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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man died at a Disney Resort in Orlando on Wednesday.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call around 5:30 a.m. regarding an unresponsive person at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Magic Kingdom.
The man, identified as 39-year-old Jeffrey Vanden Boom of Greendale, Wisconsin, was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Orange County Medical Examiner determined Vanden Boom fell from a hotel room balcony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The fall was ruled as accidental.
Walt Disney World did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for comment.
The death remains an ongoing investigation.
Last fall, an 83-year-old man died after riding the Tomorrowland Authority PeopleMover at Disney World. Authorities said he experienced a “cardiac event,” and his death was “deemed natural” by medical officials.
Earlier this year, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Disneyland, accusing park employees of laughing at a 66-year-old disabled woman who fell while getting off the Jungle Cruise ride in 2021 and later died. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T18:47:46 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ |
The Biden White House has tried to present itself as being above the fray of day-to-day squabbles, but increasingly, it’s jumping in, bashing the GOP and other critics at every opportunity.
The administration didn’t miss a chance this week to hammer Republicans over Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) floating that the House would move towards an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. They were quick with memos and statements to criticize the GOP attacks as a “clown carousel” and the idea of pursuing impeachment as “baseless.”
And the White House issued a scathing rebuke of Fox New host Greg Gutfeld, who said that Jews captured and tortured during the Holocaust survived by having skills and being useful, calling out his comments as a “dangerous, extreme lie.”
The new levels of punchy rhetoric preview the White House messaging strategy going into 2024, which is to fight back and call out what they consider extreme.
It’s a shift from their previous attitude, which was to let what they considered to be Republican chaos speak for itself.
“The cost is too expensive, both short and long term, to let them operate in a vacuum without showing that one, we know how to fight; two, that we will fight; three, we fight with facts and not with some flaming lies of information,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist.
Early in Biden’s presidency, the White House was careful not to weigh in on controversial comments from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), hoping to avoid elevating her words and giving the far-right congresswoman more of a platform.
When McCarthy was struggling in January to get enough votes to be Speaker of the House, they sat back and watched it unfold.
Biden gently knocked the vote series at the time, saying, “It’s a little embarrassing it’s taking so long,” but also added, “that’s not my problem.” The White House had also insisted that Biden would not “insert himself” into the election, which ended up taking 15 ballots for McCarthy to finally clench enough votes.
But this week, when the Speaker signaled that the House could move forward with an impeachment inquiry, the White House came out with multiple statements and highlighted quotes from fellow Republicans in his conference pushing back on the idea.
It also released a memo about Republicans’ slams against the president overall, reflecting the Biden argument that the GOP is stepping up attacks on Hunter Biden and talk of impeachment because the economy is getting stronger and is now a less effective avenue for attack.
Hunter Biden appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement.
The White House this week touted “Bidenomics” after gross domestic product (GDP) numbers showed surprisingly strong economic growth. It rebuked GOP lawmakers for not embracing the data, pointing to Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone, who said Thursday, “There goes that recession talk, right?”
“Even Fox Business is welcoming today’s blockbuster economic growth numbers, the latest in a long line of proof points that Bidenomics is delivering for middle class families,” spokesman Andrew Bates said in a memo. “That’s because this strong growth report is objectively good news for the American people, which elected officials should support regardless of their political party.”
In the past, the White House has called out what it deemed antisemitism, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in particular has spearheaded the effort against hatred towards Jewish Americans. The rebuke of Gutfeld was particularly notable, considering it called the conservative media voice’s comments insulting to the memory of people who suffered the Holocaust.
Over the last week, Vice President Harris has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a presidential candidate, over changes his administration has made regarding the way slavery is taught in his state. She quickly traveled to Jacksonville to deliver remarks over his recent moves.
And press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has turned Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) into an almost-daily punching bag, chastising him for blocking military promotions over his opposition to the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
Democrats argue that it’s significant the White House is getting punchier and not relying on the Biden reelection campaign to do it for them.
“I think the reason why it’s so important that it comes from the White House is because Joe Biden is a president for all people, and that White House works for all people,” Seawright said. “It helps weed out some of the foolishness, because I don’t think we can afford at this moment to let false information go unchecked or go numb to bad or false information for the sake of political gain.”
Another Democratic strategist argued the White House has picked its spots well, seeking to highlight when Republicans are fixated on issues that don’t resonate with most moderate voters. The strategist pointed to the GOP’s fixation on Hunter Biden as an example of something that is unlikely to move many mainstream voters.
Democratic communications strategist Katie Grant Drew noted the window for moving legislation closes early in election cycles so it “makes sense” the White House is preparing for 2024.
“They know they’re going to have to defend against Republicans’ insatiable appetite for investigations and impeachments, and the best defense is a good offense,” said Drew, a principal at Monument Advocacy. “When top Republicans continue to spout controversial rhetoric and spend time on divisive issues that the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with, the White House is going to use those moments to illustrate to the American people how extreme today’s Republican Party has become.”
Jim Kessler, co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way, said Biden and his team are wisely both selling their own victories and highlighting Republican dysfunction.
Ultimately, though, Kessler argued the 2024 election will be decided by broader issues such as the economy, something the White House has leaned into with its recent messaging.
“This election is going to come down to the middle. The middle ideologically, the middle of the country geographically, and the middle class,” Kessler said. “These are places where Biden’s got to win.” | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ | 2023-07-30T18:47:53 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Bills are “not even close” to deciding the position battle at middle linebacker, head coach Sean McDermott said Sunday.
The battle continues between Tyrel Dodson, Terrel Bernard and Baylon Spector ahead of the team holding its first practice with pads on Monday. Since training camp began on Wednesday, it has been clear that it is an open competition for who will get the starting job.
McDermott said he does have a rough estimate of when he would like the starting job to be settled, but that has yet to happen. For now, all of them continue to gets reps with the first team.
“We want to be able to stay consistent,” McDermott said. “I think that’s important, as much as we can for as long as we can to stay consistent. After that, it’s earned. If you take advantage of the opportunities you’re given, you’ll get more.
The position is to replace Tremaine Edmunds, who signed with the Chicago Bears in free agency last spring.
The team also drafted Dorian Williams, a linebacker out of Tulane, in the third round of this year’s draft, but he has not seen any reps with the first team as of Sunday.
McDermott stressed the importance of the position and how the team will need the best player possible at the position.
“It’s command of the defense,” he said. “Knowing one’s job, being able to tell other people what their job is, when you see a bad formation, whatever it is, to get that straightened out all before the snap of the ball. The leadership piece is evaluated as well, because it’s a position that comes with a great amount of leadership in the job description.”
Whether it ends up being Dodson, Bernard or Spector, it seems to be a battle that will last throughout much of camp.
“We’re not there,” he said. “We’re not even close, still today working without pads, but really just trying to evaluate right now who has the best command and who can lead our defense.”
You can watch a full replay of Sean McDermott’s Sunday press conference in the video player above.
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KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Allen Roger Haring, the father of 1980s pop artist Keith Haring, died on July 22 at the age of 85.
According to an obituary, Allen was a 1956 Kutztown Area High School graduate and Marine Corps veteran who worked for Western Electric from 1960 to 1989. Allen earned a degree from Muhlenberg College during his career, and he served on the Maxatawny Township Planning Commission.
Allen and his wife Joan had three children, including Keith Haring, who was born in 1958 and also graduated from Kutztown Area High School.
Keith's artistic breakthrough came from his drawings in New York City subways in the early 1980s, and he later opened the Pop Shop in SoHo, Manhattan, to showcase his work. According to his father's obituary, Keith "learned to draw while sitting on Allen's lap."
Keith was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and died less than two years later of complications from the disease, at the age of 31.
Memorial services for Allen will be scheduled in the coming weeks. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/allen-haring-father-of-kutztown-pop-artist-keith-haring-dead-at-85/article_427f5802-2ef2-11ee-92ba-ff7d03ff8dd9.html | 2023-07-30T18:48:29 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/allen-haring-father-of-kutztown-pop-artist-keith-haring-dead-at-85/article_427f5802-2ef2-11ee-92ba-ff7d03ff8dd9.html |
A New Hampshire nurse and her child were kidnapped in Haiti late last week, according to the humanitarian organization El Roi Haiti.
Alix Dorsainvil works as a community health nurse for El Roi Haiti and is also married to the group's founder and director, Sandro Dorsainvil, who grew up in Port-au-Prince.
In a statement posted to its website on Saturday, El Roi Haiti said Alix and the couple's child were taken Thursday morning from the organization's campus near Port-au-Prince.
"Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family," the group said. "Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus."
El Roi Haiti is a Christian organization that operates a K-12 school for Haitian children and offers a variety of other programs, including adult education, vocational instruction and discipleship training.
Alix Dorsainvil is originally from New Hampshire, but had been living in Haiti and operating a children's clinic for El Roi Haiti, according to a promotional video on the organization's website.
"Haitians are such a resilient people. They're full of joy and life and love," she said in the video. "I'm so blessed to be able to know so many amazing Haitians."
El Roi Haiti said it was working with its "partners and trusted relationships" to get Alix and her child returned safely, and said it was "grateful for the outpouring of prayers, care, and support for our colleague."
A State Department spokesperson told NPR that the administration is aware of reports that two U.S. citizens had been kidnapped in Haiti.
"The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas," the spokesperson said.
The State Department is in regular contact with Haitian authorities, the spokesperson added, and is continuing to work with them and other U.S. government interagency partners.
Unrest in Haiti has worsened lately, with gangs controlling much of the country including the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The National Human Rights Defense Network said earlier this month that deadly violence and kidnappings have been surging in Haiti, with at least 75 people killed and 40 abducted between May and mid-July, the Associated Press reported.
In 2021, following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, kidnappers abducted a group of 17 missionaries on their way back from helping to build an orphanage. Five of the missionaries were later released, while 12 would eventually escape their captors.
On July 14, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution asking the secretary-general to provide some possible options to "enhance the security situation" in Haiti, including a possible U.N. peacekeeping force.
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SOUTH HEIDELBERG TWP., Pa. - A quick-service chain is coming soon, and another is proposed on a main thoroughfare in Berks County.
Construction on a Popeyes restaurant is underway on Lot No. 5 of the Members First Subdivision on Route 422 in South Heidelberg Township. The site is located just west of Green Valley Road, next to the recently approved Tommy’s Car Wash, according to an announcement on the township’s Facebook page.
The 2,311-square-foot eatery, with a single-lane drive-thru, is expected to open in the fall or early winter of this year.
Also, a 2,400-square-foot Starbucks is proposed on Lot No. 1 of the Members First Subdivision on Route 422/Penn Avenue.
The plan, which calls for a Starbucks with drive-thru and dine-in service, will be reviewed as part of the South Heidelberg Township Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 1.
Popeyes, known for its fried chicken, biscuits and other Southern favorites, originated in New Orleans in 1972. The chain is part of Restaurant Brands International Inc., which also owns Burger King, Tim Hortons and Firehouse Subs.
Popeyes has more than 3,700 restaurants globally, including other regional Popeyes locations on North Fifth Street Highway in Muhlenberg Township, East High Street in Pottstown, North Broad Street in Hatfield Township, South West End Boulevard in Quakertown, North Ninth Street in Stroudsburg, Hanover Avenue in Allentown, and MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township.
The region's newest Popeyes restaurant opened in late December at 1935 S. Fourth St. in Allentown, and another Popeyes restaurant with a drive-thru has been proposed at 701 N. 19th St. in Allentown.
Menu highlights include a wide array of chicken options, including nuggets, tenders, sandwiches and signature chicken boxes and meals; seafood selections such as a classic flounder fish sandwich and quarter-pound popcorn shrimp meal; and sides such as coleslaw, homestyle mac and cheese and mashed potatoes with Cajun gravy.
Coffee shop chain Starbucks, connecting with millions of customers daily in more than 80 markets, opened its first store - offering fresh-roasted coffee beans, tea and spices from around the world - in Seattle's historic Pike Place Market in 1971.
The business' name was inspired by the classic Herman Melville novel “Moby-Dick,” evoking the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. In the 1851 tale, Starbuck was the name of the first mate on the whaling ship Pequod.
Starbucks serves up a vast selection of specialty drinks, including lattes such as chestnut praline and cinnamon dolce; mochas such as peppermint and toasted white chocolate; Frappuccino blended beverages such as caramel brulee and java chip; and Starbucks Refreshers, made with fruit juice and lightly caffeinated with green coffee extract, such as pineapple passionfruit and strawberry acai.
Customers also can enjoy various food offerings, including sous vide egg bites, breakfast sandwiches and wraps, lunch sandwiches and bakery items such as bagels, brownies, croissants and danishes.
In addition to the proposed Starbucks and under-construction Popeyes, other Route 422 land development news includes a Stor4U indoor storage facility that’s been approved on Lot No. 4 (next to Popeye’s) and a Tommy’s Car Wash that’s been approved on Lot No. 3.
Construction on the 5,315-square-foot car wash is underway with a scheduled opening of fall/early winter 2023, according to the township's announcement.
Construction on the 40,000-square-foot indoor storage facility, with climate-controlled self-storage units, is currently not planned in 2023. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/construction-underway-on-popeyes-starbucks-proposed-in-south-heidelberg-twp/article_5effffb2-2efd-11ee-957e-8324f049482c.html | 2023-07-30T18:48:35 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/construction-underway-on-popeyes-starbucks-proposed-in-south-heidelberg-twp/article_5effffb2-2efd-11ee-957e-8324f049482c.html |
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. - Firefighters and police have been called to a house fire on North Courtland Street in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County.
It happened in an apartment building on the street's 200 block just after 12 p.m. Sunday. 69 News received reports of multiple units affected.
The area has been closed to traffic.
A 69 News freelance photographer at the scene heard that no injuries were reported, but officials have not yet confirmed this information. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/house-fire-on-north-courtland-street-in-east-stroudsburg/article_e7737412-2ef5-11ee-a14e-9b69dcbfac84.html | 2023-07-30T18:48:41 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/house-fire-on-north-courtland-street-in-east-stroudsburg/article_e7737412-2ef5-11ee-a14e-9b69dcbfac84.html |
The search continues for four missing crew members after an Australian Army helicopter went down during joint military exercises with the United States.
The helicopter went down around 11 p.m. Friday off of Queensland near Lindeman Island, which is a Great Barrier Reef tourist spot. Some debris believed to be from the aircraft has been recovered.
In a meeting with their Australian counterparts, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing crew members, who are all men, the Associated Press said.
"It’s always tough when you have accidents in training, but... the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis," Austin said.
Blinken said, "We’re so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they’ve been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share, and that is what unites us more than anything else."
In January, Australia announced it would discontinue the use of those MRH-90 Taipan helicopters by December 2024 because they have been plagued with issues and proven unreliable.
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POTTSVILLE, Pa. - Road work is scheduled this week along Route 209 (Market Street) in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PennDOT announced Friday.
PennDOT Maintenance Forces will be patching potholes along a nearly 2-mile stretch of Route 209 between Second and 23rd Streets from Monday, July 31, to Friday, Aug. 4. The work will be conducted between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day.
Lane restrictions could lead to delays in both directions, and drivers are advised to use caution while driving through the work zone. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/route-209-pothole-patching-scheduled-for-pottsville-this-week/article_116ebc54-2eec-11ee-8e97-3b8aa6f6c9aa.html | 2023-07-30T18:48:47 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/route-209-pothole-patching-scheduled-for-pottsville-this-week/article_116ebc54-2eec-11ee-8e97-3b8aa6f6c9aa.html |
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Police are investigating after a 13-year-old was shot in the parking lot of the Yale New Haven Hospital pediatric entrance early Sunday morning.
Officers received a ShotSpotter notification of six rounds fired in the area of Davenport Avenue shortly before 3 a.m. Shortly after, police said they were notified by Yale New Haven Hospital security about a person shot in the parking lot of the hospital's pediatric entrance.
When police arrived to the area, officers said they found four fired cartridge casings.
According to police, Yale New Haven Hospital brought the injured 13-year-old female to the pediatric emergency room. Her injuries were determined to be non-life threatening.
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Detectives reviewed video surveillance of the incident. Investigators said a silver Kia SUV and a black Hyundai Elantra appeared to be involved.
Both vehicles were found by patrol officers at the intersection of Asylum Street and Sylvan Avenue. The vehicles were found unoccupied and were running with their lights on.
Authorities said both vehicles were unreported stolen vehicles and were seized.
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The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about the shooting is encouraged to call (203) 946-6304 or use the department's anonymous tip line at 866-888-TIPS. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/13-year-old-shot-in-parking-lot-of-yale-new-haven-hospital-pediatric-entrance-police/4548890/ | 2023-07-30T18:49:16 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/13-year-old-shot-in-parking-lot-of-yale-new-haven-hospital-pediatric-entrance-police/4548890/ |
A 6-year-old girl died in Arizona in a horrific boating accident Friday after her mother accidentally struck the child with a boat propeller on Friday, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
A group of 12 people made up of two families were on a boat since 7 a.m. on Lake Pleasant. At 11 a.m. one of the families called 911 to report their young daughter had been hit by the boat’s propeller.
"Witnesses at the scene confirmed that the child’s mother was operating the boat when she began to drive and, unbeknownst to the family, the child had somehow entered the water," the sheriff's office said in a news release. "The father of the child was in the water holding onto a wakeboard when he noticed someone in the water and swam to the child."
Read the full story on NBCNews.com here.
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A federal lawsuit was filed against Delta Air Lines last week accusing flight attendants of failing to intervene after a male passenger was allegedly served at least 10 alcoholic drinks and then groped a mother and her 16-year-old daughter, according to the filing.
The plaintiff in the suit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday, is only identified as the parent of the teenager. According to the filing, the girl and her mother were traveling to Athens, Greece, from New York City on a nearly nine-hour flight last year when the incident allegedly occurred.
A woman who was assigned the seat next to the teen, who was in the middle, switched with an unidentified man in order to sit next to her husband, the suit said. The family is referred to by initials throughout the lawsuit, with "N.A." referencing the girl while her mother is identified by "A.A."
Before the plane even departed, the man allegedly asked the flight attendant for a "vodka on the rocks."
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"Over the first three hours of the flight, the Delta flight attendants served the intoxicated Delta passenger approximately ten vodka on ice drinks," the suit said.
Read the full story on NBCNews.com here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/family-accuses-delta-of-negligence-after-drunk-passenger-allegedly-groped-mom-and-her-teen-daughter-on-a-9-hour-flight/4548981/ | 2023-07-30T18:49:28 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/family-accuses-delta-of-negligence-after-drunk-passenger-allegedly-groped-mom-and-her-teen-daughter-on-a-9-hour-flight/4548981/ |
Thousands remain without power and roads are closed Sunday after a powerful storm moved through the D.C. area Saturday.
A Virginia man was killed when a tree crashed down on his home during the storms.
The 43-year-old victim's wife said he was showering in their Dumfries home when the tree fell at about 5:30 p.m.
Prince William County police said they are investigating the cause of death.
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A large tree fell on a car in the 2900 block of Foxhall Road NW in D.C., injuring two people. One is in serious condition, the other has minor injuries.
The collapsed treed smashed in a Mazda’s windshield and covered it with leaves and branches.
A neighbor said it was the worst storm he has seen in the area in 18 years.
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“You can’t take 21st-century living for granted. I mean it’s, mother nature rules whether its sun, heat or snow,” the neighbor said. “And again, mother nature came through with a ferocious storm.”
Thousands lose power
The cold front that moved in Saturday to offer relief from three days of extreme heat and humidity interacted with that heat and humidity to create powerful storms that left more than 200,000 customers without power in D.C., Maryland and Virginia at one point.
As of about 8 a.m. Sunday, Pepco was reporting more than 17,000 customers were still without power. Dominion was reporting almost 30,000 customers still in the dark. BGE reported more than 10,000, SMECO reported more than 11,000, and MonPower reported about 200.
Downed trees cause damage across the region
There were numerous reports of fallen trees and branches. Several roads remained blocked by trees as of Sunday morning.
A tree fell on an apartment building in the 1200 block of Queen Street NE in D.C. Firefighters are checking for structural damage and evacuating residents. No injuries were reported.
Many trees fell across the George Washington Memorial Parkway, the National Park Service said. It is closed from Spout Run Parkway to the Beltway as crews remove trees and will remain closed Sunday until an assessment is complete.
NPS also reported that numerous trees fell across the Clara Barton Parkway in Maryland.
In the 3200 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW, the roof of a 31-unit apartment building was torn off during the storms. Residents were evacuated, and no one was injured.
After the storms whipped through, the National Zoo announced it will be closed Sunday for clean up.
A video captured by Storm Team4's Ryan Miller shows an electrical fire caused by downed tree limbs and power lines on Foxhall Road and Garfield Street NW. In the video, the lines can be heard buzzing as the fire burns above the street.
Storm damage recovery
The D.C. area began storm cleanup on Sunday with clear weather. Temperatures were cooler with highs only reaching the mid-80s and a steady drop in humidity during the afternoon.
People carefully moved around a tree that fell across a lane in the 3800 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW. Chainsaws whirred while people cleared fallen branches.
Nearby Annunciation Catholic Church continued services without electricity. One of its members said it was divine intervention that protected the church from falling tree limbs.
“That huge limb off of the tree could have landed on that beautiful church. And, I come here early Sunday mornings, I go ahead and get the church ready for mass, we have no electricity, we couldn't make coffee, so we had to get coffee from another firm," church member Joe Fiorillo said. "And people showed up, about the same amount of people that normally come to eight o'clock mass were here today."
The D.C. Office of Unified Communications tweeted they had received more than 125 reports of downed trees as of 10:45 p.m. on Saturday.
DC Fire and EMS tweeted that they responded to 317 storm-related calls between 5 and 8:45 p.m. on Saturday.
Extreme storms on the East Coast followed a national heatwave that has swept from west to east in July. On Thursday, 60% of the U.S., or 200 million people, were placed under a heat advisory or flood warning or watch, according to the National Weather Service. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/severe-thunderstorms-tear-through-the-dmv/4548902/ | 2023-07-30T18:49:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/severe-thunderstorms-tear-through-the-dmv/4548902/ |
Defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen enters the mid-season break in unstoppable form, after emphatically winning the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday for an eighth straight win and 10th overall of a crushingly dominant season.
Despite starting from sixth place he finished 22.3 seconds ahead of teammate Sergio Perez to give Red Bull an easy 1-2. It moved Verstappen ominously closer to a third straight world title and his own F1 record of 15 wins from last year.
Verstappen is 125 points ahead of Perez after just 12 races, and his next target is matching Sebastian Vettel’s F1 record of nine straight wins with a victory at the Dutch GP when the lopsided season resumes on Aug. 27.
“I just want to have a nice time now, have a bit of time with family and friends,” Verstappen said.
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc finished in third spot for a third podium of the season, with Lewis Hamilton in fourth for Mercedes ahead of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.
George Russell was sixth for Mercedes, with Lando Norris (McLaren), Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), and Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) completing the top 10.
Leclerc started on pole ahead of Perez, with Hamilton and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. behind them. McLaren rookie Oscar Piastri was on the next row alongside Verstappen — who was fastest in Friday's qualifying but took a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change and had to avoid early traffic.
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“It was just about surviving turn one. I could see it was all getting really tight,” Verstappen said. “I’ve been in that position before myself so I am just going to stay out of that and it worked out. From there onwards I made the right overtakes.”
Last year Verstappen won from 14th, and once he overtook Perez on Lap 17 of 44 his 45th career win was seemingly inevitable.
“Really enjoyable to drive once I got in the lead,” Verstappen said. “It was again a great race.“
Red Bull extended its record to 13 straight wins, including the final race of last season.
Hamilton came in on the penultimate lap for a tire change and the move paid off as he took the bonus point for fastest lap from Verstappen — a very minor blip for the dominant Dutchman.
It was yet another stellar weekend for Verstappen, who also won Saturday’s sprint race. The only issue was some more bickering with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase over radio, as they continued their spat from Friday’s qualifying.
“Don’t forget Max, use your head, please,” Lambiase told Verstappen when he questioned why Perez was making his first tire change on Lap 14.
Verstappen defused any talk of tension with Lambiase.
“It’s fine. We know each other very well and we have a very good relationship,” he said. “I think it’s really important."
With some rain forecast, Verstappen boxed on the next lap and came out about 2 seconds behind Perez. Just minutes later he cruised past Perez and, as so often this season, the rest was just about control.
Perez, meanwhile, pledged to stay on the podium for the rest of the season.
“It’s been a bit of a rough patch," the 33-year-old Mexican said. "I really need this summer break, it’s been really intense. I’ll come back really strong for Zandvoort.”
Conditions were dry for the race start, in stark contrast to the two previous days, which were impacted by heavy rain at the 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
Leclerc, who won his first F1 race here in 2019, made a solid start but Perez’s extra pace soon put him in front.
“I knew it was quite crucial for my race to get Charles on Lap 1,” Perez said.
Verstappen rose two places to fourth after Sainz bumped into Piastri on the first corner.
Piastri had to retire, while Verstappen overtook Hamilton on Lap 6, Leclerc three laps later and made short work of Perez just before some rain fell briefly.
Some good overtaking from Ocon moved the Frenchman up from 10th to eighth in the closing stages.
It was an early end for Piastri, who had impressed with a second place in Saturday’s sprint race.
A bad day for Sainz saw him retiring on Lap 25 and Leclerc moving above him in the standings.
“Of course the race was good on my side, a shame for Carlos as we had good pace,” Leclerc said. "When you look at the Red Bulls we still have a lot of work to do ... This was the best we could achieve today, no doubt.”
After the F1 break there will be 10 races left, but most of the competition for places will be behind Verstappen.
Alonso is one point ahead of Hamilton in third overall, with Leclerc and Russell level and Sainz seven points behind them. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/max-verstappen-enters-f1-summer-break-with-massive-lead-after-8th-straight-win/4548947/ | 2023-07-30T18:49:41 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/max-verstappen-enters-f1-summer-break-with-massive-lead-after-8th-straight-win/4548947/ |
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1 dead, 2 injured during southern Arizona street racing incident
SUMMIT, Ariz. - The Pima County Sheriff's Office is investigating after three people were shot during a street racing incident early Sunday morning.
Deputies say they were originally responding to a report of street racing near Nogales Highway and Aerospace Parkway in Summit at around 2:30 a.m. when they started hearing that someone had been shot.
By the time first responders arrived, one person had already died from their injuries. Two other people were found with gunshot wounds and are in life-threatening condition.
The sheriff's office originally called it "a major incident involving street racing/takeovers."
The identities of the victims have not been released at this time, and it is unclear if any suspects have been identified.
Anyone who knows anything about the case is asked to call 911 or to submit an anonymous tip by calling 520-822-7463 or visiting https://88crime.org/.
The shooting happened about 12 miles south of Tucson.
Where it happened: | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/1-dead-2-injured-in-southern-arizona-street-racing-incident | 2023-07-30T18:50:56 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/1-dead-2-injured-in-southern-arizona-street-racing-incident |
Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be charged over ‘harmful’ materials
Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids. The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1.
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A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock had challenged the law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer carry titles that could be challenged.
The judge also rejected a motion by the defendants, which include prosecuting attorneys for the state, seeking to dismiss the case.
The ACLU of Arkansas, which represents some of the plaintiffs, applauded the court's ruling, saying that the absence of a preliminary injunction would have jeopardized First Amendment rights.
"The question we had to ask was — do Arkansans still legally have access to reading materials? Luckily, the judicial system has once again defended our highly valued liberties," Holly Dickson, the executive director of the ACLU in Arkansas, said in a statement.
(Photo by JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images).
The lawsuit comes as lawmakers in an increasing number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books. The number of attempts to ban or restrict books across the U.S. last year was the highest in the 20 years the American Library Association has been tracking such efforts.
Laws restricting access to certain materials or making it easier to challenge them have been enacted in several other states, including Iowa, Indiana and Texas.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said in an email Saturday that his office would be "reviewing the judge’s opinion and will continue to vigorously defend the law."
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The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge's 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.
"As folks in southwest Arkansas say, this order is stout as horseradish!" he said in an email.
"I’m relieved that for now the dark cloud that was hanging over CALS’ librarians has lifted," he added.
Cheryl Davis, general counsel for the Authors Guild, said the organization is "thrilled" about the decision. She said enforcing this law "is likely to limit the free speech rights of older minors, who are capable of reading and processing more complex reading materials than young children can."
The Arkansas lawsuit names the state’s 28 local prosecutors as defendants, along with Crawford County in west Arkansas. A separate lawsuit is challenging the Crawford County library’s decision to move children’s books that included LGBTQ+ themes to a separate portion of the library.
The plaintiffs challenging Arkansas’ restrictions also include the Fayetteville and Eureka Springs Carnegie public libraries, the American Booksellers Association and the Association of American Publishers. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arkansas-law-librarians-charged-harmful-material-blocked-judge | 2023-07-30T18:51:02 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arkansas-law-librarians-charged-harmful-material-blocked-judge |
(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
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GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
“Actually, we can’t build enough Bolts right now,” Barra said to Wolfe Research analyst Rod Lache. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:07 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ |
A New Hampshire nurse and her child were kidnapped in Haiti late last week, according to the humanitarian organization El Roi Haiti.
Alix Dorsainvil works as a community health nurse for El Roi Haiti and is also married to the group's founder and director, Sandro Dorsainvil, who grew up in Port-au-Prince.
In a statement posted to its website on Saturday, El Roi Haiti said Alix and the couple's child were taken Thursday morning from the organization's campus near Port-au-Prince.
"Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family," the group said. "Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus."
El Roi Haiti is a Christian organization that operates a K-12 school for Haitian children and offers a variety of other programs, including adult education, vocational instruction and discipleship training.
Alix Dorsainvil is originally from New Hampshire, but had been living in Haiti and operating a children's clinic for El Roi Haiti, according to a promotional video on the organization's website.
"Haitians are such a resilient people. They're full of joy and life and love," she said in the video. "I'm so blessed to be able to know so many amazing Haitians."
El Roi Haiti said it was working with its "partners and trusted relationships" to get Alix and her child returned safely, and said it was "grateful for the outpouring of prayers, care, and support for our colleague."
A State Department spokesperson told NPR that the administration is aware of reports that two U.S. citizens had been kidnapped in Haiti.
"The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas," the spokesperson said.
The State Department is in regular contact with Haitian authorities, the spokesperson added, and is continuing to work with them and other U.S. government interagency partners.
Unrest in Haiti has worsened lately, with gangs controlling much of the country including the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The National Human Rights Defense Network said earlier this month that deadly violence and kidnappings have been surging in Haiti, with at least 75 people killed and 40 abducted between May and mid-July, the Associated Press reported.
In 2021, following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, kidnappers abducted a group of 17 missionaries on their way back from helping to build an orphanage. Five of the missionaries were later released, while 12 would eventually escape their captors.
On July 14, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution asking the secretary-general to provide some possible options to "enhance the security situation" in Haiti, including a possible U.N. peacekeeping force.
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Despite end to Rio Verde water battle, one donkey sanctuary is struggling: 'It's just the worst'
RIO VERDE, Ariz. - While a long-fought battle over water in Rio Verde appears to be over for now, one nonprofit is still being forced to cut back operations because they don't have enough.
"We get about 800 gallons a week from [this well] and it really helps supplement things," said Rosemary Carroll, who runs the Hangry Donkey Sanctuary.
But it's not easy. The water from the well at the sanctuary comes out like chocolate milk, and it takes days to clean.
"It is a lot of work, and it's not like I needed more work to do," Carroll said.
Gov. Katie Hobbs signed off on a bill that would create a new standpipe water district in the area and facilitate the water sale from Scottsdale to Rio Verde, bringing an end to the fight over the precious natural resource.
But Carroll isn't seeing immediate relief. Every day, the quality of the water gets worse.
"It's really dying off, and that's a little disheartening," she said.
The real source of water for the 20 donkeys here comes from water haulers. It's how most in the Rio Verde Foothills have gotten by since Scottsdale turned off the water at the start of the year.
"My bills last year were about $500 a month, now it's $1,500," said Carroll.
As a short-term and long-term solution is in the works, she says she'd had to hold off on accepting new donkeys. They take in neglected or abused donkeys and care for them.
At their peak, they had 28. Now, they max out at 20.
"I get calls multiple times a week for a donkey in trouble, and I just can't do it," Carroll said. "We don't have water."
She hopes they'll be able to get by before short-term water comes. In the meantime, every day gets harder.
"It keeps me up at night," she said. "It's just the worst."
Learn more about the sanctuary and how you can volunteer: https://www.thehangrydonkey.com/ | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/despite-end-to-rio-verde-water-battle-one-donkey-sanctuary-is-struggling-its-just-the-worst | 2023-07-30T18:51:08 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/despite-end-to-rio-verde-water-battle-one-donkey-sanctuary-is-struggling-its-just-the-worst |
Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/entertainment-news/consumer-demand-for-speed-and-convenience-drives-labor-unrest-among-workers-in-hollywood-and-at-ups/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:13 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/entertainment-news/consumer-demand-for-speed-and-convenience-drives-labor-unrest-among-workers-in-hollywood-and-at-ups/ |
Florida women arrested after fight in which woman's ear was bitten off
Two women were arrested in connection with a July 4 fight that resulted in one of them biting part of the other's ear off, Florida authorities said.
Dixie Stiles, 18, was charged with battery – touch or strike – and Macy Regan, 23, has been charged with felony battery causing bodily harm, the Bay County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.
Deputies encountered the pair when they responded to an assault and battery call at 6530 Olokee St. in Callaway. An investigation revealed there was an unsupervised house party being thrown at nearby 6526 Olokee St. by minors, authorities said.
Just after midnight, a fight happened involving several men in a yard at the 6526 residence.
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Regan was trying to leave to walk to her home at the 6530 address when she was confronted by Stiles, who accused her of stealing alcohol and vape pens, deputies said.
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At some point, Regan allegedly pulled out a 9mm handgun from her waistband. Stiles shoved the firearm away and a fight ensued.
During the fight, Regan bit off the top of Stiles' ear, authorities said.
The ear was unable to be reattached. Multiple bruises and lacerations were also inflicted during the fight, the sheriff's office said. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/florida-women-fight-womans-ear-bitten-off | 2023-07-30T18:51:14 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/florida-women-fight-womans-ear-bitten-off |
Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot
NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Barbie,” the pink-infused pop sensation, has seen remarkably sustained business following its year-best $162 million opening. Its ticket sales dipped only 43%.
“Barbie” has also outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to notch the best first two weeks in theaters of any Warner Bros. release. It’s rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie” has made at least $20 million.
“Oppenheimer,” from Universal Pictures, again landed in second place with an estimated $46.2 million. It, too, held especially strong in its second weekend, with sales decreasing just 44%. Nolan’s three-hour drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million thus far.
With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to a film industry still recovering ground it lost during the pandemic, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. Its domestic total stands at $139.2 million.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
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The Biden White House has tried to present itself as being above the fray of day-to-day squabbles, but increasingly, it’s jumping in, bashing the GOP and other critics at every opportunity.
The administration didn’t miss a chance this week to hammer Republicans over Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) floating that the House would move towards an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. They were quick with memos and statements to criticize the GOP attacks as a “clown carousel” and the idea of pursuing impeachment as “baseless.”
And the White House issued a scathing rebuke of Fox New host Greg Gutfeld, who said that Jews captured and tortured during the Holocaust survived by having skills and being useful, calling out his comments as a “dangerous, extreme lie.”
The new levels of punchy rhetoric preview the White House messaging strategy going into 2024, which is to fight back and call out what they consider extreme.
It’s a shift from their previous attitude, which was to let what they considered to be Republican chaos speak for itself.
“The cost is too expensive, both short and long term, to let them operate in a vacuum without showing that one, we know how to fight; two, that we will fight; three, we fight with facts and not with some flaming lies of information,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist.
Early in Biden’s presidency, the White House was careful not to weigh in on controversial comments from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), hoping to avoid elevating her words and giving the far-right congresswoman more of a platform.
When McCarthy was struggling in January to get enough votes to be Speaker of the House, they sat back and watched it unfold.
Biden gently knocked the vote series at the time, saying, “It’s a little embarrassing it’s taking so long,” but also added, “that’s not my problem.” The White House had also insisted that Biden would not “insert himself” into the election, which ended up taking 15 ballots for McCarthy to finally clench enough votes.
But this week, when the Speaker signaled that the House could move forward with an impeachment inquiry, the White House came out with multiple statements and highlighted quotes from fellow Republicans in his conference pushing back on the idea.
It also released a memo about Republicans’ slams against the president overall, reflecting the Biden argument that the GOP is stepping up attacks on Hunter Biden and talk of impeachment because the economy is getting stronger and is now a less effective avenue for attack.
Hunter Biden appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement.
The White House this week touted “Bidenomics” after gross domestic product (GDP) numbers showed surprisingly strong economic growth. It rebuked GOP lawmakers for not embracing the data, pointing to Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone, who said Thursday, “There goes that recession talk, right?”
“Even Fox Business is welcoming today’s blockbuster economic growth numbers, the latest in a long line of proof points that Bidenomics is delivering for middle class families,” spokesman Andrew Bates said in a memo. “That’s because this strong growth report is objectively good news for the American people, which elected officials should support regardless of their political party.”
In the past, the White House has called out what it deemed antisemitism, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in particular has spearheaded the effort against hatred towards Jewish Americans. The rebuke of Gutfeld was particularly notable, considering it called the conservative media voice’s comments insulting to the memory of people who suffered the Holocaust.
Over the last week, Vice President Harris has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a presidential candidate, over changes his administration has made regarding the way slavery is taught in his state. She quickly traveled to Jacksonville to deliver remarks over his recent moves.
And press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has turned Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) into an almost-daily punching bag, chastising him for blocking military promotions over his opposition to the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
Democrats argue that it’s significant the White House is getting punchier and not relying on the Biden reelection campaign to do it for them.
“I think the reason why it’s so important that it comes from the White House is because Joe Biden is a president for all people, and that White House works for all people,” Seawright said. “It helps weed out some of the foolishness, because I don’t think we can afford at this moment to let false information go unchecked or go numb to bad or false information for the sake of political gain.”
Another Democratic strategist argued the White House has picked its spots well, seeking to highlight when Republicans are fixated on issues that don’t resonate with most moderate voters. The strategist pointed to the GOP’s fixation on Hunter Biden as an example of something that is unlikely to move many mainstream voters.
Democratic communications strategist Katie Grant Drew noted the window for moving legislation closes early in election cycles so it “makes sense” the White House is preparing for 2024.
“They know they’re going to have to defend against Republicans’ insatiable appetite for investigations and impeachments, and the best defense is a good offense,” said Drew, a principal at Monument Advocacy. “When top Republicans continue to spout controversial rhetoric and spend time on divisive issues that the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with, the White House is going to use those moments to illustrate to the American people how extreme today’s Republican Party has become.”
Jim Kessler, co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way, said Biden and his team are wisely both selling their own victories and highlighting Republican dysfunction.
Ultimately, though, Kessler argued the 2024 election will be decided by broader issues such as the economy, something the White House has leaned into with its recent messaging.
“This election is going to come down to the middle. The middle ideologically, the middle of the country geographically, and the middle class,” Kessler said. “These are places where Biden’s got to win.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:19 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ |
'King Otis' fans rejoice: Famed brown bear returns to Alaska live cam
One of Alaska’s most famous brown bears had his fans worried this year, but the celebrity King Otis has returned to Katmai National Park, albeit fashionably late.
Otis, or Bear 480, is one of the most popular bears to watch on Explore.org’s live bear cam, which shows real-time footage of Katmai’s brown bears hunting for salmon in the Brooks River from June - September.
Brown bears fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls on September 16, 2018 in Katmai National Park, Alaska. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)
The park is home to about 2,200 brown bears – more than the human population on the Alaska Peninsula, according to the National Park Service.
At nearly 30 years old, Otis has become a legend of the annual salmon hunt. But his fans around the globe grew concerned as they watched the cams in June and didn’t see their beloved chunky bear.
That changed this week. On Wednesday, July 26, Explore.org shared on Twitter that Otis had returned.
"At his preferred fishing spots, Otis waits for salmon to come to him," Explore.org explains. "He once ate 42 salmon in a sitting by using this strategy. Despite the difficulties and rigors of old age, Otis uses his adaptability, skill, and patience to find success."
Park officials said there’s a reason for Otis’s tardiness this year: the salmon were late, too.
"What we’ve been seeing in Alaska is that the salmon run has been trending later into July, which means for bears like Otis waiting longer to eat that salmon," Candice Rusch, a spokesperson with Explore.org, told The Washington Post.
Otis is perhaps best known for his multiple championship titles for Fat Bear Week – the annual October March-madness style bracket that lets the public decide which bear they think is the fattest and most ready for winter hibernation.
Otis is a four-time winner of the competition, which takes place in October. Details of this year’s Fat Bear Week have not yet been announced. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/king-otis-fans-rejoice-famed-brown-bear-returns-alaska-live-cam | 2023-07-30T18:51:20 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/king-otis-fans-rejoice-famed-brown-bear-returns-alaska-live-cam |
WATCH: Officers pull unconscious man from burning car
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (CNN) – Dramatic video out of Texas caught the moment officers pulled a man from a burning car.
Police in White Settlement, Texas, said they responded to a report of a car hitting a pole early Saturday morning.
The responding officers found two people in the car.
The driver was able to get out safely, but a male passenger was unconscious and unable to get out.
Officers quickly pulled the man from the burning car until medics could arrive.
The driver and passenger were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself at a crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to appear as traffic buzzes by. And even though you press the crosswalk button – maybe multiple times – it seems to take forever for the light to change in your favor.
While some slow-changing stop lights just need you to tell them you’re there, some crosswalk signals don’t care how many times you press the crosswalk button – it’ll change when it’s ready.
Let’s explain.
It’s not exactly clear when and where the first walk/don’t walk signs were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Records show it likely occurred in the 1930s, and they were much like they are today.
“When it was on, all traffic approaching the intersection stopped so pedestrians could cross the streets in all directions, including diagonally,” the DOT writes. One early system gave pedestrians 20 seconds to cross the street every 100 seconds. Another gave pedestrians the walk signal while traffic moving in the same direction had a green light.
About three decades later, crosswalk buttons began appearing. They were intended to allow vehicle traffic to continue moving smoothly until a pedestrian came along rather than frequently stopping traffic for nobody.
Today, many of those buttons are useless.
In Austin, Texas, for example, most of the downtown intersections have walk indicators that are part of the normal traffic cycle, the city’s Transportation and Public Works Department told Nexstar. This means pedestrians don’t have to push a button at all (however, outside of downtown Austin, almost all signals do have buttons).
In San Francisco, there are 1,286 traffic signals operated by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency, 610 of which have a version of a pedestrian push button, a spokesperson told Nexstar.
At just 264 of those, pedestrians need to press a button to get a ‘walk’ signal to cross some or all of the streets at the intersection. San Francisco has 490 signals with Accessible Pedestrian Signal buttons – which verbally tell pedestrians what streets they’re on and when to cross – at 143 intersections, those buttons are also used to activate a walk signal at some or all of the crosswalks, a spokesperson explains.
Few work in Boston as well, where city officials told the Boston Globe there is too much vehicular and foot traffic to let one person influence the whole traffic light setup. Only about 100 of the roughly 1,000 pedestrian buttons in New York City work, according to reports. High costs of removing some of the non-working buttons prompted city officials to leave them in place, The New York Times reported, prompting many to find themselves pushing a useless button.
In addition to the impacts the buttons can have on interrupting traffic, some cities have cited their required maintenance when opting to abandon them.
Crosswalk signals that are actuated, meaning they are triggered by a pedestrian hitting the button or loop detectors, generally require more upkeep, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Still, actuated signals could be beneficial “where vehicle and pedestrian volumes vary considerably throughout the day.”
While some cities may leave you confused about whether the crosswalk button actually works, San Francisco has placed signs at intersections that require you to hit the button.
Unless you’re instructed not to push the crosswalk button, it’s likely in your favor to press the button to get the ‘walk’ signal. If you find yourself waiting for an extended period of time, you can cross the street when safe to do so. You can also report a walk signal that should be functioning but isn’t to your city, sometimes by calling 311 if your community uses that number. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:25 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ |
Video shows Cardi B throw mic at woman who hurled drink at her
LAS VEGAS - Rapper Cardi B became the latest performer to have something thrown at her while performing this weekend, but the rapper quickly retaliated.
Cardi B was performing at Drai’s Beach Club in Las Vegas Saturday when a woman in the crowd appeared to throw a drink in Cardi’s face, social media video shows. Cardi B shared the video on her Twitter page.
A visibly angry Cardi B immediately threw her microphone at the woman, appearing to strike her in the arm. Security guards circled the woman and escorted her out of the crowd.
The incident is the latest in a disturbing trend of artists getting hit with objects on stage.
It started in June when Rexha was hit in the face with a cellphone while onstage and had to get stitches. A man in the crowd was arrested. Harry Styles and Ballerini have also been hit with objects on stage, and Pink had a bag with an unknown substance in it thrown on stage while she performed.
Adele addressed the issue at one of her recent shows, warning her concert-goers that "I’ll f—ing" kill you" if they threw something at the stage.
READ MORE: Tim McGraw reveals the one thing he won’t do at his concerts: ‘I'm scared to death’
"Have you noticed how people are like forgetting f---ing show etiquette at the moment because [they're] throwing s--- on stage? Have you seen them," Adele told her Caesars Palace audience.
"I f---ing dare you. Dare you throw something at me and I'll f---ing kill you," she said.
Cardi B, a New York City native whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, has been open about her hot temper. She’s rapped about her anger issues in the past, and in 2018, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from fights at a strip club. Ten other counts, including two felonies, were dismissed.
Offset and Cardi B backstage during the Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash 2023 at State Farm Arena on June 17, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)
According to prosecutors, Cardi B and her entourage were targeting employees of Angels Strip Club in Flushing, Queens, over an apparent personal dispute. In one fight, chairs, bottles and hookah pipes were thrown as the group argued with a bartender. She and another employee had minor injuries.
The plea deal required her to perform 15 days of community service to avoid a 15-day jail sentence.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles meet Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees on Sunday at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 14th in MLB action with 122 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .417 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in baseball.
- The Orioles have the 17th-ranked batting average in the majors (.248).
- Baltimore has the No. 11 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.8 runs per game (502 total runs).
- The Orioles are 19th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .316.
- The Orioles' 8.3 strikeouts per game rank 11th in baseball.
- The nine strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Baltimore's pitching staff ranks 11th in the majors.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.19).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.302).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank sixth in Major League Baseball with 144 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .404 this season.
- The Yankees rank 29th in MLB with a team batting average of just .230.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 454 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .302 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees have shown patience at the plate this season with the seventh-best rate of strikeouts per game (8.1) among MLB offenses.
- New York averages the 13th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the majors this season.
- New York pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.86 ERA this year, fifth-best in baseball.
- The Yankees have a combined WHIP of just 1.239 as a pitching staff, which is the fifth-best in baseball this season.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Dean Kremer makes the start for the Orioles, his 22nd of the season. He is 10-4 with a 4.59 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 115 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, when the righty went seven innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing three hits.
- Kremer is trying to record his 11th quality start of the year.
- Kremer will look to secure his 18th matchup of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- In two of his appearances this season he did not allow an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- Luis Severino (2-4) will take the mound for the Yankees, his 12th start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Sunday, July 23, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed eight hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- In 11 starts this season, he's earned three quality starts.
- Severino has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished one appearance without allowing an earned run in 11 chances this season.
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Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM CDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:31 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
All-Star rookie Corbin Carroll uses his speed to help the Diamondbacks beat the Mariners 4-3
PHOENIX (AP) - Rookie sensation Corbin Carroll is among the National League's leaders in homers, triples and stolen bases.
If there was a category for being a big ol' pain in the rear end on the basepaths, he'd be right near the top of that leaderboard as well.
Carroll started an eighth-inning rally with some distracting base running, Dominic Canzone brought his fellow rookie home with a single for the go-ahead run and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 on Saturday night.
Carroll started the decisive rally in the eighth with a walk off reliever Andrés Muñoz. The All-Star then advanced to second on a balk by Muñoz (2-4) and stole third against the flat-footed Mariners infield a few pitches later. Seattle pulled its infield in with one out before Canzone delivered a chopper that bounced through to break the 3-all tie.
"It's just a classic case of being prepped and being ready," D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said about Carroll's aggressive baserunning. "He's capable of doing that against any pitcher at any time. It was the difference in the game."
Carroll has 32 stolen bases and 21 homers this season, consistently causing problems for opposing teams with his power-speed combo. Canzone had two RBI singles, coming through with his clutch hit in the eighth in just his 14th big league game.
"I was just trying to hit anything hard and maybe get a little lucky," Canzone said. "And I did get a little lucky."
It was a much-needed win for the D-backs, who are still just 7-15 in July.
The Mariners had their three-game winning streak snapped. Seattle was trying to jump to four games above .500 this season, but couldn't get it done after going 0 for 11 at the plate with runners in scoring position.
Seattle had a great chance to score in the ninth after a one-out triple by Cade Marlowe, but José Caballero whiffed for the second out. J.P. Crawford then walked before Scott McGough struck out All-Star Julio Rodríguez to end the game.
"We've been having quality at-bats the past few days," Crawford said. "Today, we just couldn't get them in. It was just one of those days."
Seattle scored twice on sacrifice flies before Tom Murphy's solo homer to left made it 3-0 in the fourth. Murphy has been on a recent tear, with extra-base hits in four straight games. He also has seven homers in his past 20 games.
But the D-backs quickly clawed back, scoring two runs in the fourth and then tying the game in the fifth on Carson Kelly’s RBI single.
"You've got to figure out a way to win these games," Mariners manager Scott Servais said. "We were right in there, doing a lot of good things offensively. Just the big hit late — we weren't able to do it tonight."
Arizona rookie right-hander Brandon Pfaadt gave up three runs on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings, striking out three and walking one. Pfaadt's had two encouraging starts in a row after a rough start to his big league career.
"I think it went super well," Pfaadt said. "We built on our last start. There were a lot of positives to take out of it."
The D-backs bullpen of Kyle Nelson, Miguel Castro, Kevin Ginkel (4-0), Andrew Chafin and McGough combined to throw 3 1/3 scoreless innings.
Seattle righty Bryan Woo gave up three runs on seven hits over five innings, walking two.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Diamondbacks: 3B Evan Longoria was placed on the 10-day injured list with a strained lower back. IF Josh Rojas was called up from Triple-A to take his spot.
UP NEXT
The three-game series concludes Sunday. The Diamondbacks will send RHP Merrill Kelly (9-4, 3.12 ERA) to the mound, while the Mariners counter with RHP Luis Castillo (6-7, 3.02 ERA) | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/all-star-rookie-corbin-carroll-uses-his-speed-to-help-the-diamondbacks-beat-the-mariners-4-3 | 2023-07-30T18:51:32 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/all-star-rookie-corbin-carroll-uses-his-speed-to-help-the-diamondbacks-beat-the-mariners-4-3 |
An online fundraiser has garnered nearly $8,000 from more than 100 donations in support of a mother who died in a car crash Thursday in Salem County.
Ashley Knuth-Formato, 36, of Upper Deerfield, was driving on Mannington-Yorktown Road in Mannington Thursday morning when her truck collided with another truck at the intersection with Alloway-Woodstown Road, a New Jersey State Police spokesman said.
Knuth-Formato died in the crash, officials said. David Mitchell, 42, of Woodstown, was driving the other truck and was also killed.
Kaitlyn Crump, a friend of Knuth-Formato, started the fundraiser to help her family.
Knuth-Formato has “left behind a hurting family & a barn full of critters,” Crump said in the fundraiser description.
The mother owned an equestrian academy, Posie’s Pastures, in Upper Deerfield. She named the academy after her daughter, whose nickname is Posie.
“If you knew Ashley, you knew you were loved. If you knew Ashley, you knew you were so important (and) cherished in her eyes,” Crump said. “One of the most giving & generous souls left us way too soon.”
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WATCH: Officers pull unconscious man from burning car
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (CNN) – Dramatic video out of Texas caught the moment officers pulled a man from a burning car.
Police in White Settlement, Texas, said they responded to a report of a car hitting a pole early Saturday morning.
The responding officers found two people in the car.
The driver was able to get out safely, but a male passenger was unconscious and unable to get out.
Officers quickly pulled the man from the burning car until medics could arrive.
The driver and passenger were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) and New York Yankees (55-49) squaring off at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so it should be a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Orioles will give the nod to Dean Kremer (10-4, 4.59 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 11 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Luis Severino (2-4, 6.46 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 47 games, or 70.2%, in which they've been favored.
- Baltimore has a record of 24-9, a 72.7% win rate, when favored by -135 or more by bookmakers this season.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Orioles have a 57.4% chance to win.
- Baltimore ranks 11th in the majors with 502 total runs scored this season.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have played as the underdog in three of their past 10 games and have gone 1-2 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Yankees' previous 10 games have not had a spread set by bookmakers.
- The Yankees have come away with 13 wins in the 31 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 8-8 when favored by +115 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An accused murderer in Las Vegas is also accused of living with the body for two months, believing the female victim could come back from the dead, police said Friday.
Officers took George Bone, 31, into custody Wednesday after discovering Beverly Ma’s body during a welfare check in the 5300 block of Railroad River Avenue near Lindell Road and Eldorado Lane, they said.
Bone told officers he knew Ma was dead and what caused her death and based on those statements, police took Bone into custody, Lt. Jason Johansson said Wednesday. Police suspect Bone strangled Ma in May, documents said.
On Wednesday, police received a 911 call from a family member who said Bone had told her Ma “was in the closet and had been there for two months,” documents said. Police found Ma’s body in the closet shortly after.
A family member told police Ma and Bone were friends and that she was not close with family, documents said. Police said Ma and Bone met in high school and moved in with each other last summer.
A witness told police they entered the home on Wednesday after seeing an unusually high air conditioning bill, police said. Bone led her upstairs to the body, documents said.
“She noticed a cooler against the bedroom closet door and the bottom of the door had a towel, which covered the gap,” police said. “George told her that she can open it and see.”
Bone told police Ma had died sometime in May, police said. On May 4, dispatchers received a 911 call from Ma and heard a man and woman screaming at each other, they said. Police responded that day and knocked on the door but no one answered, they said. Investigators suspect Ma died that day.
“Bone went about living at the house with Beverly deceased in the upstairs closet for the next two months and began ordering several items on Beverly’s Amazon account using her funds for his own gain,” police said. “When asked why he didn’t call for help, Bone’s response was ‘I was afraid of going back to jail… for being found with a dead body.” Bone admitted that his behavior since the death of Beverly Ma was ‘not normal.’ When asked why he placed a cooler in the master bedroom near the closest, Bone stated that he put it there so that he would be alerted if Beverly rose from the dead like the movie ‘The Grudge.’”
Even though Ma was believed to have been deceased, someone texted from her phone in late July, saying she could not attend a July 4 party because she “wanted to be sober, not travel and not be around people,” police said.
Bone was being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
In 2013, Bone took an Alford plea on a charge of attempted lewdness with a child under the age of 14, records showed. An Alford plea is similar to a no-contest plea, where a defendant accepts prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him or her but does not admit guilt.
In 2012, Henderson police initially arrested Bone on charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a child stemming from allegations a teenager made about an assault two years prior when she was 11, documents said.
The student told a school employee that Bone had “inappropriately touched” her while he was living in a home with her, documents said.
In addition to an open murder charge, Bone also faces a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, records showed. Bone is listed in the Nevada Sex Offender Registry under a different address than where police responded on Wednesday, records showed.
The Clark County coroner’s office had not released Ma’s cause and manner of death as of Friday afternoon. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/las-vegas-man-accused-of-murder-lived-with-womans-body-for-months-police/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:37 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/las-vegas-man-accused-of-murder-lived-with-womans-body-for-months-police/ |
Summer is definitely heating up, and you may be looking for a little extra relief from the heat and humidity.
A tower fan can cool you off and help you feel more comfortable on hot, sticky days. These fans offer many features to keep you cool, including multiple power settings, sleep modes and programmable shutoffs.
But deciding on the right tower fan to buy can be a challenge with so many options on the market today.
To help, here’s a roundup of the most recommended tower fans available, including models from Dyson and Lasko.
- Dyson Purifier Cool TP07 Tower Fan: “From the fan side, you get a whopping 350-degrees of oscillation and 10 fan speeds. You can even adjust the fan flow by having the air push out straight or angled up towards the ceiling,” Men’s Health says.
- Lasko Portable Electric Oscillating Tower Fan: “Its three power settings, optional oscillation and programmable shut-off timer get the job done, and it’s affordable enough to buy a few for different rooms,” Forbes says.
- Dreo Pilot Max Tower Fan: “This stylish fan features a whopping 120-degree oscillation that offers widespread, cool air throughout an entire room,” HGTV says.
- Honeywell QuietSet Whole Room Tower Fan: “We’ve found that it cools a room quickly and effectively, even in spaces that don’t have an air conditioner, and continue to appreciate its sleek design,” The Spruce says.
- Pelonis Quiet Oscillating Tower Fan: “Its three modes include a calm sleep mode, an intense strong mode, and a middle-of-the-road natural mode. You can set these modes to run for up to 15 hours using the timer function,” This Old House says.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man died at a Disney Resort in Orlando on Wednesday.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call around 5:30 a.m. regarding an unresponsive person at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Magic Kingdom.
The man, identified as 39-year-old Jeffrey Vanden Boom of Greendale, Wisconsin, was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Orange County Medical Examiner determined Vanden Boom fell from a hotel room balcony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The fall was ruled as accidental.
Walt Disney World did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for comment.
The death remains an ongoing investigation.
Last fall, an 83-year-old man died after riding the Tomorrowland Authority PeopleMover at Disney World. Authorities said he experienced a “cardiac event,” and his death was “deemed natural” by medical officials.
Earlier this year, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Disneyland, accusing park employees of laughing at a 66-year-old disabled woman who fell while getting off the Jungle Cruise ride in 2021 and later died. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:43 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from the hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
Earlier this season, Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner suffered a skull fracture and a concussion after being struck by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. The ball hit Feltner on the back right side of his head, and he fell to the ground. He lay on his stomach as two members of the Rockies athletic training staff aided him. He was able to get on his feet and walked off the field with the assistance of the two trainers.
While it isn’t clear if Feltner will return this season — he was placed on the 60-day injured list after the May incident — he told reporters he does not “want to rule it out.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:49 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ |
NEW YORK — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Oppenheimer” stayed in second with a robust $46.2 million. Sales for the two movies dipped 43% and 44%, respectably — well shy of the usual week-two drops.
“Barbenheimer” has proven to be not a one-weekend phenomenon but an ongoing box-office bonanza. The two movies combined have already surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, call it “a touchstone moment for movies, moviegoers and movie theaters.”
“Having two movies from rival studios linked in this way and both boosting each other's fortunes — both box-office wise and it terms of their profile — I don't know if there's a comp for this in the annals of box-office history," said Dergarabedian. “There's really no comparison for this.”
Following its year-best $162 million opening, the pink-infused pop sensation of “Barbie” saw remarkably sustained business through the week and into the weekend. The film outpaced Nolan's “The Dark Knight" to have the best first 11 days in theaters of any Warner Bros. release ever.
“Barbie” has rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box-office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie" has made at least $20 million.
And the “Barbie” effect isn't just in North America. The film made $122.2 million internationally over the weekend. Its global tally has reached $775 million. It's the kind of business that astounds even veteran studio executives.
“That's a crazy number,” said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. “There's just a built-in audience that wants to be part of the zeitgeist of the moment. Wherever you go, people are wearing pink. Pink is taking over the world."
Amid the frenzy, “Barbie” is already attracting a lot of repeat moviegoers. Goldstein estimates that 12% of sales are people going back with friends or family to see it again.
For a movie industry that has be trying to regain its pre-pandemic footing — and that now finds itself largely shuttered due to actors and screenwriters strikes — the sensations of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have showed what's possible when everything lines up just right.
“Post-pandemic, there's no ceiling and there's no floor," said Goldstein. "The movies that miss, really miss big time and the movies that work really work big time."
Universal Pictures' “Oppenheimer,” meanwhile, is performing more like a superhero movie than a three-hour film about scientists talking.
Nolan’s drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million domestically thus far. With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
Showings in IMAX have typically been sold out. “Oppenheimer” has made $80 million worldwide on IMAX. The large-format exhibitor said Sunday that it will extend the film's run through Aug. 13.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to the film industry, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” which debuted the week before the arrival of “Barbenheimer,” grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. The film starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, has grossed $139.2 million domestically and $309.3 million overseas.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbie,” $93 million.
2. “Oppenheimer,” $46.2 million.
3. “Haunted Mansion,” $24.2 million.
4. “Sound of Freedom,” $12.4 million.
5. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” $10.7 million.
6. “Talk to Me,” $10 million.
7. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $4 million.
8. “Elemental,” $3.4 million.
9. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $3.2 million.
10. “Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani,” $1.6 million. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-haunted-mansion-talk-to-me/507-d4801fe6-1fb5-4869-b859-274995702f22 | 2023-07-30T18:51:50 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-haunted-mansion-talk-to-me/507-d4801fe6-1fb5-4869-b859-274995702f22 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/a-boom-in-apartment-construction-is-helping-to-curb-rents-but-not-all-renters-will-benefit/ | 2023-07-30T18:51:55 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/a-boom-in-apartment-construction-is-helping-to-curb-rents-but-not-all-renters-will-benefit/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Infections of brain-eating amoeba are on the rise — and the warming climate may only exacerbate the problem, according to one of the world’s preeminent experts on the subject.
“Yes, we are experiencing warmer temperatures, and these amoeba are thermal-tolerant … so the numbers of amoeba will be higher,” explains Dr. Dennis Kyle, the head of the cellular biology department at the University of Georgia and the scholar chair of antiparasitic drug discovery with the Georgia Research Alliance.
“Warmer climates means, yes, more exposure and more cases,” he added.
Kyle, speaking with Nexstar, confirmed that reported cases of Naegleria fowleri infection — more commonly known as an infection of brain-eating amoeba — have “significantly increased” over the past four to five years. But he warned that increased cases cannot be linked solely to warmer waters, but rather more awareness and fewer misdiagnoses than in previous years.
“There’s more recognition that these amoeba are possibly causing disease, when before, virologists were misclassifying these cases as bacterial meningitis or [other diseases],” he said.
Naegleria fowleri, the microscopic organism responsible for the infection, is primarily found in warm freshwater and soil, but also hot springs, improperly chlorinated pool water, improperly treated tap water, and, in lower concentrations, even cooler freshwaters. Infection of N. fowleri usually occurs after water is forced into the nose, allowing the organism to enter the nasal cavity and cross the epithelial lining into the brain, where it begins destroying the tissue of the frontal lobe.
This brain infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), can lead to symptoms including fever, headaches, stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations within two weeks of exposure. It is almost always fatal, with death occurring within another one to 18 days of the first symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most infections tend to occur between June and September, but cases outside of these months are not entirely unheard of, Kyle said.
N. fowleri is also found in higher concentrations in warmer, smaller bodies of freshwater, but the organism can be found in pretty much any freshwater lake, including cooler, clearer waters, Kyle said. There was even a case in 2016 in which a teenager contracted a fatal infection of N. fowleri after going whitewater rafting — an activity generally undertaken in less-risky colder waters.
The highest concentrations, though, are generally found in freshwater with surface temperature readings of 75 degrees F or higher, especially for extended periods of time.
And climate change, as scientists have observed, is already having an impact on the temperature of the world’s freshwater lakes. The quality and color of the water can also change due to warming temperatures, recent studies have suggested.
“There’s a constant risk in warmer climates,” Kyle remarked.
The amoeba itself can’t be specifically targeted with current treatments either, leading to a fatality rate of 97%. In fact, Kyle only knows of four known cases in the U.S. where patients survived, and “maybe” seven globally.
“I’m not convinced that were any further along in getting better treatment,” Kyle told Nexstar of the current antifungal and antibiotic cocktails that are currently used. “But If people can get diagnosed earlier, even with the suboptimal treatments that we have, they have a better chance of survival.”
To that end, Kyle, and the families of some of the victims, are hoping to spread awareness of the disease. He and his colleagues have also worked to identify what they believe is a biomarker that can help doctors diagnose infection earlier than previously possible, but their test is not yet FDA-approved.
“Most tests use cerebral spinal fluid, but we don’t have to have that,” he told Nexstar. “We can use blood or even urine. In our analyst studies, we can detect it three or four days before symptoms develop. I’m pretty excited.”
Preventing infection in the first place is currently the best course of action, he added.
“Raising awareness helps. But I think any warm freshwater facility, or hot spring … and at splashpads, you have to look at it carefully,” he said. “It’s incumbent on people running these facilities to minimize risk and minimize exposure.”
People can also take precautions by avoiding bodies of warm freshwater, and especially refraining from jumping or diving into such waters, which increases the risk of having contaminated water forced into the nose. He also recommends using nose plugs, keeping your head above the surface, and properly cleaning and chlorinating wading pools, swimming pools and spas (or opting for salt-water pools or spa facilities).
Parents should also know that children are at the highest risk of infection, but likely for no other reason than that they’re more prone to be more active in the water.
“It’s difficult to define the risk,” Kyle said. “But think of it like a lightning storm. Everybody knows not to walk outside in a lightning storm with a golf club in their hands. But many parents don’t know the risk that their kids might be open to.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:01 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ |
(The Conversation) – Should smartphones be allowed in classrooms? A new report from UNESCO, the education arm of the United Nations, raises questions about the practice. Though smartphones can be used for educational purposes, the report says the devices also disrupt classroom learning, expose students to cyberbullying and can compromise students’ privacy.
About 1 in 7 countries globally, such as the Netherlands and France, have banned the use of smartphones in school – and academic performance improved as a result, particularly for low-performing students, the report notes.
As school leaders in the U.S. wrestle with whether or not to ban smartphones, The Conversation has invited four scholars to weigh in on the issue.
Daniel G. Krutka: Use smartphones to encourage ‘technoskepticism’
While the issue of smartphone use in schools is complicated, evidence suggests that spending more time on smartphones is associated with young people being less happy and less satisfied with life.
Technology scholars have long argued that the key to living well with technology is in finding limits. However, in banning smartphones, I worry educators might be missing opportunities to use smartphones to encourage what I and other researchers refer to as technoskeptical thinking; that is, questioning our relationship with technology.
For example, students might be encouraged to consider the benefits and drawbacks of using navigational apps to travel from one place to another, as opposed to old-fashioned paper maps. Or, students might explore their social media feeds to critique what algorithms feed them, or how notifications get their attention.
In my research, I have looked at how teachers can encourage students to go on techno-fasts – that is, abstaining from the use of technology for a certain period of time. This, I argue, will give students time to reflect on the time they spend away from their devices.
Policy debates often focus on whether or not to put smartphones out of reach during the school day. But I believe educators might find it more beneficial to make the phones an object of inquiry.
Sarah Rose: Consult parents, teachers and students
While there is evidence that classroom phone usage can be a distraction, it can also promote engagement and learning. While research about the potential positive and negative consequences of classroom phones can be used to inform school phone policies, the views of those who are most directly impacted by the policies should also be taken into account.
The views of parents matter because their views may influence the extent to which their children follow the policy. The views of children matter because they are the ones being expected to follow the policy and to benefit from it. The views of teachers matter because they are often the ones that have to enforce the policies. Research shows that enforcing cellphone policies is not always a straightforward issue.
In my research, I have found that children – aged 10 and 11 years old – in collaboration with their parents, were able to come up with ideas for ideal policies and solutions to help enforce them. For example, one parent-child pair suggested mobile phone use in school could be banned but that a role of “telephone monitor” could be given to an older pupil. This “telephone monitor” would have a class mobile phone that children and parents could use to contact each other during the school day when necessary.
This recommendation reflected how parents and middle and high school students – whether from rural and urban areas – felt cellphones were important to keep in touch with each other during the school day. Beyond safety, children and parents also told us that phones were important for keeping in touch about changing plans and for emotional support during the school day.
I believe policies that simply ban phones in schools may be missing an opportunity to educate children about responsible mobile device use. When parents and children are involved in policy development, it has the potential to increase the extent to which these policies are followed and enforced.
Arnold L. Glass: Cellphone use in college lectures hurts performance in ways that are hard to see
The intrusion of internet-enabled electronic devices, such as laptops, tablets and cellphones, has transformed the modern college lecture. Students now divide their attention between the lecture and their devices. Classroom studies reveal that when college students use an electronic device for a nonacademic purpose during class, it hurts their performance on exams.
When attention is divided between an electronic device and the classroom lecture, it does not reduce comprehension of the lecture – at least, not when measured by within-class quizzes. Instead, divided attention reduces long-term retention of the classroom lecture, which hurts performance on unit exams and final exams.
When some students open electronic devices, it also negatively affects the performance of all the students around them. Research has shown that student performance on final exams was worse when electronic devices were permitted during classes that covered exam material versus when the devices were not.
Many students won’t think their divided attention is affecting their retention of new information. It may not be for the moment, but a couple of weeks later or down the line, research shows, it does.
Louis-Philippe Beland: Bans help low-achieving students the most
Numerous studies indicate that low-achieving students stand to benefit the most from the implementation of mobile phone bans in schools.
In a 2015 study, my co-author, Richard Murphy, and I examined the impact of banning mobile phones on student performance in high schools, using data from England. By comparing schools with phone bans to similar schools without the bans, we isolated the effect of mobile phones on performance. Our study found that banning mobile phones significantly increased test scores among 16-year-old students. The effect is equivalent to adding five days to the school year or an extra hour per week. Low-achieving students benefited more, while high-achieving students remained unaffected.
Similar studies in Spain and Norway using a similar approach demonstrated compelling evidence supporting the benefits of banning mobile phones. In Spain, grades improved and bullying incidents decreased. In Norway, the ban raised middle school students’ grade-point averages and their likelihood of attending academic high schools while reducing bullying. Evidence from Belgium suggests banning mobile phones can be beneficial for college student performance.
Psychological research sheds light on potential mechanisms behind the impact of mobile phones and technology on student performance. Multitasking, common with mobile phone use, has been found to hinder learning and task execution. Taking notes by hand has been shown to better enhance memory retention compared to typing on a computer.
In sum, banning mobile phones in schools can yield positive effects, improve academic performance and narrow the achievement gap between high- and low-achieving students. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that mobile phones and technology can also be valuable educational tools when used appropriately. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:08 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ |
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — The FBI has issued arrest warrants and released disturbing details in the armed home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly North Carolina couple and the theft of more than $150,000 of their cryptocurrency in April.
The incident took place at gunpoint at the couple’s home the morning of April 12 after thieves allegedly posed as construction workers and forced their way into the home, according to the Durham Police Department and the FBI.
According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by Nexstar’s WNCN, the incident began when two men, dressed as construction workers, came to the victims’ home around 7:30 a.m. The duo claimed they would be inspecting pipes for damage and told the husband they would be “walking around the house.”
After a few minutes, the pair knocked on the door again and the wife answered the door. The suspects, who allegedly both had guns, then pushed their way inside.
“The men restrained and zip-tied the husband’s hands and the wife’s hands,” the FBI complaint said.
A man armed with a pink gun showed the wife it was loaded by opening the cylinder and then dragged her into a bathroom by her legs, the criminal complaint said.
The husband was taken to his Apple iMac and forced at gunpoint to log in and install a remote desktop application called AnyDesk. A person on the phone with a thief already knew “details about the account without being told,” the FBI complaint said.
The FBI believes the husband’s email account was compromised in the past, allowing the thieves to learn the details ahead of the trip to Durham and the home invasion.
The suspects were able to transfer $156,853 worth of cryptocurrency during the next 45 minutes, the FBI said. Before leaving, the thieves allegedly smashed the couple’s cellphones and the iMac.
The elderly couple managed to get out of their home and ask neighbors to call 911 for help. The pair suffered minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital, Durham police said.
The arrest warrants released Thursday for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping indicate two West Palm Beach, Florida, men are wanted — Jarod Gabriel Seemungal and Remy Ra St. Felix.
According to the FBI criminal complaint filed the same day, the suspects began targeting retirees who had cryptocurrency as early as February. The accused men even had the license plate number for the husband’s car, authorities said. A third man is also named in the criminal complaint, but no arrest warrant was issued for him as of Thursday.
Messages sent between those involved identified actual cryptocurrency amounts and their locations, the criminal complaint said. One suspect had a photo of the husband’s North Carolina driver’s license in his email account, according to the FBI.
The two suspects also discussed in internet messages how potential victims “have so much” money in accounts that it would be “retirement licks” — the FBI explained in the complaint that “licks” is slang for a robbery.
The thieves apparently rented a car in Florida and visited the Millennium Hotel in Durham a couple of days before the actual robbery, according to the complaint. Video from a home near the victims’ showed the thieves’ BMW SUV “conducting surveillance” at the couple’s home each of the three days before the alleged kidnapping, the FBI said.
The FBI also noted that a person driving a similar vehicle purchased costumes — a clipboard, reflective vest, sunglasses and a pair of khaki pants — at a nearby Walmart that allowed the suspected thieves to get into the victims’ home. Both suspects were seen on surveillance video from the store.
Additional details about potential victims wasn’t immediately available. As of Sunday, authorities have not said whether either man is in custody. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:14 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ |
CLEVELAND (WJW) – Verizon customers with older phone plans could see their bill go up next month.
According to the company, starting Aug. 29, some older plans will be charged an additional $3 or $5 per mobile phone line every month.
Customers with Go Unlimited 2.0, Beyond Unlimited 2.0, Above Unlimited, and 5G Start 1.0 plans will see the $3 monthly increase, while single basic phone plans will see the $5 monthly increase.
The company says unlimited plans that are currently available to new customers won’t get hit with the additional charge.
Verizon says lines with tablets, smartwatches, and other devices also won’t be affected.
This comes after a price hike back in April, which, as reported by USA Today, saw a $2 monthly increase for some wireless plans.
In June 2022, Verizon raised some plan fees in response to “pressure,” the company’s head of business said at the time. It led to a $1.35 increase on its administrative fees, and an “Economic Adjustment Charge” for companies using the business plans. It was the first time the fees had been increased since 2019. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:20 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ |
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip.
Even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a Jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement Friday.
Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
The Burbank police have issued warnings for residents to avoid bears and to keep all garbage and food locked up to discourage bears from coming to their residences. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/in-summer-heat-bear-spotted-in-southern-california-backyard-jacuzzi/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:28 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/in-summer-heat-bear-spotted-in-southern-california-backyard-jacuzzi/ |
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breath, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered it’s 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences … between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. … But there’s also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. … They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.”
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/record-heat-waves-illuminate-plight-of-poorest-americans-who-suffer-without-air-conditioning/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:34 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/record-heat-waves-illuminate-plight-of-poorest-americans-who-suffer-without-air-conditioning/ |
(KTLA) – A security guard at a nightclub was killed after being brutally beaten by a large mob in Hollywood early Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers responded to the Dragonfly Hollywood nightclub in the 6500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard near Wilcox Avenue around 2 a.m. on reports of a group of 10 people attacking one person, police said.
“The victim was working at this nightclub, and a large group – for unknown reasons – confronted that security guard, causing him to fall into the street,” said LAPD West Bureau Homicide Division Detective Samuel Marullo. “At which time the group advanced and kicked and stomped him to death.”
Police are still investigating whether the fight began inside the club and spilled onto the street or if it began outside entirely.
Video from the scene captured first responders attempting life-saving measures on the security guard, only identified as a male in his 30s, as he was lying in the street.
Dragonfly Hollywood was still open and full of patrons at the time of the security guard’s death. According to the club’s social media, it was hosting its weekly Signature Saturdays event, with Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley headlining the festivities.
The club also hosts an event on Sundays called Sunday Night Fever, but it is unclear whether that event will be postponed following the security guard’s death.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information regarding the attack is urged to contact the LAPD immediately. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:40 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
Officials say the ‘dead’-line is November 1, 2023. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ | 2023-07-30T18:52:46 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ |
McAllen police: Suspect hospitalized after officer-involved shooting during traffic stop
A Brownsville man was hospitalized Sunday morning after firing gunshots at officers during a traffic stop in McAllen.
The McAllen Police Department received a call from the 2900 block of North 24th Street about a male being extremely aggressive and was armed with a gun, according to a news release.
The call was made at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. The caller said the male was leaving in a maroon Charger and was highly intoxicated, according to the release.
McAllen police were able to locate the suspect, identified as 25-year-old Ronaldo Alvarado, traveling south at the 1700 block of North 23rd Street where they initiated a traffic stop, according to the release.
Once Alvarado and the police unit came to a stop, officers reported shots fired after they "saw what appeared to be gun fire flash from within the suspect vehicle," according to the release.
Alvarado then began to slowly drive off, and an officer returned gunfire, discharging his weapon twice, according to the release.
The officer "appeared to have struck the rear windshield frame of the suspect vehicle." The vehicle continued slowly onto a private parking lot and came to a stop after crashing onto a private fence approximately four blocks away, according to the release.
Officers approached the vehicle, where they found Alvarado slumped over with a gunshot wound to the temple of his forehead, according to the release.
Officers attempted to provide medical assistance and Alvarado was transported to a local hospital, according to the release.
Alvarado is still hospitalized, according to the release. It is unclear what condition he is in. | https://www.krgv.com/news/mcallen-police-suspect-hospitalized-after-officer-involved-shooting-during-traffic-stop | 2023-07-30T18:52:59 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/mcallen-police-suspect-hospitalized-after-officer-involved-shooting-during-traffic-stop |
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Christian Arroyo Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:23 PM EDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
Christian Arroyo -- 0-for-3 in his most recent game -- will be in action for the Boston Red Sox versus the San Francisco Giants, with Scott Alexander on the mound, on July 30 at 4:05 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-3) against the Giants.
Christian Arroyo Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +800)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +185)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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Christian Arroyo At The Plate
- Arroyo is batting .243 with 15 doubles, three home runs and seven walks.
- Arroyo has had a hit in 30 of 56 games this season (53.6%), including multiple hits 10 times (17.9%).
- He has homered in three games this season (5.4%), homering in 1.5% of his chances at the plate.
- Arroyo has had an RBI in 15 games this year (26.8%), including five multi-RBI outings (8.9%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- In 35.7% of his games this season (20 of 56), he has scored, and in three of those games (5.4%) he has scored more than once.
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Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants have a 3.99 team ERA that ranks 10th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to allow 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in baseball.
- Alexander (6-1) takes the mound for the Giants to make his third start this season.
- In his most recent time out -- out of the bullpen on Thursday -- the lefty tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while surrendering one hit.
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Community rallies following sign posted on door of Topeka post office
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A sign posted to the door of the Sherwood Carrier Annex Post Office at 6120 SW 29th St. has sparked tension in the community.
On Sunday, July 30, members of the American Postal Workers Union held a rally at the Sherwood Carrier Annex in response to a sign that reads:
The sign also lists the postal center’s business hours.
The members of the union gathered at the intersection of 29th Street and Wanamaker Road from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. voicing their displeasure.
“Businesses and customers are going to have to travel now to Gage on Woodhull to do their mail and buy their stamps,” Penny Oliver, State Vice President of the American Postal Workers Union, said. “Elderly are having their prescriptions delayed in the mail, and it’s causing concern for the postal customers. It’s an inconvenience to them and we believe it’s a disservice.
13 NEWS contacted U.S. Postal Service officials in regard to the flyer. In response, USPS said that the closure is part of the Delivering for America plan which includes the creation of sorting and delivery centers. The first site was opened in Georgia in 2022.
As the project moves forward, USPS said customers will not see changes to local post office retail operations or PO Box service and that no post offices will close.
According to the Service, employees will benefit from the new model through new, modern workplaces with no lay-offs mentioned as part of the effort. Any movement of employees is expected to be done in line with the respective collective bargaining agreement.
“For decades, our outmoded network has created significant financial losses, increased deferred maintenance costs, deteriorated workplace conditions for our employees and failed to efficiently integrate mail and package processing and delivery,” said USPS Strategic Communications Specialist Mark Inglett. “The transformation of our network is necessary and fundamental to our continuation as an organization and service to the American people and our business customers.”
USPS noted that the new delivery model will position the Service for success with the use of exiting postal-owned buildings. These facilities will receive significant upgrades and, in many cases, will also accomplish deferred maintenance. It will also allow the expansion of business customer’s market reach from a single nearby drop location with smaller time intervals. In many cases, the packages will be sent same-day or next-day.
According to the Service, the move also enables the use of electric vehicles where feasible and will improve the flow of mail and packages with new package sortation. The service and delivery center method is expected to greatly improve morale with modern and inviting workspaces and reduce costly truck trips from processing plants.
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Jorge Alfaro Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:23 PM EDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
Jorge Alfaro returns to action for the Boston Red Sox against Scott Alexander and the San Francisco GiantsJuly 30 at 4:05 PM ET.
In his most recent action (on July 22 against the Mets) he went 0-for-4.
Jorge Alfaro Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +240)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +180)
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Jorge Alfaro At The Plate
- Alfaro is batting .149 with four doubles, a home run and two walks.
- This season, Alfaro has recorded at least one hit in five of 16 games (31.3%), and had multiple hits twice.
- He has hit a long ball in one of 16 games, and in 2% of his plate appearances.
- Alfaro has driven in a run in two games this season, with multiple runs batted in once.
- He has scored a run in two games this season, but just one run each time.
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Jorge Alfaro Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants have a 3.99 team ERA that ranks 10th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to allow 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in baseball.
- The Giants will look to Alexander (6-1) in his third start of the season.
- His last appearance came in relief on Thursday when the lefty tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while allowing only one hit.
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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Pablo Reyes Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:23 PM EDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
Pablo Reyes is available when the Boston Red Sox take on Scott Alexander and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.
In his last action (on June 22 against the Twins) he went 0-for-1.
Pablo Reyes Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +875)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +170)
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Pablo Reyes At The Plate
- Reyes is batting .303 with four doubles and four walks.
- Reyes has had a hit in 13 of 22 games this season (59.1%), including multiple hits seven times (31.8%).
- In 22 games played this year, he has not hit a long ball.
- Reyes has driven in a run in five games this year (22.7%), including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- In six games this year (27.3%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Pablo Reyes Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Giants has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants' 3.99 team ERA ranks 10th among all league pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to allow 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- Alexander (6-1) makes the start for the Giants, his third of the season.
- In his most recent time out -- in relief on Thursday -- the left-hander tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while surrendering one hit.
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Nevada man arrested after attempt to evade arrest leads to collision with semi
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (WIBW) - A Nevada man is behind bars in Ellsworth Co. after an attempt to evade arrest led him to run into traffic along I-70 into the path of an oncoming semi-truck.
The Kansas Highway Patrol Crash Log indicates that just after 8:30 a.m. on Friday, July 28, troopers stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation along eastbound I-70 about 9 miles northeast of Ellsworth.
Troopers noted that Mark E. Carte, 50, of Henderson, Nev., had exited his vehicle during the stop. For an unknown reason, Carte ran into the eastbound lanes of I-70 where he was hit by an oncoming 2022 Volvo Semi-truck driven by Corey Turner, 55, of Terrell, Texas.
KHP said Turner stopped his vehicle in the center median area.
Carte was taken to Salina Regional Health Center with suspected minor injuries. Turner escaped the collision without injury and was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident.
KHP has not released any information as to why the vehicle had been stopped, however, he is listed as a current inmate in the Ellsworth Co. Jail. Details of his crimes have not been released.
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Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM CDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles meet Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees on Sunday at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 14th in MLB action with 122 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .417 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in baseball.
- The Orioles have the 17th-ranked batting average in the majors (.248).
- Baltimore has the No. 11 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.8 runs per game (502 total runs).
- The Orioles are 19th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .316.
- The Orioles' 8.3 strikeouts per game rank 11th in baseball.
- The nine strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Baltimore's pitching staff ranks 11th in the majors.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.19).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.302).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank sixth in Major League Baseball with 144 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .404 this season.
- The Yankees rank 29th in MLB with a team batting average of just .230.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 454 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .302 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees have shown patience at the plate this season with the seventh-best rate of strikeouts per game (8.1) among MLB offenses.
- New York averages the 13th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the majors this season.
- New York pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.86 ERA this year, fifth-best in baseball.
- The Yankees have a combined WHIP of just 1.239 as a pitching staff, which is the fifth-best in baseball this season.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Dean Kremer makes the start for the Orioles, his 22nd of the season. He is 10-4 with a 4.59 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 115 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, when the righty went seven innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing three hits.
- Kremer is trying to record his 11th quality start of the year.
- Kremer will look to secure his 18th matchup of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- In two of his appearances this season he did not allow an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- Luis Severino (2-4) will take the mound for the Yankees, his 12th start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Sunday, July 23, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed eight hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- In 11 starts this season, he's earned three quality starts.
- Severino has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished one appearance without allowing an earned run in 11 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) and New York Yankees (55-49) squaring off at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so it should be a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Orioles will give the nod to Dean Kremer (10-4, 4.59 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 11 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Luis Severino (2-4, 6.46 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 47 games, or 70.2%, in which they've been favored.
- Baltimore has a record of 24-9, a 72.7% win rate, when favored by -135 or more by bookmakers this season.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Orioles have a 57.4% chance to win.
- Baltimore ranks 11th in the majors with 502 total runs scored this season.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have played as the underdog in three of their past 10 games and have gone 1-2 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Yankees' previous 10 games have not had a spread set by bookmakers.
- The Yankees have come away with 13 wins in the 31 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 8-8 when favored by +115 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
Did GM ever actually kill the Chevy Bolt EV?
GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
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GREENE COUNTY, Ohio (WDTN) — The Greene County Fair kicked off Sunday morning with the arrival of the animals.
At the Greene County Fair, fun for all ages can be enjoyed. Sunday, July 30 was filled with 4-H shows and the official opening ceremony.
Activities from the royalty coronation, cupcake decorating, second annual Gene Fisher First Responder Memorial Hog Show and so much more will be happening, aside from the animals, food, games and rides.
Fourteen-year-old Gracie Barron, a member of 4-H, has been showing animals at the Greene County Fair since she was a little girl.
“I’m showing! It’s the part of fair that is awesome,” Barron said. “Showing my heifer and my feeder calf today.”
The 14-year-old says it takes a lot of hard work to get to where she is at today, but says it’s well worth it.
“I’ve been working with them every day and I want to I want to win, but hopefully it’ll come,” Barron said. And I just think if you just go in the show ring and try, your best self pays off eventually.”
Kala Benton is the Greene County fair director. She says the fair allows the kids the opportunity to raise animals and showcase them in the ring is what the fair is all about.
“The kiddos have worked all year long raising their animals or working on their projects to be able to show off to the community on ways that they have learned and ways that they’ve given back here locally,” Benton said.
Attendees will have the chance to see the animals in the barns during the day, while viewing the shows in the grandstands at night. Fried food at the fair is in full-force during this year’s fair.
Benton says people can expect to see anything you can imagine; “From funnel cakes, to French fries, to corn dogs to squealin’ taters,” Benton said.
If you visit the fair on certain days, you might happen to receive a discount.
Fairgoers that are or have been in the military can visit the fair on Monday July 31 and get in for just $4 for showing a Military ID for the fair’s Military Appreciation Day. By bringing in a non-perishable food item on Aug. 2, your admittance to the fair can be lowered to $4 for family day, along with Food Pantry Discount Day.
“That food is what we give back to the community to help support the local folks here in Greene County,” Benton says.
Senior Citizen Discount Day at the fair is Aug. 3.
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The Biden White House has tried to present itself as being above the fray of day-to-day squabbles, but increasingly, it’s jumping in, bashing the GOP and other critics at every opportunity.
The administration didn’t miss a chance this week to hammer Republicans over Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) floating that the House would move towards an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. They were quick with memos and statements to criticize the GOP attacks as a “clown carousel” and the idea of pursuing impeachment as “baseless.”
And the White House issued a scathing rebuke of Fox New host Greg Gutfeld, who said that Jews captured and tortured during the Holocaust survived by having skills and being useful, calling out his comments as a “dangerous, extreme lie.”
The new levels of punchy rhetoric preview the White House messaging strategy going into 2024, which is to fight back and call out what they consider extreme.
It’s a shift from their previous attitude, which was to let what they considered to be Republican chaos speak for itself.
“The cost is too expensive, both short and long term, to let them operate in a vacuum without showing that one, we know how to fight; two, that we will fight; three, we fight with facts and not with some flaming lies of information,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist.
Early in Biden’s presidency, the White House was careful not to weigh in on controversial comments from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), hoping to avoid elevating her words and giving the far-right congresswoman more of a platform.
When McCarthy was struggling in January to get enough votes to be Speaker of the House, they sat back and watched it unfold.
Biden gently knocked the vote series at the time, saying, “It’s a little embarrassing it’s taking so long,” but also added, “that’s not my problem.” The White House had also insisted that Biden would not “insert himself” into the election, which ended up taking 15 ballots for McCarthy to finally clench enough votes.
But this week, when the Speaker signaled that the House could move forward with an impeachment inquiry, the White House came out with multiple statements and highlighted quotes from fellow Republicans in his conference pushing back on the idea.
It also released a memo about Republicans’ slams against the president overall, reflecting the Biden argument that the GOP is stepping up attacks on Hunter Biden and talk of impeachment because the economy is getting stronger and is now a less effective avenue for attack.
Hunter Biden appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement.
The White House this week touted “Bidenomics” after gross domestic product (GDP) numbers showed surprisingly strong economic growth. It rebuked GOP lawmakers for not embracing the data, pointing to Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone, who said Thursday, “There goes that recession talk, right?”
“Even Fox Business is welcoming today’s blockbuster economic growth numbers, the latest in a long line of proof points that Bidenomics is delivering for middle class families,” spokesman Andrew Bates said in a memo. “That’s because this strong growth report is objectively good news for the American people, which elected officials should support regardless of their political party.”
In the past, the White House has called out what it deemed antisemitism, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in particular has spearheaded the effort against hatred towards Jewish Americans. The rebuke of Gutfeld was particularly notable, considering it called the conservative media voice’s comments insulting to the memory of people who suffered the Holocaust.
Over the last week, Vice President Harris has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a presidential candidate, over changes his administration has made regarding the way slavery is taught in his state. She quickly traveled to Jacksonville to deliver remarks over his recent moves.
And press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has turned Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) into an almost-daily punching bag, chastising him for blocking military promotions over his opposition to the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
Democrats argue that it’s significant the White House is getting punchier and not relying on the Biden reelection campaign to do it for them.
“I think the reason why it’s so important that it comes from the White House is because Joe Biden is a president for all people, and that White House works for all people,” Seawright said. “It helps weed out some of the foolishness, because I don’t think we can afford at this moment to let false information go unchecked or go numb to bad or false information for the sake of political gain.”
Another Democratic strategist argued the White House has picked its spots well, seeking to highlight when Republicans are fixated on issues that don’t resonate with most moderate voters. The strategist pointed to the GOP’s fixation on Hunter Biden as an example of something that is unlikely to move many mainstream voters.
Democratic communications strategist Katie Grant Drew noted the window for moving legislation closes early in election cycles so it “makes sense” the White House is preparing for 2024.
“They know they’re going to have to defend against Republicans’ insatiable appetite for investigations and impeachments, and the best defense is a good offense,” said Drew, a principal at Monument Advocacy. “When top Republicans continue to spout controversial rhetoric and spend time on divisive issues that the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with, the White House is going to use those moments to illustrate to the American people how extreme today’s Republican Party has become.”
Jim Kessler, co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way, said Biden and his team are wisely both selling their own victories and highlighting Republican dysfunction.
Ultimately, though, Kessler argued the 2024 election will be decided by broader issues such as the economy, something the White House has leaned into with its recent messaging.
“This election is going to come down to the middle. The middle ideologically, the middle of the country geographically, and the middle class,” Kessler said. “These are places where Biden’s got to win.” | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ | 2023-07-30T18:54:53 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Infections of brain-eating amoeba are on the rise — and the warming climate may only exacerbate the problem, according to one of the world’s preeminent experts on the subject.
“Yes, we are experiencing warmer temperatures, and these amoeba are thermal-tolerant … so the numbers of amoeba will be higher,” explains Dr. Dennis Kyle, the head of the cellular biology department at the University of Georgia and the scholar chair of antiparasitic drug discovery with the Georgia Research Alliance.
“Warmer climates means, yes, more exposure and more cases,” he added.
Kyle, speaking with Nexstar, confirmed that reported cases of Naegleria fowleri infection — more commonly known as an infection of brain-eating amoeba — have “significantly increased” over the past four to five years. But he warned that increased cases cannot be linked solely to warmer waters, but rather more awareness and fewer misdiagnoses than in previous years.
“There’s more recognition that these amoeba are possibly causing disease, when before, virologists were misclassifying these cases as bacterial meningitis or [other diseases],” he said.
Naegleria fowleri, the microscopic organism responsible for the infection, is primarily found in warm freshwater and soil, but also hot springs, improperly chlorinated pool water, improperly treated tap water, and, in lower concentrations, even cooler freshwaters. Infection of N. fowleri usually occurs after water is forced into the nose, allowing the organism to enter the nasal cavity and cross the epithelial lining into the brain, where it begins destroying the tissue of the frontal lobe.
This brain infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), can lead to symptoms including fever, headaches, stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations within two weeks of exposure. It is almost always fatal, with death occurring within another one to 18 days of the first symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most infections tend to occur between June and September, but cases outside of these months are not entirely unheard of, Kyle said.
N. fowleri is also found in higher concentrations in warmer, smaller bodies of freshwater, but the organism can be found in pretty much any freshwater lake, including cooler, clearer waters, Kyle said. There was even a case in 2016 in which a teenager contracted a fatal infection of N. fowleri after going whitewater rafting — an activity generally undertaken in less-risky colder waters.
The highest concentrations, though, are generally found in freshwater with surface temperature readings of 75 degrees F or higher, especially for extended periods of time.
And climate change, as scientists have observed, is already having an impact on the temperature of the world’s freshwater lakes. The quality and color of the water can also change due to warming temperatures, recent studies have suggested.
“There’s a constant risk in warmer climates,” Kyle remarked.
The amoeba itself can’t be specifically targeted with current treatments either, leading to a fatality rate of 97%. In fact, Kyle only knows of four known cases in the U.S. where patients survived, and “maybe” seven globally.
“I’m not convinced that were any further along in getting better treatment,” Kyle told Nexstar of the current antifungal and antibiotic cocktails that are currently used. “But If people can get diagnosed earlier, even with the suboptimal treatments that we have, they have a better chance of survival.”
To that end, Kyle, and the families of some of the victims, are hoping to spread awareness of the disease. He and his colleagues have also worked to identify what they believe is a biomarker that can help doctors diagnose infection earlier than previously possible, but their test is not yet FDA-approved.
“Most tests use cerebral spinal fluid, but we don’t have to have that,” he told Nexstar. “We can use blood or even urine. In our analyst studies, we can detect it three or four days before symptoms develop. I’m pretty excited.”
Preventing infection in the first place is currently the best course of action, he added.
“Raising awareness helps. But I think any warm freshwater facility, or hot spring … and at splashpads, you have to look at it carefully,” he said. “It’s incumbent on people running these facilities to minimize risk and minimize exposure.”
People can also take precautions by avoiding bodies of warm freshwater, and especially refraining from jumping or diving into such waters, which increases the risk of having contaminated water forced into the nose. He also recommends using nose plugs, keeping your head above the surface, and properly cleaning and chlorinating wading pools, swimming pools and spas (or opting for salt-water pools or spa facilities).
Parents should also know that children are at the highest risk of infection, but likely for no other reason than that they’re more prone to be more active in the water.
“It’s difficult to define the risk,” Kyle said. “But think of it like a lightning storm. Everybody knows not to walk outside in a lightning storm with a golf club in their hands. But many parents don’t know the risk that their kids might be open to.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ | 2023-07-30T18:54:59 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ |
NBC Washington said Jeffery lost two jobs and his home during the pandemic. He was forced to sleep under a bridge in the Navy Yard neighborhood for two years where he braved the harsh winter and hot summers.
“I didn’t want to be stuck out here,” Jeffery told NBC Washington during an interview. “I don’t wish this on anybody, to be stuck out here.” Jeffery, a native of Texas, traveled to D.C. in search of a better life, WTOP News noted. He came to the city without a high school diploma, making it difficult to find work.
Determined to make it out of his financial rut, Jeffery signed up for classes at the Goodwill Excel Center in D.C., a free high school for adults that awards industry-recognized certifications and high school diplomas. According to the institution’s website, students who enroll at the Goodwill Excel Center gain access to “academic success coaches, college career counselors” and “high-quality instructors.” The school also offers flexible scheduling for students.
The former Waffle House employee took classes for an entire year while living in his tent.
“I just had to push myself,” Jeffrey told WTOP News earlier this month. “I can’t give up. I’m not a quitter.” According to the star student, it typically takes two years to complete the Goodwill Excel Center’s program, but he was able to knock it out in a year. He took four to five classes at a time to accelerate his studies. The stellar student said he often scored 90s throughout the course.
With hard work and determination, Jeffery successfully completed his classes and graduated with his high school diploma as a valedictorian. “A lot of people don’t get that second chance, and Goodwill allowed that second chance for me, and I appreciate that,” he told NBC Washington.
Now, things are looking up for the bright star. According to the outlet, Jeffery has moved out of his tent into an apartment. He will be starting classes at Catholic University in the fall and hopes to eventually attend law school.
“I’m studying legal studies,” the valedictorian grate said. “Who would’ve thought that I would be studying legal studies, right? There was no hope in this tent, but I found it, so you see how far I’ve came and how far I will get.”
Congrats to Michael Jeffery! We can’t wait to see what you do next.
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Longtime barbecue restaurant closes original Fayetteville store after 24 years in business
On Tuesday, one of Fayetteville’s oldest restaurants shut down after 24 years in business.
Cape Fear Bar-B-Que & Chicken announced its closure in a July 25 post to the restaurant’s Facebook page, which has since been deactivated.
Founded in 1999, the restaurant at Eastern Boulevard and Grove Street was the original store that spawned locations in Elizabethtown, Lumberton and Clinton. Now, all four are shuttered.
Eastern North Carolina pork barbecue, prepared daily from pork shoulder slow-cooked overnight for 18 hours was the Fayetteville institution’s calling card.
For owner June Massengill, barbecue was a family tradition. She grew up working in her parents’ restaurant, Smithfield BBQ, in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, before going on to start her own barbecue restaurant business.
In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama stopped by Cape Fear Bar-B-Que & Chicken. He ordered a fried chicken breast plate with collard greens, beans and chicken wings to-go before his rally at the Crown Coliseum.
The restaurant where bottles of Texas Pete Hot Sauce, ketchup and pepper vinegar sauce graced each table and the motto was “it’s like eating at home,” may have closed its doors for the final time, the outpouring of support on social media following its closing shows that its memory will live on with the customers it served for more than two decades.
Massengill did not return calls, messages and emails seeking comment on Thursday.
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Fifth-grade teacher accused of child sex crimes in Cumberland County
A Cumberland County elementary school teacher was arrested this week on allegations he molested a sleeping teen.
Darrell James Tyner, 53, is charged with two counts related to child sexual abuse including a charge of second-degree sex offense, according to court records. The warrant alleges Tyner entered the 14-year-old girl's room as she slept, and with his penis exposed, lifted her shirt and touched her breast. The child's mother allegedly caught Tyner in the act, the warrant states.
According to the bail paperwork, Tyner has been a teacher for Cumberland County Schools for 17 years. Salary data from the school district shows he worked at Montclair Elementary School. Tyner is listed as a fifth-grade teacher in the staff directory on the school website.
Attempts to get information from the school district on Tyner's employment status were unsuccessful Thursday and Friday.
Tyner surrendered on the warrant at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and was released the same day on $50,000 unsecured bail, meaning he wasn't required to post any money to secure his release, the court records show.
He did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles meet Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees on Sunday at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 14th in MLB action with 122 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .417 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in baseball.
- The Orioles have the 17th-ranked batting average in the majors (.248).
- Baltimore has the No. 11 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.8 runs per game (502 total runs).
- The Orioles are 19th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .316.
- The Orioles' 8.3 strikeouts per game rank 11th in baseball.
- The nine strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Baltimore's pitching staff ranks 11th in the majors.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.19).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.302).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank sixth in Major League Baseball with 144 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .404 this season.
- The Yankees rank 29th in MLB with a team batting average of just .230.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 454 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .302 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees have shown patience at the plate this season with the seventh-best rate of strikeouts per game (8.1) among MLB offenses.
- New York averages the 13th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the majors this season.
- New York pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.86 ERA this year, fifth-best in baseball.
- The Yankees have a combined WHIP of just 1.239 as a pitching staff, which is the fifth-best in baseball this season.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Dean Kremer makes the start for the Orioles, his 22nd of the season. He is 10-4 with a 4.59 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 115 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, when the righty went seven innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing three hits.
- Kremer is trying to record his 11th quality start of the year.
- Kremer will look to secure his 18th matchup of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- In two of his appearances this season he did not allow an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- Luis Severino (2-4) will take the mound for the Yankees, his 12th start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Sunday, July 23, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed eight hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- In 11 starts this season, he's earned three quality starts.
- Severino has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished one appearance without allowing an earned run in 11 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) and New York Yankees (55-49) squaring off at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so it should be a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Orioles will give the nod to Dean Kremer (10-4, 4.59 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 11 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Luis Severino (2-4, 6.46 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 47 games, or 70.2%, in which they've been favored.
- Baltimore has a record of 24-9, a 72.7% win rate, when favored by -135 or more by bookmakers this season.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Orioles have a 57.4% chance to win.
- Baltimore ranks 11th in the majors with 502 total runs scored this season.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have played as the underdog in three of their past 10 games and have gone 1-2 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Yankees' previous 10 games have not had a spread set by bookmakers.
- The Yankees have come away with 13 wins in the 31 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 8-8 when favored by +115 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) and New York Yankees (55-49) squaring off at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so it should be a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Orioles will give the nod to Dean Kremer (10-4, 4.59 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 11 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Luis Severino (2-4, 6.46 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Discover More About This Game
Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 47 games, or 70.2%, in which they've been favored.
- Baltimore has a record of 24-9, a 72.7% win rate, when favored by -135 or more by bookmakers this season.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Orioles have a 57.4% chance to win.
- Baltimore ranks 11th in the majors with 502 total runs scored this season.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have played as the underdog in three of their past 10 games and have gone 1-2 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Yankees' previous 10 games have not had a spread set by bookmakers.
- The Yankees have come away with 13 wins in the 31 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 8-8 when favored by +115 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:22 PM EDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:13 PM EDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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Water is refreshing in heat, right? In parts of Florida past week, not so much
In the sweltering summer heat, nobody tries to cool off by jumping into a hot tub. In parts of Florida, however, that’s what the ocean has felt like.
Earlier this week, sea surface temperatures reached as high as 101.2 degrees Fahrenheit around the state’s southern tip in Manatee Bay, according to the National Weather Service — although scientists said the context for Monday's reading is complicated.
"It was like there was no difference between humidity of the air and going into the water," said Chelsea Ward of Fort Myers.
Triple-digit ocean temperatures are stunning even in Florida, where residents are used to the heat and where many retirees find refuge from cold, northern winters. Several other nearby spots reached the mid-90s. A storm finally came through on Wednesday, helping water temperatures drop back down in to the more temperate 80s.
Humans naturally look to water for a chance to refresh. Every summer, millions grab their swimsuits for a day on the beach and a chance to cool off in the water — a break from everyday work and worry. Pools offer the same relief and a place for friends to gather. But when water temperatures get too high, some of the appeal is lost.
Ward, 47, doesn't keep her beach bag in her car anymore even though she lives minutes away from the beach in Fort Myers. Lately, the water is just too hot. On Sunday, when her friend asked if she wanted to go to the beach, the two decided against it after discovering the water temperature was around 90 degrees.
When it’s hot, the body cools down by sweating, which evaporates and releases heat. Dipping into the ocean is typically so refreshing because heat efficiently transfers from your body into the water. But as water temperatures climb, that effect diminishes and you lose less heat less quickly, according to Michael Mullins, a Washington University toxicologist and emergency medicine physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
A hot tub — or a stretch of ocean water hotter than body temperature — reverses the transfer of heat into your body. That’s not a pleasant experience on a sizzling, humid, Florida day.
"It would feel," Mullins said, "like you are swimming in soup."
ICE BLOCKS FOR YOUR POOL? WHY NOT
People already tend not to swim that much in the Florida waters that were so extremely hot earlier this week. The water can get muddy and there are alligators and crocodiles in the area, too.
But high temperatures anywhere can make swimming less pleasant. Through Friday, Phoenix endured highs above 110 degrees Fahrenheit every day this month. Pools are warm. About 150 miles to the northwest in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Stefanee Lynn Thompson, 50, wanted to keep guests cool for a pool party she hosted Sunday. The heat had raised the pool's temperature to 96 degrees.
Her friend recommended she go buy ice blocks. She ran to the grocery store, picked up 40 of them and dumped them in the pool. She set up fans, too. All that hard work dropped the pool’s temperature a grand total of 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
"When it's 120 out, anything helps," Thompson said.
Recently, ocean temperatures off the western coast of Florida have been a few degrees above normal, sitting around 88 to 90 degrees. It's not just humans that suffer when the oceans warm. Sea corals are bleaching. They can be hurt when water temperatures rise above the upper 80s.
July has been so hot that scientists announced a global heat record even before the month ended. Climate change is creating a hotter world, warming oceans and making some storms more destructive. Sea surface temperatures are somewhat above average around Florida, but they are far higher in parts of the North Atlantic near Newfoundland where they are as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) hotter than usual.
The extremely high sea surface temperatures recorded earlier this week off Florida's southern tip were caused by lots of sun, little wind and no storms.
"I've never seen temperatures 100 degrees in Florida Bay in the 21 years I've been in the Keys," said Andy Devanas, science officer at the National Weather Service in Key West, Florida.
IS THE WATER THAT WARM EVERYWHERE?
And there are some questions about how representative Monday’s 101.2-degree reading in Manatee Bay were.
Water there is shallow and thus heats up quickly. If there’s lots of sediment, that can raise temperatures, too, according to David Roth, a forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.
By contrast, stop by the YMCA pools on the North Shore of Massachusetts near Boston and you'll descend into water that's around 78 to 80 degrees. The ocean nearby is cooler, too.
Sea surface temperatures off Cape Cod, for example, barely touched the mid-70s this week.
When Maria Argueta, 38, has time off from her job at an open-air decorative plant nursery in Homestead, Florida, she'll go with her family to swim.
"This year, the heat is stronger," she said.
The hot ocean water doesn't bother her, but sometimes she takes her 2-year-old son and other members of the family to the Venetian Pool, a public facility in Coral Gables fed by water from an aquifer that's always in the 70s. The very cool water, she said, is refreshing. Florida's humid weather makes it harder for sweat to evaporate and cool the body down.
People in south Florida know the ocean doesn't tend to offer real relief from that suffocating heat.“You aren't getting much cooling at all," Roth said. "Nobody goes into the water in South Florida in the summer really except to swim, because it is comfortable to swim, but it is not refreshing."
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles meet Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees on Sunday at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 14th in MLB action with 122 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .417 slugging percentage ranks 10th-best in baseball.
- The Orioles have the 17th-ranked batting average in the majors (.248).
- Baltimore has the No. 11 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.8 runs per game (502 total runs).
- The Orioles are 19th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .316.
- The Orioles' 8.3 strikeouts per game rank 11th in baseball.
- The nine strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Baltimore's pitching staff ranks 11th in the majors.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.19).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.302).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank sixth in Major League Baseball with 144 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .404 this season.
- The Yankees rank 29th in MLB with a team batting average of just .230.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 454 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an on-base percentage of .302 this season, which ranks 26th in the league.
- The Yankees have shown patience at the plate this season with the seventh-best rate of strikeouts per game (8.1) among MLB offenses.
- New York averages the 13th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the majors this season.
- New York pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.86 ERA this year, fifth-best in baseball.
- The Yankees have a combined WHIP of just 1.239 as a pitching staff, which is the fifth-best in baseball this season.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Dean Kremer makes the start for the Orioles, his 22nd of the season. He is 10-4 with a 4.59 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 115 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, when the righty went seven innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing three hits.
- Kremer is trying to record his 11th quality start of the year.
- Kremer will look to secure his 18th matchup of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- In two of his appearances this season he did not allow an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- Luis Severino (2-4) will take the mound for the Yankees, his 12th start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Sunday, July 23, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed eight hits in 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- In 11 starts this season, he's earned three quality starts.
- Severino has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished one appearance without allowing an earned run in 11 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) and New York Yankees (55-49) squaring off at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so it should be a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Orioles will give the nod to Dean Kremer (10-4, 4.59 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 11 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Luis Severino (2-4, 6.46 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 47 games, or 70.2%, in which they've been favored.
- Baltimore has a record of 24-9, a 72.7% win rate, when favored by -135 or more by bookmakers this season.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Orioles have a 57.4% chance to win.
- Baltimore ranks 11th in the majors with 502 total runs scored this season.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have played as the underdog in three of their past 10 games and have gone 1-2 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Yankees' previous 10 games have not had a spread set by bookmakers.
- The Yankees have come away with 13 wins in the 31 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 8-8 when favored by +115 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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Beware of this new Mac malware targeting your data, devices
Unmasking Realst's stealthy cyberattacks and how to protect yourself
In the grand scheme of cyberthreats, a new villain has emerged from the shadows, targeting none other than our beloved Mac users.
With a penchant for pilfering passwords, greed for grabbing crypto and a propensity for pocketing personal data, this digital bandit goes by the name "Realst." Masked behind the guise of counterfeit blockchain games, it poses an ominous threat to your virtual safety.
"Realst" isn't just your run-of-the-mill malware – oh no, it's a crafty chameleon in the world of cybercrime, vetting its victims through seemingly innocent game access codes shared over social media or direct messages.
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The chameleonic nature of Realst
Imagine a cunning trickster that can wear many masks and change its tactics at a moment's notice. That's exactly what the Realst malware is: a shape-shifting entity in the world of cybercrime. As an analysis conducted by cybersecurity firm SentinelOne reveals, Realst doesn't just have one form but 16 distinct variants that it uses to carry out its malicious activities.
Unpacking technical terms
To understand this better, let's unpack a few technical terms. Mach-O, which stands for Mach Object file format, is a file format for executables, object code, shared libraries and others used by older versions of macOS. In simpler terms, they're a type of file that can perform actions on your computer.
In the case of the Realst malware, when a user attempts to download one of these counterfeit blockchain games, they're actually downloading these Mach-O files. The deception is twofold – the user receives no game but instead gets a file that can execute malicious actions on their device.
Circumventing Apple’s security measures
Now you might think: Doesn't Apple have robust security measures to prevent such incidents? Absolutely, they do. But the perpetrators behind Realst have found a way to circumvent these measures. They use Apple Developer IDs, typically used by legitimate developers to sign their apps, to authenticate these malicious installers. While these IDs have since been revoked, they initially lent an aura of credibility to the malware, enabling it to bypass Apple's defenses.
Thus, Realst acts as a deceptive digital chameleon, constantly changing its appearance and modus operandi to slip past security measures and wreak havoc on your device.
Realst: The selective browser attacker
Contrary to what you might expect, Realst doesn't indiscriminately target all browsers. It's particular about its victims. Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave Vivaldi and the Telegram app are its chosen ones, leaving Safari in the clear. Whether it's browser-stored passwords, cookies or sensitive data, Realst siphons it. Not just content with that, it even breaches Apple's Keychain, the company's proprietary password manager. Alarmingly, the masterminds behind Realst are already setting their sights on Macs running macOS 14 Sonoma, even before it hits the market.
Keeping Realst at arm's length
Wondering how to fortify your digital castle against the stealthy onslaught of Realst? Here's your action plan:
- Beware of unknown games: Start by avoiding unknown or suspicious online games, especially those advertised on social media or shared through direct messages.
- Stick to Apple's App Store: When downloading new apps or programs for your Mac, stay within the safe confines of Apple's App Store. It employs stringent security checks to ensure that listed apps are secure.
- Keep your guard up: Even with Apple's pre-installed defenses, such as XProtect antivirus software and the Gatekeeper malware scanner, you might want an extra line of defense. Third-party antivirus software, especially those with a solid reputation and frequent updates, can help keep you safe from the latest malware strains.
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Realst got real? Here's your game plan for staying protected
Despite your best efforts, if you find yourself ensnared by Realst, don't panic. Just follow these steps:
Identify, isolate and remove the threat: If you suspect your Mac has been compromised, the first step is identifying and isolating the problem. Run a full system scan with your security software to identify the malware.
Most antivirus software can effectively quarantine and remove the detected threat. Keeping hackers out of your devices can be prevented if you have good antivirus software installed. Having antivirus software on your devices will make sure you are stopped from clicking on any potential malicious links that may install malware on your devices, which allows hackers to gain access to your personal information.
See my expert review of the best antivirus protection for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices by heading to CyberGuy.com/LockUpYourTech/.
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Stay updated: Regularly update your system and antivirus software. This ensures that you're protected from the latest known threats.
Contact professionals: If the problem persists, contact a professional cybersecurity service. They can help to thoroughly cleanse your system and restore it to safety.
Create alias email addresses: Sometimes, it's best to create various email aliases so that you don't have to worry about all your info getting taken in a data breach. An email alias address is a great way for you to stop receiving constant spam mail by simply deleting the email alias address.
To find out more about upgrading the security of your email, head over to CyberGuy.com/Mail/.
Enable two-factor authentication: Enable two-factor authentication whenever possible. This adds an extra layer of security by requiring a second form of verification, such as a code sent to your phone, in addition to your password.
Change all passwords: As Realst is capable of stealing passwords, it's critical to change all your passwords. Do this from another device to avoid the malware intercepting your new passwords. Also, consider using a password manager to securely store and generate complex passwords. It will help you to create unique and difficult-to-crack passwords that a hacker could never guess. Second, it also keeps track of all your passwords in one place and fills passwords in for you when you're logging into an account so that you never have to remember them yourself. The fewer passwords you remember, the less likely you will be to reuse them for your accounts.
Check out my best expert-reviewed password managers of 2023 by heading to Cyberguy.com/Passwords/.
The digital realm might seem like a game of cat and mouse between cybercriminals and everyday users. Still, with vigilance and the right tools, you can ensure you're not the mouse.
Kurt's key takeaways
As we navigate the ever-evolving digital landscape, it's clear the dance between cyberthreats and cybersecurity is an endless twirl. With digital shape-shifters like Realst redefining the game, the power lies in staying informed and alert.
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American mother, daughter kidnapped in Haiti: 'Do not travel' advisory issued
A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a "do not travel advisory" in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program's director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
"Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family," El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. "Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus."
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday is it "aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti," adding, "We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners."
People walk past a street market in Port-au-Prince on June 28, 2023. (Photo by RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images)
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that "kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens."
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
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Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti's worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
"It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work," Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. "She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate." | https://www.fox13news.com/news/american-mother-daughter-kidnapped-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued | 2023-07-30T18:59:53 | 1 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/american-mother-daughter-kidnapped-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued |
Los Angeles sheriff’s recruit dies months after being struck by wrong-way driver
Los Angeles County sheriff recruit Alejandro Martinez died after fighting for life for 8 months
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruit has died months after a wrong-way driver plowed his SUV into a group of police recruits, authorities said Friday.
Alejandro Martinez "fought for his life for the past eight months," the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
"Surrounded by his family, friends, Sheriff Luna, and other department members in support of his family, Alejandro has now gone to his eternal resting place," the statement said. "Tragically, he was not able to fulfill his calling of helping others."
About 75 recruits from Sheriff's Academy Class 464 had been running near the intersection of Mills Avenue and Telegraph Road in Whittier, just before 6:30 a.m. in November, when the SUV veered into them, authorities have said. Twenty-five cadets were injured.
The SUV driver had been identified as 22-year-old Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez from suburban Diamond Bar, who suffered a minor injury.
He was initially arrested, but authorities later released him on grounds that more investigation was needed.
The 22-year-old’s attorney said he has no animosity toward law enforcement and that it was a tragic accident.
Following the death of Martinez, the sheriff’s office wrote that the recruit "will forever live in our hearts & never be forgotten."
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August skygazing forecast: Month features 2 Supermoons and Perseid Meteor Shower
With two Supermoons and the Perseid Meteor Shower on tap, August 2023 will be an excellent month for sky gazing.
During the coast-to-coast heat wave in the U.S., the best time of day to enjoy the outdoors might be at night, which makes stargazing the perfect activity to get some fresh air. Unless you live in Phoenix, where the overnight lows stay in the 90s.
Just don't forget the bug spray before you step out for a night staring at the stars.
Aug. 1: Full Sturgeon Supermoon
The Sturgeon full moon rises above buildings in the Jornanian capital Amman, on August 11, 2022. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
There is no wait for the first full Moon of August. It happens Aug. 1 and is also the second Supermoon of the year.
A Supermoon is considered "super" because the Moon will be closest to Earth during this part of its orbit. The effect of the full Moon and the close orbit will make it appear larger and brighter, but only by about 8%, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
The August Supermoon is known as the Sturgeon Moon. It's named after the sturgeon fish, which can be more available to anglers in the Great Lakes during the summer months.
Full Sturgeon Supermoon cloud cover forecast for Aug.1. (FOX Weather)
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The first full Moon of August will be at its fullest at 2:31 p.m. EDT; because of that timing, North America will need to wait for sunset to see the bright full Moon.
Aug. 30: Blue Moon
Thirty days later, the next Supermoon will rise. On Aug. 30, the Blue Supermoon will be at its fullest at 9:36 p.m. EDT.
According to NASA, a Blue Moon refers not to its color but to any month with two full moons in the 29.5-day lunar cycle. A Blue Moon happens about once every three years, and the next time we'll have two full moons in a month happens in 2026.
This will be the brightest Supermoon of the year, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Aug. 15: Perseid Meteor Shower
A picture taken on August 13, 2021 shows the Perseid meteor shower over the White Desert north of the Farafra Oasis in the New Valley Governorate. Photo: Gehad Hamdy/dpa (Photo by Gehad Hamdy/picture alliance via Getty Images)
One of the best meteor showers of the year returns with peak activity in August, making for the perfect end to the summer.
The Perseid meteors are pieces of the comet Swift-Tuttle. When Earth passes the comet each summer, debris from Swift-Tuttle creates the shooting stars seen in the sky.
Last year, there was a full moon during the best nights to view the Perseids. A dark sky is helpful when trying to spot shooting stars. The most active time for the Perseid Meteor Shower happens between Aug. 11 and 13. As the peak happens right before a new moon this year, it will be good to try and watch out for the Perseids. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/august-skygazing-forecast-supermoons-perseid-meteor-shower | 2023-07-30T18:59:59 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/august-skygazing-forecast-supermoons-perseid-meteor-shower |
SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP) — Four people found clinging to the hull of an overturned boat off New Jersey were rescued and taken to a hospital, authorities said.
Coast Guard officials in New York say Coast Guard crews and New York police and fire units were deployed to the area off Sandy Hook after receiving a distress call over VHF Channel 16.
Petty Officer Logan Kaczmarek told the Asbury Park Press that rescue crews found a floating debris field of items from the boat. They then found the four people at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday holding onto the floating hull near the Romer Shoal Light Station about 2½ nautical miles (4.6 kilometers) from the tip of Sandy Hook.
Crews from Station Sandy Hook pulled two people from the water while the other two were rescued by New York fire crews. All four were taken to Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch; there was no immediate word on their condition. Coast Guard officials didn’t immediately release information about the type of vessel or the reason it capsized. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/4-found-clinging-to-hull-of-overturned-boat-off-new-jersey-rescued-taken-to-nj-hospital/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-30T19:00:04 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/4-found-clinging-to-hull-of-overturned-boat-off-new-jersey-rescued-taken-to-nj-hospital/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Lisa Hochstein's estranged husband just got engaged and the Real Housewives of Miami star has some thoughts.
Plastic surgeon Lenny Hochstein, 57, and Austrian model Katharina Mazepa, 27, shared photos and videos of his sunset proposal in Ibiza, Spain on Instagram July 29. About three hours later, Lisa, 41, wrote on her Instagram Stories, "Congrats to my current husband and his mistress on their engagement."
E! News has reached out to reps for Lenny and his fiancé for a response to Lisa's remarks and has not heard back. They had previously stated that their relationship began after the former couple had separated.
Lenny's mother, Marina Hochstein, 83, commented on the couple's engagement post with a dig at Lisa. "I will be very happy that this time you are getting a woman who love and respect you," she wrote. "You certainly did not have that in your previous marriage. Good luck congratulations."
Lisa took to her Instagram Stories again to respond to Marina's remarks. "What a wonderful mother in law and grandmother," she wrote. "How disgusting."
The doctor filed for divorce from Lisa–with whom he shares children Logan, 8, and Elle, 3—in May 2022 after more than 12 years of marriage. Around the same time, he confirmed his relationship with Katharina, also known as Miss Vienna 2014, after the two were spotted outside a Miami club.
In July 2022, two months after Lenny submitted his divorce papers, Katharina filed for a restraining order against Lisa, accusing the Peacock star of "making threatening phone calls, creating fake social media accounts and posting threatening and false statements" to and about her publicly online. Among these supposed false statements was that Katharina and Lenny had had an affair prior to his split from Lisa, an allegation that both he and his now-fiancé denied.
The doctor said in a statement to E! News in May 2022 that after the "decision was made" to divorce, "I began seeing Katharina." He added, "I was honest with Lisa about my intentions and she was aware of everything I was planning to do before I did anything."
Katharina told E! News in a statement the following August, "I was not involved with Lenny until after Lisa and him had separated. As Lenny pointed out in his own public statement, they have been separated and sleeping in different bedrooms for months now and living separate lives for months now. It is only after Lenny's separation that we began dating and having a relationship."
The case was dismissed the following November, court records show, with a judge ruling that there was no "just cause" in Katharina's petition for a restraining order, court records show. Lisa later told Page Six in a statement at the time that the accusations against her were "false and fictitious."
Katharina has also been married before. This past April, she finalized a divorce from Shilo Mazepa.
Meanwhile, Lisa has herself moved on—she confirmed earlier this year that she is dating businessman Jody Glidden.
Lenny and Katharina's engagement post received mixed reactions overall. One person commented, "Dude just divorced and now engaged within the year. Yikes." Lenny responded, "Dude doesn't need your blessing or permission."
Another user wrote, "How big is his bank account?" Lenny replied, "Supremely bigger than yours."
(E! and Peacock are part of the NBCUniversal family.) | https://www.eonline.com/news/1381709/lessigreaterrhomlessigreater-s-lisa-hochstein-responds-to-estranged-husband-lenny-s-engagement-to-katharina-mazepa?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-07-30T19:00:04 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1381709/lessigreaterrhomlessigreater-s-lisa-hochstein-responds-to-estranged-husband-lenny-s-engagement-to-katharina-mazepa?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 12:22 PM MDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:22 PM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wsaz.com/2023/07/30/honduran-child-travels-alone-us-reunite-with-mother-unaware-her-passing/ | 2023-07-30T19:00:04 | 0 | https://www.wsaz.com/2023/07/30/honduran-child-travels-alone-us-reunite-with-mother-unaware-her-passing/ |
Florida women arrested after fight in which woman's ear was bitten off
Two women were arrested in connection with a July 4 fight that resulted in one of them biting part of the other's ear off, Florida authorities said.
Dixie Stiles, 18, was charged with battery – touch or strike – and Macy Regan, 23, has been charged with felony battery causing bodily harm, the Bay County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.
Deputies encountered the pair when they responded to an assault and battery call at 6530 Olokee St. in Callaway. An investigation revealed there was an unsupervised house party being thrown at nearby 6526 Olokee St. by minors, authorities said.
Just after midnight, a fight happened involving several men in a yard at the 6526 residence.
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Regan was trying to leave to walk to her home at the 6530 address when she was confronted by Stiles, who accused her of stealing alcohol and vape pens, deputies said.
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At some point, Regan allegedly pulled out a 9mm handgun from her waistband. Stiles shoved the firearm away and a fight ensued.
During the fight, Regan bit off the top of Stiles' ear, authorities said.
The ear was unable to be reattached. Multiple bruises and lacerations were also inflicted during the fight, the sheriff's office said. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-women-fight-womans-ear-bitten-off | 2023-07-30T19:00:05 | 1 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-women-fight-womans-ear-bitten-off |
Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:13 PM EDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings.
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New Port Richey family still searching for answers in death of loved one
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Betsy Robles’ family celebrated what would’ve been her 46th birthday with a balloon release at Frances Avenue Park on Saturday.
"Today we’re celebrating, trying the best that we can, to remember her because today is her birthday, so we just want to wake the community up and let them know that we’re still here and we want answers, we just want to be heard and we want the person who did this to be found," said Isabel Melendez, Betsy’s cousin.
Betsy was murdered last November and no arrests have been made.
"Right now, it’s hard on all of us because I call my sister and she’s always crying. We think about her every day, especially me, I used to go out with her and dance when we were younger, and we don’t know," said Marta Rivera, Betsy’s aunt.
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says a man wearing a black skull mask forced his way into Betsy’s home in the Menifee Court area between US-19 and Little Road.
The suspect then shot and killed her.
The family hopes someone comes forward with information that will lead to an arrest.
You can leave an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-706-2488. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-port-richey-family-still-searching-for-answers-in-death-of-loved-one | 2023-07-30T19:00:11 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-port-richey-family-still-searching-for-answers-in-death-of-loved-one |
The Indiana State Fair held its second annual mullet contest on Saturday.
This event is one part of the larger USA Mullet Championship event.
The winner was an Anderson man by the name of John Poor. The Air Force Veteran said that he used to have a mullet in the 1980s and grew another one after surviving a battle with Colon cancer. This likely contributed to Poor winning the event as the story behind a contestants mullet was part of the judging criteria.
The event drew a modest crowd which included the likes of Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb.
The USA Mullet Championship is held to benefit Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors. A nonprofit providing mortgage-free housing to wounded veterans.
Poor now advances to the national championship which will be held following two other events at the Illinois State Fair, and Denimfest in Iowa. | https://wibc.com/155697/colon-cancer-survivor-wins-second-annual-mullet-contest/ | 2023-07-30T19:00:13 | 0 | https://wibc.com/155697/colon-cancer-survivor-wins-second-annual-mullet-contest/ |
Video shows Cardi B throw mic at woman who hurled drink at her
LAS VEGAS - Rapper Cardi B became the latest performer to have something thrown at her while performing this weekend, but the rapper quickly retaliated.
Cardi B was performing at Drai’s Beach Club in Las Vegas Saturday when a woman in the crowd appeared to throw a drink in Cardi’s face, social media video shows. Cardi B shared the video on her Twitter page.
A visibly angry Cardi B immediately threw her microphone at the woman, appearing to strike her in the arm. Security guards circled the woman and escorted her out of the crowd.
The incident is the latest in a disturbing trend of artists getting hit with objects on stage.
It started in June when Rexha was hit in the face with a cellphone while onstage and had to get stitches. A man in the crowd was arrested. Harry Styles and Ballerini have also been hit with objects on stage, and Pink had a bag with an unknown substance in it thrown on stage while she performed.
Adele addressed the issue at one of her recent shows, warning her concert-goers that "I’ll f—ing" kill you" if they threw something at the stage.
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"Have you noticed how people are like forgetting f---ing show etiquette at the moment because [they're] throwing s--- on stage? Have you seen them," Adele told her Caesars Palace audience.
"I f---ing dare you. Dare you throw something at me and I'll f---ing kill you," she said.
Cardi B, a New York City native whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, has been open about her hot temper. She’s rapped about her anger issues in the past, and in 2018, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from fights at a strip club. Ten other counts, including two felonies, were dismissed.
Offset and Cardi B backstage during the Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash 2023 at State Farm Arena on June 17, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)
According to prosecutors, Cardi B and her entourage were targeting employees of Angels Strip Club in Flushing, Queens, over an apparent personal dispute. In one fight, chairs, bottles and hookah pipes were thrown as the group argued with a bartender. She and another employee had minor injuries.
The plea deal required her to perform 15 days of community service to avoid a 15-day jail sentence.
One of those service days included an NYPD "Girls Talk" event, where she shared "her rags to riches story" and danced with teens and posed for photos.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/video-cardi-b-throws-mic-woman-hurled-drink-at-her | 2023-07-30T19:00:17 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/video-cardi-b-throws-mic-woman-hurled-drink-at-her |
(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
Did GM ever actually kill the Chevy Bolt EV?
GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
“Actually, we can’t build enough Bolts right now,” Barra said to Wolfe Research analyst Rod Lache. | https://www.wane.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ | 2023-07-30T19:00:17 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ |
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday, killing two people in the city that is home to Florida’s flagship university, authorities said.
Police officers had been conducting crowd control in downtown Gainesville, Florida, in a commercial corridor several blocks from the University of Florida campus when they heard gunshots, the police department said in a post.
The post didn’t disclose how many people were shot but said two of the shooting victims later died from their injuries. Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/two-people-killed-after-shots-fired-blocks-from-university-of-florida-campus/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-07-30T19:00:21 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/two-people-killed-after-shots-fired-blocks-from-university-of-florida-campus/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |