Camping? 5 tips before your next trip SEE DAILY BREAK How healthy is Man sought in Charlotte County? stabbing: Cops PAGE 1C ask for public’s help PAGE 1C TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2019 | YOURSUN.COM | AN EDITION OF THE SUN | $1.50 District tries to recoup money from ‘overpaid’ teachers Union files grievances; 91 Charlotte teachers affected By BRIANNA KWASNIK News and the Sun show experience. Teachers with prior only have the amount withheld STAFF WRITER 91 Charlotte County teachers experience elsewhere are given from a future paycheck, but received a letter from the credit and placed higher on the they will be placed lower on the PORT CHARLOTTE — district stating that as a result pay scale than teachers with no step schedule, reducing their SHUTTERSTOCK Charlotte County teachers of over-payment, a future pay- experience. salary. who were mistakenly overpaid check would be lower to make However, the district re- “The union filed a grievance error and through no fault of shouldn’t be penalized for the up the difference. portedly erred when it gave (with the district) and asked their own and to fairly restore school district’s error, the local Teachers in Charlotte are some teachers credit for more for relief that these employees the same additional experience teachers union contends. paid according to a “step experience than they had. should not have to pay back Records obtained by WINK schedule” based on years of Now, those teachers will not this money due to the district’s SEE MONEY, 4A Daily Puerto Ricans demand aspirin governor resign use puts Ricky Martin, holding a Puerto Rican flag and a rainbow banner, joins in with thousands of Puerto Ricans for what millions many are expecting to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the U.S. territory, with irate islanders pledging to drive Gov. Ricardo Rossello from office, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City at risk councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island’s finance. READ THE STORY, PAGE 2A By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP MEDICAL WRITER WASHINGTON — Millions of people who take aspirin to pre- vent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported Monday. A daily low-dose aspirin is recommended for people who have already had a heart attack or stroke and for those diag- nosed with heart disease. But for the otherwise healthy, that advice has been over- turned. Guidelines released this year ruled out routine aspirin use for many older adults who don’t already have heart disease — and said it’s only for certain younger people under doctor’s orders. How many people need to get that message? Some 29 million people 40 and older were taking an aspirin a day despite having no known heart disease in 2017, the latest data available, according to a new study from Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. About 6.6 million of them were doing so on their own — a doctor never recom- mended it. And nearly half of people AP PHOTO over 70 who don’t have heart disease — estimated at about 10 million — were taking daily aspirin for prevention, the researchers reported in Annals Equifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement of Internal Medicine. “Many patients are confused By SARAH SELL AND KEN SWEET Bureau and the Federal Trade included Social Security num- take this matter,” said Equifax about this,” said Dr. Colin ASSOCIATED PRESS Commission, as well as 48 bers, birth dates, addresses, CEO Mark Begor. O’Brien, a senior internal states, the District of Columbia driver license numbers, credit Equifax stock, which plunged medicine resident at Beth Israel NEW YORK — Equifax has and Puerto Rico, would provide card numbers and in some 30% in the days following the who led the study. agreed to pay $700 million, up to $425 million in monetary cases, data from passports. The disclosure of the breach, have After all, for years doctors potentially more, to settle relief to consumers, a $100 mil- breach resulted in the abrupt returned to levels where they urged people to leverage aspi- with the federal authorities lion civil money penalty, and dismissal of Equifax’s then traded before the incident. rin’s blood-thinning properties and states over its 2017 data other relief. CEO, as well as numerous oth- Shares of Equifax rose 2% to to lower the chances of a first breach that exposed the Social The breach was one of er executives at the company. $140.26. A share cost $141.45 in heart attack or stroke. Then Security numbers and other the largest ever to threaten “The (settlement) that we the hours before the breach last year, three surprising new private information of nearly the private information. The are announcing today reinforc- was disclosed on Sept. 7, 2017. studies challenged that dogma. 150 million people, roughly consumer reporting company, es our commitment to putting The relief is coming in Those studies were some of half of the U.S. population. based in Atlanta, did not detect consumers first and safeguard- multiple forms. Equifax will the largest and longest to test The settlement with the the attack for more than six ing their data — and reflects aspirin in people at low and Consumer Financial Protection weeks. 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AP PHOTO In 1914, Austria-Hungary presented a list of demands to Thousands of Puerto Ricans gather for what many are expecting to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the Serbia following the killing of U.S. territory, with irate islanders pledging to drive Gov. Ricardo Rossello from office, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday. Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to the outbreak of World War I. Puerto Ricans protest against governor In 1962, the first public TV Thousands demand embattled leader’s resignation transmissions over Telstar 1 took place during a special program By DÁNICA COTO mechanical engineer who lives in September 2017. people respect themselves,” featuring live shots beamed from ASSOCIATED PRESS in Houston but was born and “The people have awakened said Ana Carrasquillo, 26. the United States to Europe, and raised in Puerto Rico and flew after so much outrage,” said “We’ve put up with corruption vice versa. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — in solely to join the protest. 69-year-old retired nurse for so many years.” Waving flags, chanting and The protest came 10 days Benedicta Villegas. “There are Rosselló, a Democrat, an- In 1967, five days of deadly banging pots and pans, tens of after the leak of 889 pages of still people without roofs and nounced Sunday evening that rioting erupted in Detroit as an thousands of Puerto Ricans online chats in which Rosselló highways without lights. The he would not quit, but sought early morning police raid on jammed a highway Monday and some of his close aides chat was the tip of the iceberg.” to calm the unrest by promis- an unlicensed bar resulted in a to demand the resignation insulted women and mocked The crowd surged along the ing not to seek re-election in confrontation with local residents of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a constituents, including victims American Expressway despite 2020 or continue as head of his that escalated into violence that crisis triggered by the leak of of Hurricane Maria. the punishing heat — toddlers, pro-statehood political party. spread into other parts of the city; offensive, obscenity-laden chat The leak has intensified teenagers, professionals and That only further angered his 43 people, mostly blacks, were messages between him and his long-smoldering anger in the the elderly, all dripping in critics, who have mounted killed. advisers. U.S. territory over persistent sweat and smiling as they street demonstrations for more The demonstration appeared corruption and mismanage- waved Puerto Rico flags large than a week. In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 to the biggest protest on the ment by the island’s two main and small and hoisted signs. “The people are not going to ran out of fuel while flying from island in nearly two decades. political parties, a severe debt One group dragged a go away,” said Johanna Soto, Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots “Finally, the government’s crisis, a sickly economy and portable karaoke machine and of the city of Carolina.