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ACTOR RON PALILLO DIES
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 63. Palillo suffered an apparent heart attack at his home about 4 a.m. ... - PAGE A6
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DHS launches new immigration program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday directed young illegal immigrants to fill out new forms and pay $465 if they want to apply under a new program that would let them avoid deportation and obtain a U.S. work permit. The government renewed warnings that the process wouldn’t lead to citizenship or give them permission to travel internationally. It will begin accepting immigrants’ applications Wednesday. The paperwork for the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, can be
downloaded from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website, said the agency’s director, Alejandro Mayorkas. Applicants must pay a $465 fee and provide proof of identity and eligibility. Under guidelines that the administration announced Tuesday, the agency said proof of identity and eligibility under the program could include a passport or birth certificate, school transcripts, medical and financial records and military service records. DHS said that in some instances, multiple sworn affidavits, signed by a third
party under penalty of perjury, could also be used.
With the start of the program nearing, immigrants have been working on getting their paperwork in order. Tuesday morning, 23-year-old Evelyn Medina, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was in line at that country’s consulate in Washington about 6:30 a.m. to secure a passport. With her passport in hand, Medina was all smiles as she walked out of the building just before 2 p.m., saying “finally” as she
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Mayra Rivera, center, with her children, Aixa Martinez, 18, left, and Aryam Rivera, right, from Philadelphia, wait inside the Embassy of Honduras Consulate Section in Washington, Tuesday.
Sage travels on to the rainbow bridge July’s See DHS, Page A3
spending increases
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Sage the Search & Rescue Dog when she led the parade held in her honor. Local hero Sage died on Monday after repeated bouts of cancer, but her spirit lives on in the Sage Foundation For Dogs Who Serve.
We’ll miss you, girl; thank you for your service JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER The Daily Record received the following e-mail around 10:30 a.m., Tuesday. It originated from Diane Whetsel and was routed
COWBOYS NEED WORK
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys have to get a lot better in a hurry. The Cowboys’ 3-0 victory over Oakland in the preseason opener made one thing very clear: There is a lot of work to do in the three weeks before they play the NFL’s regular-season kickoff game at the defending ... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES
• Antonia M.Armijo • Rosella Ann Trujillo • Alvis Jordan • Ladislao V. Aguirre • Isidro “Chilo” Nuñez - PAGE A6 As of 7 p.m., Tuesday, there was 0.22 inches of rain in the Daily Record’s rain gauge.
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through such notables as Candy Ezzell.
“On August 13 @ about 1225 hours, I gave K-9 Sage her last command. The command was to travel on to the rainbow bridge. I
State Dems launch PACs
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A few Democrats serving in the New Mexico Senate have launched political action committees to counter Gov. Susana Martinez’s financial clout. Democratic Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque told The Albuquerque Journal that PACs were created after Democrats saw the amount of cash raised this year by a pair of groups headed by Martinez’s political adviser, Jay McCleskey. At least four organizations have been created in recent months by Senate Democrats who are unopposed in the November election. “We’re not going to match the governor’s fundraising,
that’s clear, but we’re trying to level the playing field,” said Ortiz y Pino, chairman of New Mexicans for Working Families PAC. “We better be prepared to defend ourselves, or we’re just going to get wiped out.” Ortiz y Pino and other Democratic senators said money raised by the fledgling PACs will be given to Democratic candidates in contested races for the Senate. Democrats currently outnumber Republicans 28-14 in the Senate, but Republicans are hoping to pick up seats in November. Nine incumbent Democrats have general election opponents See PACs, Page A3
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Bombs kill 46 across Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote cor ner of s o u t h w e s t e r n Afghanistan near the Iranian border Tuesday, killing dozens of people including shoppers buying sweets for a Muslim holiday and leaving charred and smoldering bits of cookies and dried fruit among the bodies on the ground. A separate market bombing, this one in AP Photo norther n Afghanistan, brought the overall death Afghan Muslim devotees, who live and pray in isolation in toll to 46, most of whom a mosque during Itikaf, the last 10 days of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, TuesSee BOMBS, Page A3 day.
Battle joined; candidates go at it over Medicare, college aid, energy policy
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told her that I couldn’t go with her on this trip, that this trip she would have to make without me. She understood. “Before she left we had a short
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans increased their retail spending in July by the most in five months, opening their wallets after a frugal spring and of fering hope that the slumping economy may rebound in the second half of the year. Retail spending rose in every major category, from electronics and sporting goods to furniture, building supplies and garden equipment. The report from the government followed one earlier this month that showed hiring strengthened in July. Overall retail sales rose 0.8 percent from June to July, the Commerce Department said. It was the sharpest increase since February, and it followed three months of declines. The stepped-up spending was evident in a flurry of retail earnings reports for the second quarter, which ended in late July. Home Depot, the nation’s largest home improvement
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Mitt Romney, eats ice cream with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Tuesday, in Zanesville, Ohio. WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in TV advertising
Tuesday of cutting Medicare “to pay for Obamacare,” launching a strong counterattack to
Democratic charges that he and running mate Paul R yan would radically remake the popular health care program that serves tens of millions of seniors. The charge drew a blistering response from Obama’s campaign, which labeled the ad dishonest and hypocritical. Obama “has taken $716 billion out of the Medicare trust fund. He’s raided that trust fund,” Romney said at a campaign stop in Beallsville, Ohio, as he neared the end of a multistate bus trip punctuated by his weekend selection of a ticket mate. Aides said a commercial containing the same allegation would begin airing immediately in several bat-
tleground states, although they declined to provide details. In a campaign without summer doldrums, the rival sets of ticket mates campaigned in a half-dozen of the most hotly contested states, in settings as diverse as a coal mine in Ohio (Romney); a wind farm in Iowa (Obama) and a casino in Nevada (Ryan). Vice President Joe Biden stirred controversy in Virginia when he said the Republicans would favor the big banks over the interests of consumers. He said Romney has said he is “going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street.” Romney’s campaign reacted strongly to that,
saying the comments were “not acceptable in our political discourse and demonstrate yet again that the Obama campaign will say and do anything to win this election.”
But that tempest was modest compared to the building struggle over Medicare.
Romney’s criticism on that subject appeared an attempt to gain some measure of control over an issue likely to play a significant role in the outcome of the election. Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa are among the top five states in the country in the percentage of people 65 and over, and See MEDICARE, Page A2