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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Florida governor
expected to sign
gun bill today
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick
Scott is expected to meet today with families of
the 17 people who were killed in a school shoot-
ing, and then sign a $400 million school safety
bill with new gun controls opposed by the NRA
and a plan to arm staff that teachers don’t want.
State Rep. Jared Moskowitz — a Democrat
who represents the South Florida district where
the shooting happened — said in a text that Scott
will sign the bill today. Republican Sen. Marco
Rubio said the same.
The Legislature delivered the bill to Scott on
Thursday. It narrowly passed the House and Sen-
ate, and falls short of what he wanted and what
survivors of the massacre demanded. Florida’s
teachers’ union and the National Rifle Associa-
tion are opposed.
The measure would raise the minimum age to
buy rifles from 18 to 21, extend a three-day wait-
ing period for handgun purchases to include long
guns, and ban bump stocks that allow guns to
mimic fully automatic fire.
In schools, it would create a “guardian” pro-
gram enabling staff with law enforcement train-
ing and school district approval to carry con-
cealed handguns on campus. It would create new
mental health programs for schools and establish
an anonymous tip line where students and others
could report threats. It also seeks to improve com-
munication between schools, law enforcement
and state agencies.
The National Rifle Association opposes rais-
ing age limits to buy weapons or imposing new
waiting periods. Teachers, meanwhile, called on
Scott to use his line-item veto power to zero out
the $67 million set aside for the program to train
and arm school employees.
Officer charged
with assaulting black
jaywalking suspect
RALEIGH, N.C. — A white police officer
whose body camera recorded him beating a black
pedestrian he accused of jaywalking has been
arrested on assault charges in North Carolina.
Christopher Hickman was charged late Thurs-
day with assault by strangulation, assault inflict-
ing serious injury and communicating threats,
according to the Buncombe County District
Attorney’s Office.
The Asheville Police chief put Hickman on
desk duty immediately following the beating last
August, and he resigned from the force in Janu-
ary after an internal investigation determined he
should be fired. Still, the case remained a secret
until the recording was leaked to the local news-
paper and published last week, sparking commu-
nity outrage. The FBI is now investigating.
The camera recorded Hickman saying “he’s
not learning!” before a trainee confronts John-
nie Jermaine Rush for jaywalking. Hickman first
told the trainee to write him a ticket, but then told
Rush to put his hands behind his back after Rush
complained that officers didn’t have anything bet-
ter to do than “harass somebody” for walking.
Rush then tried to run and Hickman brought
him down, repeatedly punching him in the head,
the video shows. Hickman also struck him and
shocked him with a stun gun and put him in a
chokehold, according to city documents.
Officers charged Rush with impeding traffic
and resisting arrest, but the charges were dropped.
In the recording, made as the streets were
deserted, Rush said he was just walking home
from his restaurant job when he was stopped near
a minor league ballpark and breweries that fuel
the city’s booming tourism industry.
Slow recovery from
latest nor’easter;
3rd storm on tap?
BOSTON — The sun came out across much
of the Northeast today as utilities tackled the ardu-
ous task of restoring power to hundreds of thou-
sands of customers who lost electricity during the
storm that hit the region this week, all with the
possibility of a third nor’easter in the offing.
Utilities asked for patience, warning that
because of the damage caused by the nor’easter
that dropped 2 feet of snow in some areas, pulling
down trees, branches and power lines and block-
ing roads, it could be days before power is back
on.
AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
A fisherman prepares to cast a line as the sun rises behind him in Bal Harbour, Fla. Florida will join most of the nation in spring-
ing ahead, moving clocks up one hour to observe daylight saving time.
Let there be light, an hour longer into the evening sky
WASHINGTON — Time to set your
clocks and watches one hour ahead.
And maybe save some time to grouse
about losing an hour’s sleep Saturday
night.
The shift from standard to daylight saving
time officially comes at 2 a.m. Sunday across
About 450,000 customers across the North-
east were without power today, according to the
poweroutage.us website, which compiles statis-
tics from utilities across the nation. New Jersey
and Massachusetts had the most.
People without power piled into relatives’
homes, hung out at the local coffee shop or went
to “warming centers” that some towns opened in
libraries or senior centers.
The storm was being blamed for at least two
deaths in New York and New Jersey.
In Maine, excessive speed on icy roads is
being blamed for a 14-vehicle pileup on Interstate
95; no injuries have been reported.
The heavy wet snow was also the apparent
cause of a roof collapse in a vacant building in
Bridgeport, Connecticut. No one was hurt.
The rush is on to restore power as forecasters
monitor another system that could move up the
coast Monday. Some weather models, however,
have the storm missing the mark.
Former Trump
campaign aide Nunberg
at court for grand jury
WASHINGTON — A former Trump cam-
paign aide arrived today at the federal courthouse
in Washington for a scheduled grand jury appear-
ance days after he defiantly insisted in a series of
news interviews that he intended to defy a sub-
poena in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Rus-
sia investigation.
Sam Nunberg did not respond to reporters’
questions as he entered court shortly after 9 a.m.
Nunberg on Monday had balked at comply-
ing with a subpoena that sought his appearance
before a grand jury as well as correspondence
with multiple other campaign officials.
But later that night, Nunberg said he had
relented and would wind up complying after
all. He said he had worked for hours to produce
the thousands of emails and other communica-
tions requested by Mueller, who is investigating
whether the Trump campaign improperly coor-
dinated with Russia during the 2016 presidential
election.
“I thought it was a teachable moment,” he said
of his 24 hours in the limelight.
So far, 19 people and three companies have
been charged in Mueller’s investigation. Among
them are Trump’s former campaign chairman and
the former White House national security adviser.
much of the country. Daylight will last lon-
ger into the evening but take an hour longer
to emerge in the morning.
No time change is observed in
Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam
and the Northern Marianas. Florida could
Five people have pleaded guilty.
Bundy — leader of
standoffs — says he’ll
run for Nevada governor
LAS VEGAS — A leader of two high-profile
armed standoffs with U.S. agents whose Bundy
ranching family has decried federal ownership of
public land says he’ll mount an independent cam-
paign for Nevada governor.
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eventually join that list if GOP Gov.
Rick Scott signs the “Sunshine Protection
Act” passed this week and Congress goes
along.
It’s a good time to consider installing
fresh smoke detector batteries.
Standard time returns Nov. 4.
Ryan Bundy said Thursday that he doesn’t
think other candidates running to replace
term-limited Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval
would properly protect states’ rights.
The 45-year-old son of Cliven Bundy says he
intends to file candidacy papers next Wednesday
in Las Vegas and embark on a statewide speak-
ing tour.
Ryan Bundy has won criminal cases over
armed confrontations in two states. U.S. charges
were dropped in January against him, his father
and his brother Ammon in a 2014 standoff in
Nevada over a roundup of Bundy cattle.
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The White House also
recently proposed $13 billion in
new funding for treatment with
the Department of Health.
Emergency rooms saw a big
jump in overdoses from opioids
last year — the latest evidence
the nation’s drug crisis is get-
ting worse.
A government
report
released this week shows over-
doses from opioids increased 30
percent late last summer, com-
pared to the same three-month
period in 2016. The biggest
jumps were in the Midwest and
in cities, but increases occurred
nationwide.
“This is a very difficult and
fast-moving epidemic and there
are no easy solutions,” said Dr.
Anne Schuchat, acting director
of the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
Overdose increases in some
states and cities may be due to
changes in the volume and type
of illicit opioid drugs being sold
on the streets, health officials
said.
The report did not break
down overdoses by type of opi-
oid, be it prescription pain pills,
heroin, fentanyl or others.
The CDC recently started
using a new system to track ER
overdoses and found the rate of
opioid overdoses rose from 14
to 18 per 100,000 ER visits over
a year. Almost all those over-
doses were not fatal.
The CDC numbers are likely
an undercount. It’s tracking sys-
tem covers about 60 percent of
the ER visits in the whole coun-
try and some people who over-
dose don’t go to the hospital,
Schuchat said.
Opioids were involved in
two-thirds of all overdose deaths
in 2016. That year, the powerful
painkiller fentanyl and its close
opioid cousins played a bigger
role in the deaths than any other
legal or illegal drug.
More recent CDC data
shows overdose deaths rose 14
percent from July 2016 to July
2017, but that data doesn’t dis-
tinguish opioids from other
drugs.
Associated Press writer
Mike Strobbe contributed to
this report.
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