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Denton police searching for 5 robbery suspects
consoles and cellphones from the black clothing.
One dropped part of a PlayStation
game system on the ground near the
apartment, while another dropped a
clip to a handgun, she said.
She said she couldn’t see which di-
rection they fled because it was dark
and raining. Police olfered no descrip-
tions of the suspects because they were
covered head to toe.
dinal Drive.
Man held at gunpoint
Barboza said she saw two of them
The 21-year-old victim was not in- apartment, Kizer said.
UNT student Jasmin Barboza, 22, swinging 2-foot “sticks” in their hands,
said she watched the men from her But Kizer could not confirm any other
About 1:30 a.m., a witness saw five apartment’s peephole. Before they weapons had been used in the robbery
masked people, whom police identified broke the window, she said the men besides a handgun,
as teenagers, standing outside the vie- were asking each other if they were
had electronics stolen jured, according to Denton police
spokesman Shane Kizer.
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill @ dentonre. com
Denton police are looking for five tim’s front door at The Loop apartment “ready
suspects after a man was robbed at complex, off Loop 288 in East Denton,
gunpoint in his apartment early Mon- They then broke a window and held the other up,” Barboza said, adding that the less than a minute before she saw them
day morning in the 600 block of Car- man at gunpoint before stealing game men were all completely dressed in run out.
Barboza said she called police when
she heard the glass break. The robbers,
It was like they were pumping each she said, were inside the apartment for
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LEGISLATURE
2017
Dodd Intermediate School students get funding for playground proposal
Legislators
take aim
at campus
rape laws
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By Lauren McGaughy
The Dallas Morning News
Imcgaughy @ dallasnews.com
AUSTIN — Texas soon could pass
some of the most aggressive campus
rape legislation in the country, a reac-
tion to the sexual assault scandal at Bay-
lor University.
“I love my school, but I’ve been ex-
traordinarily disappointed,” said Baylor
alumnus Kirk Watson, a Democratic
senator from Austin. “I actually think
there is a real feeling that we need to ad-
dress sexual assault.”
Watson filed five bills Tuesday aiming
to increase and encourage reporting and
lessen rates of sexual violence, harass-
ment and stalking on college campuses.
He’s also the co-sponsor of a proposal
that would require school employees —
and even some students — to report as-
saults or else face criminal penalties.
“We’ve got to be serious about this,”
Watson said. “Students have a right to
be safe.”
Battling sexual assault on college
campuses is a top priority for Republi-
cans and Democrats in the House and
the Senate. The players might disagree
on exactly what to do and how to do it,
but leaders on both sides of the aisle
agree this is the year to act.
The Baylor scandal began in 2015 and
last year claimed the careers of several
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Joseph Augustini, 25,
thought he was above
the law, but Denton
police officers disagreed
when they responded to
a report of a man jump-
ing into traffic.
Caitlyn Jones/DRC
From left: Lucas Butler, Joshua Hayes, Grant Freels, Daylon Bennett and Case Pitt stand in front of their rusty basket-
ball goal Tuesday at Dodd Intermediate School in Krum. The fifth-graders pitched a proposal to the school's parent-
teacher organization Tuesday night and received funding to refurbish the courts.
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STATE
Making it happen
A federal judge ruled
Texas can’t cut off Med-
icaid dollars to Planned
Parenthood over secretly
recorded videos in 2015.
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tion by the time he closed his eyes. The any shipping costs. The room erupted in
next day, he gathered his four friends
Case Pitt, Lucas Butler, Joshua Hayes and lived the boys.
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
applause as teachers and parents high-
cjones @ dentonre. com
INTERNATIONAL
My role in this has been a quiet sup-
bed one night when the idea came to him. Intermediate School and approached porter in the background,” Reynolds said.
He and his friends had gone to recess school counselor Tracy Reynolds about “I’ve seen students come up with
earlier that day, and the only thing any- refurbishing the court,
one could talk about was the basketball
KRUM — Grant Freels was lying in Daylon Bennet — at Krum ISD’s Dodd
—
thoughts and ideas, but they’ve never fol-
She told them to put their ideas on pa- lowed it to the end like this.”
per, and they soon had a plan.
The school’s parent-teacher organiza-
tion green-lit the project at their meeting speech they would give to the PTO. Grant
Tuesday night and upped the funding -
The boys said they spent most of their
time pricing materials and writing the
goals. They said they were weathered,
rusty and missing nets.
“You can’t tell a shot someone made
from an air ball,” Grant said.
The fifth-grader came up with a solu- from the proposed $500 to $700 to cover
Lovers of Italian olive oil
beware: Prices are due
See PLAYGROUND on 11A
to jump by as much as
20 percent this year.
See BILLS on 12A
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City Council not stoked with high cost of tech incubator
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the Brock Downtown Denton Transit
Center. Stoke scheduled only a handful of
programs in its first six months of opera-
tions, including some that weren’t tech-
nology-oriented, such as yoga classes. The
people and businesses currently renting
space and working at Stoke could be de-
scribed as startups, but they aren’t neces-
sarily technology companies, Watts said.
‘We’ve gotten off-track. Things don’t
seem to fit into the intent and spirit of
what we started,” Watts said. ‘We are
spending $300,000 to $400,000 a year.
What we intended for it to be — that’s
what we want it to be.”
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc.com
The Denton City Council worked to
steer Stoke, the city’s new “technology in-
cubator,” back on track Tuesday.
Council members listed several con-
cerns with the staff and a contractor dur-
ing a work session Tuesday afternoon.
They said they want the program to be
successful, but they also want it to do what
was intended: bring technology invest-
ment and high-paying jobs to Denton.
“I voted for this, for high-tech startups,”
said Mayor Chris Watts.
Stoke opened in August in a 9,000-
square-foot office at the Railyard, next to
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lab at Stoke,
the city’s
“technology
incubator,” at
the Railyard
in Denton.
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