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Letters to the editor: Local primary elections
Wilson's experience cited in judge race
I support April Wilson in her campaign for Monroe County Circuit Court judge. She has the intellect and the compassion to apply law to facts and understand how judicial decisions affect people. She is an excellent communicator — calm and courteous, openminded and firm. She is experienced. She listens.
Ms. Wilson has served Monroe County from 2016 as a misdemeanor deputy prosecutor, then deputy domestic violence prosecutor and currently as felony deputy prosecutor. She has prosecuted cases ranging from traffic offenses to murder. She is the representative to the child protective team. To learn more please go to AprilWilsonforJudge.com. April Wilson has my vote for the Democratic Party candidate in the May 3 primary.
Julia Moore, Bloomington
More:Letters to the editor: Comments on local primary candidates
Wrenbreck's qualifications for judge noted
My name is Kyle Dugger and I am writing to promote my support of Karen Wrenbeck for judge in 2022. Ms. Wrenbeck is a tireless colleague, a fierce friend and the only candidate for her seat who has both served as a public defender and has significant experience with child in need of services and child welfare cases, which is the caseload for Circuit VII under the honorable Judge Stephen Galvin.
As someone who practices regularly in six of Monroe County’s nine circuit courts, I’ve witnessed firsthand what qualities make a great jurist, and Ms. Wrenbeck exemplifies many. I believe that great judges “grow” the profession, inspiring excellence in the lawyers who practice before them through leading by example. Great judges have an insatiable intellectual curiosity, as their position requires them to constantly remain abreast of developments in the law. Great judges are courageous and are willing to make difficult decisions that the law or facts of a case require without bowing to the will of public opinion.
Karen Wrenbeck has these qualities in spades. She is our best choice and please remember to vote Karen Wrenbeck in the primary election on May 3!
Kyle Dugger, Bloomington
Judge candidate Salzmann well-qualified
As a practicing attorney of almost 35 years, I believe Emily Salzmann is the best candidate for judge, Monroe County Seat 7. I have had the privilege of serving as co-counsel with Emily on several serious criminal cases, and have witnessed first-hand her keen grasp of the law, her level-headed temperament, and her constant consideration of our ethical code. Emily is the only candidate in this race with judicial experience, serving as judge over 40 times when one of our sitting judges was unavailable. This means only Emily has the experience working with the Board of Judges, and only Emily would make a seamless transition from the practice of law to the bench.
I am also Emily’s friend. She is always there to help a colleague brainstorm a thorny legal issue, and lend a hand by utilizing her fluency in Spanish to assure a proper understanding between lawyer and client. Emily’s Spanish fluency is an enormous benefit to the bench; she can assure that interpreters are correctly translating, and can assure the people that come before the bench are being heard, in the greater meaning of the word. I urge you to vote for Emily Salzmann for judge.
Katharine Liell, Bloomington
Salzmann has right sensibilities
I am writing to express my unqualified and enthusiastic support for Emily Salzmann as a judicial candidate here in Monroe County.
When I was elected to the bench in Monroe County in 2008, I was the first openly gay person to serve as a judge. Fortunately for our community, one does not have to identify as part of the LGBTQ community to bring important sensibilities to judicial work. To that end, I have known Emily since she began working in the legal system some six or seven years ago. She has shown herself to be dedicated, diligent and open minded. She, in short, has the sensibilities that embrace multi-culturalism and non-conforming lifestyles and that will create an atmosphere of inclusion in the work she does as a judge. Her intelligence and respect for the rule of law are two more traits that are so deeply needed from the bench in these troubling times.
I can hardly imagine a better candidate. I am pleased to urge everyone to vote for Emily Salzmann for this most important office.
Elizabeth Cure, Bloomington
Salzmann's experience cited
Emily Salzmann brings experience for judge.
I’ve been fortunate enough to know Emily since her time as an undergraduate student here at Indiana University. Over the years I would ask about her career as a lawyer, and I could tell the proudest moments were when she was asked to serve as judge pro tempore. It is my belief the passion for being a judge was fostered here as she got to experience the rewards of a public servant firsthand.
I was impressed when I found out she had been asked to come back over 30 times to serve in the capacity of judge pro tempore. Apparently Emily must be quite good at it if she is always asked to come back! From what I know, Emily is the only candidate to offer this experience as judge.
For over a decade I’ve watched her develop into an experienced lawyer, wife and mother to her children. Emily’s devotion to work and family is the definition of what it means to be a selfless servant. I have no doubt that the passion and earned experience I’ve witnessed over the years will translate well into being a judge for our community.
Mathew Lewis, Bloomington
Asare supported for Congress
I met Isak Nti Asare when I was a student struggling to find my path for the future and very uncertain of myself. His mentorship helped me define achievable steps toward a vision of the future that excited me, but also instilled confidence in myself as I pursued that path. Now, three years later, he is running for Congress, and I am thrilled to support him in this effort.
My experience with him is not unique. He always takes the time to listen first and learn from people who know more than him about an issue to find the best solutions. I could not be more excited for the future he sees for southern Indiana and believe that he will give his all to addressing the problems faced by real people in the state as a representative at the national level.
People like Isak are one in a million. His optimism for the future and faith in what people can achieve when they work together is unparalleled. For him policy truly is personal, laws are not just words on a page, but signify real actions that have consequences and the potential to change lives.
Megan Gearhart, Bloomington
Salzmann's work praised
I have had the pleasure of practicing in Circuit Court VII for seven years. I have come to rely on Court VII handling cases and treating litigants with fairness, compassion and strict compliance with Indiana law.
Emily Salzmann strongly believes in upholding Court VII’s reputation as a fair and respectful Court. Emily sees the parties in each case as human beings first and foremost, while also understanding the importance of the consistency and reliability that Monroe County has come to rely on from Court VII. Emily is deeply committed to the community of Monroe County and has been a consistent resource to her colleagues, me included. From the beginning of her career, Emily has prioritized gaining the invaluable experience that comes from sitting on the bench and acting as judge when one of our local judges needs a judge pro tempore. While Emily has many qualities that make her an excellent candidate, Emily’s practical and extensive experience serving as a Monroe County judge pro tempore has shown Emily’s deep commitment to serving our community with respect, integrity, and fairness.
I deeply encourage our community to vote for Emily Salzmann as Monroe Circuit Court VII judge.
Kristin Garner, Bloomington
Salzmann's demeanor praised
I met Emily Salzmann when she was a student in my trial advocacy law school class. She was eager to learn and talented. After graduating, she was an outstanding advocate for her clients when practicing in my courtroom. She fairly presented the law and facts to the court. Her credibility was beyond reproach. While a courtroom can be contentious, I never saw Emily disrespect the court, opposing counsel or clients. She will be an even-tempered judge.
While this race is for retiring Judge Stephen Galvin’s seat, history teaches us the newly elected judge will likely preside in a civil, not criminal or juvenile, court. Emily has both criminal and civil experience at the trial court level. She has been responsible for supervising both the budget and staff for her law firm as its managing partner. Both skills are needed for a judge sitting on the Board of Judges to help develop the court’s annual budget and supervise court staff. Emily is prepared for these tasks. Her Spanish fluency is invaluable.
So convinced of her suitability for this office, I have knocked on doors for her. I hope you join me to vote for Emily Salzmann.
Teresa D Harper, Bloomington
Salzmann's character praised
As a lawyer in Monroe County for the past 40 years, I have had many opportunities to witness the character traits of effective judges. Integrity, independence, impartiality, knowledge and professionalism are at the top of the list. No less important are active listening, time management, and compassion.
I believe that Emily Salzmann possesses these character traits and is well-suited to serve as judge for Seat 7 of the Monroe Circuit Court. Emily has already demonstrated these traits in both civil and criminal cases. She has served as a respected judge pro tem (temporary judge) in all four criminal courts, numerous times. Her professionalism while serving as judge pro tem demonstrates the ability to help people understand the legal system and to enhance public trust and confidence.
Emily’s pro bono (volunteer) work, has also demonstrated her dedication to community service and interest in promoting access to justice. In keeping with the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct, Emily has been able to promote civility in the courtroom. This is especially important when lack of civility has eroded trust in government systems. Please vote for Emily Salzmann for judge on May 4.
Carol Seaman, Bloomington
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A KGW investigation found tens of thousands of Oregon taxpayers have had money garnished from their state tax refunds due to a little-known program that allows the state to collect old unpaid debts, such as parking tickets or court fees.
Each year, the Oregon Department of Revenue collects roughly $27 million in unpaid debt on behalf of dozens of state agencies and local governments. The Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) is the largest user of the program, extracting nearly $8 million annually in delinquent fines and fees.
Analysis of state records by KGW suggests the impact of this program has fallen disproportionately on the poor and minority communities.
From 2019 to 2021, approximately 61% of the tax refunds intercepted within Multnomah County on behalf of state courts were intended for residents in zip codes where the median household falls below the county’s overall median household income of $71,425, according to Census Bureau data.
Roughly one-third of the tax-refunds intercepted in Multnomah County for unpaid tickets or court fees came from just five zip codes. Those neighborhoods — including Centennial, Outer Southeast, Wilkes/East Portland, Lents and Gresham – have some of the lowest median incomes in the county and highest non-white populations.
“It’s almost like it is set up to keep people in their poverty status and from moving forward,” said Aliza Kaplan, law professor at Lewis and Clark and director of the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic.
In March, Jerome Andre received a letter from the state explaining a good portion of his tax refund would be garnished to pay off two tickets he received in 2005 for not having fare on TriMet.
“I was homeless when I got the tickets,” explained Andre.
The Portland man said he’d forgotten about the old tickets and doesn’t recall receiving any collection notices.
“They have never sent me anything,” Andre said. Court records indicate Andre’s accounts ping-ponged between collection agencies. It’s not clear if those debt collectors ever contacted Andre by phone or mail.
Despite his efforts to overcome homelessness by getting a job rebuilding truck engines, buying a used car and securing a new apartment, the state was unrelenting in its pursuit of old debt. It garnished $314, or nearly one-third of his tax refund to pay off the TriMet tickets he received almost two decades ago.
“If people don’t have that full paycheck, if people don’t have that full tax refund, they are going to be in trouble and they are going to go further into a hole that they can never get out of,” said Kaplan of Lewis and Clark.
Unpaid parking tickets, court fines and fees often bounce between private debt collectors and the court for years before tax returns are garnished. In Oregon, this unpaid debt doesn’t come off the books for 20 years.
Chris Baum of Portland was shocked to receive a letter from the Oregon Department of Revenue in March warning he owed hundreds of dollars for three unpaid parking tickets in 2008 and 2009.
“I’m like wait a minute this is 14 years ago!” explained Baum. "It didn’t make any sense."
Baum said he doesn’t remember getting the tickets in downtown Portland nearly a decade ago, nor does he recall receiving any collection notices.
Unbeknownst to Baum, those unpaid tickets ballooned after court-imposed fees. For example, one parking violation issued in 2008 had grown to $254 from $50 originally.
In March, the state warned Baum that he needed to pay hundreds of dollars right away or his tax refund could be garnished.
“It’s never fun to be notified in a threatening manner that if you don’t do something immediately there will be negative repercussions beyond your control,” said Baum, who set up a $73 a month payment plan to avoid garnishment.
“I can pay it, but now I’ll have to decide is it going to make me not be able to do something else like buy gas for my car,” explained Baum.
Low-income individuals and families depend on annual tax refunds as a financial safety net, advocates argue.
Last year, an estimated 68,000 Oregonians did not receive their full tax returns because the state intercepted the money to pay off debts, according to revenue department records. At the same time, state economists announced a huge budget surplus.
In Oregon, debtors can enter payment plans to pay off fines and fees but if they miss payment or if the debt becomes delinquent, then their state tax refunds may be seized.
The money collected for traffic and parking violations is split between the state and agency which issued the ticket.
Multnomah County Circuit Court has $395 million in unpaid court debt on the books, and the balance grows every year. In 2021, the court recovered just a small fraction of that total — roughly $1 million in unpaid debt by garnishing tax refunds.
“We’re spending a ton of money having people chase after these people who haven’t paid,” said Kaplan, who argues the system is too heavy handed and ineffective.
The true cost of collecting court fines and fees is difficult to measure — both in financial terms and the burden for those who owe.
Oregon’s Chief Justice and Judicial Department have acknowledged court fines and fees are an issue that should be addressed.
“We will continue to examine the impacts of fines and fees, develop best practices for their imposition and take affirmative steps to ensure that they do not create unnecessary barriers or disproportionate outcomes,” explained the OJD strategic plan for 2020-21.
The Judicial Department has worked with the state legislature and within its own authority to help alleviate the impact of fines and fees, according to a OJD spokesperson.
Over the past few years, the court ended the practice of suspending driver licenses for unpaid fines, temporarily paused collections during the pandemic (since restarted), offered payment plans and extended the time before accounts are sent to collections.
Criminal justice reform advocates argue, there are options including an amnesty program — which would allow people with unpaid tickets the opportunity to pay ticket balances without having to pay the additional late fees that have accumulated. Additionally, some jurisdictions have explored a mandatory statute of limitations where tickets could be dismissed after a certain period and deemed uncollectable.
Advocates argue tax refund garnishment is particularly harmful because they don’t have protections for low-income residents.
“It’s really important to realize that there is a segment of our population who will never be able to pay,” explained Kaplan. “We need a better way to handle it.”
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WASHINGTON — A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency's financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery was signed into law Wednesday by President Joe Biden.
The legislation cleared Congress last month after fully a dozen years of discussion that took on a new sense of urgency amid widespread complaints about mail service delays. Officials had repeatedly warned that without congressional action, the Postal Service would run out of cash by 2024.
“The Postal Service is central to our economy and essential to rural America,” Biden said. He added that mailmen and women deliver 4 million prescriptions per day, along with letters, consumer goods and even live animals, “often to parts of the country that private carriers can't or won't or aren't required to reach.”
The final legislation achieved rare, bipartisan support by scrapping some of the more controversial proposals and settling on core ways to save the service. Delivering the mail is among the most popular things the government does, with 91% of Americans having a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in 2020.
Lawmakers from both parties attended the signing ceremony — and the mood was jovial, a big improvement from Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran previously saying the service was in a “death spiral” that was particularly hard on rural Americans.
The Postal Service Reform Act lifts budget requirements that have contributed to the agency's red ink, and spells out that mail must be delivered six days a week, except for federal holidays, natural disasters and some other situations.
Postage sales and other services were supposed to sustain the Postal Service, but it has suffered 14 straight years of losses. Growing worker compensation and benefit costs, plus steady declines in mail volume, have exacerbated losses, even as the service delivers to 1 million additional locations every year.
The new law ends a requirement that the Postal Service finance workers’ health care benefits ahead of time for the next 75 years — an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face. Biden said that rule had “stretched the Postal Service's finances almost to the breaking point."
Now, future retirees will enroll in Medicare, while other health plans and the Postal Service cover only current retirees’ actual health care costs that aren’t paid for by the federal health insurance program for older people.
To measure the agency's progress in improving its service, the law also requires it to set up an online dashboard that would be searchable by ZIP code to show how long it takes to deliver letters and packages.
Dropped from the package as it neared actual legislation were efforts to cut back mail delivery. Also set aside — for now — were other proposals that have been floated over the years to change operations, including to privatize some services.
Criticism of the Postal Service peaked in 2020, amid the COVID-19 crisis and ahead of the presidential election, as cutbacks delayed service at a time when millions of Americans were relying on mail-in ballots during the pandemic. Then-President Donald Trump acknowledged he was trying to financially pinch the service to limit its processing ability for an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worried could cost him the election he eventually lost.
Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency’s board of governors had tapped Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as postmaster general. He proposed a 10-year plan to stabilize the service’s finances with steps like additional mail slowdowns, cuts in some offices’ hours and perhaps higher rates.
Biden said Wednesday that more needs to be done to reform the Postal Service, including investing in an electrified vehicle fleet that could save money while helping combat climate change. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is examining a Postal Service contract to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks with a mix of gas and electric vehicles, which the Environmental Protection Agency and Democratic lawmakers argue has too few electric vehicles.
“Today we enshrine into law our recognition that the Postal Service is fundamental to our economy, to our democracy, to our health and the very sense of who we are as a nation," Biden said.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that had curtailed the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.
The justices agreed to halt a lower court judge’s order throwing out the rule and sending it back to the Environmental Protection Agency. Four justices said they disagreed with the decision.
The Biden administration has said it intends to rewrite the rule. Work on a revision has begun, but the administration has said a final rule is not expected until the spring of 2023. The Trump-era rule will remain in effect in the meantime.
The Biden administration had told the justices in a court filing that it agreed that the U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup lacked the authority to throw out the rule without first determining that it was invalid. But the administration had urged the court not to reinstate the rule, saying that in the months since the Alsup's ruling, officials have adapted to the change, reverting to regulations in place for decades. Another change would “cause substantial disruption and disserve the public interest,” the administration said.
Alsup was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton.
The section of federal law at issue in the case is Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. For decades, it had been the rule that a federal agency could not issue a license or permit to conduct any activity that could result in any discharge into navigable waters unless the affected state or tribe certified that the discharge was complied with the Clean Water Act and state law, or waived certification.
The Trump administration in 2020 curtailed that review power after complaints from Republicans in Congress and the fossil fuel industry that state officials had used the permitting process to stop new energy projects. The Trump administration said its actions would advance then-President Donald Trump’s goal to fast-track energy projects such as oil and natural gas pipelines.
States, Native American Tribes and environmental groups sued. Several mostly Republican-led states, a national trade association representing the oil and gas industry and others have intervened in the case to defend the Trump-era rule. The states involved in the case are: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, West Virginia, Wyoming and Texas.
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President Joe Biden announced on April 6 his administration would extend the pause on federal student loan repayments through Aug. 31, 2022. This is the sixth extension of the pause since it began in March 2020.
Several Democratic lawmakers have demanded Biden go further and cancel student debt instead of extending the pause. In turn, other politicians and public figures argued against student debt cancellation. Writer Matthew Yglesias, in his argument against student debt cancellation, claimed that the median American has $0 in student loan debt.
Yglesias is using a term many haven’t heard since high school — the median is the exact middle of a set of numbers. So if you put all Americans in a line ordered from least student debt to most student debt, Yglesias is claiming the person in the middle of that line would have $0 in student loan debt.
THE QUESTION
Does the median American have $0 in federal student loan debt?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, the median American does have $0 in federal student loan debt, because less than half of all Americans have student loans. But that doesn’t take into account the massive debt owed by 43 million Americans.
WHAT WE FOUND
If you lined up all Americans from those who owe nothing in federal student loans to those who owe the most, the person in the exact middle would indeed owe $0 in student loans. That’s because there are 43 million Americans that have federal student loan debt, according to data from the federal student loan portfolio, compared to the total population of 331 million people, per the U.S. Census.
But a median number is not the same as the average. The average is the total debt divided by the total population, and is a much more commonly used calculation.
If you were to calculate the average federal student debt for all Americans, you’d get $4,853.96. You get that by taking the total student debt — $1.611 trillion — and dividing the total U.S. population from it — 331,893,745 in the most recent Census Bureau population estimate.
This data is strictly for federal student loan debt, which excludes private student loans. The Education Data Initiative says $1.611 trillion of the nation’s $1.749 trillion in student loan debt is federal loan debt. The rest is private loan debt. There is no federal data for the number of Americans with private student loan debt but no federal student debt.
According to the Education Data Initiative, 65% of 2021 college students graduated with student debt. The Institute for College Access & Success said that in 2019, 62% of college seniors graduated with student debt.
And many Americans attended college but did not graduate. While over half of American adults 25 or older have attended at least some college, less than half stay in college for more than two years. The Census says 48.4% of the population 25 and older has at least a two-year degree, and 37.9% of the population age 25 and older has at least a four-year degree.
Pew Research found that in 2016, the median borrower with outstanding student loan debt for their own education owed $17,000. Among borrowers with less than a bachelor’s degree — students who went to community college, trade school or dropped out of school before graduation — the median self-reported debt was about $10,000. For borrowers with a bachelor’s degree, the median was $25,000. For the borrowers with postgraduate degrees, the median self-reported student loan debt was $40,000.
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Cash App has become a popular way for people to send money, invest in the stock market and buy cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
But recent reports say there is a data breach impacting millions of its customers. Google Trends data also shows people are searching for information about the reported Cash App breach.
THE QUESTION
Was Cash App affected by a data breach?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, Cash App was affected by a data breach that impacted U.S. customers who used Cash App’s investing services.
WHAT WE FOUND
Block, Inc., the company that owns Cash App, filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 4 about a data breach impacting millions of users.
The filing says Block “recently determined” that a former employee downloaded Cash App Investing reports that contained some customer information on Dec. 10, 2021. Though the employee had “regular access to these reports as part of their past job responsibilities,” they accessed the reports without permission after their employment ended.
The data breach impacted current and former U.S. customers who used Cash App’s investing services, according to the SEC filing. Other Cash App products and features apart from stock activity were not impacted by the breach.
Cash App Investing is contacting approximately 8.2 million people to provide them with information about the breach, the filing says.
So what data may have been compromised?
The reports included customers’ full names and brokerage account numbers, which are the unique numbers associated with a customer’s stock activity on Cash App Investing. For some customers, the reports also included portfolio value, holdings and/or stock trading activity for one trading day, the SEC filing and a Cash App spokesperson confirm.
Usernames and passwords, Social Security numbers, date of birth, payment card information, addresses or bank information were not included in the reports. The reports also didn’t include security codes, access codes, or passwords used to access Cash App accounts.
In a statement to VERIFY, a Cash App spokesperson said the company values customer trust and is “committed to the security of customers’ information.”
Cash App launched an investigation with the help of a forensics firm, according to the spokesperson and SEC filing. Cash App has also notified law enforcement of the breach.
“In addition, we continue to review and strengthen administrative and technical safeguards to protect information,” the Cash App spokesperson said.
More from VERIFY: Yes, you do have to pay taxes on cryptocurrency
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An officer with the Tupelo Police Department walks out of the Community Bank following a Wednesday afternoon robbery at that location. Police arrested a suspect, Jason Wagner of Tupelo, approximately four hours after the robbery in Leeds, Alabama.
TUPELO • A man accused of robbing a downtown Tupelo branch bank Wednesday afternoon and making off with an undisclosed amount of money was arrested about four hours later on the other side of Birmingham, Alabama.
According to Tupelo Police Department spokesman Maj. Chuck McDougald, employees at the Community Bank branch location at 307 West Main Street were able to identify Jasper Wagner, 56, of Tupelo in security camera footage captured during the robbery.
Wagner, who has a criminal history that includes bank robbery, was located and arrested in Leeds, Alabama, around 4:30 p.m. the same day. McDougald said the rapid arrest in the case was a result of cooperation between the bank, local police and Alabama law enforcement.
A lone white male suspect entered the Community Bank branch location around 12:30 p.m. on April 6. He handed the teller a note requesting money but never displayed a weapon. Police swarmed the location but not before the suspect had fled the scene. No one was injured during the incident.
TPD will be working with Alabama authorities and the FBI as the investigation continues.
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Nelda Jane Anderson, age 74, passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2022 at the Pontotoc Health and Rehab Center surrounded by her daughters and best friend. She was born February 14, 1948 to William Eulice and Josie Parham Thompson. Nelda enjoyed being a member of the Pontotoc Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses for the last ten years. She was a 1966 graduate of Randolph High School and retired from ITW Paslode in Pontotoc. Having a green thumb, she took meticulous pride in her lawn and was continually adding to her wide variety of flowers. Though a life-long cat lover, she developed a particular fondness to canines as well in her later years. Nelda delighted in watching hummingbirds and keeping them well fed. Additionally, she enjoyed reading, consuming all things lemon (especially lemon ice box pie) and watching Jeopardy. However, her greatest love was spending time with her grandchildren - especially taking them fishing and picking flowers. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 2:00 PM, at Browning Funeral Home Chapel with Keith Williams from the Kingdom Hall officiating. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 PM immediately preceding the service. Survivors include her two daughters, Kristy Tunnell (Adam) of Starkville and Mindy Wright (Clint) of Mooreville; a sister, Colistie Celestine Jones (George Winford) of Randolph; a sister-in-law, Kay Fitts Thompson of Randolph; four grandchildren, Logan, Sawyer, and Wyatt Tunnell; and Olivia Wright; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and five brothers, Philip, Wendell, Robert, Verrell and Norris Thompson. Condolences may be offered at www.browningpontotoc.com
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Ray Barnett, 90, passed away on April 05, 2022 at the NMMC. He retired from Hardin's Bakery and he was a farmer. He was also a self-employed mechanic and had worked for Lee County 2nd District. Ray was a member of Lighthouse Assembly of God. Funeral services will be at Waters Funeral Home on Friday, April 08, 2022 @ 2:00 p.m. with Bro. Merle Floyd and Bro. Terence Sutterfield officiating. Burial will be in Euclatubba Cemetery. He is survived by four sons, Gary Barnett of Saltillo, Ricky Barnett (Carol) of Amory, Sammy Barnett (Mary Ann) of Wren and Randy Barnett of Guntown; (14) grandchildren; (16) great-grandchildren; (2) sisters, Reba Floyd (Merle) and Edith Patterson; host of other family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Marvin and Gerthie Sanders Barnett; wife, Frances Barnett; son, Ronnie Dale Barnett; two daughter-in-laws, Deborah Barnett and Peggy Barnett; grandchild, Connie Barnett; (1) sister and (6) brothers. Pallbearers will be Caden Lancaster, Stetson Harlow, Ethan Barnett, Corey Barnett, Aaron Barnett, Mike Barnett and DeWayne Barnett. Visitation will be at Waters Funeral Home on Thursday evening from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family @www.watersfuneralservice.com
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Roger Dale Barnett, 64, of Hatley passed away Saturday, April 2nd, at North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. Roger was born on August 17, 1957 to the late Birdie Mae and Floyd Barnett of Okolona, MS. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Opal, of Amory, a daughter Hannah (Steven) Muscolino, and a great-nephew Avery Arnold. His siblings include four sisters: Carolyn Barnett (David Caradine), Brenda (Steve) Jones, Ann Grant, and Ailene (Bob) Wells, and two brothers: Steve Barnett and Ted Barnett. Brothers in law Eugene Harris, Riley Dale (Kathy) Harris, and Ray Harris and a sister in law Donna Jones and many nieces and nephews who he loved dearly. He is preceded in death by a brother, Jeffery Barnett, and a sister, Sheila Sweat. Roger was a longtime resident of Amory. He and his wife Opal owned and operated Barnett's Country Store for over twenty years. He was most recently employed by the Monroe County Sherriffs' Office. He enjoyed gardening and caring for his horses. Pallbearers will be Robert Weaver, Stanley Odom, David Caradine, Todd Barnett, Cody Harris, Ray Harris, Dale Harris, and Steven Muscolino. Honorary Pallbearers are Eugene Harris and Avery Arnold Cleveland-Moffett Funeral home in Amory is entrusted with arrangements. Burial will be at New Hope Cemetery in Hatley, MS Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2022 at Cleveland-Moffett Funeral Home. Burial will follow in New Hope Cemetery Visitation will be on Thursday evening from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
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Joe Dalton Brock, 67, long time resident of New Albany, and beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, entered into his eternal home on Monday, April 4, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, TN. Services honoring the life of Mr. Brock will be 2PM Saturday, April 9, 2022 at West Tallahachie Baptist Church with Bro. Keith Benefield officiating. Born May 30, 1954 in New Albany, he was the son of the late James and Gladys Irvin Brock. He received his education from the Holly Springs Public School System. At an early age Mr. Brock gained the passion and carpentry skills needed to eventually own and operate Brock Construction. He will be remembered as a master of the trade. His love for motorcycles and old cars, which was a passion he shared with brothers. Mr. Brocks passion for coon hunting and his stories for always having a "good dog", was passed down to anyone who would "go a huntin" with him. An epitome of respect for all mankind, Mr. Brock leaves a legacy of always seeing the good in everyone he met. A faithful member of West Tallahachie Baptist Church, His love for the Lord will still shine through in their daily activities. Visitation will be from 10AM until 2PM, Saturday, April 9, 2022 at West Tallahachie Baptist Church. The burial will follow in the Enterprise Cemetery. Blessed with a loving family, memories will continue to be shared by his wife of 36 years, Cheryl Horn Brock, three daughters, Tammy Jo Brock Rappa (Jamie) of Red Banks, Sarah Hope Brock Jarvis of Myrtle, Hanna Faith Brock Lam of Elkmon, AL, one son, Zachary Ray Brock (Gabbi) of Fort Wayne, IN, one sister, Joyce Brock Langston (Ricky) of Kissimmee, Fl, two brothers, Alton Brock (Denita) and Johnny Brock (Lisa) of New Albany. New Albany Funeral and Cremation Care invites you to share memories with the Brock family at nafuneralsandcremations.com.
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Larry Coleman, 69, passed away Sunday, April 03, 2022, at his home in Lake Center. GRAVESIDE. Services will be on Saturday April 9, 2022 1:00 p.m. at Soul Cemetery 813 Musgray Road Holly Springs. Visitation will be on Friday April 8, 2022 4:00- 6:00 at Serenity Autry Funeral Chapel Holly Springs . Serenity Autry Funeral Home of Holly Springs is in charge of services .
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Quintarus Hogan, 26, passed away Sunday, March 27, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Services will be on Friday April 8, 2022 at 2pm at Masonic Cemetery Amory. Visitation will be on Today from 3pm - 5pm with family hour 5pm - 6pm at Community Funeral Directors - Okolona. Burial will follow at Masonic Cemetery - Amory, MS.
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Loretta Jean Sipes, 78, passed away Wednesday, April 06, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. Services will be on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 2 pm at Kesler Funeral Home - Booneville Chapel. Visitation will be on Thursday from 12-2 pm at Kesler Funeral Home - Booneville Chapel. Burial will follow at Forked Oak Cemetery. Condolences to the family may be made online at www.keslerfuneralhome.com.
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Euwilda Turner White passed away peacefully at her home in Ripley, MS at the age of 93 on April 5, 2022. She was born October 9, 1928 to Joe Turner and Della Mae Bartlett Turner in Ripley, MS. Euwilda was a member of the Fellowship Baptist Church. She worked for Foot Caress for 32 years and Pine Grove School Cafeteria for 15 years. She had a great love for all her family. Visitation will be Wednesday, April 6, 2022 from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the McBride Funeral Home Chapel. Service will be Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at the McBride Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be at Fellowship Cemetery. Euwilda is survived by one daughter: Sandra Elder (Jerry) of Ripley, MS; two step-sons: Jimmy White, (Jana) of Collierville, TN, David White (Caren) of New Braunfels, TX; one step-daughter: Becky Reaves of Ripley, MS; five grandchildren: Mebo Hill (Jeana), Randy Hill (Stacy), Pam Bennett (Eddie), Lynn McCoy (Mitch), Michael Elder (Christina); five step-grandchildren: Alyssa Moss (Griffin), Kayla White, Hugh White, Brett Reaves, Lysette Jackson (Justin); twenty great-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; twenty eight great-great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren on the way; a special caregiver: Heather Hall. She was preceded in death by her first husband: Eugene White; her second husband: Bill White; her parents; one daughter: Carol Jean Hill; three sisters: Vera Cissom, Era Mae Johnson, Jo Lane Turner; four brothers: Vernon, Virgil, Vertis, J.B. Turner; two grandchildren: Karen Elaine Hill, Christopher Lee Elder. Officiating will be Bro. Cody Matlock, Arnold Witt and Michael Turner. Interment will be at Fellowship Cemetery. Pallbearers will be: Jeremy Stroupe, Justin Stroupe, Mason Clemmer, Dylan Hill, Carl Witt, Phill Witt, Robert McCoy, Dustin McCoy, Brett Reaves. Arrangements by: McBride Funeral Home, Inc., Ripley, MS www.mcbridefuneralhome.com
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Vera Genelle Ford, 92, passed away Monday, April 4, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born November 23, 1929, to Buck R. and Flora Olive. She was a lifelong member of Concord Baptist Church. She retired from Futorian Furniture, and was a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening, calling and checking on the sick, and participating in the Friendship Sunday School Class. A Celebration of Life will be at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, April 7, 2022, at Concord Baptist Church with Bro. Marvin Robbins and Bro. Robert Walker officiating. Burial will be in Concord Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home, and Thursday from 1:00 P.M. until 2:00 P.M. at the church. She is survived by two sons, Jackie (Sandra) Ford and Dr. Ricky (LuAnne) Ford; seven grandchildren, Mark Ford of Logansport, IN, Daniel Ford of Memphis, TN, John Peter Ford of Oxford, MS, Dr. Aaron (Kristy) Ford of Saltillo, MS, Lauren (Josh) Whitson of Booneville, Suzanne Ford of Moulton, AL, and Ben (Lindsey) Ford of Jackson, MS; and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Gaston Ford in 2002; one sister, Marie Crawford, and two infant sisters. Pallbearers are Mark Ford, Daniel Ford, John Peter Ford, Dr. Aaron Ford, Ben Ford and Josh Whitson. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Concord Baptist Church, 5490 CR 601, Booneville, MS 38829. Condolences may be left at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com.
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Vera Genelle Ford, 92, passed away Monday, April 4, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born November 23, 1929, to Buck R. and Flora Olive. She was a lifelong member of Concord Baptist Church. She retired from Futorian Furniture, and was a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening, calling and checking on the sick, and participating in the Friendship Sunday School Class. A Celebration of Life will be at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, April 7, 2022, at Concord Baptist Church with Bro. Marvin Robbins and Bro. Robert Walker officiating. Burial will be in Concord Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home, and Thursday from 1:00 P.M. until 2:00 P.M. at the church. She is survived by two sons, Jackie (Sandra) Ford and Dr. Ricky (LuAnne) Ford; seven grandchildren, Mark Ford of Logansport, IN, Daniel Ford of Memphis, TN, John Peter Ford of Oxford, MS, Dr. Aaron (Kristy) Ford of Saltillo, MS, Lauren (Josh) Whitson of Booneville, Suzanne Ford of Moulton, AL, and Ben (Lindsey) Ford of Jackson, MS; and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Gaston Ford in 2002; one sister, Marie Crawford, and two infant sisters. Pallbearers are Mark Ford, Daniel Ford, John Peter Ford, Dr. Aaron Ford, Ben Ford and Josh Whitson. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Concord Baptist Church, 5490 CR 601, Booneville, MS 38829. Condolences may be left at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com.
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WASHINGTON • Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take an aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their March policy meeting, released Wednesday, Fed officials said that half-point interest rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases, "could be appropriate" multiple times this year.
At last month's meeting, many of the Fed's policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off then because of the uncertainties created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving toward rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut those holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago, when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are surging at the fastest pace in four decades, and officials have expressed increasing concern about inflation.
The Fed's plans "reflect their great discomfort with the rapid pace of inflation," said Kathy Bostjancic, chief U.S. financial economist at Oxford Economics.
The Fed is "increasingly worried" that consumers and businesses will start expecting price surges to persist, Bostjancic added, a trend that can itself prolong high inflation.
Many economists have said they worry the Fed has waited too long to start raising rates and could be forced to respond so aggressively as to trigger a recession. Indeed, economists at Deutsche Bank predict that the economy will tumble into a recession late next year, noting that the Fed, "finding itself now well behind the curve, has given clear signals that it is shifting to a more aggressive tightening mode."
The stock market sold off when the minutes were released but later rebounded from its worst levels. Still, the S&P 500 index closed down nearly 1% after a sharp drop on Tuesday.
Markets now expect much steeper rate hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March. At that meeting, the policymakers projected that their benchmark rate would remain below 2% by the end of this year and 2.8% at the end of 2023, up from its current level below 0.5%. But Wall Street now foresees the Fed's rate reaching 2.6% by year's end, with further hikes next year.
Higher Fed rates will, in turn, heighten costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In this way, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to tame high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear they envision such sharp increases. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying its bond holdings will "shrink considerably more rapidly" over "a much shorter period" than the last time it reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
After the pandemic hammered the economy two years ago, the Fed bought trillions in Treasury and mortgage bonds, with the goal of lowering longer-term loan rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing course, the last time the Fed bought bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now, that shift is likely to happen in as few three months or less, with the reduction in the balance sheet likely to be announced as early as May.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the rate on the 10-year Treasury note, which influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% a week earlier and 1.7% a month ago. Average mortgage rates have leapt higher, reaching 4.67% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac, the highest since 2018.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped more, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has often been taken as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market trends aren't flashing the same warning signals.
Gennadiy Goldberg, senior U.S. rates strategist at TD Securities, said the narrow gap between longer- and shorter-term bond yields indicates that investors think the economy will slow enough in the next two years to force the Fed to scale back its rate hikes.
To shrink its balance sheet, the Fed will let some of its bonds mature without reinvesting the proceeds. What impact this might have is uncertain. Powell said last month that the reduction in bond holdings would be equivalent to another rate hike. Economists estimate that reducing the balance sheet by $1 trillion a year would be equal to anywhere from one to three additional quarter-point increases in the Fed's benchmark short-term rate each year.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who preceded Powell as Fed chair, suggested at a congressional hearing Wednesday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would likely keep escalating inflation in the coming months.
"The sanctions we've placed on Russia are pushing up the price of energy," Yellen said. "When energy prices are going up, the price of wheat and corn that Russia and Ukraine produce are going up, and metals that play an important industrial role are going up."
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HOUSTON • Houston officials have voted in favor of changing the city’s rules to permit the sale of alcohol on Sunday.
Although conversations about whether to allow the sale of beer and light wine on Sunday has been ongoing for the past few months, city officials finally voted 3-1 on Tuesday night to move forward with the next step in amending the ordinance.
Ward 2 Alderlady Shenia K. Jones was the lone vote against amending the ordinance. Ward 1 Alderman John Fred Lancaster recused himself during voting after citing a conflict of interest.
The issue, which was brought before the board by Jonathan McDaniel in December 2021, and failed to move forward during the February 2022 meeting. McDaniel brought the issue forward again on Tuesday.
“We believe this is a huge step towards more economic development, city-wide revenue increases and an increase in jobs throughout Houston,” he told city officials. “To continue to grow our city, we must think of new and inventive ways to bring consumers into our city, Sunday sales are part of that.”
McDaniel told the board the city was losing revenue to their neighbors by disallowing alcohol sales on Sunday.
But not everyone in attendance on Tuesday night agreed. Several members of the crowd voiced their opposition to the proposal.
“I see the destruction (alcohol) brings,” said Randy Rinehart, pastor of Parkway Baptist Church. “I see the problems it causes. I am against anything that increases the sale and consumption of alcohol in the city of Houston.”
Ward 4 Alderlady Willie McKinney made a motion to move forward with the process of amending the of ordinance to allow for the sale of beer and light wine on Sundays at convenience stores, grocery stores and restaurants.
Ward 3 Alderman Matt Callahan seconded the motion.
The next step involves advertising the potential change of an ordinance and then holding a public hearing. Following that, the board may choose to either approve or reject the amendment at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
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DETROIT • Toyota customers soon won't be able to get U.S. federal tax credits for buying electric or hybrid vehicles.
The automaker expects that sometime before the end of June it will reach a 200,000-vehicle cap on the credits, Bob Carter, Toyota's head of North American sales, said Wednesday. After that, the credits will be phased out over the next year, reaching zero, as Tesla and General Motors already have.
The lack of credits is problematic for automakers shifting from petroleum-powered vehicles to batteries in the effort to reduce emissions, meet government fuel-economy standards and fight climate change. Nissan is about 30,000 vehicles away from reaching the cap, and others will follow as more EVs are introduced.
Tesla, the top seller of electric vehicles in the world, and GM already are at a price disadvantage to other automakers without the credits, and Toyota soon will be. Additional EV tax credits are in the Build Back Better spending bill backed by President Joe Biden, which is stalled in Congress.
Toyota reached the cap largely by selling plug-in gas-electric hybrid vehicles. The company's plug-in RAV4 Prime small SUV with 42 miles of electric range earns the buyer a $7,500 credit, the largest available. The Prius Prime plug-in, with 25 miles of electric range, gets $4,500. Toyota previously had offered a fully electric RAV4, but it didn't sell well and was canceled. It's rolling out a fully electric model called the bZ4X with 250 miles per charge, this summer.
The Build Back Better bill would give EV buyers a $7,500 tax credit through 2026 to charge up sales. But the following year, only electric vehicles made in the U.S. would qualify for the credit. And the base credit rises by $4,500 if the vehicle is made at a U.S. plant that runs under a union-negotiated collective bargaining agreement. Only GM, Ford and Stellantis vehicles would qualify.
Carter, on a conference call with reporters, said Toyota lobbied against the additional credit only for union plants, calling it unfair to nonunion workers. "It just needs to be a level playing field," Carter said. "We are not anti-EV credits."
Democrats backing the credits for EVs made by the United Auto Workers say supporting union jobs is good for the economy and communities because unions helped to build the middle class.
GM CEO Mary Barra has said automakers that offered electric vehicles early should not be placed at a disadvantage.
Restoring the credits is "a question that congress really needs to resolve," Carter said.
Toyota plans to offer 30 fully electric vehicles from its Lexus and Toyota brands by 2030.
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WASHINGTON • The U.S. rolled out a new wave of financial sanctions on Wednesday against Russia that President Joe Biden said would place a lasting penalty on the country's economy.
The United Kingdom quickly followed suit, and more pain was coming from the European Union as the allies pressed forward with an escalating campaign to tighten the economic screws on Russian President Vladimir Putin for "war crimes" in Ukraine.
Making it personal, the U.S. sanctions singled out the Putin's family, targeting his two adult daughters in addition to blocking two key Russian banks.
Biden said that "Russia has already failed in its initial war" after the country's forces were turned back from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. He cautioned, however, that "this fight is far from over."
"This war could continue for a long time," but the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine and Ukrainians in the fight for freedom, Biden said. "We're going to stifle Russia's ability to grow for years to come."
The latest sanctions underscore the financial pain that Russia faces, as evidence that its troops killed Ukrainian civilians has led to ever harsher penalties by the U.S. and its Western allies that are eroding Putin's ability to fight.
While rounds of increased sanctions have not forced Putin out of the war, they have put Russia in increasingly desperate economic circumstances as Ukrainian forces withstand his barrages. Key to the effectiveness of the sanctions has been the unity between the U.S. and European nations. And the atrocities revealed in Ukraine have intensified pressure on Germany and other countries to go further and join the U.S. and Lithuania in blocking all Russian energy exports.
The U.K. piled on Wednesday with asset freezes against major banks, a ban on British investment in Russia and a pledge to end dependency on Russian coal and oil by yearend.
The European Union was also expected to soon take additional steps, including a ban on new investment in Russia and an embargo on coal, after the recent evidence of atrocities emerging in the wake of the retreat by Russian forces from the town of Bucha.
The U.S. acted against two of Russia's largest banks, Sberbank and Alfa Bank, prohibiting assets from going through the U.S. financial system and barring Americans from doing business with those two institutions.
In addition to sanctions aimed at Putin's adult daughters, Mariya Putina and Katerina Tikhonova, the U.S. is targeting Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin; the wife and children of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; and members of Russia's Security Council, including Dmitry Medvedev, a former president and prime minister.
The penalties cut off all of Putin's close family members from the U.S. financial system and freeze any assets they hold in the United States.
Biden was expected to sign an an executive order that would ban new investment in Russia by Americans no matter where they are living. The U.S. Treasury Department was preparing more sanctions against Russian state-owned enterprises, according to the White House.
Britain announced asset freezes targeting Sberbank and the Credit Bank of Moscow and designated eight Russian oligarchs whom it says Putin "uses to prop up his war economy."
"Together with our allies, we are showing the Russian elite that they cannot wash their hands of the atrocities committed on Putin's orders," British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
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As the Miami Heat move closer to the playoffs, further clarity is coming into focus regarding rotation plans for the postseason.
Tuesday night’s 144-115 victory over the Charlotte Hornets offered further hints, even as injuries factor into the equation.
Among the moving parts:
Victor Oladipo: After stepping up in the absences of Jimmy Butler and Gabe Vincent with a decisive 21-point performance off the bench in Sunday night’s 114-109 road victory over the Toronto Raptors, Oladipo was held out Tuesday.
“It was just the way things were going,” said assistant Chris Quinn, who filled in for a second consecutive game, with coach Erik Spoelstra in NBA health-and-safety protocols. “Obviously, the other night Vic played incredible. You could see what he brings to our team.
“And then [Tuesday] night, with Jimmy back and some other guys back, it was just a decision to do what we were kind of doing before that Toronto game.”
Oladipo and Udonis Haslem were the lone Heat players held out Tuesday night due to “Coach’s Decision.”
Duncan Robinson: Replaced in the starting lineup a week ago by Max Strus at the start of the Heat’s current five-game winning streak, Robinson made a stand with his play against the Hornets, closing with 21 points on 7-of-11 shooting on 3-pointers.
“I mean, it’s gonna be different,” Robinson said of now being locked in as a reserve. “That’s kind of what this year’s been, in a lot of senses. The role and involvement and everything has looked different night to night, and that’s what you get when you play on a good team, with a lot of guys that can do a lot of different things.
“So for me, it’s just about wrapping my mind around that. It’s definitely not something that’s easy, per se. But everyone’s going through it. And it’s sacrifice when you’ve got a good team that wants to do something special, that’s what it takes. So just continue to wrap my mind around that and whatever’s required from me on a nightly basis.”
Gabe Vincent: With Kyle Lowry given Tuesday off for rest, it was Vincent who was given the start at point guard over Oladipo.
While he closed 1 of 5 from the field, Vincent’s five assists were second on the Heat to Butler’s eight.
Vincent has played 20 minutes or more three times since the rotation was overhauled five games ago, sitting out one of those games with a toe injury.
Caleb Martin: Held out of Saturday night’s road victory over the Chicago Bulls in his first game back from a two-game absence with a bruised right calf, Martin started Sunday’s victory in Toronto, going 26 minutes.
The versatile forward then played 26 minutes off the bench Tuesday against the Hornets, with a 12-point performance that included 3-of-3 3-point shooting.
Like Vincent, it appears Martin will receive strong consideration for time in the playoff rotation, although with no guarantee.
Markieff Morris: After starting in place of sidelined P.J. Tucker in Sunday’s victory in Toronto and going for 10 points in 26 minutes, Morris was a late scratch Tuesday due to a strained left hip flexor.
A read on where he stands could come into better view with Tucker dealing with a strained right calf that took him for the night in Tuesday’s third quarter. That even could have Morris, if available, back in the starting lineup Friday against the Atlanta Hawks at FTX Arena.
As for Tucker, Quinn said, “All I really know is he strained his calf. He’ll get looked at [Wednesday] by the docs and that’s pretty much what I’ve heard.”
Tyler Herro, Dewayne Dedmon: Of what appear to be four available reserve roles — beyond starters Butler, Lowry, Strus, Tucker and Bam Adebayo — Herro and Dedmon appear locks for postseason playing time in two of those.
Herro is coming off a 35-point performance against the Hornets, which ties his career regular-season high and ties Dwyane Wade for most by a Heat reserve in the regular season.
Dedmon was held out of Tuesday’s game due to a sprained right ankle, with Omer Yurtseven getting his playing time, with seven rebounds in 15:27. Dedmon’s ailment is considered minor, having been a game-time decision Tuesday.
Yurtseven, Haslem and Haywood Highsmith likely will see their postseason time limited to the practice court.
Two-way players Javonte Smart and Mychal Mulder are not eligible for the playoff roster.
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LaQuedra Edwards was at a Vons in Tarzana in November when she put $40 into a California Lottery Scratchers vending machine. As she was about to choose which games she wanted, she said, "some rude person" bumped into her.
According to Edwards, the impact of the stranger bumping into her caused her to push a number on the machine that she did not intend. Out came a $30 200X Scratchers ticket -- which she had no intention of buying.
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"He just bumped into me, didn't say a thing and just walked out the door," Edwards recalled, as described in a news release issued by the California Lottery on Wednesday. She recounted being irritated not only because the person bumped into her, but also because she had spent 75% of her lottery money on one ticket instead of being able to purchase her usual selection of lower-priced favorites.
Edwards returned to her car and began scratching the $30 ticket. That's when she realized she'd won the game's top prize -- a cool $10 million.
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"I didn't really believe it at first, but I got on the 405 Freeway and kept looking down at (the ticket) and I almost crashed my car," Edwards said, according to the statement. "I pulled over, looked at it again and again, scanned it with my (California Lottery mobile) app and I just kept thinking, 'This can't be right.'"
"I'm still in shock," she added. "All I remember saying once I found out how much I just won was, 'I'm rich!'"
The supermarket received a $50,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
According to the news release, Edwards plans to use her winnings to buy a house and launch a nonprofit organization.
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In a conversation with National Geographic Travel's Amy Alipio, the nature-loving singer shared her love for the Great Smoky Mountains in her hometown of Tennessee and why now is the time to open our eyes.
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"I really think we all need to pay closer attention to taking better care of the things that God gave us freely, and that we're so freely messing up," she said. "We need to rethink that and do better. We need to actually be more giving to Mother Nature and this planet. We're not going to have it for long if we destroy it. We need to be smart."
The country music icon's 1972 song "My Tennessee Mountain Home" was named an official state song last month, proving the great outdoors have been an inspiration to her for years.
"They're are my people, this is my home, and I've written so many things about the [Smoky Mountains] ... I just think it's one of the most beautiful places," she said. "We've got the most radiant flowers and the biggest assortment of trees in all of North America, and that's why it's so beautiful in the fall and in the summer."
Jessica Hall, the executive director of the American Eagle Foundation, which runs a bald eagle sanctuary at Dollywood, told National Geographic Dolly is very active in causes that speak to her heart.
"The Smoky Mountains where she grew up-that's where her heart is," she said.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The city of Fayetteville is making plans to remove the fencing around the controversial Market House.
Removal of the fence will allow the public to access the exterior areas of the Market House, including the open terrace at street level, beginning April 15.
The city said that before the fence is removed, the area will be cleaned, and all required inspections will be completed ensuring physical and structural safety. The fence was originally put in place to allow for repair work to be conducted safely.
According to officials, during the past year, representatives from the United States Department of Justice and the Fayetteville-Cumberland Human Relations Commission have gone through an extensive process to collect diverse feedback and develop community-oriented recommendations for repurposing.
Fayetteville city leaders are working on possible plans for repurposing the structure.
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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A new shop in Durham is making a high rent district accessible for entrepreneurs. Pioneers Durham serves as a marketplace during the week and will soon be used for church on Sundays in the fall.
The space on Geer Street is used as a tea house and microbusiness marketplace most of the week with dozens of local items sold for local brands and businesses.
"Every brand, every small business that we carry in the small business marketplace tells a really beautiful story a story about empowering women and about lifting up minorities about building equity," Pioneers Durham founder Sherei Lopez Jackson explained .
Lopez Jackson will serve as the pastor of the church. She studied the concept of using multi-use church spaces while studying at Duke Divinity School.
"When I was at Duke, I had a certificate in Missional Innovation where I got to study how new churches can be a gift to the neighborhood and I did a demographic research study on downtown Durham, not thinking I would ever get to stay and live out the project and then that came true. So, I'm very excited to be here," Lopez Jackson explained. "Part of my research with understanding how a church can be a gift to the neighborhood comes down to space. A lot of sacred space is not used during the week and it's used for about an hour or two hours on Sunday. And then it sits empty during the week."
Lopez Jackson says part of her demographic study revealed coming out of the pandemic, many people are struggling with loneliness so she is hoping her space promotes equity and community with workshops, and an affordable co-working space and childcare in the works.
"Our booth rental fee starts at $25 because we want to be really accessible," Lopez Jackson said. "Every brand, every small business that we carry in the Small Business marketplace tells a really beautiful story a story about empowering women and about lifting up minorities about building equity."
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) -- Following a deadly fire in December that severely damaged its distribution center and left one worker dead, QVC has announced that it will not return to the site.
"I was disappointed with the decision, and I say that with a lot of respect and a lot of gratitude for what QVC has done for this area," said David Farris, President of the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce.
About 2,000 people worked at the distribution center, which usually hired additional part-timers around the holidays to handle a surge in orders.
A week before Christmas, a huge fire erupted at the facility, killing 21-year-old Kevon Ricks. The fire remains under investigation.
"Tragically for the community, someone lost their life. So this tragedy started for the community of Rocky Mount on Saturday when this fire began. We've got thousands of people who are now unemployed. We're here and going to do everything we can to give those folks closure on how this whole thing started," said Vincent C. Pallozzi, the ATF Special-Agent-In-Charge from the Charlotte Field Division helping oversee operations, shortly after they arrived to survey the scene just days after the fire.
Following the fire, QVC pledged to pay employees through the end of January while extending health benefits, though it had not made its long-term plans clear until this recent announcement. In a statement, it wrote:
After months of assessment and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision not to rebuild our facility in Rocky Mount in the wake of a tragic fire in December 2021. While we will not rebuild, there has been no decision made on our future plans for the property (e.g. sell, lease).
We are grateful to the Rocky Mount community for their more than 20 years of support, especially over the challenging past few months. Since 2000, we have been a proud member of this community, working with over 70 local organizations, such as the United Way, Boys & Girls Club, and My Sister's House. The community there remains important to us, and we continue our efforts to support those impacted by the facility closure.
We continue to provide career transition services to impacted team members, including opportunities to apply for internal roles with Qurate Retail Group in other locations as well as partnerships through local organizations for additional job opportunities, financial education, interview training, resume writing support, and job search training.
We have taken several other actions to support the community, which you can read more about here.
"They did a lot of research. They put a lot of time and energy into that, and we respect that. Would we love them to be here? Heck yeah. If they want to change their mind, we're open to it," said Farris.
During the past few months, grants have been used to assist affected employees with job training. Farris said more than 60% of QVC workers have since found employment elsewhere, and recent job fairs have been successful.
"The job training programs that are going on at our community college and at North Carolina Wesleyan are helping re-train that workforce," Farris said.
He estimated that about $275,000 to $300,000 has been donated to the United Way Tar River Region, funds that are earmarked to assist employees with bills.
"The amazing thing about that is, yes, we've gotten in some very generous donations, but we got in some checks early on from citizens like you and I in California, Oklahoma City, New York, and Michigan that wrote a check for that. That just shows good side of our country," Farris said.
Farris expressed optimism for the future of the site, noting a nearby solar farm was not damaged in the fire, and the area has been further developed since QVC opened more than two decades ago.
QVC will not return to Rocky Mount following December fire at distribution center
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Updated: April 06, 2022 05:20 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 03:58 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque Public Schools is considering adding 10 days to the school year. The first day of classes would be July 27, and the school year would end on May 25.
Currently, the school year is 178 days long. The national average is actually 180 days, and more than 30 states require their school year to have at least 180 days in the classroom.
The APS board has considered making this change for the last few years, but it was always voted down.
The board will be discussing the Extended Learning Time Program at their meeting Monday evening.
This is a developing story. Stay with KOB Eyewitness News 4 and KOB.com for the latest on the board's decision.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 05:16 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 04:14 PM
SANTA FE, N.M. – Tax rebates will soon be deposited into the bank accounts of New Mexican taxpayers.
After a 12-hour special session Tuesday, lawmakers signed off on two proposals with bipartisan support. The first will send about $700 million in rebates to help with rising gas costs and inflation.
People who file their taxes individually would get $500 total – in two payments. It goes up to a $1,000 total for couples and heads of household filers. The first payment would come in June and the second in August.
KOB 4 spoke with Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth about the potential impact of this money.
“This is a lot of tanks of gas, a lot of household services and things that New Mexicans need. I feel like the legislature delivered," said Wirth.
There's also $20 million proposed for those with low income who don't pay taxes, but that's on a first come first serve basis.
Next was the "Junior" Bill, the one Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed in the last regular session. It would divide $50 million among lawmakers for their own special projects in their areas.
Lujan Grisham didn't sign it at the end of the regular session, saying there was a lack of transparency of how that money would be spent.
Legislators reworked the language to provide more information. People will be able to go online and see what that money would be used for in their areas.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Lujan Grisham said she is expected to sign both bills into law, but they haven’t arrived at her desk yet.
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Created: April 06, 2022 03:20 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Department of Health reported 18 additional COVID-19-related deaths and 160 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday.
There are currently 78 individuals hospitalized in New Mexico with COVID-19.
The NMDOH has modified its daily reporting of COVID-19 data. Their data dashboard no longer includes a daily breakdown of new cases and deaths in each county.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 03:33 PM
Created: April 05, 2022 02:58 PM
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza.
Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually protected behind glass in their exhibits, making it harder for the bird flu to reach them.
Nearly 23 million chickens and turkeys have already been killed across the United States to limit the spread of the virus, and zoos are working hard to prevent any of their birds from meeting the same fate. It would be especially upsetting for zoos to have to kill any of the endangered or threatened species in their care.
"It would be extremely devastating," said Maria Franke, who is the manager of welfare science at Toronto Zoo, which has less than two dozen Loggerhead Shrike songbirds that it's breeding with the hope of reintroducing them into the wild. "We take amazing care and the welfare and well being of our animals is the utmost importance. There's a lot of staff that has close connections with the animals that they care for here at the zoo."
Toronto Zoo workers are adding roofs to some outdoor bird exhibits and double-checking the mesh surrounding enclosures to ensure it will keep wild birds out.
Birds shed the virus through their droppings and nasal discharge. Experts say it can be spread through contaminated equipment, clothing, boots and vehicles carrying supplies. Research has shown that small birds that squeeze into zoo exhibits or buildings can also spread the flu, and that mice can even track it inside.
So far, no outbreaks have been reported at zoos, but there have been wild birds found dead that had the flu. For example, a wild duck that died in a behind-the-scenes area of the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, after tornadoes last month tested positive, zoo spokesman Ryan Bickel said.
Most of the steps zoos are taking are designed to prevent contact between wild birds and zoo animals. In some places, officials are requiring employees to change into clean boots and don protective gear before entering bird areas.
When bird flu cases are found in poultry, officials order the entire flock to be killed because the virus is so contagious. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has indicated that zoos might be able to avoid that by isolating infected birds and possibly euthanizing a small number of them.
Sarah Woodhouse, director of animal health at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, said she is optimistic after talking with state and federal regulators.
"They all agree that ordering us to depopulate a large part of our collection would be the absolute last-ditch effort. So they're really interested in working with us to see what we can do to make sure that we're not going to spread the disease while also being able to take care of our birds and not have to euthanize," Woodhouse said.
Among the precautions zoos are taking is to keep birds in smaller groups so that if a case is found, only a few would be affected. The USDA and state veterinarians would make the final decision about which birds had to be killed.
"Euthanasia is really the only way to keep it from spreading," said Luis Padilla, who is vice president of animal collections at the Saint Louis Zoo. "That's why we have so many of these very proactive measures in place."
The National Aviary in Pittsburgh - the nation's largest -- is providing individual health checks for each of its roughly 500 birds. Many already live in large glass enclosures or outdoor habitats where they don't have direct exposure to wildlife, said Dr. Pilar Fish, the aviary's senior director of veterinary medicine and zoological advancement.
Kansas City Zoo CEO Sean Putney said he's heard a few complaints from visitors, but most people seem OK with not getting to see some birds. "I think our guests understand that we have what's in the best interests of the animals in mind when we make these decisions even though they can't get to see them," Putney said.
Officials emphasize that bird flu doesn't jeopardize the safety of meat or eggs or represent a significant risk to human health. No infected birds are allowed into the food supply, and properly cooking poultry and eggs kills bacteria and viruses. No human cases have been found in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Associated Press Writers David Pitt contributed to this report from Des Moines, Iowa, Lindsay Whitehurst contributed from Salt Lake City, Julie Watson contributed from San Diego, Chris Grygiel contributed from Seattle and Tom Tait contributed from Las Vegas.
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Former Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Doug Sutherland, a member of the Purple People Eaters, has died. He was 73.
The team released a statement saying Sutherland died Tuesday, but did not provide a cause of death.
“Doug Sutherland was one of our proudest legends,” Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and Owner/President Mark Wilf said in a joint statement. “His humble nature did not allow for him to talk much about his own playing career, but Doug was a key member of some of the best defenses in NFL history and three Super Bowl teams. Doug was also the consummate teammate after football. He was one of the most active members of Vikings legends events and didn’t miss a chance to help out at a community event or lend a hand where needed. Our thoughts are with Doug’s friends and family.”
Sutherland played 12 seasons in the NFL from 1970-81 with New Orleans, Minnesota and Seattle. Drafted by the Saints in the 14th round, he was traded to the Vikings the following season and played 10 years in Minnesota. Sutherland registered 29 sacks in 164 career games.
Sutherland replaced defensive tackle Gary Larsen after he retired, and became part of a feared defensive line that featured Pro Football Hall of Famers Alan Page and Carl Eller, and Jim Marshall.
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Trey Benson may be a newcomer to Florida State, but the transfer running back already is feeling confident in his return to the football field.
Benson joined the Seminoles after two challenging seasons at Oregon, where he struggled to return to form after a significant knee injury in December 2020. He redshirted his first year after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, lateral meniscus, and medial meniscus.
He appeared in 10 games for the Ducks last season, finishing with 22 yards and a touchdown on 6 carries before entering the transfer portal in January and signing with FSU a week later.
Through the first three weeks of spring camp, he’s felt like his old self.
“Each and every day, it gets better for me,” Benson said after Tuesday’s practice. “My confidence has been through the roof since I’ve been here.”
The work to return has paid off for the 6-foot tailback, who scored a touchdown during the team’s second scrimmage Saturday.
“Last scrimmage is when I felt like myself again,” added Benson. “Making cuts with my right leg with no problem, and I couldn’t do that five months ago. I feel more explosive than I was before I got hurt.”
Benson joins a running backs group with diverse skills led by Treshaun Ward, Lawrance Toafili, D.J. Williams, CJ Campbell and Rodney Hill. With the departure of Jashaun Corbin, who declared early for the NFL Draft, the Seminoles are eager to identify early contributors.
“I bring speed and power,” said Benson. “Tre is shifty — him and LT — and they hold me accountable. CJ and D.J. are like bowling balls, but they’re both really good. Rodney will be really good, and he’s just scratching the surface.”
Wright back on campus
A welcome sight the past couple of weeks has been Winston Wright Jr. The redshirt junior receiver is back on campus after being involved in a severe car accident in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, during spring break.
Wright will miss an extended period as he recovers from a severe injury because of the March 19 accident. The school hasn’t disclosed the actual injury.
“He’s been in meetings and doing a good job in his rehabilitation,” said FSU coach Mike Norvell. “We’re excited about having him here. He’s here making sure he gets those mental reps.
“I know I stressed how grateful I was, and the day he got back into Tallahassee it was a real joy. He had one day to settle, and then suddenly, he was back in meetings and learning. He’s excited about his return as well.”
After three seasons at West Virginia, Wright transferred in January. Four receivers transferred to FSU in the offseason.
Norvell didn’t reveal a timetable for Wright’s return, only stating in March that he would have to go through rehabilitation.
Format for spring game
Florida State’s Garnet and Gold spring game Saturday will look a lot like 2021, with the Seminoles featuring an offense vs. defense format.
“We’re not going to break into two separate teams,” said Norvell. “We’re going to get good-on-good work and it will be very similar to last year. We’re going to be in game situations in how we operate and how we flow and we’ll have some fun things we’ll do throughout.”
The game kicks off at 5 p.m. at Doak Campbell Stadium and will air on ACC Network.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Matt Murschel at mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osmattmurschel.
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The NCAA transfer portal has decimated Lindsay Whalen’s Gophers women’s basketball roster, leaving only three returners and four incoming freshmen in the pipeline for the 2022-23 seasons. But Whalen is not alone.
“It’s not just a Minnesota thing,” the U coach said Wednesday. “It’s not.”
Maryland, for instance, which advanced to the Sweet Sixteen before losing to top seed Stanford, has had five players enter the portal, leaving coach Brenda Frese with only one returner who started more than 10 games this season.
Kentucky, which beat eventual national champion South Carolina to win the SEC tournament and was a No. 6 seed in this year’s tournament, has only two players on its projected roster for next season, one of them an incoming freshman.
So, Whalen isn’t the only coach combing through the NCAA portal looking for players who can make an impact next season.
“That’s what everybody’s doing, every coach I’ve talked to,” Whalen said. “I’ve gotten phone calls and texts from a lot of coaches who are in that same boat. That’s all anybody’s kind of doing, that’s kind of what it’s turned into now.”
Not that she’s happy about it. Three of the seven players who have entered the portal this spring were starters — point guard Jasmine Powell, combo guard Sara Scalia and forward Kadi Sissoko — who would have played big roles next season as Whalen matriculates a highly-ranked recruiting class.
And it’s not as if Whalen isn’t assessing where things might have gone wrong. But she moves on with a recently signed, three-year contract extension and the confidence of her boss, Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle.
The two were in New Orleans for the men’s Final Four last weekend, Coyle for his job — he was on the NCAA tournament selection committee this season — and Whalen because she was being announced there as part of the next group to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
“So, we met,” Whalen said. “I have his full support, our program has his full support. … The timing kind of worked out for (us) to talk about how to move forward.”
In Whalen’s fourth season coaching at her alma mater, the Gophers finished below .500 for the second straight year, 15-18 overall, 7-11 in the Big Ten. Since the season ended in a loss to South Dakota State in the second round of the WNIT, her roster has been shrinking in dribs and drabs. Scalia and point guard Alexia Smith announced their departures late last week as Whalen was leaving for New Orleans.
Scalia led the team in scoring as a junior, and her 111 made 3-pointers ranked third nationally. Sissoko averaged 17.4 points in the Gophers’ last six games, and Powell led the team in scoring as a sophomore last season, and in assists (5.6) this season. Whalen and her staff are now charged with replacing them with veteran players who also have entered the portal.
The goal is to add about five players before the team begins preseason practices in June. The good news is there are many players available. According to women’s basketball recruiting site wbbblog.com, there were 978 players in the portal on Wednesday, up from 843 last Thursday. Last year, more than 1,100 women’s basketball players entered the portal.
That surfeit of players is the result of two major NCAA changes. One, players are now allowed to transfer to another Division I program, for any reason, and play without sitting out a year. Two, the NCAA has granted an extra year of eligibility to all student-athletes who played during the 2020-21 season affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Now, for instance, juniors such as Powell and Scalia have two years of eligibility remaining.
The Gophers had three graduate transfers last season, two of whom, guard Deja Winters and forward Laura Bagwell Katlinich, became starters. Portal players already are committing for next season – Powell committed to Tennessee last week — and Whalen said she and her staff have been searching the portal virtually full time.
“That’s pretty much all we’ve done since our season ended, and as we started talking with players on our team and they’ve expressed what they’re going to do,” she said.
The three players still on the roster — point guard Katie Borowicz, post Rose Michaeux and wing Maggie Czinano — started their spring workouts this week. “I told them yesterday, ‘Next season starts now.’ ” Whalen said.
Whalen said her incoming class is solid and that all will start summer school in June. That class, ranked as high as No. 10 nationally by ESPN, includes No. 28 overall prospect in Wayzata point guard Maura Braun, as well as Hopkins guard Amaya Battle, 6-1 forward Mallory Heyer of Chaska and Eden Prairie forward Niamya Holloway.
The goal is to have a full roster to join the seven already committed in time for those June practices.
“If (student-athletes) want to try something new, if they think someplace else is going to be better for them, then we support them,” Whalen said. “We’re not happy about the players that have left, but at the same time, we’re navigating it like so many schools are right now.”
PORTAL PLAYERS
Seven players on the Gophers’ 2021-22 women’s basketball roster have entered the NCAA transfer portal, which on Sunday has 939 players. They are:
Jasmine Powell: Junior point guard averaged 12.4 points and 5.6 assists before quitting the team on Jan. 28. She has committed to Tennessee.
Klarke Sconiers: 6-foot-2 junior forward played in 11 games and averaged 1 points and 1.5 rebounds.
Erin Hedman: 6-3 sophomore forward played in eight games.
Caroline Strande: 5-11 off guard played in 11 games, averaging 1.4 points.
Kadi Sissoko: 6-2 junior forward led team in rebounding (5.7 a game) and averaged 10.4 points while starting 27 of 33 games.
Sara Scalia: Junior guard led team in scoring (18 ppg.) and was second in rebounding (4.3). Her 111 made 3-pointers ranked third nationally.
Alexia Smith: Sophomore point guard played in all 33 games with one start. Averaged 3.4 points and 1.6 assists a game.
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For the first time in five years, the Chicago Bulls are in the NBA playoffs. But the road out of the first round will provide a momentous challenge for a team that has struggled since the All-Star break.
The top of the Eastern Conference is packed tightly with three teams — the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks — jockeying for the second, third and fourth seeds behind the Miami Heat. As either the fifth or sixth seed, the Bulls know they’ll face one of those three teams in the opening round of the playoffs, which begins April 16.
All three potential opponents present an uphill climb for the Bulls, who entered their game Wednesday night against the Celtics at 1-9 against the trio. Here’s how the Bulls match up with the three.
Boston Celtics
On the surface, the Bulls should favor this matchup — the Celtics are the only team of the three they beat this season, which has to count for something. The Bulls won 128-114 on the road on Nov. 1, then nearly pulled off a comeback for a second win in Boston on Jan. 15, overcoming a 10-point deficit only to fall short 114-112.
But things have changed drastically for the Celtics since the second meeting, mostly on the back of a massive transition by Jayson Tatum to accept the leadership role required to lift them to their potential. Conversely, the Bulls have suffered a series of blows to their roster. Lonzo Ball is out for the season while Alex Caruso (back) and Zach LaVine (left knee) are far from 100%.
The Celtics have the best record (15-4) since the All-Star break while facing the 10th-hardest schedule. They beat the Golden State Warriors and Utah Jazz in that span, although they showed weaknesses in losses to the Heat and Toronto Raptors. The late-season surge has vaulted the Celtics from seventh in the East to a top-four seed.
The biggest problem the Celtics pose is their defense, which ranks first in the NBA. And the Bulls offense continues to stagnate — failing to crack 110 points in five of their last six games.
Philadelphia 76ers
The biggest threat from the 76ers is obvious — Joel Embiid. The Bulls don’t have a player with the size, strength and stamina to slow the 7-foot, 280-pound center. And their defensive rotations continue to lack the sharpness and communication to accommodate a full-game double team of the MVP candidate. In a playoff setting, the Bulls defense hasn’t showcased an ability to slow a big-man playmaker of Embiid’s caliber.
The 76ers beat the Bulls four times this season, and the last three were double-digit blowouts. The biggest gap for the Bulls comes when their secondary rotation shoulders a higher volume of minutes without stars DeMar DeRozan and LaVine on the court, allowing teams such as the 76ers to rack up quick runs.
The 76ers shot at least 40% from 3-point range in all four meetings, which could increase in the postseason against the Bulls’ perimeter defense, especially with Ball out and Caruso injured.
One small hope for the Bulls is the 76ers’ 22-17 home record, which is the worst of the trio. The Bulls have been at their best at the United Center, but they could use help on the road without home-court advantage in the series.
Milwaukee Bucks
The Bulls took one final beatdown from the Bucks on Tuesday night at the United Center to cap a 4-0 season sweep.
Giannis Antetokounmpo poses the same type of threat as Embiid, but he’s often not even the top scorer for the Bucks in matchups against the Bulls. Brook Lopez muscled his way to 28 points from the paint Tuesday, and Jrue Holiday lit it up from 3-point range in their last meeting in Milwaukee. Despite the boos from fans, Grayson Allen seems to play his best basketball at the United Center.
Of equal concern is the way the Bulls offense always sputters against the Bucks. The Bulls averaged 101.5 points in their four meetings with a low of 90 in a dismal 36.5% shooting night Jan. 21. The Bulls aren’t a high-volume 3-point shooting team, but it was the only thing that kept them competitive in their March game in Milwaukee.
Tuesday night’s blowout at the United Center drove home the chasm between the teams, which could deepen in the playoffs.
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The Jets will use one of their official pre-draft visits on Florida State defensive end Jermaine Johnson next week, a source told the Daily News.
It’s no secret the Jets need pass rush help after finishing with 33 sacks, tied for fifth fewest in the NFL, and pressured QBs on 22% of their dropbacks. And Gang Green needs help with their poor rushing defense that allowed 2,343 rushing yards (fourth most) with 28 touchdowns (most in the NFL).
Johnson was the ACC Defensive Player of the Year after he finished with 17 tackles for loss and 12 sacks in 2021. His draft stock soared during the Senior Bowl when he dominated the week in Mobile, Ala., with the Jets coaching staff there close-up.
The 6-foot-4 260-pound defensive end is an explosive athlete who ran a 4.58 40-yard dash at the combine. He has a variety of pass rush moves. And he’s stout against the run and would drastically help their unit.
There are various questions surrounding when to select Johnson.
Do the Jets take him at No. 4 overall if Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux is gone?
Reports have questioned Thibodeaux’s love for football, but he’s the more talented player; do the Jets go with him instead? The Jets are doing their research on Thibodeaux as reportedly they met with him after his Pro Day. Johnson may be the safer pick. Some scouts believe Johnson is a better player than Thibodeaux.
If North Carolina State’s Ikem Ekwonu is available, do you select Ekwonu and see if Johnson falls to No. 10? Johnson could be selected by the Falcons, Seahawks or Giants, who failed to generate pressure on QB last year too as they finished in the bottom 10 in sack total.
JETS SEEING STINGLEY UP CLOSE
The Jets are attending LSU’s cornerback Derek Stingley’s pro day on Wednesday. Stingley is one of the bigger boom-or-bust players in the 2022 draft.
Coming into the 2021 college football season, Stingley was viewed as one of the best cornerback prospects ever, largely due to his elite true freshman season in 2019.
Stingley finished with six interceptions and 15 pass deflections that year and showed the ability to play on an island in press coverage. He isn’t overly physical but is a technician at the line of scrimmage which allowed him to take away the deep ball through his freshman year.
But after 2019, Stingley hasn’t secured an interception and only played in 10 games in the last two years due to injuries. He played in only three games in 2021 and suffered a Lisfranc fracture, which ended his season.
And overall, Stingley’s play wasn’t as good post=2019.
Team sources I’ve spoken to about Stingley have raved about his talent. Some called the 2019 film some of the best they’ve ever seen from a cornerback prospect.
But they want to learn the reason behind Stingley’s dropoff. Was it strictly injuries? Did his desire wane a little bit? They want to find out how coachable he is.
Stingley wouldn’t be in play at No. 4. And the Jets seem set with their cornerback room with D.J. Reed, Bryce Hall and Brandin Echols — for now. If Stingley answers those questions and gives the Jets confidence things could change.
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Sasha Cotton, a St. Paul resident who’s in charge of Minneapolis’ Office of Violence Prevention, and Kathy Lantry, a former St. Paul city council member, will lead the Police Chief Examining Committee, the St. Paul City Council announced Wednesday.
Community members serving on the committee will interview candidates and recommend five people to Mayor Melvin Carter, from which Carter will make his pick for chief.
St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell, who is completing a six-year term, plans to leave in June.
The city council received 88 applications from people who want to serve on the chief examining committee, they are determining how many will comprise the committee and expect to appoint members later in April, according to Brynn Hausz, council operations director. The co-chairs will lead the committee’s work.
Cotton is a lifelong St. Paul resident with deep ties to the Rondo/Summit-University neighborhood, and her work in Minneapolis involves coordinating violence prevention initiatives that take a public health approach, according to an announcement from the city council. She represents Minnesota on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is vice president of the African American Leadership Council.
Lantry represented East Side neighborhoods of Ward 7 as a city council member for nearly 18 years, serving as council president for the last 11 of those years. She stepped down in 2015 to become St. Paul’s public works director, a position she held until her retirement in 2020. She’s a lifelong East Side resident.
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Lonzo Ball will not return this season after setbacks in his recovery from knee surgery, the Chicago Bulls announced Wednesday.
Ball underwent surgery for a torn meniscus in his left knee Jan. 28. Despite initially receiving a recovery prognosis of six to eight weeks, Ball has been sidelined further because of a deep bone bruise in the same knee that he incurred before the meniscus tear.
Although the team’s medical staff said Ball recovered completely from the surgery, he continues to experience pain and discomfort when attempting to run or cut at full speed.
Ball ceased running March 21 in an attempt to give his body a 10-day break to fully recover. But coach Billy Donovan said the guard experienced discomfort again when he attempted sprinting drills Tuesday, forcing another halt in his activities.
The hope of bringing Ball back for a late-season boost often bolstered the Bulls throughout a skid after the All-Star break. Ball averaged 13 points, 5.1 assists and 1.8 steals in 35 games this season, but his biggest impact came from intangibles — swarming opponents in perimeter defense and sparking the Bulls offense with a keen court vision.
“He brings a different type of swagger to us,” forward DeMar DeRozan said. “When he plays, I’m pretty sure you can pinpoint that. The whole dynamic of the game changes with Zo out there. It’s definitely been tough for us not to have him.”
Injuries have plagued Ball’s NBA career. He sprained an MCL and missed games with a shoulder injury throughout his rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017-18, then tore an ankle ligament in January 2019. Injuries to his adductor, knee, hip flexor and thumb caused him to miss nine games in 2019-20 and 17 in 2020-21 with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Ball — who is signed through 2024 — will now refocus his rehabilitation plan to prepare for the 2022-23 season.
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Before his return in the Orlando Magic’s 120-115 Tuesday home win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, there were days when Jalen Suggs worried he wouldn’t return before the season ended.
Suggs missed the previous 10 games because of a bone bruise in his right ankle and had been dealing with an injury to the right foot — the bone bruise or sprain — for most of March.
Some teams in the Magic’s position, at the bottom of the standings and out of playoffs contention, would’ve sat Suggs for the remainder of the season.
“It was real touch and go,” said Suggs. “There’d be days it’d feel good, days it was hurting and we had to stay off it, and there weren’t many days left to take off. I thought about [not playing again this season] a little bit.”
The Magic and Suggs were determined to make sure he could get back on the court as long it was ensured he was healthy and that the injury wouldn’t persist.
“When I was able to play, I wasn’t really feeling it too much,” Suggs said. “All that’s in the past now. Locked in on these last two games trying to improve before the offseason.”
Suggs’ return will not only give him the chance to finish his rookie season on a stronger note, with the Magic having a road matchup against the Charlotte Hornets Thursday before closing out the season at home on Sunday against Miami.
He’ll also have the opportunity to be on the floor with Markelle Fultz more in the season’s final stretch.
Suggs and Fultz started and shared the floor for 17 minutes against the Cavaliers after playing a combined 3 minutes with each other in 2 games when Fultz returned from his torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in late February.
“He makes things so easy,” Suggs said. “I’ve been able to learn from him the last seven, eight games — the pace he plays at, the way he gets to his spots on his own time and is never rushed. It’s helped me big time. I can’t wait to get back out there with him again.”
While they got off to a slow start playing next to each other, the potential of what a Fultz-Suggs backcourt could look like was evident.
Both pushed the pace offensively, made timely defensive rotations and switched multiple positions defensively.
“It was a lot of fun,” Fultz said. “We’re still trying to get used to playing with each other. A few of his turnovers were my fault. Got to learn how to play off each other, but something we’re super excited about — having guards that can switch, push the ball and create offense.”
Gary Harris (personal reasons) and Admiral Schofield (left knee contusion) are questionable for Thursday while Cole Anthony (sprained left toe), Wendell Carter Jr. (sprained left wrist) and Franz Wagner (sprained right ankle) are listed as out.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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Fellow sisters in Louisiana pray for abducted nun’s safe return
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Grays News) - Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, was abducted from a parish in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, Africa, where she had been stationed as a missionary since 2014, according to officials with the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Many across the globe and locally in the Greater New Orleans area are coming together in prayer for Sister Tennyson.
Sister Tennyson attended high school at the former Academy of the Holy Angels. She served at the former St. Cecilia Catholic Church in the Marigny and at Resurrection of Our Lord Catholic Church. She also did work for the Archdiocese of New Orleans as the Vicar for Religious.
The Marianite sisterhood is in disbelief after learning about her disappearance.
Sister Ann Lacour, the Marianite Congregational Leader currently stationed in France, said Sister Tennyson was taken in the middle of the night on Tuesday, April 5, by 10 armed hijackers.
“In her night clothes. No shoes, no glasses, no medication, no phone. And she was blindfolded,” Sister Lacour said.
Now she is working with investigators in Paris, Rome, and Burkina Faso.
“The U.S. Embassy of Burkina Faso calls us at least twice a day,” said Sister Lacour. “They definitely want to keep this alive and want this to end as soon as possible.”
As do those who know her best; her family and friends back home in New Orleans, like Marianite Sister Marjorie Hebert.
“We’re doing our part to cooperate trusting that all of this is going to ultimately bring Suellen home safely. And home for Suellen right now is Burkina Faso,” said Sister Hebert.
She said Sister Tennyson lived in the Yalgo parish of Burkina Faso since 2014, serving as support to medical staff in the community. Those close to her describe Sister Tennyson as the face of compassion.
“That call to her was there. It came late in her Marianite vocation but that’s firm to her. So that’s her home,” she said. “When she left to go there back in 2014, she made it very clear to us that love her and cherish her friendship; ‘I’m gonna work there. I’ll die there. And I’ll be buried there.’”
Now they are carrying hope in their hearts -- hope that she is protected and hope that she is safe.
“We truly truly believe she will be found and we do believe. We’re holding on to that and God’s great grace she’ll be ok,” said Sister Lacour.
The Marianite congregation believes in the power of prayer, and they are asking those who pray to pray for Sister Suellen’s safety and release from her captives.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, joined by five fellow state prosecutors, fired off a Wednesday letter demanding NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell address recent allegations about workplace inequities for the league’s female employees.
James and her colleagues from Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington urged the NFL to handle the reported gender-based discrimination, including a culture of workplace sexism where some were subjected to unwanted physical contact from male co-workers.
“With 1,100 employees at the NFL, 37% of whom are women and 30% of whom are people of color, it is imperative that you ensure that all employees are treated equally, fairly and with the dignity they deserve,” read the letter signed by the half-dozen prosecutors.
“We … are deeply committed to enforcing federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws that protect workers and further equality of opportunity for employees throughout our states.”
The prosecutors, who raised the possibility of legal action, referenced a recent report in The New York Times in which 30 ex-NFL workers described a hostile workplace for women, including a training session where female employees were bizarrely asked to raise their hands if they were victims or knew any victims of domestic violence.
The sextet of prosecutors referenced the 2014 caught-on-video assault by NFL running back Ray Rice on his fiancée, noting the report mentioned how female workers said they were subjected to repeated viewings of the beating — with commentary from colleagues suggesting the victim brought the violence on herself.
Other women alleged random touching by male bosses, parties where prostitutes were invited to attend, and the denial of promotions based upon their gender. Former NFL female employees learned after leaving the league that their discrimination complaints were never even recorded, the report said.
“All of this is entirely unacceptable and potentially unlawful,” the prosecutors wrote. “The NFL must do better — pink jerseys are not a replacement for equal treatment and full inclusion of women in the workplace.
“Our offices will use the full weight of our authority to investigate and prosecute allegations of harassment, discrimination or retaliation by employers … including at the National Football League.”
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, in a statement, responded that the league was looking forward to providing details of its equality programs to the state prosecutors.
“We share the commitment of the attorneys general to ensuring that all of our workplaces — including the league office and 32 clubs — are diverse, inclusive and free from discrimination and harassment,” said McCarthy. “We have made great strides over the years in support of that commitment, but acknowledge that we, like many organizations, have more work to do.
“We look forward to sharing with the attorneys general the policies, practices, protocols, education programs and partnerships we have implemented to act on this commitment and confirm that the league office and our clubs maintain a respectful workplace where all our employees, including women, have an opportunity to thrive.”
The letter comes as the NFL fights a discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores alleging the league is “rife with racism.”
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Jan. 6 trial of former Virginia officer continues with testimony from man who called him “dad”
Jacob Fracker said he once called Thomas Robertson “dad,” and Robertson called him “son.” The two were together inside the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - It’s day two in the trial of former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson. He’s charged with six crimes related to his alleged actions on and after the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Dramatic moments inside the courtroom in the final hours today as Jacob Fracker, Robertson’s former co-defendant, takes the stand to testify against Robertson.
Jacob Fracker said that he used to call Thomas Robertson “dad”, and said Robertson would call him “son.”
Now, he’s testifying against Robertson after taking a plea deal for his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A picture that prosecutors used in their original charging document shows Fracker on the left, and Robertson on the right, inside of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, according to prosecutors.
Fracker testified Wednesday that Robertson invited him, and planned the trip to the Capitol. Fracker also said on that day, he was hyped up and wanted to see the results of 2020 election overturned.
The defense said in its opening statements that Robertson only went into the Capitol because they said Fracker got too excited and ran in first. They argue that Robertson was only trying to find Fracker and leave.
During his testimony, Fracker told the court that he did lose sight of Robertson before entering the Capitol. Fracker said he and Robertson were reunited in a room below the Capitol Rotunda known as the crypt, where they took pictures and began singing and clapping with a crowd.
He said Robertson never told him that his only goal was to retrieve him, and that Robertson was just as excited as he was once they left the Capitol.
Fracker told the court that he and Robertson discussed a potential next civil war on the ride back home to Virginia.
Fracker’s testimony still is not done. Robertson’s defense is expected to cross-examine Fracker when court is back in session on Thursday morning.
Robertson’s lawyer told the judge tonight that Robertson may testify when the defense presents its case tomorrow.
The judge told lawyers that he wants to hear closing arguments on Friday.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Wednesday kissed a battered Ukrainian flag that he said was brought to him from the “martyred” Ukrainian city of Bucha as he denounced the “massacre” there and called again for an end to the war.
Francis held the flag as he welcomed a half-dozen Ukrainian refugee children up to the stage of the Vatican audience hall at the end of his Wednesday general audience and gave them each a giant chocolate Easter egg. He urged prayers for them and for all Ukrainians.
“The recent news from the war in Ukraine, instead of bringing relief and hope, brought testimony of new atrocities, like the massacre in Bucha, even more horrendous cruelty carried out against civilians, defenseless women and children,” he said.
“They are victims whose innocent blood cries up to the sky and implores that this war be stopped, and that the weapons be silenced. Stop disseminating war and destruction.”
He held up a dirtied Ukrainian flag that he said had arrived Tuesday at the Vatican from Bucha, where evidence has emerged since the Russians pulled out of what appears to be intentional killings of civilians.
Kissing it, the pope said: “This flag comes from the war, from that martyred city Bucha. … Let us not forget them. Let us not forget the people of Ukraine.”
And gesturing to the children, Francis said: “These children had to flee to arrive in a safe place. This is the fruit of war.”
Francis has amplified his outrage at the Russian invasion after his initial tepid response, though he has refrained from citing Russia or President Vladimir Putin by name in keeping with Vatican diplomatic tradition.
Francis has sought to keep open a path of dialogue with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Putin-allied Patriarch Kirill. Speaking to reporters en route home from Malta last weekend, Francis said he was working on organizing a second meeting with the patriarch, who has seemingly justified the war by evoking Russians and Ukrainians as “one people” and describing the conflict as a “metaphysical” battle against the West and its “gay parades.”
He said a Mideast location was possible, and the Vatican confirmed Tuesday that a June visit to Lebanon was under study, suggesting a possible encounter there.
During his weekly catechism lesson, Francis lamented that the war made clear the failure of the United Nations and the post-World War II international system of peace and security.
“After the Second World War they tried to lay the foundations for a new history of peace, but unfortunately — we do not learn — the old story of competing great powers continued,” he said. “And, in the current war in Ukraine, we are witnessing the impotence of United Nations organizations.”
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino were held in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for their monthlong refusal to comply with subpoenas rendered by the House committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The two men became the latest members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle to face legal jeopardy as the select committee continues its more than nine-month-long probe into the worst attack on the Capitol in more than 200 years.
The near-party-line 220-203 vote will send the criminal referrals for Navarro and Scavino to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
The contempt action followed hours of raw debate on the House floor as Republicans stood by Trump and charged that Democrats were trying to politicize the attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy accused the Jan. 6 committee of “criminalizing dissent,” defended Scavino as a “good man” and lobbed harsh criticism at members of the committee, some by name. “Let’s be honest, this is a political show trial,” McCarthy said.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, among the nine members of the Jan. 6 panel, noted that the committee has two Republicans, including Liz Cheney of Wyoming. He added that the purpose of the floor vote was to make clear that “open contempt and mockery for this process, and for the rule of law” will not be allowed by the chamber.
“I mean, it is just amazing that they think they can get away with this,” the three-term lawmaker told reporters about Scavino and Navarro as the debate raged on Wednesday.
Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who is also on the select committee, were the only Republicans who voted in favor of the contempt charges.
While pursuing contempt charges may not yield any new information for the Jan. 6 committee — any prosecutions could drag for months or years — the vote Wednesday was the latest attempt to show that witnesses will suffer consequences if they don’t cooperate or at least appear for questioning. It’s all part of an effort to claw back legislative authority that eroded during the Trump era when congressional subpoenas were often flouted and ignored.
“This vote will reveal to us who is willing to show tolerance for the intolerable,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said on the floor, directing his comments to Republicans across the aisle.
Raskin and other Democrats made their case that Scavino and Navarro are among just a handful of individuals who have rebuffed the committee’s requests and subpoenas for information. The panel has interviewed more than 800 witnesses so far.
Scavino has “refused to testify before Congress about what he knows about the most dangerous and sweeping assault on the United States Congress since the War of 1812,” Raskin said.
The committee says Scavino helped promote Trump’s false claims of a stolen election and was with him the day of the attack on the Capitol. As a result, he may have “materials relevant to his videotaping and tweeting” messages that day.
A lawyer for Scavino did not return multiple messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Navarro, 72, a former White House trade adviser, was subpoenaed in early February over his promotion of false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election that the committee believes contributed to the attack.
Navarro cited executive privilege when declining to testify, saying the committee “should negotiate this matter with President Trump.” He added, “If he waived the privilege, I will be happy to comply.”
But the Biden administration has already waived executive privilege for Navarro, Scavino and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, saying it was not justified or in the national interest for them to withhold their testimony.
Executive privilege was developed to protect a president’s ability to obtain candid counsel from his advisers without fear of immediate public disclosure, but it has limits. Courts have traditionally left questions of whether to invoke executive privilege up to the current White House occupant. The Supreme Court earlier this year rejected a bid by Trump to withhold documents from the committee.
The vote Wednesday will be the third time the panel has sent contempt charges to the House floor. The first two referrals, sent late last year, were for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Trump ally Steve Bannon.
The contempt referral against Bannon resulted in an indictment, with a trial set to start in July. The Justice Department has been slower to decide whether to prosecute Meadows, much to the frustration of the committee.
“It’s the committee’s hope that they will present it to a grand jury,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, told reporters Tuesday. “Obviously, the Meadows case is still outstanding. We don’t really know where that is, other than we’ve done our work.”
He added, “The firewall goes up from our standpoint, and DOJ uses its systems to take it from there.”
Lawmakers are interviewing dozens of individuals a week as they inch closer to public hearings in late spring. In the last week alone, the committee interviewed Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Both were key White House advisers who had substantial access to the former president.
Thompson suggested more witnesses could still be held in contempt in the weeks ahead even as the committee looks to wrap up the investigative portion of their work in the next two months.
A conviction for contempt of Congress carries a fine of up to $100,000 and up to a year in prison.
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Kit Kat debuts blueberry muffin flavor for limited time
(Gray News) - Kit Kat fans are getting a new flavor inspired by a classic baked good without even turning on an oven.
The Hershey Company unveiled its limited-edition Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat flavor on Wednesday.
This new flavor creation is a blueberry muffin-flavored creme with tastes of fresh and cooked blueberries, plus a cake batter-like muffin flavor with graham cookie pieces folded into the bar, according to Hershey.
“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites. It has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required.”
The blueberry muffin flavor becomes the latest in the brand’s growing portfolio of flavors. Hershey has previously released Kit Kat Duos Strawberry and Dark Chocolate, Thins Hazelnut and Lemon Crisp flavors.
Hershey representatives said the blueberry muffin flavor would be available nationwide at retailers starting this month.
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Almost every fire station in St. Paul will soon have its own sauna, and researchers will jump on the opportunity to collect some firefighter sweat.
Once the infrared saunas are installed, experts hope to collect at least 30 sweat samples to test them for carcinogens.
“This study will be completely novel, as no one has looked for carcinogens in sweat in this way,” said Dr. Zeke McKinney, an affiliate professor at the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners researcher, addressing the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday.
“Firefighters have an increased risk of all cancers compared to the general population, as well as very specific cancers,” he said.
Following his presentation, the council accepted the gift of 13 saunas from the nonprofit St. Paul Fire Foundation, a total value of $72,800. The goal was initially to help firefighters “rid their bodies of dangerous, potentially cancer-causing toxins” that could enter through the skin or be inhaled while fighting fires.
Language about “cancer-causing toxins” was removed from the ordinance before the council voted to accept the donation.
At the very least, the saunas could help reduce the smoky smell that lingers on a person after a fire, and no one can argue that a sauna isn’t good for the mind and body.
“There is immense scientific evidence about health benefits of saunas, mostly cardiovascular benefits,” McKinney said.
The council voted 5-0 to accept the gift. Council President Amy Brendmoen and Dai Thao were absent.
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Local woman travels thousands of miles to rescue Ukrainian family member
There are many stories of Ukrainian refugees fleeing to other countries, including here in the United States. Some are choosing an unlikely route, up through the Mexican border.
A local woman shares the process she went through to bring a family member to the U.S. that included several stops along the way.
Andrea Vasylynych says she's never traveled so much in two weeks. She set out to get her husband's 82-year-old grandmother who was hiding out in Odessa, Ukraine.
"Had one of my husband's good friends tell us, hey I have this guy that he's going to be transporting refugees across the border," she said.
The grandmother ended up in Moldova.
"Had another one of close friends who was there picking up his family and he said we are going to take care of her. We are going to drive over to Romania," recalled Vasylynych.
During that trek, Vasylynych was flying from the U.S. through Turkey to get to Romania.
"Our goal was to essentially come back to the United States into Mexico and get her over the border in Mexico,” she said. “But due to all of the COVID restrictions, we decided you know what, let's try and transfer her visa case, which she currently had in Kyiv, to Romania."
They stayed in Romania for almost two weeks. The grandmother got sick while there and they learned her visa was denied.
However, they found a solution.
"As a Ukrainian citizen, she does not require a visa to go into Colombia, which is where my family was staying,” said Vasylynych. “We did a layover in Paris. Paris to Panama. Panama to Colombia."
Once they arrived, they stayed with Vasylynych’s family.
"Once in Colombia, we were able to catch a flight to Mexico City, where we had a layover and got to Ciudad Flores."
They were allowed to go to the immigration office.
"So, she doesn't speak English, she doesn't speak Spanish, she only speaks Russian, do you have a translator? Well, how have you been communicating with her? Through Google. Alright, we are going to use you for a second."
She was able to cross the border, now making her way to Florida. Though the grandmother is far away from Ukraine, she's having nightmares about the country she left behind.
"She was able to hear the bombs going off from where she lives," said Vasylynych.
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One of the basic responsibilities of local and state government is to protect its citizens from those who threaten to harm our physical safety and our physical property. St. Paul is on pace for a record year of murders while we are still in early spring, and summer is still months away.
As a deputy sheriff in our state’s second largest county and a city council member in our state’s third largest county, I am painfully aware of some of the harmful policies that are taking place in our criminal justice system today.
Both fresh ideas and old-school common-sense ideas are needed to make our communities safer and bring back trust and credibility to our criminal justice system. The time to act is now to make our communities safer and more just. What corrective actions should our elected leaders consider at the state and local level?
Concurrent sentencing for offenders who commit violent crimes needs to end.
If concurrent sentencing is allowed to continue, this needs to be tracked and the data made public as part of the city and county attorney end of year reports. Transparency and data are key to public trust and accountability.
Plea deals that drop violent charges so a guilty plea of another violent crime can be accepted should also be publicly documented by city and county attorneys in end of year reports.
We need to acknowledge the system is overloaded and underfunded.
Our criminal justice system does not adequately or aggressively pursue suspects with warrants out for their arrest.
We should create countywide apprehension teams for the county that issues the warrant. In Dakota County the tragic murder of Mendota Heights peace officer Scott Patrick was by a violent suspect who had a warrant for his arrest. State surplus funds can offer grants to counties that are willing to create or expand their warrant apprehension teams.
As a parent, peace officer and as a policy maker in my city it saddens me to see the youth violence, we are seeing in the metro area.
I have transported convicted violent juveniles to our state prisons who barely look like their face has seen a razor and now they face years in prison as adjudicated adults. This at a time when our local Boys Totem Town in Ramsey County is not an option to assist them in turning their lives around, and yet some now spend time in our state prison system at Red Wing or Lino Lakes.
We need local confinement options for our most violent youth offenders for their sake and ours. Our state and county officials should work together this year to find funds for these options.
People with mental illness who are committing crimes and not charged criminally due to their mental illness are considered incompetent to stand trial.
After a finding of incompetency too often the courts will not offer them mental health treatment options after their being released from jail. This is both unjust and immoral. This issue was highlighted by a KARE 11 report called “The Gap,” and this is real and can be dangerous and needs to be addressed this legislative session. When offenders cannot be charged criminally because they are found incompetent, this should be tracked by the city and county attorneys’ offices and reported in an end of year report.
The state should be offering additional grant funds to police departments and counties to offer dual responder police and social worker options to calls that involve people having a mental health crisis.
This option should be 24/7, and partnerships will be important in making this option successful.
Alternative training options for two- and four-year degree holders who want to become police officers are needed, and funding for those options should come from the state of Minnesota.
While these corrective actions will help with our current violent crime spike, we must also be open to preventive crime initiatives so future crime can be reduced further. Increased gun violence in our core cities that have police departments that our understaffed adds to our current crisis.
Citizens and voters need to hold those in elected office accountable for policies that do not improve public safety. More citizen participation is needed to help bring more order and justice to our communities.
The recent tragic murder in St. Paul of 21-year-old Dion Ford by a suspect with a lengthy violent criminal history is the most recent example of a criminal justice system that is not holding criminals accountable, at the expense of innocent victims.
This “system” has many parts, and some of the most important decisions are made by people in our local County Attorney’s office and judges, and these people need to be held accountable. We cannot blame just the “system” when years ago the same “system” protected us against violent criminals by not allowing the violent criminals back on the streets while awaiting pending charges.
We are interconnected here in Minnesota, and we must come together to focus on how best to act responsibly in protecting our citizens from crime.
As a student of history and an admirer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I know that crime, race, policing and politics can often be interconnected. We need to work harder and smarter for solutions that are unbiased while balancing mercy and justice. Faith in a better tomorrow requires we work today.
Todd Podgorski, a Ramsey County deputy and South St. Paul City Council member, lives in South St. Paul. The views he expresses here are solely his own and not those of his employer or the City of South St. Paul.
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Police investigate shooting at Town Center Mall in Boca Raton
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 7:31 PM EDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
Boca Raton police are investigating a shooting at Town Center Mall.
Officers have detained the possible suspects and say there is no active shooter.
Officers will remain at the mall while their investigation continues.
This is a developing story. More information will be added as it becomes available.
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A senior captain was the first to respond when Mike Bradley sent a text message to players last month after noticing a Seminole Athletic Conference rival had won on a no-hitter.
“Man, when is Winter Springs going to get one of these?” Bradley wrote.
“Coach, we’ve got your back,” Carter Craig responded.
In Craig’s next start on March 22, the righthander struck out 13 batters, issued 4 walks and allowed no hits while leading the Bears to a 2-0 win at Sanford Seminole (6-9).
“Everybody was excited for him,” Bradley said. “They came pouring out of the dugout and started throwing water on him.”
Craig, who pitched only two innings last season due to an elbow injury, is the first team captain on any of Bradley’s teams in more than a decade as head coach. Teammates chose Craig for that honor during a preseason vote.
“He’s really come a long way,” Bradley said. “He’s got a tireless work ethic and a lead-by-example attitude.”
Craig has yet to allow a single run this season while carrying a 6-0 record with 36 strikeouts and 9 hits allowed in 26⅔ innings.
The no-hitter for Winter Springs came just six days after the Bears were no-hit for the second time this season.
Dr. Phillips’ Logan Wirt silenced the Winter Springs bats during a 1-0 win on March 16. Lake Brantley’s Garrett Caropreso did the same March 4 in a 6-0 win.
Craig joins a no-hit list in 2022 that also includes Hagerty’s Garrett Baumann and Lake Brantley’s Isaac Padilla. Baumann struck out 14 batters for the Huskies (7-8) on March 15 during a 3-0 win vs. Treasure Coast (4-10). Padilla won 5-0 vs. Edgewater (9-5) on March 3.
Winter Springs (11-6) enters Thursday’s outing at Horizon (1-13) and Friday’s home game vs. Lyman (3-11) on a six-game win streak. The Bears face Lake Mary (8-7) in a two-game series next week.
“We’ve been a really close-knit team ever since offseason workouts,” Bradley said. “Our bond has grown stronger, and players have become more aware of their roles on the team.”
TFA maintains
The First Academy dropped just one spot this week in FHSAA playoff power rankings, released Tuesday, after its 34-game win streak ended last Thursday during a 7-4 loss vs. Bishop Moore.
Dylan King, Josh Haggerty and Bryce Gluckman each recorded one hit while leading the Hornets (12-6), who sit at No. 13 in Class 4A rankings.
The Royals, ranked No. 17 overall and No. 4 in Class 3A, remained the highest-ranked Orlando area program entering this week’s USA Baseball National High School Invitational in Cary, North Carolina.
TFA (14-2) opened that tournament Wednesday afternoon with a 6-3 loss against Nevada’s Basic Academy (15-5). Ben Barrett finished 4-for-4 at the plate with 1 stolen base and Riley Parker went 2-for-4 with 1 RBI in the loss.
Apopka (11-2) fell to No. 23 and Windermere High (12-3) is down to No. 30 in state rankings. The Blue Darters are No. 2 behind Jacksonville Sandalwood (10-1) in Class 7A Region 1 while Windermere maintains its top spot in Region 2.
Lake Minneola (9-3) is No. 7 in Class 5A. Foundation Academy (10-3-1) ranks No. 15 in Class 2A.
Stat leaders
Windermere High’s Gustavo Mendez is tied for third in the state in home runs (6) and tied for seventh in RBIs (24), according to stats posted on MaxPreps. Mendez is batting .521 (25-for-48) this season.
Lake Brantley senior Evan Griffis has 5 home runs and 23 RBIs. West Orange senior Max McClusky is tied for sixth in hits while batting .473 (26-for-55) with 5 doubles.
Harmony sophomore Cade Walter is batting .571 (24-for-42) with 15 RBIs, 15 runs scored and 6 extra-base hits. The Longhorns entered Wednesday’s game vs. St. Cloud (3-11) with a 6-8 record.
Tavares senior Riley Scott Fitzgerald is tied for 12th in strikeouts as he’s retired 49 batters in 31 innings pitched. Fitzgerald owns a 4-1 record and 3.16 ERA for the Bulldogs (8-6).
Orlando University’s Sebastian Pagan and Orange City University’s Evan Koehler each has struck out 43 batters in 26 innings. Pagan is 4-0 with 5 walks allowed and a 2.89 ERA for the Cougars (6-4). Koehler is 3-1 with 1 save, 5 walks allowed and a 1.06 ERA for the Titans (11-3).
200-win club
Windermere High coach Eric Lassiter took to social media last week to thank former players and coaches after notching career-win No. 200.
The milestone came during a 12-1 home win vs. first-year Horizon (1-13).
“Thank you to every player and assistant coach who contributed to the wins,” Lassiter posted on Twitter. “As a head coach you are only as good as the players you have and the assistants you hire.”
Lassiter is in his fifth season at Windermere after previously coaching at Apopka.
Lake Brantley’s Eric Entrekin enters Thursday’s home game vs. Olympia (8-7) two wins shy of 200 as head coach of the Patriots (12-3). Entrekin opened the spring with a 263-158 career record in 16 seasons, which included 186 wins the past 10 years at Lake Brantley.
Orangewood Christian coach Scott Hilinski, in his 11th season with the Rams (10-6), enters Thursday’s game at Foundation Academy with a 195-105 career record.
This article originally appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email J.C. Carnahan at jcarnahan@orlandosentinel.com.
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Runners residing in Russia, Belarus banned from 2022 Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) - Athletes from Russia and Belarus previously accepted to compete in this year’s Boston Marathon who are currently residing in either country will no longer be allowed to participate, the Boston Marathon Association announced Wednesday.
The exclusion from the world’s oldest annual marathon also extends to athletes previously accepted into the B.A.A.’s 5K event. However, it doesn’t affect Russian or Belarusian athletes registered for the events who are not residents of the countries. They will be allowed to compete but won’t be able to run under their country’s flag.
“Like so many around the world, we are horrified and outraged by what we have seen and learned from the reporting in Ukraine,” B.A.A. president and CEO Tom Grilk said in a statement. “We believe that running is a global sport, and as such, we must do what we can to show our support to the people of Ukraine.”
The B.A.A. said it won’t recognize the country affiliation or flags of Russia and Belarus until further notice. This year’s Boston Marathon, 5K, and Invitational Mile do not include any professional or invited athletes from those countries.
Organizers said they will make reasonable attempts to refund entry fees to athletes no longer able to participate.
The B.A.A. will also provide all Ukrainians who are registered in the marathon or 5K and are unable to compete with a refund or option to defer to a future year.
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Six-days-a-week mail delivery saved; Biden signs Postal bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency’s financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery was signed into law Wednesday by President Joe Biden.
The legislation cleared Congress last month after fully a dozen years of discussion that took on a new sense of urgency amid widespread complaints about mail service delays. Officials had repeatedly warned that without congressional action, the Postal Service would run out of cash by 2024.
“The Postal Service is central to our economy and essential to rural America,” Biden said. He added that mailmen and women deliver 4 million prescriptions per day, along with letters, consumer goods and even live animals, “often to parts of the country that private carriers can’t or won’t or aren’t required to reach.”
The final legislation achieved rare, bipartisan support by scrapping some of the more controversial proposals and settling on core ways to save the service. Delivering the mail is among the most popular things the government does, with 91% of Americans having a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in 2020.
The bill signing came the same day the Postal Service announced it plans to raise rates effective July 10. Under the proposal submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission, the cost of a first-class Forever stamp would increase by 2 cents to 60 cents.
The Postal Service said the increase, which is less than the annual rate of inflation, will help the agency implement Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan to stabilize agency finances.
Lawmakers from both parties attended the signing ceremony and the mood was jovial, a big improvement from Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran previously saying the service was in a “death spiral” that was particularly hard on rural Americans.
The Postal Service Reform Act lifts budget requirements that have contributed to the agency’s red ink, and spells out that mail must be delivered six days a week, except for federal holidays, natural disasters and some other situations.
Postage sales and other services were supposed to sustain the Postal Service, but it has suffered 14 straight years of losses. Growing worker compensation and benefit costs, plus steady declines in mail volume, have exacerbated losses, even as the service delivers to 1 million additional locations every year.
The new law ends a requirement that the Postal Service finance workers’ health care benefits ahead of time for the next 75 years — an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face. Biden said that rule had “stretched the Postal Service’s finances almost to the breaking point.”
Now, future retirees will enroll in Medicare, while other health plans and the Postal Service cover only current retirees’ actual health care costs that aren’t paid for by the federal health insurance program for older people,
“In recent years we saw how unfair policies forced this treasured institution to cut costs and delayed the delivery of medication, financial documents and other critical mail,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, who helped write the legislation, said in a statement. “These long overdue reforms will undo these burdensome financial requirements.”
To measure the agency’s progress in improving its service, the law requires it to set up an online dashboard that would be searchable by ZIP code to show how long it takes to deliver letters and packages.
Dropped from the package as it neared actual legislation were efforts to cut back mail delivery. Also set aside — for now — were other proposals that have been floated over the years to change operations, including to privatize some services.
Criticism of the Postal Service peaked in 2020, amid the COVID-19 crisis and ahead of the presidential election, as cutbacks delayed service at a time when millions of Americans were relying on mail-in ballots during the pandemic. Then-President Donald Trump acknowledged he was trying to financially pinch the service to limit its processing ability for an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worried could cost him the election he eventually lost.
Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency’s board of governors had tapped DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as postmaster general. He proposed a 10-year plan to stabilize the service’s finances with steps like additional mail slowdowns, cuts in some offices’ hours and perhaps higher rates.
Biden said Wednesday that more needs to be done to reform the Postal Service, including investing in an electrified vehicle fleet that could save money while helping combat climate change. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is examining a Postal Service contract to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks with a mix of gas and electric vehicles, which the Environmental Protection Agency and Democratic lawmakers argue has too few electric vehicles.
“Today we enshrine into law our recognition that the Postal Service is fundamental to our economy, to our democracy, to our health and the very sense of who we are as a nation,” Biden said.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The bailiff probably didn’t see it coming as he escorted two Allen County Jail inmates out of an Allen County third floor courtroom Friday to go back to the jail lock-up.
But a tiny 41-year-old woman was waiting by the third-floor rotunda when the bailiff, Officer Blake Reed with the Allen County Sheriff’s Department, ordered her to leave the area multiple times.
Ana Maria Gomez Nolasco refused the orders and continued her approach to the bailiff and two inmates. At 8:55 a.m., Nolasco threw a punch towards Tre Zwieg, charged with two murders in December, but missed and clocked the bailiff instead.
Monday, Nolasco was charged with a Felony 5 battery to a public safety official and misdemeanor resisting law enforcement. She was released from the Allen County Jail on a $50,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
Steve Stone, public information officer for the sheriff’s department, called the incident rare, but the department was investigating to see if other measures need to take place when inmates are escorted through the back hallway. The fact that this happened for a pre-trial conference was surprising. The department usually beefs up security when sentencings are scheduled because those can be emotional, Stone added.
Stone said his department believed that Ana Maria Gomez Nolasco was likely related to one of the victims and that was the reason for the attack.
Zwieg, 19, was in court for an 8:30 a.m. pre-trial conference with Judge Steven Godfrey. His three-day trial for the shooting deaths of Brendan Steave Cole, 19, of Fort Wayne and Juan Jose Ramirez, Jr., 16, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is to begin May 10 in Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull’s courtroom.
No motive has been provided for why Zwieg, charged with shooting the two at a home in the 700 block of Cumberland Avenue just before 2:30 a.m. Dec. 3., shot them. Their bodies were found in a hallway connected to the house and garage by a woman who reportedly lived there. She said she first saw one of the victims wearing a red hoodie and black pants lying down in her garage at 2:24 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2021.The man looked pale and cold.
The discovery came about four hours after a caller reported hearing 10 shots fired, but then heard nothing further. When officers responded to the initial call, they found nothing of note. The woman who reported the shooting later told officers she heard five shots fired, a pause and then five more shots. She didn’t hear anyone yelling or screaming or any cars taking off, court documents said.
Homicide detective Luke MacDonald entered the garage with other officers for a walkthrough of the crime scene and found Cole and Ramirez lying in the passageway next to a wooden door leading to the garage. Surrounding them were multiple 9mm shell casings and projectiles, the shell casings a mix of ammunition that included TRN, PMC and Hornady ammo. The Allen County Coroner ruled that both men died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Detectives discovered a connection between Zwieg and Cole when both of them were involved in a traffic stop by Fort Wayne police on Aug. 8, 2021. Zwieg’s address was listed at 300 yards to the east of the garage where the bodies were found. With some forensic cell phone digging, Zwieg’s cell phone number was at that home at 10:15 and 10:40 p.m. the night of Dec. 2 around the time the neighbor heard the gunshots.
Saturday after the shooting deaths, detectives obtained a search warrant for Zwieg’s address and found three different empty handgun magazines, a Smith & Wesson M&P R-15, one live round of TRN 9mm ammunition and a black winter hat that had two holes cut out in a makeshift ski mask. One live round of TRN ammunition matched the same type found at the crime scene, court documents said.
Detectives also found Zwieg’s red Apple iPhone SE which, after being examined, showed several photos and videos of guns and ammunitions that had been deleted. When the photos were retrieved, one showed a man holding several live rounds that were the same type of 9mm Hornady ammunition found at the crime scene.
Zwieg told detectives he got a ride to work at Arcos Restaurant by a roommate and worked from 4 p.m. until close Dec. 2 He got a ride to his mother’s home on Starboard Drive, after he got off work at 9:45 p.m. Then he asked his girlfriend to take him to an apartment on Ridgewood Drive, very close to the crime scene where he was gong to change out of his work clothes.
They talked about their relationship until about 10:40 p.m., he said and that he had to be home by 10:45 p.m. the same time the shootings apparently occurred. Zwieg told officers he went inside the apartmentwhere Brendan and Zwieg stayed and that Brendan had already left. Then Zwieg claimed he fell asleep and didn’t wake up until 3:30 a.m.
In the comings and goings of the group, the girlfriend said she visited a friend and when she went back to the apartment where Zwieg had been, she heard one gunshot and then saw a man running nearby who was wearing dark colored sweats, a sweatshirt, a ski mask who looked like Zwieg.
On Dec. 4, the girlfriend ended up going to Zwieg’s mother’s home after she got a call that she’d left a necklace there. When she arrived there, the day after the shooting deaths, Zwieg asked to speak to her in private in the bathroom.
Zwieg told her that “if she loved him she needed to tell the police that she was with him between the times of 10:35 and 10:55 p.m. on Dec. 2 and to say that she came inside the apartment and that they had sex before leaving,” court documents said. The girlfriend said Zwieg wouldn’t let her leave the bathroom until she agreed to provide the alibi.
Zwieg was arrested in Indianapolis close to Ben Davis High School, Sgt. Tim Hughes, head of the FWPD homicide unit said. The arrest was made by FWPD homicide, Vice & Narcotics Unit and the Indiana State Police.
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CARMEL, Ind. — Over the last week two babies have been surrendered at Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Indiana, the latest one at Carmel Fire Department Station #45.
Fire department officials said that a baby boy was dropped off Tuesday morning, and that firefighters got to the box less than a minute after the alarm went off.
“A big smile on my face to hear that the system worked flawlessly,” said Carmel Fire Chief David Haboush
The baby is now at the hospital being checked out. Haboush added that he is nice and healthy thanks to the courage of his mother.
The Safe Haven Baby Box was installed at Carmel’s Station #45 in December of 2018 and this marks the first time a child has been surrendered at the location.
“We dedicated the box because it was late December and cold. I remember exactly what I said that day, ‘while we hope that we never have to use this box, we are glad that it is there as a safe alternative for mothers who are in crisis.’ And that exactly played out yesterday through this box,” said Haboush. “While we are excited the box was used as an alternative we realize there is a family and a mother in crisis. And we are proud that that mother was able to utilize this box in a safe manner to get care for this little baby boy.”
Carmel Fire Department Division Chief of Community Relations John Moriarty went over how firefighters handle a baby when surrendered to Station #45’s Safe Haven Baby Box in the video below.
There are multiple alarms once a child is placed in the box and it alerts dispatch right away. It will send emergency responders to the box even if no one is at the fire station. There’s also a backup generator if the power goes out.
This makes 17 babies that have been placed in Safe Haven Baby Boxes across the U.S. since 20-16, with more than a hundred women having surrendered babies to workers at Safe Haven sites.
Just last year, Indiana added on to its Safe Haven laws. Parents in crisis can now remain anonymous while calling 911 to give up custody of a baby. They just have to safely wait for help to come.
Firefighters test the baby boxes on a weekly basis to ensure they are properly working.
There are more than 100 Safe Haven Baby Boxes across the state of Indiana.
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(WJW) — The company formerly known as Square announced a customer information data breach on its mobile payment service Cash App.
Block Inc. filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday admitting to the breach, which took place on Dec. 10 and reportedly involved a former employee.
The records the employee, who was no longer working for the company at the time of the breach, was able to access included full names and brokerage account numbers (which have to do with stock activity), but not social security numbers or banking information.
It’s not currently known how many customers are directly affected by the incident, but it reportedly only impacted those in the U.S.
In the filing, the company said an investigation is currently underway:
The Company takes the security of information belonging to its customers very seriously and continues to review and strengthen administrative and technical safeguards to protect the information of its customers. Future costs associated with this incident are difficult to predict. Although the Company has not yet completed its investigation of the incident, based on its preliminary assessment and on the information currently known, the Company does not currently believe the incident will have a material impact on its business, operations, or financial results.
The company says its millions of users are going to be notified of the breach, so look out for an email. Those who have any questions regarding the incident can reach out to the company.
Cash App is a mobile payment service owned by Block, Inc. (which used to be called Square). Users can transfer money directly to other people (like with Venmo), and they can also use it to buy stocks and cryptocurrencies.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A local Indianapolis Grubhub driver was recently chosen as one of 20 recipients for Grubhub’s Grant Program.
The program awards 20 Grubhub driver’s across the United States each a $10,000 grant which can be used to support their local community through education, civic engagement, and philanthropic work. “Our drivers play a valuable role to serve restaurants and diners across the country, and we’re proud that our grant program is a way to further their personal and professional development and help them drive more change in their communities,” said Eric Ferguson, Grubhub’s chief operations officer.
“Knowing that the majority of our drivers deliver for Grubhub part-time to fit into their chosen goals, these grants will give drivers a stepping stone to pursue their broader aspirations, benefitting not only them, but the greater good of their community.”
Among the 20 recipients for 2022 is Michelle Rusk, an Indianapolis resident. Michelle chose to put her grant money towards Futbol Field of Dreams, an organization in Guatemala that helps children stay engaged in school through mentorship and soccer programs, where they learn different skills such as teamwork and perseverance.
If you are a current Grubhub employee and are interested in applying for the grant in the future, you can visit Grubhub’s grant information page on their website for more information and to see if you qualify.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Lawmakers are playing the blame game over high gas prices in the United States. There are several proposals they are considering to address the issue.
Rep. Buddy Carter says President Joe Biden is behind the spiking costs at the pump.
“We’re hearing a lot of Democrats trying to deflect blame off of the Biden administration. And that is who’s responsible for the increasing petroleum prices right now,” the Georgia Republican said.
Both sides admit the Russia-Ukraine conflict is part of the increased cost.
Democrats like Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida say oil company executives are taking advantage of the global crisis to pad their bottom lines.
“These are record-breaking profits. Why aren’t they putting some of that into relief for consumers?” Castor said.
However, Republicans like Rep. Carter and Rep. Neal Dunn point back at President Biden and his energy policies.
“This is bad policy. We have an energy industry that can make America independent,” Dunn, R-Fla., said.
Many people just want to see solutions that bring the gas prices down. Some lawmakers have suggestions about how to do that.
Rep. Donald McEachin is pushing for direct payments.
“If this congressman has his way, you’ll be getting a debit card with a certain dollar amount on it to help you pay for your gas,” McEachin, D-Va., said.
But many Republicans say the solution is to make it easier for companies to produce oil.
“Because it works on a futures market, the immediate relief would be to show confidence to the energy companies that we are going to have an ‘all of the above’ type energy strategy,” Carter said.
Mike Sommers with the American Petroleum Institute agrees.
“We need to get production back online as quickly as possible. And we need a regulatory scheme that advances that American energy leadership, rather than undermines it,” Sommers said.
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It was another day with rain and sun and across Central Indiana, just like it’s predecessor. Rain once again dominated Tuesday morning with showers continuing into the early afternoon hours. As promised however, the sun broke through around 2-3pm and a beautiful evening has ensued. The high temperature jumped to 58 degrees after warming 7 degrees in 2 hours thanks to the return of the sun.
An upper level low is in command of our weather however, and that does not fare well for extended periods of sun in our area. The reason we cleared up today is because we made it into the dry slot of the low. This is a narrow area of dry air in wake of the initial front, which crossed through today, but ahead of the return flow, which moves in on Thursday. The result will be a mix of sun & clouds on Thursday morning, but a return to mostly cloudy weather and showers in the afternoon. Temperatures will not warm up a ton with colder air coming in and the lack of afternoon sunshine. Highs will hold in the upper 40s with a breezy westerly wind.
Another byproduct of upper level lows is the slow pace at which they traverse regions the occupy. This means that similar weather will be in place both Friday and Saturday. More precipitation and clouds are expected on Friday with very limited sun if any. Precip will be light and scattered with snow showers mixing with rain at times. We will begin to dry on Saturday, but an overcast sky is expected nearly all day.
We will finally catch a break as a low exits later in the weekend. In fact, the atmosphere will be working hard to correct for the cooler temps and respond with a substantial warm up. We’ll enjoy sun and 60s on Sunday and then reach the 70s by Monday.
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Maplewood police are asking the public to keep an eye out for a pet monkey — named “Coco Chanel” — that reportedly was stolen from a car Tuesday night.
Police say they were called to the parking lot of Cub Foods at 2390 White Bear Ave N. on a theft from auto report and that Coco’s caretaker told officers she went inside the store around 8:30 p.m. and left the Capuchin monkey in the car in her pink carrier. When she returned, both were missing.
Maplewood Police Lt. Joe Steiner said investigators have been canvasing the area for witnesses and video surveillance footage in the hope of catching the monkey marauder.
Ebony Leggett of Maple Grove is a friend of Coco’s owner, Zaurice Steward, who just moved to Minnesota from Texas. Leggett said Coco’s babysitter believed she had locked her car doors, but there was no forced entry.
“We’re very upset,” said Leggett, adding that she is “Coco’s Godmother.” “It’s hard to sleep at night.”
She said Coco’s caretaker went into the store to buy her Similac infant formula, “because that’s what she drinks. The blue top stuff.”
Leggett said somebody reported seeing a woman with Coco at Maplewood Mall around 11 a.m. Wednesday, prompting police to respond.
“Somebody said that when they saw Coco, she was inside of like a Gucci bag,” Leggett said. “So they’re not walking around with the carrier anymore.”
She said the report did “bring a little bit of peace of mind, because we didn’t even know if Coco was still alive. We know now that somebody has her.”
Leggett said Steward got Coco, who is one and a half years old, from a breeder in Texas and that she’s been “socialized since birth.”
“She’s really nice, very sweet,” Leggett said. “She’s been around a lot of people — animals, dogs, cats, children. So she’s been socialized, all the way since she was a baby.”
Steiner is asking anyone who knows the whereabouts of Coco or who saw anything suspicious in the area of Cub Foods around the time she was taken to reach out to him at 651-249-2608 or Joe.Steiner@maplewoodmn.gov.
On Tuesday, Leggett posted a plea for help on Facebook, writing that Coco has been “KIDNAPPED” and asking users of the social-media site to spread the word. The post had led to nearly 300 comments as of early Wednesday night.
“All we know is that Coco is missing somewhere around Maplewood, and that we just need to somehow figure out how to get her back to us,” Leggett said Wednesday.
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Cornhusker Bank and People’s City Mission raise awareness for those in need of shoes
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The People’s City Mission serves around 27,000 people in Lincoln. For some of them, walking is the only way to get around.
“One Day Without Shoes” is a way to give them new or gently worn shoes to walk in.
Wednesday, almost 100 people walked down O Street, some without shoes on.
Cornhusker Bank along with 100 other businesses in Lincoln are collecting new and gently used shoes for those who need them.
“I know that there is a lot of us that are Spring cleaning and cleaning out closets and have some shoes in there that us or our kids don’t wear anymore that still have some good use left in them,” said Carissa Bullock, VP of Marketing at Cornhusker Bank. “That’s exactly what we’re looking for in this collection.”
To raise awareness, businesses in Lincoln spent one day without shoes.
They walked from Cornhusker Bank near South 84th and O street down to the People’s City Mission Help Center near 70th and O Street.
Since 2011, they have collected over 200,000 pairs of shoes.
“To give them the confidence to be able to go to that job interview or work or for that little one to be able to go to school knowing that they have a pair of shoes on their feet that fit, that is our why,” Bullock said.
Businesses will be collecting shoes until Saturday, April 16. In addition to shoes, people can support and buy a small paper foot. The money will go toward the People’s City Mission.
Copyright 2022 KOLN. All rights reserved.
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Election 2022: Three Republican gubernatorial candidates participate in forum
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The primary election is just a month away. Wednesday, three Republicans who want to be governor took part in a forum.
Based on a formula, the Greater Omaha Chamber invited four Republican candidates for Nebraska governor to the event, but only three showed up at UNO. Jim Pillen, as he has done before, declined to participate. His campaign said last month: “Debates are often just political theater.”
Charles Herbster, Theresa Thibodeau, and Brett Lindstrom covered a lot of ground in the 90-minute forum. Questions for candidates ranged from education to tax code to racial injustice.
It wasn’t a debate. The candidates answered questions from the moderator, but did not address each other.
The Nebraksa primary is May 10.
Copyright 2022 WOWT. All rights reserved.
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Runners residing in Russia, Belarus banned from 2022 Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) - Athletes from Russia and Belarus previously accepted to compete in this year’s Boston Marathon who are currently residing in either country will no longer be allowed to participate, the Boston Marathon Association announced Wednesday.
The exclusion from the world’s oldest annual marathon also extends to athletes previously accepted into the B.A.A.’s 5K event. However, it doesn’t affect Russian or Belarusian athletes registered for the events who are not residents of the countries. They will be allowed to compete but won’t be able to run under their country’s flag.
“Like so many around the world, we are horrified and outraged by what we have seen and learned from the reporting in Ukraine,” B.A.A. president and CEO Tom Grilk said in a statement. “We believe that running is a global sport, and as such, we must do what we can to show our support to the people of Ukraine.”
The B.A.A. said it won’t recognize the country affiliation or flags of Russia and Belarus until further notice. This year’s Boston Marathon, 5K, and Invitational Mile do not include any professional or invited athletes from those countries.
Organizers said they will make reasonable attempts to refund entry fees to athletes no longer able to participate.
The B.A.A. will also provide all Ukrainians who are registered in the marathon or 5K and are unable to compete with a refund or option to defer to a future year.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Title 42 is ending on May 23, but the debate goes on whether the border public health policy should’ve ever been put in place and what will happen once it’s gone.
“This order was a pretext to close the border to Black, brown and Indigenous people,” U.S. Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan said in a Wednesday hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security. “Leading medical experts consistently argued there was no public health justification to close the border to asylum-seekers.”
Others say the post-Trump migrant surge will ramp up when border agents lose a tool that has allowed them to swiftly expel 1.7 million unauthorized migrants since March 2020.
“Title 42 has allowed us to stem the tide. If we take Title 42 away, we are headed for 3 million (apprehensions) this year […] our nation cannot sustain this,” said U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana. “Right now, it’s a legal tool that is needed on the border. If we take it way, I’m afraid the demise of our nation will accelerate. What we’re witnessing right now will become worse and worse.”
Just like immigration advocates challenged Title 42 in court when the Trump administration started it, Republicans are now trying to get a federal judge to force President Joe Biden to keep it in place.
“This suit challenges an imminent, man-made, self-inflicted calamity: The abrupt elimination of the only safety valve preventing this administration’s disastrous border policies from devolving into an unmitigated chaos and catastrophe,” says the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Lafayette, Lousiana.
On Wednesday in Capitol Hill, expert witnesses and Democratic lawmakers said doing away with Title 42 is the right thing to do. There’s no proof it helped prevent cross-border transmission of COVID-19, the pandemic is largely under control now and the policy continues to endanger asylum-seekers, they said.
“We applaud the Biden administration’s decision to terminate the Title 42 policy. It is not and never was a justifiable public health response to the pandemic, as epidemiologists and medical experts have repeatedly confirmed,” said Kennji Kizuka, senior policy analyst for Human Rights First. “Instead, the Title 42 policy has been used to evade U.S. asylum laws and treaty obligations.”
Advocates have documented hundreds of crimes against migrants expelled under Title 42 and say Border Patrol “encounters” (2 million in calendar year 2021) have ballooned because those migrants attempt multiple illegal crossings because ports of entry remain closed to lawfully apply for asylum.
Border law enforcement officials like Cochise County (Arizona) Sheriff Mark Dannels, said Title 42 should stay in place until the federal government comes up with a new policy to effectively manage migration flows.
He says his department is spending $17,000 a week to patrol areas where an increasing number of migrants – and drug cartel members using them as cover – is passing through. He said the situation in his mostly rural enclave of the border is “at a level we’ve never seen.”
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, said migration patterns have been changing since the Obama administration.
“The truth is: This is complicated. It’s not easy. There is no one who wants to see security and dignity more than those of us who live on the border,” the El Paso Democrat said. “But addressing migration only at the border is a signal of failure.”
She added neither building more border wall nor expelling migrants under Title 42 has stopped unauthorized migration, and she advocated for U.S. immigration reform.
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(NEXSTAR) – Chipotle is giving away burritos on Thursday in honor of National Burrito Day 2022, but if you’re hoping to score a free meal you’ll need to travel to the metaverse to get one.
The fast-casual chain is teaming up with online game platform Roblox to give away 100,000 burritos to the first players who successfully roll a burrito using the 90s-themed Chipotle Burrito Builder video game.
Winners will earn enough in-game currency, Burrito Bucks, to exchange it for an entree code applicable on the Chipotle app or website. The game will go live on April 7 at 3:30 P.M. PDT.
“Chipotle Burrito Builder is inspired by Chipotle fans on social media who have compared the complexities of rolling burritos to playing a video game,” Chipotle said in a news release.
The Burrito Builder experience “teleports” players back to 1993, the year Chipotle was founded. After choosing a uniform and unlocking additional 90s uniform options, players will go to work behind the counter.
“Players will need to drag and drop the correct ingredients into the tortilla situated at the bottom of the screen before the tortilla gets to the end of the line. Lastly, players will need to complete the customer’s order by rolling the burrito using arrow keys before the burrito roller timer runs out. If the player doesn’t build the full burrito order before the tortilla reaches the end of the line or they don’t roll the burrito before the burrito roller time limit, it’s game over. “
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There will be a real-time leaderboard and from April 7 to April 13 the top five contestants at 11:59 P.M. PDT will win free burritos for a year.
In honor of National Burrito Day, Chipotle is also offering a free side or topping of Queso Blanco to rewards members who use the code NBD2022 to order via the website or app.
Last year, Chipotle gave away $100,000 worth of burritos and Bitcoin to celebrate National Burrito Day.
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(WJW) – Consumers are alleging a popular breakfast cereal is making them sick.
More than 100 people posted to IWasPoisoned.com, claiming General Mills’ Lucky Charms caused them to experience a variety of gastrointestinal issues. The site call itself a “consumer-led website for diners to report suspected food poisoning or bad food experiences.”
Consumers on the website complained of nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and overall feelings of sickness.
The Food and Drug Administration has responded to the reports, stating the agency is aware of the complaints and is looking into the matter.
The FDA has its own system to track consumer complaints, called a CAERS database. That database has received 41 reports related to Lucky Charms since 2004, the FDA said.
Only three of those reports were received in 2021 and only one was “related to the complaints listed in IWasPoisoned.com,” the FDA said.
When the FDA starts an investigation, “Depending on the seriousness of the problem, an FDA investigator may visit the person who made the complaint, collect product samples, and initiate inspections,” the agency said in a statement.
In less serious cases, “or those that appear to be isolated incidents,” the FDA monitors incoming information and considers inspecting a production facility in the future.
“The FDA takes seriously any reports of possible adulteration of a food that may also cause illnesses or injury,” the FDA’s statement reads, in part.
General Mills told the New York Post, it didn’t believe the cereal was making people sick. Nexstar has also reached out to the company for a statement and will update this story if we hear back.
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY (KTLA) – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to suspend all official travel to Texas and Florida over the states’ controversial LGBTQ policies.
The motion by Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis would only affect travel for the conduct of county business that is paid for with taxpayer money.
“As we’ve done in the past where states have enacted some egregious laws that contravene everything that we have done in L.A. County and in California, this motion calls for a travel ban on all travel to these states,” L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said in Tuesday’s meeting.
“We’re not gonna spend our money going to your states and it sends a message that we won’t support this egregious behavior,” Kuehl said of the motion.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, a policy that has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
Public backlash began quickly after the bill was introduced, with celebrities speaking out against it on social media and Florida students staging protests and walkouts. Critics argue that the law marginalizes LGBTQ people and that the law’s language could be interpreted in a way that leads to teachers completely avoiding the subjects.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott signed an order instructing the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the parents of transgender teens for child abuse. The order came after the state’s Attorney General said gender-affirming treatments and procedures for children are a form of child abuse, CNN reported.
A judge in Texas later issued a temporary injunction, blocking the state from enforcing the order.
The Texas order also received immediate backlash, with LGBTQ advocates saying it endangers families of transgender youth.
Kuehl called the order in Texas “discriminatory, harmful and deliberately cruel.”
Solis also echoed Kuehl’s remarks.
“I too come from a family that has parents whose children are LGBTQ, and I know what it was for them to raise their children and even to talk amongst our own larger family, and how important it is to support each other and in particularly these young people who are trying to live out their their best in life,” Solis said.
Los Angeles County’s order suspends travel to the two states “unless the Chief Executive Officer determines that the failure to authorize such travel would seriously harm the County’s interests.”
The ban can be lifted when either of the bills or orders are suspended, the motion states.
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SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — A pedestrian crossing at the San Ysidro Port of Entry that had been closed for two years was reopened this morning to allow only Ukrainian immigrants to enter the U.S.
No other migrants or border commuters were given access to the facility.
Volunteers said 50 Ukrainians were being processed and given access north of the border every two hours.
Once they came out of the building, the migrants were met by volunteers like Phil Metzger, head pastor of Calvary San Diego.
Metzger and others could be seen handing out bottles of water, doughnuts and other snacks to the immigrants.
“CBP wanted to make the process smoother and they’re the ones, it was their idea and they made it happen,” said Metzger. “They let us know and here we are.”
Metzger said they were also there to advise the migrants.
“There’s a lot of moving parts to trying to get across, they need 24 hours to figure it out, most of them have families or they have friends, they just need a minute to catch their breath,” he said.
One of the migrants helped by volunteers was Arcam.
“We came to start a new life, start from zero,” he said. “I think for me and my family here, I will build a new house and start a new life and all will be okay.”
Arcam talked about his journey to get to the U.S., saying he and his family started the trek in Moldova once they got out of Ukraine, and then passed through Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and a few other countries before getting to Paris.
He ultimately got to Mexico City earlier this month. Two days ago, Arcam arrived in Tijuana.
On Wednesday morning, after getting a temporary humanitarian visa from the U.S., he found himself in California.
Arcam told Border Report he eventually wants to live in Los Angeles.
“Amazing, imagine, it’s a wonderful country, it’s a wonderful country I’m safe here.”
Earlier this week, Tijuana city officials said they had received 1,200 Ukrainian immigrants and had decided to house them in a shelter.
On Wednesday morning, many of the migrants were bused to the border and began crossing into the U.S.
“What would be a great thing from our perspective is if they could begin the process in Europe, maybe Poland where there are direct flights into the states, that would be a safer pathway for people, a faster pathway,” Metzger said.
Border Report reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection about reopening Ped West for the Ukrainian migrants, but our messages have not been returned.
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(The Hill) – The House voted Wednesday to hold two advisers to former President Trump, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Lawmakers voted almost entirely along party lines, 220-203.
Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), the two Republicans serving on the committee, were the only members of their party to back the resolution.
Navarro, a former trade adviser to Trump, and Scavino, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for communications, both defied the committee’s subpoenas and refused to testify or provide documents.
The vote will refer the charges to the Justice Department, which can choose to pursue further action.
Scavino was one of the committee’s earliest subpoena targets, seeking an interview with an aide who spent considerable time with the president on Jan. 6 and helped promote the rally.
Navarro was subpoenaed by the committee in February after passages from his own book appeared to show he was involved in plans to delay certification of the presidential election.
Scavino and Navarro have both claimed they cannot cooperate with the committee due to executive privilege concerns. While Scavino was referenced in a letter from Trump’s attorney raising that issue, the former president has not done the same for Navarro.
President Biden has said he would not claim executive privilege for either man.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 committee who was also the lead House Democratic prosecutor during Trump’s second impeachment, said the two men “have blown us off completely,” and alluded to the multiple subpoenas issued to Scavino.
“If 90 percent of success in life is just showing up, then 90 percent of acting in contempt of congress is not showing up by failing to respond to multiple subpoenas you’ve been lawfully served,” he said.
“The rest of contempt is not turning over documents you’ve been ordered to produce and acting with open disregard and scorn for the rule of law, Congress and representatives of the American people.”
The House has previously voted to hold two other former Trump advisers, former strategist Steve Bannon and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the committee.
But so far the Justice Department has only acted on one of those recommendations, with Bannon facing trial this summer in a case that could mean up to two years in jail and $200,000 in fines.
A judge ruled in a pretrial hearing Wednesday that Bannon cannot argue that he was relying on his lawyer’s advice in defying his congressional subpoena.
It’s unclear whether the Justice Department will choose to act on the third and fourth recommendations from Congress for criminal charges. Attorney General Merrick Garland brushed aside a question from reporters Wednesday over whether the failure to take such recommendations render Congress ineffective in its investigations.
“We will follow the facts and the law wherever they lead. We don’t comment any further on investigations,” he said.
Republicans defending Scavino and Navarro stressed the potential punishment either could face.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) noted that Scavino has children, asking colleagues how they would explain such a conviction to his sons.
“Mr. Scavino has two boys. He’s a good dad, he doesn’t deserve this, his boys definitely don’t deserve this. So before we vote today I have got to ask could anyone here explain to those boys why their dad deserves to be behind bars for a year,” Banks said.
“Contempt is not enforcement; it’s punishment. Contempt won’t get the committee any information. Only the court can do that. But they don’t want to go to the judiciary. They don’t want neutral arbitration. They want political punishment.”
Cheney – who Republicans booted as their third-ranking leader last year for her pushback against Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election — accused her GOP colleagues of abandoning their constitutional obligations.
“Those in this chamber who continue to embrace the former president and his dangerous and destructive lies ought to take a good hard look at themselves,” Cheney said.
“At a moment of real danger to our republic, when the need for fidelity to our Constitution is paramount, they have abandoned their oaths in order to perform for Donald Trump. That will be their legacy,” she added.
At one point in the debate, Raskin also gave an emotional defense of Cheney and Kinzinger, saying Democrats have been left to defend them as Republicans begin “the utterly cannibalistic process of vilifying and castigating Republicans just because they disagree with the orthodoxy, the dogma handed down by Donald Trump.”
“Because if you don’t go along with what Donald Trump says, if you don’t act like you’re a robot or a member of a religious cult, they will attack you, they will vilify you, they will denounce you. These people, Mr. Kinzinger, Ms. Cheney, are constitutional heroes, and they don’t deserve your contempt. The insurrectionists and the law breakers deserve your contempt, because they are acting in contempt of the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States,” Raskin said.
Despite the lack of cooperation from some prominent figures in the former president’s orbit, the committee has recently secured testimony from two of Trump’s closest advisers: his eldest daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner.
According to multiple reports about Trump’s actions – or lack thereof – behind the scenes on Jan. 6, Ivanka Trump was in communication with her father and top GOP officials while the Capitol was under siege by the mob of his supporters trying to stop lawmakers from ratifying the presidential election results.
One top point of inquiry for the committee has been to uncover Trump’s actions on that day as GOP allies pleaded for help while the Capitol was under attack from the violent mob. Aside from a series of tweets and a video in which he told his supporters to “go home” and “we love you, you’re very special,” the official public record of Trump’s activities on Jan. 6 remains largely unknown.
Overall, the committee has interviewed more than 800 witnesses to date.
While the committee is set to automatically sunset at the end of the year unless the majority party extends it next January, Republicans used debate on the bill to reassert their desire to end its work.
“If anyone has acted like they are above the law, it is the select committee,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on the House floor on Wednesday.
“When we take back the House, it will stop.”
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State allocates $15,000 to mental health agency to bring services to schools
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – After transitioning between distanced-learning, hybrid-learning and in-person learning, there is a growing concern for teachers and students experiencing mental health issues.
“We’re in the middle of a mental health crisis, so they are seeing and we are seeing more mental health crises than we have in a really long time,” Fernbrook Family Center school-based services specialist Ashley Kimmell said.
The Minnesota Department of Human services is now awarding more than 50 grants to mental health agencies across the state to provide services directly to schools. It’s called school-linked behavior grants.
One of these agency is Fernbrook Family Center. The center received $15,000 to allocate its services among 22 school districts.
“It also helps reduce any barriers that families have when receiving mental health services whether that be financial or transportation,” Kimmell said.
Zumbro-Mazeppa Public Schools is one of the school district receiving mental health services.
“Students’ support groups are their peers, their friends. The school system in general is a huge support for students, and in many cases that was disrupted over the last few years,” Zumbrota-Mazeppa Superintendent Michael Harvey said.
Not only can students receive mental health care, but teachers can also participate in staff support and wellness sessions where practitioners can provide support and guidance to teachers experiencing mental health issues.
“Whether it be to talk about things that they’re experiencing in the classroom, things that their witnessing or just even deal with some of the stressors of their everyday life,” Kimmell said.
“They’ve been under a lot of stress the last few years as well. So that’s very helpful to our teaching staff and that helps students,” Harvey said.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa received another grant from the Southeast Service Co-op to fund another mental health initiative where students can receive care digitally through a service and software provided at their schools.
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University of Minnesota Rochester brings awareness to sexual assault
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and some organizations in Rochester are starting the conversation.
One of these organization’s is the U of M Rochester’s Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month committee.
According to the rape, abuse, and incest national network (RAINN), 13% of all students experience rape or sexual assault while in college.
UMR’s theme for sexual assault awareness and prevention month is about recognizing the warning signs as sexual assault. The campaign is called Red Flags & Gray Space
“With our campus, and really it’s an initiative on many campuses, is making sure that our community, faculty, staff and students understand the importance of being aware of signs and signals that someone may need assistance in preventing sexual assault. So what are some of those red flag moments is the initiative we’re following,” UMR assistant vice chancellor for student success, engagement and equity Javier Gutierrez said.
Along with the Red Flag campaign, the committee is also hosting a number of panels and will be participating in Denim Day. Denim Day a day when students are encouraged to wear denim to bring awareness to sexual assault and prevention. It takes place on April 27.
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College coach cuts entire volleyball team; players left scrambling without scholarships
GRAMBLING, La. (KSLA/Gray News) - Grambling State University’s new head volleyball coach Chelsey Lucas has decided to cut the entire team.
KSLA reports Lucas notified the 19 players about the roster change on Monday. She has been the coach of the team since February.
GSU Athletics Communications Director Brian Howard said athletic leaders knew Lucas would be making some changes to the roster, but not to what extent.
“It’s her decision to make, and she’s got some quality players coming on board. I think 13 or 14 are coming on board. So, I hate to say out with the old, but in with the new a little bit,” Howard said.
According to the players, Lucas called individual player meetings and told them their scholarships would not be renewed.
Maurisa Harris, a junior at GSU, said players were advised that their scholarships would not be renewed based on their performance at recent practices held this semester.
Harris said the coach’s decision has left many of her teammates scrambling to find another program to transfer to in the off-season.
GSU Athletic Director Trayveon Scott issued the following statement:
“Just as the transfer portal empowers student-athletes, our coaches are also empowered to make the decisions they deem necessary to advance their programs.”
According to Howard, athletic leaders wish the players whose scholarships were not renewed future success.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bill that aims to make the U.S. more competitive with China is a step closer to becoming law.
The Senate and House have each passed their own versions of the legislation, known as the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act and the America Competes Act, respectively. Lawmakers are starting the process of working out the differences.
The goal behind the legislation is to make America a leader in new technology, said Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana), who has helped lead the effort.
“We can’t be reliant on other countries for critical components related to our next generation technologies,” Young said.
Sen. Young pointed out the legislation directs billions of dollars toward research in areas like artificial intelligence and quantum computing. This would help make the U.S. more competitive against countries like China, he said.
“The wars of the future will be won or lost possibly because of these sorts of technologies,” Sen. Young said.
The legislation would also direct $52 billion to American manufacturing of semiconductor chips.
“It’s a strong package to fix our supply chains and start making more critical products here in America,” said Rep. André Carson (D-Indiana), who voted in favor of the bill in the House.
In the Senate, the bill passed with bipartisan support on a 68-32 vote. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Indiana) voted against the legislation.
The House version includes provisions related to labor and climate change, leading to only one House Republican voting in favor of the bill.
None of the House Republicans in Indiana’s congressional delegation supported that version of the legislation.
“This legislation does little to address the growing threat that is the Chinese Communist Party and instead, it is another attempt to jam through Congress a wish list of liberal policies,” Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Indiana) said in a statement after the House vote.
“In the end, I think the legislation is going to have to look a lot like what we passed out of the U.S. Senate on a very strong bipartisan vote, as opposed to the Democrat bill which passed out of the House of Representatives,” Sen. Young said.
Meanwhile, some experts say they believe the legislation could have a big impact on Indiana and the U.S., both in terms of global competition and the economy.
“These things don’t happen quickly, but these elements can be put in place so that in the future, we won’t have our auto manufacturers closing their plants for two weeks because of the lack of chips,” said Mohan Tatikonda, supply chain management professor at the IU Kelley School of Business.
Negotiations on a final version of the bill will likely take a few months. Sen. Young said he is “confident” lawmakers can reach a deal by July 4.
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MARSHALL, Mich. — Michigan State Troopers are searching for a missing seven-foot-tall Big Foot ornament that went missing on West End Road near Heimbach Road in Park Township in St. Joseph County.
Police say the larceny happened on or after March 22. The lawn ornament stolen is described as made of sheet metal material and a rusty brown color with various sharp edges to represent the fur of sasquatch. Police say it appears that the sasquatch was cut away from a steel post with bolt cutters or something of the sort.
Nearby residents spotted a “white panel van with dark driver and passenger side windows” in the area on March 22. The van was then seen turning around in the victim’s driveway and leaving the seen northbound towards Heimbach Rd.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Michigan State Police at 269.558.0500.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Animal Care Services removed more than a dozen dogs from a home on the city’s south side after neighbors began questioning a foul odor that seemed to hang in the air outside the residence.
The IACS confirmed the dogs were removed from the home in the 3100 block of W. Epler Avenue on Wednesday afternoon and taken to a shelter to be placed under hold. The length of the hold, IACS said, will be determined by the circumstances of the investigation.
While IACS confirmed “around 13 dogs” were taken from the home, neighbors on scene attested to an even larger number of dogs living within the house that used to once be a church.
“I personally witnessed 36 dogs… 36 dogs come out of the house so far,” said neighbor John David Peterson, who lives near the home in question at the intersection of Epler Avenue and Concord Street.
John said prior to Wednesday he had no idea the people living in the Epler home even owned dogs. Neither did David Peterson, who also lives across from the former church. Both David and John had smelled the strong odor but had never seen any dogs being let out of the house to play or even to go to the bathroom.
“It’s so sad and frustrating because animals are the heart and soul of humans and we need to treat them better,” David said, expressing his frustration and sorrow that the animals had never even seen the light of day.
John claimed his wife witnessed an animal rescue worker arrive at the Epler home on Tuesday to investigate the reports of a strong odor emitting from the house. The occupants of the home didn’t let the worker inside, according to John.
Before IACS arrived on scene Wednesday, John claimed to have seen a woman who lived in the Epler house “kidnap” 24 of the dogs and leave before animal services arrived.
“People like that don’t need to have animals,” John said. “They don’t deserve to have pets. The animals didn’t do anything wrong… the animals love you unconditionally no matter what.”
Indianapolis police said they are looking into the matter and have not provided any further details at this time. We have reached out to IACS to try and learn more about the animals’ conditions.
Kennels continue to fill at the animal shelter and the IACs reminds residents that adoptions are currently free.
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BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, Ind. — The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office is now asking the public for help finding a suspect in a home invasion that resulted in the assault of a female Wednesday morning.
The sheriff’s office said that around 8 a.m., deputies and detectives responded to the intersections of South 400 West/Deaver Road and South 400 West/West 450 South.
The victim told authorities that the suspect showed her a gun. The sheriff’s office added the victim displayed signs of injuries.
Deputies have been searching the area for evidence since it was reported. BCSO has also reached out to surrounding agencies for any relevant information about similar crimes.
The sheriff’s office has asked the public for any information about the home invasion and assault. That includes if they saw any suspicious vehicles or people in the area of South 400 West/Deaver Road and South 400 West/West 450 South between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Contact Detective Dane Duke at (812) 565-5928 with any information no matter how insignificant they may think of the details. Callers can remain anonymous upon request.
The Bartholomew County Sheriff also reminds every to stay alert, use caution and report any suspicious activity as the investigation continues.
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WASHINGTON — A mother red fox that had been roaming the grounds of the U.S. Capitol — and that bit nine people, including a California congressman — was euthanized. Her kits — what fox babies are called — were found and “captured” Wednesday morning, according to Washington, D.C., officials.
The Washington, D.C. Department of Health said Wednesday in an email that there were nine “confirmed” bites by the fox over the past few days and that it had been “humanely euthanized so that rabies testing” could be done. Results of the rabies test were expected later Wednesday, officials said.
Officials would not disclose where the kits were being kept or whether they, too, would be euthanized. City health authorities said in an email that they were “working to determine next steps for the fox kits.”
To figure out whether an animal has rabies, it has to be euthanized, and samples from its brain tissue have to be taken so tests can be run at a lab, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 120,000 animals a year in the United States are tested for rabies, and of them, about 6% are found to be rabid.
On Tuesday, Tim Barber, a spokesman for the U.S. Capitol Police, had said at least half a dozen people had been bitten or nipped by the fox. But the city’s health department increased that number Wednesday to nine.
Barber had said it was hard to figure out how many incidents there have been because people were reporting them to various places, including U.S. Capitol Police, area hospitals and clinics. Officials were “not sure how long” the fox or foxes had been around the Capitol grounds or where they came from, Barber said.
On Tuesday, Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., said in a telephone interview that he was among those bitten — attacked around 5 p.m. Monday, he said, while walking near the Russell Senate Office Building.
“Yesterday was probably my most unusual day on the Hill in 10 years,” Bera said Tuesday.
After feeling something lunge at the back of his leg, Bera said, he turned around, expecting to confront a small dog. Instead, he saw a fox and wielded an umbrella to keep the animal at bay.
“I’m not going to let that fox get behind me,” he recalled thinking.
After Capitol Police responded, the fox fled in the direction of the Dirksen and Hart Senate office buildings.
On Tuesday, Capitol Police said they had received another call about a fox that approached staff, saying it “may have a den in the mulch bed area on First and C near the Dirksen (Senate Office) Building,” just northeast of the Capitol grounds. Officials said there was another possible fox den near the “perimeter of the Russell (Senate Office) Building,” north across the street from the grounds.
Officials said “no other foxes” had been found on the grounds but warned that it would “not be uncommon to see more,” because they are “present throughout” the city.
City officials said they would not be doing a “roundup of healthy foxes in the area” and would intervene only to “remove wildlife if they are sick or injured” or if someone had been exposed and rabies testing would be needed.
Foxes are considered wild animals, and officials warned that no one should approach them. They’re known to be “protective of their dens and territory.”
On the fox’s Twitter account — @thecapitolfox — it said Wednesday afternoon, “Gone but not forgotten. May you remember me fondly.”
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The young professionals honored as the 2022 class of “40 Under Forty” were celebrated at a ceremony at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Wednesday.
40 Under Forty recognizes the younger leaders in New Hampshire, across sectors and around the state.
“The recognition is really important whether you thought no one was paying attention to your accomplishments, or you were in a more visible arena,” said Jeremy Hitchcock, a Manchester businessman who was one of the award presenters.
The honorees include a firefighter, a pharmacist, nonprofit leaders, attorneys and business leaders, as well as people who have served in local elected office.
Though the ceremony was held indoors, and few wore masks as they mingled in the theater lobby, the pandemic still cast a shadow on the awards.
COVID-19 will leave a mark on this generation of workers, but some found opportunity, and others found themselves in leadership roles through difficult times — and finding they had what it took to help their organizations through.
Like firefighter Ryan Bump of the Derry Fire Department, who helped run the town’s Emergency Operations Center during the chaotic early weeks of the pandemic. Or Crystal-Lee Thompson, who got into business for herself at the beginning of the pandemic and found a way to make her business thrive.
Or Tricia Zahn, who helped Cheshire Medical Center find space for an overflow unit in case hospitals were overwhelmed.
With more than 20 classes of awardees in New Hampshire — 840 people total — the careers of past 40 Under Forty honorees have added shine to the award.
“I know a lot of people that have won this award,” said Janelle Gorman of Bedford, chief financial officer of York IE.
She had hoped one day to be named to the list — and 2022 was Gorman’s year.
“To be actually honored feels pretty great,” Gorman said.
For awardee John Ward of Hooksett, the recognition is a reminder of how far he’s come since he started his own law firm.
“I had three kids, it was scary as hell,” Ward said. “But it worked out.”
Striking out on his own was also a way for Ward to follow in the footsteps of his father, who practiced law in Littleton.
Others hope their achievements can set an example for their children.
Four of Hilary Holmes Rheaume’s five children attended the ceremony, and she said she was thrilled they could be with her to celebrate her professional achievements as a litigator at Bernstein Shur.
“They see me as a parent, they don’t see me as what I do in my professional life,” Holmes Rheaume said. “There’s more to me — but there’s also more to their lives.”
She hoped the ceremony would help her children dream bigger for themselves too.
“You’ve got some pretty impressive people out there,” said Matthew Passalacqua of Hudson, a divorce attorney. His nomination was a little surprising — a former paralegal put his name in, he said — but he was excited to meet the other members of his class.
“It’s neat to be with all of those different genres,” he said. “It’s good to be in a pool of people who are very accomplished in their field.”
The awards are sponsored by Ledyard Bank, the Business and Industry Association, Brady Sullivan Properties, Mascoma Bank and Merchants Fleet.
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Enough evidence exists for a jury to consider the wrongful termination case of a former Hillsborough County prosecutor, who claims he was fired for refusing Manchester police demands for a tough sentence or trial in the overdose death of a toddler, a judge has ruled.
The ruling involves a wrongful discharge lawsuit brought by former Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Donald Topham, who handled several high-profile prosecutions in Hillsborough County in 2019. Topham has sued both the county and former County Attorney Michael Conlon.
In effect, the order of Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Will Delker means a trial can go forward.
Conlon, a single-term Democrat with no prosecutorial experience, fired Topham in 2019 after Manchester police publicly criticized the Hillsborough County Attorney’s Office for a plea bargain that called for a 10-year prison sentence for the father of a 20-month-old boy who died from a cocaine overdose.
According to the 11-page order, Conlon fired Topham just days after then-Manchester Police Chief Carlo Capano called Conlon and complained about the plea bargain. Also, Conlon’s office lacked policies addressing other issues raised at Topham’s termination, and Conlon told others in his office that he wouldn’t have fired Topham if not for police complaints.
“The circumstances of (Topham)’s termination present several questions of material fact that prevent the Court from finding, as a matter of law, that the defendants were not motivated by the desire to retaliate against (Topham) for entering into the pleas against the wishes of the Manchester Police Department,” wrote Judge Delker.
It will be up to a jury, he said, to weigh the evidence in the case.
Delker also said a jury will consider the public policy benefits of prosecutorial discretion and the independence of a prosecutor’s office.
Capano had wanted a 20-year minimum or a trial for the defendant, Joshua Garvey. Topham has said the plea bargain was in line with those of similar child-overdose cases, and the case would be difficult to prove if it went to trial. When modifications are factored in, Garvey was sentenced to five years in state prison after completion of a two-year residential drug treatment program.
On Wednesday, Topham said he could not comment on the ruling because the case is pending. Jury selection is scheduled for July.
The Union Leader emailed copies of Delker’s order to both the Manchester Police Department and the current Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin, a Republican, asking questions about the independence of the office and its relations with Manchester police.
Neither email was acknowledged.
Former Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, now the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, had cited the Garvey case as one of three reasons for taking over the prosecutorial functions of Conlon’s office in 2019. He eventually returned control of the office to Conlon, who lost reelection in 2020.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic has asked to delay a hearing on a proposed medical office in Bedford after voters approved zoning changes limiting the size of such facilities.
Last month, town residents overwhelmingly approved a zoning amendment to limit the expansion of large medical centers in the town’s Performance Zone to no more than two stories, with a total building size not to exceed 20,000 square feet.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock wants to build a 49,000-square-foot building located at Ridgewood and Kilton roads. The project was set to go before the planning board on April 18. The hearing is now set for June 13, according to the planning board agenda.
The zoning amendment, placed on the ballot by citizen petition, was intended to make sure the town maximizes tax revenue in its main commercial district, its backers said.
The clinic is prepared to talk to the planning board about its nonprofit status and “potential payments,” Audra Burns, senior manager of media relations, said in a statement last week.
Under the new zoning amendment, property owners can ask for waivers, which the planning board can grant if it agrees it’s in the district’s best interest — which petition supporters say likely means agreeing to pay full taxes.
The Performance Zone runs along South River Road and includes Whole Foods and the Market and Main development.
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LEBANON — A $180,000 humanitarian effort for the people of Ukraine is underway at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center this week.
In a little more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon, 11 volunteers packed up 600 individual first aid kits that Dartmouth-Hitchcock plans to ship to Ukraine along with 500,000 pairs of surgical gloves and 600 cards and letters sending messages of hope and peace from Upper Valley-area school children.
On Thursday, another 400 first aid kits will be packed by a group of volunteers made up of Tuck Business School students.
Once they have the 1,000 first aid kits packed the shipment will be ready to go, said Hunter Fifield, Site Director of Supply Chain Operations at the hospital, is spearheading the effort, from requesting the supplies and shipment costs from Dartmouth to running the first aid packing sessions.
The hospital is funding the project at a cost of about $140,000 in medical supplies and about $40,000 in shipping costs, he said.
Fifield said the hospital is also working with the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Health to ensure the delivery makes it to those who need them.
IFAKs or Individual First Aid Kits is a military term, Fifield said. This is the type of kit he aimed to make but with the modification that all items in the kit should be easily identifiable and usable for a civilian, he said.
“I wanted to make sure with the first-aid kits, anyone with zero training could see something in the first-aid kits and use it. So the only sophisticated thing in there is the tourniquet, which there are instructions for,” Fifield said. “Everything else is a household item that you could use,” including gauze, scissors and scalpels.
The volunteers packaging the kits on Wednesday were employees of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and some of their spouses, many with a connection to Ukraine.
“We’re always ready to help, especially when it’s related to helping the Ukraine. We’re doing our best to help here,” said Yuri Starodubtsev of Lebanon, a Ukrainian whose wife works at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
Olga Sobko, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock nurse, said she is the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants who fled on a boat that took them to Brazil in the wake of World War II.
“My parents experienced this in a different timeframe with World War II,” Sobko said. “It’s sort of like a repeat of history. A little bit, in a different way. I grew up knowing my parent’s story. And they’re both dead now so I do this to honor my parents.”
She said most of the volunteers are part of a humanitarian human resource group made up of employees and that wanted to do something specifically for Ukrainians right now.
“I think the one thing that every Ukrainian is feeling right now is a sense of helplessness,” Sobko said. “We are so far away that the only thing that we can do is to do these things to allay our own sadness and our own anxiety about it all.”
The volunteer project also drew an IT employee from Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, which is part of Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
“To me, it’s really shocking to see,” Alexy Kim said of what is taking place in the Ukraine.
And as an immigrant from Kazakhstan, the war hits close to home, he said.
Kazakhstan is a country that sits in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe and borders Russia.
“It’s a very hot area, or will be soon,” Kim said. “I cannot imagine Kazakhstan is not part of the plans for Russia and China.”
Sobko and Kim said that people from that part of the world feel rage because it seems that each generation from Ukraine sees this type of conflict, violence and upheaval.
Volunteering on Wednesday helped Sobko channel some of her rage that day, she said.
“I live with this internal rage all day long … Ukrainians are living and dying for the freedom of their country,” she said. “My mom and dad saw this in their generation. If they were alive today my dad would have had a heart attack today, if he saw what was happening. He would not survive this. This would pain him so deeply.”
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DEAR ABBY: I am a 47-year-old gay man. I’m well-educated, but there’s something I can’t figure out.
Why do straight guys NOT want to be friends? I never hit on them, I enjoy a lot of the same pastimes like games, working on cars, etc. I want to be transparent, but when I tell them upfront, they disappear.
Sometimes it gets back to me that they thought I was asking them on a date if I invited someone to go to a ballgame, for example. I have plenty of female friends, but what I really want is a male best friend or, hell, just a male friend, period.
Of course, everyone has their own opinions on what I should do — “join a meeting, a group, social activities and blah blah.” I have done all of those things, and I can’t figure out what’s wrong. I have now learned to just keep my mouth shut and not invite anyone to do anything.
Any suggestions would be welcomed, but I have pretty much tried everything, including seeing a counselor.
— CURIOUS IN OKLAHOMA
DEAR CURIOUS: The problem you’re having with straight men may be that they are nervous about being perceived as “gay by association” if they are friendly with you. Some may also find the concept of being friends with a gay man to be threatening.
Taking part in group activities and outings is certainly a way to connect with others regardless of sexual orientation. Eventually, you’ll meet people and form friendships. In the meantime, appreciate those female friends of yours and ask them for some input, too.
DEAR ABBY: This has been a rough pandemic for all of us. We have all experienced the constant fear of disease, job loss and the pressure to react to those stresses in prescribed ways that aren’t always easy. For those of us who deal with mental health issues on the best of days, it has become a real struggle.
I have a group of friends who have not managed to do well through it all. Previous issues multiplied, and their lives have become pitiable messes. Early on in the pandemic, we attempted to keep moods up with weekly Zoom hangouts. It helped a little, but because my mental status has always been a little better than theirs, I was never a focus of support.
As the world has begun to open up, we have been able to see each other in person, and it has become obvious to me that I need to distance myself from them to protect what I have worked so hard to maintain. Do I owe them an explanation about why I cannot be with them? I worry that pointing out that things are not good would drag them down further.
These are people I have known for decades, but I don’t have the energy to act as emotional support for them anymore. I’d like to leave them in the best shape I can. What should I say to them?
— CARING FRIEND IN THE EAST
DEAR CARING FRIEND: Be less available when you are contacted. When you do, your excuse should be truthful. Say you need time to yourself to work on your own mental health issues and therefore will be less available. You do not have to apologize for it, nor should you feel guilty for taking care of yourself.
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DEAR HELOISE: If you are at an intersection where a right turn is permitted on red and you are in the straight lane, don’t pull so far out into the intersection so as to block the view of oncoming traffic for those turning. This applies especially to those drivers of big vehicles like SUVs, pick-up trucks and vans. Pay attention to the lines that mark the crosswalk.
When changing lanes on a highway, turn on your turn signal for several seconds before changing lanes. Too often drivers will signal the lane change while they are already partially in the other lane.
If you ask someone to send you something by email, text or regular mail, acknowledge receipt. A simple “thank you” will let the sender know that what was sent was received and the effort was appreciated.
— T.D., via email
Watch your kitty
DEAR HELOISE: I read your column in the Omaha World-Herald and would like to share this hint. I learned a scary (and expensive) lesson when I wasn’t watching my kitty, Sophie. Cats love yarn, ribbon and twine. It took her just a couple of minutes of inattention to eat 2 yards of twine. Two trips to an urgent pet care, two more to the vet, then Mother Nature finally took care of the problem. I now keep anything long and stringy (even dental floss!) out of Sophie’s way. Thank you.
— H.R., Omaha, Nebraska
Keeping progressive lenses in place
DEAR HELOISE: I wear eyeglasses with progressive lenses that are fitted precisely, and unless they stay firmly in place, they can cause double vision. I realized that they tend to slip toward the end of the day, when there’s a buildup of oil on the skin. A little soap on the bridge of my nose and the top of my ears (and sometimes on the nosepiece and earpieces of the glasses) restores the firm fit.
— J.W., New York City
Hint for keeping lettuce
DEAR HELOISE: When I bring a head of lettuce home from the store, I wash it, tear it into bite-size pieces and pack it in a glass fruit jar. Then I put a lid on the jar and put it in the refrigerator upside down. It is ready to use, and it will keep without turning brown for up to a week. It takes two quart jars for a head, or if you pack a salad for lunch, put in smaller jars and just grab one each day for lunch. We seldom throw out brown lettuce anymore.
— Judy H., in Nebraska
Posture hint
DEAR HELOISE: When I am standing outside in the sunshine, I look at my shadow to see if I am standing up straight. Thank you.
— Mary H., Arlington, Virginia
Send hints to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001 or email Heloise@Heloise.com.
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Officials are investigating a possible drowning near Nine Island at the junction of the Passumpsic and Connecticut Rivers in Monroe, the New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol announced Wednesday night.
Around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, state police dispatch received a 9-1-1 caller reporting two people stranded on an island and a third individual who had gone underwater nearby and had not resurfaced. All three individuals were reportedly in the area of Nine Island at the junction of the Passumpsic and Connecticut Rivers in Monroe.
Marine Patrol Sgt. Seth Alie and Supervisor David Jones responded to the scene. According to state police, three adult males had been fishing from Nine Island when one man noticed their boat was drifting away and entered the water to try and retrieve it.
“Despite attempts to throw him a life jacket, he went underwater and did not resurface,” Marine Patrol said in a statement.
State police, New Hampshire Fish and Game, fire personnel from Monroe, Littleton and Bath as well as St. Johnsbury, Vermont and Woodville EMS responded.
The victim’s name was not released Wednesday night pending notification of next of kin.
“The search has been suspended for the evening and multiple agencies will resume tomorrow morning,” Marine Patrol said in a statement.
The incident remains under investigation. Anyone with information related to the suspected drowning or who witnessed it is asked to contact Sgt. Seth Alie at 603-227-2117 or by email at Seth.P.Alie@dos.nh.gov.
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CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — On Tuesday, April 5, investigators with the Crawford County Sheriff's Department apprehended three suspects as they attempted to steal catalytic converters.
For several months, investigators have been following up on reports of thefts and noticed a pattern.
Tuesday, Crawford County Sherrifs' hatched a plan and went to work undercover in hopes of catching their suspects.
"Sure enough, they showed up and he (Investigator, Edwin Bishop) was able to apprehend three people, two males and a female, in the process of cutting a catalytic converter from a car," said Crawford County Sheriff, Jim Damante.
Bishop, along with the help of deputies, arrested Anthony Painter, Kimberly Cernius, and Ryan Archer before any damage was done to the targeted vehicles.
The investigation is ongoing, and investigators say that with every theft they can stop, they gather more evidence.
That evidence, Bishop says is, "helping us determine who it is, patterns, and stuff like that we can look for, to attempt to catch these people either in the act, in the act of selling it, or catch them with catalytic converters in their vehicles."
Jody's Auto Service Center in Van Buren told 5NEWS that they have helped close to one hundred victims over the last year and a half.
It takes only a few minutes for thieves to strip a vehicle of a catalytic converter that is then sold for a few hundred dollars but leaves victims with a blow to their wallets.
"A lot of them have been covered by insurance, but, you know, a lot of people don't have insurance," said Scott White, a mechanic at Jody's Auto Service Center. "It's very costly. It renders the car undrivable, it can be $2-5 thousand depending on the make and model of the vehicle."
White says anyone with a vehicle can be a target but says there are ways to help slow down would-be thieves.
"People are manufacturing some cover plates that will go on the bottom side of your vehicle, bolted onto the frame or the floor, or wherever, to cover that to where they can't have access," said White.
Sheriff Damante is proud of his team's efforts Tuesday and believes the undercover operation was a success.
Noting this is just a step in hopefully stopping the widespread theft of catalytic converters, Damante wants other catalytic converter thieves to know, "we'll catch you eventually. We're going to catch you. We're not going to give up."
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Russian forces have fully withdrawn from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the city of Chernihiv to its north, the Pentagon said Wednesday, as Moscow prepares to concentrate its invading forces in the eastern part of the country.
“We are assessing that all of the Russians have left,” said a senior U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under terms set by the Pentagon. Their full departure was confirmed only in the last 24 hours, this person said, cautioning that Russian forces may have left mines in their wake that would still need to be cleared.
U.S. and European intelligence officials have been tracking for days that Russia is in the midst of reorienting after encountering fierce resistance — and suffering thousands of casualties — in northern Ukraine. Moscow enjoys greater support in the east, where Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists have been locked in a grinding conflict for many years.
But while Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine’s capital region appears to be complete, with many units retreating through Belarus, the Pentagon has yet to see those personnel reenter eastern Ukraine, the senior defense official said Wednesday.
The United States announced Tuesday night the approval of an additional $100 million in military assistance for Ukraine, a move made in part to ensure Ukrainian forces will have the weapons they need to fight for the Donbas region, the official said. There is a particularly “urgent” need for Javelin anti-armor systems, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby noted Wednesday.
Kirby said that earlier this week the United States also sent Ukraine 100 Switchblade drones, which can be loaded with explosives and flown into enemy targets, and that a “very small number” of Ukrainian soldiers receiving military education in the United States since the fall had been taught how to use them. The Switchblade — what some analysts have termed a “kamikaze” drone — is not a complex system, Kirby said, noting that personnel could be trained how to use them in about two days.
On average, it is taking the United States about four days to ship weapons to pass-off points outside Ukraine, and another day or two for those shipments to enter the country, Kirby said, adding that such transfers have “never been done that fast before.”
Kirby expressed confidence Wednesday that Ukraine “can win this,” arguing that Vladimir Putin has achieved “exactly zero” of his strategic objectives thus far.
But the Pentagon continues to caution that even though the war’s epicenter appears to be shifting, serious threats remain.
There are more than 30 Russian battalion tactical groups operating in the Donbas region, according to Pentagon estimates.
Earlier this week, national security adviser Jake Sullivan predicted that if Russia could successfully regroup in the Donbas region, it may seek to push out from there into other parts of Ukraine.
“It’s not like Kyiv is somehow immune from further attack,” the senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday.
More than 80 of the approximately 130 battalion tactical groups that Russia deployed into Ukraine continue to operate in the country, this official added, estimating that such groups each contain 800 to 1,000 troops.
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WASHINGTON — A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency's financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery was signed into law Wednesday by President Joe Biden.
The legislation cleared Congress last month after fully a dozen years of discussion that took on a new sense of urgency amid widespread complaints about mail service delays. Officials had repeatedly warned that without congressional action, the Postal Service would run out of cash by 2024.
“The Postal Service is central to our economy and essential to rural America,” Biden said. He added that mailmen and women deliver 4 million prescriptions per day, along with letters, consumer goods and even live animals, “often to parts of the country that private carriers can't or won't or aren't required to reach.”
The final legislation achieved rare, bipartisan support by scrapping some of the more controversial proposals and settling on core ways to save the service. Delivering the mail is among the most popular things the government does, with 91% of Americans having a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in 2020.
Lawmakers from both parties attended the signing ceremony — and the mood was jovial, a big improvement from Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran previously saying the service was in a “death spiral” that was particularly hard on rural Americans.
The Postal Service Reform Act lifts budget requirements that have contributed to the agency's red ink, and spells out that mail must be delivered six days a week, except for federal holidays, natural disasters and some other situations.
Postage sales and other services were supposed to sustain the Postal Service, but it has suffered 14 straight years of losses. Growing worker compensation and benefit costs, plus steady declines in mail volume, have exacerbated losses, even as the service delivers to 1 million additional locations every year.
The new law ends a requirement that the Postal Service finance workers’ health care benefits ahead of time for the next 75 years — an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face. Biden said that rule had “stretched the Postal Service's finances almost to the breaking point."
Now, future retirees will enroll in Medicare, while other health plans and the Postal Service cover only current retirees’ actual health care costs that aren’t paid for by the federal health insurance program for older people.
To measure the agency's progress in improving its service, the law also requires it to set up an online dashboard that would be searchable by ZIP code to show how long it takes to deliver letters and packages.
Dropped from the package as it neared actual legislation were efforts to cut back mail delivery. Also set aside — for now — were other proposals that have been floated over the years to change operations, including to privatize some services.
Criticism of the Postal Service peaked in 2020, amid the COVID-19 crisis and ahead of the presidential election, as cutbacks delayed service at a time when millions of Americans were relying on mail-in ballots during the pandemic. Then-President Donald Trump acknowledged he was trying to financially pinch the service to limit its processing ability for an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worried could cost him the election he eventually lost.
Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency’s board of governors had tapped Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as postmaster general. He proposed a 10-year plan to stabilize the service’s finances with steps like additional mail slowdowns, cuts in some offices’ hours and perhaps higher rates.
Biden said Wednesday that more needs to be done to reform the Postal Service, including investing in an electrified vehicle fleet that could save money while helping combat climate change. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is examining a Postal Service contract to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks with a mix of gas and electric vehicles, which the Environmental Protection Agency and Democratic lawmakers argue has too few electric vehicles.
“Today we enshrine into law our recognition that the Postal Service is fundamental to our economy, to our democracy, to our health and the very sense of who we are as a nation," Biden said.
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WASHINGTON — In a widely anticipated move, President Biden on Wednesday extended the suspension of federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, marking the sixth extension in the two years since the moratorium began in the wake of the pandemic.
Payments had been slated to resume in May, but some 41 million people will now have a few more months without interest accruing on their loans. The administration also said it will also help 7.5 million people exit default on their federal student loans, sparing them from the seizure of wages, tax refunds and Social Security benefits.
“We are still recovering from the pandemic and the unprecedented economic disruption it caused,” President Biden said in a statement Wednesday. He added the “additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs.”
Congressional Democrats had urged the administration to extend the pause, arguing the resumption of payments would financially destabilize many borrowers who are not prepared to shoulder another bill amid skyrocketing costs for food and gas. Republicans have opposed the move as an unnecessary giveaway at a time when Biden claims the economy is on solid footing.
“If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability,” Biden said.
Economists say restarting student loan payments will squeeze the personal finances of millions of adults. About $7.5 billion in student loan payments were waived each month for the past two years, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The massive forbearance program helps explain why, according to the JPMorgan Chase Institute, most families had more in their bank accounts at the end of 2021 than they did when the pandemic began.
More than four out of every five of those who borrowed directly from the government made little or no progress paying down their debt during the freeze, New York Fed data shows, and only 5% paid down more than $5,000.
Compared to rent or mortgage payments, “student-loan forbearance is a smaller monthly debt payment, but it is more meaningful for lower-income families,” said Fiona Greig, the institute’s co-president.
Renewed student loan payments would force many Americans to cut down on their spending or savings just as the saving rate, or the share of Americans’ after-tax income that went to savings or investment, plunged this year to its lowest rate in almost a decade.
“Many borrowers will have to lower their consumption once the student loan repayment moratorium ends, which will effectively slow down economic activity and therefore will impact everyone,” said Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gicheva said she also expects credit card debt to rise — people turn to credit cards to help make ends meet when they’re paying student loans, according to a forthcoming analysis in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking by Gicheva and Florida International University economist Berrak Bahadir.
But for now, borrowers will have some breathing room.
Among those benefiting are people who before the pandemic had not made a payment on their federally held loans for nearly a year — defaults that would typically place them at risk of the federal government withholding a portion of their income. Instead, Congress gave those borrowers a pathway to bring their loans back into good standing.
A provision in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or Cares Act, ensured that each month of suspended payments would count toward student loan rehabilitation, a federal program that erases a default from a person’s credit report after nine consecutive payments. Based on the duration of the moratorium, borrowers have satisfied the terms of the program and are eligible to exit default.
But to make that exit, the Education Department typically requires defaulted borrowers to submit an application, a step that consumer groups worry will result in people slipping through the cracks. Advocates and lawmakers are also concerned that people who have rehabilitated their loans in the past and re-defaulted would be shut out because the program is supposed to be a one-time offer.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has agreed to waive the program requirements and restrictions, which ensures that people have their negative credit histories cleared without losing the ability to rehabilitate their loans. The decision covers all loans affected by the payment pause, including defaulted federal debt held by private companies — known as commercially held Federal Family Education Loans. The department said additional details will be released in the coming weeks.
“The Department of Education is committed to ensuring that student loan borrowers have a smooth transition back to repayment,” Cardona said in a statement Wednesday. “This additional extension will allow borrowers to gain more financial security as the economy continues to improve and as the nation continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Rep. Virginia Foxx, of North Carolina, the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, has criticized the execution of what the administration has dubbed “operation fresh start.” Foxx said the Education Department has not briefed or discussed its plans with Congress or its student loan servicers.
“The Biden administration continues to govern by executive fiat without any consideration for the consequences of its actions,” Foxx said in a statement on Wednesday. “This ambiguous and flippant rollout will lead to mass confusion among borrowers likely causing new defaults. This is what happens when reckless ambition supersedes commonsense.”
The White House had signaled another extension was in the works. In an appearance on the podcast “Pod Save America” in early March, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said the president would decide whether to use his executive authority to cancel student debt “before the pause expires, or he’ll extend the pause.” Days later, the Education Department told student loan servicers who manage its portfolio to stand down on sending notices to borrowers about the May resumption.
Encouraged by the moves, the heads of the Senate and House education committees — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-Va. — ratcheted up pressure for the administration to act. Murray said another extension would give the Education Department more time to fix the repayment system with better options for people to manage their debt.
Republicans were initially on board with the payment pause but have cooled to the policy as the economy has recovered and the cost surpasses $100 billion.
Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, praised the White House decision, with some also renewing calls for Biden to wipe away some of the $1.6 trillion in federal loans held by millions of Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., issued a joint release with seven other lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., urging Biden to take further steps.
“While the extension is welcome, a looming restart of student loan payments in September underscores the importance of swift executive action on meaningful student debt cancellation,” the lawmakers wrote. “We continue to implore the President to use his clear legal authority to cancel student debt, which will help narrow the racial wealth gap, boost our economic recovery, and demonstrate that this government is fighting for the people.”
The new extension means borrowers with student loans from the Education Department will see payments automatically suspended without penalty or accrual of interest for the duration of the moratorium. Collections on defaulted loans will still be halted, and any borrower with defaulted federal loans whose wages are being garnished will receive a refund.
The Trump administration in March 2020 gave borrowers the option of postponing payments for at least 60 days as the coronavirus pandemic battered the economy. Congress later codified the reprieve with the Cares Act, and made it automatic. The Trump administration twice extended the moratorium before leaving office, and Biden’s White House has now done so four times.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Springdale families displaced by last week's tornado need our help.
5NEWS, First National Bank and iHeartRadio have partnered with the Red Cross to host a drive-thru donation event benefiting Springdale families impacted by an EF-3 tornado that ripped through the town.
We encourage community members to stop by the First National Bank on Johnson Mill Boulevard, just off Exit 69 on I-49, to make a monetary donation. All the money raised will go to support Springdale tornado victims and others impacted by spring storms.
The event starts at 6 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, lasting until 7 p.m.
The entire 5NEWS team will be at the site on Wednesday, including a few special guests.
You can also make a monetary donation online by following this link.
Below is a look at some of the damage from the storm.
Tornado damage in Northwest Arkansas
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WASHINGTON -- It was supposed to be an evening of lighthearted political satire and bipartisan fellowship among an elite cadre of journalists and politicians, just as it has been for nearly a century and a half -- and a return to the traditional Washington social whirl after a two-year pause.
Instead, the annual Gridiron dinner on Saturday may ultimately be best remembered for a potential coronavirus outbreak among its A-list guests.
By Wednesday morning, Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo had announced they had received positive results on coronavirus tests after attending the dinner at the downtown Renaissance Washington Hotel.
They were soon followed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who requested a test Wednesday afternoon after learning he may have been exposed -- and discovered that he, too, carried the virus.
Jamal Simmons, the communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris, also said Wednesday he had tested positive and is now isolating at home. But since he had been in close contact with Harris, she, too, would be consulting with a physician, her press secretary said.
In addition, about a half-dozen journalists as well as members of the White House and National Security Council staffs said they tested positive after the event. Their names are being withheld because they have not announced their status publicly.
How many of the infections began at the dinner and how serious the outbreak will prove to be remains unclear. Many of the guests have jobs that require regular testing that catches some asymptomatic cases, and all the guests were required to show proof of vaccination. Castro and Raimondo said they are suffering only mild symptoms while Schiff said he is "feeling fine" -- and touted the value of vaccinates and boosters.
But the outbreak at the Gridiron -- where some of the comic skits featured actors dressed as the coronavirus, like large, green bouncing balls with red frills -- highlights the personal risk-benefit balancing act much of the country will be negotiating as the pandemic subsides.
Administration officials and many experts have said that, more than two years into the pandemic, individuals now have the tools they need to decide what level of risk they're willing to tolerate -- and that every social interaction, large or small, comes with a non-zero risk of covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
"The virus isn't going to go anywhere. There's not going to be any activity that isn't going to have some level of covid risk associated with it," said Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease doctor and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security "People are out at bars every day. People are having dinners, watching sports games, doing whatever they want but when it happens to a celebrity or politician, then it becomes something you have to talk about."
Several of the White House aides who tested positive did so after traveling to Poland last week with President Joe Biden and before the Gridiron dinner. White House press secretary Jen Psaki - who attended the Gridiron dinner - reiterated Wednesday that all White House employees who come in proximity to Biden are regularly tested.
Biden didn't attend the dinner but appeared via video.
Tom DeFrank, a contributing editor at the National Journal and the president of the Gridiron Club, said in a statement that dinner guests were required to show proof of vaccination but that "a small number of our guests have reported positive tests since then."
"We wish them a speedy recovery," he said.
The white-tie-and-gowns dinner attracted about 630 guests, including members of Congress, the Cabinet, diplomatic corps, military and business.
Among those in attendance were Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, and Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Other guests included Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Edward Markey, D-Mass.; Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.; Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.; attorney general Merrick Garland, agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack and special presidential envoy John Kerry; Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell; Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, both Republicans, and New York mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat.
The possibility that senators at the dinner were infected could conceivably delay a Senate vote to confirm Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. A vote could come later this week; no delays have been announced.
The dinner's guest list also included former NFL great Emmitt Smith; NBA Commissioner Adam Silver; CBS host Jane Pauley and her spouse, "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau; Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova; "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff; ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, and Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan and editor Sally Buzbee.
After a predinner cocktail reception, guests sat together at long, narrow tables for hours and watched satirical skits and songs performed by members. At the event's conclusion, guests joined hands for the traditional singing of "Auld Lang Syne."
The dinner was supposed to reflect a return to normalcy after being canceled the past two years because of the pandemic. Few guests wore masks or observed social distancing, according to people in attendance. Only the serving staff was consistently masked throughout the evening. While organizers asked attendees to show their vaccination cards at the door, there was no requirement to be tested.
The evening's sketches, performed by veteran Washington journalists, parodied figures in both parties, although Republicans such as former president Trump, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Paul Gosar of Arizona, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas came in for the sharpest jabs. None of those figures were in attendance.
At one point, a performer dressed as Fauci sang from the stage to the real Fauci in the audience: "Doctor, doctor, give me some clues, we've got a bad case of covid blues."
The Gridiron dinner is a smaller, more elite precursor to the better-known White House Correspondents' Association gathering in late April. That organization's president, Steven Portnoy, said earlier this week that it will require its dinner's 2,600 guests to show a same-day negative coronavirus test, which they will be able to upload to an app.
The president typically attends the WHCA dinner, though Trump never did during his years in the White House. Biden has not yet announced his plans.
The Gridiron Club dinner appears to have been conducted with respect to the latest official guidelines for covid safety.
The CDC updated its guidelines on Feb. 25 to ease mask recommendations for the vast majority of the country, and all 50 states have lifted their mask mandates in recent weeks. More than 95% of the country, including D.C., is classified by the CDC as having a low burden of disease, meaning the agency does not recommend a mask mandate.
But some experts have cautioned that the new CDC guidelines could leave the country unprepared in the event of another wave. The BA.2 variant caused a sharp rise in cases in Europe and has become the dominant strain in the United States, although cases have not yet begun rising nationally. Some parts of the country, including the Northeast, are beginning to experience a modest increase in infections.
Outbreaks from events such as the Gridiron dinner could signal what is to come, said Abraar Karan, an infectious-disease physician at Stanford University. "You'll have these big outbreaks that start slowly and then you'll notice more of them. It's not surprising to me there was this big outbreak at a gathering where people were testing afterward," Karan said.
"We're constantly testing the boundaries. Everybody is testing the boundaries a little bit. ... We're trying to see what's a tolerable level of risk, but when you have a big outbreak, that makes everybody pause," Karan said.
Fauci, who said he has not tested positive, said he abided by CDC guidelines when deciding to attend the dinner. He said he made a personal decision that the risk of attending was low for three reasons: He is vaccinated and boosted, there was a requirement for proof of vaccination to enter the dinner, and D.C. is classified as having a low burden of disease by the CDC's metrics. That classification also means individuals can go unmasked in indoor settings.
Fauci said he wore his mask during the reception but took it off to eat.
"We are in a situation where, as a population, we need to make a decision that is based on data as well as our own individual willingness to take whatever level of risk happens to be present that you're making the decision about," Fauci said. "I followed the CDC guidelines, which says it's OK to be in an indoor setting without a mask. But if cases go up and CDC says now wait a minute, you're in a red zone, you can be darn sure I won't be going to any dinners. You go with what the situation is."
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Some local businesses in Springdale impacted by last week’s tornado will spend weeks cleaning up the damage. As businesses go picking up the pieces, they continue serving their community.
Little Johns Transit Service is already back in the office after the tornado ripped off parts of the roof and floods part of the office space.
“So I started getting calls about 7 o’clock in the morning. That’s when some of our agents show up. They called and said we didn’t have power and it looked to be some roof damage. So when I showed up there were red panels that had been ripped off the back of the building and that part of the building and upstairs was flooding,” General Manager Randall Smith said.
Randall says luckily no one was there when the storm hit, but several employees were there to make the first damage assessment.
“Nothing like I’ve ever seen in real life before,” Derek Brown at Little John’s said about the damages.
Derek is one of the employees that called about damages and says he knew a tornado happened when he stepped outside his home and could see the George Elementary damages across the street.
“I feel blessed that everybody survived. It could’ve been a lot worse. These things happen but it seems like the community came together really well and is working hard to get back to the way we were before it did happen,” Derek said.
The general manager at Little John’s says he’s grateful for the Northwest Arkansas community coming together at a time like this.
The transit service has already started repairs on the building.
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CONCORD — A proposed two-month suspension of the state’s 24-cent gasoline tax to help motorists deal with soaring prices encountered opposition during its first public hearing Wednesday.
Gov. Chris Sununu has urged legislative leaders to fast-track a 60-day gas tax holiday so it could start by May 1 and end before the peak of the summer tourism season.
Late last week, Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, dropped his objections and embraced the idea, and Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, agreed to author the proposal.
The measure was proposed as an add-on to a House-passed cut to the state’s tax on corporate profits from 7.6% to 7.5% (HB 1221).
House Finance Committee Chairman Karen Umberger, R-Conway, came out against it, while leading Senate Democrats said the benefits to motorists would be miniscule and could wreak havoc with gasoline retailers.
Umberger spoke to the Senate Ways and Means Committee about how last month she had proposed two different breaks for in-state drivers — a gas tax refund they could apply for, or a rebate on their car registrations.
State officials found implementation problems with both.
“I worked hard to make it work and just found many stumbling blocks. I would encourage us to find some other way to spend this money other than a gas tax suspension,” Umberger said.
She also said consumers won’t be happy if the prices spike back up once the gas tax relief expires.
“What happens when the gas tax goes back into effect? We are going to look terrible,” Umberger said. “To me, that’s not a good idea.”
Sen. David Watters of Dover, the leading Senate Democrat on energy matters, said by his estimate, the average savings for drivers would be $12.33 over the two months — if this move leads to cutting gas prices by 24 cents a gallon.
Watters’ estimate was based on 833 miles a month — the average for New Hampshire motorists — at 30 miles per gallon, he said.
“The other question is, will the price at the pump actually go down? We know the price at the pump is set at the spot market, it is really worldwide,” Watters said.
“I don’t think we are going to see the price significantly go down.”
Out-of-state benefit
Based on turnpike toll traffic, 52% of drivers are in-state residents, and 48% are out-of-staters.
Watters noted those percentags vary around the state. For example, 76% going through the Interstate 95 tolls in Hampton are out-of-staters. At the other extreme, 67% of those passing through the Dover tolls on the Spaulding Turnpike are Granite Staters.
“In some way, what we are doing is making a gas tax holiday for out-of-state drivers,” Watters warned.
Tom Frawley of Lyme, a gas wholesaler who supplies fuel to more than 100 customers in New England, said that since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, wholesalers have changed their buying habits, filling up trucks just before midnight to avoid the next day’s price jump, which can be as much as 40 cents per gallon.
The daily price change can add $3,000 to the cost of a truckload of gas, Frawley said.
“We saw a real run on the terminals,” Frawley said.
He urged the Senate to make sure retailers do not have to lower the price on massive amounts of fuel they have in underground fuel tanks on the day the gas tax suspension begins.
“We don’t want the retailers to get hurt, and we don’t want the retailers to get a windfall. That’s not good for the consumer,” Frawley said.
When Connecticut recently adopted a gas tax holiday, consumers lodged 160 complaints with state prosecutors claiming retailers were price-gouging.
Those retailers were not lowering the price for gas they had bought while Connecticut’s gas tax was in effect, said Brian Moran with the New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association.
“This creates a lot of reputation damage for our industry which is unfounded,” Moran said.
“Don’t take our money away because we have already paid for it.”
Inventory reports
Department of Safety Administration Director Steven Lavoie said the bill could require gas retailers to submit two reports on their inventories, one the day before the tax holiday begins and one the day after it ends to confirm what retailers have.
The forms would lead to some additional state administrative expense, he said.
Under this plan, $26 million from the state’s budget surplus would be sent to the Highway Fund to cover the loss of gasoline taxes during the two-month suspension.
A Department of Transportation official and a lobbyist for the road construction industry urged the Senate to specify that the surplus also cover the 3 cents of the gas tax that now goes to road repaving work.
Jim Hadley, a former Northwood selectman, endorsed the gas tax break and said motorists would see a significant improvement if this is combined with a federal gas holiday that Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has proposed on Capitol Hill.
“I don’t believe it’s a gimmick,” Hadley said.
The Senate panel will take further testimony on the plan next week.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark — A Springdale family whose home was hit hard by the tornado is getting help thanks to a teacher who set up a Go-Fund-Me-Account on their behalf. At last check, that account has already raised $4,800, and that's in less than 24 hours.
The Avila's home behind George Elementary is in shambles after Wednesday, March 30, morning's tornado. Dustin Curtis was helping a co-worker that morning whose home was also severely damaged who happens to live on the same street.
"As we were helping him, I went out to the sidewalk to take a little break, and the sun was coming up, and I heard my name and someone running towards me, giving me a big ole hug, and the Avila family was two houses down," said Curtis.
After talking to the family and hearing their stories about what happened, he knew he needed help. Curtis teaches sixth-grade social studies at Helen Tyson middle school and has had three of the four Avila kids in his classes.
"They are the type of family that's going to help others in the same process. They are the type of family who's already helped others. I've seen through the last 10 years how much they've helped in our community, so I know that they are going to be very grateful," he said.
Principal Patrick Scott says Curtis wanting to help this family is another example of how teachers like Curtis go above and beyond for their community. He says seeing the destruction the tornado caused and the lives it affected is tough.
"It really hit home on how vulnerable we are as a community and as a group to things like this. And so, when you see the outpouring of love and support from the entire community to those impacted, it just makes you feel good about being here," said Scott.
The Go-Fund-Me has a goal of $10,000. They appreciate any amount people can donate.
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Theater & Dance
”Tuck Everlasting: The Musical” goes under the lights at Souhegan High School, 412 Boston Post Road, Amherst, at 7 p.m. today and Friday; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12-$15. Info: amherstptatuck.bpt.me
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Southern NH Youth Ballet presents “Cinderella” at 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets are $20-$25. Info: palacetheatre.org or 603-668-5588
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Save Haven Ballet presents its take on “Cinderella” at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Colonial Theatre, 609 Main St., Laconia. Tickets are $40-$45. Info: 800-657-8774 or coloniallaconia.com
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“Treasure Island,” featuring Sole City Dance, takes the stage at 7 p.m. Friday and 1 and 6 p.m. Saturday at the Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Tickets: $15. Info: rochesteroperahouse.com or 603-335-1992
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”The Velveteen Rabbit” plays the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 33 Footlight Circle, Meredith, at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $11-$20. Info: 603-279-0333 or winnipesaukeeplayhouse.org
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In ”The Day,” cellist Maya Beiser and dancer Wendy Whelan explore universal themes of language in music and movement at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Moore Theatre at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College in Hanover. The program features choreography by Lucinda Childs and music composed by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang. Tickets are $25. Info: hop.dartmouth.edu
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Streetcar Company’s production of ”The Wizard of Oz — The Musical” takes over the Laconia High School Auditorium, 345 Union Ave., Laconia, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12-$15. Info: streetcarcompany.com
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“Roald Dahl’s Matilda” finishes up its several-week run at M&D Playhouse at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse, 2760 White Mountain Highway, at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $35. Info: mdplayhouse.com or 603-733-5275
Music
Molly Hatchet hits Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry, at 8 p.m. today. Tickets are $40. Info: tupelomusichall.com.
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Keystone Revisited conjures collaborations between Jerry Garcia and keyboardist Merl Saunders at Lebanon Opera House, 51 N. Park St., Lebanon, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $35. Info: 603-448-0400, and lebanonoperahouse.org
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Bela Fleck – My Bluegrass Heart is in the spotlight at 7:30 p.m. today at the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets: $39, $49 and $69. Also, Adam Ezra Group goes on stage at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $28-$38. Info: ccanh.com or 603-225-1111
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Randy Armstrong and Volker Nahrmann present “Beyond Borders” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. Tickets are $34; it’s $19 for students under 18 and $29 for senior citizens. Info: themusichall.org or 603-436-2400
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Bill Connors (“America’s Got Talent”) takes on the guise of Elton John in a 7:30 p.m. concert Friday at the Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst St., Manchester. Tickets are $29. Info: palacetheatre.org or 603-668-5588
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The Park Theatre, 19 Main St., Jaffrey, debuts its Route 124 Showcase with music by Tyler Allgood, Leadfoot Sam Band and Off the Cuff at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Info: theparktheatre.org.
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Damn Tall Buildings at 7 p.m. today at the Word Barn, 66 Newfields Road, Exeter. Tickets are $15-$20. Also, Kaiti Jones, with Lake Saint Daniel, plays the venue at 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15-$16.50. Info: thewordbarn.com
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NH Philharmonic Orchestra gets Drawn to the Music with students’ artwork as backdrop for its performances at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Seifert Performing Arts Center, 44 Geremonty Drive, Salem. Tickets are $30 for adults, or $25 for senior citizens and $5-$8 for students. Info:nhphil.org
Expos & Festivals
Check out Granite State products and services at the Made in NH “Try It and Buy It” Expo, which runs from 1 to 7:30 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the DoubleTree Hilton Manchester Downtown Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester. Admission is $3 for ages 2 to 12 and for kids under age 2 in a stroller; $9 for ages 65 and older; and $10 for others (cash or check only). Info: businessnhmagazine
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New Hampshire Theatre Project’s sixth annual Storytelling Festival with Anne Jennison, Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti and Megan Wells goes on stage at 8 p.m. Friday at 959 Islington St., No. 3, Portsmouth. Theme is “Are We There Yet?” Ben Baldwin and Kent Allyn will provide music. Tickets are $36, or $15 for the livestream. Info: themusichall.org
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Weare Historical Society’s Pine Tree Riot 250th Celebration, which commemorates one of the first acts of rebellion against the British crown, starts at 10 a.m. Saturday in Weare Center. There will be musket volleys, a one-act play, museum tours, food trucks and more on the lawn, by the gazebo, at the town hall, library and historical society. Info: wearehistoricalsociety.org
Comedy
Bob Marley is doing a string of shows at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Show times are 7:30 p.m. today; 8:30 p.m. Friday, and 6 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $39.50. Info: palacetheatre.org or 603-668-5588
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Brad Mastrangelo, Francis Birch and Matt McArthur are at Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $22. Info: tupelomusichall.com
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Joey Carroll does standup sets at Chunky’s Cinema and Pub in Manchester (707 Huse Road) at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, while Joe Yannetty goes on at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Nashua location, 151 Coliseum Ave. Tickets are $20. Info: chunkys.com
Art
Rochester Fine Arts Museum hosts a reception for art exhibits by Adam O’Day of Abington, Mass., Arunas Kacinskas of Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tom Hodgkinson of the United Kingdom from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the James Foley Memorial Community Center, Suite 135, at 150 Wakefield St. The exhibit will hang through May 6. Info: rochestermfa.org
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The 36th annual Omer T. Lassande Exhibition, with its theme of “Ritual,” is on view this month at the New Hampshire Art Association’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Info: nhartassociation.org or 603-431-4230.
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More than 100 exhibitors will showcase products at the Great New England Craft & Artisan Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Hampshire Dome, 34 Emerson Road, Milford. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children. Info: gnecraftartisanshows.com
Films
The 2022 NH Jewish Film Festival continues with screenings at Red Rivers Theatre in Concord of “The Un-Word” today at 7 p.m., along with “Tiger Within” (starring the late Ed Asner in his last movie) at 1 p.m. and the 50th anniversary celebration of “Cabaret” at 3:30, both on Sunday. Tickets are $12. Info: nhjewishfilmfestival.com
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One of early Hollywood’s greatest epics returns to the big screen with a showing of ”Ben Hur, A Tale of The Christ” (1925) on Sunday, April 10 at 2 p.m. at the Colonial Theatre’s Showroom, 20 Commercial St., Keene.
Outdoors
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will travel from Concord to the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner for the outdoor event “Spemki Nib8iwi: The Heavens in the Nighttime” from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. There will be telescopes set up in the field for sky viewing, plus astronomical information from a variety of indigenous backgrounds. Rain date is April 23. Info: starhop.com
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Southern New Hampshire Cars and Coffee pulls into Londonderry Raceway, 29 Grenier Field Road, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Sunday. It’s a $10 entry for show cars; free for spectators. Info: facebook.com/snhcarsandcoffee
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Look for chipmunks and listen to the sounds of the forest in a family story-walk event in Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forests. Along the path this month are pages from Jamie A. Swenson’s book “Chirp! Chipmunk Sings for a Friend.” Holderness Free Library created craft sets to go along the theme of the book. Info: squamlakes.org or 603-968-7336
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Next week the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) will be out conducting a damage assessment. It will speak with homeowners and business owners about the damage they have seen.
To make the process go smoother, they are asking that people contact their insurance company and keep a copy of their insurance policy on hand. If you had any work done to your home or business, they ask that you keep those receipts.
“If you have work done at your house and pay for that, that will help Arkansas Department of Emergency Management and Red Cross and their assessments as we try to determine damage,” said Doug Sprouse, Springdale Mayor
This will be important in helping ADEM understand estimated damage costs and understand what thresholds Washington County meets for relief.
As you clean up, the City of Springdale wants you to know they are doing what they can to help with the cleanup. However, to get your debris picked up you must place it towards the edge of your yard and it must be less than four feet. They do this because they say they are not allowed to clear from private property.
For renters and those who live in apartments, they ask that you contact your landlord about debris pickup.
“They’re going to have to get that work done if volunteers can’t get to it,” said Mayor Sprouse. “They’re going to have to hire a tree service and get in there and help you.”
Homeowners can give public works a call to stop in case their neighborhood was missed.
Mayor Sprouse says the work that has already been done wouldn't be possible without all the volunteers that showed up.
“We’ve been told by people who’ve worked these disasters all over the country that the support has been strong, “said Mayor Sprouse. “The support is always strong and usually around here, Springdale was here, and I know when I talk about Springdale I’m not just talking about Springdale. I’m talking about Northwest Arkansas and beyond. The state, the county, the governor’s office. They have been tremendous help and support.”
While the support has been great, he says there is always a need for more volunteers by getting involved with a local church or the red cross to volunteer.
“We’ll continue to do what we can as a city to clean up and try to connect people with needs," said Sprouse.
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PORTSMOUTH -- The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) and St. John’s Episcopal Church will present their Good Friday Walk in person this year, bringing to light religious reflection as well as the Seacoast's ties to slavery.
The public is invited to meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, in Prescott Park, near the Liberty Pole. Sankofa Scholar Angela Matthews will lead the tour.
During Lent, many Christians follow symbolically in the steps of Jesus as he carried his cross through Jerusalem to the site of his crucifixion.
Expanding on this, participants in the upcoming walk will visit 14 sites on the Black Heritage Trail to pair a story of an African American with each of the Stations of the Cross.
That journey revolves around stories of enslavement on Portsmouth’s waterfront, including Prince Whipple, who was captured in Africa and enslaved by one of the city’s wealthiest merchants at the Moffett Ladd house.
This year’s walk will end at noon at the African Burying Ground Memorial. A Seacoast Community Lunch will follow at Middle Street Baptist Church, 18 Court St.
For those who cannot attend the walk in person, the walk can be viewed virtually on Friday, April 15, at 2 p.m.
To register for either program, go to blackheritagetrailnh.org. There is no fee to participate, but donations are welcome.
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President Joe Biden announced on April 6 his administration would extend the pause on federal student loan repayments through Aug. 31, 2022. This is the sixth extension of the pause since it began in March 2020.
Several Democratic lawmakers have demanded Biden go further and cancel student debt instead of extending the pause. In turn, other politicians and public figures argued against student debt cancellation. Writer Matthew Yglesias, in his argument against student debt cancellation, claimed that the median American has $0 in student loan debt.
Yglesias is using a term many haven’t heard since high school — the median is the exact middle of a set of numbers. So if you put all Americans in a line ordered from least student debt to most student debt, Yglesias is claiming the person in the middle of that line would have $0 in student loan debt.
THE QUESTION
Does the median American have $0 in federal student loan debt?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, the median American does have $0 in federal student loan debt, because less than half of all Americans have student loans. But that doesn’t take into account the massive debt owed by 43 million Americans.
WHAT WE FOUND
If you lined up all Americans from those who owe nothing in federal student loans to those who owe the most, the person in the exact middle would indeed owe $0 in student loans. That’s because there are 43 million Americans that have federal student loan debt, according to data from the federal student loan portfolio, compared to the total population of 331 million people, per the U.S. Census.
But a median number is not the same as the average. The average is the total debt divided by the total population, and is a much more commonly used calculation.
If you were to calculate the average federal student debt for all Americans, you’d get $4,853.96. You get that by taking the total student debt — $1.611 trillion — and dividing the total U.S. population from it — 331,893,745 in the most recent Census Bureau population estimate.
This data is strictly for federal student loan debt, which excludes private student loans. The Education Data Initiative says $1.611 trillion of the nation’s $1.749 trillion in student loan debt is federal loan debt. The rest is private loan debt. There is no federal data for the number of Americans with private student loan debt but no federal student debt.
According to the Education Data Initiative, 65% of 2021 college students graduated with student debt. The Institute for College Access & Success said that in 2019, 62% of college seniors graduated with student debt.
And many Americans attended college but did not graduate. While over half of American adults 25 or older have attended at least some college, less than half stay in college for more than two years. The Census says 48.4% of the population 25 and older has at least a two-year degree, and 37.9% of the population age 25 and older has at least a four-year degree.
Pew Research found that in 2016, the median borrower with outstanding student loan debt for their own education owed $17,000. Among borrowers with less than a bachelor’s degree — students who went to community college, trade school or dropped out of school before graduation — the median self-reported debt was about $10,000. For borrowers with a bachelor’s degree, the median was $25,000. For the borrowers with postgraduate degrees, the median self-reported student loan debt was $40,000.
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