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The school district, non-
profits, faith and other groups
regularly provide food, cloth-
ing, school supplies and other
daily needs, Suever said, and
families will even take in oth-
ers living in dire situations
such as cars.
“We try very hard to sup-
port all of our kids no matter
what their living situation is,”
Suever said.
Seaside School District
reported 96 students as home-
less last school year, more than
60 percent higher than the rate
in 2015-16 and more than dou-
ble the rate in 2014-15. The
district surpassed Astoria’s 81
reported homeless students for
the first time in at least several
years, despite having 15 per-
cent fewer students overall.
Astoria experienced a small
drop in homelessness, from 92
in 2015-16 to 81 last year.
Knappa’s count of home-
less students went from six
to 22 between 2015-16 and
last school year. All the stu-
dents were reported as shar-
ing housing with others.
Knappa Superintendent Pau-
lette Johnson said there has
been an increase of grandpar-
ents, aunts, uncles, foster par-
ents and others taking care of
them.
“We are also doing a good
job of identifying more stu-
dents through questioning
on enrollment and identify-
ing more students who really
need services but may not tell
us initially that they are home-
less,” she said.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Kids line up to load on buses at Warrenton Grade School. Warrenton-Hammond School District has experienced a sig-
nificant growth in both enrollment and student homelessness.
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GOP, Democratic
senators back bill to
bolster FBI gun checks
WASHINGTON — Republican and Dem-
ocratic senators have joined forces on legisla-
tion to strengthen the FBI database of prohib-
ited gun buyers after the Air Force failed to
report the criminal history of the gunman who
slaughtered more than two dozen people at a
Texas church.
Congress has taken no steps on guns in the
weeks after deadly shootings in Las Vegas and
Sutherland Springs, Texas. The bill, which has
the backing of the Senate’s No. 2 Republican,
John Cornyn of Texas, would ensure that federal
agencies, such as the Defense Department, and
states accurately report relevant criminal infor-
mation to the FBI.
The Air Force has acknowledged that the
Texas shooter, Devin P. Kelley, should have
had his name and domestic violence conviction
submitted to the National Criminal Information
Center database.
The bill would penalize federal agencies
that fail to properly report required records and
rewards states that comply by providing them
with federal grant preferences.
Cornyn said agencies and state governments
have for years failed to forward legally required
records without consequences.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecti-
cut, a fierce proponent of gun restrictions, said
much more needs to be done on the issue of
gun violence, but he believes the bill will help
ensure that thousands of dangerous people are
prevented from buying guns.
The measure’s prospects in the Senate
are unclear despite Cornyn’s backing, and
it faces an uncertain future in the GOP-run
House.
GOP pushes tax bill
toward House OK,
Senate faces problems
WASHINGTON — Republicans drove a
near $1.5 trillion tax overhaul toward House
passage today, even as Senate GOP dissenters
emerged in a sign that party leaders had prob-
lems to resolve before Congress could give
President Donald Trump his first legislative
triumph.
Trump was heading to the Capitol for a pep
rally with House Republicans, shortly before
the chamber was expected to approve the mea-
sure over solid Democratic opposition. There
were just a handful of GOP opponents in the
House, unhappy because the measure sharply
curbs deductions for state and local taxes, but
all agreed that passage seemed certain.
Like a similar package nearing approval
by the GOP-led Senate Finance Committee,
most of the House measure’s reductions would
go to business. Both bills would slash the
35 percent corporate tax rate to 20 percent
and reduce levies on millions of partnerships
and certain corporations, including many
small businesses. Personal income tax rates for
many would be reduced though some deduc-
tions and credits would be reduced or elimi-
nated, but in the process projected federal defi-
cits would grow by $1.5 trillion over the coming
decade.
As the House debated its measure, Demo-
crats called the measure a gift tilted dispropor-
tionately toward corporations and the wealthy
that would leave millions of people actually
paying higher taxes. Republicans said that aver-
age taxpayers across all income groups would
get tax reductions.
On Wednesday, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wis-
consin became the first Republican senator to
say he opposes his party’s tax package, though
he didn’t rule out coming on board if changes
were made.
Republicans controlling the Senate 52-48
can approve the legislation with just 50 votes,
plus tie-breaking support from Vice President
Mike Pence. With solid Democratic opposition
likely, that means they can lose just two GOP
votes.
Besides Johnson, Republican Sens. Susan
Collins of Maine, Jeff Flake and John McCain
of Arizona, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Lisa
Murkowski have yet to commit to backing the
tax measure.
Radio anchor says
Franken forcibly kissed
her amid USO tour
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Sen. Al
Franken apologized today after a Los Ange-
les radio anchor accused him of forcibly kiss-
ing her during a 2006 USO tour and of posing
for a photo with his hands on her breasts as she
slept.
Leeann Tweeden posted the allegations on
the website of KABC, a Los Angeles radio sta-
tion where she now works as a news anchor
for a morning radio show. Tweeden joined the
then-comedian on one of several trips to enter-
tain troops in December 2006 when Franken
told her he wrote a skit for the pair that included
a kiss. And despite her protests, she alleges he
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17 escapes from Hawaii
hospital since 2010
HONOLULU — More than a dozen escapes
have occurred over the past eight years at a
Hawaii psychiatric hospital where a patient
described as dangerous walked off the grounds
and made it to California before he was cap-
tured this week.
Many of the 17 escapes between 2010 and
this year happened when a patient broke “cur-
few” and didn’t return from the Hawaii State
Hospital after being allowed to leave for a period
of time, according to information obtained by
The Associated Press from police and the state
Department of Health.
In the case of Randall Saito, the 59-year-old
man left the hospital on Sunday, took a taxi to a
chartered plane bound for the island of Maui and
then boarded another plane to San Jose, Califor-
nia, police said. He was captured Wednesday
morning in the city of Stockton after authorities
got a tip from a taxi driver.
Saito was committed to the hospital outside
Honolulu in 1981 after he was found not guilty
by reason of insanity in the shooting and stab-
bing death of a woman, whose body was found
in her car at a mall. He was permitted to roam
the hospital grounds with an escort, but he did
not have permission to leave the hospital cam-
pus without supervision.
It took the hospital at least eight hours to
notify law enforcement that Saito was missing.
Seven hospital employees have been placed on
unpaid leave as the investigation continues.
Neighbor shot by
California gunman
lived in fear of him
RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. —
One of the first victims of a Northern Califor-
nia gunman told a judge earlier this year that she
and her family lived in fear of him because he
was violent and unpredictable, firing off guns at
all hours and threatening her with “all kinds of
perverted things.”
A sheriff’s deputy on April 1 handed Kevin
Janson Neal a court order to stay away from his
neighbor, Hailey Suzanne Poland, and her fam-
ily, and barred him from possessing guns.
Records show Neal certified that he surren-
dered his weapons in February, but Tehama
County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said they
had recovered two illegal homemade assault
rifles and two handguns registered to someone
else.
On Tuesday, Neal shot and killed the 34-year-
old woman before embarking on what authori-
ties called a “murderous rampage” through a
neighborhood in Tehama County about 130
miles north of Sacramento.
Neal killed five people and wounded at least
eight others before sheriff’s deputies fatally shot
him during a gun battle, Johnston said.
Zimbabwe calm as
Mugabe is urged
to go peacefully
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Rob-
ert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was shown meet-
ing today with the army commander who put
him under house arrest, as negotiations with a
South African delegation and a Catholic priest
at the state house pushed for a resolution to the
political turmoil and the likely end to Mugabe’s
decades-long rule.
South Africa President Jacob Zuma, speak-
ing in parliament, said the political situation
“very shortly will be becoming clear.”
Seizing on the political limbo to speak out,
civil society groups and opposition leaders
urged Mugabe to step aside after 37 years in
power and for the country to transition into free
and fair elections.
Mugabe has been in military custody,
reportedly with his wife, since the army stepped
in overnight Tuesday. There was no sign of for-
mer Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa,
whose firing last week angered supporters in the
military amid widespread concern that unpop-
ular first lady Grace Mugabe would take his
place.
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insisted they practice the kiss during rehearsal.
“We did the line leading up to the kiss and
then he came at me, put his hand on the back
of my head, mashed his lips against mine and
aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth,” she
wrote.
Tweeden also included a photo of her sleep-
ing on board an aircraft later during the trip, in
which Franken is shown reaching out as if to
grope her breasts.
Franken said in a statement that Tweeden’s
account of the skit did not match his memory.
“But I send my sincerest apologies to Lee-
ann,” Franken wrote. “As to the photo, it was
clearly intended to be funny but wasn’t. I
shouldn’t have done it.”
Speaking on her radio show this morning,
Tweeden said she didn’t come forward with
the allegations sooner because she feared her
career, including a stint as a swimsuit model,
would lead others to discount her story.
“I felt belittled. I was ashamed. I’ve had
to live with this for 11 years,” she said on-air.
“Somehow it was going to be my fault. It was
not going to be worth the fight.”
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