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Gordon, Keselowski brawl in TMS showdown / Sports, IB
Ferguson no-fly zone was
aimed at media choppers
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Brockett Elementary School fifth-grader Zachary Hamilton, second from right, came up with the idea to collect blankets for the homeless. Classmates —
including, from left, Hunter Smith, Evan Mayes, Shelby Ball, Collin Urich and Cody Meche — have joined in the project with donation boxes set up at their
school in Aubrey and elsewhere.
Spreading warmth
By Britney Tabor
Staff Writer
btabor@dentonrc.com
An Aubrey fifth-grader is now seeing
proof that kids can make a difference —
contrary to what he once thought.
In less than a month, 10-year-old Za-
chary Hamilton has collected more than
340 blankets for the less fortunate. He
plans to deliver the new and gently used
coverings Nov. 15 to Our Daily Bread, a
community soup kitchen in Denton that
serves an average of 200 meals a day to
the hungry and homeless.
Zachary said he got the idea for the
project after seeing a disabled homeless
man in a parking lot while out shopping
with his mother in Denton about a
month ago. Zachary went home upset,
his mother said, questioning where the
man’s family was and why they weren’t
around to care for him.
“He had nothing [other] than basi-
cally the clothes that he was wearing,”
Zachary recalled. “It made me feel like I
wanted to make a difference and help.”
About a week after later, he began
Student fires up others
in drive to collect
blankets for homeless
collecting blankets. With winter not far
off, Zachary said, the blankets could
keep people warm outdoors. In the
summer, they could be used for sitting
on, he said.
Zachary said he originally set out to
collect 200 blankets and thought the
See BLANKETS on 7A
TODAY
IN DENTON
School looks to boost IB ranks
Slight chance of
showers
High: 72
Low: 54
Three-day forecast, 2A
LOCAL
Denton Prayer Breakfast
planned for Nov. 18.
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Project aims to draw
low-income students to
college-prep program
By Britney Tabor
Staff Writer
btabor@ dentonrc.com
Denton High School is looking at ways
to increase the number of low-income stu-
dents participating in the school’s Interna-
tional Baccalaureate diploma program.
The diploma program is a rigorous col-
lege preparatory curriculum for Uth- and
12th-graders. Students can earn up to 24
college credit hours.
IB Excellence and Equity consultants
visited Denton High on Oct. 20-21 to help
IB officials at the school identify areas in
which they would like to see the diploma
program grow and to gather perceptions
from students and parents about the pro-
gram. The consultants will return for a fol-
low-up visit Dec. 10.
The effort is supported by the “Bridging
the Equity Gap” project, a $75,000 grant
sponsored by Michael and Susan Dell
Foundation and IB Americas. Denton
High School and four other schools from
California, Georgia and New York were se-
lected this summer to participate in the
project, which spans though spring 2017. A
pilot program in the five schools is aimed at
creating a model for increasing the number
of low-income students earning IB diplo-
mas.
Beth Hughes, IB coordinator at Denton
High, said they will look to target low-in-
come students who are not currently in-
volved in advanced courses like Advanced
Placement or dual-credit classes.
“The main purpose is that we’re trying
to improve the access for our low socioeco-
nomic [students], and we have a lot of un-
der-identified [students],” she said. “I think
there’s kids out there that can do this.
When we give them the opportunity to
show us what they’ve learned, we’re finding
that they’ve learned quite a bit and are ca-
pable of making connections on a deeper
and higher level.”
Nearly 30 students are currently in the
IB diploma program at Denton High,
Hughes said, with 12 of them considered
See IB on 7A
Parties
clash
over
Obama
Confident GOP says
president will be
judged at the polls
By Steve Peoples
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Claiming new
momentum 48 hours before polls open
across America, Republicans on Sun-
day assailed President Barack Obama
in a final weekend push to motivate vot-
ers as Democrats deployed their biggest
stars to help preserve an endangered
Senate majority.
GOP officials from Alaska to Geor-
gia seized on the president’s low ap-
proval ratings, which have overshad-
owed an election
Voting locations/2A
Cruz would gain ally
in Abbott/3A
Commentary: Texas
elections can alter
history/4A
season in which
roughly 60 per-
cent of eligible
voters are expec-
ted to stay home.
“This is really
the last chance for America to pass
judgment on the Obama administra-
tion and on its policies,” the GOP’s 2012
presidential nominee, Mitt Romney,
said in a message echoed by Republi-
cans across the country on the week-
end.
The president has avoided the na-
tion’s most competitive contests in re-
cent weeks, but encouraged Democrats
to reject Republican cynicism during a
Sunday appearance with Connecticut
Gov. Dannel Malloy.
“Despite all the cynicism America is
making progress,” Obama said, implor-
ing Democrats to vote on Tuesday.
“Don’t stay home. Don’t let somebody
else choose your future for you.”
While the elections will determine
winners in all 435 House districts and in
36 governors’ seats, the national focus is
on the Senate, where Republicans need
to net six seats to control the majority in
the Congress that convenes in January.
The GOP already controls the House,
and a Senate takeover could dramatically
change Obama’s last two years in office.
Republicans appear certain of pick-
ing up at least three Senate seats — in
West Virginia, Montana and South Da-
kota. Nine other Senate contests are
See ELECTIONS on 4A
NATIONAL
Daredevil Nik Wallenda
successfully walks wires
strung between Chicago
skyscrapers.
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INTERNATIONAL
U.N. panel: Not cutting
emissions would bring
“irreversible” impacts.
Page 5A
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IB
TELEVISION
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WEATHER
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5
Victim’s relatives: Killer
in ‘Bernie’ case was
after widow’s money
By Michael E. Young
The Dallas Morning News
The family of a well-off East Texas wid-
ow is demanding that the man who con-
fessed to her murder be returned to prison
to serve his full fife term.
Bernhardt Tiede II was convicted in
1999 in the death of 80-year-old Maijorie
Nugent, a case that inspired the 2011 film
Bernie.
On May 6, Tiede was released on bond
while an appeals court considers reducing
his sentence. Tiede disclosed he had been
sexually abused by a relative from the time
he was 12 until he was 18. The detail hadn’t
been mentioned in his murder trial. But
it’s one that psychiatrists say could have
enabled Tiede to dissociate from reality,
potentially to the point of killing someone.
See BERNIE on 7A
“He murdered her
... because if he
hadn’t murdered
her, [officials]
would have fount
out how much
money he’d been
stealing and he
would have been
in jail,” says Rod
Nugent Jr., Mar-
jorie Nugent’s
only child, with
his daughter
Shanna. They’re
demanding that
Bernhardt Tiede,
convicted in 1999
in the death of
Marjorie Nugent,
be returned to
prison to serve
his full life term.
Louis DeLuca/The
Dallas Morning News
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