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(AP) - An 8-year-old boy whose arm was reattached after a shark at tack has made good progress, but may need more than a year to regain use of the limb, doc tors said Sunday. “The doctors were pleased, he had a good 24 hours,” said Pam Bilbrey, spokeswoman for Baptist Hospital Pensacola. “They were pretty ecstatic when they left this morning, about how well he’s doing right now.” The boy “shows no sign of failure of blood supply to the arm; he shows no sign of infec tion,” the hospital said in a news release. Jesse Arbogast of Ocean Springs, Miss., was attacked Fri day evening while swimming at Gulf Islands National Seashore near Fort Pickens in the Florida Panhandle. His uncle wrestled the 7- foot-long bull shark to shore. “He’s a big guy. He got hold of it and tossed it ashore,” said- District Ranger Supervisorjohn Bandurski. Ranger Jared Klein then shot the shark four times with a 9mm pistol, and pried its jaw open with a police baton. Volunteer firefighter Tony Thomas used a clamp to pull the boy’s severed arm of of the shark’s gullet. The boy had no pulse and no blood pressure when he was air lifted to the hospital about 30 minutes after the attack, said Dr. Jack Tyson. T he trauma surgeon said it was too early to tell if Jesse may have suffered hrain dam age. Ian Rogers, the plastic sur geon who helped reattach the arm, said he is hopeful the boy could regain near normal use of his arm in 12 to 18 months, with extensive therapy. Cameron Reynolds Attorney At Law Licensed by the Texas Supreme Court Not Board Certified Class of‘91 Jim James Attorney At Law Board Certified Criminal Law Class of ‘75 SPECIALIZING IN THE DEFENSE OF CRIMINAL • Driving While Intoxicated • All Alcohol and Drug Offenses • All other Criminal Offenses CHARGES INCLUDING: 979-846-1934 e-mail: jim@tca.net website: http://jijnwjames.wld.com THE WAY IT PLAYS OUT £\Afednesday - * 3 of a Kind * Formerly Speakeasy Cover $ 3.00 ^Thursday - * Yasheed Cover $ 5.00 JJFriday - * Monte Montgomery * Cover $ 8.00 “Best acoustic guitar player you will ever hear” Tony Walker, 3rd Floor Cantina ^Saturday * Saving Dawn * Cover $ 5.00 Where real musicians play! 201 W. 26th Street, Downtown Bryan 775-7735 Teen being held in death of his mother CHANNING, Texas (AP) — A Clovis teen wanted in the beating death of his adopted mother was caught after being chased by officers and shoodng fireworks at them from a van he allegedly stole from her, au thorities said. “You could see the fuse light ed when it went out the window. You could see all these different colors. That was a new one for me,” said Hartley County Chief Deputy Cody Weavers. Arnell VanDuyne, 16, also known as Arnell Young, was be ing held Saturday in a juvenile detention center in Amarillo, Texas. Since he is a juvenile, no bond has been set, Clovis police said in a news release. Officials had been seeking the teen on a open charge of murder in the death of Norma Lee Express Continued from Page 3 “You have to revert to the col lege mode and try to block it out, but you still have butter flies,” he said. Kyle Kessel, a former point guard on the A&M basketball team, is in his second season with the Express. A native of Illinois, Kessel has taken to the Lone Star State. “It’s nice here. When I first came to Texas, I wasn’t sure that I was going to like it, but I real ly do. Somehow, I keep winding up here.” Kessel said he enjoyed his time in College Station but notes the difference between playing for Tony Barone’s struggling basket ball teams and the defending Texas League Champions. “It’s more fun to be at the park,” he said. “The morale’s better, and it helps you person ally when you’re struggling be cause you know the team’s still going to have a chance.” Young, 41, who had been caring for eight young children in her Clovis home. . Young’s 15-year-old son, Je remiah Cabrera, found her bleeding in her bedroom Thurs day afternoon when he returned from work. He called 911 and adminis tered CPR to his mother until paramedics arrived, police said. She died at the scene. The first officer to arrive at the house found Young lying on the floor, her clothes cut or torn off and her hands tied behind her back with plastic zip ties. An arrest warrant was issued Friday for VanDuyne, who was identified by two 6-year-old boys in the house as having committed the slaying. About 11:30 p.m. that night, the Hartley County Sheriff’s Kessel spent the'start of the season at AAA New Orleans, but has few regrets about re turning to Round Rock. “It’s nice up there, they have a nice park, but the don’t draw (crowds) as well. It’s not as spe cial as this,” he said. Kessel said there is one thing that differentiates baseball fans in Texas from fans elsewhere. “The knowledge of the fans here is amazing,” he said. “They’re so into the game. Even when the other team makes a great play, they’ll get up and clap. They don’t do that in oth er places.” For Reid Ryan, a personal dream comes true every time the Express take the field. “It was my idea to bring a team here, and I got the whole thing started,” he said. “Not too many people get not only to be in baseball, but make a living.” The Express won the Texas League championship and set the AA attendance record in their first season, an obvious source of Department received a call re garding a possible drunk driver in the Channing area, Weavers said. A check revealed the van was the one believed to be occu pied by VanDuyne. The teen attempted to speed away from officers, traveling as fast as 90 mph and dropping lighted fireworks out the win dow, Weavers said. The chase lasted 10 to 15 miles before the van’s right rear tire blew. He was taken into custody without further incident. “He obeyed all commands, was cooperative and didn’t have anything to say,” Weavers said. Clovis Police Lt. Dan Blair said Saturday police believe the van had belonged to Young. Blair said the teen likely would not be returned to Clovis until sometime next week. pride for the team’s president. “You can’t expect or predict something like this. We just got lucky,” Ryan says. “A lot of players say that if they can’t be in the majors, they might as well be here.” Evans Continued from Page 7 Evans was recognized by the A&M Foundation Board of Trustees in 1998 with the insti tution of the Sterling C. Evans medal for outstanding contribu tions to Texas A&M philan thropic efforts. “This school has meant more to me than any other place I know, and it needs to play that same role for generations to come,” Evans said at the cere mony. “That’s why I keep giving and keep encouraging other people to give.” Funeral service are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 10, at the first Baptist Church in Cas- troville, near San Antonio. Monday, J. Levin death 1 ruled suici LOS ANGELES (AP torney Barry Levin, w iws Cai handle F.rik Menendezh loc defense and more receiKt^p^ j s se resented actor Robert «or its prc died of a self-inflicted TBLveek c j ( wound to the head, an jtvvill folio showed Sunday. ffil footba Levin, 54, reported! j eyes of fa over a debilitating illn Aperies of found slumped over the ll Joe held wheel of his car SatunkBh. noon. T he former \:jF s b n 9 paratrooper was parkedj;By re sa ) erans cemetery. 2n " The autopsy confirm ,j liminary findings tb *' v ,he d< committed suicide, U p |ots les County Coroners f Corral said. st membe H> of the ■on. Levin was a ««« » duat Menendez, who was se,..~ to life without paroleirBNGS 3T with brother Lyle fortHhe Offic their parents. Levin rs id Records represented Blake, star ^nimer 2 “Baretta” TV sene'., wife’s murder is unsolvc:|v r 'day, Au I le u.is .iImi the leadT/- < ^ e 9 t ' s 1 attorney in a case $teE.®| 9 ri( 11 11 r# , .^■Architec tmm alleged Business city’s police department || Q eor y t Levin s brother-inA tovernmen law partner, Ron Dorli; ice Levin suffered from Gao.: •Veterinar disease, an inherited erap deficiency disorder thai. Saturday, victims to bleed andbr. - Colleges ( ily. He was in constant™ pain. Levin’s wife, Debbie him Saturday morning ( office so he could tier- loose ends at work, L said. After return'r'- Enginee • Educatic • Geoscie • Liberal / • Medicin • Science Levin left the house c Jl|oth6 r Levin’s wife becanMWL. and called police. found about 2 p.ni.atkt DALLAS (, geles National Cemetery. Smother v FBI agent Richard Gs® e her in said Saturday that invesgJ?' ne d hos discovered “some evident:|| rta with note.” On Sunday, If anc ^ e 9 s spokesman Matthew Mdalff u ra lin declined to elaborate. agency is investigating!': ^ sajd sh ; the death occurred on j Q Ver to q property. tei this we Ijpdessa p nt was iss Hotels ,mirez a( >rt Worth | Continued from Peered he , , XT jughter, M them to try the Navasota Western, Cedar Creek lr )0ut hovv Super8.” irred," sa For out-of-town season apt. d.C. < et holders who do not" The chih travel far distances, theyfo lives in opt to wait and tiy to a t the gi room that someone cr^ r during during the hotels’ reW 1u p z, J 1er 'ochildrer cancellation policy. T , ^ TT ., r 4 J? he gran 1 he Hilton requiresg»|j| c j ^ cancel two weeks prior to 3S pjp a | w ball games and the Ramatey found has a 72-hour cancellationr«d bones cy so that those rooms c-almg. given to last-minute ticket iff he child ers looking for a room. Childr Othold said the best so f * n ^ ' would be to build another .. s e was • r- n cv able condi in College Station. “I hope they will build® er hotel here,” Othold s don’t know if they will, but| need one and it needs tot least 500 people.” Navasota Super 8 empl Charles Schwede said thsl ing peak weekends, suchJj A&M home football weekends, all hotels and! within a 50-mile radius art “People will ask why' aren’t more hotels or nio-j the area,” Schwede said-j “The problem is thj too cyclical. You only hij football game weekends maybe another six to 1 weeks of the year that;^ full. It costs, literally, Sla'i to build a motel and wittl a quarter of your weekst full, it’s hard to keep your] open,” he said.