Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 26, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 28, 2016 Page: 3 of 38
thirty eight pages : ill.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
LOCAL/STATE
3A
Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Aubrey ISD voters OK 13-cent tax hike
INDICTMENTS
The following people were indicted by a
Denton County grand jury Thursday at
the Denton County Courts Building.
Listed are those indicted, their age,
charges and the law enforcement
agency that made the arrest:
session of firearm, Denton County
Sheriff's Office
■ Rusty Legendre, 28, unauthorized use
of a vehicle, Denton County Sheriff's
Office
■ Devonte Alex, 19, theft, The Colony
police
■ John Brown, 43, possession of a
controlled substance, The Colony police
■ Allen Holmes III, 27, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
The Colony police
■ John Johnson, 28, theft, Lewisville
police
■ Andrew Maner, 31, theft, Lewisville
police
■ Jennifer Mendez, 22, theft, Lewisville
police
■ Paulita Ojeda, 42, theft, Lewisville
police
■ Jeffrey Patterson, 40, possession of a
controlled substance, Lewisville police
■ William Riley, 41 theft, Lewisville
police
■ Daniel Schafer, 28, theft, Lewisville
police
■ Colleen Taylor, 47, theft, Lewisville
police
■ Michael Vereen, 30, possession of a
controlled substance, Lewisville police
■ Rodricas Williams, 29, theft, Lew-
isville police
■ Shequitha Mohammed, 31, fraudulent
use or possession of identifying in-
formation, Double Oak police
■ Hector Castorena, 48, theft, Collin
County Sheriff's Office
■ Daren Erdman, 34, possession of a
controlled substance, Corinth police
■ Taylor Creed, 18, possession of a
controlled substance, Little Elm police
■ Milanica Garrett, 23, theft, Little Elm
police
■ Robert Carr, 33, theft, Northeast
police
■ Brad Likus, 46, possession of a
controlled substance, Roanoke police
■ Justin Frederick, 33, possession of a
controlled substance, Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety
■ Charles Stump, 45, three counts of
conversion & diversion of controlled
substance, Trophy Club police
sinking portion of the tax rate,
down to 34 cents per $100 valu-
ation, to maintain the current
overall tax rate of $1.51.
A total of 173 voters, or 81
percent, cast ballots in favor of
the measure, with 40 votes
against.
Because of the move, com-
monly known as a “tax swap,”
Aubrey ISD now will receive an
extra $500,000 in state funding
net it will provide in case of any
state funding formula changes.
He believes there likely won’t be
any push for education funding
next legislative season because
of low oil revenue.
Bullock also said the school
board most likely will focus the
money on paying down bond
debt or funding technology up-
grades, though the board is not
yet certain.
because the maintenance and
operation budget pays for daily
operating costs of schools, such
as textbooks and salaries. The
money that is granted to the in-
terest and sinking rate is spent
exclusively for the construction
of school buildings.
In June, Aubrey school board
President Ron Bullock told the
Denton Record-Chronicle he
supports the move for the safety
By Matt Payne
Staff Writer
Voters in Aubrey ISD have
approved a 13-cent increase in
the maintenance and operation
tax rate in Saturday’s tax ratifica-
tion election.
The new rate will now be at
the state maximum of $1.17 per
$100 property valuation. With
the increase comes an equiva-
lent decrease in the interest and
■ Alejandro Cabrera, 18, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
Carrollton police
■ Shaleatha Greer, 21 credit card
abuse, Carrollton police
■ Jaden Logan, 18, unlawful possession
of firearm, Carrollton police
■ Bryce Marshall, 22, possession of a
controlled substance with intent to
deliver, two counts of possession of a
controlled substance, Carrollton police
■ Ryan Ostman, 27, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
Carrollton police
■ Luis Soria, 19, evading arrest, Carroll-
ton police
■ Michael Awadalla, 35, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance by
fraud, Flower Mound police
■ Ingrid May, 37, fraudulent use or
possession of identifying information,
Flower Mound police
■ Edward Bell, 47, possession of a
controlled substance, unlawful pos-
session of firearm, Denton police
■ Mary Bowers, 45, theft, Denton
police; possession of a controlled
substance, Lewisville police
■ Matthew Griffiths, 36, possession of
a controlled substance, Lewisville police
■ Cherrell Brazier, 30, theft, Denton
police
■ Henry Flowers, 57, theft, Denton
police
■ Chukwuma Nwankwo, 23, theft,
Denton police
■ Erin Russell, 42, theft, Denton police;
theft, Highland Village police
■ Destiny Breitling, 21 theft, Highland
Village police
■ Jason Brookens, 26, possession of a
controlled substance, Highland Village
police
■ Walter Clough, 19, unauthorized use of
a vehicle, Denton County Sheriff's Office
■ Gordon Healy, 48, unlawful pos-
Wal-Mart takes Texas to court for booze
By Michael Graczyk
Associated Press
HOUSTON - Wal-Mart’s
court fight to sell liquor at its
stores in Texas looks to be back
on track, but the courtroom is
getting crowded.
A federal appeals court is al-
lowing a trade group re-
presenting liquor store opera-
tors to join a stalled federal law-
suit that the nation’s largest re-
tailer filed against the Texas
agency that hands out permits to
sell booze by the bottle. In trying
to crack Texas’ restrictions on
package liquor licenses, some
dating to the end of Prohibition,
Wal-Mart contends that some of
the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
Commission’s rules amount to
unconstitutional
tion.
/
/
#
(
f
f
/
(
(A
—CL.
A
discrimina-
- ^
> v
Austin-based U.S. District
Judge Robert Pitman had set
the suit for trial next month, but
everything stopped in May
when the Texas Package Stores
Association, representing about
2,500 existing liquor store re-
tailers, got a green light from an
appeals court to move forward
with challenging Pitman’s refus-
al to let them intervene on the
side of the beverage commis-
sion.
Michael Graczyk/AP
Signs mark a Wal-Mart store and a Spec’s liquor store across the street from each other on
Saturday along Loop 336 in Conroe.
growth of family-owned chain
liquor stores in the state; Wal-
Mart complains it has “no blood
relative” to take advantage of the
provision.
The five-store limit and the
prohibition on holding both a
package store permit and a beer
and wine retailer’s permit go
back to 1935, when the Texas li-
quor Control Board was created
after Prohibition ended. Law-
makers revised its duties and re-
named the panel in 1970, and
legislators added the publicly
traded company ban in 1995 to
blunt the effect of a court ruling
that invalidated a provision re-
quiring a license holder to be a
resident of Texas for at least a
year.
While the Bentonville, Ar-
kansas-based company sells li-
quor in 31 states, it’s resorted to
court actions only in Texas to try
to get into a state’s liquor mar-
ket. In its February 2015 lawsuit,
Wal-Mart touted it “helps peo-
ple save money and live better by
purchasing quality products at
competitive prices.”
But the Texas Package Stores
Association contends the retail-
ing giant wants to “upset the lev-
el playing field” and “change the
structure of the Texas market”
that’s existed for decades so the
company can make “mass sales
of low-priced liquor.”
The store group contends the
initial defendant, the Texas Al-
coholic Beverage Commission,
was focused on more general is-
sues regulating the alcoholic
beverage industry in the state
and not specifically on liquor
store dealers who “stand to lose
substantial revenues and long-
term investments and be placed
at a competitive disadvantage.”
TABC spokesman Chris Por-
ter said he couldn’t comment on
pending court matters.
Bills to loosen liquor license
restrictions were introduced in
the Texas Legislature in the last
session in 2015 but never got out
of committee.
One such rule that mandates
that a publicly traded company
— like Wal-Mart — can’t hold
separate beer and wine and li-
quor licenses; Hatfield said the
rule “is counter to Texas’belief in
free enterprise and fair competi-
tion.”
to
\
A panel of the 5th U.S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals over-
turned Pitman’s ruling last week
and let the association join the
lawsuit, saying the trade group
had a “protectable interest that
may be impaired or injured” in
the outcome. Pitman now must
set a new trial date.
“On behalf of our Texas cus-
tomers, we are prepared to pur-
sue the case to provide Texans
their freedom of choice,” Wal-
Mart spokeswoman Anne Hat-
field said.
Booze is popular in Texas:
The liquor industry in Texas
generated nearly $14 billion in
sales in 2014, the latest annual
numbers available from the
state Comptroller’s Office. And
Wal-Mart, with its 574 stores,
markets and Sam’s Club outlets
in Texas, says it’s the state’s larg-
est purveyor of beer and wine.
\
m
. X
U1
iv
J N
t \
A*
LHM&
IN
,
k ’
sV
Another idiosyncrasy allows
publicly traded hotel corpora-
tions to sell both beer and wine
and liquor by the bottle, which
Wal-Mart said in its lawsuit is
“nothing more than naked eco-
nomic protectionism.”
A Texas liquor license holder
also is limited to no more than
five package stores, though an
immediate blood relative can ac-
quire other licenses and consoli-
date those licenses into a single
entity that exceeds the five-store
limit. The effect of that rule is
,
JEANS SALE!
One restriction not being
contested is a ban on liquor sales
at grocery stores. A separate
building with its own entrance is
permitted under the law, and
Wal-Mart says it would accom-
modate that by dedicating a dis-
tinct piece of property at stores
to the liquor operation.
Select Groups for Men
$19.99 & $39.99
Entire Stock for Women
$29.99
.X
BEST
ENTON
Cfcrtf*
WINNER
Since 1957
I A
BRIEFLY
345 E. Hickory St, Downtown Denton
940-382-1921 • weldonswestern.com
ACROSS THE STATE
1992 at the request of her hus-
band, Michael, and a brother-
in-law in a life insurance
scheme. Michael Rodriguez also
wound up on death row as one
of the notorious Texas Seven
gang of escaped inmates. He
was executed in 2008.
Attorneys for Ruiz contend
his trial and original appeals
lawyers failed to investigate and
present mitigating evidence on
his punishment. His attorneys
also contend that execution
more than two decades after his
Austin
Hit man gets second
stay of execution
Appeals voted 5-2 to issue a stay
of execution Friday in the case of
Rolando Ruiz. Presiding Judge
Sharon Keller and Judge Mi-
chael Keasler dissented without
comment. Judges Barbara Her-
vey and Kevin Yeary did not par-
ticipate in the ruling.
Ruiz, 44, had gotten within
an hour of a lethal injection in
2007 when a federal appeals
court intervened.
Evidence showed Ruiz col-
lected $2,000 to kill Theresa
Rodriguez of San Antonio in
conviction constitutes cruel and
unusual punishment.
Reprieves from the state and
federal appeals courts are some-
times granted for death row in-
mates. The Court of Criminal Ap-
peals, the state’s top criminal ap-
peals court, has issued three stays
this month. Fifteen inmates have
been put to death nationally this
year, six of them in Texas.
— The Associated Press
Please recycle
this newspaper
A convicted hit man sched-
uled to be put to death Wednes-
day for a murder-for-hire plot
that left a woman dead more
than 23 years ago has received a
reprieve from a state appeals
court — the second he has re-
ceived within a week of an exe-
cution date.
The Texas Court of Criminal
r
4
LOW PRICES EVERY DAY
LOW PRICES EVERY DAY
LOW PRICES EVERY DAY
North Central Texas College
and the Board of Regents
Invite you to the
★
*
tr
*
<
o
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS \
^COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT)
*
£3
*
la
Good
Neighbor
Ika Pharmacy
VitaminsPlus
I
at
‘X
m
Your Health Food Store
a
>
TTTT
M
5d
Research a health concern or find
supplement information at
nnw.vitamins-plus.net
</>
(A
M
Id
[5
<
o
824 W. University Dr.
Denton Center
Denton, Texas
M
DRIVE-THRU PHARMACY
STORE HOURS:
C
SB
MON-SAT 9AM - 9PM
SUNDAY 10AM-6PM
*
Drug
Kroger
Emporium
£
o
University
>
©
PHARMACY HOURS:
MON-FRI 9AM - 8PM
SATURDAY 9AM - 7PM
SUNDAY 12PM - 5PM
*<
id
Carroll
*
tr
©
<
Pharmacy: 940-387-1290
Vitamins Plus: 940-382-8816
Store: 940-387-0350
www.drugemporium.com/drug-emporium/denton
*
a
*
-
at
SB
of the
Leo and Mabel Scott
Health Science Center
Friday, September 2, 2016
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
NCTC Gainesville Campus
1525 West California Street
Gainesville, Texas
m
a
>
M
Id
V)
(A
W
CADIA
33.8 oz
Id
CADIA
Coconut Oil
14 fl oz
<
o
W
C
SB
A
•<
Mineral Water
o
>
©
*<
id
*i=
* 85*
$425
*
tr
<
©
3
a
>•
c
SB
Id
O
>
M
0
Id
V)
(A
W
Id
<
©
MSRP $129
MSRP $6"
M
<=
T
V.
-
•<
©
>
o
*
WE CARRY DESIGNER FRAGRANCES DISCOUNTED EVERYDAY
Ceremony at 10:00 a.m.
H2
H2
*
V
LOW PRICES EVERY DAY
LOW PRICES EVERY DAY
LOW PRICES EVERY DAY
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Parks, Scott K. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 26, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 28, 2016, newspaper, August 28, 2016; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1127531/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .