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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
l «^*nsportation Department I'hurs-
l )./m rejected requests h\ American
lines and the city of Fort Worth to
ay a ruling that allows start-up
nd Airlines to operate out of
[lias Love Field.
Legend, which intends to begin
bring service in late February, has
ind itself battling its foes in the
jrts, on Capitol Hill and with fed-
* r , eral regulators for the right to fly out
'of Love Field.
an earlier ruling, the Trans-
/^yportation Department held that the
^ - Wrt-up could offer service at Love
Field, rejecting opposition by Amcr-
lean Airlines, Fort Worth and" Dallas-
t Worth International Airport,
icrican and Fort Worth asked
~ to postpone that ruling — a re-
uost DOT denied Thursday.
"American and Fort Worth have
d to satisfy the standards re
quired to obtain a stay of an agency
■Lmod." I)(i l said.
I “In particular. American and Fort
■jrth have made no showing that
the enforcement of our orders would
injure them. In addition, granting a
hHv would deny the public the ben
efit of increased service at Love
Field and frustrate Congress’ deci
sion to authorize unrestricted ser-
}j jp vice at Love Field if operated by
smaller aircraft.”
I ■ Legend’s chief executive. T. Allan
fc , ^ McArtor. welcomed DOT’S action.
I ''W “The Department of Transporta-
lic tion has reminded the industry, and
especially Fort Worth and American
[ Aii lines, once again that this is a fed-
v end-law controlled airport and
there’s nothing they can do about it,”
McArtor said in an interview.
I The request for a stay, McArtor
■ - said, was “just a matter of trying to
harass and interfere with Legend’s
business plan and run us out of busi-
! ness, run us out of money.”
— 1 i Pat Svacina, spokesperson for the
I city of Fort Worth, said Thursday’s
I ruling is what city officials expected
oui of the DOT.
■ “It’s no surprise,” Svacina said.
“This has been the DOT’s position
“"since they got involved in this. The
real decision is going to be in the
courts, which will rule in the city of
ir -'Fort Worth’s favor.”
American Airlines did not return
telephone calls from the Associated
Press.
B At issue is a decades-old federal
P measure that limits llighls to and from
Love Field.
I Legend became the first airline to
test a provision that lets carriers fly
■ywhere from Love Field in planes
with 56 or fewer seats.
STATE
I UK BATTALION IVe 7
Two dead after gunman
opens fire in sports bar
SAN DIEGO, Texas (AP)—A South
Texas man faces capital murder charges
after two bar patrons were killed and
three others were injured in a shooting in
volving an assault-
style weapon, po
lice said yesterday.
He has also been
linked to a separate
shooting that in
jured a comity com
missioner's wife.
Brian Mark
Kopatz is accused
of firing shots
Wednesday
evening inside Mr.
C’s Sports Bar in
San Diego, about
50 miles west of Corpus Christi.
Killed were Jesus Vallejo Sanchez,
48, and Ana Hinojosa, 45, both of San
Diego, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times
reported.
Kopatz was arrested at his parents’
home in Kingsville atier negotiating with
Kleberg County deputies, Kingsville po
lice, Texas Department of Public Safety
troopers and Texas Rangers.
The 26-year-old was transferred from
the Kleberg to Duval County jail Thurs
day afternoon.
San Diego police officer Andy
DeLeon said the bar's patrons had no
ticed a man watching another man and
woman as thev talked at the bar.
Soon after that, the man identified as
the shooter left briefly.
I le then returned to Mr. C’s with an as
sault-style weapon and opened tire, killing
the man and
woman, DeLeon
said.
Witnesses inside
the bar said the gun
man fired until he
emptied one ammu
nition clip. The man
then reloaded and
began firing again.
“A man walked
in with an assault
weapon at his side,
he raised it and
started shooting,”
Lolo Trevino said, who was having a beer
at the bar when the shots rang out among
the dozen or so patrons.
“I’ve never seen him before. I le did not
say anything before he started shooting.”
Trevino said he hid from the gunfire in
a side room of the bar. 1 le was not hurt.In
vestigators are still searching for a motive.
“Right now, everything is still under
investigation and everything is prelimi
nary," Duval County Sheriff’s Depart
ment investigator Bruno Valdez told the
Alice Echo-News.
Police were also checking for a link
between the bar incident and the shoot
ing of a county commissioner’s wife at
her nearbv home.
“A man walked in
with an assault
weapon at his side,
raised it and start
ed shooting”
— Lolo Trevino
Eye witness
Jury finds 17-year-old
guilty of father’s murder
SAN ANTONIO (AP)—A widowed
mother cried out in anguish Wednesday af
ter a Bexar County jury convicted her
teenage son ofkilling his father at the fam
ily home more than a year ago.
“Oh, dear God, no!" cried Madeline
Vaughn after the verdict was read against
Brian Vaughn, 17. “I can’t lose them both."
For his own part,
the defendant reacted
to the verdict first with
a faint look of surprise,
then weeping as
bailiffs handcuffed him
for his trip to Bexar
County Jail, the San
Antonio Express-News
reported.
The trial’s sentencing phase is set to
begin today. The teen could be sentenced
to five to 99 years in prison for the mur
der of Leslie Vaughn, but juries can rec
ommend probation.
The San Antonio criminal defense
lawyer was found shot in the head Nov. 10,
1998, at the couple’s northwest Bexar
County home. I lis son maintained his in
nocence when he testified on his own be
half Tuesday.
From the start, prosecutors told jurors
their case was circumstantial: They pro
duced no gun, no bloody clothes, no
damning DNA evidence.
Instead, Brian Vaughn’s own words
proved his guilt, assistant district attorney
Jill Mata in her closing argument,said.
“I le killed his father that night, and he
w ill not take responsibility for it,” Mata
told jurors.
The teen testified Tuesday he heard
a “pop" about 1:30 a.m. the morning his
father’s body was found. Concerned, he
gathered his younger brother from else
where in the house to his
own bedroom, then went
to check on the father.
He said he heard snor
ing, so he went back to
his room.
Minutes later, he
grew alarmed when he
heard the snoring get
louder and “wet,” so he
once again moved his brother and re
turned to his father’s door.
I le got no answer when he called out
through the locked door, he testified.
Next, he called 911 from a kitchen
phone, hustled his brother to a neighbor’s
house, and returned home to await au-
thorities and his mother, a nurse who was
working a night shift.
But prosecutors said Brian, then 16,
shot his father and staged the killing to
look like a break-in.
They said he threw a rock through the
glass balcony doors in the master bed
room after the shooting, then took his
brother to neighbors and called 911 only
after returning to the Vaughn home.
“Oh, dear God,
no! I can't lose
them both.”
— Madeline Vaughn
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