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Vol. 113, No. 145 / 44 pages, 5 sections
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low for severe weather in Texas.
But, they say, the rain will come with
the occasional crack of lightning and
thunder.
National Weather Service meteorol-
ogist Juan Hernandez said the storms
are expected to start around noon in
Denton County and could last through
midnight. The Fort Worth office, where
Hernandez works, is getting a lot of
questions about how this year’s storms
compare to last year, he said.
A dozen tornadoes plowed through
North Texas on Dec. 26,2015, killing 12,
leaving hundreds homeless and causing
about $1.2 billion in property damage.
Collin, Dallas and Ellis counties were
particularly hard hit. Denton County
escaped the worst of those storms.
The difference is that the core of last
year’s storm system came through Tex-
as, Hernandez said. That won’t be the
case this year.
“The storm system is taking a lot of
the ingredients for severe weather to
the north,” Hernandez said of the wind
speeds and cold air.
In other words, anyone traveling to
Kansas or southern Nebraska may need
to stay aware for severe weather.
Chances low for
severe weather
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc.com
It’s going to be a dark and stormy
Christmas.
A major storm system moved
through the West Coast and Rocky
Mountains on Christmas Eve. As that
system heads toward Texas and the
Plains states, meteorologists expect its
core to head north, keeping the chances
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James Jackson, left, and Ben Gillick jog in the fog and mist at North Lakes
Park in Denton on Saturday.
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IN DENTON
Local midwife meets child of mother she treated 24 years ago
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High: 71
Low: 63
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NATIONAL
When Michelle Obama
considered the daunting
prospect of becoming first
lady, she avoided turning
to books by her predeces-
sors for guidance. Instead,
she turned inward.
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Nurse midwife Jean Sala-Smith, left, hugs Ethan Sumrall at Inanna Birth & Women’s Care on Friday. In 1992, Ethan was a healthy baby boy born to heart
transplant recipient Cathy Sumrall, who was Sala-Smith’s patient at a Houston hospital. Cathy Sumrall died a year after her son’s birth. At right is
Ethan’s wife, Emily Sumrall.
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By Lucinda Breeding | Features Editor
cbreeding@dentonrc.com
s Ethan Sumrall, 24, walked into Inanna
Birth & Women’s Care on Locust Street,
Jean Sala-Smith jumped up and clapped
her hands over her mouth.
“Oh, I’m so excited to meet you!” Sala-Smith
said to a laughing Sumrall. The pair hugged, and
then Sala-Smith drew back to get a good look at
the man she hadn’t seen since he was about three
days old.
“Oh my goodness,” Sala-Smith said. ‘You
look just like your mother!”
Sumrall looked back at his wife, Emily, a
2013 Denton High School graduate before
laughing again with Sala-Smith.
“That’s what people tell me,” he said.
Auspicious beginning
Twenty-four years ago, Sala-Smith was a
clinical nurse in the perinatal department of
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston. She
treated women with high-risk pregnancies,
and spent countless hours in the hospital’s
labor and delivery unit. Today, she’s a certified
nurse midwife who has brought more than
2,500 babies into the world.
Sala-Smith said that though Cathy Sumrall
was her patient for four days, the young moth-
er was unforgettable.
“She had a heart transplant,” Sala-Smith
said. “She delivered her baby by Caesarean
section. She got pregnant about six months
after her heart transplant.”
In 1992, Sala-Smith said, pregnancies fol-
lowing heart transplants were only just becom-
ing a possibility. At the time, specialists advised
patients to wait for two years after their trans-
plant to get pregnant.
A South Korean special
prosecutor on Saturday
summoned the jailed
friend of impeached
President Park Geun-hye
who allegedly exploited
her connections with
Park to extort money
and favors from the
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country’s largest compa-
nies and manipulate
government affairs.
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Republicans plan major tax system overhaul
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would prevent Senate Democrats from us-
ing the filibuster to block a tax bill.
McConnell says he wants the Senate to
tackle a tax plan in the spring, after Con-
gress repeals Obama’s health law. House
Republicans are more eager to get started,
but haven’t set a timeline.
Some things to know about Republi-
can efforts to overhaul the tax code:
nell, R-Ky., and Speaker Paul Ryan, R-
Wis., have vowed to pass a tax package
that would not add to the budget. The
Washington term is “revenue neutral.”
It means that for every tax cut there has
to be a tax increase, creating winners and
losers. Lawmakers would get some leeway
if non-partisan congressional analysts
project that a tax cut would increase eco-
nomic growth, raising revenue without in-
creasing taxes.
Nevertheless, passing a massive tax
package will require some tough votes, po-
litically.
Some key Republican senators want to
share the political risk with Democrats.
They argue that a tax overhaul must be bi-
partisan to be fully embraced by the pub-
lic. They cite President Barack Obama’s
health law — which passed in 2010 with-
out any Republican votes — as a major
policy initiative that remains divisive.
Congressional Democrats say they are
eager to have a say in overhauling the tax
code. But McConnell, who faulted Demo-
crats for acting unilaterally on health care,
is laying the groundwork to pass a purely
partisan bill.
Both McConnell and Ryan said they
plan to use a legislative maneuver that
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Congressional Re-
publicans are planning a massive overhaul
of the nation’s tax system next year, a heavy
political lift that could ultimately affect
families at every income level and busi-
nesses of every size.
Their goal is to simplify a complicated
tax code that rewards wealthy people with
smart accountants, and corporations that
can easily shift profits — and jobs — over-
seas. It won’t be easy. The last time it was
done was 30 years ago.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
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The house plan
House Republicans have released the
outline of a tax plan that would lower the
See OVERHAUL on 15A
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