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For nine years Justin Turner tormented the San Francisco Giants, making countless plays at his rivals’ expense while helping the Los Angeles Dodgers to eight NL West titles and a World Series championship.
The fans in San Francisco haven’t forgotten, booing the former Dodger every time he came to the plate, but if they hoped to get in Turner’s head or throw him off his game, it didn’t work.
After coming through with the game-tying two-run single late in Saturday night’s loss, Turner delivered in the clutch again Sunday with a go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning. Unfortunately, just like Saturday, the bullpen couldn’t protect the lead and the Red Sox ultimately lost 4-3 on an 11th-inning RBI single by Joc Pederson, who gave the Giants their second straight walk-off win.
Turner’s big shot was the only meaningful offense the Red Sox got all day, and after failing to score the automatic runner in the top of the 10th and 11th, the club was asking for trouble.
It was particularly frustrating given how badly San Francisco struggled in key spots.
As was the case on Saturday, the Giants had the Red Sox pitching staff on its heels early and often but couldn’t land the knockout punch. San Francisco was only 2 for 16 with runners in scoring position entering the 11th and despite Boston’s continued offensive ineptitude, their failure in the clutch kept the game within reach.
The Giants’ first big chance came in the second when they loaded the bases with no outs against Red Sox opener Brennan Bernardino. John Schreiber came on to try and clean up the mess, and though he allowed a run to score on an RBI groundout by Casey Schmitt, he was able to escape without further incident after Brandon Crawford lined out to center and Blake Sabol was doubled up at second to end the inning.
San Francisco stretched its lead to 2-0 in the sixth after Schmitt singled and shortly after advanced to third on a fielding error by Rafael Devers. He came in to score on a Wilmer Flores RBI single, but bulk reliever Chris Murphy got two groundouts to get out of the jam.
On the other side, Giants opener Scott Alexander pitched 1.2 perfect innings to start things off and then handed the ball to former Blue Jays starter Ross Stripling, who shut down the Red Sox over the next 4.1 innings. The Red Sox effectively got nothing done until the top of the seventh, when Adam Duvall muscled a solo home run out to left field to make it 2-1.
A promising rally began when Christian Arroyo singled and Alex Verdugo walked to put two men on with one out, but then disaster struck. Triston Casas hit a sinking blooper to center that Giants center fielder Luis Matos was just barely able to reach, and Arroyo was caught just far enough off the second base bag that Matos doubled him up to end the inning.
“It’s inexcusable, there’s really no other way to put it. I have to be better, there’s a lot of facets of the game right now I need to be better in,” Arroyo said afterwards. “J.T. picked me up later, we couldn’t come out with a win, but it’s just an inexcusable play.”
It seemed in the moment like that could have been it, but the game had a few more twists and turns in store.
The Giants once again failed to capitalize on a golden opportunity in the seventh after Josh Winckowski drew a huge inning-ending double play with two on and one out. Then Jarren Duran led off the eighth with a double and moved to third on a Rob Refsynder groundout, setting the table for Turner to potentially tie the game.
He did better than that.
The Red Sox lead wound up being short lived, as the Giants responded to tie it up in the bottom of the eighth on a Michael Conforto single, Matos double and a Patrick Bailey RBI groundout. Neither team could score in the ninth, sending the game to extras, and after the Red Sox put themselves in a tough spot by failing to score the automatic runner in the top of the 10th, Chris Martin pitched around some extensive traffic to keep the game alive.
Unfortunately the Red Sox, they couldn’t pull it off again in the 11th. Newly acquired right-hander Mauricio Llovera loaded the bases after hitting Schmitt with a pitch and allowing a single to Crawford, and Pederson wrapped things up with the game-winning single to right.
Following the game, Red Sox manager Alex Cora announced Nick Pivetta will get the start Monday, saying they need Pivetta back in that role for now to help reset the bullpen. Cora also said left-handed reliever Joely Rodriguez is dealing with a hip issue and will be placed on the injured list.
The Red Sox fall to 56-49 and now stand 2.5 games back of Toronto and Houston in the AL Wild Card standings. Next up is a three-game series in Seattle, during which the club will learn who’s coming and who’s going ahead of Tuesday’s 6 p.m. trade deadline. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/justin-turner-homers-late-but-red-sox-lose-to-giants-4-3-in-11th-inning/ | 2023-07-31T00:33:34 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/justin-turner-homers-late-but-red-sox-lose-to-giants-4-3-in-11th-inning/ |
Finally, after a brutal stretch of heat, humidity and torrential rain, the most comfortable weather of the summer has arrived.
Massachusetts is in store for a comfortable and mostly dry weather week ahead, according to the National Weather Service.
The pleasant conditions on Sunday are expected to continue for the start of the workweek.
“It should be a lot nicer this week,” Kyle Pederson, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald on Sunday.
High temps on Monday should be in the upper 70s to low 80s in the Boston-area, with comfortable dewpoints in the mid-50s.
Tuesday is expected to be even cooler in the 70s, with again comfortable dewpoints in the 50s.
Wednesday and Thursday should also be pleasant with temps in the 70s.
Friday looks like the best chance for some rain this week.
Pederson said, “I don’t believe we’re looking at anything severe right now for Friday, but we’re still a ways out at this point.” | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/massachusetts-weather-will-be-a-lot-nicer-this-week-with-comfortable-temps-humidity/ | 2023-07-31T00:33:35 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/massachusetts-weather-will-be-a-lot-nicer-this-week-with-comfortable-temps-humidity/ |
The annual Puerto Rican Festival of MA parade rolled through Boston on Sunday.
The parade started at Copley Square and ended at City Hall.
The annual Puerto Rican Festival of MA parade rolled through Boston on Sunday.
The parade started at Copley Square and ended at City Hall. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/photos-puerto-rican-festival-of-ma-parade-rolls-through-boston/ | 2023-07-31T00:33:36 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/photos-puerto-rican-festival-of-ma-parade-rolls-through-boston/ |
Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Grammy-nominated rapper and activist Meek Mill headlined a panel conversation at the NAACP National Convention in Boston on Sunday.
The speakers during the conversation called, “Hate Has No Home Here,” discussed fighting back against racism and anti-Semitism.
Kraft is the founder of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, and he advocated for Mill’s release from prison.
Other speakers on Sunday’s panel included NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates.
Gov. Maura Healey also spoke at the convention on Sunday. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/robert-kraft-meek-mill-speak-at-naacp-national-convention-in-boston/ | 2023-07-31T00:33:42 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/30/robert-kraft-meek-mill-speak-at-naacp-national-convention-in-boston/ |
BALTIMORE — With the trade deadline on Tuesday, there was plenty of activity around Major League Baseball on Saturday and Sunday. But at the time of publication, the Yankees had yet to make any moves.
The first-place Rangers added ex-Mets righty Max Scherzer and ex-Yankees and Cardinals lefty Jordan Montgomery to their rotation. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays — who occupy the final wild card spot that the Yankees are chasing — acquired flame-throwing reliever Jordan Hicks from St. Louis.
If a division rival upgrading wasn’t bad enough, the red-hot Cubs also decided to keep Cody Bellinger, according to ESPN’s Jesse Rogers. Bellinger would have been a great — if not costly — fit for the Yankees, as his left-handed bat and glove could have helped an offense and defense that have often lacked.
“You see it with interest,” Aaron Boone said Sunday of the flurry, but he added that his focus is on winning games. “It’s not something for me to worry about.”
Bellinger coming off the market leaves the Yankees with several less-desirable outfield options as the deadline nears — at least when it comes to names they’ve been linked to publicly.
Among them: the Rockies’ Randal Grichuk, the Cardinals’ Dylan Carlson, and the Nationals’ Lane Thomas. However, Grichuk and Thomas are right-handed hitters and Carlson, a switch-hitter, is much better from the right side. Grichuk and Thomas’ gloves could also be better.
If the Yankees don’t add an outfielder, the alternative is to stick with the combination of Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jake Bauers, Billy McKinney and Greg Allen in left field.
It wouldn’t be surprising if the Yankees improved their pitching, too, and they’ve also been connected to Nationals third baseman Jeimer Candelario. Boone said that “anything is possible” when it comes to the Yankees’ plans over the next few days, but the manager avoids campaigning for the front office to make moves.
“It’s a slight to the people we have in our room that I feel like are totally capable of still reaching all of our hopes and dreams,” Boone explained. “So I’m not going to go lobby for something that may or may not happen. Then if something doesn’t happen, then what? I know our guys, individually and our team, feel very confident in our ability to get right and play a high level of baseball these final two months, and that’s how I look at it. If things come our way and a deal gets done for something, we’ll welcome those people. But it’s too hard to speculate on what may or may not be getting done.”
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ADDITION
It’s not unusual for teams to temper trade deadline expectations by noting that an injured player or players are due back soon. The idea — one that often disappoints fans if no moves are made — is that getting key players back is just like adding from outside the organization. Never mind that it’s not the same.
On Sunday, Boone noted that the Yankees just got Aaron Judge back from a torn ligament in his toe, which hasn’t fully healed yet. He also mentioned that Nestor Cortes (rotator cuff) and Jonathan Loáisiga (bone spur) are due back soon.
“I think in our case, where you are getting Judge, Nestor and Loáisiga, those are pretty big pieces to get back,” Boone said. “So we’re excited about that. But at the same time, in Nestor’s case and even Los’ case, that’s still days ahead. I guess I don’t take the time to sit and consider. Like I’m serious: we’re getting ready to play the Orioles. All our energy goes into trying to get prepared for that.”
Again, Boone is not going to publicly push for the Yankees to do something. And getting healthy doesn’t mean the team won’t add external pieces.
CORTES AND LOÁISIGA
Speaking of Cortes and Loáisiga, Sunday provided some updates on their rehabs.
Loáisiga tossed two perfect innings with the Tampa Tarpons earlier in the day. He threw 18 pitches, including 15 for strikes. He struck out two.
“I’m excited about Lo, the way he’s looked over the last couple of weeks in his bullpens and his live sessions,” Boone said. “I didn’t see his outing today, but I’ve heard it was really good.
“He seems to be in a really good spot, and obviously looking forward to getting him back. We know the impact he can have at the back of our pen.”
Cortes, meanwhile, is expected to make his last rehab start on Wednesday.
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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — What do you get when you combine a love of automobiles with one of northeastern Pennsylvania’s favorite foods? You get a Piston ‘n’ Pizza Car Show.
Some classic cars and their owners made their way today to “Vince the pizza prince” in south Scranton.
Souped-up sports mobiles and other vintage rides were on display. One man brought his orange-colored Mercury Tiffany, which is considered a premier cougar, for others to see.
It’s one of only several hundred made in the 1980s.
“You’ve got to remember in the ’80s, it was for luxury. It wasn’t for gas mileage. So, you know, this is a very luxurious type of car. It rides absolutely fantastic. But it’s tough to make right-hand turns with it,” said Stephen Salley of Waymart.
“You see everybody show up and just hanging out and having fun, and that’s really the whole idea, bring people together and just enjoy our cars,” said Vince Cianfichi, owner of Vince the Pizza Prince.
Two more Piston ‘n’ Pizza Car Shows are scheduled at this south Scranton business, one in August and another in September. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/local-news/piston-n-pizza-car-show-kicks-off-in-scranton/ | 2023-07-31T00:35:26 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/local-news/piston-n-pizza-car-show-kicks-off-in-scranton/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Storms moving through Central Florida have grounded flights at Orlando International Airport on Sunday, according to the FAA.
“Departures to Orlando International are grounded due to thunderstorms,” read in part the FAA’s statement with departures delayed an average of 75 minutes, and increasing.
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MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. – A massive wildfire burning out of control in California's Mojave National Preserve was spreading rapidly amid erratic winds, while firefighters reported progress against another major blaze to the southwest that prompted evacuations.
The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley.
Wind-driven flames 20 feet (6 meters) high in some spots charred more than 110 square miles (284 square kilometers) of desert scrub, juniper and Joshua tree woodland, according to an incident update.
“The dry fuel acts as a ready ignition source, and when paired with those weather conditions it resulted in long-distance fire run and high flames, leading to extreme fire behavior,” the update said. No structures were threatened. There was zero containment.
To the southwest, the Bonny Fire was holding steady at about 3.4 square miles (8.8 square kilometers) in rugged hills of Riverside County. More than 1,300 people were ordered to evacuate their homes Saturday near the community of Aguanga that is home to horse ranches and wineries.
Gusty winds and the chance of thunderstorms into Monday will heighten the risk of renewed growth, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in a statement.
One firefighter was injured in the blaze, which was 5% contained. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/07/30/erratic-winds-challenge-firefighters-battling-two-major-california-blazes/ | 2023-07-31T00:35:27 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/07/30/erratic-winds-challenge-firefighters-battling-two-major-california-blazes/ |
July keeps sizzling as Phoenix hits another 110-degree day and wildfires spread in California
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) — The pilot in Saturday’s deadly helicopter crash in Springfield is now identified.
According to the Springfield Post of OSP, the preliminary investigation shows Isaac Lee Santos, 36, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was operating the helicopter near I-70 in Clark County on Saturday, July 29, around noon. It is believed by authorities that the pilot lost control, crashed into a field, taking the power lines down onto all lanes of I-70.
Santos was pronounced dead at the scene.
OSP reports only seven vehicles on the interstate were reportedly involved in “minor” crashes. At this time, law enforcement says no other injuries were reported.
After the highway was closed for numerous hours, traffic is back and moving following the crash.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/pilot-idd-after-deadly-helicopter-crash-in-clark-county/ | 2023-07-31T00:35:32 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/pilot-idd-after-deadly-helicopter-crash-in-clark-county/ |
RICHMOND, Va. – Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go to win at Richmond Raceway on Sunday and snag one of the final spots in NASCAR's playoff field.
Buescher led 88 laps and was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go. That erased his lead over Virginia native Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd in pre-race.
But Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season, third of his career.
"I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,” Buescher said.
He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps in their Fords. Keselowski, now a part owner of the team, led 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval.
Buescher started 26th and had to drive the field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field with four races remaining in the regular season. Buescher became the 13th race winner this year and there are three playoff spots up for grabs over the next month.
It was the 139th Cup win for primary team owner Jack Roush, second since Keselowski joined the ownership group.
Ford now has 723rd wins in NASCAR's top Cup Series.
“Everybody at RFK Racing who has worked so hard to get us to this point," said Buescher.
Hamlin, winner last week at Pocono, finished second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Kyle Busch was third in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, followed by the Fords of Joey Logano from Team Penske and Ryan Preece of Stewart-Haas Racing.
“One win is good, but you get three or four or five and then you feel a lot better," said Keselowski. "It sure beats not having any at all, but we want to keep going. It’s nice to have one car locked in the playoffs. We need to get both cars locked in the playoffs. We have a good points gap, but we want wins and this is where we need to be.”
Keselowski, despite being winless this season, is still mathematically in contention for the playoffs.
The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, with the final yellow sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory.
Hamlin's bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. He finished 0.549-seconds behind Buescher.
“I got a bad restart,” Hamlin said. “I had to recover too much ground from what I lost on the frontstretch. Almost got to the outside, and then in turn four, almost got to the outside again, and then in turn one, I was like ‘I’m just going to ship it in there and try to get to the outside one more time’ and I just carried way too much speed and locked up the left front tires.”
LARSON-HAMLIN
Kyle Larson, angered last week when Hamlin caused him to hit the wall while leading while Hamlin went on to win, was running a few laps down when he nudged Hamlin out of the way with 70 laps to go during Sunday's race.
Larson, who won at Richmond in April, finished 19th.
“I think he was having a frustrating day," Hamlin said. “It's all good.”
SCORCHER
With temperatures in the mid-80s, it was about 15 degrees cooler than Saturday, when the temperature approached 100 and the heat index was at least 105.
Nevertheless, points leader Martin Truex Jr. still struggled.
“It was definitely really, really hot," he said. “It felt longer than 400 laps. I’ll be honest, when we got to the end of stage two —– I thought there was no way. I thought that was the checkered flag. It just felt really, really long.”
Truex finished seventh.
CLEAN RACE
All 36 cars that started the race were still running at the end.
UP NEXT
The series moves to Michigan where Kevin Harvick, winless so far in this his final season, is the defending champion.
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PLYMOUTH, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A rare bird was spotted in the Wyoming Valley by a member of the 28/22 family.
A roseate spoonbill, a bird that normally spends its summers along the Florida coast, made its way to Luzerne County.
PA live! co-host Chris Bohinski got this video for 28/22 News. He learned that the spoonbill was first spotted at Plymouth flats shortly after Saturday’s storm subsided.
Roseate spoonbills get their pink feathers from the crustaceans they eat.
It’s believed there’s been a successful breeding year for these pale pink birds along the southern US coast, leading some of the juveniles to wander northward during storm systems.
“Beautiful day, it just happens to be my birthday. Got a great gift, saw a Roseate Spoonbill, a lifer for me. It’s a rare bird for this area, it’s phenomenal. Nothing like it!” said NEPA birdwatcher Stephen Evans.
This bird is expected to only stay a short time locally.
Bird watchers and nature lovers are encouraged to be patient as thick vegetation often makes viewing this rare bird a bit tricky. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/rare-bird-spotted-in-wyoming-valley/ | 2023-07-31T00:35:38 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/rare-bird-spotted-in-wyoming-valley/ |
TAMPA, Fla. – Ronde Barber never doubted he’d wind up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The undersized cornerback’s journey included some of the most memorable plays in Tampa Bay Buccaneers history, as well as several trips to Canton in which he resisted the temptation to step foot in the building where he’ll be enshrined as part of a class of nine 2023 inductees.
Barber, 48, played much of his career in the shadow of twin brother Tiki, who garnered far more attention as a star running back for the New York Giants.
That is until Ronde turned himself into a household name with a 92-yard interception return for a touchdown that sealed the 2002 NFC championship game and propelled the once hapless Bucs to their first Super Bowl appearance.
“It took a long time to get where I am, but I truly believed I was going to get there,” Barber said, looking back on a 16-year career in which he set an NFL mark for consecutive starts by a defensive back and never missed a game because of injury.
“I’ve been (to Canton) five times. I’ve never gone through the Hall,” he added. “I was purposely waiting until I had my opportunity to go in.”
Barber becomes the fourth member from a defense that dominated the league in the late 1990s and early 2000s to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, joining Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks and John Lynch. He struggled early, only to persevere and become every bit as important to Tampa Bay’s success as the others.
“We wouldn’t have been as great without him,” Brooks said.
“He’s the best nickel corner who’s ever played. It ain’t even close,” Sapp offered. “That only begins to tell the story.”
Barber, a self-described perfectionist, blossomed in the Tampa 2 defensive scheme Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy brought to the Bucs in the mid-1990s. He excelled outside in base formations and revolutionized the nickel role when he moved inside to cover slot receivers and disrupt opposing offenses as a run-stopper and pass rusher.
Barber especially had a knack for delivering when the Bucs seemed to need him most, fully embracing opportunities to step up and help himself, Brooks, Sapp and Lynch change the perception of a franchise once referred to as the “Yucks.”
“I wanted to be that guy,” Barber said.
“Most teams used their third-best corner in nickel. Ronde was our best, and the best to ever do what he did," Sapp noted. "Nobody else was versatile enough, durable enough to play at that level outside and inside. He wasn’t a big guy, but he wasn’t afraid of anything. He wanted perfection and prepared to do anything necessary to help us win.”
A three-time, first-team All-Pro, Barber is the only player in NFL history with at least 40 interceptions (47) and 25 sacks (28). He scored 14 non-offensive touchdowns, fourth most all time behind Devin Hester and Hall of Famers Deion Sanders and Rod Woodson.
After appearing in just one game — and playing poorly — as a rookie, the 1997 third-round draft pick out of Virginia appeared in 240 consecutive games over the final 15 years of his career. He started the last 215, the longest-ever streak by a defensive back.
“I never wanted to see anybody else do my job,” Barber said.
“He worked hard to perfect that position. He knew what it took to earn that job,” Brooks, who had a streak of 208 consecutive starts at linebacker, said. “When we got on the field it was going to take something drastic to get us out of there.”
For all his accomplishments, including the long interception return against the Philadelphia Eagles that clinched Tampa Bay’s first trip to the Super Bowl, Barber may be most proud of his streak of consecutive games played.
He appreciates the impressive numbers he compiled, as well as winning a Super Bowl. But there’s just something about defying the odds of not missing a game in 15 years.
Especially for a guy who appeared much smaller than his listed playing size of 5-foot-10, 184 pounds.
“With perseverance and hard work, really dedication to doing things uncommon ... you can be special,” Barber said. “There was a lot that went into that, and I’m glad it’s now being appreciated.”
Barber, Sapp and Brooks also think it’s pretty cool that long after their playing careers have ended, the Tampa 2 defense lives on.
Numerous teams have adopted variations of the scheme, though without the level of success the Bucs enjoyed in their defensive heyday.
“That’s because it’s not the system, it’s the players in the system,” Brooks said. “Ronde, with his ability, allowed our defense to expand to all areas of the field. That’s hard to duplicate.”
Pittsburgh’s defense was nicknamed the “Steel Curtain” in the 1970s. Minnesota's defense was once known as the “Purple People Eaters.”
The Bucs Hall of Famers take pride that the scheme they flourished in carries the name of the city wherever it's implemented.
“We compared favorably to everybody over the years,” said Barber, who will be inducted on Aug. 5, along with DeMarcus Ware, Darrelle Revis, Joe Thomas, Zach Thomas, Joe Klecko, Chuck Howley, Don Coryell and Ken Riley.
Tiki, a six-time 1,000-yard rusher who ran for 10,449 yards and scored 67 TDs over 10 seasons with the Giants, will present Ronde to the Hall.
“Telling him was one of the highlights of my life,” said Ronde, who hopes one day Tiki will be enshrined in Canton, too. “He said, ’Now that you’re in, I’m in.'"
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MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
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At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age.
“People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. Rodriguez pointed specifically to federal COVID-19 relief payments and government spending increases on infrastructure and other social programs.
Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.
His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change.
Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality — like when he recalled that, while attending a St. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Truman.
“Purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.
In 2020, 61% of voters under age 30 — and 55% of those between 30 and 44 — supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate.
It’s an age group with which Republicans hope to make inroads. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner in the GOP presidential primary and is only 3 1/2 years younger than Biden, said Friday, “We are hitting the young person’s market like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, referred to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in arguing that “young people are acutely impacted by the issues front and center in this election, driven by the extreme MAGA agenda.” He said that included inaction on climate change, gun violence and student debt.
“We will meet younger Americans where they are and turn their energy into action,” Munoz said in a statement.
That might not defuse questions about age, though, when it comes to Biden or Trump.
“There’s a frustration and exhaustion that they feel with the rematch,” Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies, said of young voters.
“That’s more of a problem than either of those two candidates individually, is that a system can just keep reproducing,” Woodbury added. “And I think a lot of people just find that untenable.”
An April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25% of Democrats under 45 said they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. A majority of Democrats across age groups said they would probably support him as the party’s nominee, however.
Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Plans are underway to expand on its work last cycle, including trainings it held on how best to turn out voters.
The Republican National Committee is trying to use Biden’s age against him, posting online videos of Biden seeming frail or making verbal gaffes, such as when he declared in June “God save the queen,” nearly nine months after the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Rodriguez shrugged off online attacks, “People can make all the hit pieces and memes and TikToks all they want.”
A starker contrast might be between the president and rising Democrats such as 46-year-old California Rep. Ro Khanna and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 41, one of Biden’s primary rivals in 2020. Neither seriously entertained running for the White House in 2024 and have backed Biden’s reelection.
“The only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job,” Buttigieg, who was 37 when he launched his 2020 presidential bid, said recently on CNN. Khanna told Fox News Channel that age will “obviously” be a 2024 factor, but suggested that Biden’s staff “overprotects” him and “the more he’s out there, the better.”
Other top young Democrats have lined up to back Biden. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to Congress last year at 26, is on the Biden campaign’s advisory board, as is Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 44. New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, 33, recently endorsed Biden.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive who says strong turnout among young voters helped him win a runoff election this spring, said Biden’s policies transcend his age. Johnson noted that the president’s work “around climate justice speaks not just to this generation, but generations to come.”
“The excitement that I believe that we’re going to have is going to speak to the incredible work and organizing that we are committed to doing as a party,” said Johnson, 47. “And we’re looking forward to working with the president over the course of his next four years.”
Still, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, acknowledged that even the president’s supporters understand how demanding the White House can be.
“People worry about Joe Biden. They worry like you would worry about a beloved father or grandfather,” said Weingarten, 65. “What you normally hear from Democrats is this sense of, ‘OK, I just want him to be OK.’ And you’re hearing just the consternation of, ’This is a hard job.’”
Biden said he “took a hard look” at his age while deciding to seek a second term. But he’s also tried to suggest his age and experience are assets rather than liabilities by joking repeatedly about them. That’s a departure from 2020, when Biden called himself a “transition candidate” and pledged to be a “bridge” to younger Democrats.
Santiago Mayer, the founder of Voters of Tomorrow, which has 20-plus chapters nationwide and works to increase political engagement among young voters, argues that Biden is not defying his past promise by running for reelection, but keeping it.
“He just needs more time,” said Mayer, who graduated from California State University at Long Beach in May. “I think the second term is a very important part of that pledge. He’s building a progressive future for young people and he can’t actually pass the baton until that’s done.”
One key policy piece of Biden’s efforts to appeal to young voters, providing student debt relief, was recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House has launched a new effort, but it will take longer.
“Of course it’s going to dampen some of that because people are disappointed,” Weingarten said of the ruling’s effect on enthusiasm for Biden. But she said the decision could also motivate young Biden supporters anxious show their support for the president’s alternative plan.
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70,000-acre California wildfire crosses into Nevada, is 0% contained
Unpredictable winds and dry fuels are creating challenges for firefighters struggling to slow a 70,000-acre wildfire that started in California’s Mojave National Preserve and spread across the border into Nevada on Sunday afternoon.
Federal fire officials reported that the York fire was 0% contained as of 2 p.m. Sunday.
“Over the last couple of days, there’s been general breezy south-to-southwest winds across the region, and that’s helped push it off [to] the northeast,” said Ashley Nickerson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas. “We’ve also had showers and thunderstorms in the area, which has caused sudden erratic winds, and that makes it really hard to contain a fire as well.”
Nickerson said the difficult conditions were not expected to let up over the next couple of days as the winds continued with gusts of 20 to 30 mph and moisture increased, bringing the possibility of more thunderstorms.
The blaze started in federal lands in the Mojave National Preserve and was first observed Friday burning near Caruthers Canyon, said Stephanie Bishop, a National Park Service public information officer and spokesperson for the York fire. The cause of the blaze has not yet been determined, Bishop said.
Clark County advised the public to avoid State Route 164 in Nevada and said its Fire Department was preparing to go on the offensive to protect residential areas. Officials said the Nevada communities of Nipton and Searchlight could be at risk, but no evacuations have been ordered yet.
The National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, San Bernardino County Fire Protection District, and Clark County Fire are providing resources to support suppression efforts, which include air and ground crews for a total of 219 personnel.
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Police are looking for a missing 56-year-old woman.
Mary Jane Putnam, 56, was last seen on July 19 or July 20 on Fort Pitt Blvd. between Smithfield Street and Wood Street.
Police say Putnam got into a vehicle with an unknown man.
She was last seen wearing a pink t-shirt, light blue jeans and white shoes. She was also wearing a blue backpack.
Putnam is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds. She has blond/white/silver hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information on Putnam’s location is asked to call 412-323-7141 or to dial 911.
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Struggling Sparks can’t keep pace with high-flying Liberty in loss
Breanna Stewart scored 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Jonquel Jones added 13 points and 13 boards and New York never trailed Sunday in the Liberty’s 87-79 win over the Sparks.
Marine Johannes made five of seven from three-point range and finished with 15 points for the Liberty (19-6). Sabrina Ionescu added 14 points, six rebounds and five assists and Courtney Vandersloot scored eight points with nine assists and six rebounds.
New York, which played its seventh game in 12 days, is off to the best 25-game start in franchise history. The Liberty have won five of their last six.
Nneka Ogwumike had 25 points, Jordin Canada added 21, and the Sparks beat the Indiana Fever 81-68 on Thursday for their second series victory in two days.
Ionescu and Johannes each hit two three-pointers in a 19-0 run that made it 21-2 with 2:52 left in the first quarter. Nneka Ogwumike scored for the Sparks to make it 2-2 but they went scoreless for the next nearly-six minutes, missing 12 straight field-goal attempts.
Los Angeles (9-16), which had won back-to-back games over the Indiana Fever, has lost nine of its last 11.
Dearica Hamby scored 21 points, Jordin Canada added 17 and Azurá Stevens 13 for the Sparks. Ogwumike had 10 points.
The Liberty moved a game in front of third-place Connecticut in the WNBA standings, 3½ games back of first-place Las Vegas.
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PITTSBURGH — Despite stress brought on by the ongoing Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting trial, a community was able to come together to celebrate a Jewish tradition in Squirrel Hill.
A Torah scroll was dedicated in honor of Joyce Fienberg, who was killed in the synagogue shooting, and her husband, the later Dr. Stephen Fienberg at the Shaare Torah Congregation on Sunday. The scroll will stay there permanently.
The scroll was first carried down Murray Avenue in a parade-like procession that is meant to symbolize the return of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.
It can take more than a year to complete a Torah scroll. Every character in the school has to be identical and written by hand, on parchment, in special ink and rolled onto wooden handles. The scroll has to be exactly 72 pages and approved by two professionals.
The Fienberg family members, their friends and the rest of the community were all in attendance for the celebration.
“It is something that we believe is not only a gift to generations to come but proving that we still value the continuation of the most important aspects of Judaism, proving that irreplaceable link from generation to generation,” Joyce and Stephen’s son, Anthony, said.
The theme of linking past and future generations was one of the most important aspects of the celebration.
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One of the NFL's most intriguing backfield tandems is sidelined.
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll told reporters Sunday that running backs Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet are both unavailable to practice. Walker is dealing with a lingering groin injury that has kept him out of multiple practices since the start of training camp last week. Rookie Zach Charbonnet is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. The prognosis for both is unclear.
Walker was one of the NFL's best rookies last season after the Seahawks selected him in the second round of the the 2022 draft. He led the team in rushing with 1,050 yards and nine touchdowns on 4.6 yards per carry. He also posted 165 yards on 27 receptions.
Despite Walker's success, the Seahawks invested another second-round draft pick this year to select Charbonnet out of UCLA. A straight-ahead runner who tallied 1,359 yards and 14 touchdowns on seven yards per carry as a senior, Charbonnet projects to see significant action as part of a 1-2 tandem with Walker who could specialize in third-down situations.
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UPLAND, Calif. — A pilot and two passengers were killed Sunday after a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar at a Southern California airport and burst into flames, authorities said.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Beechcraft P35 crashed as it took off at about 6:30 a.m. PDT from Cable Airport in Upland, about 37 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, KABC-TV reported.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department stated that fire crews arrived at the scene to fight flames that had engulfed the hangar, KTLA-TV reported. The fire was brought under control in about 15 minutes, the fire department wrote in a Facebook post.
“Around 6:40 a.m., San Bernardino Fire responded to reports of a structure fire at the Cable Airport,” Eric Sherwin, a spokesperson for the fire department, said in a statement. “An additional 911 caller stated that a light aircraft had crashed into one of the hangars.”
The pilot and passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, the fire department stated in the Facebook post.
The hangar is used to support the Ontario Police Department’s aviation unit, KCAL-TV reported. Several helicopters are stored at the location, according to the television station. Crews were able to prevent damage to the three helicopters stored in the hangar on Sunday, fire officials said.
None of the police vehicles or helicopters were damaged as a result of the crash, according to KTLA.
“I heard a very loud noise, sounded like a truck hit a building,” a neighbor, who did not give his name, told the television station. “My dad flies out of Apple Valley Airport and lands here all the time, and we do occasionally see people come up short and a couple crashes here. But nothing this bad, ever. This is really, really bad.”
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash, according to KABC.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
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 breathe, 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 its 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.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The family of a South Florida woman who died after ingesting a kratom product two years ago was awarded $11 million in a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday.
Circuit Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued a final default judgment against Grow, LLC, and Sean Michael Harder, the owner and operator of The Kratom Distro, WPTV reported. The defendants were sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Family members alleged that Krystal Talavera, 39, of Boynton Beach, died on June 20, 2021, after ingesting a kratom product supplied by Grow, LLC.
Mom of 4 died after using kratom in Florida, lawsuit says. Company owes family $11M https://t.co/LC5uBQcGda
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 29, 2023
Talavera, a registered nurse, was discovered unconscious and lying face down in her living room floor, the Sun-Sentinel reported. A cup of hot coffee and an open bag of “Space Dust,” a product sold by Grow LLC, was found next to her, according to the lawsuit.
It was Father’s Day, and Biagio Vultaggio, the father of Talavera’s youngest child, found her unresponsive, the Miami Herald reported.
Talavera was a registered nurse at Trustbridge Hospice Care in West Palm Beach and had recently been promoted to manager before her death, the Herald reported.
“I again emphasize that no award of damages will ever be adequate and that this decision reflects nothing more than an adherence to prior cases,” Middlebrook said in announcing the monetary award, according to WPEC-TV.
According to WPTV, the breakdown of the cash award was $4,642,895.70 for the estate of Krystal Talavera, $1 million for Devin Filippelli as Talavera’s surviving oldest son; and $2 million for her other three children.
According to the lawsuit, the “Space Dust” product is derived from kratom, or Mitragyna speciosa, a natural plant with origins in Southeast Asia that is commonly sold as a supplement in U.S. stores, WPTV reported.
The product is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
An autopsy performed by the Palm Beach County Coroner determined that Talavera’s cause of death was “acute mitragynine intoxication,” according to the lawsuit. “At high concentrations, mitragynine produces opioid-like effects, such as respiratory failure,” the coroner’s office said.
Talavera used the product “under the belief that Kratom was a safe dietary supplement with several health benefits,” the lawsuit stated.
“This $11 million dollar judgment should be a wakeup call to the kratom industry about this dangerous and unregulated substance,” Tamara Williams, the family’s attorney, said in a statement. “There are families across the country who know firsthand that kratom is addictive and can be deadly.”
Representatives for Grow, LLC, did not return a request for comment from the Herald.
Filippelli, 21, said in a statement that he hoped the ruling will bring awareness to “the dangers of kratom,” the newspaper reported.
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Remains of WWII veteran killed in Romania identified, laid to rest
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The remains of a missing U.S. Army Lieutenant were laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday.
According to WOIO, First Lieutenant Army Air Corps George “Bud” Julius Reuter was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Reuter, who was 25 years old at the time, was killed in action on August 1, 1943 near Ploiesti, Romania.
Reuter’s remains were identified January 10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After the war, many airmen were interred by Romanian citizens in the Bolovan Cemetery in Ploiesti. The American Graves Registration Command exhumed many unknown remains to identify U.S. veterans who went missing. The organization eventually reinterred the remains that could not be identified.
Reuter was laid to rest near his parents John George and Elizabeth Theodocia Reuter.
A memorial service was held for the lieutenant which included the presentation of four military medals: the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy.
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RICHMOND, Va. — (AP) — Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go to win at Richmond Raceway on Sunday and snag one of the final spots in NASCAR's playoff field.
Buescher led 88 laps and was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go. That erased his lead over Virginia native Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd in pre-race.
But Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season, third of his career.
"I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,” Buescher said.
He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps in their Fords. Keselowski, now a part owner of the team, led 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval.
Buescher started 26th and had to drive the field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field with four races remaining in the regular season. Buescher became the 13th race winner this year and there are three playoff spots up for grabs over the next month.
It was the 139th Cup win for primary team owner Jack Roush, second since Keselowski joined the ownership group.
Ford now has 723rd wins in NASCAR's top Cup Series.
“Everybody at RFK Racing who has worked so hard to get us to this point," said Buescher.
Hamlin, winner last week at Pocono, finished second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Kyle Busch was third in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, followed by the Fords of Joey Logano from Team Penske and Ryan Preece of Stewart-Haas Racing.
“One win is good, but you get three or four or five and then you feel a lot better," said Keselowski. "It sure beats not having any at all, but we want to keep going. It’s nice to have one car locked in the playoffs. We need to get both cars locked in the playoffs. We have a good points gap, but we want wins and this is where we need to be.”
Keselowski, despite being winless this season, is still mathematically in contention for the playoffs.
The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, with the final yellow sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory.
Hamlin's bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. He finished 0.549-seconds behind Buescher.
“I got a bad restart,” Hamlin said. “I had to recover too much ground from what I lost on the frontstretch. Almost got to the outside, and then in turn four, almost got to the outside again, and then in turn one, I was like ‘I’m just going to ship it in there and try to get to the outside one more time’ and I just carried way too much speed and locked up the left front tires.”
LARSON-HAMLIN
Kyle Larson, angered last week when Hamlin caused him to hit the wall while leading while Hamlin went on to win, was running a few laps down when he nudged Hamlin out of the way with 70 laps to go during Sunday's race.
Larson, who won at Richmond in April, finished 19th.
“I think he was having a frustrating day," Hamlin said. “It's all good.”
SCORCHER
With temperatures in the mid-80s, it was about 15 degrees cooler than Saturday, when the temperature approached 100 and the heat index was at least 105.
Nevertheless, points leader Martin Truex Jr. still struggled.
“It was definitely really, really hot," he said. “It felt longer than 400 laps. I’ll be honest, when we got to the end of stage two —– I thought there was no way. I thought that was the checkered flag. It just felt really, really long.”
Truex finished seventh.
CLEAN RACE
All 36 cars that started the race were still running at the end.
UP NEXT
The series moves to Michigan where Kevin Harvick, winless so far in this his final season, is the defending champion.
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Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
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 breathe, 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 its 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.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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The AL West-leading Texas Rangers continued to load up on pitching by acquiring left-hander Jordan Montgomery and reliever Chris Stratton from the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.
The deal came a few hours after the Rangers announced the acquisition of three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer from the New York Mets. Also on Sunday, the Rangers placed ace Nathan Eovaldi on the 15-day injured list with a right forearm strain, retroactive to July 27.
The Rangers sent left-hander John King, minor league infielder Tommy Saggese and Double-A right-hander T.K. Roby to the Cardinals. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Rangers designated right-hander Joe Barlow for assignment.
Montgomery is 6-9 with a 3.42 ERA in 21 starts for last-place St. Louis, with 108 strikeouts against 35 walks. He can become a free agent after this season.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
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 breathe, 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 its 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.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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TEMPLE, Texas — Two Central Texas soccer coaches are giving back to the community by hosting a charity soccer tournament event for the third year in a row. It's all to help raise funds for a specific family or group in need.
Centex Storm soccer coaches, Abby and Jonathan Hernandez chose Maddie Proctor this year, a young girl who suffers from Rett syndrome. She is 1 out of 350,000 children in the world with this diagnosis.
"Our close friend let us know about what was going on with Maddie, and it was just a no brainer that we wanted her to be our cause this year," Abby Hernandez said. "Our win is giving whatever we can to donate to Maddie."
Rett syndrome is a rare disorder leading to severe impairments. It affects nearly every aspect of life, including the ability to speak, walk, eat and breathe easily.
"For Maddie's specific deletion, there are 47 registered girls in the world, 47 with her specific deletion," Adriene Proctor, Maddie's mother, said.
Maddie Proctor is in eight therapies a week. Through daily physical therapy and a gait trainer, she is currently learning to walk.
"It is so important for her to get therapy every single day, occupational therapy and physical therapy to help her learn to keep that preserved hand movement to help with the preserved speech," Adriene Proctor added.
While the therapy is essential for children like Maddie, it comes at a high price. But with the help of the Hernandez family and a strong community, Maddie and her family will be able to continue the fight.
"They are giving my child additional years on her life," Adriene Proctor said. "That's priceless."
The GoFundMe for Maddie can be found here.
Adriene Proctor says as much as she appreciates the awareness and attention, there are other matters out there and wants to speak out for those who don't always get the chance to be heard.
"Bell County has an influx of special needs families due to being home to McLane Children's Hospital as well as Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos)," Adriene Proctor said. "With Maddie's new diagnosis, we want to take our family pain and strife and turn it into something beautiful. We not only want to be Maddie's voice, but we want to be a voice for all families and children who fight daily for things we all take for granted."
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Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
___
Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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Remains of WWII veteran killed in Romania identified, laid to rest
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The remains of a missing U.S. Army Lieutenant were laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday.
According to WOIO, First Lieutenant Army Air Corps George “Bud” Julius Reuter was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Reuter, who was 25 years old at the time, was killed in action on August 1, 1943 near Ploiesti, Romania.
Reuter’s remains were identified January 10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After the war, many airmen were interred by Romanian citizens in the Bolovan Cemetery in Ploiesti. The American Graves Registration Command exhumed many unknown remains to identify U.S. veterans who went missing. The organization eventually reinterred the remains that could not be identified.
Reuter was laid to rest near his parents John George and Elizabeth Theodocia Reuter.
A memorial service was held for the lieutenant which included the presentation of four military medals: the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy.
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SAN ANTONIO — Bryan Skidmore says "It's hell," as he describes what it's like to be homeless in the heat. Skidmore says he tries to find somewhere cool he can go for him that's a local library.
Skidmore says he tries to tell other homeless where they can go to stay cool.
Advocates say finding a cool place might not always be an option especially for those who suffer from mental health issues. The city says outreach teams are on the ground everyday trying to connect people with services, carrying ice chest with water.
Skidmore says he drinks plenty of water, but it's hard to find cold water. He also says he would like the city to offer more cooling centers, adding he often gets kicked out of places trying to stay cool especially businesses.
"They need to be more open minded and more courteous, understanding. Like I've always told everybody that has kicked me out, they are just one paycheck away from where I am." says Skidmore. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-homeless-population-heat/273-fbe45aa9-9681-4f8a-a69c-e9029e384075 | 2023-07-31T00:38:49 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-homeless-population-heat/273-fbe45aa9-9681-4f8a-a69c-e9029e384075 |
AUSTIN, Texas — Beers and music were flowing inside of the Austin Eastciders Taproom in East Austin on Saturday, but it wasn't a typical hangout.
Sun Radio hosted a summer drive from July 27 to July 29, bringing in roughly 30 local musicians throughout the week in an effort to raise money for its foundation.
The donations are critical to keep the station afloat, as $41,400 from their annual holiday drive on Dec. 31, 2022 is under investigation for fraud, according to the station manager Daryl O'Neal.
"We were contacted by our bank saying someone's trying to pull this money out of the account and that they got a code that said 'donation error,'" said O'Neal.
That someone sent in four different donations: three for $5,175 and another for $24,875. O'Neal said the person behind the donations had initially confirmed over email in January that the contributions were legitimate, but that donor has since gone radio silent.
The funds are now under investigation through the Austin Police Department.
However, O'Neal said it's not just about the money; it's about what Sun Radio does with it. He said the funds primarily go to musicians in Austin, as well as other radio stations that need it.
"It hurts when people steal from us... It disables our ability to give back to the community," O'Neal said.
"Right now, with record heat, we should be giving money out to help those in the music industry who can't afford to live in Austin and cannot afford electric bills or utility bills. But instead, we've got to go raise money to try to start that process over because of fraud, because of selfish people in this world," said O'Neal.
To add insult to injury, the station is also recovering from this year's ice storm, which destroyed several of its buildings and towers.
A spokesperson for APD said the case was handed over to the financial crimes unit on Jan. 11 after it was originally reported on Jan. 3 to the San Antonio Police Department, but could not say much about the state of the investigation:
"In order to protect the integrity of the investigation, the Department does not have further information to provide regarding this incident."
O'Neal, his son Denver and the rest of the staff at Sun Radio said they will keep pushing forward despite the setback, and with the effort put together by everyone, they only hope they can make up what they lost so they can continue to help local artists.
"We really appreciate every penny. It goes to good work in the community and helps support local media and local music and local programming," O'Neal said.
The donation drive has ended, but Sun Radio will continue accepting donations through its website. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/sun-radio-station-donation-drive-after-fraud/269-f9062456-224f-4a6f-af1f-22ea5398bf89 | 2023-07-31T00:38:55 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/sun-radio-station-donation-drive-after-fraud/269-f9062456-224f-4a6f-af1f-22ea5398bf89 |
Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
___
Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
___
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
Muncie is about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The city is home to about 65,000 people. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ | 2023-07-31T00:39:01 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ |
Rotoworld’s brand-new Pickups of the Day column is designed to help fantasy managers uncover a handful of widely-available targets over the course of the season. It could be a breakout candidate, a prospect stash, an injury replacement, a pitcher with a favorable matchup or week, a player who is due some better luck, or any other number of scenarios. If there’s value to be found on the waiver wire, we will find it and bring it your way. Today’s edition features a double shot of Athletics getting an opportunity to shine in the majors over the final two months of the regular season, who are quickly emerging as viable fantasy contributors in all fantasy formats.
Zack Gelof, 2B, Athletics
Available in 93 percent of Yahoo leagues
Gelof is one of just four major-league hitters, joining Ronald Acuña Jr., Corbin Carroll and CJ Abrams, with at least three homers, five stolen bases and a .500 slugging percentage since the All-Star break. That’s some pretty elite company. The 23-year-old rookie second baseman has made an immediate impact for Oakland since his mid-July promotion from Triple-A Las Vegas, batting .235/.304/.529 with three homers and five steals in just 13 games. The rookie infielder was bumped up to the second spot in Oakland’s lineup last week and hasn’t looked back, emerging as a potential key piece of the franchise’s rebuilding effort. With zero competition for at-bats moving forward, he has the potential to provide double-digit homers and stolen bases over the final two months of the 2023 campaign, which should make him worthy of a roster spot in all fantasy formats.
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Luis Medina, SP/RP, Athletics
Available in 90 percent of Yahoo leagues
Medina has quietly emerged as a viable fantasy option in deeper mixed leagues over the last few weeks, allowing three earned runs of fewer in seven of his last nine outings since June 9. He’s recorded at least six strikeouts, while also completing five frames in four straight outings since July 7. The unheralded 24-year-old rookie right-hander got off to an abysmal start earlier this year in the majors, but has done enough of late to warrant consideration for a roster spot, especially in deeper mixed leagues. He managed to survive Coors Field’s high-octane offensive environment on Sunday, limiting Colorado’s lineup to just two runs on six hits with six strikeouts over 5 1/3 frames. He’ll aim to keep the momentum going on Sunday in a favorable home matchup against the Giants. | https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/medinas-meteoric-rise | 2023-07-31T00:39:01 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/medinas-meteoric-rise |
At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age.
“People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. Rodriguez pointed specifically to federal COVID-19 relief payments and government spending increases on infrastructure and other social programs.
Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.
His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change.
Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality — like when he recalled that, while attending a St. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Truman.
“Purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.
In 2020, 61% of voters under age 30 — and 55% of those between 30 and 44 — supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate.
It’s an age group with which Republicans hope to make inroads. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner in the GOP presidential primary and is only 3 1/2 years younger than Biden, said Friday, “We are hitting the young person’s market like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, referred to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in arguing that “young people are acutely impacted by the issues front and center in this election, driven by the extreme MAGA agenda.” He said that included inaction on climate change, gun violence and student debt.
“We will meet younger Americans where they are and turn their energy into action,” Munoz said in a statement.
That might not defuse questions about age, though, when it comes to Biden or Trump.
“There’s a frustration and exhaustion that they feel with the rematch,” Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies, said of young voters.
“That’s more of a problem than either of those two candidates individually, is that a system can just keep reproducing,” Woodbury added. “And I think a lot of people just find that untenable.”
An April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25% of Democrats under 45 said they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. A majority of Democrats across age groups said they would probably support him as the party’s nominee, however.
Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Plans are underway to expand on its work last cycle, including trainings it held on how best to turn out voters.
The Republican National Committee is trying to use Biden’s age against him, posting online videos of Biden seeming frail or making verbal gaffes, such as when he declared in June “God save the queen,” nearly nine months after the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Rodriguez shrugged off online attacks, “People can make all the hit pieces and memes and TikToks all they want.”
A starker contrast might be between the president and rising Democrats such as 46-year-old California Rep. Ro Khanna and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 41, one of Biden’s primary rivals in 2020. Neither seriously entertained running for the White House in 2024 and have backed Biden’s reelection.
“The only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job,” Buttigieg, who was 37 when he launched his 2020 presidential bid, said recently on CNN. Khanna told Fox News Channel that age will “obviously” be a 2024 factor, but suggested that Biden’s staff “overprotects” him and “the more he’s out there, the better.”
Other top young Democrats have lined up to back Biden. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to Congress last year at 26, is on the Biden campaign’s advisory board, as is Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 44. New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, 33, recently endorsed Biden.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive who says strong turnout among young voters helped him win a runoff election this spring, said Biden’s policies transcend his age. Johnson noted that the president’s work “around climate justice speaks not just to this generation, but generations to come.”
“The excitement that I believe that we’re going to have is going to speak to the incredible work and organizing that we are committed to doing as a party,” said Johnson, 47. “And we’re looking forward to working with the president over the course of his next four years.”
Still, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, acknowledged that even the president’s supporters understand how demanding the White House can be.
“People worry about Joe Biden. They worry like you would worry about a beloved father or grandfather,” said Weingarten, 65. “What you normally hear from Democrats is this sense of, ‘OK, I just want him to be OK.’ And you’re hearing just the consternation of, ’This is a hard job.’”
Biden said he “took a hard look” at his age while deciding to seek a second term. But he’s also tried to suggest his age and experience are assets rather than liabilities by joking repeatedly about them. That’s a departure from 2020, when Biden called himself a “transition candidate” and pledged to be a “bridge” to younger Democrats.
Santiago Mayer, the founder of Voters of Tomorrow, which has 20-plus chapters nationwide and works to increase political engagement among young voters, argues that Biden is not defying his past promise by running for reelection, but keeping it.
“He just needs more time,” said Mayer, who graduated from California State University at Long Beach in May. “I think the second term is a very important part of that pledge. He’s building a progressive future for young people and he can’t actually pass the baton until that’s done.”
One key policy piece of Biden’s efforts to appeal to young voters, providing student debt relief, was recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House has launched a new effort, but it will take longer.
“Of course it’s going to dampen some of that because people are disappointed,” Weingarten said of the ruling’s effect on enthusiasm for Biden. But she said the decision could also motivate young Biden supporters anxious show their support for the president’s alternative plan.
“It is also about the fight,” Weingarten said “not just about the results.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/joe-biden-the-oldest-sitting-president-needs-young-voters-will-his-age-matter/ | 2023-07-31T00:39:07 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/joe-biden-the-oldest-sitting-president-needs-young-voters-will-his-age-matter/ |
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves added veteran infielder Nicky Lopez in a trade with the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.
The major league-leading Braves sent left-hander Taylor Hearn to Kansas City for the 28-year-old Lopez, who can play shortstop, second base and third.
Hearn was designated for assignment by Texas on July 19. He was traded to Atlanta last week for cash, and he got one out in his only appearance with the Braves on Saturday.
Lopez hit .213 with 13 RBIs in 68 games with Kansas City this season. He is a .248 hitter with five homers and 119 RBIs in 520 career games - all with the Royals.
He was selected by Kansas City in the fifth round of the 2016 amateur draft and made his big league debut in 2019. | https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/atlanta-braves-acquire-veteran-infielder-nicky-lopez-in-a-trade-with-the-kansas-city-royals | 2023-07-31T00:39:11 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/atlanta-braves-acquire-veteran-infielder-nicky-lopez-in-a-trade-with-the-kansas-city-royals |
Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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SAN DIEGO — The AL West-leading Texas Rangers continued to load up on pitching by acquiring left-hander Jordan Montgomery and reliever Chris Stratton from the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.
The deal came a few hours after the Rangers announced the acquisition of three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer from the New York Mets. Also on Sunday, the Rangers placed ace Nathan Eovaldi on the 15-day injured list with a right forearm strain, retroactive to July 27.
The Rangers sent left-hander John King, minor league infielder Tommy Saggese and Double-A right-hander T.K. Roby to the Cardinals. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Rangers designated right-hander Joe Barlow for assignment.
Montgomery is 6-9 with a 3.42 ERA in 21 starts for last-place St. Louis, with 108 strikeouts against 35 walks. He can become a free agent after this season.
Stratton is 1-1 with a 4.36 ERA and one save in 42 relief appearances, with 59 strikeouts and 17 walks. | https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/rangers-acquire-starting-pitcher-jordan-montgomery-and-reliever-chris-stratton-from-the-cardinals | 2023-07-31T00:39:21 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/rangers-acquire-starting-pitcher-jordan-montgomery-and-reliever-chris-stratton-from-the-cardinals |
It looks like the end of the road for one of the nation's largest freight carriers.
Yellow, a trucking company that just three years ago took a $700 million federal pandemic loan, has reportedly shut down after laying off employees at all locations. The company is expected to file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday, according to industry experts, following a recent exodus of customers amid union strife and on top of years of financial troubles.
With 30,000 jobs at stake, it would be the largest trucking bankruptcy in the history of the U.S., experts said. The company, formerly known as YRC Worldwide, is the third largest less-than-truckload carrier by revenue, behind FedEx and Old Dominion. LTL companies move pallet-sized shipments — smaller than a container, but bigger than a parcel.
Yellow has not publicly announced any plans for bankruptcy or a potential shutdown.
Here's what we know.
Employees are told to prepare for a company shutdown
The Wall Street Journal reported that Yellow shut down on Sunday afternoon, citing internal notices sent to customers and employees.
According to the industry outlet FreightWaves, which also obtained internal documents, Yellow says it plans to issue a public statement on Monday about "the state of the company and the operation."
NPR has not independently confirmed the shutdown and Yellow has not responded to NPR's requests for comment.
Yellow laid off an unknown number of its employees on Friday, reported FreightWaves, citing a memo sent to staff informing them that the company is "shutting down its regular operations" and "laying off employees at all of its locations."
Meanwhile, Teamsters, who represent Yellow's 22,000 unionized workers, advised Yellow employees to "prepare for the worst."
"Yellow appears to be headed to a complete shutdown within the next few days," said Teamsters National Freight Director John Murphy in a Friday memo shared with NPR. He advised drivers to collect their belongings so that they don't get caught up in bankruptcy liquidation.
The Teamsters union declined to comment about a potential bankruptcy or shutdown.
A strike threat delivered a final blow to cash-poor Yellow
Reports of a shutdown come days after a Teamsters strike at the company was averted. A week ago, a pension fund agreed to extend health benefits for workers at two Yellow operating companies after the carrier missed its $50 million benefits payment to the fund on July 15, the union said.
While the extension held off a July 24 strike, the threat of a walkout that could disrupt operations prompted a wave of Yellow customers to bolt.
"The Teamsters actions induced a high level of variability and uncertainty in the market for Yellow's customers. The market abhors variability and uncertainty," wrote Mike Regan, co-founder of TranzAct Technologies, which manages transportation services for retailers. "Consequently, Yellow lost substantial and much needed volume."
After the strike threat, Yellow's freight volumes fell 80% within the span of a week, according to Jack Atkins, a managing director at the financial services firm Stephens who researches the transportation sector.
At the same time, he said, Yellow's cries that it was running out of cash during union negotiation attempts scared off customers. Since then, customers haven't returned.
"Both sides bear fault," Atkins said. "Once that freight left, there was nothing left to really restructure," he added. "It was really too late to save the company."
The company has been at risk of bankruptcy for years
Animus between Yellow and Teamsters has grown in recent months, after the trucking carrier tried to restructure its operations this spring as a cost-saving measure that would allow it to refinance its debt. In June, Yellow sued the union for blocking the restructuring plan it said was "essential to the company's survival." The Teamsters in turn called the lawsuit "baseless," instead blaming Yellow for "decades of gross mismanagement," that included its alleged exhaustion of the $700 million bailout loan.
The company reported a net income of $21.8 million last year. Yellow has $1.3 billion in loan debt due in fall 2024, $729 million of which is owed to the federal government, according to the company's latest quarterly report.
Yellow received a $700 million loan from the government in 2020 as part of a COVID-19 rescue package. In return, the Treasury Department took a 30% stake in the company's shares, which have since plummeted to less than a dollar apiece as of Friday.
In June, a congressional probe found that the Treasury Department's disbursement of the loan was a mistake; the freight company — whose customers included the Department of Defense — did not actually meet the standards to qualify for the business loan because its survival was not "critical to maintaining national security."
"Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Yellow was a financially struggling company that had a long-term non-investment grade (i.e., junk) rating and previous close calls with bankruptcy over the years. The pandemic did not cause Yellow's longstanding problems, nor is the Treasury's loan to the company likely to solve those problems," the Congressional Oversight Commission report read.
A world without Yellow
An end to the Nashville-based company would mean the loss of 30,000 jobs. And Atkins doesn't expect the federal government to come to the rescue this time.
While there may be some slight disruptions, the analyst anticipates other freight carriers will have some capacity to absorb Yellow's business because of the dent in freight volumes.
"This is not going to create a supply-chain crisis," he said.
Retailers and manufacturers are likely to see higher shipping rates if the company folds, he said. Yellow is known for its low shipping rates compared to its rivals.
Atkins visited the Yellow terminal in Little Rock, Ark., on Sunday to find all gates chained up, a sign of ceased operations.
"They've been in wind-down mode, clearing the network out of all the remaining freight," he said. "This is the end."
NPR's Camila Domonoske contributed to this story.
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'I saw the brutality': Grandparents of JJ Vallow await Lori Vallow's sentencing
Sunday, July 30 is the eve of Lori Vallow’s sentencing in Idaho – the so-called "Doomsday mom" who once lived in the East Valley is now a convicted murderer and is awaiting her fate.
The jury found her guilty of using her religious beliefs to justify killing her two kids in May.
Now, the question is, what will the judge sentence Lori to?
The whole Rexburg community in Idaho is buzzing and some will be lining up in the early hours of the morning to get inside the courtroom and witness history.
But, for Larry and Kay Woodcock, the grandparents of JJ Vallow, this sentencing means the end of a daunting chapter and hopeful closure.
Nearly three months after a jury found Lori guilty on all six counts against her, including five murder charges, the Woodcocks are ready for this moment.
Lori is convicted of murdering JJ and his teen sister Tylee Ryan, and conspiring in the murder of Tammy Daybell, her husband's late wife.
"Yeah and that was a huge relief and another thing is, I totally believe that Lori was an active participant in the actual murder of JJ and Tylee," Kay said.
In June 2020, authorities found the remains of her grandson, 7-year-old JJ, and 16-year-old Tylee, buried in the backyard of Chad Daybell's Idaho home.
The tragic discovery was made several months after Lori and her new husband refused to tell anyone the children’s whereabouts.
During Lori’s own trial, prosecutors revealed how she and her co-defendant identified the victims as dark spirits or zombies.
"And I went through all those photographs. Every one of them. I saw the fingerprints, I saw the bruises, I saw the brutality that was perpetrated on those two children. Somebody that can do that has no soul, has no love," Larry said.
Kay & Larry Woodcock
Prosecutors also convinced the jury that money, power and sex motivated Lori and Chad during their affair, leading to a series of deadly events.
In Maricopa County, Lori is accused of conspiring with her late brother Alex Cox in the fatal shooting of Charles Vallow, her fourth husband.
She’s also guilty of plotting the death of Chad’s first wife Tammy.
Kay will make her victim impact statement in court and wants Lori to be given a life sentence for each of the five murder charges, plus no chance at parole.
"She dies in prison without anyone she loves being around her," Kay remarked.
Click here for all Vallow-related coverage from FOX 10 – including our 30-minute special, Murder, Money & The End of Days: The Lori Vallow Story. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/brutality-grandparents-jj-vallow-await-lori-vallows-sentencing-tylee-ryan | 2023-07-31T00:39:31 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/brutality-grandparents-jj-vallow-await-lori-vallows-sentencing-tylee-ryan |
Julius Erving has had the same five best players of all time ever since he was 15. He’s not changing it now for the modern game.
Dr. J sat down with an interview with Joy DeAngela and she asked him about his top 10 players of all time list. His answer is not what you expect (hat tip Basketnews for the transcription).
“I have five guys who are untouchable — Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Elgin Baylor. That’s my all-time best team. Everybody else has to be on the second or third teams, and I made this decision when I was 15 years old. I’m sticking with it now all these years later. There is no order. I think West and Robertson would be in the backcourt. Elgin Baylor would be in the frontcourt with Wilt and Bill Russell.
The next group of guys would be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Ervin ‘Magic’ Johnson, probably Karl Malone. I always argue with my son where Tim Duncan belongs, and he’s like, ‘He belongs ahead of Karl Malone for sure.’ I’m taking Karl Malone and that last position... I like Tiny Archibald.”
When DeAngela asks him about current players such as Stephen Curry or LeBron James, Erving said he only names players whose careers are over.
He’s Dr. J, a Hall of Famer and Philly legend, and we won’t argue his list. Baylor may be the star player most underrated by modern fans, who don’t always understand he was the first to popularize playing above the rim. Karl Malone over Tim Duncan may not be the call I would make, but one can argue it, at least. No active players? I think we have reached the point in LeBron’s career where there is a large enough body of work to say he is top 10 all-time. But it’s Dr. J’s list, and if he wants the also underrated Tiny Archibald on there, so be it.
It’s definitely a deviation from the standard, but it’s an interesting top 10. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/julius-ervings-all-time-top-10-includes-tiny-archibald-no-active-players | 2023-07-31T00:39:31 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/julius-ervings-all-time-top-10-includes-tiny-archibald-no-active-players |
Infant dies in Phoenix home, investigation underway
PHOENIX - Phoenix police are investigating the death of an infant at a home near 10th Avenue and Mountain View Road.
Officers were called at around 9:30 a.m. after someone reported that the child was not breathing.
"The Phoenix Fire Department arrived and attempted life saving measure (sic) however the child was pronounced deceased on scene," said Sgt. Robert Scherer with Phoenix PD.
The cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Medical Examiner. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/infant-dies-in-phoenix-home-investigation-underway | 2023-07-31T00:39:37 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/infant-dies-in-phoenix-home-investigation-underway |
A fire under a New Jersey Transit rail car caused delays and forced hundreds of riders off the train Sunday afternoon, officials said.
New Jersey Transit Police received a notification of a fire under a rail car at the Red Bank station at about 4:20 p.m. Sunday, according to officials.
The North Jersey Coast Line train 7248 had departed Long Branch just after 4 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive at Penn Station in New York at 5:43 p.m., according to NJ Transit.
The officers took the 400 riders off the train as a precaution, officials said. None of the riders were injured from the fire, according to NJ Transit.
Transit police local fire officials stopped train traffic while they investigated the incident, officials said. Traffic has since resumed, NJ Transit said in a statement.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, officials said.
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Police responded to a call of a possible threat in Fort Worth on Sunday evening.
According to the Fort Worth Fire Department, just before 5:30 p.m., they received multiple calls of an active shooter and bomb threat at Hulen Mall.
Upon arrival, officers and fire personnel quickly began the search for casualties and canvased the mall for the
threat.
FWFD says no patients were located.
"We believe that what people thought were gunshots was actually the sound of people slamming doors as they were fleeing the building," said the department in a statement to NBC 5.
As of 7 p.m., police say they did not find anything that would lead them to believe a shooting took place or any explosive devices were placed in the building. Two explosive canine units swept the mall, along with other bomb/arson teams with the fire department.
Both fire and police personnel will remain on the scene to investigate further.
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MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
Muncie is about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The city is home to about 65,000 people. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ | 2023-07-31T00:40:27 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ |
SCIOTO COUNTY, OH (WOWK) – A Scioto County man is facing felony charges after allegedly abusing an elderly woman, according to the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office.
Matthew Vansickle, 58, was charged with involuntary manslaughter following the death of Patricia Vansickle, 79, both from Franklin Furnace.
In a news release, the Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman said the alleged abuse was first brought to their attention on Wednesday, July 26, when the victim was brought in for treatment at the Southern Ohio Medical Center.
Following an investigation, Matthew Vansickle was arrested for failure to provide for a functionally impaired adult. He signed his own bond for that charge on Thursday, July 27; however, after the death of the victim on Saturday, July 29, he was re-arrested on the additional involuntary manslaughter charge.
Matthew Vansickle is now being held on a $50,000 bond and will appear in Portsmouth Municipal Court on Monday, July 31.
Thoroughman said the investigation is ongoing and more charges could be added at a later date. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/man-facing-charges-for-allegedly-abusing-elderly-woman-in-scioto-county/ | 2023-07-31T00:40:33 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/man-facing-charges-for-allegedly-abusing-elderly-woman-in-scioto-county/ |
It looks like the end of the road for one of the nation's largest freight carriers.
Yellow, a trucking company that just three years ago took a $700 million federal pandemic loan, has reportedly shut down after laying off employees at all locations. The company is expected to file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday, according to industry experts, following a recent exodus of customers amid union strife and on top of years of financial troubles.
With 30,000 jobs at stake, it would be the largest trucking bankruptcy in the history of the U.S., experts said. The company, formerly known as YRC Worldwide, is the third largest less-than-truckload carrier by revenue, behind FedEx and Old Dominion. LTL companies move pallet-sized shipments — smaller than a container, but bigger than a parcel.
Yellow has not publicly announced any plans for bankruptcy or a potential shutdown.
Here's what we know.
Employees are told to prepare for a company shutdown
The Wall Street Journal reported that Yellow shut down on Sunday afternoon, citing internal notices sent to customers and employees.
According to the industry outlet FreightWaves, which also obtained internal documents, Yellow says it plans to issue a public statement on Monday about "the state of the company and the operation."
NPR has not independently confirmed the shutdown and Yellow has not responded to NPR's requests for comment.
Yellow laid off an unknown number of its employees on Friday, reported FreightWaves, citing a memo sent to staff informing them that the company is "shutting down its regular operations" and "laying off employees at all of its locations."
Meanwhile, Teamsters, who represent Yellow's 22,000 unionized workers, advised Yellow employees to "prepare for the worst."
"Yellow appears to be headed to a complete shutdown within the next few days," said Teamsters National Freight Director John Murphy in a Friday memo shared with NPR. He advised drivers to collect their belongings so that they don't get caught up in bankruptcy liquidation.
The Teamsters union declined to comment about a potential bankruptcy or shutdown.
A strike threat delivered a final blow to cash-poor Yellow
Reports of a shutdown come days after a Teamsters strike at the company was averted. A week ago, a pension fund agreed to extend health benefits for workers at two Yellow operating companies after the carrier missed its $50 million benefits payment to the fund on July 15, the union said.
While the extension held off a July 24 strike, the threat of a walkout that could disrupt operations prompted a wave of Yellow customers to bolt.
"The Teamsters actions induced a high level of variability and uncertainty in the market for Yellow's customers. The market abhors variability and uncertainty," wrote Mike Regan, co-founder of TranzAct Technologies, which manages transportation services for retailers. "Consequently, Yellow lost substantial and much needed volume."
After the strike threat, Yellow's freight volumes fell 80% within the span of a week, according to Jack Atkins, a managing director at the financial services firm Stephens who researches the transportation sector.
At the same time, he said, Yellow's cries that it was running out of cash during union negotiation attempts scared off customers. Since then, customers haven't returned.
"Both sides bear fault," Atkins said. "Once that freight left, there was nothing left to really restructure," he added. "It was really too late to save the company."
The company has been at risk of bankruptcy for years
Animus between Yellow and Teamsters has grown in recent months, after the trucking carrier tried to restructure its operations this spring as a cost-saving measure that would allow it to refinance its debt. In June, Yellow sued the union for blocking the restructuring plan it said was "essential to the company's survival." The Teamsters in turn called the lawsuit "baseless," instead blaming Yellow for "decades of gross mismanagement," that included its alleged exhaustion of the $700 million bailout loan.
The company reported a net income of $21.8 million last year. Yellow has $1.3 billion in loan debt due in fall 2024, $729 million of which is owed to the federal government, according to the company's latest quarterly report.
Yellow received a $700 million loan from the government in 2020 as part of a COVID-19 rescue package. In return, the Treasury Department took a 30% stake in the company's shares, which have since plummeted to less than a dollar apiece as of Friday.
In June, a congressional probe found that the Treasury Department's disbursement of the loan was a mistake; the freight company — whose customers included the Department of Defense — did not actually meet the standards to qualify for the business loan because its survival was not "critical to maintaining national security."
"Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Yellow was a financially struggling company that had a long-term non-investment grade (i.e., junk) rating and previous close calls with bankruptcy over the years. The pandemic did not cause Yellow's longstanding problems, nor is the Treasury's loan to the company likely to solve those problems," the Congressional Oversight Commission report read.
A world without Yellow
An end to the Nashville-based company would mean the loss of 30,000 jobs. And Atkins doesn't expect the federal government to come to the rescue this time.
While there may be some slight disruptions, the analyst anticipates other freight carriers will have some capacity to absorb Yellow's business because of the dent in freight volumes.
"This is not going to create a supply-chain crisis," he said.
Retailers and manufacturers are likely to see higher shipping rates if the company folds, he said. Yellow is known for its low shipping rates compared to its rivals.
Atkins visited the Yellow terminal in Little Rock, Ark., on Sunday to find all gates chained up, a sign of ceased operations.
"They've been in wind-down mode, clearing the network out of all the remaining freight," he said. "This is the end."
NPR's Camila Domonoske contributed to this story.
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Put five former Georgia Bulldog defensive teammates together in the big city, give them huge contracts and let them hang out together and … watch each other’s puppies?
Jordan Davis, Nolan Smith and Nakobe Dean spoke after practice Sunday about how much being together in Philly, along with former teammates Jalen Carter and Kelee Ringo – has helped ease the transition from college football to the NFL.
It's not just a fun story. It's a very real support group for five guys who are 23 and younger.
The five of them have a chat group – Philly Dog Chat Group – and when they’re not together shopping, watching a game on TV or going out to dinner, they’re texting each other and checking up on each other.
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They’ll do anything for each other.
Even watching each others’ puppies.
“It’s like having a group of your best friends,” said Davis, who arrived here with Dean in last year’s draft. “Literally yesterday, I was at a store in Delaware, and I was like, ‘Man, hey, if y’all need a little clothes, if y'all need a little shoes, you need to come out here. Little stuff like that.
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“Helping them get acclimated is a lot easier than it was for us. If they need something, if they need to come over, just another spot to chill at, if they want somebody to watch their dog, little stuff like that just to make the transition easier.
“Because at the end of the day it’s hard. You’ve got to grow up real quick coming from college to the NFL. I know how it is and I’ve been there.”
The Eagles drafted Davis in the first round and Dean in the third last year and Carter and Smith in the first round and Ringo in the fourth round this year.
Davis, Carter and Dean are projected 2023 starters, Smith will be a key rotational edge rusher and Ringo is a promising young corner.
And three of them have puppies.
“She’s like my daughter, she’s my baby - Izzy,” Davis said. “Nolan’s got a pup, Jalen’s got a pup, I don’t think Kelee has a dog, Nakobe doesn’t have a dog, but me, Jalen and Nolan have pups.”
A bulldog most likely?
“I don’t think I could do a bulldog,” Carter said with a laugh. “It’s like another grown man in the house just walking around eating and sleeping. I don’t know if I could dig it.”
Dogs or not, these Georgia Bulldogs are sticking close together. It’s quite a built-in support group for the 23-year-old Davis; Carter, Smith and Dean, who are 22; and Ringo, who’s just 21.
“Our first off day, we were in there FaceTiming each other and talking about practice,” Smith said. “Nakobe was my best friend in college, now he’s in special teams meetings helping me out, so I’ll say those connections are real, and you could shout out to coach (Kirby) Smart for that because he made that happen at Georgia, so we wouldn’t have a connection piece if it weren’t for him.”
Davis and Dean are still just kids, but since they were here last year they’re the ones showing Smith, Carter and Ringo the ropes.
“Yeah, it helps from a just a standpoint of it’s just different for the new guys,” Dean said. “They need somewhere to eat or they need somewhere to find clothes and everything, you know, me and J.D., we've been here for a year so we know a little bit more.
“So any questions, anything they have, we’re (here). We’re friends, you know? Everybody’s cool. We dogs. We’re on there all day shooting texts back and forth.”
We’ve all heard stories about rookies – talented players – who were so overwhelmed by the adjustment from college to the NFL that they weren’t able to be at their best at practice or even in games.
Having four of your best friends a phone call or a short drive away makes a huge difference.
Georgia was 14-1 in 2021 and beat Alabama to win the national championship with all five of these guys playing key roles and then went 15-1 last year and beat TCU to win another one.
So the Eagles aren’t just getting best friends and outstanding defensive players, they’re getting guys who know how to win and know what it takes to win.
“Luckily, me and Nakobe, we’ve been here (for a year), and it’s recent,” Davis said. “You can listen to Fletch and you can listen to B.G., but times have changed since they were rookies and fortunately it’s fresh for us and I get to give them the experience.
“We do everything together. If we’re not together, we’re always talking to each other, making sure everybody’s straight, making sure everybody made it home safe. It’s just that little security. Because at the end of the day, football’s football, but we care about each other on a deeper level.
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The weather cooled down in South Philadelphia in time for the Eagles to have their longest practice session of the summer so far.
Still no pads, but this practice lasted a tad over an hour and a half.
Let’s get to some observations:
1. As always, we’ll start with some housekeeping items:
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• Haason Reddick (groin soreness) practiced for the first time this summer after missing the first two days. He was a limited participant but it’s a step in the right direction. Derek Barnett (knee) and Avonte Maddox (toe) were also limited.
• Maddox participated in 11-on-11 drills for the first time this summer. That’s good news for the Eagles’ nickel corner.
2. A few notable depth chart items:
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• The first-team safeties to start on Sunday were Reed Blankenship and Terrell Edmunds but we did see K’Von Wallace rotate in for Edmunds later in the session.
• The first-team linebackers were Nakobe Dean and Nicholas Morrow but eventually Christian Elliss got some of the first-team reps next to Dean. Elliss has gotten some first-team reps in two of three practices.
• Before Maddox got 11-on-11 reps, it was Zech McPhearson with the first-team at nickel corner. He then went to second team when Maddox was out there. McPhearson and Josiah Scott have been splitting time but McPhearson is getting more run with the first team.
• Third day in a row for Cam Jurgens at right guard. Tyler Steen again worked with the second team at the same spot.
• Dennis Kelly was at right tackle on Sunday and Jack Driscoll took snaps on the left side of the backup offensive line unit. That’s an important note if Kelly ends up being the Eagles’ swing tackle this season. Last year, the Eagles had a unique setup with Andre Dillard backing up left tackle and left guard and Jack Driscoll backing up right tackle and right guard.
• Landon Dickerson was taking his normal first-team reps at left guard but he got replaced a few times by Sua Opeta. Perhaps Dickerson is dealing with a minor nagging issue.
• Ian Book and Tanner McKee continue to split third-team reps at QB.
3. It was a huge day for starting slot receiver Quez Watkins, who had several high-difficulty catches during team periods. He caught a perfect ball from Jalen Hurts during the first 11-on-11 period after separating from McPhearson. It was a perfect throw from Hurts between McPhearson and Blankenship but also a nice grab from Watkins for a gain of 25+ yards.
Watkins had another very nice catch near the left sideline, skying for a ball and coming down with it, winning the battle with McPhearson in the air. It was tight coverage from the corner but an impressive win for Watkins.
4. Aside from that early catch from Watkins, the offensive play of the day came on a deep ball to D’Andre Swift, who ran a wheel route and made a tough grab 30 yards downfield through contact. He ended up getting one of his arms held but still came down with the ball. You’ve already heard a ton about Swift’s ability as a pass-catcher through three days and there’s a reason for that.
5. We’re just three days into camp but Sunday was Hurts’ best day of the summer so far. He was great. Hurts was extremely accurate, threw the ball with touch and even showed off his ability as a runner, both on designed runs and scramble drills.
There are some plays where with other quarterbacks, I’d be ready to say the play was dead but with Hurts, you never really know. When you see a lumbering QB extend plays in a practice where he can’t be touched, you roll your eyes. When Hurts does it, you have to remember that he does this in games too. On one particular play, Hurts rolled left and then came all the way back to his right before delivering a huge throw of 40-50 yards. Olamide Zaccheus nearly pulled down an incredible catch. One fan behind me exclaimed, “You gotta catch that.” Ehh, it would have bee spectacular.
6. While Nakobe Dean has been getting all the first-team reps, it’s been a mostly quiet summer so far for the young linebacker. Of course, we’ll get a better sense of his ability once the pads go on. But I did see one impressive moment of recognition from Dean on Sunday, when he blew up a receiver screen to Britain Covey. If this was a “live” (tackle to the ground) period, it would have been a major highlight.
7. DeVonta Smith’s body control never ceases to amaze me. He had a catch along the right sideline working against James Bradberry and was able to somehow get both feet in. To be transparent, it was on the far side of the field so I didn’t have a great view of it but the referees ruled him in. And knowing what I do about Smith, I have no reason to doubt it.
Shortly after that play, Hurts unleashed a deep ball to Smith who got behind everyone on the right sideline. He was wide open, so it looked like a busted coverage. A.J. Brown was also open on the left sideline. Brown celebrated the big play from across the field.
8. Still no offensive line vs. defensive line 1-on-1s yet, but we did see some 1-on-1s between receivers and corners. Here are a few notes from that period:
• Brown is so strong coming back to the ball. He got the first catch on Darius Slay in this period on a little comeback route. Great precision route-running from Brown, which we saw in individual drills too:
• Hurts underthrew Smith a tad on the next rep and Bradberry was able to knock the pass down.
• Great rep from Maddox on a deep ball to Watkins. Maddox was able to cover down field and get a hand in there to break up the pass. Maddox came up limping slightly but was back in team drills the next period.
• Pretty completion from Marcus Mariota to Tyrie Cleveland over rookie Mekhi Garner. It was a 30+ yard bomb for a touchdown. Garner had tight coverage but couldn’t knock it down. He screamed an expletive on jog back up the field.
9. Some notable plays on defense:
• Saw a little flash from rookie seventh-round pick Moro Ojomo, who got a “sack” on third-stringer Book.
• Josh Sweat had a “sack” with the first team working against the twos.
• Bradberry picked off a pass from Mariota that was thrown right at him. Looked like the offense wasn’t on the same page. Still, Bradberry is having a good summer so far.
10. At the end of practices, Nick Sirianni has a developmental period for third-string players who might not get a ton of reps throughout the course of a normal session. In the developmental period on Sunday, rookie receiver Joseph Ngata had an impressive catch over Kelee Ringo deep down the field. Ngata is a guy who is standing out a bit. Ringo was targeted on the next play too but the pass for Deon Cain fell incomplete.
Stupid Observation of the Day: It was Military Day at the NovaCare Complex, which is a fun day every year. After practice, each player gives their special military-style jersey to a service member.
The white defensive jerseys have camouflage numbers, which are nearly impossible to see from far away. I complained about that very briefly before realizing that if I can’t see camouflage numbers … they’re doing their job.
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31 days of 110-degree temperatures in Phoenix. Will the streak end tomorrow?
This afternoon Phoenix set a new record: 31 days straight of over 110-degree heat smashing the previous record of 18 days set in June of 1974.
But before hitting a full month of unprecedented highs, the streak could end Monday.
Although temperatures have slowly been dropping from 119-degree highs two weeks ago, the temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor reached 110 degrees Sunday which was the forecasted high.
The morning in Phoenix provided no rest from the high temperatures as residents woke up to 95 degrees. If this holds until midnight, it will be another daily record-breaking high-low temperature. The last high-low temperature record for this date was 92 degrees in 2014.
"We're watching for some potential monsoon activity across the Phoenix area tonight. We'll also be looking at some additional chances tomorrow," said National Weather Service meteorologist Isaac Smith. "That will certainly help with our temperatures and cooling us off a little bit."
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Late this evening and overnight, there is a 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms across the Valley which is expected to continue until Tuesday with staggering high chances throughout the next few days. The highest being a 70% chance of storms overnight on Monday.
These storms are expected to bring a sudden drop in temperatures as Monday's high is forecasted as 105 degrees, which would free Phoenix of the 110-degree temperature streak. Tuesday continues the unexpected temperatures with a high of 105 degrees as well.
Regardless of the rainy relief, overnight lows will still most likely remain above 90 degrees but may have the potential to drop into the high 80s.
When the storms die down mid-week, temperatures will shoot back up to a forecasted high of 110 degrees on Wednesday and will continue to increase as the week goes on, approaching highs of 115 degrees again on the weekend.
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The Arizona Department of Health Services provided tips to prevent heat-related illness:
- Drink water: It is recommended to drink at least 2 liters of water per day if people are staying inside all day. Those who spend time outdoors should drink 1 to 2 liters per hour they are outside.
- Dress for the heat: wear light-weight and light-colored clothing. Sunscreen should always be applied to exposed skin and it is recommended to wear a hat or use an umbrella when outdoors.
- Eat small meals and eat more often: They recommend avoiding foods high in protein that increase metabolic heat
- Monitor those at risk: Check on friends, family or others for signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
- Slow down and avoid strenuous activity: It is recommended to only do strenuous activity during the coolest hours of the day, between 4 and 7 a.m.
- Stay indoors
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Senate GOP leaders didn’t want it to get to this point.
They tried and tried to get Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to lift the holds he’s placed on hundreds of military promotions — which have opened Republicans up to attacks from the Biden administration.
But their efforts have failed, and they are now in a situation where the earliest a resolution might be found is September — when lawmakers will also be busy trying to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
“It’s hung around for a while. I support his goals,” said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican. “The challenge obviously is the mechanism he used to get to the result has created some challenges. We want to figure out a way to resolve it and address that.”
“There are conversations now going on, which is good — between him and the military and others. We’ll have some time in August to work on a path forward, and hopefully we’ll find it,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been among those trying to find a resolution, Thune said. Tuberville said he and McConnell discussed the holds Wednesday, hours after the GOP leader froze and felt lightheaded in front of reporters.
“At this point, everybody’s engaged trying to figure out how to solve this,” Thune added.
Tuberville began his holds in early March to protest a new Defense Department policy to reimburse service members who must travel to seek an abortion for those travel expenses.
Six months later, the list of holds has grown to 300. Senate Republicans were hoping to find a solution before leaving Washington for five weeks — five additional weeks during which those military officers will remain in limbo, fueling Democratic attacks and frustrating the Pentagon.
One Senate Republican said finding an offramp agreeable to both Tuberville and those opposed to the holds has become a “recurring discussion” in the Senate GOP conference, and that McConnell has been personally involved in that quest.
“There’s not a lunch that goes by that we don’t talk about it,” the senator said, but added there’s “no chance of a resolution” any time soon.
Aside from the potential political and national security implications of the holds, McConnell is worried about the institutional implications.
The longtime GOP leader recently told reporters at a press conference that he is concerned this could lead to a renewed Democratic effort to change the chamber’s rules.
Despite disagreeing with Tuberville’s tactic, however, he says he recognizes it is the prerogative of any single senator to place a hold on a nominee.
Senators on both sides of the aisle for months have been musing publicly and privately about what it would take to get the Alabama Republican to set his hold aside, but have come up empty at every turn.
Initially, there had been hope that a vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would reverse the abortion travel policy could do the trick, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led the effort.
But more recently, Tuberville has maintained that not only does any vote have to be standalone, but that the Pentagon would have to reverse its policy before any vote could be taken.
Trying to bridge that gap for lawmakers has become a herculean challenge no one has been able to complete.
Tuberville didn’t comment on efforts by Senate GOP leaders to seek a remedy, but he criticized the Biden administration and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for their lack of outreach in trying to strike a deal. He also hasn’t had any further conversations with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin since their July 17 call and said that the initial series of calls didn’t yield anything productive.
“There’s no conversation from the other side. It’s ‘our way or the highway.’ … How does that help?” Tuberville said. “They’re not worried about it, I guess. … I hate it, for the promotions and all that.”
He added that he has yet to talk to Schumer, who has refused to use up floor time moving the nominees through regular order because he believes it is the Senate GOP’s job to figure a way out of the maze of military holds.
“This is the responsibility of the Republican Senate caucus. … It’s up to them. I think in August, pressure will mount on Tuberville, and I think the Republicans are feeling that heat,” Schumer said late Thursday. “He’s boxing himself into a corner.”
But Democrats are trying to increase that pressure, with President Biden on Thursday night laying into the Alabama Republican and arguing his holds are harming military readiness and creating instability within the ranks of the armed forces.
“This partisan freeze is already harming military readiness, security and leadership, and troop morale,” Biden said in remarks at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington. “Freezing pay, freezing people in place. Military families who have already sacrificed so much, unsure of where and when they change stations, unable to get housing or start their kids in the new school.”
Senate Democrats also took to the floor before and after the NDAA vote Thursday to criticize their GOP colleague. Since the hold was put into place, Democratic senators have made 12 attempts to move the military promotions in bloc via unanimous request.
Perhaps adding to the difficulty, Tuberville has received a boost in support from voters at home and from conservative corners of the Senate GOP conference who believe he is making the right call, albeit a difficult one.
They also argue that if Senate Democrats truly want to move on some of the nominations, they can start to do so via regular order — a move Democrats have avoided in order to not set precedent.
“Democrats think they have a winning political thing on this. I don’t think they do, and I think Sen. Tuberville morally is in the right position with regard to the issue of abortion,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said. “The [Defense] Department has just as much of a responsibility to find a path forward as any single member does, and I’m not seeing the Department try to work in any fashion other than to simply put pressure on Sen. Tuberville.”
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Arizona Republic reporter interviewed by BBC on reappearance of missing Glendale teen
Jose R. Gonzalez, a reporter with The Arizona Republic, was interviewed by Stephen Nolan on BBC's The Nolan Show to discuss details surrounding a teenage girl's disappearance from Glendale in 2019 and miraculous reappearance this week.
Alicia Navarro was 14 at the time she went missing. The now 18-year-old walked into a police station in Montana on July 22 and told authorities she had been missing and wanted to clear her status, police said in the statement released Thursday.
Gonzalez called into the news radio show Sunday evening from Phoenix at 4:30 p.m. as night owl listeners in the United Kingdom tuned in at 12:30 a.m.
To listen to Gonzalez's commentary on Navarro's disappearance, you can find aired episodes on the BBC website.
Here is everything we know about the disappearance case.
When was Alicia Navarro reported missing?
Navarro was first reported missing in September of 2019 when she was 14 years old after leaving a note in her bedroom saying she was running away and would return home soon.
At the time she was reported missing, she attended Bourgade Catholic High School in Phoenix. Her mother, Jessica Nuñez, said school was not an easy concept for Alicia in part due to her diagnosis as "high-functioning" on the autism spectrum, according to earlier reporting from The Republic.
Nuñez explained at a press conference on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance that Navarro was warming up to the school and the friends she made in her classes. She also spoke of a day they spent together days before she disappeared where Navarro appeared "really happy that day," according to Nuñez.
Navarro was described as an active gamer with Nuñez saying she would come home after school and interact with her friends online through text messages and online video game services, such as Minecraft.
On Sept. 15, 2019, Navarro asked her mom what time she was going to bed. At some point between when Nuñez went to sleep and woke up the next morning, Alicia left.
She left a handwritten note in her bedroom saying, "I ran away. I will be back, I swear. I'm sorry. -Alicia." She brought with her a cellphone and a silver Apple MacBook but made no communication attempts with her friends or family over the last few years.
Alicia's mother, Jessica Nuñez has expressed concern over the years that her daughter may have been abducted, likely by someone she became acquainted with through online gaming. There is, however, no evidence of this.
Why did Alicia Navarro reappear?
Almost four years later, and a few months away from her 19th birthday, Navarro walked into a police station in a small Montana town this last week and asked to be taken off a list of missing children.
Officials said she went to them of her own free will and identified herself to police. After a DNA test, police confirmed the identity of Navarro.
Authorities said she showed up at the Montana police station alone and did not require medical attention.
In two short videos recorded during a FaceTime call that police released, Navarro told investigators that she had not been hurt in any way.
In the first video, investigators reassure her they just want to ensure she is safe. In response, Navarro, with closed eyes, stutters as she tells officers that she understands. In the second video, investigators thank her for talking to them, and Navarro calmly thanks them for offering her help.
Nuñez, who has worked tirelessly for years to find her daughter, said in a video posted on Facebook that she does not know the details of the recovery but could confirm the young woman was alive and well as comments poured in support of the miracle reappearance.
"I, first of all, want to give glory to God for answering your prayers and for this miracle," Nuñez said.
Nuñez said she had only heard about her daughter being found for about an hour before she posted the video.
What happens now?
Currently, both Navarro and Nuñez are asking for privacy as they process this major breakthrough in the case.
At this time, there are no imminent or pending charges against anyone in relation to the case, lead investigator Lt. Scott Waite said.
Police said Navarro is still in Montana as of Thursday and is cooperating with police. They said she was in good spirits and is very apologetic for what she put her mother through over the past few years, according to earlier reporting from The Republic.
The department said in a news release that they would be working with federal authorities to investigate her whereabouts since she was reported missing. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/07/30/alicia-navarro-found-arizona-republic-reporter-bbc-the-nolan-show/70494844007/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:07 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/07/30/alicia-navarro-found-arizona-republic-reporter-bbc-the-nolan-show/70494844007/ |
MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
Muncie is about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The city is home to about 65,000 people. | https://phl17.com/nmw/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:07 | 0 | https://phl17.com/nmw/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ |
Over the last 73 years, the Eagles have held training camp at just six sites – Hershey from 1951 through 1967, Albright College in Reading from 1968 through 1972, Widener from 1973 through 1979, West Chester University from 1980 through 1995, Lehigh University from 1996 through 2012 and the NovaCare Complex since 2013.
It wasn’t always like that.
In the early days of the NFL, Eagles training camp moved around constantly. In the Eagles’ first 18 years – from 1933 through 1950 – they had camp at 11 sites – one of them three different times. They never stayed in the same place for more than three summers until they settled in Hershey 72 years ago, practicing on a field adjacent to Hershey Stadium.
Let’s take a look back at training camps from the early years of the Eagles franchise:
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1933-1934, Atlantic City: The Eagles spent their first two summers practicing at Bader Field in Atlantic City. A non-bylined article in the Sept. 12, 1933, Inquirer described the team’s first training camp ever: “Thirty-eight members of Philadelphia’s new professional gridiron galaxy began feathering the nest for which they hope to win a National pro League pennant. Most of the thirty-eight arrived during the morning, and immediately after lunch hustled out to the field by Ludlow Wray, manager-coach, for a two-hour practice session which consisted mainly of posing for cameramen.”
1935, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania: Wray, the Eagles’ first head coach, was a Philly native and played baseball and football at Chestnut Hill Academy and Penn, where he was teammates with Bert Bell, the Eagles’ owner and future NFL commissioner. After two years in Atlantic City, Wray moved training camp to Chestnut Hill Academy, and the team practiced on the field off St. Martins Lane that’s now the location of Chestnut Hill Academy’s track. The Eagles even played a preseason game at Chestnut Hill Academy in the summer of 1935. The big story that summer was Swede Hanson’s contract holdout. Yes, even a century ago, there were contract holdouts. Here’s what the Inquirer’s Fred Byrod wrote: “President Bert Bell and Coach Lud Wray were not greatly concerned over the absence of Hanson, who ranked second only to Beattie Feathers as a ground-gainer in the National Pro loop last year. Although reported a hold-out and in San Francisco when last heard from, Hanson is expected in the Birds’ camp in a day or so.”
1936-1937, Temple University: After one year at Chestnut Hill, the Eagles moved to Temple for two summers, and the big story in August of 1937 was an exhibition game between the Eagles and the Eastern College All-Stars, coached by St. Joe’s coach Heinie Miller. We got some good old-fashioned trash talking from ol’ Heinie talking about the Eagles before the game according to Stan Baumgartner’s Inquirer story on Aug. 1, 1937: “They’re not so hot. We’re not going to have as much of a job on our hands as I thought we would. Bert has a bunch of fine-looking big boys – nice kids from the South. But I’m not so sure that they’ll like the rough going that our men from the coal regions will give them.” The All-Stars led 6-0 early in the third quarter, but the Eagles came back to win 14-6. Three years later, Miller became an Eagles assistant coach.
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1938, West Chester State Teachers College: In 1938, the Eagles had the first of four training camp stints at West Chester. The big story that summer was roster turnover from the 1937 team: “Only 16 of the 32 young men whom Bell has commanded to report for the Eagles’ opening practice at West Chester State Teachers’ College wore the Bell spangles last year. The other 16 Bert gathered from wildly-separated parts of these United States during the off-season.”
1939, St.Joe’s College: From there it was off to St. Joe’s for one year. On Day 1 of practice, the big story in the Inquirer was Davis Cup tennis. But buried at the bottom of the main sports page was a story by Frank O’Gara about rookie quarterback Davey O’Brien – the 4th pick out of TCU - tearing it up at practice: "Confident of his timing, O’Brien opened up with a display of tossing that had onlookers marveling at the consistent accuracy of his pitching arm. No longer did he throw them at the burly target represented by an end or backfield mate. Instead, he ‘led’ the pigskin to his mates, heaving them with such precision that the receiver almost invariably reached the spot simultaneously with the ball.” O’Brien threw 11 touchdowns and 34 interceptions in two NFL seasons and was out of the league before his 24th birthday.
1940, West Chester State Teachers College: Back for another year at West Chester, here’s what O’Gara wrote as camp opened on Aug. 9: “Heavier, faster, stronger, more experienced and more confident than at any time in the team’s eight-year history, the Eagles at long last loom as a team that can play even so powerful an aggregation as the Bears on even terms.” The Eagles went 1-10.
1941-1942, Two Rivers (Wisconsin) High School: For the first time, the Eagles ventured outside the Philly-Jersey area for camp, practicing just a few miles southeast of Green Bay along the western banks of Lake Michigan. Inquirer columnist Cy Peterman was not a fan of the move: “It seems to us – and we know a little bit about the insides – that pro teams should train closer to home and invite the fans to come see them.”
1943, St. Joe’s College: The combined Eagles-Steelers team – not yet known as the Steagles – reported to Hawk Hill on Aug. 23, and Greasy Neale and Walt Kiesling were somehow not expecting such a big turnout. “Co-coaches Greasy Neale and Walt Kiesling, who had been figuring on a squad of 32 players – 33 is the National Football League limit – were surprised at the number of athletes poised for action. Not only did the size of the squad exceed expectations but there are still several players to be heard from.”
1944-1945, West Chester State Teachers College: A third trip to West Chester – the last one for nearly 40 years. According to Art Morrow’s story in the Aug. 6, 1944, Inquirer, 15 of the 42 players who reported to camp had served in World War II and were released on medical discharges. One, quarterback Steve Marko from Gratz High, was the Phillies’ batting practice pitcher. Marko didn’t make the Eagles but played in four games in 1944 for the winless Brooklyn Tigers.
1946-1948, Saranac (New York) High School: The Eagles made the trip north to the Adirondack Mountains and practiced at Saranac High School near Lake Placid for three summers. Today, the village of Saranac Lake has a series of plaques throughout downtown – a Walk of Fame - commemorating the town’s rich history. At 43 Broadway Street, you can see the plaque honoring the 1946 through 1948 Eagles. Nearby plaques honor Romanian composer Béla Bartók (who composed music in Saranac Lake), Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson (who spent his last years in Saranac Lake), Treasure Island novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (who spent winters in Saranac Lake), Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein (summered at Saranac Lake) and actress Faye Dunaway (a waitress in Saranac Lake as a young girl).
1949-1950, University of Minnesota North Central Agricultural School, Grand Rapids, Minnesota: This was the last training camp the Eagles ever held outside Pennsylvania. Here’s how the July 13, 1949, Inquirer described the opening days of camp: “The vanguard of the championship Philadelphia Eagles football team will head tonight for Grand Rapids, Minn., and their new training camp. Twenty players will leave here at 9:30 P.M. from the North Philadelphia Station for independent conditioning prior to the arrival of Head Coach Greasy Neale and the start of official football training July 22. Russ Craft, Charley Donley and Joe Muha will board the train in Pittsburgh.”
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'Country strong' Zaven Collins hopes for a big season at new position for Cardinals
It's in that spot where Collins hopes to make an even bigger impact on defense, in his third NFL season. At 24 years old and now in a position that could be a perfect fit for his athleticism, there's a strong belief from the Cardinals and some observers that Collins has star potential.
"I've changed my body type a little bit, because I'm more at the line of scrimmage and have to be a little bit bigger," Collins said. "The mindset of going out and trying to do the best you can. It's still the same, pushing guys, I think I've taken on probably more of a leadership role. You know, that's something I want to do, personal goal as well."
Collins spends a lot of time on technique with new outside linebacker coach Rob Rodriguez. The idea is to combine rush technique with brute force, which he is trying to make second nature. He's also observed that some elite pass rushers change their rushes during the season to try to gain an advantage over blockers.
Now at a spot where sacks are there to be had, Collins has some expectations of himself.
"Everything has to be earned for sure. Obviously, I have goals for myself, I'd like to have a bunch of sacks," Collins said. "Hopefully to do that, you know, make big plays, make the offense turn the ball over, get sacks on the 'Q' and stop big drives, especially game-changers."
Rodriguez noted Collins' athletic ability, which helped Collins log 100 solo and combined tackles last season. But he also said there is a lot more to Collins that makes him special and could make him a better player in the future, including high intelligence.
"He checks off just about all the boxes. He is extremely athletic. He is a freak athlete and he's a high character person. That's really what I think is gonna make him continue to ascend and do better things, because he's just got outstanding character. Great study habits and a great teammate."
Veterans on the other side of the ball have seen Collins grow more into a seasoned player. Few have the tenure of left tackle D.J. Humphries, who early in camp saw Collins drop into pass coverage instead of being asked to rush the quarterback.
Humphries thinks Collins, who took much from his time with former Cardinals edge rusher J.J. Watt and air-guitared to the sounds of rock legends AC/DC as he lined up for a scrimmage drill this week, will thrive as a pass rusher.
"I know Zaven is so physically gifted, him playing that spot ... he's gonna do fine. He's so twitchy and so athletic. And on top of it, he's a country strong dude. The kid looks like he's been throwing bales of hay his whole life, that's really what he looks like, you know?" Humphries said. "You see him back there, this dude's like a 2008 old school linebacker, 6-5, 250 (pound) linebacker. Now you put him on the edge and it's like, this is today's age pass rusher. So I think it's gonna work really well for him." | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2023/07/30/arizona-cardinals-zaven-collins-wants-a-bunch-of-sacks-in-2023/70495020007/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:13 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2023/07/30/arizona-cardinals-zaven-collins-wants-a-bunch-of-sacks-in-2023/70495020007/ |
At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age.
“People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. Rodriguez pointed specifically to federal COVID-19 relief payments and government spending increases on infrastructure and other social programs.
Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.
His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change.
Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality — like when he recalled that, while attending a St. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Truman.
“Purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.
In 2020, 61% of voters under age 30 — and 55% of those between 30 and 44 — supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate.
It’s an age group with which Republicans hope to make inroads. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner in the GOP presidential primary and is only 3 1/2 years younger than Biden, said Friday, “We are hitting the young person’s market like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, referred to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in arguing that “young people are acutely impacted by the issues front and center in this election, driven by the extreme MAGA agenda.” He said that included inaction on climate change, gun violence and student debt.
“We will meet younger Americans where they are and turn their energy into action,” Munoz said in a statement.
That might not defuse questions about age, though, when it comes to Biden or Trump.
“There’s a frustration and exhaustion that they feel with the rematch,” Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies, said of young voters.
“That’s more of a problem than either of those two candidates individually, is that a system can just keep reproducing,” Woodbury added. “And I think a lot of people just find that untenable.”
An April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25% of Democrats under 45 said they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. A majority of Democrats across age groups said they would probably support him as the party’s nominee, however.
Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Plans are underway to expand on its work last cycle, including trainings it held on how best to turn out voters.
The Republican National Committee is trying to use Biden’s age against him, posting online videos of Biden seeming frail or making verbal gaffes, such as when he declared in June “God save the queen,” nearly nine months after the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Rodriguez shrugged off online attacks, “People can make all the hit pieces and memes and TikToks all they want.”
A starker contrast might be between the president and rising Democrats such as 46-year-old California Rep. Ro Khanna and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 41, one of Biden’s primary rivals in 2020. Neither seriously entertained running for the White House in 2024 and have backed Biden’s reelection.
“The only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job,” Buttigieg, who was 37 when he launched his 2020 presidential bid, said recently on CNN. Khanna told Fox News Channel that age will “obviously” be a 2024 factor, but suggested that Biden’s staff “overprotects” him and “the more he’s out there, the better.”
Other top young Democrats have lined up to back Biden. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to Congress last year at 26, is on the Biden campaign’s advisory board, as is Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 44. New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, 33, recently endorsed Biden.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive who says strong turnout among young voters helped him win a runoff election this spring, said Biden’s policies transcend his age. Johnson noted that the president’s work “around climate justice speaks not just to this generation, but generations to come.”
“The excitement that I believe that we’re going to have is going to speak to the incredible work and organizing that we are committed to doing as a party,” said Johnson, 47. “And we’re looking forward to working with the president over the course of his next four years.”
Still, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, acknowledged that even the president’s supporters understand how demanding the White House can be.
“People worry about Joe Biden. They worry like you would worry about a beloved father or grandfather,” said Weingarten, 65. “What you normally hear from Democrats is this sense of, ‘OK, I just want him to be OK.’ And you’re hearing just the consternation of, ’This is a hard job.’”
Biden said he “took a hard look” at his age while deciding to seek a second term. But he’s also tried to suggest his age and experience are assets rather than liabilities by joking repeatedly about them. That’s a departure from 2020, when Biden called himself a “transition candidate” and pledged to be a “bridge” to younger Democrats.
Santiago Mayer, the founder of Voters of Tomorrow, which has 20-plus chapters nationwide and works to increase political engagement among young voters, argues that Biden is not defying his past promise by running for reelection, but keeping it.
“He just needs more time,” said Mayer, who graduated from California State University at Long Beach in May. “I think the second term is a very important part of that pledge. He’s building a progressive future for young people and he can’t actually pass the baton until that’s done.”
One key policy piece of Biden’s efforts to appeal to young voters, providing student debt relief, was recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House has launched a new effort, but it will take longer.
“Of course it’s going to dampen some of that because people are disappointed,” Weingarten said of the ruling’s effect on enthusiasm for Biden. But she said the decision could also motivate young Biden supporters anxious show their support for the president’s alternative plan.
“It is also about the fight,” Weingarten said “not just about the results.” | https://phl17.com/nmw/joe-biden-the-oldest-sitting-president-needs-young-voters-will-his-age-matter/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:13 | 0 | https://phl17.com/nmw/joe-biden-the-oldest-sitting-president-needs-young-voters-will-his-age-matter/ |
Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go and won at Richmond Raceway on Sunday, earning himself a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
Buescher led 88 laps. He was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go. That erased his sizeable lead over local favorite Denny Hamlin, but when the race went back to green, Buescher pulled away easily.
He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps, with Keselowski's Ford pacing the field for 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval.
Hamlin, coming off a victory last weekend at Pocono, finished second, followed by Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Ryan Preece.
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The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, the last sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory.
Hamlin's bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. He finished 0.549 seconds behind Buescher, with Busch winding up 0.817 off the winning pace. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/chris-buescher-wins-cook-out-400-at-richmond-secures-nascar-playoffs-spot/3614661/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:15 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/chris-buescher-wins-cook-out-400-at-richmond-secures-nascar-playoffs-spot/3614661/ |
Turnover-prone Phoenix Mercury melt in loss to Chicago Sky
CHICAGO — Kahleah Copper scored 24 points on 9-of-11 shooting, Marina Mabrey hit four 3-pointers and finished with 23 points and the Chicago Sky beat the Phoenix Mercury 104-85 Sunday.
Courtney Williams made 9 of 13 from the field, scored 19 points and had nine assists and Alanna Smith added 10 points for Chicago (10-15). Robyn Parks, a 31-year-old rookie who went undrafted out of VCU in 2014, hit four 3-pointers and scored 14 points — both career highs.
Mabrey and Copper hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cap a 9-0 run that made it 20-8 midway through the first quarter. Phoenix, which led for just 43 seconds, twice trimmed its deficit to six points but got no closer. Williams hit a 3-pointer that made it 64-53 with 8:34 left in the third quarter and the Sky led by double figures the rest of the way.
Diana Taurasi, who missed the Mercury's last three games (quad/toe), hit five 3-pointers and scored 24 points. The 41-year-old three-time WNBA champion is just 47 points shy of 10,000 for her illustrious career, which includes 14 All-WNBA selections (10 first team) and two Finals MVPs (2009, 2014). Tina Thompson (7,488), Tamika Catchings (7,380) and Tina Charles (7,115) are the only other players to score at least 7,000 career points.
Chicago scored 32 points off 16 Phoenix turnovers.
Michaela Onyenwere scored 18 points and Megan Gustafson added 17 and eight rebounds for the Mercury (6-18), who have lost three consecutive games. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/wnba/mercury/2023/07/30/turnover-prone-phoenix-mercury-melt-in-loss-to-chicago-sky/70495153007/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:19 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/wnba/mercury/2023/07/30/turnover-prone-phoenix-mercury-melt-in-loss-to-chicago-sky/70495153007/ |
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://phl17.com/nmw/renters-get-relief-from-rising-prices-except-in-certain-us-cities/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:19 | 1 | https://phl17.com/nmw/renters-get-relief-from-rising-prices-except-in-certain-us-cities/ |
PITTSBURGH — The Phillies made far too many fundamental mistakes to win their weekend series, even against a team playing as poorly as the Pirates.
They lost Sunday afternoon, 6-4 in 10 innings, to end a wretched 24 hours of baseball. They held a three-run lead Saturday and a two-run lead Sunday but committed ghastly miscues in the field and on the bases to give away both games.
On Sunday, shortstop Trea Turner and third baseman Edmundo Sosa didn't communicate clearly enough on a routine pop-up between the two. The ball clanged off both of their gloves and fell in for an error in the seventh inning and that runner came around to score on a single/E-8 on Johan Rojas, who bobbled the ball to allow Connor Joe an extra base.
"Both calling it at the same time," Turner said. "Once I started calling it, I heard him, but at that point, I didn't want to back off and us just be standing there looking at each other. Just bad communication on my part. Should have let him catch the ball. I dropped the ball and just didn't get the job done."
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The Phillies escaped that inning with a one-run lead but Yunior Marte gave it back in the eighth. The Pirates walked it off in the 10th inning on a a Josh Palacios two-run homer off Andrew Vasquez.
The Phillies blew a chance to score in the top of the 10th. Bryce Harper began the inning on second base and the Phillies quickly had two runners in scoring position when Alec Bohm hit an infield single and advanced to second on a throwing error by the third baseman. Turner hit a flyball to right field and Henry Davis, the former first overall pick and catcher with a rocket arm, caught the ball with momentum and fired a seed to the plate. Harper took off but stopped less than halfway when he saw how strong the throw was. Bohm figured Harper was going and ran to third. He was too far off, a rundown ensued and Harper was nailed at the plate.
"All weekend," manager Rob Thomson said. "Communication on pop-ups, we've seen that a few times this year. Baserunning mistakes. We've got to clean it all up and we will."
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A lot happened Sunday. Before the late-game gaffes, many were curious why Cristopher Sanchez was pulled after five hitless, scoreless innings on just 73 pitches. When he was removed, Seranthony Dominguez gave up a single and two-run homer to the first two hitters he faced and the game was tied.
It turns out that Sanchez had been dealing with a stomach bug all day.
"I had a little stomach ache going on, I didn't feel like I had too much energy today," Sanchez said. "I told (Thomson) that I could go back out but he wanted to take care of me."
Thomson said that he might have removed Sanchez even if he was feeling better because it was the top of the order due up for the third time and he felt Sanchez wasn't as sharp as usual. He threw five no-hit innings but did hit three batters and walk two.
That decision affected the rest of the game. Dominguez gave up the lead in the sixth, which required Jeff Hoffman to enter. Gregory Soto had the seventh, which meant Marte was the best option left for the eighth. Matt Strahm had pitched two innings the prior night and Craig Kimbrel was being saved for the ninth.
"(Sanchez) probably had 15 pitches left," Thomson said. "Top of the order, third time through. And he wasn't feeling well all day. He said, 'No, I'm OK,' but I want to take care of the kid, make sure he got out of there on a good note.
"He had done his job. He wasn't exactly sharp. I know he didn't allow a hit, but he hit three guys, walks, he wasn't as sharp as he normally was. He wasn't going to get a no-hitter, he was going to run out of pitches.
"He's got my trust, I just wanted to make sure he was OK."
Sanchez has the lowest WHIP (0.84) in all of Major League Baseball since being recalled from Triple A on June 17. He has a 2.30 ERA in those eight starts with 36 strikeouts and just six walks in 43 innings.
"We knew he was sick going into today and we'd only get a couple out of him," Harper said. "But you look at his numbers the last couple starts, he's been lights out. If he keeps doing that, he'll be around for a while."
Harper and Turner expressed frustration postgame with the way the weekend went. The Phillies should have at least won the series and could have swept. They were on the board first Sunday with a two-run home run from Bohm. Harper put them ahead again with an RBI single in the seventh and Bohm followed with one of his own. Seven of the last eight runs Harper has driven in have either tied the game or given the Phillies a lead.
It was all for naught.
"Big opportunity to come in here and do some work and we weren't able to do that," Harper said. "When talent doesn't play well or play smart, you get beat. You've got to do the little things right, playing defense, hitting timely. It doesn't matter who you're playing. It's still the big leagues and any given team can win. You saw that this weekend."
Now the Phillies move on to Miami for a crucial four-game series. They ended the weekend out of a playoff spot, a half-game behind the Marlins and Brewers, who are in the second and third wild-card positions. Just two games separate the top wild-card (San Francisco) from second team out (Arizona).
The Marlins are making moves. They acquired Mets closer David Robertson over the weekend and are in still search of other upgrades.
"It's a really good team down there, we're going to face some really good pitching," Harper said. "They're adding guys and I'd imagine they add more guys by the time we get down there." | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/phillies-defense-mistakes-pirates-bryce-harper/3614658/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:21 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/phillies-defense-mistakes-pirates-bryce-harper/3614658/ |
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. “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 been 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,” Goldstein said. “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 oveseas.
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. “Opppenheimer,” $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.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two men have been charged with armed robbery. They are being accused of stealing pizza from a delivery driver.
According to a criminal complaint, a driver told police he was at an apartment complex near Coors and I-40 for a delivery when two men walked up to his vehicle. He claimed both men were armed and took more than $100 worth of pizza from him.
Police stated those men were 28-year-old Jorge Cervantes and 24-year-old Isaiah Cervantes.
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MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
Muncie is about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The city is home to about 65,000 people. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:43 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/1-dead-23-wounded-after-street-party-shooting-in-indiana/ |
CHAVES COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) — Several departments, including Dexter Fire and Rescue, responded to a train versus semi crash Saturday morning.
Two people were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. Eight departments assisted in the crash.
First responders are reminding drivers to be extra vigilant around train tracks. | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/2-injured-in-train-semi-crash-in-chaves-county/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:49 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/2-injured-in-train-semi-crash-in-chaves-county/ |
Versailles offers new rail excursion
VERSAILLES, Ky. (WKYT) - There’s a new way to explore Kentucky’s uniqueness, via railroad.
Tucked away in Woodford County, you can pedal your way to the Kentucky River.
Rail Explorers is a brand-new business venture along the Bluegrass Scenic Railroad.
“You start at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum, in Versailles,” says Owner, Alex Catchpoole. “We peddle five miles down, right along the Young’s High Bridge.”
The bridge spans more than 1,500 feet across the Kentucky River.
“We turn around, then head back, to Versailles, so, a total of ten miles,” he said.
WKYT’s First Alert Meteorologist Jason Lindsey tested out the rail bike, which is powered by himself and an electric motor.
“They are like these go carts that go on the railroad track,” said Catchpoole. “It’s actually very easy, people are concerned that ten miles sounds like a lot, but there’s an incredible electric assist on every one of these vehicles that makes the journey effortless.”
The trip allows you to soak in and enjoy the beauty of some of Kentucky’s best horse farms and Limestone cliffs.
You can learn more by checking out their website.
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BANGOR -- Wireless zone hosted its 6th annual backpack giveaway, Sunday.
Parents, grandparents and helpful friends. Lined up on Stillwater avenue in Bangor to get free backpacks ahead of the school year.
The local wireless retailer offered games for children to win prizes, free ice cream, and the chance to enter a raffle to win $100 worth of school supplies.
Office manager for wireless zone Rebecca Macmanus says the event lightens the load for parents.
"I think it gives everyone the opportunity to kick the year off without a lot of stress. School supplies can tend to get expensive,” said Macmanus. “It just gives a little bit of a boost to the families that we serve here in our community. It's fun to have a place to go to have a little bit of fun with the kids and take some relief off of mom and dad."
Wireless zone hosted the giveaway event at several locations including Bangor, Newport, Ellsworth and Skowhegan. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/parents-come-out-to-backpack-giveaway/article_47c6387a-2f2a-11ee-847f-7734a20b003f.html | 2023-07-31T00:41:54 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/parents-come-out-to-backpack-giveaway/article_47c6387a-2f2a-11ee-847f-7734a20b003f.html |
Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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One of the NFL's most intriguing backfield tandems is sidelined.
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll told reporters Sunday that running backs Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet are both unavailable to practice. Walker is dealing with a lingering groin injury that has kept him out of multiple practices since the start of training camp last week. Rookie Zach Charbonnet is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. The prognosis for both is unclear.
Walker was one of the NFL's best rookies last season after the Seahawks selected him in the second round of the the 2022 draft. He led the team in rushing with 1,050 yards and nine touchdowns on 4.6 yards per carry. He also posted 165 yards on 27 receptions.
Despite Walker's success, the Seahawks invested another second-round draft pick this year to select Charbonnet out of UCLA. A straight-ahead runner who tallied 1,359 yards and 14 touchdowns on seven yards per carry as a senior, Charbonnet projects to see significant action as part of a 1-2 tandem with Walker who could specialize in third-down situations.
Charbonnet was projected to see plenty of action in training camp to prepare for his rookie season. When he returns to the field is unclear. Carroll said Sunday that he was scheduled to meet with team doctors for further evaluation. | https://www.star945.com/news/national/injuries-sideline/44BNW2PTX4T5ZZFYE56GBG5OSE/ | 2023-07-31T00:41:59 | 1 | https://www.star945.com/news/national/injuries-sideline/44BNW2PTX4T5ZZFYE56GBG5OSE/ |
OLD TOWN -- At least one person has been arrested in connection to an alleged police standoff in Old Town, Saturday night.
It's still unclear who exactly police were looking for and why.
Saturday night residents reported a heavy police presence at the Old Town Regency trailer park.
The seemingly quiet neighborhood still sheds light on the alleged hours-long standoff in the area of Billy Jo Court where busted windows, a door off the hinges and glass scattered along the yard.
A local neighbor shared a video where the voice of a Maine State Police Trooper can be heard asking two individuals to exit the home.
"This is the Maine State Police. Come out to the truck in the driveway, with nothing in your hands. No one wants to hurt you. I can guarantee your safety but you have to come out of the house now, with nothing in your hands. Jack Fraser. Morning Star Mason.” said an officer on the scene.
According to witnesses, after waiting hours with no sign of the alleged suspects leaving the trailer home police ultimately busted two windows and gassed the residence in an effort to urge the occupants to come outside and meet with police.
We have an exclusive video showing a large amount of smoke coming from the home.
"Jack, this is the Maine state police, I know it's uncomfortable inside the house now. We still don't want you to be hurt but you need to come out,” said an officer with Maine State Police.
A woman reportedly identified by police as MorningStar Mason is seen on video exiting the back side of the home and yelling at police.
"Stop right there. MorningStar I need you to stop right there.. MorningStar doesn't touch the truck.. Keep your hands out where I can see them,” instructed the police.
According to the Penobscot Sheriff's Office inmate listings MorningStar Mason was arrested and charged with creating a police standoff, refusing to submit, and criminal threatening.
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UPLAND, Calif. — A pilot and two passengers were killed Sunday after a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar at a Southern California airport and burst into flames, authorities said.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Beechcraft P35 crashed as it took off at about 6:30 a.m. PDT from Cable Airport in Upland, about 37 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, KABC-TV reported.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department stated that fire crews arrived at the scene to fight flames that had engulfed the hangar, KTLA-TV reported. The fire was brought under control in about 15 minutes, the fire department wrote in a Facebook post.
“Around 6:40 a.m., San Bernardino Fire responded to reports of a structure fire at the Cable Airport,” Eric Sherwin, a spokesperson for the fire department, said in a statement. “An additional 911 caller stated that a light aircraft had crashed into one of the hangars.”
The pilot and passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, the fire department stated in the Facebook post.
The hangar is used to support the Ontario Police Department’s aviation unit, KCAL-TV reported. Several helicopters are stored at the location, according to the television station. Crews were able to prevent damage to the three helicopters stored in the hangar on Sunday, fire officials said.
None of the police vehicles or helicopters were damaged as a result of the crash, according to KTLA.
“I heard a very loud noise, sounded like a truck hit a building,” a neighbor, who did not give his name, told the television station. “My dad flies out of Apple Valley Airport and lands here all the time, and we do occasionally see people come up short and a couple crashes here. But nothing this bad, ever. This is really, really bad.”
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash, according to KABC.
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GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Asa Hutchinson disagree when it comes to talking about possibly pardoning former President Donald Trump.
Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, and Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, each appeared on CBS’ "Face the Nation," where they were asked about pardoning Trump should the former president be convicted on charges related to the handling of classified documents.
"I think that one of the things we have to look at is not what's in the best interest of the president, but what's in the best interest of the country," Haley said. "We have to move forward."
"We can't keep living with indictments and court cases and vengeance of the past," Haley continued. "We've got to start going forward. American people are not talking about these indictments."
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In a separate interview on the same program, Hutchinson remarked that there shouldn’t be any discussion about pardons during a presidential election.
"You don’t put pardons out there to garner votes. That is premature," said the former governor, who has previously called on Trump to drop out of the race. "I think that anybody who discusses pardons during a presidential campaign is not serving our system of justice well, and it’s inappropriate."
In the latest turn in the classified documents case against Trump, new criminal charges unsealed Thursday allege the former president sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
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Trump on Sunday insisted that security tapes at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Florida were not deleted, and in fact were handed over to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
"Mar-a-Lago security tapes were not deleted," Trump wrote on TRUTH Social. "They were voluntarily handed over to the thugs, headed up by deranged Jack Smith. We did not even go to court to stop them from getting these tapes. I never told anybody to delete them. Prosecutorial fiction & misconduct! Election interference!"
"Same as the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. They knowingly accuse you of a fake crime, a crime that they actually make up, you fight these false charges hard, and they try and get you on ‘obstruction.’ We are dealing with sick and evil people!" he added in a second post.
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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.
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"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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Wondering how to fortify your digital castle against the stealthy onslaught of Realst? Here's your action plan:
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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.
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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.
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.
How are you bolstering your digital defenses against such evolving cyberthreats? Got a handy tip to share? Let us know by writing us at Cyberguy.com/Contact/.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The family of a South Florida woman who died after ingesting a kratom product two years ago was awarded $11 million in a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday.
Circuit Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued a final default judgment against Grow, LLC, and Sean Michael Harder, the owner and operator of The Kratom Distro, WPTV reported. The defendants were sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Family members alleged that Krystal Talavera, 39, of Boynton Beach, died on June 20, 2021, after ingesting a kratom product supplied by Grow, LLC.
Mom of 4 died after using kratom in Florida, lawsuit says. Company owes family $11M https://t.co/LC5uBQcGda
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 29, 2023
Talavera, a registered nurse, was discovered unconscious and lying face down in her living room floor, the Sun-Sentinel reported. A cup of hot coffee and an open bag of “Space Dust,” a product sold by Grow LLC, was found next to her, according to the lawsuit.
It was Father’s Day, and Biagio Vultaggio, the father of Talavera’s youngest child, found her unresponsive, the Miami Herald reported.
Talavera was a registered nurse at Trustbridge Hospice Care in West Palm Beach and had recently been promoted to manager before her death, the Herald reported.
“I again emphasize that no award of damages will ever be adequate and that this decision reflects nothing more than an adherence to prior cases,” Middlebrook said in announcing the monetary award, according to WPEC-TV.
According to WPTV, the breakdown of the cash award was $4,642,895.70 for the estate of Krystal Talavera, $1 million for Devin Filippelli as Talavera’s surviving oldest son; and $2 million for her other three children.
According to the lawsuit, the “Space Dust” product is derived from kratom, or Mitragyna speciosa, a natural plant with origins in Southeast Asia that is commonly sold as a supplement in U.S. stores, WPTV reported.
The product is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
An autopsy performed by the Palm Beach County Coroner determined that Talavera’s cause of death was “acute mitragynine intoxication,” according to the lawsuit. “At high concentrations, mitragynine produces opioid-like effects, such as respiratory failure,” the coroner’s office said.
Talavera used the product “under the belief that Kratom was a safe dietary supplement with several health benefits,” the lawsuit stated.
“This $11 million dollar judgment should be a wakeup call to the kratom industry about this dangerous and unregulated substance,” Tamara Williams, the family’s attorney, said in a statement. “There are families across the country who know firsthand that kratom is addictive and can be deadly.”
Representatives for Grow, LLC, did not return a request for comment from the Herald.
Filippelli, 21, said in a statement that he hoped the ruling will bring awareness to “the dangers of kratom,” the newspaper reported.
“I am grateful for the judge’s decision, but no amount of money will bring my mom back or numb my pain,” Filippelli said in his statement. | https://www.star945.com/news/trending/judge-awards-11m-family-woman-who-died-after-using-kratom/YHDSANZFNNHPFLOEUQEUYHLUY4/ | 2023-07-31T00:42:13 | 0 | https://www.star945.com/news/trending/judge-awards-11m-family-woman-who-died-after-using-kratom/YHDSANZFNNHPFLOEUQEUYHLUY4/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said a man and a woman, were found shot dead early Sunday morning in Orlando.
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According to a news release, at 8:21 a.m. deputies responded to the 500 block of Thomas Jefferson Way. At the scene, they discovered a woman in her thirties woman shot.
She was transported to a local hospital, where she later died, deputies said.
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Sheriff’s investigators said a man in his thirties was also found dead at the scene from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Both lived in the same residence as roommates deputies said.
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Authorities said there is no further update at this time. The investigation is continuing.
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Cardi B is the latest musician to be subjected to unpredictable fan behavior at a concert, following a slew of incidents this summer where fans disrupt musicians, including Harry Styles, Bebe Rexha, and Kelsea Ballerini, while on stage, sometimes hurting them in the process.
Things escalated on Saturday in Las Vegas at Drai’s Beachclub, when the rapper was hit by a concertgoers' drink.
Ironically performing her song "Bodak Yellow" (see lyrics), Cardi became furious and aggressively chucked her microphone toward the area in which the beverage came from, as seen in a fan-recorded video.
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Security was immediately deployed to the area to address the situation, as Cardi remained onstage, fuming.
She was clearly performing with playback to her song; when she stopped rapping, the track continued.
WATCH: CARDI B THROW HER MICROPHONE AT AUDIENCE MEMBER
At some point during the concert, Cardi actually asked the audience to throw water at her, admitting that she was very hot and would like to be cooled down. Fox News Digital reached out to a representative of the singer to clarify if she asked for water before or after the microphone incident.
WATCH: CARDI B ASKS FANS TO THROW WATER ON HER
Fans on social media had mixed reactions to Cardi B's response, with some writing they would have done the same thing, while others condemned her for having a violent reaction.
Headliners have been plagued with similar, unfortunate events for the past two months.
Although not unique to the 21st century, fan behavior became noticeably problematic last month in New York City, when Rexha was hit in the face with a cellphone, resulting in the arrest of a man and the singer getting stitches.
The "I'm Good (Blue)" singer gave fans a glimpse of her injuries, sharing pictures to Instagram.
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"I'm good," she cheekily commented, despite having a bruised face.
Country star Ballerini was performing in Boise, Idaho, at the end of June when she was hit with a flying object, later identified as a bracelet.
In a fan-captured video, Ballerini, who was singing her song "If You Go Down," is seen jolting her head back and wincing in disbelief when an object strikes her eye.
Turning her head and eventually her entire body away from the audience, Ballerini was quickly attended to by one of her band members. After several moments, Ballerini eventually walked off stage.
WATCH: KELSEA BALLERINI GETS HIT IN THE FACE WITH OBJECT THROWN BY FAN AT CONCERT
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She later took to her Instagram story to elaborate on what happened, writing, "I'm fine. Someone threw a bracelet, it hit me in the eye, and it more so just scared me than hurt me. We all have triggers and layers of fears way deeper than what is shown, and that's why I walked offstage to calm down and make sure myself, band and crew, and the crowd all felt safe to continue. That's all I ever want, is for shows to feel like a safe place for us all."
She also clapped back after a troll in the comments section posted, "Stitches is the bar. No stitches. No post," referencing the incident with Rexha. Ballerini wrote along with a screenshot of the comments, "also just gonna leave this right here. a sad, scary world we live in."
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Then it was Harry Styles who got hit in the eye.
In a fan-captured video, the former One Direction member is seen strutting down the runway with his microphone when an unknown object is launched at his eye.
Styles, 29, winces in pain and bends over, covering his eye with his hands.
WATCH: HARRY STYLES GET HIT IN THE EYE BY FLYING OBJECT AT VIENNA CONCERT
Several musicians have remained relatively mum after such incidents, however, in July, Adele addressed proper concert etiquette, warning fans to not try anything with her.
"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 at her Weekends with Adele residency in a fan-recorded video.
"I f---ing dare you. Dare you throw something at me and I'll f---ing kill you," she cautioned the crowd while toting a T-shirt gun in her arms and firing it off into the audience with gusto. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/cardi-b-hurls-microphone-at-fan-during-vegas-concert-after-being-splashed-by-drink/article_815690fd-8a70-5ea9-bbca-026f2428459b.html | 2023-07-31T00:42:19 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/cardi-b-hurls-microphone-at-fan-during-vegas-concert-after-being-splashed-by-drink/article_815690fd-8a70-5ea9-bbca-026f2428459b.html |
One of the NFL's most intriguing backfield tandems is sidelined.
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll told reporters Sunday that running backs Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet are both unavailable to practice. Walker is dealing with a lingering groin injury that has kept him out of multiple practices since the start of training camp last week. Rookie Zach Charbonnet is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. The prognosis for both is unclear.
Walker was one of the NFL's best rookies last season after the Seahawks selected him in the second round of the the 2022 draft. He led the team in rushing with 1,050 yards and nine touchdowns on 4.6 yards per carry. He also posted 165 yards on 27 receptions.
Despite Walker's success, the Seahawks invested another second-round draft pick this year to select Charbonnet out of UCLA. A straight-ahead runner who tallied 1,359 yards and 14 touchdowns on seven yards per carry as a senior, Charbonnet projects to see significant action as part of a 1-2 tandem with Walker who could specialize in third-down situations.
Charbonnet was projected to see plenty of action in training camp to prepare for his rookie season. When he returns to the field is unclear. Carroll said Sunday that he was scheduled to meet with team doctors for further evaluation. | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/injuries-sideline/44BNW2PTX4T5ZZFYE56GBG5OSE/ | 2023-07-31T00:42:24 | 0 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/injuries-sideline/44BNW2PTX4T5ZZFYE56GBG5OSE/ |
A CNN panel discussion over President Biden's acknowledgment of his 7th grandchild, Hunter Biden's daughter, got heated on Sunday after a former assistant to the president said the subject was "gross and uncomfortable."
CNN's Kasie Hunt asked former special assistant to President Biden Michael LaRosa about why it "took so long" for the Bidens to acknowledge their 7th grandchild.
"First of all, I respect you as a journalist for having to ask the question, but it is a very gross and uncomfortable subject to talk about," LaRosa began.
Kasie pushed back and said, "Let's not call a little girl gross."
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"I'm talking about the inter sanctum of a family and the privacy of what goes on in a family," LaRosa continued, arguing that Hunter's daughter shouldn't be weaponized by Republicans.
"And everyone is welcome to make their own personal judgments on the Bidens, but it is frankly — they are a family, a real family, with real feelings, with real struggles and challenges, like every family. And I guarantee you that the more that the Republicans make this an issue, it will not work. Voters appreciate, voters relate to having struggles in their own families. They root for people with vulnerabilities. They root for people who understand and relate to them. And ultimately, the Bidens are a real family, just like everyone else," he continued.
Hunt asked CNN political commentator Scott Jennings about how Biden has made "being a family man" a big part of his "political identity."
"It’s not Republicans, with all due respect, who made Hunter Biden into a complete scumbag on this and other issues. The ignoring his own daughter, for four years! And the President of the United States hanging up a stocking for the dog and not for his seventh grandchild," he responded.
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Hunt interrupted and said that we could "also have sympathy for people who are struggling with addiction," asking him to keep the conversation respectful.
"I agree. And a lot of families deal with addiction, and who ends up picking up the pieces? The grandparents. And in this case, the grandparents would not acknowledge this little girl. It is offensive," he continued.
Hunt added, "but they have now," referring to Biden having issued a statement acknowledging Navy Joan Roberts on Friday.
"Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward," Biden said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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"This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter," he added. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy."
"Oh, what a hero. The polling must have been brutal. The polling must have been brutal," Jennings said, responding to Hunt.
Democratic strategist Karen Finney attempted to pivot to Vice President Harris, arguing that it was "far more appalling" to see Republicans "calling the Vice President of the United States a liar."
She said the conversation surrounding Florida's slavery curriculum was "far more troubling" than an "addict and a bad family situation."
Fox News' Brandon Gillisepie and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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UPLAND, Calif. — A pilot and two passengers were killed Sunday after a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar at a Southern California airport and burst into flames, authorities said.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Beechcraft P35 crashed as it took off at about 6:30 a.m. PDT from Cable Airport in Upland, about 37 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, KABC-TV reported.
The San Bernardino County Fire Department stated that fire crews arrived at the scene to fight flames that had engulfed the hangar, KTLA-TV reported. The fire was brought under control in about 15 minutes, the fire department wrote in a Facebook post.
“Around 6:40 a.m., San Bernardino Fire responded to reports of a structure fire at the Cable Airport,” Eric Sherwin, a spokesperson for the fire department, said in a statement. “An additional 911 caller stated that a light aircraft had crashed into one of the hangars.”
The pilot and passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, the fire department stated in the Facebook post.
The hangar is used to support the Ontario Police Department’s aviation unit, KCAL-TV reported. Several helicopters are stored at the location, according to the television station. Crews were able to prevent damage to the three helicopters stored in the hangar on Sunday, fire officials said.
None of the police vehicles or helicopters were damaged as a result of the crash, according to KTLA.
“I heard a very loud noise, sounded like a truck hit a building,” a neighbor, who did not give his name, told the television station. “My dad flies out of Apple Valley Airport and lands here all the time, and we do occasionally see people come up short and a couple crashes here. But nothing this bad, ever. This is really, really bad.”
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash, according to KABC.
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Craig Morgan is still dedicated to serving his country.
On Saturday, the musician was sworn in again at age 59 to the U.S. Army Reserve on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in front of a sold-out audience.
"I’m excited to once again serve my country and be all I can be in hopes of encouraging others to be a part of something greater than ourselves," Morgan shared in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"I love being an artist but I consider it a true privilege and honor to work with what I believe are the greatest of Americans, my fellow soldiers. God Bless America. Go Army."
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The "That’s What I Love About Sunday" singer previously served 17 years in the Army and Army Reserve with the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions as an E-6 Staff Sergeant and Fire Support Specialist and including Airborne, Air Assault and Rappel Master among his certifications.
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With his reenlistment, Morgan will hold the rank of Staff Sergeant and Warrant Officer.
"Every Soldier who enters the Army has the opportunity to become the best version of themselves, and Staff Sgt. Morgan is no exception. I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes and how he impacts other Soldiers around the Army," General Andrew Poppas, who officiated the ceremony, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Morgan will also continue touring and releasing music.
The day of the ceremony, Morgan shared a throwback photo of himself in uniform with the caption, "Once a soldier, always a soldier I love our country."
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Morgan has also worked with the USO, and has earned the Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Medal and the USO Merit Award.
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Last year, Morgan told Fox News Digital that despite growing up in a musical family with his father and uncles, he hadn't considered it more than a hobby.,
"It never seemed like it was something that was a career for them, even though it kind of was, at times, and especially for me, even throughout my military career," he said at the time.
"It wasn't until later in my military career that I thought that I could possibly pursue it as a profession."
During his time in the service, he won awards for songs that he wrote and performed for his fellow soldiers.
The "Almost Home" singer rose steadily through the ranks and was told by one of his senior officers that he was on the fast track to becoming a major.
"But he also told me, he said, ‘I think that you have a talent and at minimum you ought to pursue it,’" Morgan recalled.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The family of a South Florida woman who died after ingesting a kratom product two years ago was awarded $11 million in a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday.
Circuit Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued a final default judgment against Grow, LLC, and Sean Michael Harder, the owner and operator of The Kratom Distro, WPTV reported. The defendants were sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Family members alleged that Krystal Talavera, 39, of Boynton Beach, died on June 20, 2021, after ingesting a kratom product supplied by Grow, LLC.
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Talavera, a registered nurse, was discovered unconscious and lying face down in her living room floor, the Sun-Sentinel reported. A cup of hot coffee and an open bag of “Space Dust,” a product sold by Grow LLC, was found next to her, according to the lawsuit.
It was Father’s Day, and Biagio Vultaggio, the father of Talavera’s youngest child, found her unresponsive, the Miami Herald reported.
Talavera was a registered nurse at Trustbridge Hospice Care in West Palm Beach and had recently been promoted to manager before her death, the Herald reported.
“I again emphasize that no award of damages will ever be adequate and that this decision reflects nothing more than an adherence to prior cases,” Middlebrook said in announcing the monetary award, according to WPEC-TV.
According to WPTV, the breakdown of the cash award was $4,642,895.70 for the estate of Krystal Talavera, $1 million for Devin Filippelli as Talavera’s surviving oldest son; and $2 million for her other three children.
According to the lawsuit, the “Space Dust” product is derived from kratom, or Mitragyna speciosa, a natural plant with origins in Southeast Asia that is commonly sold as a supplement in U.S. stores, WPTV reported.
The product is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
An autopsy performed by the Palm Beach County Coroner determined that Talavera’s cause of death was “acute mitragynine intoxication,” according to the lawsuit. “At high concentrations, mitragynine produces opioid-like effects, such as respiratory failure,” the coroner’s office said.
Talavera used the product “under the belief that Kratom was a safe dietary supplement with several health benefits,” the lawsuit stated.
“This $11 million dollar judgment should be a wakeup call to the kratom industry about this dangerous and unregulated substance,” Tamara Williams, the family’s attorney, said in a statement. “There are families across the country who know firsthand that kratom is addictive and can be deadly.”
Representatives for Grow, LLC, did not return a request for comment from the Herald.
Filippelli, 21, said in a statement that he hoped the ruling will bring awareness to “the dangers of kratom,” the newspaper reported.
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The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is rising this summer in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Hospitalizations of people with the virus are up 10%, per CDC data — the sharpest increase since December 2022.
More than 7,100 patients with COVID were hospitalized in the week of July 15, up from 6,444 the prior week.
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COVID-related emergency room visits are also on the rise, comprising 0.73% of visits as of July 21, compared to 0.49% a month prior.
"After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again," Dr. Brendan Jackson, the CDC's COVID-19 incident manager in Atlanta, Georgia, told NPR this week.
"We've seen the early indicators go up for the past several weeks," he continued.
"And just this week, for the first time in a long time, we've seen hospitalizations tick up as well."
He added, "This could be the start of a late summer wave."
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The spikes have been most prominent in the Southeast, Jackson said.
"Early indicators of COVID-19 activity (emergency department visits, test positivity and wastewater levels) preceded an increase in hospitalizations seen this past week," CDC spokesperson Kathleen Conley said in a statement.
Despite the uptick, she confirmed that COVID rates are still at "near-historic lows" in the U.S.
Overall, COVID deaths continue to decline.
They're now at the lowest rate since the CDC started keeping track, according to Jackson.
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The surge in summer cases doesn’t mean the CDC plans to recommend a return to masking, he said.
"For most people, these early signs don't need to mean much," Jackson said.
Dr. Marc Siegel, professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor, is skeptical that a summer surge is underway.
"Ordinarily, I would pay careful attention to wastewater analysis, but given the amount of immunity still around from prior infection and vaccination — coupled with the fact that we are still within the Omicron family with most infections remaining mild and hospitalizations showing only a slight uptick — I don't see this as a harbinger of another surge," he told Fox News Digital.
"These are just embers of a fire not completely out."
More concerning to Siegel are the "mutagenic" subvariants emerging in Asia, the doctor said.
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RICHMOND, Va. — (AP) — Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go to win at Richmond Raceway on Sunday and snag one of the final spots in NASCAR's playoff field.
Buescher led 88 laps and was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go. That erased his lead over Virginia native Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd in pre-race.
But Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season, third of his career.
"I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,” Buescher said.
He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps in their Fords. Keselowski, now a part owner of the team, led 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval.
Buescher started 26th and had to drive the field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field with four races remaining in the regular season. Buescher became the 13th race winner this year and there are three playoff spots up for grabs over the next month.
It was the 139th Cup win for primary team owner Jack Roush, second since Keselowski joined the ownership group.
Ford now has 723rd wins in NASCAR's top Cup Series.
“Everybody at RFK Racing who has worked so hard to get us to this point," said Buescher.
Hamlin, winner last week at Pocono, finished second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Kyle Busch was third in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, followed by the Fords of Joey Logano from Team Penske and Ryan Preece of Stewart-Haas Racing.
“One win is good, but you get three or four or five and then you feel a lot better," said Keselowski. "It sure beats not having any at all, but we want to keep going. It’s nice to have one car locked in the playoffs. We need to get both cars locked in the playoffs. We have a good points gap, but we want wins and this is where we need to be.”
Keselowski, despite being winless this season, is still mathematically in contention for the playoffs.
The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, with the final yellow sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory.
Hamlin's bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. He finished 0.549-seconds behind Buescher.
“I got a bad restart,” Hamlin said. “I had to recover too much ground from what I lost on the frontstretch. Almost got to the outside, and then in turn four, almost got to the outside again, and then in turn one, I was like ‘I’m just going to ship it in there and try to get to the outside one more time’ and I just carried way too much speed and locked up the left front tires.”
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Kyle Larson, angered last week when Hamlin caused him to hit the wall while leading while Hamlin went on to win, was running a few laps down when he nudged Hamlin out of the way with 70 laps to go during Sunday's race.
Larson, who won at Richmond in April, finished 19th.
“I think he was having a frustrating day," Hamlin said. “It's all good.”
SCORCHER
With temperatures in the mid-80s, it was about 15 degrees cooler than Saturday, when the temperature approached 100 and the heat index was at least 105.
Nevertheless, points leader Martin Truex Jr. still struggled.
“It was definitely really, really hot," he said. “It felt longer than 400 laps. I’ll be honest, when we got to the end of stage two —– I thought there was no way. I thought that was the checkered flag. It just felt really, really long.”
Truex finished seventh.
CLEAN RACE
All 36 cars that started the race were still running at the end.
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The series moves to Michigan where Kevin Harvick, winless so far in this his final season, is the defending champion.
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NASCAR fans greeted Denny Hamlin with a smattering of boos on Sunday as he was introduced before the Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway in Virginia.
Hamlin was born in Florida but grew up in Chesterfield, Virginia – about 21 miles south of the track. But even near the town where he was raised, the No. 11 driver heard it from the crowd.
The consternation toward Hamlin stemmed from how he was able to get around Kyle Larson at Pocono last week. Hamlin ended up winning the race. Larson ended up in 14th while Hamlin took the heat for aggressive driving. Hamlin was accused of bumping Larson into the wall – an allegation he denied.
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Hamlin has offered no apologies for the move but instead pointed to NASCAR’s system to encourage aggressive driving. If there’s an issue, Hamlin suggested to start there.
"That is what it was geared to do – give us the sense of urgency to ramp up and that regular-season performance matters to get to the final four with a shot," he said Saturday. "The system is doing what it was designed to do."
Hamlin said he’s changed since getting spun out while leading in the past.
"If you have one person willing to be aggressive and one person not, aggressive will win every time," he added.
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Larson said things between him and Hamlin were "fine" and that the two exchanged text messages Friday night. He agreed that the points system encourages the aggressive driving but added that it "makes the guys on the receiving end more mad as well just because of what's at stake and what's taken."
Larson said his battles with Kyle Busch last month changed his attitude toward his approach.
"I respect Kyle and that's why I raced him with respect at Gateway, and I respect Denny every bit as much, if not more, or I did," he said.
"I tend to blow things over pretty quickly. This time, I probably have let it linger on my attitude a little bit this week just because it's happened more often with him than any other driver in my career and also a win was taken."
Hamlin started third at Richmond. Larson started in 14th.
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FedEx driver Jonathan Rohrbach stepped in at the right time to save an injured man from his burning vehicle on a California highway last Wednesday, pulling him to safety mere moments before the flames grew out of hand.
Video footage captured by local news outlet KGTV-TV in San Diego shows Rohrbach dragging the man across the pavement after pulling him from his car. In the backdrop, the badly-damaged car is engulfed in flames.
"It was just, I guess, a natural reaction," he told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday. "I went around the corner and in a bend in the highway and saw the car on fire. There wasn't anybody up there yet. I was the first one to come up on it. So I pulled over and it was already on fire. So I pulled over and grabbed my fire extinguisher from the truck and ran back there."
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"He was yelling about his leg, so I didn't know if he was pinned in the car or what was going on. So I figured I would be able to at least try to knock the fire down a little bit. That way that would give me more time if I could get it all out, at least check him out and see what I could do to get him out, you know?"
Rohrbach said the driver had "obvious injuries" on his left leg. As soon as he tried to help him to his feet to get away from the car, he screamed in pain, so they had to shift strategies.
"He couldn't stand up at all. I couldn't pick him up, so the best option that we could come up with is to help him down to the ground and then and pull them away from the car, get him at least away from the fire."
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The incident took place in Otay Mesa, California on I-15 in San Diego County Wednesday, and Rohrbach has since made news for his split-second heroism.
The KGTV cameraman who recorded the incident happened to be only an exit or two north of the scene, so he raced there where he captured the footage.
"He was there… I think right after I got the guy on the ground or helped him to the ground is when the cameraman came running up on us… you know, there's not much he could do at that point to help, so he was able to film it."
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California Highway Patrol later confirmed the 28-year-old driver was transported to the hospital and is expected to recover, according to KGTV. They also said drugs and alcohol were not factors in the incident.
Praised as a hero, Rohrbach told the outlet, "If it looks like there’s a way to help somebody, you gotta stop and help them."
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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., admitted that Republicans are currently split over the possibility of impeaching President Biden over allegations related to possible involvement with his son Hunter Biden's business dealings, warning that if it does happen, her party has to make sure they have a strong case.
In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," the South Carolina Republican noted that the GOP can use an impeachment inquiry as "another tool in the toolbox" without taking the step of impeachment itself, while warning that controversial moves like impeachment can come with a price.
"I will tell you, every time we walk the plank we put moderate members – members that won Biden-won districts – we are putting those seats at risk for 2024. We are putting the majority at risk," she said, noting that this applies to other polarizing issues as well, like abortion.
Mace also accused Democrats of politicizing the impeachment process with their impeachments of former President Donald Trump, noting that Republicans need to base their actions on their findings, not on any political agenda.
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"Whatever the evidence shows us, we ought to follow the facts, and we have to be better than Nancy Pelosi," Mace said. "Pelosi really politicized the impeachment process. We do not want to do that here."
Mace approached the subject of impeaching a president seriously, stating that if the House were to take that step, she and her colleagues would need to have a strong case.
"We have to show overwhelming, undeniable evidence in order to move this thing forward, and if we can’t then we should not. But if we do, then we ought to use every tool in the toolbox to make sure the American people see it for what it is, and we can hold everyone accountable."
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on "Hannity" last week that the situation was "rising to the level of impeachment inquiry," but Mace is not the only Republican to note that impeachment should be based on standards, not politics.
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said Wednesday it is irresponsible for Republicans to be "raising the I-word" because it "sends a message to the public and sets expectations. Buck did acknowledge that House committees' probes are fair and that such an investigation is indeed the chamber's responsibility.
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., also added that no official should be impeached unless the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors" has been definitively reached.
"I'm not going to support impeaching somebody just because I don't like their politics," he said.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go to win at Richmond Raceway on Sunday and snag one of the final spots in NASCAR's playoff field.
Buescher led 88 laps and was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go. That erased his lead over Virginia native Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd in pre-race.
But Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season, third of his career.
"I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,” Buescher said.
He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps in their Fords. Keselowski, now a part owner of the team, led 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval.
Buescher started 26th and had to drive the field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field with four races remaining in the regular season. Buescher became the 13th race winner this year and there are three playoff spots up for grabs over the next month.
It was the 139th Cup win for primary team owner Jack Roush, second since Keselowski joined the ownership group.
Ford now has 723rd wins in NASCAR's top Cup Series.
“Everybody at RFK Racing who has worked so hard to get us to this point," said Buescher.
Hamlin, winner last week at Pocono, finished second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Kyle Busch was third in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, followed by the Fords of Joey Logano from Team Penske and Ryan Preece of Stewart-Haas Racing.
“One win is good, but you get three or four or five and then you feel a lot better," said Keselowski. "It sure beats not having any at all, but we want to keep going. It’s nice to have one car locked in the playoffs. We need to get both cars locked in the playoffs. We have a good points gap, but we want wins and this is where we need to be.”
Keselowski, despite being winless this season, is still mathematically in contention for the playoffs.
The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, with the final yellow sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory.
Hamlin's bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. He finished 0.549-seconds behind Buescher.
“I got a bad restart,” Hamlin said. “I had to recover too much ground from what I lost on the frontstretch. Almost got to the outside, and then in turn four, almost got to the outside again, and then in turn one, I was like ‘I’m just going to ship it in there and try to get to the outside one more time’ and I just carried way too much speed and locked up the left front tires.”
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Kyle Larson, angered last week when Hamlin caused him to hit the wall while leading while Hamlin went on to win, was running a few laps down when he nudged Hamlin out of the way with 70 laps to go during Sunday's race.
Larson, who won at Richmond in April, finished 19th.
“I think he was having a frustrating day," Hamlin said. “It's all good.”
SCORCHER
With temperatures in the mid-80s, it was about 15 degrees cooler than Saturday, when the temperature approached 100 and the heat index was at least 105.
Nevertheless, points leader Martin Truex Jr. still struggled.
“It was definitely really, really hot," he said. “It felt longer than 400 laps. I’ll be honest, when we got to the end of stage two —– I thought there was no way. I thought that was the checkered flag. It just felt really, really long.”
Truex finished seventh.
CLEAN RACE
All 36 cars that started the race were still running at the end.
UP NEXT
The series moves to Michigan where Kevin Harvick, winless so far in this his final season, is the defending champion.
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"First, I must tell you I love your newsletter. Need some help, I am trying to transfer photos and videos from my external hard drive to my iPad or my cloud. Is this possible?
Thank You – Frank"
The short answer is yes, it is possible to transfer photos and videos from your external hard drive to your iPad or your iCloud, but the methods may vary depending on the type and format of your external hard drive and the size and number of your files. Let's summarize some of the options and then get into how to use them.
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Using an external hard drive: You can transfer photos and videos from an external hard drive to an iPhone, iPad or iCloud by using a camera adapter.
Using Airdrop: If you want to transfer files quickly between Apple devices, you can use Airdrop.
Using iCloud: If you want to share files between devices, the most efficient way is to turn on your iCloud and sync your album.
Syncing Photo Album: Once the photo album is synced with your iCloud, your phone and iPad should also display those photos if you are syncing all your devices with the iCloud and have opted to share those photos between devices.
Storage Considerations: Not all people want to share photos via iCloud between devices because it can occupy more space on their devices, but it is a good option to keep everything accessible. You may want to make sure you have the option for storing files on your devices at a lower size and keep the original-sized images in the cloud: Settings > select your name in the first row > iCloud > Photos > Optimize iPhone Storage.
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If your external hard drive has a Lightning or USB-C connector
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If your external hard drive is wireless or has a WiFi feature
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The above is not the only way for you to transfer files between Apple devices. There are multiple other ways that you can move your photos and videos around. The quickest way to transfer files between Apple devices is by using AirDrop.
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First, make sure AirDrop is turned on for your Mac and iPhone/iPad.
Second, make sure that both your Mac and your iPhone support AirDrop and have WiFi and Bluetooth turned on.
Make sure that your Mac and your iPhone are within 30 feet of each other and that there are no physical obstructions or interferences between them.
How to move photos and videos from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad:
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Then, you can follow these steps to start transferring:
How to transfer photos and videos from Mac to iPhone or iPad using AirDrop
Note that the process above may vary slightly depending on the version of macOS or iOS being used.
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Look at the steps above to make sure that AirDrop is turned on for your iPhone/iPad and your Mac. Then follow these steps:
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Pro Tip: Always double-check device settings and AirDrop preferences to ensure a smooth transfer.
Once the photo album is synced with your iCloud, your phone and iPad should also display those photos if you are syncing all your devices with your iCloud and have opted to share those photos between devices.
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Transferring photos and videos from an external hard drive to an iPad or iCloud is indeed possible, with various methods depending on the type of external hard drive.
Options include using the Files or Photos app, connecting via adapters, utilizing wireless or WiFi features, or using AirDrop for seamless transfer between Apple devices. It's important to double-check device settings and preferences to ensure a smooth transfer process.
What about transferring photos is the most difficult for you? Have you ever run into any issues when trying to do this? Let us know by writing us at Cyberguy.com/Contact/.
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A: How could you miss it? It was even worse on draft day. He was booed vociferously every time he approached the podium to announce the next pick. For some reason, it is the thing to do. When Bud Selig was commissioner, he was booed at public appearances. As much as I’ve criticized Manfred, credit must be given to him for banning the shift, increasing the size of the bases, and installing the pitch clock. He should be given three cheers for each of those moves that have enlivened the game.
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A: We shall see if general manager Nick Krall continues to be a wizard at the trade table. I see three players that he can dangle — Jonathan India, Nick Senzel and Tyler Stephenson. Because of the young players the Reds have with more coming, those three are expendable. Trading India won’t be popular with the fan base, but with Elly De La Cruz, Matt McLain, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Spencer Steer and Noelvi Marte (coming soon), there is no room for India. And don’t forget, Hunter Greene and Nick Lodolo are coming back soon ... maybe.
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A: Surprised? Other ‘s’ words like shocked, stunned and stupefied. On a scale of 1 to 10 how about an 11 or 11 1/2. Like most so-called guessperts, I predicted last and more than 100 wins. And they started that way. Then along came Matt McLain and Elly De La Cruz and lately Christian Encarnacion-Strand. It was a new team, an aggressive team, an energized team. Now I’ll talk myself into a 12.
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A: Henry Chadwick was a baseball writer in the 1880s and, no, I never sat next to him in a press box. Legend is that he invented baseball scoring, numbers for positions and symbols for different plays. He came up with ‘k’ for strikeout because strikeout was too big to fit in a small box, so he took ‘k’ out of the middle of the world to symbolize a strikeout. A regular ‘k’ represents a swinging strikeout. A backwards ‘k’ is a called strikeout. And there is a new one I invented. If a player is called out on a time violation, it is a ‘k’ on its back with the two lines that jut out sticking up, as if the ‘k’ is sleeping. . .which the hitter was doing when he was called out for taking too much time getting into the batter’s box.
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A: Never. And I don’t think anybody has seen it on any team. You have Spencer Steer, Matt McLain, Elly De La Cruz, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, all playing like veterans. And Jonathan India, TJ Friedl, Will Benson, Jake Fraley, Nick Senzel and Tyler Stephenson are not far removed from their rookie seasons. It is amazing. Even if they don’t make the playoffs (but I think they will), it has been a remarkable season.
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A: Way. Every source I checked says he is 5-7. But as far as a broadcaster goes, he is 6-7. He stands tall because he is a real reporter, digs up background stories on the players. Most broadcasters are just impressed with their own voices, but Jim Day is a working journalist.
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