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STUART VILLANUEVA/T«f Battalion
Visitors to the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi are part of a rehabilitation program aimed at nursing
pass by as Daisy, a young ridley sea turtle glides them back to health after traumatic injuries. If there is
through the water Friday. Daisy and other sea turtles no permanent disability they are released into the wild.
Boy's arm reattached after shark attack
PENSACOLA, Fla. (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.
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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
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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
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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'-
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• 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
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nt was iss
Hotels ,mirez a(
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them to try the Navasota
Western, Cedar Creek lr )0ut hovv
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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 , ^
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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.