army says it had to act to disappearing, and found a death Numerous factors are combin- they can try to save habitats and restore order after seven months group of islands at the end of the Florida Keys. “Whether we avoid it rate of how many species out of ing to make species disappear use captive breeding and other of increasingly violent political techniques to save the species, turbulence. or not will depend on our actions.” 1 million species become extinct much faster than before, said Pimm’s study focused on the annually. The death rate is about Pimm and co-author Clinton Jen- they said. ––Associated Press rate, not the number, of species 100 to 1,000, Pimm said. kins of the Institute of Ecological Page 4 — NATIONAL Friday, May 30, 2014 Pressure mounts on VA head after report NATIONAL A federal investigation ear- average 115-day wait for a first ap- the ballot this fall. Sergeant faces Lawmakers facing lier this week of operations in the pointment for those on the wait- White House press secretary Jay troubled Phoenix VA Health Care ing list — nearly five times as long Carney declined to say whether sexual assault re-election urge System found that about 1,700 as the 24-day average the hospital President Barack Obama still has Shinseki to resign veterans in need of care were at had reported. full confidence in Shinseki, who accusations risk of being lost or forgotten af- House Speaker John Boehner has led the VA since the start of the ST. LOUIS — A Missouri-based MATTHEW DALY ter being kept off an official wait- and House Minority Leader Nan- Obama administration. The presi- Army drill sergeant has been Associated Press ing list. While initially focused on cy Pelosi said they were reserv- dent is waiting for a full investiga- accused of sexually assaulting WASHINGTON — Support for Phoenix, the investigation found ing judgment about Shinseki. But tion before deciding who should 12 female soldiers during the Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric broad problems in the sprawling with the situation threatening to be held accountable, Carney said. past three years, including sev- Shinseki eroded quickly Thursday, health care system, which pro- affect congressional elections in The American Legion and doz- eral while he was deployed in especially among congressional vides medical care to about 6.5 November, the chorus of lawmak- ens of Republicans have called Afghanistan. Democrats facing tough re-elec- million veterans annually. ers calling for his departure grew for Shinseki to resign, including Staff Sgt. Angel M. Sanchez tion campaigns. A VA representative said Shinse- by the hour. Jeff Miller of Florida, chairman of appeared at a pretrial hearing at Shinseki spoke privately with ki told the veterans groups that the Democratic Sens. Mark Warner the House Veterans Affairs Com- Fort Leonard Wood this week. lawmakers and met with nearly findings in the report were repre- and Tim Kaine of Virginia, Mary mittee, and Richard Burr of North He is accused of sexually two dozen veterans groups, assur- hensible, and that he has directed Landrieu of Louisiana, Jeff Merk- Carolina, the senior Republican assaulting four women and inap- propriately touching eight oth- ing them that he takes the reports the agency to immediately con- ley of Oregon and New Mexico’s on the Senate veterans panel. Ari- tact each of the veterans waiting Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich zona’s two Republican senators ers, said Tiffany Wood, a Fort of improper care seriously and Leonard Wood spokeswoman. is moving swiftly to fix problems. for primary care appointments in all urged Shinseki to step aside. also have called for Shinseki to Phoenix. Eleven Senate Democrats have step down. Military court records indicate On Friday, he will address the Na- that Sanchez is accused of using tional Coalition on Homeless Vet- The report confirmed earlier called for Shinseki’s resignation Shinseki is expected to release allegations of excessive waiting since the inspector general report results Friday of a system-wide his supervisory position as a drill erans, outlining his plan for cor- sergeant with the 14th Military times for care in Phoenix, with an came out. All but Heinrich are on audit of scheduling practices. rections. Police Brigade to threaten some of the women he is accused of assaulting. The Pentagon’s first formal report on sex assaults in its ranks shows that in the vast majority of the cases, the victim was a Altered portraits ignite backlash young, lower-ranking woman and the offender a senior enlisted male service member, often in Utah high school the same unit. Sanchez has been assigned modifies clothing an office job with his unit as his in yearbook photos legal case unfolds. Britain’s delayed Iraq report Associated Press due at end of 2014 SALT LAKE CITY — A group of LONDON — British Prime Utah high school students said Minister David Cameron said a they were stunned and upset to long-delayed report on the Iraq discover their school yearbook war should be published by the photos were digitally altered, end of 2014 — five years after with sleeves and higher necklines the inquiry began. drawn on to cover up bare skin. Cameron told Sky News that Several students at Wasatch the delay was frustrating, and High School in Heber City, about the public was eager to see the 45 miles east of Salt Lake City, say answers. their outfits followed the pub- The inquiry, led by retired civil lic school’s dress code and they servant John Chilcot, was set up to examine mistakes made before have worn them on campus many and after the 2003 U.S.-led inva- times. sion of Iraq. It held public hear- “I feel like they’re trying to ings between 2009 and 2011. shame you of your body,” said Its report has been delayed sophomore Shelby Baum, who Rick Bowmer / Associated Press by negotiations with top civil discovered that a high, square Wasatch High School sophomore Kimberly Montoya, 16, who found her sleeveless top changed to a servants over the inclusion of neckline had been drawn on her classified material including con- black, V-neck T-shirt. short-sleeved shirt, is among a group of high school students upset to discover alterations to their original yearbook photos. versations between then-Prime Baum told the Salt Lake Tribune Minister Tony Blair and then- she was upset to learn that a tat- President George W. Bush. too on her collarbone had been students violated dress standards. residents belong to The Church of shoulders, midriff, back, under- On Friday, the House of erased from her photo. She said “When the yearbook comes Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wear and cleavage at all times.” Commons Public Administration she consulted the school dress out in the spring, students are al- which encourages its members Most of the eight high schools Committee said the long delay code before getting the tattoo, ways excited to see their pictures to practice modesty in their dress. in the Granite School District, one was very serious. a line of script that reads “I am and are concerned with how they For women, that includes cover- of the largest in the state, also ban enough the way I am.” look in the yearbook, so it is un- ing shoulders and avoiding low- bare shoulders, district spokes- Police officer on trial “I was shocked,” said Kimberly derstandable that students in cut shirts and short skirts and man Ben Horsley said. Montoya, a sophomore who found violation of the dress code could shorts. Legally, schools have a lot of for killing town’s favorite elk that her sleeveless top had been forget that they received warnings “The fashions of the world will leeway with dress codes, and legal BOULDER, Colo. — When converted into a short-sleeved about inappropriate dress,” the change, but the Lord’s standards challenges usually are unsuccess- Mapleton Hill residents learned shirt. Students said the standards statement said. The district plans will not change,” reads a pamphlet ful, said John Mejia, legal direc- a police officer killed a bull elk were not uniformly applied. to evaluate the policy of altering distributed to youth members of tor of the American Civil Liber- named “Big Boy,” they led march- The Wasatch County School photos in the future. the faith. ties Union of Utah. Schools open es, wrote songs, held prayer District said in a statement that Superintendent Terry Shoe- The Wasatch School District themselves up to problems when vigils and hatched plans for a students were warned when year- maker declined to comment fur- dress code says: “Clothing will be the policy is not being implement- permanent memorial. book photos were taken last fall ther. modest, neat, clean, in good re- ed uniformly or when students are Now jurors must decide that images might be altered if An estimated two-thirds of Utah pair. Modesty includes covering not given proper notice, he said. whether to convict the former officer on felony charges that could send him to prison. Sam Carter was charged with attempting to influence a public Guard in cell death official, forgery and tampering with evidence after he shot the formerly punished elk while on duty Jan. 1, 2013. Carter’s attorney, Marc Colin, said the elk had become danger- for similar offense ously domesticated and aggres- JAKE PEARSON sive, frightening local dogs. Associated Press Prosecutors said Carter called another officer, Brent Curnow, to NEW YORK — A Rikers Island jail guard who come cart away the body in his left her post without permission before a men- pickup truck, and together they tally ill inmate died in his 101-degree cell in butchered the animal for its meat. February had been disciplined four years ear- Curnow pleaded guilty last year lier for similar misconduct, according to public to tampering with evidence and records. other charges and is expected to Carol Lackner was accused in 2010 of leaving testify against Carter. the prison entirely without permission while “He was not a pet, but he was working, according to the documents. a fixture of Mapleton,” Withers That charge was settled, her attorney says, said about the elk. “He had been when Lackner gave up five vacation days. More there for years.” recently, Lackner was suspended for 30 days following the Feb. 15 death of Jerome Mur- Elaine Thompson / Associated Press assailant has dough. An investigation found she abandoned Yeni Sleidi, known as the “Weed Fairy,” right, buys marijuana in Seattle’s Capitol Hill her post 20 minutes before he was discovered history of getting too close neighborhood on Wednesday. Sleidi began distributing free marijuana in New York dur- unresponsive. LOS ANGELES — A man who ing the government shutdown as a way to distract people from stress. Murdough “basically baked to death” when was arrested after police said he was left unchecked for at least four hours in he rushed and touched Brad a part of the jail with a malfunctioning heater, Pitt at the premiere of the movie a city official said. “Maleficent” is no stranger in Spirits fly high in Seattle Murdough suffered from bipolar disorder Hollywood. and schizophrenia, according to his family. He Vitalii Sediuk was jailed was on psychotropic medication, which ex- Wednesday on suspicion of mis- perts say can make people more sensitive to demeanor battery and was held after visit from ‘Weed Fairy’ on $20,000 bail, police said. heat. The medical examiner’s office said more tests are needed to determine exactly how he Sediuk has previously crossed MANUEL VALDES was, but I thought people would be amused the line with celebrities, most Associated Press died, but said he appeared to have died from by it,” she said. recently rushing America Ferrara SEATTLE — A woman who calls herself The fliers posted in Seattle came with the hyperthermia. on a red carpet and crawling the “Weed Fairy” distributed free nuggets message: “These are tough times. Take this The logbook indicates Lackner toured the under her dress. of marijuana to people in weed. And keep your spirits area every half-hour as required, but she is not He crashed the 2013 Seattle over Memorial Day high.” seen on video doing so, according to another Grammys and was arrested after weekend, taping the free “These are tough Sleidi posted her free city official. Lackner’s attorney denied the ac- he went onstage and grabbed pot on 50 fliers around a marijuana in Capitol Hill, cusations. He said she was brought in as a relief a microphone before city neighborhood. times. Take this weed. a Seattle neighborhood guard after effectively working three straight accepted an award. He remains The woman, 23-year-old And keep your spirits known for its nightlife and shifts and was not given any information about on probation for the incident. In Yeni Sleidi, said she does it counterculture. complaints of excessive heat. 2012, slapped Sediuk to give people a break from h i g h .” Washington and Colo- He said multiple factors contributed to Mur- after he tried to kiss Smith, and everyday stress. WEED FAIRY’S FLIER rado legalized recreational dough’s death, including his sentence to Rikers he drew Madonna’s anger a year “People mostly laughed,” marijuana in 2012. in the first place. earlier by presenting her with Sleidi said. Sleidi said it was the first time she felt Murdough’s mother is planning to sue the flowers. The woman said she first came up with comfortable with attaching her name to her city. Attorney Anthony Willoughby, the idea in New York, where she lived during deeds. “Had the city properly supervised this offi- who represented Sediuk in the the government shutdown, because several “I felt so relaxed about it ... I wouldn’t feel cer, who had a history of abandoning her post, Grammy trespassing case, said of her friends were affected by it. comfortable doing it elsewhere in the coun- Jerome might still be alive,” lawyer Derek Sells he will likely represent the former journalist if new charges are filed. She wanted to distract them from the try,” she said. said. The documents also reveal that correction The latest incident might con- stress. Passing out the pot in the Big Apple A call to the Seattle Police Department to stitute a violation of Sediuk’s officials brought charges against Lackner in drew plenty of coverage from the media. ask about the pot distribution effort was not probation, the lawyer said. “I’m not sure what the thought process immediately returned. 2011 for failing to report that she had been ar- ––Associated Press rested. Friday, May 30, 2014 TEXAS/SOUTHWEST — Page 5 TEXAS/SOUTHWEST spur down for what? Man entering Texas shields school with execution drug gun arrested ABILENE — Abilene police arrested a man after he was origin, maker reported carrying a gun and walk- ing into an elementary school. NOMAAN MERCHANT Police received a 911 call Associated Press Thursday morning that a man DALLAS — Texas’ prison system does not have to with a gun in his waistband had entered Jane Long Elementary reveal where it gets its execution drugs, the attorney School. The school was placed general said Thursday. on lockdown but police were not Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican able to find the intruder. nominee for governor in the nation’s busiest death Police Sgt. Lynn Beard said a penalty state, rebuffed three previous attempts by man was arrested in the incident Texas prison officials to shield the source of the and was also involved in a child drug. But he switched course Thursday after state custody disagreement. prison officials said their supplier would be in dan- District Superintendent Heath ger if identified. Burns said he is confident there Texas is among a group of execution states that was no immediate threat to stu- contend compounding pharmacies that provide dents or staff on the campus. them with drugs should remain secret to protect the School officials also allowed suppliers from threats of violence. Lawyers for death parents to retrieve their children if row inmates said they need the information to verify they felt it was necessary. the drugs’ potency and protect inmates from cruel and unusual punishment. Lawyer: Stealing Wendy The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to halt an execu- tion based on a state’s refusal to reveal its drug sup- Davis’ car cost client plier. The secrecy argument also was used ahead of a The attorney of a man who bungled execution last month in Oklahoma, though broke into the house of Texas that inmate’s faulty veins, not the execution drug, gubernatorial hopeful Wendy were cited as the likely culprit. Davis said Thursday she believes The opinion from Abbott’s office cites a threat as- her client would have gotten a sessment that prison officials submitted from the lighter sentence if the homeown- Texas Department of Public Safety that said drug er was not a public figure. suppliers face a substantial threat of physical harm. Davis was at her Fort Worth home in April 2013 when an However, state agencies did not make the assess- intruder entered and stole her ment available publicly Thursday. car. Donnell Dickerson pleaded It said that “in this instance and when analyzing guilty to the charges and was the probability of harm, this office must defer to the sentenced to eight years in representations of DPS, the law enforcement experts prison. Davis testified during a charged with assessing threats to public safety.” short sentencing trial in January, A Houston-area compounding pharmacy was three months after launching her previously identified as the state’s execution suppli- campaign. er. State and local law enforcement said last month that they were not investigating any threats against Fort Worth attorney Mamie that pharmacy, although the pharmacy’s owner Johnson said Dickerson had no complained of “constant inquiries from the press, idea last spring whose home the hate mail and messages.” he was breaking into, but that Unlike some states, Texas law does not specifical- ultimately the owner’s status ly say whether prison officials must disclose where affected how much time her cli- they get their lethal injection drugs. ent will serve. Abbott’s latest decision stems from an open re- “When it was all said and cords request filed before the April executions of se- done, he ended up with an extra rial killer Tommy Lynn Sells and convicted murderer year or two because it’s a pub- Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas. Texas prison officials lic official,” Johnson said. “Not used a new supply of pentobarbital, a powerful sed- Eric Gay / Associated Press because it was Wendy Davis, but San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginobili (20) shoots over Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin because it was a public official.” ative, but refused to name the supplier. The inmates’ Dickerson had a past criminal attorneys said that violated their rights. Durant (35) during the first half of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals NBA record that jurors were allowed Defense attorney Maurie Levin, called Abbott’s basketball playoff series yesterday in San Antonio. The Spurs defeated the Thunder to consider, she said, and decision deeply disturbing and said serious ques- 117 to 89. For full coverage of the game, visit swjournalist.com. although she couldn’t recall his tions surround his change of heart. previous arrests she said none were felonies. A Davis spokes- man said the Democrat was grateful to police but referred questions about Dickerson’s Explosion levels house; baby survives sentence to prosecutors. Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Associated Press just saw rubble, I mean literally Shannon said his office handled rubble, there was no remnants of the case like any other burglary. VICTORIA, Texas — A woman a house whatsoever,” O’Connor Despite being sentenced to was killed but her 4-month-old said. eight years, Dickerson could be infant appears to have escaped Firefighters heard cries and be- eligible for parole much sooner, Johnson said. She described serious injury in an explosion that gan digging, then brought in air her client as being satisfied leveled their home. bags and jacks to assist in remov- with the sentence even though Officials are investigating to ing the debris. she believes it could have been find the cause of the blast Wednes- “The fact that the child survived shorter. day that killed 26-year-old Haley is incredible,” O’Connor said. Singer, Victoria County Sheriff T. Fire Marshal Ron Pray said Michael O’Connor said. Firefight- Singer’s husband had left for Sex offender accused in plot ers found her daughter, Parker, work shortly before the explosion to kill judge alive in the debris. The child was ripped their two-story home. WACO — A convicted sex being treated at a hospital in San The explosion damaged near- offender was indicted on Antonio, about 100 miles to the ly a dozen homes in the area.A attempted capital murder charg- northwest. woman in the house next door es for what prosecutors said was Authorities said firefighters was buried under broken drywall, a $30,000 offer to have a Waco found Singer’s body in what had but authorities said she was not judge killed. Kathleen Duncan / Associated Press been the kitchen area. Her infant seriously hurt. William Ray Phillips was indict- A ranger from the Department of Public Safety navigates through was recovered between two mat- Propane gas was an energy ed Wednesday by a McLennan the debris after an explosion destroyed a two-story home in Victoria, tresses that were buried under source in the home but officials County grand jury. Prosecutors Texas. Officials are investigating to find the cause of the May 28 blast. lumber and other wreckage. would not immediately say if it said the 63-year-old Phillips “When we arrived on there and was a source for the explosion. was plotting the murder-for-hire scheme against State District Judge Matt Johnson. Phillips has been in custody since February and Johnson presided over two Southwest Airlines of his previous trials. Restored water supply A 10-month investiga- tion showed Phillips also had fined for airing McLennan County District to slake North Texas’ thirst Attorney Abel Reyna and U.S. District Judge Walter Smith on Associated Press false advertisement his hit list but was willing to pay only for Johnson to be killed. DALLAS — A water dis- Weekend rains ease drought Associated Press Conviction on the attempted trict in North Texas is turn- capital murder charge could get ing once again to a critical Rains that fell across much of Texas over the Memo- DALLAS — Southwest Airlines is being fined Phillips a life sentence. water source to serve 1.6 rial Day weekend have improved drought conditions $200,000 for advertising a fare sale too good to be million thirsty customers in some of the driest parts of the state. true. 3 relatives ousted from living north and east of Dal- The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday The U.S. Department of Transportation said South Texas school board las. shows the driest designations in West and Southwest Thursday that in television commercials last Octo- Lake Texoma was an im- Texas improved one stage to extreme drought. ber the airline promised flights from Atlanta to New PROGRESO — Two broth- portant source of water for The rains provided short-term relief to the Panhan- York, Chicago and Los Angeles for just $59 — but did ers and the wife of one were the North Texas Municipal dle and South Plains regions, which are in their fourth not make any seats available at that price. removed from the school board Water District for nearly year of drought. The government said that Southwest’s ads were in a small South Texas town in a The most rain fell around San Angelo, where some deceptive and violated advertising rules. fallout over conspiracy and brib- two decades before invasive zebra mussels were discov- locations got as much as 11 inches, according to the It added that airlines have long known that rules ery schemes. National Weather Service. governing fare advertising stipulate that they must Omar and Orlando Vela and ered in the lake in 2009. have a “reasonable number” of seats available at the Orlando Vela’s wife, Ana, were The U.S. Army Corps of all unanimously voted off the Engineers cut the flow of anyway, probably as stow- the winter to 120 million advertised price. Progreso school board. Omar water from Texoma, which aways on a boat taken from gallons a day in the sum- In October, Southwest ran ads in Atlanta which Vela was Progreso’s mayor and borders Oklahoma, in an Texoma to Lake Ray Roberts mer.” told viewers, “Discover amazing low sale fares” of the school district head of tru- effort to prevent the mus- without proper cleaning. Restoring the Texoma $59 “to places like New York, Los Angeles and Chi- ancy. He is awaiting sentencing sels from spreading south District officials saidsupply comes at an impor- cago.” after pleading guilty to federal into the Trinity River basin. Texoma water could once tant time. Lake levels in the The department said it checked and found that conspiracy and bribery charges. That meant more than 27.3 again be serving customers region are dropping precip- Southwest had no seats for $59 to those three cities Orlando Vela was school dis- billion gallons of Texoma within the next week, and itously because of the lin- on any of the travel dates listed in the ad. trict risk manager and former city water could no longer be the supply should gradually gering drought and hotter- The Dallas-based air carrier was also required to mayor pro tem. He has pleaded delivered to customers, The grow over the next month than-normal summers. pay an extra $100,000 that had been suspended after guilty to stealing money for buy- Dallas Morning News re- or two. The water district, which a similar offense last year. ing supplies that were not sold. ports. “Once we get our blend- includes some of the fast- Southwest said that those three cities were nev- Ana Vela has not been The district undertook est-growing cities in the er intended to be part of the Atlanta fare sale but charged but was the school dis- ing facilities up and run- a $300 million project to ning, we’ll use about 75 country, has imposed tough wound up in the advertisement after a flawed review trict’s business manager. Trustee build treatment plants and of the ad copy. Juan Garcia said she should not million gallons a day on av- water restrictions. a delivery system that sends erage,” Mike Rickman, dep- Rickman cautions that “As soon as we became aware of our mistake, we have signed off on fraudulent pulled all incorrect advertisements off the air,” said payments. Texoma water to Lavon uty director of the district, the flow of water from Texo- Lake in Collin County. spokesman Brad Hawkins. ––Associated Press told the Morning News. ma will not change those The mussels later made “The range is 30 million to restrictions anytime soon. The airline added that it honored the $59 fare to it into the Trinity River 40 million gallons a day in the three cities for consumers who called its reserva- tions center and asked for that price. Page 6 — FEATURES Friday, May 30, 2014 Feuil•le•ton n., a part of a European newspaper or magazine devoted to material designed to entertain the general reader. The last word the co-champion had to spell.

Evan Vucci / Associated Press Ansun Sujoe, 13, of Fort Worth and Sriram Hathwar, 14, of Painted Post, New York, were named co-champions of the National Spelling Bee, on Thursday in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Ansun correctly spelled feuilleton, which drained the list of championship words and earned him the co-title.

CO-CHAMPION PAST TEXAS Texas teen co-champ at WINNERS 1942: Richard Earnhart, El Paso Sacrilegious 1962: Nettie Crawford*, El Paso Scripps National Spelling Bee Esquamulose 1966: Robert A Wake, Houston Ratoon BEN NUCKOLS Jae received a standing ovation after he misspelled 1969: Susan Yoachum, Dallas Associated Press “parseval,” a non-rigid airship. Interlocutory OXON HILL, Md. — For the first time in 52 years, two “That show of support really has comforted me,” Jae 1972: Robin Kral, Lubbock spellers were declared co-champions of the Scripps said afterward in a televised interview. Macerate National Spelling Bee on Thursday. Normally calm onstage, Jae squinted and fidgeted 1973: Barrie Trinkle, Fort Worth Sriram Hathwar of Painted Post, New York, and An- as he tried to guess the word. The 12-year-old seventh- Vouchsafe sun Sujoe of Fort Worth, Texas, shared the title after a grader has one year of eligibility remaining. 1981: Paige Pipkin, El Paso riveting final-round duel in which they nearly exhaust- “The one word I didn’t know, pretty much,” Jae said. Sarcophagus ed the 25 designated championship words. After they “I’ve just got to study more German.” 1983: Blake Giddens, El Paso ANSUN SUJOE, 13 spelled a dozen words correctly in a row, they both were Purim named champions. Meghana Kamineni of Lockport, Illinois, correctly 2003: Sai R. Gunturi, Dallas School: Bethesda Earlier, 14-year-old Sriram opened the door to an spelled “cachinnate,” which means to laugh loudly. Pocourante Christian School upset by 13-year-old Ansun after he misspelled “corps- Two spellers later, given the word “epixylous,” Lucas *Co-champion Hometown: Fort Worth bruder,” a close comrade. But Ansun was unable to take Urbanski of Crystal Lake, Illinois, got the biggest laugh Finals word: the title because he got “antegropelos,” which means of the semifinal round with a question for pronouncer THE PROCESS waterproof leggings, wrong. Jacques Bailly. Augenphilologie Sriram entered the final round as the favorite after “Can you make me cachinnate with a sentence?” Lu- Preliminaries round 1: Spellers complete a computer- n. (aw-jen-phil-ol-o-gy): finishing in third place last year. Ansun just missed the cas said. based test. semifinals last year. linguistics that A. Spell 24 words misrepresents They become the fourth co-champions in the bee’s At 5-foot-10, finalist Kate Miller of Abilene, Texas, B. Answer 24 multiple-choice 89-year history and the first since 1962. is accustomed to towering over her fellow spellers. the realities of vocabulary questions “The competition was against the dictionary, not She also has the longest hair, which reaches below her C. One vocabulary word speech because of against each other,” Sriram said after both were show- waist. A dancer and an aspiring writer, her hobbies in- D. One vocabulary word overemphasis on writing. ered with confetti onstage. “I’m happy to share this tro- clude film analysis, knitting Rodentia and “crafting ir- phy with him.” reverent travesties of pop songs,” according to her of- Preliminaries rounds 2 and Sriram backed up his status as the favorite by rarely ficial spelling bee biography. 3: Spellers verbally spell words TEXAS FINALIST looking flustered on stage, nodding confidently as he “I’m not the tallest speller, but I’m the tallest finalist,” and are rewarded points in outlasted 10 other spellers to set up the one-on-one Kate said. “When I competed in sixth grade, I was 5-8, each round. The top 50 move duel with Ansun. The younger boy was more nervous and when I competed in seventh grade, I was 5-9, and to the semifinals. and demonstrative, no more so than on the word that in eighth grade, fittingly, I’m 5-10.” Semifinals round 4: Spellers gave him a share of the title: “feuilleton,” the features Kate smiled throughout her time onstage and leaned complete another computer- section of a European newspaper or magazine. over to speak into the microphone. She said she enjoys based test. “Ah, whatever!” Ansun said before beginning to spell being nervous, and she admitted her first semifinal A. Spell 12 words the word as the stage lights turned red, signaling that he word, “duello,” was “a complete guess.” B. Answer 12 multiple-choice had 30 seconds left. “I feel more alive when I’m nervous. I think that a bit vocabulary questions Although they hoisted a single trophy together on- of nervous energy, not debilitating to the point where C. One vocabulary word stage, each will get one to take home, and each gets you can’t remember what you’ve learned, but a certain D. One vocabulary word the champion’s haul of more than $33,000 in cash and amount of nervousness really does help you,” she said. Semifinals rounds 5 and prizes. “It helps you remember why you’re there.” 6: The top 12 advance to the Both champions are Indian-American. The past finals. eight winners and 13 of the past 17 have been of Indian It rarely happens in the semifinal round of descent, a run that began in 1999 after Nupur Lala’s the National Spelling Bee, but sometimes, Championship finals: victory, which was later featured in the documen- a word is spelled exactly like it sounds. Spellers are eliminated as they tary “Spellbound.” Finalist Ansun Sujoe of Fort Worth, misspell words. The final speller Texas, was momentarily flummoxed must correctly spell his or her word and a championship word. FOUR MEMORABLE MOMENTS: when asked to spell “laulau,” a Ha- KATE MILLER, 14 Jae Canetti of Falls Church, Virginia, waiian-derived word for meat or making his third appearance in the bee, fish wrapped in leaves and baked or ORIGIN OF “BEE” School: Big Country was eliminated from the semifinals im- steamed. The word bee, as used in Home Educators mediately after ESPN2 profiled him “What does this mean?” he asked spelling bee, is one of those Hometown: Abilene and his family. His mother was incredulously. language puzzles that has never Last word: diagnosed with cancer just two After getting the definition and been satisfactorily accounted months before last year’s other context from Bailly, he was Exochorion for. A fairly old and widely-used bee, which he said af- resigned to guess. word, it refers to a community n. (ex-o-kor-e-on): fected his preparation social gathering at which friends the outer of the two and concentration, and neighbors join together in a layers that form the and he missed the single activity (sewing, quilting, semifinals by one barn raising, etc.) usually to help hardened covering of an point. She has one person or family. insect egg. since recovered Jennifer M. Tennant, 13, and was in the au- of Father Andrew White source: spellingbee.com S.J. School, Leonardtown, Sources: spellingbee.com and dience Thursday. merriam-webster.com Maryland

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Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press Mary Horton Misspelled shibuichi Alia Abiad Misspelled irbis Jacob Williamson Misspelled kabaragoya Tajaun Gibbison Misspelled chartula