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Denton Record-Chronicle
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Autopsy: Petty died of
accidental overdose
U.S. flu season worsening
est week for flu symptoms in
nine years.
Hawaii is the only state that
doesn’t have widespread ill-
nesses.
This year’s flu season got off1
to an early start, and it’s been
driven by a nasty type of flu that
tends to put more people in the
hospital and cause more
deaths than other common flu
bugs. In New York, state offi-
cials say a drastic rise in flu
cases hospitalized more than
1,600 this past week.
The flu became intense last
month in the U.S. The last two
weekly report show flu wide-
spread over the entire conti-
nental U.S., which is unusual.
Usually, flu seasons start to
wane after so much activity,
but “it’s difficult to predict,” Jer-
nigan said.
lot more steam than we
thought,” said Dr. Dan Jerrfi-
gan of the U.S. Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention.
One measure of the season
is how many doctor or hospital
visits are because of a high fe-
ver, cough and other flu symp-
toms. Thirty-two states report-
ed high patient traffic last
week, up from 26 the previous
week. Overall, it was the busi-
By Mike Stobbe
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK - The flu sea-
son in the U.S. is getting worse.
Health officials last week
said flu was blanketing the
country but they thought there
was a good chance the season
was already peaking. But the
newest numbers out Friday
show it grew even more intense.
“This is a season that has a
done. An acci-
dental
Artist was taking
painkillers for
injury during tour
over-
dose of fenta-
nyl was also
determined to
have
Prince in April
2016.
killed
Mi
By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK - Tom Petty
died last year because of an acci-
dental drug overdose that his
family said occurred on the
same day he found out his hip
was fully broken after perform-
ing dozens of shows with a less
Petty
Petty suf-
fered from emphysema, a frac-
tured hip and knee problems
that caused him pain, the family
said, but he was still committed
to touring.
He had just wrapped up a
tour a few days before he died in
October at age 66.
“On the day he died he was
informed his hip had graduated
to a full on break and it is our
Appeals court stays order for foster care changes
serious injury.
His wife and daughter re-
leased the results of Petty’s au-
topsy via a statement Friday on
his Facebook page, moments
before coroner’s officials in Los
Angeles released their findings
and the rocker’s full autopsy re-
port. Dana and Adria Petty say
they got the results from the cor-
oner’s office earlier in the day
that the overdose was due to a
variety of medications.
The
plan to improve the lives of chil-
dren in long-term foster care.
However, an appeals court
temporarily stayed Jack’s ruling
after the Texas Attorney Gener-
al’s Office filed an immediate ap-
peal. A three-judge 5th U.S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals panel said
the stay will remain in place un-
til it can consider arguments
against Jack’s ruling.
The judge appointed the two
experts after ruling in December
2015 that people labeled perma-
nent wards of the state “almost
uniformly leave state custody
that funds improvements to the
system.
But in her final order, Jack
said there was no explanation
about where the nearly $1 billion
in additional funding that the
Legislature provided last session
would go.
Among directives from Jack is
that foster children have access to
a phone to report abuse to a 24-
hour hotline. Other directives in-
clude that the state must ensure
that children get monthly visits
with caseworkers outside the
presence of caregivers.
more damaged than when they
entered.” The state has fought
Jack’s oversight and objected to
recommendations
By Jamie Stengle
Associated Press
DALLAS — A judge ordered
Texas to make sweeping chang-
es to its foster care system on Fri-
day, two years after she found it
unconstitutionally broken.
In the scathing final order,
U.S. District Judge Janis Graham
Jack told the state the overhaul
must include improvements in
record keeping, caseworker visits
and where children are placed.
The changes were based on rec-
ommendations from experts the
judge appointed to help craft a
feeling that the pain was simply
unbearable and was the cause
for his over use of medication,”
his family’s statement said, add-
ing that he performed more
than 50 concerts with a frac-
tured hip.
The family said Petty had
been prescribed various pain
medications for his multitude of
issues, including fentanyl patch-
es, and “we feel confident that
this was, as the coroner found,
an unfortunate accident.”
previous
made by the experts. In her ruling
Friday, Jack wrote that the Texas
Department of Family and Pro-
tective Services “has demonstrat-
ed an unwillingness to take tangi-
ble steps to fix the broken system.”
The state quickly filed its ap-
peal, leading to the stay. Attor-
ney General Ken Paxton said the
judge’s “unfunded and unrealis-
tic mandates” were misguided,
and he noted legislation last year
findings
coroners
showed Petty had a mix of pre-
scription painkillers, sedatives
and an antidepressant. Among
the medications found in his sys-
tem were fentanyl and oxyco-
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STATE AND THE U.S.
Shutdown
the children were confined to the
house, chained to furniture,
starved and often deprived the
use of a toilet Some of the chil-
dren were so detached they didn’t
understand the concept of a po-
lice officer or medicine.
‘You don’t need to learn what
a police officer is from going to
school, you learn that from just
being out in the world,” said Patri-
cia Costales, chief executive of
The Guidance Center, a Long
Beach, California-based nonprof-
it that provides mental health
therapy to thousands of children.
Los Angeles
Governor denies parole
for Manson follower
position to the four-week plan,
forcing the White House to later
affirm his support. He expressed
openness to extending the De-
ferred Action for Childhood Ar-
rivals program, only to reject a
bipartisan proposal. His dispar-
aging remarks about African
and Haitian immigrants last
week helped derail further nego-
tiations.
Trump had been set to leave
Friday afternoon to attend a fun-
draiser at his Palm Beach, Flori-
da, estate marking the one-year
anniversary of his inauguration
but delayed his travel.
“I think the president’s been
very clear: he’s not leaving until
this is finished,” Mulvaney told
reporters.
As word of the Schumer
meeting spread, the White
House hastened to reassure Re-
publican congressional leaders
that Trump would not make any
major policy concessions, said a
person familiar with the conver-
sations but not authorized to be
quoted by name.
On Capitol Hill, McConnell
said Americans at home would
be watching to see “which sena-
tors make the patriotic decision”
and which “vote to shove aside
veterans, military families and
vulnerable children to hold the
entire country hostage... until
we pass an immigration bill.”
Across the Capitol, the
House backed away from a plan
to adjourn for a one-week recess,
meaning the GOP-controlled
chamber could wait for a last-
minute compromise that would
require a new vote. But it wasn’t
coming Friday night.
‘We can’t keep kicking the
can down the road,” said Schum-
er, insisting on more urgency in
talks on immigration. “In anoth-
er month, we’ll be right back
here, at this moment, with the
same web of problems at our
feet, in no better position to
solve them.”
The four-week measure
would have been the fourth
stopgap spending bill since the
current budget year started in
October. A pile of unfinished
Capitol Hill business has been
on hold, first as Republicans
ironed out last fall’s tax bill and
now as Democrats insist on
progress on immigration. Talks
on a budget deal to ease tight
spending limits on both the Pen-
tagon and domestic agencies are
on hold, as is progress on a huge
$80 billion-plus disaster aid bill.
Before Thursday night’s
House approval, GOP leaders
sweetened the stopgap measure
with legislation to extend for six
years a popular health care pro-
gram for children from low-in-
come families and two-year de-
lays in unpopular “Obamacare”
taxes on medical devices and
generous employer-provided
health plans.
A shutdown would be the
first since 2013, when tea party
Republicans — in a strategy not
unlike the one Schumer is em-
ploying now — sought to use a
must-pass funding bill to try to
force then-President Barack
Obama to delay implementa-
tion of his marquee health care
law. At the time, Trump told Fox
& Friends that the ultimate
blame for a shutdown lies at the
top. “I really think the pressure is
on the president,” he said.
Arguing that Trump’s prede-
cessors “weaponized” that shut-
down, Mulvaney said Friday the
budget office would direct agen-
cies to work to mitigate the im-
pact this time. That position is a
striking role-reversal for the
conservative former congress-
man, who was one of the archi-
tects of the 2013 shutdown over
the Affordable Care Act.
With no agreement by mid-
night, the government would
begin immediately locking its
doors. The impact would initial-
ly be spotty — since most agen-
cies would be closed until Mon-
day — but each party would be
gambling the public would
blame the other.
In the event of a shutdown,
food inspections, federal law en-
forcement, airport security
checks, and other vital services
would continue, as would Social
Security, other federal benefit
programs and military opera-
tions.
its late-night vote on a House-
passed plan. It gained 50 votes
to proceed to 48 against, but 60
were needed to break a Demo-
cratic filibuster. A handful of
red-state Democrats crossing
the aisle to support the measure,
rather than take the politicafly-
risky vote. Four Republicans
voted in opposition.
In an unusual move, Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell allowed the roll call to ex-
ceed 90 minutes — instead of
the usual 20 or so — seemingly
accommodating the numerous
discussions among leaders and
other lawmakers. Still as mid-
night passed and the calendar
turned, there was no obvious off-
ramp to the political stalemate.
Each party expressed resolve in
its position — and confidence
that the other would suffer the
wrath of voters.
Even before the vote, Trump
was pessimistic, tweeting, “Not
looking good” and blaming the
Democrats who he said actually
wanted the shutdown “to help
diminish the success” of the tax
bill he and fellow Republicans
pushed through last month.
Democrats balked on the
measure in an effort to pressure
on the White House to cut a deal
to protect “dreamer” immi-
grants — who were brought to
the country as children and are
now here illegally — before their
legal protection runs out in
March.
The president watched the
results from the White House
residence, dialing up allies and
affirming his belief that Demo-
crats would take the blame for
the shutdown, said a person fa-
miliar with his conversations
but not authorized to discuss
them publicly.
Predictably, both parties
moved swiftly to blame one an-
other. Democrats laid fault with
Republicans, who control both
chambers of Congress and the
White House and have strug-
gled with building internal con-
sensus. Republicans declared
Democrats responsible, after
they declined to provide the
votes needed to overcome a fili-
buster in the Senate over their
desire to force the passage of leg-
islation to protect some
700,000 younger immigrants
from deportation.
Republicans branded the con-
frontation a “Schumer shutdown”
and argued that Democrats were
harmingfellow Americans to pro-
tect “illegal immigrants.”
Trump had brought Senate
Democratic leader Chuck
Schumer to the White House
Friday afternoon in hopes of cut-
ting a deal. But the two New
Yorkers, who pride themselves
on their negotiating abilities,
emerged without an agreement,
and Republicans and Demo-
crats in Congress continued to
pass off responsibility.
‘We made some progress,
but we still have a good number
of disagreements,” Schumer said
upon returning to Capitol Hill.
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney
told CNN that “Not much has
changed” over the course of the
day, but he predicted a deal
would be reached by Monday,
when most government offices
are to reopen after the weekend.
Democrats in the Senate had
served notice they would filibus-
ter the government-wide fund-
ing bill that cleared the House
Thursday evening. They were
seeking an even shorter exten-
sion that they think would keep
the pressure on the White
House to cut a deal to protect the
“dreamer” immigrants.
Trump first described his dis-
cussion with Schumer as an “ex-
cellent preliminary meeting,”
tweeting that lawmakers were
“making progress — four week
extension would be best!” But
that optimism faded as the eve-
ning wore on.
Senate GOP leader John
Comyn of Texas said Trump told
Schumer to work things out
with McConnell and House
Speaker Paul Ryan. McConnell
did not attend the meeting be-
cause he was not invited, a Sen-
ate GOP aide said.
Trump had been an unreli-
able negotiator in the weeks
leading up to the showdown.
Earlier this week he tweeted op-
The governor of California
has again denied parole for Les-
lie Van Houten, the youngest fol-
lower of murderous cult leader
Charles Manson.
Gov. Jerry Brown said in his
decision announced Friday
night that Van Houten still lays
too much of the blame on Man-
son, who died two months ago at
age 83.
Brown’s determination came
even though Van Houten said at
her parole hearing that she ac-
cepts full responsibility for her
crimes. The 68-year-old Van
Houten is serving life for the
murders of wealthy grocer Leno
La Bianca and his wife, Rose-
mary, when Van Houten was 19.
Dallas
Oscar winner Dorothy
Malone has died
Actress Dorothy Malone,
who won hearts of 1960s televi-
sion viewers as the long-suffer-
ing mother in the nighttime
soap Peyton Place, died Friday
in her hometown of Dallas at
age 93.
Malone died in an assisted
living center from natural causes
days before her 94th birthday,
said her daughter, Mimi Van-
derstraaten.
After U years of mostly roles
as loving sweethearts and wives,
the brunette actress decided she
needed to gamble on her career
instead of playing it safe. She
fired her agent, hired a publicist,
dyed her hair blonde and sought
a new image.
“I came up with a conviction
that most of the winners in this
business became stars overnight
by playing shady dames with sex
appeal,” she recalled in 1967.
Austin
Texas unemployment
rate reaches 3.9 percent
Texas; unemployment rate
rose slightly in December to 3.9
percent, the Texas Workforce
Commission reported Friday.
Nationwide unemployment
last month at 4.1 percent. The
Texas jobless rate in November
was 3.8 percent, according to
the state labor agency.
Amarillo and Midland areas
had the lowest unemployment
in Texas during December at 2.5
percent. The Beaumont-Port
Arthur and McAllen-Edinburg-
Mission areas had the state’s
highest jobless rates last month
at 6.7 percent, officials said.
Washington
VP’s Mideast trip still on
Vice President Mike Pence is
making his fourth visit to Israel,
returning to a region he’s visited
“a million times” in his heart.
An evangelical Christian
with strong ties to the Holy
Land, Pence this time comes
packing two key policy decisions
in his bags that have long been
top priorities for him: designat-
ing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
and curtailing aid for Palestin-
ians.
Pence departed as scheduled
Friday evening as U.S. lawmak-
ers sought to avert a federal gov-
ernment shutdown at midnight.
Women will march
again this weekend
Activists are returning to the
streets a year after a million peo-
ple rallied worldwide at marches
for female empowerment, hop-
ing to create an enduring political
movement that will elect more
women to government office.
Hundreds of gatherings are
planned Saturday and Sunday
across the U.S. and in places
such as Beijing, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, and Nairobi, Kenya.
A rally Sunday in Las Vegas
will launch an effort to register 1
million voters and target swing
states in the midterm elections.
The 2017 rally in Washing-
ton, D.C., and hundreds of simi-
lar marches created solidarity
for those denouncing President
Donald Trump’s views on abor-
tion, immigration, LGBT rights
and more.
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