All the Way Down - Robert Burnett The Author

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Investigators pursue motive
behind Fort Hood shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) —
The soldier who killed three
people at Fort Hood may have
argued with another service
member prior to the attack,
and investigators believe his
unstable mental health contributed to the rampage,
authorities said yesterday.
The base’s senior officer, Lt.
Gen. Mark Milley, said there
is a “strong possibility” that
Spc. Ivan Lopez had a “verbal
AP
altercation” with another solRoses left for shooting victims are seen at the feet of Lt. Gen. Mark
dier or soldiers immediately
Milley, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and other military during a news
before Wednesday’s shooting,
conference yesterday near Fort Hood’s main gate in Fort Hood, Texas. which unfolded on the same
Army post that
was the scene
of an infamous
2009 mass
shooting.
However,
there’s no indication that he
Spc. Ivan targeted specifLopez
ic soldiers, Milley said.
Lopez never saw combat
during a deployment to Iraq
and had shown no apparent
risk of violence before the
shooting, officials said.
The 34-year-old truck driver
from Puerto Rico seemed to
have a clean record that
showed no ties to extremist
groups. But the Army secretary promised that investigators would keep all avenues
open in their inquiry of the
soldier whose rampage ended
only after he fired a final bullet into his own head.
“We’re not making any
assumptions by that. We’re
going to keep an open mind
and an open investigation.
We will go where the facts
MOTIVE, PAGE A3
Residents
seek help
to improve
underpass
‘All the Way Down’
New book chronicles
improbable 1988
title run for Frew
Mill basketball team
By John K. Manna
New Castle News
By Dan Irwin
New Castle News
Turns out, “All the Way
Down” was a lot further than
Bob Burnett figured.
Twenty-six
years after his
Frew Mill School
team captured
hearts, imaginations and the
WPIAL Class A
basketball title
— the only juveBob
nile correctional
Burnett
facility ever to
do so — the Longhorns’ head
coach is reliving that magical
1987-88 season through a
recently released book he has
authored.
Bob Burnett discusses strategy with Mike Harris, left, and Derrick Myers during a Frew Mill
“All The Way Down: Changing Hearts and Minds” tells the basketball game in 1988. The Longhorns went on to win the WPIAL Class A title, a story Burnett
chronicles in his new book, 'All The Way Down.'
tale of a group of delinquent
teens remanded to a nowdefunct detention facility in
potential backers.
team’s prior coach took a year
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Shenango Township. Together,
“All The Way Down” was
off. “What finally made me get
•Monique Sorgen, who
they overcame various emothe rallying cry used by such
it published was when the
authored a screenplay based
tional issues and the fact that
Frew Mill stars as Derrick
movie came into the picture.
on Bob Burnett’s book, tells
most had never played organMyers, Mike Harris, George
I’m thinking that if there is a
why she believes it will
ized ball before to become a
Johnson and their teammates
movie, and I don’t have the
become a movie. See page B1
championship team. Burnett
to declare their intent to capbook out, that would be stu•Bob Burnett’s book is availguided them along the way,
ture the WPIAL crown.
pid.
able online from Amazon,
even though he was going
Although the book detailing
“If that had never happened,
Barnes and Noble and authorthrough a painful divorce at
that quest has been finished
I don’t know if I ever would
house.com.
the time.
since 1998, it was only
have published it.”
Sounds like the makings of a released in December.
The film connection came
great movie.
“Once I finished it, I really
through Harris, who went on
copy of Burnett’s book in order
Oh yeah, that’s in the works, didn’t know what to do as far
to become a big-time manager to do a screenplay.
too.
as publishing it was conand founder of a PhiladelphiaHollywood writer and direccerned,” said Burnett, who
based sports marketing firm.
RECORDING HISTORY
tor Monique Sorgen already
also was Frew Mill’s principal
On a flight with Sorgen, he
Burnett began writing his
has converted Burnett’s manu- at the time. He had agreed to a shared the story of his Frew
story a few months after the
script into a screenplay that
one-season shot at coaching
Mill days, and she became
TITLE, PAGE A2
she’s shopping around to
the Longhorns while the
intrigued enough to request a
Some Mahoningtown
residents are seeking the
city’s help to make an
underpass on South Liberty Street a little brighter.
Larry Macri told city
council last week, “We
have a issue with the
lighting. We cannot see
under that underpass. It’s
a safety issue.”
“Nobody seems to take
responsibility,” for the
underpass, he said.
He asked whether the
city, CSX Railroad or the
Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation is
responsible. Macri noted
that South Liberty Street is
a state highway.
“All we’re asking for is
if the city can get us some
lighting.”
Macri said there was
pedestrian lighting at the
underpass previously.
He also pointed out that
the walls of the underpass
are corroding and the
sidewalks are broken. He
said he has seen people
sleeping beneath the
underpass.
Anna Lepore Conte said
the residents will find out
who is responsible.
“We will be relentless in
going after them,” she
said.
“We want the city and
(county) commissioners to
help us fight this fight.”
If the city can find
HELP, PAGE A3
Joint venture to manage Jameson emergency room
Allegheny Health Network
and Emergency Medicine
Physicians have formed a joint
venture to manage emergency
departments at nine facilities.
One of them is Jameson
Hospital in New Castle.
Emergency Medicine Physicians has been managing
Jameson’s emergency department since July 2013.
Doug Danko, president and
chief executive officer of
Jameson Health System, said
he does not expect the joint
venture to have any negative
impact on the hospital. In
fact, he said, it could improve
the availability of physicians
to Jameson.
The joint venture, named
Allegheny Health Network
Emergency Medicine Management, will manage four new
sites owned by the network:
Allegheny General Hospital
and West Penn Hospital in
Pittsburgh, Canonsburg Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital in
Erie.
It also will manage the
emergency departments at
Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, Allegheny Valley Hospital in Natrona Heights,
Allegheny Valley Outpatient
Center in New Kensington and
Highlands Hospital in Connellsville.
Dr. Dominic Bagnoli, chief
executive officer of Emergency
Medicine Physicians, said in a
press release, “By partnering
with Allegheny Health Network, we will work to create
even more innovative ways to
improve and transform healthcare for patients in western
Pennsylvania.”
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Rhodes Estates
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Fort Pierce, Fla.
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Edinburg
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