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Warren R. Pugh Warren R. Pugh passed away on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at the age of 91. He was the son of H. Raymond and Clara Pugh.

Warren spent his early years in Indiana where he lived, worked, and raised his family. He and his wife, Dolores, later moved to Mission, Texas, and whole heartedly adopted the ways of their new state. Warren was known for his adventurous spirit, his love of the outdoors, plus his joy in telling stories and listening to Big Band music. His early adventures included riding motorcycles, ying and sailing. At one time Warren held the world record for the fastest model power boat.

He was also know for his award winning photography and was glad to volunteer his photo skills to record many treasured moments. Warren and Dolores were avid campers and square dancers. Warren loved exploring the backroads and ghost towns of Colorado on dirt bikes and in 4 wheel drive vehicles with friends and family. He also loved to share stories of his many adventures over coffee or margaritas! Warren was very proud to be a Navy WWII Veteran, an Indiana State University graduate, and an Indiana Insurance Services retiree. He was a Master Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite and the Shrine for over 70 years.

As a Shriner, War- ren volunteered to drive children from the Valley to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston. Warren is survived his loving wife of 65 years, Dolores, their daughters, Marta Pugh Westlyn and Margo (Jim) Small, ve grandchildren, Brooke (Jeremy) eld, Jordan (Andrew) Kurzen, Luke (Angela) Hopper, Ben Hopper and Ian (Brittney) Westlyn Mogab, as well as three great grandchildren, Harper, Judah, and Wren Kurzen. A Memorial Service for Warren will be held this coming Saturday, April 23rd, 2pm, at Heritage Village, 2105 S. Cynthia McAllen, TX. Memorials may be sent to Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston, TX.

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Information will be accepted only from an established funeral home. The deadline is 2 p.m. daily. For more information, call (956) 683-4453. BY GREG STOHR BLOOMBERG NEWS WASHINGTON Donald Trump and Ted Cruz say they would deport the 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

That gives the Supreme Court reason to tread carefully when it takes up President Barack plan to keep as many as 5 million of them here. Even before Justice Antonin death two months ago, the November election made the case tricky, threatening to put the court into a according to a brief led by former U.S. Solicitor General Walter Dellinger in support of the administration. The remaining eight justices hear arguments Monday on plan. The case may ame an already hot campaign topic, and the election creates the possibility that a Republican president Trump or Cruz could cancel the policy even if the Supreme Court upholds it.

The administration is trying to overturn a federal appeals court panel, hich blocked the plan on a 2-1 vote. Texas and 25 other mostly Republican- led states say Obama overstepped his authority when he announced the executive action in 2014 during a stalemate in Congress over overhauling immigration laws. think he has the authority to come in and change the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an interview. fundamentally the issue in the The prospect of an extended vacancy on the court after death has only increased the political cance. The court could deadlock 4-4, which would uphold the lower court ruling without explanation.

With the stakes so high, advocates on both sides are suggesting narrow approaches that might produce a majority opinion. The most most prominent argument is that the states do not have the legal standing to challenge the program at all. The Supreme Court has required litigants to show that a challenged government program has injured them in a spe- way. The appeals court said Texas could sue because program would cost the state millions of dollars as people who receive deferred-deportation status become eligible for state- subsidized licenses. Supporters of the administration say a self- imposed cost.

The state could avoid it simply by decoupling the subsidies from federal immigration cations, Dellinger said in an interview. There is reason to think Texas would be unable to change their Dellinger said. His brief urged the court to throw out the case on grounds that Texas have the right to sue. That argument could appeal to Chief Justice John Roberts, a potential swing vote in the case and perhaps the staunchest proponent of strict requirements for legal standing. Texas and its fellow states say the court has never thrown out a case because a litigant could take steps to avoid the injury.

They also point to a 2007 Supreme Court decision that let Massachusetts and other states challenge the Environmental Protection refusal to consider regulating greenhouse-gas emissions. In a 5-4 ruling along ideological lines, the court said states are to special solicitude in our standing Opponents of the admin- istration offer are offering their own way for the court to avoid deciding the most controversial questions. They say that under federal law, the Department of Homeland Security should have treated the plan like a formal rule and given the public a chance to comment before nalizing it. A decision to throw out the plan for that reason would leave room for the Obama administration or the next president to revive it by following the rulemaking procedure. Under plan, people whose children are either U.S.

citizens or legal permanent residents, and who meet other requirements, could avoid deportation for three years and have the right to apply for work permits. Those people, who are primarily from Mexico and Central America, would not get an easier path to citizenship. Texas and its allies say federal statutes set detailed criteria for determining which immigrants are in the country legally, and that those laws let the president shield such a large category of people from deportation. The president says the program is simply a broader exercise of his accepted power to set priorities in deciding who should be deported. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are supporting the administration.

The justices will also hear arguments from a lawyer representing the House of Representatives, which voted to le a brief urging the court to throw out the Obama plan. When it agreed to take up the case in January, the Supreme Court opened the possibility of a broader ruling curbing the constitutional powers. The justices said they would consider argument that Obama violated his constitutional duty to care that the laws be faithfully HE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON Human remains found in a Houston pasture are those of a 17-year-old girl who disappeared in 1997, the Harris County medical ce said Friday. The remains of Jessica Cain, who disappeared after dining with friends, were ed through DNA analysis, said Audrey Carter, an investigator with the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. A convicted kidnapper ho might be linked to oth- er violent crimes pointed investigators to the location of the remains.

Investigators dug for more than three weeks in a rural pasture on the edge of Houston before nding the remains on March 18. William Reece, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a 1997 kidnapping, assisted authorities in the search. Reece, 56, also recently led authorities to remains ed as those of 20-year-old college student Kelli Cox, who had been missing from Denton in North Texas since 1997. attorney, Anthony Osso, has said his client ultimately hopes to avoid the death penalty by cooperating with authorities. Reece faces rst-degree murder and kidnapping charges in Oklahoma for the slaying of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston, who was abducted from a car wash northwest of Oklahoma City in 1997.

He was also previously named the prime suspect in the April 1997 abduction and killing of a 12-year-old girl in Friendswood near Houston but has not been charged. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT COLLINS, Colo. Bill Gray, a pioneer in hurricane forecasting, died Saturday in Fort Collins, according to his longtime assistant. He was 86. Phil Klotzbach said Gray began researching hurricanes in 1984, long before national hurricane forecasters began publishing their forecasts.

research on hurricanes was remarkable. He was one of the rst researchers to determine why hurricanes were global, looking at water- Hurricane forecast pioneer Bill Gray dead at age 86 temperature patterns and wind Klotzbach said. In addition to his research, Gray also published seasonal hurricane forecasts, predicting the number and severity of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. Supreme Court thrust into debate on immigration PLAN Campaign topic J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press Immigration activists demonstrate March 18 at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in support of President Barack executive order to grant relief from deportation in order to keep immigrant families together.

MY monitornews.com Families wait for Supreme Court immigration case. Remains identified as those of Texas teen missing since 1997.