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Their decision promises to drop even more cases into the swamped federal courts on the nation’s southern edge. But prosecutors say they have no choice: Struggling counties lose millions of dollars and weeks’ worth of court time prosecuting federal drug cases. From now on, they say, the U.S. government is on its own. “As of Monday we won’t take any more federal cases,” said Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra. “The cases are a financial drain, and we can’t do it anymore. We shouldn’t have to.” STUART VILLANUEVA/Thi BaTUU* 66 The cases are a financial drain, and we can't do it anymore. We shouldn't have to.” — Rene Guerra Hidalgo County District Attorney JUS t G oocj, CL un; r It is a time-honored deal at international bridges and roadblocks: Agents send large drug busts to federal court. Small drug seizures — less than 50 pounds of pot, or minor cocaine caches — are kicked down to county courts. For years, nobody re ally minded. But an ex plosion of agents along the border has sent drug seizures soaring — and what was once a rare has sle is now a steady stream Alla Shariy, a dancer in the Gypsy Dance Theater, performs at the opening day of the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville. The Gypsy Dance The ater is a group comprised of dancers from around the world. Shariy, the newest member, recently came to the United States from the Ukraine, where she was trained as a dancer. a= 8= 6= s= 0= lb 0= Reports: mentally ill lack assistanc Everyone's favorite, zany housekeeper is back and at it again! OPAS Jr. invites you to come watch Amelia Bedelia as she makes hilarious mistakes and pulls it all back together in the end. For kids of all ages who are just looking for good, clean fun, Amelia Bedelia is MAID to order! of costly cases. “It’s changed a lot,” said Chris Roll, Cochise County, Ariz. “As the (federal courts) get overloaded, they start turn ing loose’more and more cases. It all ends up coming to us.” For the time being. Roll will continue to stretch his $3 million budget to include the federal cases, he said. The hand- me-down busts make up about a quarter of his total docket. “There’s a load on our jail, a load on our courts, and we can’t get reimbursed,” he said. “There’s certainly some peo ple in the county who’d love to see us stop taking the cases.” Most Texas prosecutors were expected to stick to the Oct. I deadline. That was the date agreed on earlier this year, when the Lone Star counties led a vociferous demand for emergency money. In July, they appeared to have triumphed: Congress set aside $12 million to be divided evenly among the four bor der states. But the cash got mired in a bureaucratic quarrel, and still hasn’t made its way into county coffers. AUSTIN (AP) — Texas does not provide adequate care for children with mental illness, parents and mental health advocates say, leav ing many families desperate and bankrupt as they try to find help for their children. Texas ranks 43rd nationally in funding for its mental health system and many children must do without treatment, the Austin Amer- ican-Statesnum reported in Sunday's editions. Parents, running out of options, sometimes file minor charges against their children so they will go to juvenile jail, making them el igible for more mental health services. Others give up care of their children to the state. More than 655,000 Texas children suffer mental health problems, ranging from de pression to schizophrenia, the newspaper said. Many need intensive help, services like hospitalization or residential treatment. In Texas, only the bare necessities of medicine, therapy and some training afe offered, and can take weeks to receive. "I call it ‘Solomon’s choice,’ ” said Debo rah Bradley Berndt, children’s services direc tor for the state Department of Mental Hi: and Mental Retardation. “Do you sp: $50,000 to give one kid six to nine moii residential care? Or do you use that mons serve 30 kids in the community?” Many mentally ill children end up in state juvenile prison system. Of the 5,524c dren in the Texas Youth Commission systec August 1999,42 percent were diagnosedi high mental health needs, the newspaper After years of trying to control hersc tantrums, Austin resident Mattie Dixon police take 11-year-old David tojuvei jail last year. “There is no help,” Dixon said, “i know what else to do.” Hospitalization is not always an since 25 percent of the state's mental hospi?) beds, about 9(X), have been cut since 1992.1 addition, many private psychiatricliosp/ta| are closing because of financial problems,af Amanda Engler, spokeswoman for TexasW' L pital Association. 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