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Look at any summer tour schedule, and you’ll find plenty of bands and solo artists that are essentially living off of their past. They fill big amphitheaters even though they haven’t had a hit in decades.
That’s all fine and good. But Colin Hay is not one of those artists. This singer-guitarist, who enjoyed huge popularity during the 1980s fronting the Australian band Men At Work, finds that fans look for new music from him to go along with songs from the 14 solo albums he’s released since Men At Work broke up in January 1986.
“I’m very lucky in that way. I’m very grateful for the fact that that is the case,” Hay said in an early March interview from his home near Los Angeles. “I think it would be a bit glum if they were just coming along for a couple of songs. You would still do it because you have to put food on the table — if that’s your job, it’s your job. But it would be a little bit soul destroying if that was the case.”
The demand for fresh music is one reason Hay, who next plays the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord Friday at 8 p.m., remains focused on writing and recording new songs. He has just released his latest album of original material, “Now and the Evermore,” which arrives roughly a year after he put out an album of cover songs, “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself.”
Hay said he has developed solo arrangements for most of the songs from the two newest albums, and he’ll mix in other songs from across his career.
Hay actually was well along with the “Now and the Evermore” album in 2020, and had planned to release the album that fall. But the pandemic hit, and sent Hay home to Topanga Canyon that spring, where he did what songwriters do: He kept writing songs, eventually recording more than 20 tracks, of which 10 were chosen for the album.
“It seemed to be just kind of a mood that was created with this particular batch of songs that I liked,” he said. “Five of the songs have these quite beautiful, dare I say so myself, string arrangements on them that my friend, Fred Kron, and I did.”
As that title suggests, “Now and the Evermore” is a fully fleshed-out, at times lush, album. The overall mood is one of joy and optimism, although the lyrics also reflect a sense of life’s struggles.
“It’s always a little strange talking about your own work … but I think there is a lot of beauty in the record,” Hay said. “When I listen to it, there’s pain involved with that beauty as well, but that’s the way things are in this world. I love the way it turned out in that sense.”
More stops in NH
Touring to promote the two albums won’t be all that keeps Hay busy in 2022. Shortly after he finishes the current solo tour, he’ll join this year’s Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band tour, which includes a show at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 24. Hay wrote the title song of Starr’s most recent album, “What’s My Name,” and the Beatles drummer plays on Hay’s song “Now and the Evermore.”
Then later this year, Hay will team up with Rick Springfield and John Waite for a tour in which he’ll sing and play guitar for his new incarnation of Men At Work, which features band mates from his Colin Hay Band. That tour includes a stop at the Pavilion at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18.
The original Men at Work band enjoyed major success before internal issues split the group. The 1981 debut album, “Business as Usual,” gave Men At Work an immediate breakthrough. It spawned the No. 1 hit singles “Down Under” and “Who Can It Be Now?” and the album itself spent 15 weeks atop Billboard magazine’s Billboard 200 album chart. That debut was followed by another hit album, “Cargo,” in 1983, which included two more hit singles, “Overkill” and “It’s a Mistake.”
Hay still enjoys performing that material. He found on the 2019 All Starr Band tour that fans often see the songs as part of a nostalgic soundtrack to an earlier time in life.
“It’s really exciting, and the audience really loves it. It’s because of the fact that that music has got some kind of timeless quality to it,” Hay said. “And I love playing the songs with this bunch of musicians I work with here in L.A., because they have become more or less my musical family.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark — A third Razorback has announced they are transferring from the men's basketball program.
Junior center Connor Vanover announced on his Instagram page Wednesday that he will be entering the transfer portal, saying in part "I will never forget my time here, and will always hold this place near to my heart."
Vanover becomes the third player from this past season's team to enter the portal, along with Chance Moore and KK Robinson.
Vanover started in 37 games in his two seasons in Fayetteville, transferring to Arkansas after spending his freshman year at California.
The Little Rock native, saw his play time decrease this past season however, playing in only 15 games, with his last one coming on January 18 against South Carolina.
He averaged 3.9 points per game, including a season-high 19 points in the win against Gardner-Webb.
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The Easter Bunny, who likes to arrive via helicopter to the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire in Londonderry, will be sharing treats and greetings with visitors on Saturday.
Chocolate goodies in bright spring-colored wrappings await delivery by the Easter Bunny to children at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire on Saturday.
The Easter Bunny will toss 1,500 chocolate eggs and other treats from a helicopter onto the field at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry, before making a landing. Kids 12 and under will be invited to pick up goodies. The Bunny will remain at the museum until 1 p.m. to meet fans and pose for pictures. Info: aviationmuseumofnh.org
Treasure Trail leads to treats
Easter on the Green runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Settler’s Green, 2 Common Court, North Conway. While supplies last, children 12 and younger can follow a Treasure Trail around the courtyard to discover eight bunnies and eggs. They’ll mark their stops along the way with a punch card, which can be turned in for an Easter Basket of goodies. Get trail maps at customer service. Info: settlersgreen.com/events/easter-on-the-green
Baskets in Queen City parks
Manchester Parks and Recreation and Kiwanis Club of Manchester are hosting the second annual Easter Basket Giveaway from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in Derryfield Park and from 1 to 3 p.m. in Rock Rimmon Park. The Easter Bunny will distribute baskets containing eggs filled with treats, books and other items. Guests also can get pictures with the Easter Bunny. Info: manchesternh.recdesk.com
It’s fun to (egg hunt) at the YMCA
Beacon Church teams with the YMCA of Greater Londonderry in hosting a free community Easter egg hunt on Saturday on the YMCA’s property, 206 Rockingham Road. Egg hunts will be at 11 and 11:30 a.m. and noon and 12:30 p.m. This event is on a first-come, first-served basis for each time slot. There also will be a petting zoo, snacks and a craft activity. Info: beaconnh.com/easter
Breakfast and treats at Living Shores Aquarium
Look for breakfast at the Bistro, Humpty’s Easter Egg Hunt and a craft activity Saturday and Sunday at Living Shores Aquarium, 850 Route 16, Glen. Children 12 and younger can participate. The egg hunts are from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. Tickets are $24.99. Info: livingshores.com
Hop over to Nashua’s Greeley Park
Come see the Easter Bunny, hunt for eggs, get your face painted and more at Well Church’s Easter Egg Hunt at Greeley Park in Nashua from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Reserve tickets in advance for children only. Don’t forget to bring your basket or bag for collecting eggs. Info: www.eventbrite.com
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MANCHESTER — The New Hampshire Fisher Cats will likely use Hagen Danner out of the bullpen this season. There’s nothing notable about that, unless you consider that the Toronto Blue Jays selected Danner in the second round of the 2017 draft … as a catcher.
Danner, who is on Toronto’s 40-man roster, will start the 2022 season with the Double-A Fisher Cats, who will open their season Friday at Portland. MLB.com has Danner ranked as the No. 17 prospect in Toronto’s organization.
“I didn’t know what (position) I wanted to be (before the draft), so I told teams to choose,” Danner explained Wednesday before a team workout. “I was like, ‘Choose for me, because I will be happy either way as long as I get to play pro ball.
“I think I was better at pitching in high school than any other position I played. I caught all the way growing up and then I stopped my freshman year in high school because we had some great catchers.”
Danner, 23, was a two-way player during his senior season at Huntington Beach (Calif.) High School. He began his professional career as a catcher, but after hitting .191 in three pro seasons, he made the switch to pitching in 2020. He took advantage of the canceled 2020 season to prepare himself for full-time mound duties.
Danner said his lack of production at the plate caused him a lot of anxiety and stress, and took the fun out of going to the ballpark every day.
‘“Nothing was going my way ever,” he said. “That was hard for me because I was always succeeding in high school, and not succeeding in pro ball was tough to deal with. I was a guy who was always smiling around the park and I would see pictures of myself and I wasn’t smiling.
“The catching thing took the hitting out of it for me, because we didn’t get to work on hitting much. So every time I talk to someone about catching, I tell them they really need to love catching if they go play pro ball as a catcher because you lose all your love for hitting because you don’t get to do it that much.
“That’s why I love pitching because you get to focus on that one thing. As a catcher, most of your focus went on to the defensive side of the game, and I loved hitting. (Catching) took it away from me a little bit.”
Although the Blue Jays didn’t know it, Danner continued to pitch in the offseason after being drafted. Following the 2019 season. Danner said he and his agent informed the Blue Jays that he wanted to switch positions and focus on pitching.
“They were super excited,” Danner said. “They didn’t even ask any questions. It was really easy.”
Although Danner had always been a starter when he pitched in the past, the Blue Jays wanted his return to pitching to be as a reliever. Eventually he was used as a closer.
Danner struck out 42 and walked 12 in 35 2/3 innings with High-A Vancouver last season. He made 25 appearances and finished the season with a 2.02 ERA.
“The scouting report on me is a live fastball,” Danner said. “I’m throwing hard — harder than I ever did in high school. Right now it’s 97 to 99 (mph). I’ve touched 100. It helps that I’m not starting, because if I was starting I probably couldn’t keep (velocity) like that.
“That first week or two after being drafted, I was super happy. After that I hadn’t been happy for most of my pro ball career until last year I was happy again. I’m smiling around the field so much and having so much fun. I love my life right now.”
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BOYS TENNIS
BG 6, Exeter 3
Dean Liakos (BG) def. Charles Gaughan (E) 8-3; Gavin Bombara (BG) def. Robert Berthel (E) 8-3; Ryan Wallat (BG) def. Ian Suprenant (E) 8-2; Aditya Prasad (BG) def. Ryan Byrnes (E) 8-6; Sean Cairns (BG) def. Dominic Theos (E) 8-5; Will Moynihan (BG) def. Liam Simard (E) 8-5
Gaughan/Berthel (E) def Liakos/Bombara (BG) 8-6; Byrnes/Theos (E) def. Wallat/Prasad (BG) 9-8 (7-5 Tiebreaker; Suprenant/Simard (E) def. Cairns/Moynihan (BG) 8-6.
Derryfield 9, Pinkerton 0
Jack Schroeder (DS) def. Royce Andrews (P) 8-3; Davey Schroeder (DS) def. Ethan Flaherty (P) 8-0; Jack Krasnof (DS) def. Riley Couture (P) 8-2; Billy Gardner (DS) def. Jack McGarrahan (P) 8-2; Logan Goldberg (DS) def. Joshua Roux (P) 8-2; Ben Brar (DS) def. Jeremy Burke (P) 8-1.
Schroeder/Schroeder (DS) def. Andrews/Flaherty (P) 8-1; Krasnof/Gardner (DS) def. Couture/McGarrahan (P) 8-2; Goldberg/Brar (DS) def. Roux/Konopka (P) 8-1.
Hanover 8, Londonderry 1
Camden Poitras (L) d. Evan Yang (H) 8-1; Alex Rockmore (H) d. Connor Lord, 8-0; Kevin Pillsbury (H) d. Brady Follansbee, 8-0; Charlie Birkmeyer d. Aidan Board 8-1; Zach Pearson (H) d. Josh Canty, 8-0; Ian Holmes (H) d. Devon Pacheco 8-0.
Evan Yang/Alex Rockmore (H) d. Camden Poitras/Connor Lord, 8-1; Kevin Pillsbury/Sam Ames (H) d. Brady Follansbee/Logan Hunt 8-1; Ian Holmes/Ryder Wilson (H) d. Josh Canty/Devon Pacheco 8-3.
BG 9, Central 0
Dean Liakos (BG) def. Will Delaney (C) 9-7; Gavin Bombara (BG) def. Jimmy Gilroy (C) 8-3; Ryan Wallat (BG) def. Isaac Grablewski (C) 8-1; Aditya Prasad (BG) def. Nate Bannister (C) 8-5; Sean Cairns (BG) def. Nick Chien (C) 8-7; Will Moynihan (BG) def. Ben Soucy (8-5).
Liakos/Bombara (BG) def. Delaney/Gilroy (C) 8-2; Wallat/Prasad (BG) def. Grablewski/Soucy (C) 8-1; Anthony Poto/Ronan Bradshaw (BG) def. Bannister/Chien (C) 9-8 (7-3 tiebreaker)
GIRLS TENNIS
Central 8, Salem 1
Emily Leclerc (C) d. L. Salamanca (S) 8-0; Megan Haddad (C) d. J. Defrocked (S) 8-1; Emily Hobausz (C) d. S. Norcross (S) 8-1; Emma Blaisdell (C) d. A. Coyly (S) 8-4; Natalie Friedland (C) d. K. Smeltzer (S) 8-3; Lauren Bouthot (C) d. A. Rastelli (S) 8-6
Leclerc/Haddad (C) d. Debrocke/Norcross (S) 8-1; Hobausz/Friedland (C) d. Salamanca/Rastello (S) 8-1; Coyle/Smeltzer (S) d. Schneiderman/Beckman (C) 9-7
Trinity 9, Wilton-Lyndeborough 0
Meredith MacWilliam (T) def. Elizabeth Jacobs (WL) 8-2; Mallory Hobausz (T) def. Erin McDonald (WL) 8-2; Harley Plasz (T) def. Madeleine Straw (WL) 8-3; Katie Mulcahy (T) def. Senja Sours (WL) 8-0; Ava Prieto (T) - no opponent; Frances Davalos (T) - no opponent.
MacWilliam/Hobausz (T) def. Jacobs/McDonald (WL) 8-4; Plasz/Mulcahy (T) def. Straw/Sours 8-0; Prieto/Davalos (T) vs. no opponent.
Salem 6, Merrimack 3
Shu Grasso (M) d. Laura Salamanca 8-0; Katie Costa (M) d. Joah Debrocke 8-0; Sophie Norcross (S) d. Emily Winefield 8-6; Ally Course (S) d. Jessica Harden 9-7; Kassie Smeltzer (S) d. Jordan Zebuhr 8-0; Ava Rastello (S) d. Sarah Zebuhr 8-0.
Grasso/Winefield d. Debrocke/Norcross 8-0; Salamanca/Rastello d. Costa/Harden 8-6; Coyle/Smeltzer d. Zebuhr/Zebuhr 8-0.
Derryfield 9, Pinkerton 0
Sophia Correnti (D) def Maddie Frank 8-1; Julia Hardy (D) def Amelia Coyle 8-5; Sophie Brown (D) def Madeline Donahue 8-2; Maya Marsden (D) def Sydney Pelletier 8-2; Charlotte Smith (D) def Calli Matarozzo 8-1; Skylar Cohen (D) def Mia Rivard 8-3.
Correnti/Hardy (D) def Frank/Coyle 8-0; Brown/Anna Induni (D) def Donahue/Pelletier 8-6; Marsden/Smith (D) def Matarozzo/Kaylee McMillan 8-0.
Prospect Mountain 9, Inter-Lakes 0
Madilyn Neathery (PM) def Julia Pendergast (IL) 8-4; Erin Rawnsley (PM) def Ruby Preisendorfer (IL) 8-1; Ella Misiaszek (PM) def Marissa Anastasio (IL) 8-0; Shannon Kelley (PM) def Laura Cove (IL) 8-4; Aijah Thoroughgood (PM) def Chrissy Kangas (IL) 8-0; Sarah White (PM) def Addie Harper (IL) 8-0.
Neathery / Rawnsley (PM) def Pendergast / Anastasio (IL) 8-1; Misiaszek / White (PM) def Preisendorfer / Cove (IL) 8-0; Thoroughgood / Abby Breuer (PM) def Kangas / Harper (IL) 8-0.
Central 8, BG 1
Emily Leclerc d. L. Bucci 8-0; Megan Haddad d. S. Sears 8-2; Emily Hobausz d. A. Linskey 8-1; A. Pesiridis d. Emma Blaisdell 8-6; Natalie Friedland d. Sophia Z 8-2; Lauren Bouthot d. A. Moore 8-3.
Leclerc/Haddad d. Bucci/Pesiridis 8-2; Hobausz/Friedland d. Sears/Linskey 8-1; Blaisdell/Bouthot d Delavega/Leblanc 8-2
GIRLS TRACK
Pinkerton 95, BG 48
Pinkerton:
Briana Danis tied her school record in the discus (1st, 127-5; won the shot put in a PR 33-9½
Maddie Connors won triple jump in a PR (33-11½ and 400 in PR 1:06.52.
Jordan Wheaton had PRs in winning the high jump 5-0 and the 300m hurdles (48.72).
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The Red Sox’ Nathan Eovaldi will make his third consecutive Opening Day start, which was never really the plan.
In 2020, he took the ball for the first game of the shortened season after Chris Sale had Tommy John surgery and Eduardo Rodriguez contracted COVID-19. In 2021, the Red Sox turned to Eovaldi again after Rodriguez developed a dead arm late in spring training.
In many ways, though, the Red Sox’ Opening Day reliance on Eovaldi has represented how important he has become to their pitching staff. That continues to be the case as this 2022 season begins, one in which they will be without Sale again for at least two months.
“When you get that Opening Day nod, to be able to open up and start that first game, it means a lot to me,” Eovaldi said. “You kind of set the tone.”
Eovaldi will become the 16th Red Sox pitcher in history with three or more Opening Day starts — a group that includes Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez and Luis Tiant. And he’s the 10th pitcher among them to make three consecutive Opening Day starts. In his two previous Opening Day starts, Eovaldi has given up two earned runs and struck out eight over 11 1/3 innings, with both outings against the Orioles.
Friday will present a far greater challenge, but one he’s familiar with. He’ll oppose Yankees starter Gerrit Cole, who he opposed three times last season. The last one came in the Wild Card game at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox chased Cole after two innings in their 6-2 win.
The rematch will come almost six months after that October matchup, and Eovaldi has been looking forward to it. The 32-year-old is entering a critical year in his career. He becomes a free agent after the season, and he’s looking to build on his first All-Star season in 2021.
Friday could not only set the tone for the Red Sox, but his own season.
“It’s going to be a great game,” Eovaldi said. “To open up against the Yankees, our fans will be there, theirs will be there, day game. I’m just trying to go out there and make sure I stay within my mechanics, one pitch at a time, quick outs and attack the zone.”
Opener postponed
The Red Sox and Yankees will wait a day to begin the season. The Opening Day game between the two teams, which was originally scheduled for Thursday at 1:05 p.m., was postponed to Friday at the same time due to a forecast of inclement weather in New York. The Yankees made the announcement early Wednesday morning.
The Red Sox will now play on six consecutive days on the road to open the season, with three against the Yankees this weekend and three in Detroit against the Tigers starting Monday. They have an off day Thursday before their home-opening four-game set against the Twins at Fenway Park.
Eovaldi faces Cole in Friday’s opener, with Nick Pivetta slated for Saturday and Tanner Houck taking the ball on Sunday night. Michael Wacha will start Monday’s opener against the Tigers, followed by Rich Hill on Tuesday. Eovaldi is scheduled to face Rodriguez — who was named Detroit’s Opening Day starter — on Wednesday.
Roster almost set
The Red Sox still have a few decisions to make before submitting their Opening Day roster ahead of Friday’s opener.
As of Wednesday, they still had 30 players to choose from.
Josh Taylor, who is dealing with a back injury, is likely to be put on the injured list to begin the season.
Travis Shaw and Jonathan Arauz seem to be the likely additions to the 13 position players that manager Alex Cora expects to carry.
The final spot in the bullpen looks like it will come down to Hansel Robles or Tyler Danish, who was added to the 40-man roster this week.
Robles, who was a late arrival to camp due to visa issues, was signed to a minor-league deal, so the Red Sox would need to make a 40-man move for him to make the Opening Day roster.
Morning baseball
On Wednesday, MLB announced a new weekly Sunday morning game package that will air exclusively on Peacock, the streaming service produced by NBC Sports. It will begin on May 8 with the Red Sox’ home game against the White Sox, which will start at 11:30 a.m.
The morning game package will air for 18 consecutive weeks, with the first six games starting at 11:30 a.m. and the following 12 games beginning at noon. Red Sox-White Sox on May 8 will simulcast on the NBC broadcast network, and the remaining 17 games will be exclusively streamed on Peacock.
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Mattel's MEGA Bloks Green Town is the first mass-produced retail toy line to be certified as carbon neutral.
Plant-based materials make up more than half of each playset. Included in this are Matchbox brands.
The toy's packaging is also 100% recyclable and made from recycled materials, according to Mattel.
Mattel's goal is to have 100% recycled or bio-based materials in all of its products and packaging by 2030.
Earth Month: Santa Clarita program offers barrels to help collect, recycle rainwater
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Cash App data breach could have affected over 8 million users
(Gray News) – A data breach committed by a former employee of the company which owns the mobile payment app Cash App could have affected over 8 million users.
According to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Block, Inc. announced that it determined a former employee downloaded reports containing U.S. customer information from its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC in December 2021.
Although the former employee had access to the information during their employment, the data was accessed without permission after they were no longer with the company, the filing says.
Only customers who used Cash App’s stock function are affected by the breach, according to the report. The information included the full name and brokerage account number, brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and stock trading activity.
Downloaded data did not include usernames and passwords, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, payment card information, addresses, bank account information or any other identifiable information.
Customers outside of the U.S. were not affected, the filing says.
When it made the discovery, Block launched an investigation in partnership with a forensics firm. The company has notified regulatory authorities and law enforcement of the breach.
The filing says 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.”
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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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INDIANAPOLIS — Weeks after a child was struck and killed near his bus stop on the city’s east side, a big change has been made to help protect students getting on and off the bus.
On the morning of March 18, 7-year-old Sevion Sanford, a student at Lakeside Elementary, was killed in a hit-and-run while waiting for his school bus at the Warren Harbor Apartments near E. 21st Street and Yorkshire Court.
Sevion was hit by two cars, killing him. One of the drivers stopped, but police said the second, did not. Authorities are still working to locate that driver.
The boy’s mother told FOX59 on Wednesday she continues to hope that the driver will turn themselves in so that their family can begin to find peace and healing. She believes had they stopped, there is a chance her son’s life could have been saved and he wouldn’t have been struck by a second driver.
“I’m praying for the family, because it’s just like, it definitely could have been prevented and it’s horrible, no parent should ever have to go through that,” said Shay Boyd, a parent whose child also rides the bus.
Complex management shared that it worked with the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township collectively to come up with an idea of how to better protect students as they are at the bus stop.
When students living at the Warren Harbor Apartments return from spring break on Monday, they will get on and off the bus in a different spot, inside the apartment complex, rather than on the busy main road on E. 21st St.
“I still feel like people need to slow down and I feel like the bus stop should have never been that place anyway,” said Boyd. “The bus stop should be in the neighborhood, the buses should be able to turn around. We need to find a way to make it as safe as possible for our kids.”
The stop has been moved further into the driveway towards the first building and yellow “no parking” zones have been painted. Management at the complex said it is asking that visitors and residents obey these to allow more space for buses to safely pick up and drop off the students.
Signs in the area read, “the new Warren Harbor bus stop” and “school bus stop” and are visibly marked so that families know where to go as they head back to school on April 10.
Boyd said while she hasn’t received any notification from the school, she is glad to see efforts to improve safety for the children. Still, she said she believes the effort needs to involve the greater community.
“The community really just has to slow down and watch out for these kids. If y’all see a bus stop or slow down, it’s for a reason. Like use your brains,” said Boyd. “We know you’re trying to get to work, we know you have things, I do too, but if I see a bus stop, I stop because you know these kids have to cross the street, get on the bus and they’re young, they’re babies.”
She believes it is the responsibility of the drivers and adults on the road to make sure they are doing everything they can to protect the children waiting for bus stops across the city.
“It starts in the home, but kids are kids, they’re going to forget, they’re going to react without thinking. We have to be the adults. We are the adults,” said Boyd. “Hopefully we learn from this situation and it does not happen especially like this.”
FOX59 also reached out to MSD of Warren Township Schools for information on the change. We will update this story with any response received.
IMPD said the first car that hit Sevion is a light-colored sedan. Anyone with information on the accident is asked to call IMPD’s Hit and Run Office at 317-327-6549 or Crime Stoppers at 317-262-8477 (TIPS) where you will remain anonymous.
“I’m praying for the family and we love you Sevion,” said Boyd.
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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) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that an outbreak impacting packaged salads is over.
The CDC investigated the outbreak in 2019, 2020 and it was again reopened in November 2021. In prior investigations, the agency wasn’t able to trace the source of the illness. But when the case was reopened last year, the CDC found it was packaged salads and lettuce sold by Dole that was making people sick.
In all, 18 people were sickened in 13 states. All of them were hospitalized.
Three deaths were reported – one in Michigan, one in Ohio and one in Wisconsin.
The affected people were between 50 and 94 years old.
The CDC believes the true number of people affected by the outbreak is much higher, because many people recover on their own and therefore are never tested for listeria.
Listeria symptoms can start anywhere from the same day of eating contaminated food and up to four weeks after. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever, muscle aches, nausea and vomiting.
The illnesses related to the Dole outbreak were reported over several years, ranging from Aug. 16, 2014, to Jan. 15, 2022.
Data showed that bacteria from sick people’s samples over that time period were closely related genetically. “This suggests that people in this outbreak got sick from the same food,” writes the CDC.
The discovery of the outbreak prompted a large recall of Dole packaged salads and iceberg lettuce that was processed at the company’s facilities in Bessemer City, North Carolina, and Yuma, Arizona. The recalls were issued in December 2021 and January 2022.
As of Monday, the CDC officially called the outbreak over.
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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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Baltimore and Washington might be moving closer to combining their proposals to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Terry Hasseltine, executive director of the Maryland Sports Commission, which is overseeing Baltimore’s campaign, said U.S. Soccer, the national organization, has asked the two cities to begin conversations about what a “re-imagined” joint bid would look like. That consolidated plan could then be presented to FIFA, the governing body of international soccer that will determine which sites will host the highly-coveted games.
“There has been overture,” he said Wednesday afternoon. “We are going to start having discussions about what that may look like because it has to be done in relatively short order. FIFA is supposed to announce a decision in early to mid-May. Both sides have been independent all the way through this entire process, and both have significant merits. There’s obviously the nation’s capital, which is a very important piece of the U.S. puzzle. We have a world-class stadium [M&T Bank Stadium] that has gone through some significant renovations over the last 10 years or so to keep it one of the top stadiums in the NFL and the like.”
Hasseltine said he informed the Maryland Stadium Authority board during a Tuesday meeting about a possible merger of the bids from two of the 17 potential host cities in the United States. He had said earlier that either U.S. Soccer or FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, would have to mandate a consolidated bid.
The U.S. has partnered with Canada and Mexico to try to become the first three-nation partnership to host a World Cup. In addition to Baltimore and Washington, other U.S. cities under consideration include Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay area. FIFA could make an announcement on the 16 host cities across the three countries from a list of 23 around May 15.
EventsDC, which is leading Washington’s push, released a statement that shed little light on a potential merger with Baltimore.
“We are considering different options that will ultimately create a way forward for Washington, D.C. to host and support the FIFA World Cup 2026,” the statement read. “Based on this process, the DC2026 team made a compelling case for why D.C. should be an important component of the FIFA World Cup 2026 experience.”
Hasseltine said the World Cup’s reach is so large that all 17 potential host cities could get a piece — whether that means a base camp for a national team, a training site or a Fan Fest event.
“But we all know that the measuring stick is where the matches are being played in 2026 and that’s what we’re all fighting for right now — to make sure that our buildings will host World Cup matches because that is the true essence of why we all got into this,” he said. “We want to see matches played in our backyard.”
Hasseltine said officials from both cities have begun looking at calendars. He said his preference would be to coordinate a conference call sometime this week and an in-person meeting next week.
Hasseltine said an early to mid-May deadline is enough time to work on a combined plan.
“There will be some refined details that we’ll have to work on after the fact, but we will have to figure out where we are going to anchor the major components,” he said. “We’ve got to figure out what stadium will host matches, and we also know there are going to be team training camps. There’s going to be certain lodging needs that need to be handled. There’s going to be transportation logistics that will probably have to be refined a little bit after the fact. And then there’s going to be a combination of a Fan Fest that we’re going to have to host throughout the time of the World Cup. Is that a shared commodity? Do we use M&T? Do we have a small one in Baltimore with the mega Fan Fest in DC or vice versa?”
Hasseltine said he did not consider U.S. Soccer’s request to be a hurdle in Baltimore’s pursuit of hosting the World Cup.
“I actually think it’s the opposite,” he said. “In my humble opinion, I think it strengthens the opportunity for the capital region of the United States to be included in the 10 cities that they’re going to announce.”
This development comes on the heels of a study that questioned the strengths of the two cities’ independent proposals. A report by 42Floors, a branch of California-based real estate data firm Yardi, ranked Baltimore No. 16 and Washington No. 17 of the cities vying to host the World Cup.
Of a total of 100 points, Baltimore earned 23.55, ranking last in hotel rooms and trailing badly in other categories such as broadcasting and public transportation. The city did score high in airports, either.
In a text sent Wednesday afternoon, Hasseltine wrote that study “holds no weight as it was done in 2017 and did not take into account any of the work that has been done to date on Legacy, Human and Worker’s Rights and the site visit. We are listening to the leadership of U.S. Soccer and FIFA as to where we stand with the process, not the report referenced.”
When the study was released, Hasseltine said in a statement that the report relied on outdated numbers. To prove his point, he said the 9,241 hotel rooms listed in the study did not include rooms near the airport and in surrounding counties, which totaled more than 40,000.
Hasseltine also pointed out that the distance of 15.8 miles between training venues and the team hotel cited in the report is the farthest possible distance, insisting that the average distance is under 11 miles. And he noted that M&T Bank Stadium can hold 71,000 fans, not 65,000.
Washington compiled 21.58 points for scoring low in airports and training facilities. The city scored high in public transit.
In January, The Washington Post reported concerns about the capability of FedEx Field in Landover to host the World Cup had emerged. Under one plan, M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Ravens, would serve as the primary site for games, and FedEx Field, home of the Washington Commanders, would be the venue for other events.
Hasseltine said after that report that a combined proposal would accentuate the two cities’ strengths.
“The fact that we could merge the two synergies together would give FIFA and U.S. Soccer a much bigger portfolio to play with,” he said. “So there are some advantages merging the two. But that’s up to U.S. Soccer and FIFA. That’s not a Baltimore or D.C. decision. Whatever is in the best interest for the U.S. to host the World Cup that is inclusive of Baltimore or Washington or Baltimore and Washington, that is up to U.S. Soccer and FIFA.”
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Asiana Govan made plays on both sides of the ball as Dr. Phillips continued its unbeaten run in high school girls flag football.
Dr. Phillips (8-0) beat Timber Creek 27-7 in a battle of unbeatens Wednesday evening. Govan caught a touchdown, threw a touchdown, ran in for a 1-point conversion, passed for a 1-point conversion and even intercepted a pass.
“She’s our athlete,” Dr. Phillips coach Anthony Jones said. “If you need a position filled on the field, she can play it. She’s just a threat.”
Timber Creek (7-1) got on the board first before interceptions and sacks proved costly. Timber Creek was on the verge of taking the lead in the second quarter, but Alyssa Virella came up with a sack on 4th-and-goal from the 2-yard line. Virella made another sack on fourth down to regain the ball late in the fourth quarter.
“[Virella] is like a gnat on defense,” Jones said. “So we use her strength, which is her speed and agility, and have her apply pressure. She’s having fun out there.”
Freshman center and linebacker Ronnice Barry sealed the game with a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown and gave quarterback Olivia Cadiz breathing room the entire game, serving as a checkdown option when Cadiz was under pressure.
“She’s the heart and soul of the team as a freshman. Her and Olivia are that duo,” Jones said. “She makes those timely short passes for first downs when we need it.”
This report was first published at Orlandosentinel.com. Varsity Content Editor Buddy Collings can be reached by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.
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It’s not every day you see an NBA team with a seven-time All-Star at the end of the bench. But in an upended season blown to pieces in the middle of the year, that’s where the Nets stand with veteran big man LaMarcus Aldridge.
Aldridge was a force earlier into this season, at times playing the role of the Nets’ third star while Kyrie Irving was ineligible to play due to his vaccination status. But his hip injury, the acquisition of Andre Drummond and the emergence of backup big man Nic Claxton has left Aldridge on the outside of the rotation looking in.
“LaMarcus has had a really good season, minus the injuries,” head coach Steve Nash said ahead of his team’s matchup against the Knicks on Wednesday. “So we have to be able to get him into some sort of rhythm, and our team and our rotations, it’s so late (in the season). It’s hard to say this is what we’re doing.”
Aldridge is a scoring force, one of the most automatic mid-range machines at his position in NBA history. He lacks in speed, mobility and athleticism, at age 36, but thrives in shooting.
In truth, the Nets don’t necessarily need a scoring big man on the floor. They need athletic centers who can run, defend multiple positions, rebound with force and both protect and finish at the rim.
They need big men like Drummond and Claxton, who account for most of the minutes Aldridge no longer sees.
“What our team needs is defense and rim rolling as well, which Nic and Andre provide that,” Nash continued. “They provide the athleticism and rim protection. So we’re trying to find a way to have it all, and that’s not straight forward.”
Like many other players on this Nets roster, Aldridge will never know when his number will be called to play pivotal minutes. He has been the Nets’ third big man in the rotation each of the last two games. He has played at the power forward position alongside Claxton against both the Rockets and the Knicks. Against the Knicks, Aldridge’s minutes were fruitless and resulted in the Knicks going on a scoring run.
The Nets don’t know how this four-man unit of big men is going to work out with only 48 minutes to go around at the five. Blake Griffin can barely get off the bench, and he is one of the league leaders in charges drawn.
“LaMarcus is a player with high IQ, great experience, and has had a great season,” Nash added. “We know how effective he can be when he shoots the ball, but finding the mechanics that allows it to work is really our task here in a very short time frame.”
DRAGIC STILL IN PROTOCOLS
Veteran point guard Goran Dragic is still isolated in Atlanta, where he tested positive for COVID-19, had symptoms and was forced to quarantine while his teammates traveled back to Brooklyn. Nash said Dragic is feeling better but there is no timetable for his return.
CURRY BACK
Seth Curry returned to play on his ailing left ankle against the Knicks on Wednesday. Nash explained why Curry, who is shooting 70% on wide-open threes this season, is so important ot the team’s offense.
“He’s just a really good basketball player,” he said. “Elite shooter, good in pick and roll, high IQ and all those attributes he brings to our team our obviously helpful, but also just spreading minutes out this time of year with Goran out of the lineup, (James Johnson)’s sick other guys, Joe (Harris) and Ben (Simmons) out as well. So it helps to have the minutes as well, but the quality of the player raises the level of our team.”
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There were sections of the Timberwolves’ fan base that wanted to see Malik Beasley removed from the rotation earlier this season. It was understandable: Beasley’s role is as a sharpshooter, and his shot was anything but sharp.
He was shooting just 33 percent from 3-point range on a high volume through the first 40 games. If Beasley wasn’t going to make shots — many of which came on good looks — why not give those minutes to say, Jaylen Nowell, some figured.
The thought never crossed coach Chris Finch’s mind.
“Not playing Malik was never an option. Not playing him at least 15 to 18 minutes a night, on the low end. When he wasn’t playing well, we were still playing him that,” Finch said. “It was never an option to not play Malik. I’ve said it before, (he is a) starter-level player in this league.”
He’s looked like it in recent months. Since the turn to 2022, Minnesota is outscoring opponents by 9.6 points per 100 possessions with Beasley on the floor — the top mark on the team. In that span, Beasley is shooting 41 percent from deep on 7.4 3-point attempts per game. He’s proven invaluable in spacing the floor for Minnesota’s bevy of other offensive weapons.
Even better, since the All-Star break, Beasley is shooting a gaudy 46 percent from distance. He noted he felt better after the break, adding he needed it. Beasley fell out of any rhythm and routine last offseason when he served his jail sentence after pleading guilty to threats of violence. He came into training camp out of shape.
To this day, Beasley said he still doesn’t quite feel like himself.
“I still feel like I can it take it up another notch,” Beasley said.
Finch said Minnesota wasn’t generating enough looks for Beasley within the flow of the offense during the first half of the season. Most of his shot attempts were coming via designed actions. Shots from the flow, Finch noted, are preferred.
As the shooting has come along, so too has the rest of Beasley’s game. He’s been more of a playmaker lately, dropping four assists in Minnesota’s win in Houston. His defensive improvement has been noticeable.
“He’s been locked in. Been rebounding better for us, too,” Finch said. “I think he’s felt less, kind of, inclined to just make something happen with the ball every single time he’s got it. He would drive into the paint and not have a plan. But now he’s doing a better job of turning the corner with intention to finish or find somebody.”
Beasley is adding a lot in a number of areas, a major reason why the Wolves have been better with the guard on the floor. Beasley has missed three games since the All-Star break — against Philadelphia, Boston and Toronto. All three were blowout losses for Minnesota.
“We missed him. Not just the spacing he creates, but he’s been doing a great job of just rising up and making his shot over somebody at the end of the shot clock sometimes,” Finch said. “Particularly when you have a lot of switching defenses like we saw in those Toronto-Boston games. We needed somebody to either drag the defense out another two steps or make the shot up over top of a shell defense.”
In the three games since returning from the ankle injury, Beasley picked up right where he left off — firing 44 percent from deep.
“I still feel good,” Beasley said, “and I’m ready for playoffs.”
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The weather conditions will make it feel more like football season than opening day for baseball at Wrigley Field on Thursday when the Chicago Cubs host the Milwaukee Brewers.
The forecast
“As is often the case with early season baseball games, the forecast for Thursday doesn’t look particularly picnic-worthy,” Brett Borchardt, meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Chicago office, wrote in an email to the Tribune. “We’re expecting temperatures near 47 degrees at first pitch with breezy west winds gusting 25 to 30 mph, making it feel more like 40 degrees. We’re also expecting scattered rain and snow showers throughout the day.”
What’s normal for April in Chicago?
This weather pattern is not unusual for this time of year in Chicago, he notes. The normal high temperature for April 7 is 56 degrees with a low of 37. Usually a trace of rain is observed too.
Borchardt says the forecast should improve early next week — just in time for the White Sox home opener against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“The good news is we’re heading into warmer weather next week with highs from Monday onward in the mid to upper 60s!” he said. “The Sox look to have the upper hand for nicer weather during their home opener, though we’ll have to keep an eye on increasing chances for showers and thunderstorms by the middle of next week.”
So does cold weather matter for a Cubs home opener?
Spoiler: It probably makes a bigger difference for fans. Although snow did cause the team’s home opener to be postponed a day in 2018.
Since 1989 — when box scores for Major League Baseball games began to include weather conditions at the ballpark at the time of the first pitch — the Cubs have a 14-19 record in their home openers.
Last year, the Cubs home opener tied for the team’s third-coldest since 1989.
The temperature at first pitch — 1:21 p.m. — during the Cubs home opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 1, 2021, was announced as 36 degrees with 7 mph winds from the north. The Cubs lost to the Pirates, 5-3.
That ties April 13, 2009, for the third-coldest game-time temperature recorded at the Friendly Confines since 1989. The Cubs won that game against the Colorado Rockies 4-0.
The extremes
Interestingly, the warmest and coldest home openers for the Cubs happened on the same day — April 8 — but 22 years apart.
COLDEST: 29 degrees (April 8, 1997)
The paid attendance was listed at 35,393, but the next day’s Tribune reported the crowd was “considerably less” than that due to the below-freezing temperature and the Cubs performance — the team dropped its seventh straight game, a 5-3 decision to the Florida Marlins.
“The Cubs put the show on for the home folks Tuesday, and it was a rerun. They blew it again …” columnist Jerome Holtzman wrote in the next day’s Tribune.
The Tribune reported one vendor outside Wrigley Field was trying to unload tickets to the first home game of the season — an hour before first pitch. “Who needs Cub tickets? Less than face value!”
Cubs fan Brian Bonic admitted he showed up “a little underdressed” for the game: “He was wearing only two pairs of thermal underwear, two turtleneck sweaters and a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt to battle the gusting 31 m.p.h. winds, a 29-degree game time temperature and 1-degree windchill factor,” the Tribune reported.
Cubs players must have been underdressed for the weather too. Holtzman wrote the team had little, if any, aggressive plays during the game.
“If you don’t play well against a good team, they’re going to beat you,” Cubs manager Jim Riggleman admitted.
Taking the brunt of the cold was Cubs center fielder Brian McRae, who said his hands were so numb that he struggled to hold the bat: “This weather isn’t conducive to a lot of hits.”
One fan claimed he would show up to the Friendly Confines for the Cubs home opener no matter the weather.
“We’re not here because they’re (0-7). It’s Wrigley Field. The Cubs. Opening Day. It’s part of the American tradition. We would be here if it was snowing,” Dan O’Toole said.
Another fan — a season ticket holder — didn’t care about the tradition. He just wanted to stay warm. That’s why he and his friends left their seats along the first-base line after the first inning and went to the Cubby Bear bar across the street. After all, he estimated, he had another 80 home games to attend that season.
“It’s absolutely too cold to sit there and watch baseball. I had the wind blowing right in my face, and we were in the shade. You can’t have a good time when you’re frozen,” Ron Rous said.
WARMEST: 65 degrees (April 8, 2019)
After a 2-7 start — their worst since 1997 — this was the win the Cubs needed. And it was dominant. It was a shutout. It was the largest shutout victory in a home opener in franchise history. It was also the first time since at least 1908 that four pitchers threw at least two scoreless innings in a nine-inning game.
The win arrived on a “picture-perfect afternoon” at Wrigley Field, according to Tribune columnist Paul Sullivan, before 40,692 fans.
“Everything went right for the Cubs, from the weather to the offensive explosion to the bullpen combining for seven shutout innings after (Jon) Lester injured himself scoring during the six-run second,” Sullivan wrote.
The hamstring injury would sideline Lester for 2½ weeks, but not even Cubs manager Joe Maddon was concerned about it after the game.
“Jonny is a great athlete. He got hurt. It happens,” he said.
The thing about Chicago weather, though, it changes quickly. Javier Báez — who got a hit on a bounced pitch — didn’t like the unsettled forecast for the team’s next home game.
“I just saw the weather for Wednesday, and it’s not going to be like this,” he said.
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SEATTLE — The Washington state Department of Health has confirmed at least four other Washingtonians died from COVID complications before or on Feb. 28, 2020 — the date the first known death in Washington and the U.S. was announced.
In a recent review of the state’s earliest COVID-19 deaths, three people who died before the initial announcement were from long-term care facility Life Care Center of Kirkland, the site of the first known U.S. coronavirus outbreak, The Seattle Times reported.
State health officials now believe the first person to die in Washington was a Snohomish County woman in her 30s.
That death happened on Feb. 24, 2020. The woman had a travel history and underlying health conditions, according to Kari Bray, spokesperson for Snohomish County’s public health department.
But little other information is publicly available as her death wasn’t investigated by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Bob Anderson, the chief of mortality statistics at a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said recently it has not been uncommon for authorities to have missed some of the country’s early COVID-19 deaths.
“Doctors often didn’t know what they were looking at and didn’t have a lot of experience with COVID-19,” he said.
While a few missed deaths likely won’t make a big difference from a public health standpoint, he said, it’s important to keep a record as accurate as possible.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A new Portland city audit criticizes the way the Portland Police Bureau collected and stored surveillance information around the racial justice protests in 2020.
Auditors said police collected information about protesters who were not connected to any crimes, and kept some private information for too long.
The audit was launched after Black Lives Matter protesters expressed concern that PPB was gathering information that could violate their civil rights.
The report concluded that some of those concerns were unfounded — like the rumor that police were spying on people from planes or other aircraft — but other fears were indeed warranted.
"The concerns that were brought to our attention and prompted us to do this audit were valid," said Mary Hull Caballero, auditor for the City of Portland.
Portland auditors reviewed 73 police and Criminal Intelligence Unit reports related to racial justice protests in the summer of 2020 — a sample of more than 1,500 reports in total.
They found photos and videos of protesters that didn’t include documentation of criminal activity, which Hull Caballero said could stifle free speech.
"The boundaries need to be set by management of the bureau, and they need to help officers understand where the boundaries are," she said.
Chris Bushick, director of PDX Privacy — an organization that was surveyed by auditors as part of the report — said the lack of guidelines is why people are calling for a surveillance ordinance within the city.
"You shouldn’t have your name, photo and license plate number in a secret database just because you stood on a corner holding a sign," Bushick said. "There need to be protections in place."
The auditor’s office recommended new policies and guidance on which private information can be collected by PPB, how long that information should be kept in police files, and how the bureau should report its use of surveillance technology.
For the most part, police leaders voiced agreement.
In response to the audit, Chief Chuck Lovell said new directives on intelligence-gathering are under review and all bureau members will be trained on the changes.
Plus, Lovell pledged that PPB will publish details on how it is using surveillance tech in its annual report.
Mayor Ted Wheeler said he’ll work to enact all five of the audit recommendations to support privacy protections of citizens.
However, in terms of the information collected during the 2020 protests, there could still be information in the police records that shouldn’t be there, Hull Caballero acknowledged.
"There could be, I don’t know if they purged that out of the system or not," she said.
With unwarranted information shared across police databases, auditors said that could create risks.
"[Someone] could be pulled over and the officer pulls up their records in the system and sees they participated in the Black Lives Matter protests, and if they were doing nothing wrong that information does not need to be considered by an officer during a traffic stop," Hull Caballero said. "It also does a real disservice to the officers because they are unnecessarily feeling at risk, or a heightened level of risk."
Among the information collected without documenting criminal activity, auditors said police officers took photos and videos of protesters and organizers, recorded license plate information, and saved images from social media posts.
The report said the Bureau had "no instructions for officers specific to investigating criminal activity during protests," meaning officers used their own discretion to decided "how and what type of information to collect."
More information from the audit, including responses from Mayor Wheeler and Chief Lovell, can be found in the report below.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Day three of Nancy Brophy’s murder trial saw witness testimony from Dan Brophy’s mom, a longtime acquaintance of the couple, officers who worked on the scene and medical examiners — including the one who conducted Dan Brophy’s autopsy.
Nancy Brophy, a romance novelist, is accused of killing her husband Dan Brophy, a chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Students found him shot to death on June 2, 2018.
The first witness called to the stand was Maxine Borcherding, a former instructor who worked at the culinary school until 2015 and was an acquaintance of the Brophys. She testified to knowing Nancy Brophy for approximately 30 years.
Borcherding said on the morning of the shooting, she heard about something going on at the institute from a former coworker. Borcherding called Nancy Brophy to let her know but said it had never occurred to her that the victim may have been Dan Brophy.
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She testified Brophy told her on the phone, “Oh you know Dan, he would never call me, I would have to wait until he got home to learn what happened.”
Like Borcherding before her, Nancy Brophy also called Dan Brophy’s phone and got no answer.
Borcherding said Nancy Brophy had never had a bad word to say about her husband and was always his biggest supporter. She also said that Dan Brophy’s teaching style could be harsh, and he had been known to embarrass or humiliate students over the years.
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Nancy's lawyers asked Borcherding about the homeless population in the Goose Hollow neighborhood where the culinary institute was, as they've asked multiple witnesses who have taken the stand so far.
While it is the state’s job to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Nancy Brophy shot and killed her husband, it is the defense’s job to supply a possible alternate scenario that would sow reasonable doubt in the jury. The defense has brought up an open garage door to the culinary institute's storeroom several times, as it offers an alternate way into the building that anyone could have accessed at or around the time of Dan Brophy’s murder.
Dan Brophy's mother testifies
Karen Brophy, Dan Brophy’s mother, took the stand for the first time on Wednesday. She is expected to testify several more times throughout the trial, but her first time on the stand saw her asked specifically about the phone calls she shared with Nancy Brophy on the day of her son’s death.
Nancy Brophy called Karen Brophy to let her know that something was happening at the culinary institute.
“I said to her, ‘Well are you going to go down there?’ and she said, ‘No I’m not going to go because there will just be a lot of policemen there and a lot of cars,’" Karen Brophy said.
She said she called Nancy Brophy back shortly after and encouraged her to go, and Nancy Brophy said she would. Their last phone call was about an hour later, Karen Brophy said, when Nancy Brophy said she was with police and it was Dan Brophy who had been killed.
Karen Brophy said Nancy Brophy was very matter of fact about it being Dan Brophy who had been killed, but both women began to cry on the phone.
“I said, ‘Oh Nancy’ and I was crying and she did cry.”
The investigation
Later in the day, Dr. Michele Stauffenberg, deputy state medical examiner for the state of Oregon, took the stand. She conducted the autopsy on Dan Brophy.
Stauffenberg testified that Brophy came in with clothes on that she examined and she found several things on him, including $77 in cash. She indicated there was an entrance and incomplete exit wound on Brophy’s chest and on his back, and he had likely been shot in the back and the chest.
Both bullets were still inside Dan Brophy’s body when she began examining him and both had the likelihood to be fatal — having pierced his heart and left lung, she said. One had pierced his spinal column and cord, paralyzing him from the injury down his body.
His cause of death was listed as “gunshot wounds of torso,” and his manner of death was listed as “homicide.”
The final witness for the day was the lead homicide detective on the case, Anthony Merrill with the Portland Police Bureau.
Merrill and his team, as part of their investigation, checked all the exits and entrances into the culinary institute and could find no sign of forced entry. He was made aware that the garage door to the storeroom had been open, but when he arrived on scene it had been shut.
He also looked in the rooms and kitchens in the school.
“Everything was laid out like it had never been disturbed… nothing was out of the ordinary,” Merrill testified. “I mean, based on what I had been briefed on, a man had been shot to death in his business ... that the garage door was open, I thought I was going to see a robbery-type incident where someone came in there, saw a window of opportunity … to steal something valuable.”
When pressed by the defense as to whether he would know if anything was stolen, as if comparing items to an inventory list, Merrill said no, but that police had the staff at the school take inventory and they were not alerted to anything missing.
Merill also testified that he believed Dan Brophy was standing at the sink with his back to the door when someone came and shot him in the back. He believes Brophy then fell to the ground on his back and was shot in the chest at short range. He was the only person who could testify how Brophy might have been shot.
Court will continue on Thursday. Both Karen and Jack Brophy, Dan Brophy’s mother and father, are expected to take the stand.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — All three Portland Rose Festival parades will return in June 2022, but they'll have reduced or revised routes this year.
The Starlight Parade will remain in downtown. The Grand Floral Parade, which traditionally starts in Northeast Portland and goes over the river into downtown, will travel exclusively on the east side of the Willamette this year.
"The business of making a comeback is serious," said Rose Festival organizer Marilyn Clint. "Takes a lot of work and a lot of resources."
Clint explained that the Rose Festival and City of Portland worked together to come up with the new shorter routes after considering safety and limited police resources.
Clint said the different parades spread out over the first two weeks of June will still give many people a chance to see them.
"The folks in downtown are going to be served, and our friends on the east side will be served," she said.
The Starlight Parade in downtown will start an hour earlier than usual, at 7:30 p.m., also with safety in mind.
RELATED: PHOTOS | 2019 Starlight Parade
The Rose Festival website lists routes and times of all parade events this year:
The last proper Rose Festival was in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic relegated the traditional parades and activities to virtual and porch-side events for the last two years.
Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain low in Oregon following the massive spike in causes associated with the omicron variant over the winter.
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ESTACADA, Ore. — More than a year and a half after the Riverside Fire forced evacuations and road closures near Estacada in September 2020, a 19-mile stretch of Oregon Highway 224 is finally about to reopen. The shuttered segment will be back in service May 1.
That's good news for people who love the outdoors, want access to more of the Clackamas River, or are just curious to see what the forest in the area looks like after the fire, according to Christina Richartz, executive director of Visit Estacada and the local Chamber of Commerce. Estacada serves as an outpost for people gearing to explore the surrounding area, she said.
On Wednesday, KGW went on a tour of the highway and the nearby closed-off areas to see the extent of the damage, as well as the progress work crews have made to repair it. Representatives from the Oregon Department of Transportation and the U.S. Forest Service headed up the tour.
The first stop was Lazy Bend Campground. Before the fire, it was the most developed campground in the corridor, with running water and electricity. Now, it's unrecognizable.
"This is pretty representative of our fire impacted rec sites as a whole, up and down the 224 corridor," said Ben Watts, a recreation program manager on the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Burned trees and dumpsters were still visible in the campsite. Forest Service and ODOT officials said there is still a lot of work to be done to repair the damage.
"You look at the steep cliffs along the highways through here, [it] leads to a lot of rockfall dangers," said Will Ewing, a maintenance manager for ODOT. "That's been one of the biggest struggles for us to get this piece of highway open again, has been the rockfall hazards."
Crews have been busy mitigating tree and rockfall hazards in an effort to get the highway back open, as well as installing roughly 11 miles of new guardrail. The work will continue in the summer, when crews will be doing a lot of road paving.
Near milepost 36, the tour caravan came to a stop at a site where crews were doing rockfall work. Ewing said drivers should expect these types of delays even after Highway 224 reopens in May.
"There’s still another six to seven rockfall areas that we have to worn on through this summer. This is not going to be the last of it," he said.
Further down Highway 224, the tour arrived at the last campground in the corridor: Fish Creek Campground, which isn't estimated to be back to full operation for another four to six years.
It's in an area where up to 90% of trees were killed during the fire, according to Heather Ibsen with the U.S. Forest Service, which is why it’ll take years to fully restore the campground and trailheads nearby.
Another Forest Service representative said there are 11 campgrounds and three trailheads along Highway 224. The Riverside and Lionshead fires affected a total of 24 recreation sites, 26 trail heads and over 30 trails, Watts said.
"The May 1 opening of 224, there's going to be limited opportunities up here," Watts said. "The big gains in recreation access is when the Forest Service is going to be able to open the remainder of our Forest Service roads."
It's unclear how long it'll be until Forest Service Roads 46 and 57 are reopened. The Forest Service is still working to clear out damaged trees.
Ibsen said the timeline to clear those trees has stretched out because the process to get federal money has had to go through Congress and has taken longer.
Congress has allocated $76 million to the Mt. Hood National Forest to help cleanup and fix the damage, he said, but the damage costs are well over $100 million and Forest Service’s budget is only a fraction of that.
In the meantime, Ewing said the reopened Highway 224 will essentially be a dead end until the Forest Service Roads reopen, and drivers will have to turn around near the Ripplebrook ranger station.
ODOT spokesperson Don Hamilton said it’s also unclear how much the cleanup will cost because there’s still so much work to be done. The agency will rely on state and federal dollars as much as possible to pay for restoration efforts, he said.
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Bird flu confirmed in backyard flock in western Nebraska
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) - Bird flu has made its way to Nebraska’s western edge.
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday that the fifth case of avian influenza had been confirmed in a small backyard flock in Scotts Bluff County.
State Veterinarian Roger Dudley said in a department news release that the farm has been quarantined and the birds - a mix of chickens and waterfowl - have been killed and incinerated.
The department is also setting up a more than 6-mile surveillance zone around the property, per federal Agriculture Department policy.
The highly contagious virus has spread from flock to flock since February, and nearly 23 million birds have been killed across the United States to limit the spread of the virus.
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Nebraska weighs bill to ban abortion if court overturns Roe vs. Wade
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska would immediately ban abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns its 1973 decision to legalize the procedure under a bill that sharply divided lawmakers on Wednesday.
Lawmakers remained stuck on the measure and weren’t expected to take the first of three required votes on it until later Wednesday evening. If it passes, Nebraska would become the 14th state nationally to enact a so-called trigger law.
Supporters of the measure said it would ensure that Nebraska is among the first states to outlaw abortion if the court overturns Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that allowed the procedure.
“This is about ensuring our most precious and vulnerable people, the preborn, are protected,” said Sen. Joni Albrecht, the bill’s lead sponsor.
Opponents slammed the measure as an intrusion on women’s ability to make personal medical decisions.
“What are you all thinking?” asked Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, of Lincoln. “I have a daughter, she’s 25 years old, and you all are not invited into her medical examination appointments.”
The debate comes ahead of an expected June ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks or pregnancy. The court’s 1973 ruling, Roe v. Wade, allows state to regulate but not ban abortions up to the point of fetal viability, at roughly 24 weeks.
Nebraska became the first state to ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy in 2010, and the state outlawed a second-trimester abortion procedure in 2020 despite fervent protests from abortion-rights supporters.
The latest measure faces a tougher path, however, because of the current political make-up of Nebraska’s one-house, officially nonpartisan Legislature.
At least 33 votes are required to overcome a filibuster and force a vote on the bill. Republicans in the Legislature hold 32 seats and Democrats have 17. One Democratic lawmaker also typically opposes abortion, but he’s offset by a Republican who has voted in favor of abortion rights in recent years.
Another Republican lawmaker, state Sen. Robert Hilkemann, a retired Omaha doctor, said he was uncomfortable with parts of the measure that could expose physicians to felony charges in a situation where they end up terminating a pregnancy.
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Cash App data breach could have affected over 8 million users
(Gray News) – A data breach committed by a former employee of the company which owns the mobile payment app Cash App could have affected over 8 million users.
According to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Block, Inc. announced that it determined a former employee downloaded reports containing U.S. customer information from its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC in December 2021.
Although the former employee had access to the information during their employment, the data was accessed without permission after they were no longer with the company, the filing says.
Only customers who used Cash App’s stock function are affected by the breach, according to the report. The information included the full name and brokerage account number, brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and stock trading activity.
Downloaded data did not include usernames and passwords, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, payment card information, addresses, bank account information or any other identifiable information.
Customers outside of the U.S. were not affected, the filing says.
When it made the discovery, Block launched an investigation in partnership with a forensics firm. The company has notified regulatory authorities and law enforcement of the breach.
The filing says 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.”
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Church not using ‘white music’ in worship services during Lent
OAK PARK, Ill. (Gray News) - A church in Illinois is ‘Fasting from Whiteness’ during the season of Lent.
Lead Pastor John Edgerton at the First United Church of Oak Park wrote in a March newsletter that the church’s worship services during Lent would not use any music or liturgy written or composed by white people. And that First United would be doing a mix of giving something up and taking something on.
According to Edgerton, the music during Lent will be drawn from the African American spirituals tradition, South African freedom songs, Native American traditions and others.
Edgerton also noted that the church would be offering a weekly program entitled “Tell Me the Truth About Racism,” a six-week series with Sunday meetings.
On Wednesday, the church updated its online content, releasing a statement about how some are questioning its message:
“Our Lenten theme has spurred considerable discussion, with some people questioning the message. In practice with the Lenten spiritual discipline of fasting, our intent was to lay aside our usual frames of reference and open ourselves to hearing the Gospel message through the voices of Black People, Indigenous People, and People of Color. Our worship services in Lent have been diverse and beautiful. We pray that God oils the hinges of our hearts’ doors that they might swing open gently to receive the good news of Christ’s resurrection, which we all await at the culmination of Lent.”
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lent is a 40-day Christian season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday.
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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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Nebraska senators defeat Abortion Ban bill with late night vote
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska’s proposed abortion ban, referred to as a “trigger” bill, will not become law this session. On Wednesday night, state senators voted 31-15 in a cloture vote. It failed to stop debate and kill the filibuster by two votes, needing a supermajority of 33 senators.
Senators spent much of Wednesday debating the Nebraska Human Life Protection Act. The bill would make abortion illegal in Nebraska in the first trimester and beyond, but that would hinge on a major decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that could come this summer.
LB 933, proposed by Senator Joni Albrecht, is considered a " trigger bill” and it would go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe V. Wade.
As Wednesday’s debate unfolded, senators were passionately divided on the bill; some arguing when life begins and others saying the bill will result in more unsafe pregnancies.
LB 933 would make abortion illegal in all circumstances across the state. During debate, Senator Albrecht pointed out how 13 states have already passed a similar trigger bill. All have a similar clause that violations of the bill will be punishable by a felony.
“Everyone has a clause in there. If you didn’t have a clause, they would continue to go on without any concern for the life of the unborn,” Sen. Albrecht said.
“We’re debating the wrong thing,” Sen. Megan Hunt said. “The debate isn’t at what second of what minute at what hour does life begin, that’s a spiritual question. The answer to that question, whatever it is, will not change the need for people who do not want to be pregnant to end their pregnancies.”
LB 933 would’ve required criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions, but also allowed for procedures to save the life of the mother.
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Prison reform bill fails in Nebraska legislature
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A bill to help the state deal with prison overcrowding failed to advance in Nebraska’s Unicameral Wednesday.
Focused on reducing penalties to combat prison overcrowding, LB 920 was proposed by Senator Steve Lathrop.
This would’ve been achieved by tackling sentence reform for non-violent felons and expanding programs for people on parole.
”There isn’t a willingness to take the state further to address the criminal justice issues in the state. We’re going to hear things about public safety. I care about public safety everybody does. But there is a lot of people that didn’t vote to give rental assistance to people yesterday. But we care about public safety?” said Senator Terrell McKinney.
Nebraska prisons are currently designed to hold about 3,600 inmates but the population is about 5,300.
Some senators pointed to a proposed $236 million new prison as the solution to overcrowding.
The proposed prison would bring 1,500 beds to the state.
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WESLACO, Texas (Border Report) — In what he is calling an “unprecedented” state response to a “migration crisis,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a set of sweeping border security initiatives that include busing migrants to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., blocking the Rio Grande and conducting extensive searches of commercial trucks coming from Mexico.
Abbott made the announcement Wednesday afternoon during a news conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety’s regional headquarters in the border city of Weslaco, Texas. He was joined by state leaders from DPS, the Texas Military and National Guard, and Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM).
But he was sparse on specifics and that left some border leaders telling Border Report that they wonder how the State of Texas will execute these initiatives.
The plans come just days after the Biden administration announced that it was revoking Title 42 on May 23. That’s the public health law put in place by the Trump administration in March 2020 that prevented asylum-seekers from crossing onto U.S. soil in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
He said that when Title 42 is disbanded, an estimated 18,000 undocumented migrants per day will try to cross the Southwest border. That’s more than 500,000 per month, he said.
And he said Texas was getting ahead of the potential surge by spending Texas taxpayer funds “to do what the Biden administration has failed to do,” he said.
“With the Biden administration ending Title 42 in May, Texas will be taking its own unprecedented actions this month to do what no state in America has ever done in the history of this country to better secure our state, and our nation,” Abbott said.
This includes sending migrants via charter buses to Washington, D.C. “to the steps of the U.S. Capitol,” Abbott said.
“To help local officials, whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C. We are sending them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the immediate needs of people they are allowing to come across our border,” Abbott said.
A news release issued by Abbott’s office after his news conference clarified that the state will “charter buses and flights to transport migrants who have been processed and released from federal custody to Washington, D.C.” The release also specifies that in order to “board a bus or flight, a migrant must volunteer to be transported and show documentation from DHS.”
TDEM Chief Nim Kidd said the state has access to up to 900 buses to use for emergencies but it is unclear exactly how many buses will be deployed and how and where the migrants will board them.
Abbott also said the state “would deploy boat blockades at appropriate regions in the Rio Grande River,” as well as putting up razor wire in low-water crossings, and high-traffic areas, and putting up “container blockades to drive people away from low-water crossings.”
Starting Thursday, Texas National Guard troops will begin “mass migration rehearsals” for “a potential mass influx of people coming across the border,” Abbott said.
Maneuvers and maritime activities will take place in five border areas, including Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo, Zapata and at the Anzalduas Bridge south of Mission, Texas, Abbott said.
Since last year, Abbott’s Operation Lone Star initiative has set up miles of razor wire along the border, as well as boat blockades in high-trafficked areas, like Roma, Texas.
Abbott said DPS troopers stationed on the border also will conduct extensive searches of commercial vehicles and trucks crossing from Mexico right after the vehicles cross into U.S. ports of entry “and once they are on Texas land” to ensure there are no migrants being smuggled.
Abbott acknowledged truck and trade traffic is vital to Texas’ economy, and to deliver goods to the nation.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Laredo, told Border Report that he doubts Abbott “is trying to stop trade.”
Over 18,000 trucks cross through Laredo daily, Cuellar said, “and that has an impact on the chain supply all the way to the Canadian border.”
Zapata County Judge Joe Rathmell told Border Report that he has been told there would be increased vehicle inspections on vehicles coming in from Mexico at international crossings. Zapata County has no port of entry and Rathmell was uncertain how inspections would be conducted in his county, which is an hour-drive east of Laredo.
As for the busloads of migrants being sent by Texas to the U.S. Capitol, Cuellar told Border Report “I have no idea how that will work.”
Cuellar said he believes Abbott is trying “to highlight the frustration that is felt along here, along the state of Texas border. He’s trying to highlight the large numbers” of encounters by Border Patrol agents since 2021.
“Whether he can send those charter buses and drop them off there at the Capitol, we’ll see,” Cuellar said.
When asked by Border Report about reports Wednesday that the governor would call the situation an “invasion” and deputize National Guard troops and DPS officers to send back migrants to Mexico, Abbott said to “question your sources because they’re not good.” But he added that he plans to make more border security announcements next week.
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(The Hill) – A new study in Israel has found that the fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine improves protection against infection and severe COVID-19; however, protection against confirmed infection appears to be short-lived.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday, found that the effectiveness against COVID-19 infection in the fourth week after receiving the fourth dose was lower when compared to protection after the third dose of the vaccine.
It added that protection against severe illness did not wane during the six weeks after the fourth dose was administered and found that the rate of confirmed infection in the fourth week after was lower than that in the group with three vaccine doses.
However, the study added that protection against infection waned in later weeks.
Israel was the first country to begin administering a fourth dose. The study, conducted by the Sheba Medical Center, included more than 1.25 million vaccinated people in Israel from Jan. 10 to March 2.
It included those who were 60 years of age or older and had received three doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at least four months before. It took place as the omicron variant led to a winter surge of coronavirus cases around the world.
The study also noted that the omicron variant is genetically divergent from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain for which the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was tailored.
It added that the findings suggest that the protection against confirmed infection with the omicron variant is at its highest level in the fourth week after vaccination, after which the efficacy of the booster decreases by the eighth week.
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(KTLA) – A woman won $10 million after purchasing a lottery ticket at a Southern California supermarket last year, state lottery officials announced Wednesday.
LaQuedra Edwards put $40 into a Scratchers vending machine at a Vons in Tarzana back in November 2021. While she was about to start selecting which games she wanted, Edwards said “some rude person” bumped into her, according to a news release from the California Lottery, which doesn’t immediately reveal the identity of winners for privacy reasons.
That person’s bump caused her to accidentally push the wrong number on the machine, she said.
A $30 200X Scratchers ticket came out of the machine and Edwards said she had no intention of buying it.
“He just bumped into me, didn’t say a thing and just walked out the door,” Edwards recalled.
She remembers being irritated, not only because the person bumped into her, but also because she’d just spent 75% of her lottery money on one ticket, rather than her usual selection of cheaper-priced options.
“Once she was in her car, she started scratching the $30 ticket – the one she was literally pushed into buying – and discovered she’d just won the game’s top prize of $10 million,” the state Lottery said.
“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 told state lottery officials. “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.”
Edwards said she is going to use her winnings to buy a house and start a nonprofit organization.
“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 Vons store where Edwards “accidentally” won her fortune got a $50,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – The FBI Pittsburgh field office is warning parents and caregivers to be on their guard amid a rise in sextortion scheme incidents targeting teenage boys.
The FBI says they have received an increased number of reports claiming adults are posing as “age appropriate females” and coercing young boys through social media to share sexual images and videos and then extorting money from them.
According to the FBI, sextortion usually begins with an adult contacting a minor over “any online platform,” such as games, apps, or social media, to meet and chat.
In this particular wave of scams, federal investigators have found the predator poses as a young girl, deceives and manipulates the victim, usually a young male between the ages of 14 and 17 years old, to engage in “explicit activity” via video. The scammer then secretly records that video and threatens to post it online unless the victim pays them a certain amount.
The FBI says the crime of an adult coercing a child to produce child sexual abuse material also carries heavy penalties, which can include up to a life sentence for the offender.
“These are not the traditional child predators that are just looking for more explicit images. They’re looking for money,” says FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge Mike Nordwall. “We want parents and caregivers to talk with their kids about schemes like this. Education is key to stopping these individuals and sparing our children the shame, fear and confusion they feel when they’re caught in this cycle. We want kids to know that if someone they’ve met on social media starts asking for videos and photos and eventually money, that person should be reported.”
Children who are victimized by predators often feel embarrassed, which prevents them from coming forward. However, agents say being willing to come forward and report the incident can help law enforcement identify predators and prevent the offender from committing more sexual exploitation crimes against the victim and others potential victims.
The FBI shared these tips that parents can use to help protect their children, as well as themselves, online:
- Be selective about what you share online, especially personal information and passwords. A predator could learn a lot of information about you or your children if your social media accounts are open to everyone.
- Be wary of anyone you encounter for the first time online. Block or ignore messages sent from strangers.
- Know that videos and photos are NOT proof that a person is who they claim to be. People can pretend to be anyone or anything online.
- If you meet someone on a game or app and they ask you to start talking to them on a different platform, be suspicious.
- Encourage your children to report any suspicious behavior to a trusted adult.
If you think you or someone you know is a victim of sextortion, the FBI recommends following these steps:
- Contact your local FBI field office, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at at www.ic3.gov. or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-the-lost or Cybertipline.org. To find the contact information for your local FBI Field office, visit www.fbi.gov.
- Do not delete anything before law enforcement is able to view it.
- Tell law enforcement everything about the encounters you had online; they say it may be embarrassing, but the information is necessary to find the offender.
The FBI says its Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 18,000 sextortion-related complaints in 2021, in which victims lost more than a combined $13.6 million.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Board of Trustees of the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) will meet in a special session on Thursday, April 7 at 3 p.m. to provide an update on the master plan for their facilities.
The Board of Trustees announced that the upgrades and changes to the library include changes to the children, teens and adult spaces. There will also be updates for the meeting and collaboration spaces, technology spaces and outdoor spaces.
The meeting will take place at their main branch at 900 Library Plaza. A livestream of the meeting will be aired on the ACPL’s YouTube channel.
Representatives from Bostwick Design Partnership will attend the meeting to present the Facilities Master Plan to the Trustees.
The Facilities Master Plan is in response to growing populations, the current condition of the library branches and the funding available for both now and in the future.
View a copy of the 32-page Facilities Master Plan here.
Public comment may be submitted in advance of the meeting to the Library Board of Trustees at Trustees@acpl.info.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — After Dark will be hosting their 31st annual AIDS benefit on Saturday, April 16 at After Dark and the Tiger Room.
The benefit will begin at 7 p.m. and is open to ages 21 and older. Entry to the event will cost $6 at the door.
The event includes an online silent auction and in-person live auction filled with antiques, artwork and exciting gifts from the community. The live auction will also be accompanied by hilarious commentary and performances from local drag queens.
After Dark’s AIDS benefit has raised over $1 million dollars for HIV/AIDS education, prevention and awareness over the past 30 years. All proceeds from the event will directly benefit HIV/AIDS services provided by The Northeast Indiana Positive Resource Connection, including free HIV testing, prevention and case management programs for those living with HIV.
“We wish for the day when we don’t have to hold a fundraiser for HIV education and prevention,” said
Della Licious, chair of the benefit and After Dark entertainer. “But until that time comes, when the spread
of HIV is stopped, we will be raising money in the only way we know how: begging and putting on a show!”
Registration for the auction and more event details can be found here.
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CENTRAL TEXAS (KXAN) — Kylie DeFrance’s postman came up to her, asking if she knew she had 50 packages scheduled for delivery. The following day, dozens more packages arrived and a separate postman asked if a child had accidentally ordered them.
In total, DeFrance received more than 300 boxes of pads, tampons and menstrual products — and the packages continue.
DeFrance, of Bastrop, Texas, is an eighth-grade teacher at a Title I charter school in Austin, where many of her students qualify for free and reduced lunches. The financial means of being able to afford menstrual products does not extend to many of her students, who are often reliant on teachers to access pads and tampons.
Setting up an Amazon wish list, DeFrance posted on her neighborhood Nextdoor page to seek outside financial support. She regularly spends between $100-$200 each month on menstrual products without reimbursement.
“A lot of these kids don’t have the luxury of getting to have all the things that they need,” she said.
What she didn’t anticipate was hundreds of boxes of pads and tampons delivered to her front door, with messages of support from community members.
“My house looks like an Amazon warehouse package store, like it’s insane,” she said.
With the surplus of supplies received, DeFrance said she has been able to create some period goody bags for students to take home with them, as well as sharing resources with other teachers. She said her hope is by normalizing periods — and giving students the products they need — they will be able to focus on their learning without their cycles being top of mind.
“I just want to make that something that they don’t have to think about or be stressed or worried about or uncomfortable,” she said. “You should be comfortable while you’re learning in school.”
From a financial standpoint, conversations surrounding period products have risen to the legislative level in recent years, with 24 states having removed sales taxes from menstrual products like pads and tampons.
"I think people sometimes think that removing a sales tax on menstrual products is insignificant," said Laura Strausfeld, founder and executive director of Period Law. "The truth is, though, if you think of the cost of these products, for people who can't buy them in bulk and who have to buy them as needed, it is significantly higher."
While Texas has not yet approved a sales tax exemption, DeFrance said she'll continue to do what she can at the local level to assist her students in need — with a few special neighborhood friends now helping out.
"When you are supporting a teacher's Amazon wish list, you're not just supporting the teacher — you are supporting 100-plus kids that love getting this support, especially from strangers," she said. "It's a really neat feeling. It's a cool feeling."
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Cash App data breach could have affected over 8 million users
(Gray News) – A data breach committed by a former employee of the company which owns the mobile payment app Cash App could have affected over 8 million users.
According to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Block, Inc. announced that it determined a former employee downloaded reports containing U.S. customer information from its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC in December 2021.
Although the former employee had access to the information during their employment, the data was accessed without permission after they were no longer with the company, the filing says.
Only customers who used Cash App’s stock function are affected by the breach, according to the report. The information included the full name and brokerage account number, brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and stock trading activity.
Downloaded data did not include usernames and passwords, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, payment card information, addresses, bank account information or any other identifiable information.
Customers outside of the U.S. were not affected, the filing says.
When it made the discovery, Block launched an investigation in partnership with a forensics firm. The company has notified regulatory authorities and law enforcement of the breach.
The filing says 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.”
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Church not using ‘white music’ in worship services during Lent
OAK PARK, Ill. (Gray News) - A church in Illinois is ‘Fasting from Whiteness’ during the season of Lent.
Lead Pastor John Edgerton at the First United Church of Oak Park wrote in a March newsletter that the church’s worship services during Lent would not use any music or liturgy written or composed by white people. And that First United would be doing a mix of giving something up and taking something on.
According to Edgerton, the music during Lent will be drawn from the African American spirituals tradition, South African freedom songs, Native American traditions and others.
Edgerton also noted that the church would be offering a weekly program entitled “Tell Me the Truth About Racism,” a six-week series with Sunday meetings.
On Wednesday, the church updated its online content, releasing a statement about how some are questioning its message:
“Our Lenten theme has spurred considerable discussion, with some people questioning the message. In practice with the Lenten spiritual discipline of fasting, our intent was to lay aside our usual frames of reference and open ourselves to hearing the Gospel message through the voices of Black People, Indigenous People, and People of Color. Our worship services in Lent have been diverse and beautiful. We pray that God oils the hinges of our hearts’ doors that they might swing open gently to receive the good news of Christ’s resurrection, which we all await at the culmination of Lent.”
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lent is a 40-day Christian season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday.
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Danger of fire in Saline County
Salina Journal Staff Reports
The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for Saline County. Critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. Be extremely careful with open flames.
Extreme to catastrophic grass fire danger will impact Kansas, including Saline County, on Wednesday and Thursday.
The greatest risk exists with wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour are likely. Potential impacts include rapidly-spreading grass fires, impossible to control. Residents should avoid outdoor burning or anything that may cause sparks.
- Properly discard cigarettes.
- Keep vehicles off of dry grass.
- Avoid activities with open flames or sparks.
- Avoid power equipment that creates sparks.
- Obey burn bans.
- Evacuate if fire/smoke is heading your way.
- Evacuate if ordered to do so by local officials.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)- One man is dead after a fatal shooting occurred on the 3400 block of East Paulding Rd.
FWPD are currently at the scene. There are no further updates at this time.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)- One man is dead after a fatal shooting occurred on the 3400 block of East Paulding Rd.
FWPD are currently at the scene. There are no further updates at this time.
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In celebration of National Poetry Month, and in advance of International Haiku Poetry Day on April 17, Friends of the Columbia Gorge has launched its third Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge.
“For this year's Gorge Haiku Challenge, Friends is inviting nature and poetry lovers—far and wide—to write and share haikus illustrating what they love about the Gorge (the views, the communities, waterfalls, etc.) and encouraging us all to explore new and different connections with nature,” said a press release.
"When we think of the Gorge, we often think of hikers who have logged many miles and have all the equipment," said Friends Community Engagement Specialist Kassy Delgado. "But this image limits who we see as those who enjoy and feel welcome in the Gorge."
Friends first launched the Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge in spring of 2020 to provide members of the public with a way to remain virtually connected with the Columbia Gorge during the height of the first COVID-19 pandemic wave. The public responded to the challenge, submitting 223 haikus in less than a week with entries from as close as Gresham, Oregon to Germany. Friends has continued the challenge, ever since, as an ongoing public engagement tool to celebrate the wonders of the Gorge and bring people together, through art, to illustrate why it's so important to protect, preserve, and steward the Columbia Gorge for future generations.
To submit a haiku, members of the public can post the poem on Facebook (please tag @gorgefriends); Instagram (tag @gorgefriends with the hashtag #HaikuPoetryDay); Twitter (tag @gorgefriends with the hashtag #HaikuPoetryDay); or email it to friends@gorgefriends.org by Thursday, April 14 (COB, 5 p.m. Pacific).
Friends staff will share a collection of favorite Gorge haikus as part of International Haiku Poetry Day on Sunday, April 17. All writers are urged to please follow the traditional Japanese haiku format which has three lines with 17 syllables (5-7-5 syllable structure). For more information about Friends’ Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge, please visit gorgefriends.org/haiku.
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HOOD RIVER — Inspired by recent fundraising efforts in Hood River and across the globe, local retailers are teaming up to benefit citizens and refugees of Ukraine with a “Shop Local for Ukraine” event on Saturday, April 9. With support from Visit Hood River, participating retailers will donate a percentage of the day’s sales to Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen, an international aid organization working to provide critical relief services to those remaining in Ukraine, as well as those displaced by the war.
“Through other local fundraising efforts, our community has already demonstrated its ability and willingness to support humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine, and we’re hopeful that Shop Local for Ukraine will continue that momentum,” said Katie Kadlub, executive director of Visit Hood River. “We’re grateful to our merchants for the idea and inspiration behind Shop Local for Ukraine, and are thrilled to be supporting an organization such as World Central Kitchen which already has the infrastructure in place to support the people of Ukraine.”
Patrons can support the effort by simply visiting their favorite participating Hood River store to make a few purchases on April 9, or by donating directly on Visit Hood River’s Shop Local for Ukrainewebsite, and help make a world of difference during a time of crisis.
For more information on Shop Local for Ukraine event click here or visit www.visithoodriver.com/event/shop-local-to-support-ukraine/. For more information on Visit Hood River go to www.visithoodriver.com.
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David “Dave” Howard Conlee passed away peacefully on April 5, 2022, surrounded by his three children, after a short battle with lung cancer. He was born May 7, 1942, in Portland, Ore., to Virgil and Flora Conlee, and was raised on a wheat ranch outside of Moro with his only sibling, Nancy.
Over the years, David wore many hats, including grain warehouseman, mobile home toter, mechanic, farmer, tool salesman, and circling back to his ag roots as a grain truck driver for Mid-Columbia Producers, where he officially retired in January 2021. Because of his great love for his MCP work family, he continued doing odd jobs for them until the end.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and his second wife, Carol (Donahue) Conlee, and stepson Bill Meyer. He is survived by his sister Nancy (Gary) Schrader; his son Chris (Shashana) Conlee; his daughter Jill (Trent) Harrison and their children Andie and Jed; and his youngest daughter Paula (Greg) Costanzo and their children Brooke, Chance, Jennika and Jace. He is also survived by his stepchildren David Meyer, Debbie Snodgrass and Kathy Frisbey, along with their children and grandchildren. Last, but far from least, he leaves behind his beloved dogs and cat Cindy, Teddy, Scooter and Dude, as well as faithful family friend Teresa Farmer.
David loved spending time with his kids, especially over a cold Coors Light. He had also enjoyed boating, riding motorcycles (including his famous red scooter), spending hours tinkering in his yellow school bus shop that he designed himself, raising foster children with Carol, adopting rescue animals, and Sunday morning breakfasts with lifelong friends.
A celebration of life luncheon will be held at the Moro Senior Center on Sunday, June 26 at 1 p.m. Please bring your stories of David, and possibly an outdoor chair. Donations in David’s memory can be made to Home At Last Humane Society in The Dalles.
Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
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WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The family of a 5-year-old girl fighting cancer is staying strong, and now they are even working to give support to families dealing with the same diagnosis.
"She's very bossy, very demanding. Yes, she's the oldest of two girls and she knows it very much so, but she's the most sweet sincere and genuine 5-year-old," said Griffin Cox, of his daughter Perry.
He said Perry is a little shy at first but with a little time and the right music, she opens right up.
"Mrs. Dance, gymnastics, all that kind of stuff, but she's ready to get back into that as soon as she can. And this fall It's going to be, it's going to be a fun one," he said of her personality.
Perry's active lifestyle has had to take a backseat these past six months because of cancer.
"You know, there were the first couple of weeks or months, I personally couldn't tell people I could talk about it. But I certainly couldn't say Perry has cancer; like that was an impossible conversation to have," said Griffin.
Perry was diagnosed with a Wilms Tumor in September. It's a sort of cancer that starts in the kidneys and can spread if not treated rapidly.
"Treatment itself has given us lots of ups and downs. You know, she's a resilient, little 5-year-old who pushes through even when she feels like crap, I'm sure. And so she doesn't really show it much," said Perry's mom Brittany
Perry's parents are college sweethearts, best friends, and parents who, while their own child is suffering, are looking for ways to help others.
"We wanted to figure out something of like, what can we do? This is hard on us, is difficult. But there's a lot of families that have a way worse off than us," explained Griffin. "Some families have to travel quite a long distance to get to a really good medical facility. So the gas overnight meals if you're stuck in hospital for days on end."
That's why they started their nonprofit, High Hopes, and planned their first golf tournament this weekend to raise money for that cause.
"There's a lot of optimism and everything that comes from that concept. And we want it to be a big part of not just Perry's life," Griffin said. "But there's a lot of kids and families that are going to get a call today that their kid has pediatric cancer. And we want to be able to help support those families best we can and that's the big mission for High Hopes."
They're praying Perry's treatment can end this summer and get back to normal, but their philanthropy will continue.
"We'd also like to do some, you know, other events in the interim, you know, we're going to take this momentum from the golf tournament, and just keep on going. But we do want to turn it into an annual event," said Brittany.
Registration for the golf tournament is closed. But if you would like to donate to their nonprofit, or help in any way, you can reach them on their Instagram or Venmo at @highhopesnonprofit.
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One person hurt, one suspect in custody in Town Center at Boca Raton shooting
Gunfire shut down the Town Center at Boca Raton mall and surrounding roads Wednesday evening.
"Somebody was buying something, and I was scanning their stuff and then as I was scanning it I hear a loud gunshot," said a mall employee who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. "I was scared I literally thought I was gonna die, I was crying I called my mom and told her I loved her."
Boca Raton Police say one person was shot in the leg.
"I just see everybody rushing and running and people running into my store and that freaked me out so I locked the gate and I told everybody to run in the back," said the mall employee.
For Chris Figua, a William Sonoma employee, he said the shooting happened right in front the store.
"I just saw out of the corner of my eye, everybody scatter, I left the counter and ran to the back with everybody," said Figura.
Boca Raton police say they do have a possible suspect in custody and the victim was taken to the hospital.
"We stayed in the storage room for like 10-15 minutes then we got the okay that everything was safe," said Figura.
Boca Raton Police said they are investigating the shooting.
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Church not using ‘white music’ in worship services during Lent
OAK PARK, Ill. (Gray News) - A church in Illinois is ‘Fasting from Whiteness’ during the season of Lent.
Lead Pastor John Edgerton at the First United Church of Oak Park wrote in a March newsletter that the church’s worship services during Lent would not use any music or liturgy written or composed by white people. And that First United would be doing a mix of giving something up and taking something on.
According to Edgerton, the music during Lent will be drawn from the African American spirituals tradition, South African freedom songs, Native American traditions and others.
Edgerton also noted that the church would be offering a weekly program entitled “Tell Me the Truth About Racism,” a six-week series with Sunday meetings.
On Wednesday, the church updated its online content, releasing a statement about how some are questioning its message:
“Our Lenten theme has spurred considerable discussion, with some people questioning the message. In practice with the Lenten spiritual discipline of fasting, our intent was to lay aside our usual frames of reference and open ourselves to hearing the Gospel message through the voices of Black People, Indigenous People, and People of Color. Our worship services in Lent have been diverse and beautiful. We pray that God oils the hinges of our hearts’ doors that they might swing open gently to receive the good news of Christ’s resurrection, which we all await at the culmination of Lent.”
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lent is a 40-day Christian season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 06:18 PM
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Following a 12-hour session at the Roundhouse Tuesday, lawmakers passed a tax rebate bill. The idea is to help New Mexicans navigate inflation and rising gas costs.
Once signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, 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.
According to the Legislative Finance Committee, there are 490,000 New Mexicans looking to get a total of $500 in tax rebates following the passage of House Bill 2.
432,000 New Mexicans who file their taxes jointly can expect $1,000 total. Another 135,000 New Mexicans who don't file taxes will also be able to apply for a rebate.
Altogether, the state expects to pay out just under $700 million to make these rebates happen. So where is that money coming from?
Overall, the money is coming from New Mexico's oil fields. The Legislative Finance Committee says the state's oil and gas industry is doing well.
“I think oil and gas prices have been strong. We're tracking about $300 million in FY22 and a similar amount in 23,” said state Rep. Patricia Lundstrom, D-Gallup.
That's a projected surplus of $500 million to $700 million dollars between this fiscal year and the next.
“Our state's productive budget surplus allows us to deliver much-needed financial relief to our citizens as they face the ripple effects of these costs,” said state Rep. Christine Chandler, D-Los Alamos.
That money would normally go into the state's general fund, but with House Bill 2 it will instead be redirected to eligible New Mexicans.
“I think this is a good idea and we can afford this, because we have the money available, and it's much better if it's out working for folks as opposed to being in a savings account,” said Lundstrom.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 08:59 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 08:30 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque police are investigating after a carjacking suspect shot at officers in northeast Albuquerque Wednesday evening.
Officials said officers were dispatched around 6:29 p.m. to Calle Olas Atlos NE in reference to an individual being carjacked at gunpoint.
After locating the vehicle, police said the suspect fled from officers to the near Eubank Boulevard and Spain Road NE.
APD said the suspect then fled on foot, ignoring commands to stop, and shots were fired.
In a tweet, Albuquerque police said no officers were injured during the incident.
Details are limited. Stay with KOB 4 and KOB.com for updates.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 08:51 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 08:48 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Baseball season is in full swing, and the Isotopes have a packed schedule for their 20th year. The local team had its first game Tuesday in Oklahoma City. Meanwhile, in Albuquerque, officials have been working on new concessions for the first home games next week.
‘I-Chee-Wa-Wa’ is something fans might say when they take their first bite of the new barbecue pulled pork sandwich, of the same name.
"It is made with a pound of pulled spicy pork,” said Isotopes Chef Jim Griego. “It has a half a pound of hatch green chile in it, a half a pound of nacho cheese, just to give it that little smooth flavor."
The sandwich also has a classic New Mexico twist with a green chile relleno stuffed inside. The ‘I-Chee-Wa-Wa’ is just one of three new menu items for the 2022 baseball season, which also includes the ‘Green Chile Philly’ and a line-up of Wild West Sausages in four different flavors: duck cilantro, alligator, rattlesnake/rabbit, and elk.
"The nice thing about all these sausages is they are not very heavy in fat content,” Griego said. “So if you're really watching your weight, these are probably the way to go.”
Griego has only been working with the team for a month and half, but officials say it did not take him long to hit a home run.
"Personally, I think he's really, pardon the pun, hit it out of the park," said Isotopes General Manager John Traub.
He also said park officials work hard to get the food just right because it is almost as important to fans as the game itself.
"The culinary experience, coming to a ballgame, is one of the most important things and one of the most special things about coming to a baseball game, probably more so than any other sport,” Traub said. "Our food and beverage experience here, our concessions experience here, as far as I'm concerned, has been unequaled in any venue throughout the entire country."
For anyone who wants to try the new menu for themselves, the Isotopes first home game is next Tuesday, April 12. Tickets are available now online.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 08:57 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 04:14 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Less than a week after recreational marijuana sales started in New Mexico and some medical marijuana patients say they're now having to pay a lot more for their medicine.
KOB 4 spoke with one of those patients who contacted us and looked into what's going on.
"One big change with a lot of the dispensaries was an increase in the price of products across the board," said Jason Barker, a medical cannabis patient.
Barker is a medical cannabis patient and advocate. Since the start of recreational marijuana sales last Friday, he's noticed the price of his medicine skyrocket.
"And in some cases products that I would purchase for like $23 would now be $38 and in other instances, I've seen products just literally be doubled in price," said Barker.
Barker says he also noticed long lines at dispensaries.
"Some of the patients that are disabled, in a wheelchair, things of that nature it's gotten a bit more challenging as well," he said.
KOB 4 reached out to the state's Cannabis Control Division and the Department of Health's Medical Cannabis Program for a response to Barker's concerns.
In a joint statement sent to KOB 4, the agencies said they cannot regulate the price of cannabis:
"The Department of Health Medical Cannabis Program and the Regulations and Licensing Department Cannabis Control Division can report that statewide data show that average medical prices have actually gone down by over 6% since adult-use sales started on Friday. Overall cannabis retailers are taking their responsibility to serve patients seriously."
According to the state's numbers, on March 29 – before recreational cannabis sales started -- the average sales price per item was $22.04. On April 5 – five days after recreational sales started – it dropped to $20.70.
The state also requires the cannabis industry to reserve 20% of its products for patients and increase the amount of medical cannabis patients can buy at one time.
So, it may be time to start shopping around if you're having trouble with the prices of medical marijuana. The state says it'll continue to monitor pricing data, and they say that patients with price concerns can report them to the Cannabis Control Division or the state attorney general's office.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 06:19 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 04:27 PM
RIO RANCHO, N.M. – A day later and the search continues for Manuel Villalobos – the inmate who escaped from his work detail in Rio Rancho.
Neighbors in the Rivers Edge Neighborhood told KOB 4 they weren't sure what was happening at first as state police, Rio Rancho police and corrections officers filled their normally quiet neighborhood.
But tonight, they remain on high alert.
Inmates from the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility were working Tuesday, clearing debris from the bosque when one of them escaped. Neighbors say it was hours before anyone was told what was going on.
On Wednesday, the Rivers Edge Neighborhood was quiet. Most neighbors KOB 4 tried to talk to were hesitant to leave their house.
“I could barely pull into my parking garage because there were probably 30 cars and vehicles all along the street,” said Cindy Ritzman, neighbor.
Ritzman wanted answers but she didn't find out what happened until later Tuesday night.
“Much later, maybe an hour to two hours later,” said Ritzman.
She tried to ask the police.
“There were a couple of neighbors out across the street and we asked the corrections people and police who were all milling around, ‘what was going on,’ cause nobody knew what was happening and they wouldn't give us clear answers,” she said.
Later that night, she saw on the news that an inmate escaped right down the street from her house.
“It would have been really nice to have had an alert come in on my telephone instead of having to figure out what was going on, on the news,” said Ritzman.
When asked why folks weren't notified, RRPD said they sent out a code red notification to over 8,000 residents in Rivers Edge and Corrales Neighborhoods – but Ritzman never got it.
“It would have been really, really, nice to have the police come by and talk to the neighbors personally because there are like five houses right next to what was going on here,” Ritzman said.
But, in the meantime, Ritzman said she is making sure she is safe.
“Double locking everything," she said.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 08:11 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 04:58 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – April 6 is National Living Donor Day, and KOB 4 is sharing the story of a man who is biking more than a thousand miles cross-country with one kidney – to raise awareness.
"13 people die every day in this country waiting for a kidney transplant," said Mark Scotch, living organ donor.
Scotch is a living organ donor from Wisconsin. He recently decided to give the gift of life to a stranger he met at a bar, named Hugh.
"Luckily, our conversation got deep enough to where he told me he had to go home and go on dialysis, and my sister-in-law had donated about 10 years before that. So I knew you could donate. I didn't know how well you could live after donation," said Scotch.
Now, seven months after his surgery, Scotch is in the middle of a thousand-mile bike ride from San Diego to Lubbock, all to spread the word about living donation.
An impressive feat for someone who now only has one kidney.
"That's what I'm trying to demonstrate by this bike ride, that you can donate a kidney, save someone's life, and still do whatever you want to do," Scotch said.
Living donors can help people like Patrick O'Brien, who's been waiting on a transplant for two years in Albuquerque.
"I'm just trying to make life work around it, waiting and hoping that I'll find a living donor that can donate a kidney to me," said O’Brien.
On Wednesday, both men joined local bikers on a short ride from UNM Hospital to Presbyterian, to raise two donate life flags, share their stories and celebrate a record number of lives saved in 2021.through organ donation.
"Last year in the state of New Mexico we saved more lives than ever. There were 93 donor heroes who were able to result in 219 transplantable organs, and those organs went to New Mexicans all over the state. They went to Californians, they went to people in Arizona, and so you look at the impact of that and the lives that we touch through organ donation because of right here in New Mexico," said Celina Espinoza, external affairs director of New Mexico Donor Services.
You can follow Scotch's cross-country journey on Facebook.
2021 was a record-breaking year for lives saved through organ donation.
Last year, KOB 4 introduced you to an Albuquerque teenager who died after saving his father from a house fire. 17-year-old Xaven Garcia's organs were donated to four others, giving them another chance at life.
For more information on living donation, visit the National Kidney Registry.
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Updated: April 06, 2022 09:03 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 08:09 PM
ROSWELL, N.M- On the second day of the murder trial of Luis Jimenez, jurors heard from additional witnesses, including the man who broke into the house with Jimenez just before the shooting allegedly happened.
Joseph Barnhill, 34, testified that on Dec. 11, 2012, he and Jimenez broke into the 1500 block of West Third Street residence, where 39-year-old Saul Sanchez was shot and killed.
Prosecutors allege Jimenez shot Sanchez when he was confronted during the burglary. Barnhill told jurors, Jimenez admitted to shooting and killing someone just before they drove away from the house.
“He just tells me he did something, that he hurt somebody, killed somebody, he thinks,” Barnhill said.
He reacted with disbelief.
“And I didn’t actually believe it until saw it on the news the next morning,” Barnhill added. He maintained that he did not shoot anyone that day in the house, and that he did not have a gun on his person that day.
In his testimony, Barnhill said Jimenez was driving around with him that day, when they discussed committing a burglary.
“In our minds, we were trying to get stuff, to sell, something like that,” he said.
Barnhill testified they soon ended up on Third Street when they arrived the house. He said that he remembered a friend of his had lived at the house several years before and wanted to stop and see if he still lived there.
Jimenez then stopped the car, and Barnhill said he got out and knocked on the door. When nobody answered, Barnhill said he and Jimenez parked in an alley behind the house. They then broke a window and entered the house through the back.
Barnhill said once they were inside, he thought he heard a car coming, and attempted to alert Jimenez who was in another room.
He then took a few items from the house, exited the house through the back and went to the car. Jimenez then joined him a few moments later in the car and they drove away.
After that, the two men then went to a jewelry store, where Barnhill said Jimenez got $30 for some jewelry he had stolen from the house. He added that Jimenez then dropped him off a few blocks from the East Jefferson Street house where Barnhill lived.
The defense during cross examination pointed out some of the inconstancies in Barnhill’s testimony and the various accounts he gave to authorities about what happened.
Melissa Sawyers, Jimenez’s attorney, said that though Barnhill said they had initially gone to the house because of a friend of Barnhill’s, she said that when he was later questioned by an FBI agent about the shooting and the burglary he said they chose that house because, a relative of his lived nearby, and that if police came while they were in the house, he could leave and hide at a relative’s house.
He also admitted under questioning by Sawyers that he had been doing methamphetamine at Jimenez’s house before the burglary.
Additional witnesses are expected to testify Thursday.
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Personal items belonging to America’s Golden Girl, Betty White, will be auctioned off this fall at a three-day event that’s set to tour before alighting in California, the auction company said.
Memorabilia ranging from a gold watch given to her by her mother, to her front door, will be auctioned off from Sept. 23-25 in Beverly Hills after the late actress tours the world in spirit aboard the Cunard cruise line.
“This is an auction representing an incredible life and career,” Martin Nolan, the executive director of Julien’s Auctions, told Reuters. “It’s a lifestyle auction. All these items came from her home in Brentwood or her residence in Carmel in northern California, where she lived with her husband Allen Ludden.”
The most personal one is a “14-carat gold watch that was gifted to Betty Dec. 25, 1940 with the initials T.C.W., which, of course, is Tess White, Betty’s mom,” Nolan said.
The actress died on New Year’s Eve, just three weeks before her 100th birthday.
More than 1,500 lots will be on offer and were unveiled in an exhibition on Tuesday. Items include the Hollywood icon’s “awards, scripts, wardrobe and memorabilia from her television shows and films, plus furnishings, artwork, fine jewelry, household and personal items from her beloved homes in Brentwood and Carmel, California,” Julien’s Auctions said in a media release. The collection in total is thought to be worth between $1 million and $2 million, Nolan told Reuters.
Items include her original director chair from “The Golden Girls” set, on the block for $1,000 to $2,000; the first draft of the television series’ pilot, which White read while pondering whether she would take on the part of Rose, also priced at $1,000 to $2,000, as is the final script that went into production and bears her autograph; scripts from other shows, such as “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Golden Girls” and “Hot in Cleveland,” some annotated by White, selling for $500 to $700 each lot.
Awards and nomination certificates, clothes she wore to various events, plus furnishings and the sunny yellow front door, plus brass cat door knocker, from her home in Brentwood, LA Magazine said. That will go for between $2,000 and $3,000.
Before the actual auction, parts of the collection will sail the Atlantic aboard the Cunard line, departing on Aug. 5 and arriving in Southampton, U.K. on Aug. 12, and be displayed to guests. International exhibits also include one in Santiago, Chile, from May 12 through July 4 and from Aug. 1 to Sept. 11 in Kildare, Ireland.
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LOUISVILLE — Jose Miranda led off the game with a home run, and the St. Paul Saints held that lead from start to finish in a 7-4 Triple-A baseball victory over the Louisville Bats in Game 2 of their season-opening six-game series Wednesday night at Louisville Slugger Field.
Miranda and Royce Lewis had two hits apiece to lead the Saints’ 8-hit attack, and Mark Contreras added a home run in the seventh inning. Jake Cave doubled, and Curtis Terry and Elliot Soto added singles for St. Paul (2-0).
For the second night in a row, Louisville (0-2) outhit the Saints, finishing with nine, but the Bats committed three errors.
The Saints scored three runs in the first inning, two in the fourth and two in the seventh.
JC Ramirez picked up the pitching win for the Saints, allowing three hits and no runs in 2.1 innings in relief of starter Daniel Gossett, who pitched the first 3.2 innings and allowed four hits and three runs. Juan Minaya finished up for St. Paul, allowing no hits and no runs over the final 2.1 innings to get the save.
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Another game against the Nets, another collapse from the Knicks at MSG.
After leading by as many as 21 in the second half, the Knicks’ offense completely deteriorated down the stretch and the Nets maintained control of their play-in destiny with a 110-98 victory Wednesday night.
The Nets (42-38) remained eighth in the East and will finish seventh by winning their season’s final two games, including Friday against the Cavaliers.
The Knicks (35-45) were playing for pride and they dropped it in the fourth quarter. The collapse arrived just a few weeks after they blew a 28-point lead to the Nets at MSG. Tom Thibodeau’s squad managed just two points in the final five minutes Wednesday, with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving flexing their starpower.
It was the duo’s first game as teammates at MSG, and they combined for 56 points — with Durant dropping 32 of them.
Durant torched RJ Barrett, who struggled to get around screens and contest the 7-footer’s shots.
The Knicks struggled on the other end while missing 20 of his 27 shots, including 2-of-11 from deep and just 7-for-12 from the foul line.
Rookie Jericho Sims was thrust into the Bockers’ starting lineup after Mitchell Robinson was scratched late because of a non-COVID illness. Sims impressed, recording the first double-double of his career with 13 rebounds. But he was gassed by the fourth quarter.
The Knicks were also missing Julius Randle (out for rest of season with a sore quad), who watched from the bench in street clothes. A day prior following practice, the Knicks expressed the desire to exact revenge after six straight defeats to their crosstown rival.
It started well with the Knicks holding a 17-point lead at the break. The advantage hit 21 in the third quarter, but the momentum shifted soon thereafter.
Within two minutes of the fourth quarter, the Nets had already taken the lead. The Knicks’ offense went in the tank, and the Nets left with their seventh straight victory over the rival.
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The Nets play their best basketball with their backs against the wall. That’s why their championship hopes are still alive in what looks like a lost season.
The Nets trailed by 17 points at the half and faced a deficit as large as 21 in the third quarter before turning on the jets to make it a respectable game in the fourth quarter. That’s when Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving shouldered the load to carry their team to a 110-98 win over their cross-town rivals, the Knicks, at the Garden.
The fact their backs were against the wall against a Knicks team seeded 12th in the East without starters Julius Randle, Mitchell Robinson and Derrick Rose is concerning approaching the final two decisive games of the regular season before Tuesday’s play-in tournament.
The Knicks (35-45) are 10 games below-.500. They have become synonymous with blown leads, failed late-game execution and fumbling the bag after a fourth-seeded finish last season. That team built a lead that would have swallowed most.
But the Nets continued to prove they aren’t most teams.
The Knicks aren’t like most teams, either — they’re not like most teams standing in-between the Nets and the Larry O’Brien championship trophy. The road to the NBA Finals will undoubtedly have pit stops in Miami, Milwaukee, Boston or Philadelphia. The Knicks don’t even belong in the same sentence as those teams.
Which makes Wednesday’s result polarizing. The Nets trailed by more than 20, at times looking disinterested in winning a game they needed, before showing up the Knicks on their own floor. Before showing their so-called big brother who’s really the boss in the Big Apple.
There are two ways of viewing the glass, and both are correct: The Nets should have never trailed by that much against such a lesser opponent, but they showed their spine and resolve coming back via a 33-point swing to secure their chances at finishing seventh in the East.
The Nets are one of the hardest teams to read in all of basketball. They run little to no offensive sets. Their effort fluctuates on a daily basis. Their only identifiable actions are “get the ball to Durant or Irving and get out of the way,” or the occasional pick-and-roll, which results in an attempt at the rim, a kick-out to a shooter or, wait for it, the ball back in either Durant or Irving’s hands. Their defense picks and chooses which quarters, sometimes which games, it wants to show.
Yet, when the Nets are playing inspired defense like they were in the second half against the Knicks, the limited offensive play-calling is enough. That’s why you invest more than $300 million in your two superstar scorers.
They can get you a basket when most others can’t. And they can get you a win out of thin air.
What looked like a lost game and a lost season at halftime still looked like a team with at least a puncher’s chance at winning a championship. There is no deficit too big for the Nets to overcome.
Now there’s one more lead to come back from: trailing in the standings as the eighth seed trying to make the NBA Finals.
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NEW ULM, Minn. — An investigator with the New Ulm Police Department in southern Minnesota faces two felony charges for alleged criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office arrested Eric Alan Gramentz on Tuesday and brought him to Waseca County’s jail to avoid potential conflicts of interest, according to a release.
A criminal complaint states a girl came forward Sunday alleging Gramentz had touched her in the groin area on multiple occasions about four years ago when she was 11 or 12 years old. He allegedly touched her under the guise of “trying to teach her to masturbate,” according to the complaint.
Gramentz reportedly told an investigator the girl was complaining of stomach problems, so he suggested she try masturbation as an option to deal with the pain.
The “coaching” went on for about a two-month period, including up to 14 different incidents.
The last instance involved her wanting him to crack her back and him slipping his hands down her pants.
The complaint said he told her not to tell anyone, and that he knew the activity was wrong.
The New Ulm Police Department placed Gramentz on leave during the investigation.
A LinkedIn account for Gramentz lists him as a police officer in New Ulm since 2004, including being full time since 2005 and an investigator since 2020.
His additional experience includes working part time as a security officer for Allina Health from 2016 to 2018, part time for the Winthrop Police Department from 2009 to 2016, and part time as an law enforcement instructor at Alexandria Technical and Community College from 2009 to 2013.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The mass killing that left six people dead and 12 wounded outside bars just blocks from California’s Capitol last weekend was a gunfight involving at least five shooters from rival gangs, Sacramento police said Wednesday.
Police said they identified at least five gunmen but there may have been more. Only two suspects — both brothers wounded by gunfire — have been arrested in connection with the shooting and, so far, only face firearms charges.
“We’re still working through … who the actual shooters are in the case,” Sgt. Zach Eaton said.
Until Wednesday’s announcement, police had been silent on what led to the shooting that erupted early Sunday as bars were letting out. Rapid-fire bursts of over 100 gunshots echoed through the streets as terrified patrons ran for their lives and others were hit by bullets.
Police said at least two gangs were involved. They declined to provide more details or name the gangs involved or the affiliation of any suspects.
Experts said that if gangs were to blame, it would mark an unusually bloody feud.
In 20 years of researching gangs in Los Angeles, Alex Alonso said he can’t remember a gang-related shooting with such a high body count.
“It’s extremely rare that a gang shooting happened as the way this one is being characterized,” Alonso said. “It’s extremely rare to have that happen in a public place with so many victims.”
Gregory Chris Brown, a criminal justice professor at California State University, Fullerton, said gangs often target rivals in drive-by shootings with fewer victims, though innocent bystanders are sometimes also struck.
The location of the Sacramento shooting – in a bustling area of watering holes near the entertainment district — was incidental to whatever fueled the fight.
“If rival gang members see each other it doesn’t matter if they’re in the Capitol of the United States of America,” Brown said. “If you see a rival gang member and you’re going to attack them, it doesn’t matter where they are.”
The large number of casualties was the result of high-capacity weapons in a crowded area, he said.
Berry Accius, founder of Voice of the Youth who leads gun intervention and prevention programs and offered his services to counsel families who lost loved ones in the shooting, criticized police for characterizing the crime as gang-related, which he said will lead some to “think Black people.”
He said people will see the photos of the Black women and men who were shot, assume they were in a gang and wonder why gang members are downtown.
“That’s the narrative we don’t need at this particular time,” Accius said. “This idea that we’re going to put blame to one demographic of folks and blame them for the violence that ensued.”
Bill Sanders, a criminologist at Cal State LA, said he wanted to see more evidence the shooting was gang-related, a term police often use to drum up support. He said gang shootings are more mundane and most occur in what are considered gang neighborhoods.
“If you looked at a map of gang homicides in the city — or any city — over time, you’d see the same areas lighting up — meaning that’s where they occur. If these guys were white, this wouldn’t be considered gang related — not even for a minute.”
Authorities credited witnesses who contributed nearly 200 videos, photos and other tips with helping the investigation.
Police were trying to determine if a stolen handgun found at the crime scene was used in the massacre. It had been converted to a weapon capable of automatic gunfire.
They are also investigating whether a gun one of the brothers, Smiley Martin, 27, brandished in a video was used in the shooting, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to publicly discuss details and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Martin and his brother were among those wounded in the gunfire that erupted about 2 a.m. Sunday as bars closed and patrons filled the streets.
The Sacramento County coroner identified the three women killed as Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21. The three men killed were Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and De’vazia Turner, 29.
Ten people were wounded in addition to the Martin brothers. At least two remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
Smiley Martin faces charges of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun. He remained hospitalized and it wasn’t clear if he had an attorney who could speak for him.
His brother, Dandrae Martin, 26, was arrested as a “related suspect” and appeared briefly Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court on a charge of being a convict carrying a loaded gun.
He did not enter a plea and his attorney said she would wait to see if prosecutors brought more serious charges before deciding whether to seek his release.
Both men have criminal records. Smiley Martin was released from prison in February after serving about half of a 10-year prison sentence for beating a girlfriend. He was denied parole last year after prosecutors said he “clearly has little regard for human life,” documents show.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg questioned why the brothers were on the streets.
“Those questions need to be answered and they will be answered over the days ahead,” Steinberg said.
A 31-year-old man seen carrying a handgun immediately after the shooting was arrested Tuesday on a weapons charge. Police said they don’t believe his gun was used in the shooting.
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This version corrects that Smiley Martin served about half of a 10-year prison sentence, not about two years of the term.
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Melley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Stefanie Dazio, Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Don Thompson in Sacramento, Michael Balsamo in Washington, Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York City contributed to this report.
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LAWRENCE, Ind.- This weekend thousands of runners from 43 states will hit the streets for the Carmel Marathon. This year, the race will mark a special milestone for a central Indiana runner.
This will be Keely Sloo’s 50th full marathon.
“Every marathon I do is honestly kind of a gift, the fact that even my body has held up this long,” said Keely Sloo, a marathon runner.
Keely ran her first marathon when she was 26-years-old.
“What’s funny is, when I finished, I said I’ll never do that again,” said Sloo.
Well, she did it again. And again. And again. Keely is now 41 years old and a mother of four little boys. The youngest is just 8 months old. All the chaos makes her runs more about a time to relax.
“It makes me a better mom. I think because I have something for myself and when I get really stressed, running to me is more about stress relief than anything,” said Sloo.
She’s done marathons across the country. From Nevada to Florida, a lot of miles here in the Midwest. Just a few days ago, Keely did the St. Louis Marathon, which means back-to-back weekends of 26.2 miles.
“The thing about running is, it’s not competing with anybody else. There are tons of people that beat me, that are faster than me, better than me but it’s just more about enjoying it and competing with yourself,” said Sloo.
Keely never runs for a finish time, instead she runs for the feeling of the finish line.
“I think it’s not even a matter of being proud, I think it’s more grateful that I get to do it,” said Sloo.
50 marathons in 15 years. No matter what race or what mile, this mom has one rule.
“I just keep thinking keep moving and keep going,” said Sloo.
Keely plans to keep running as long as her body allows her to. Her ultimate goal is a 100-mile race.
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INDIANAPOLIS — April 7 marks the start of a nationwide initiative to crack down on distracted driving.
It is called the “Connect 2 Disconnect” initiative and several local police departments here in Central Indiana will be participating. The goal of the one-day initiative is to spread awareness, educate drivers, and reduce crashes. April is also Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
“There’s nothing more important than focusing on driving while you’re operating an automobile,” said Rob Duckworth, Director of Traffic Safety at the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. “It only takes a split second while distracted for something to change. People don’t realize how much they’re covering in ground and distance when they’re traveling down the roadway. And how quickly you travel the length of a football field.”
According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a total of 38,824 people were killed in crashes nationwide in 2020. Roughly 8% of those, or 3,142, were caused by a distracted driver.
Duckworth said the average driver is distracted for up to seven seconds when they take their eyes off the road.
“That’s why you can’t even hold your phone while you’re driving. Hands Free means not touching your phone completely. And that’s what we need for people to be effective to help us reduce these crashes,” said Duckworth.
“Just that one time that you put your head down or you got your phone in front of you could take somebody’s life,” said IMPD public information officer, William Young.
IMPD is one of several local police departments participating in this year’s initiative. That means on Thursday, April 7th, drivers will notice and see more officers targeting distracted drivers specifically.
“On my way here to meet with you all, [I] pulled up next to a lady and she’s got her phone in her face and I can tell she’s texting and she looks over at me because she sees that patrol car she puts her phone down,” said Young. “However, we want you to never do that even if you don’t see a patrol car. I think that’s extremely important.”
In 2020, Indiana passed the hands-free driving law which makes it illegal to even be holding your phone while driving. According to the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, since then, police have issued more than 6,000 citations and almost twice as many warnings last year alone.
“And that’s only the items that we saw,” said Duckworth. “So when you magnify that towards the events that happen every day, it’s a significant issue on Indiana roadways.”
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INDIANAPOLIS – They say you can’t go home again. Don’t tell Thad Matta.
Butler reintroduced Matta as its head men’s basketball basketball coach with an on-court ceremony at Hinkle Fieldhouse open to fans on Wednesday afternoon.
The 54-year-old takes over a program he led 22 years ago to a conference regular season championship, a conference tournament title and a win in the NCAA Tournament.
He left an impressive head coaching run at Ohio State, including two trips to the Final Four five years ago with health issues, but says he feels great now.
He spent last season as an associate athletic director at Indiana helping Mike Woodson navigate the college game, which game him the itch to coach again.
“People would always ask me wherever I go, they’d say ‘coach, are go going to get back in?” Matta recalled. “I always said the same thing. If I found the perfect situation, I think I would do it, but I don’t know what the perfect situation is.
“When I got the call [from Butler], I said think I found the perfect situation. It was there, but it had to be right.”
Matta is taking over a team with back-to-back losing seasons. The Bulldogs finished 14-19 and in ninth place in the Big East this year after a 6-14 league mark.
“I know how I want to play, but how can we play to give us a chance win basketball games,” said Matta. “I would open up my new tenure at Butler by lying if I said this is exactly what we’re going to do.
“We’re going to have our things that are important to us and we know we want to do everytime we take the floor. I love the challenge of a new start and I hope our players love the challenge of having a fresh start and a new opportunity ahead.”
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2 men arrested with enough fentanyl to kill 4.7 million people, officials say
BUENA PARK, Calif. (Gray News) - Officials in Southern California report police have taken two men into custody with hundreds of pounds of drugs, which has resulted in the biggest bust in the last 16 years in Orange County.
According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, a lethal dose of fentanyl is as little as 2 milligrams, and authorities recovered nearly 21 pounds of fentanyl pills after Buena Park police pulled over a minivan leaving a house on March 17.
Police also said they found about 821 pounds of methamphetamine and 190 pounds of cocaine.
Edgar Alfonso Lamas, 36, and Carlos Raygozaparedes, 53, were the men arrested in the drug bust. The district attorney’s office reports the two face several felony charges, including possession of a controlled substance and the sale or transportation of a controlled substance.
Police said the alleged two drug dealers were also charged with felony enhancements that the controlled substances exceeded 80 and 20 kilograms by weight or 400 liters by liquid volume.
“Millions of unsuspecting people have the grim reaper looking over their shoulder. They have no idea how close they actually are to dying from taking a single pill,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “Fentanyl is cheap, it’s easy to get, and it is killing our children, our co-workers, and tens of thousands of innocent Americans who don’t have to die. Drug dealers don’t care about you or your loved ones – they only care about their bottom line and making as much money as possible.”
Lamas and Raygozaparedes face a maximum sentence of 37 years and four months in jail if convicted on all charges. According to the district attorney’s office, the two have pled not guilty and remain in custody on a $5 million bail.
According to court records, a preliminary hearing is scheduled for the two men on June 7 in Fullerton, California.
“With fentanyl in an estimated 40 percent of street drugs, it’s not a matter of if but when someone you know, and love dies from fentanyl. We have to continue to do everything we can to combat this deadly drug epidemic and save lives,” Spitzer said.
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First-Plymouth’s using concerts to help pay off neighbor’s medical debt
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Concerts offering spiritual experiences headline First-Plymouth Church’s community programs on Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
The Good Friday, April 15, 7 p.m., concert, Were You There? will be held in First-Plymouth’s sanctuary and online at www.firstplymouth.org. The Holy Saturday concert, “Handel’s Messiah” will be April 16, 5:30 p.m., in the sanctuary and online.
On Good Friday, soloists Icy Simpson, Ariel Merivil and Marques Garrett will be featured with First-Plymouth’s chamber choir (Schola cantorum) in heart rending interpretations of Negro spirituals. This spiritually powerful music is sure to deepen our experience with Christ’s passion. Scriptures, prayers and pastoral reflections will offer counterpoint to the musical expressions guiding our journey to the Cross.
The Good Friday service will follow the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. Each section will include a scripture and then a song or spoken reflection to further express the text. The Negro spiritual songs share Biblical stories that demonstrate God’s faithfulness and human resilience in the face of trials. These songs represent powerful testaments of faith borne from a community that endured deep suffering and yet held onto hope through it all.
Freewill donations will help First-Plymouth’s JustNeighbors initiative pay off neighbor’s medical debt in Lincoln. Childcare provided.
On Holy Saturday, Handel’s Messiah will also feature the Schola Cantorum as well as soloists Simpson, Garrett and Matthew Clegg. The singers will be accompanied by strings, trumpets and timpani in excerpts from the compelling Messiah—a beloved musical expression of the hope and joy that Easter brings.
First performed in 1742, Handel’s Messiah includes the iconic “Hallelujah Chorus,” perhaps the most recognized piece of choral music ever composed and one that continues to be performed frequently nearly 300 years later.
First-Plymouth’s Schola Cantorum choir recently sang in Chicago, as the only church choir selected to perform for the Midwestern Regional Convention of the American Choral Directors Association. Conductor Tom Trenney won Second Prize in the 2021 American Prize for Choral Conductors, and he will conduct two choral/orchestral performances in Carnegie Hall next season.
This Holy Saturday concert will be held in First-Plymouth’s sanctuary and online at www.firstplymouth.org. Freewill donations will help First-Plymouth’s JustNeighbors initiative pay off neighbor’s medical debt in Lincoln. Childcare provided.
First-Plymouth Church is a progressive, inclusive Congregational church dedicated to its mission to increase the love of God and neighbor. More information about the church, its programs and services is available at firstplymouth.org.
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Lincoln Airport rolls out program for those with hidden disabilities
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A new option at the Lincoln Airport aims to make it easier for those with hidden disabilities to get to their flight, with the help of a flower.
The program is known as the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Project. The goal is to make these people, who can often feel overwhelmed at an airport, more visible so they can more easily get the help they might need.
“It was a program created actually in the UK by an airport there,” said Rachel Barth with the Lincoln Airport Authority. “It just caught popularity and as people started understanding more and more about the program, they started to expand to the United States.”
Travelers need to wear one of the green sunflower lanyards, pins or wristbands, which can be found at Guest Services or the United Check-in area, to be identified by airport staff in case they need to provide some assistance. They are free of charge and there’s no paperwork to fill out.
Hidden disabilities can mean things like autism, PTSD, hearing or vision problems, dementia, and more.
“Help with understanding things, maybe being physically shown where the bathrooms are or maybe help going up the escalators,” Barth said. “You might just have to explain things a couple of different times, there are variations of understanding, and again, it’s just that recognizable piece that they can decide if they want to wear or not.”
Barth said bringing the program is just the first step. The airport is already ADA compliant, but part as part of an ongoing expansion it plans to take more people with disabilities into account when it comes to design work.
“I’m also working with the deaf and hard-of-hearing folks here in Lincoln,” Barth said. “They’re coming here and giving us suggestions on things we can do to improve that experience with our new terminal and new design.”
In getting ready to roll everything out, airport employees have watched instructional videos and are now on the lookout for sunflowers.
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Lincoln police searching for missing 12-year-old girl
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln Police Department is requesting assistance in locating a missing girl.
Emyrikal Williams is 12 years old, 5 feet tall, 110 lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a maroon sweatshirt, floral t-shirt, gray sweatpants, and was last seen near 1st Street and Adams Street around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Call the non-emergency number (402)441-6000 if you have any information.
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Nebraska prison reform bill fails to advance
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - As state senators have pointed out, Nebraska’s prison overcrowding is the worst in the nation, but LB 920 came to an end Wednesday. It attempted to reduce sentencing and penalties to lower the number of people incarcerated in Nebraska prisons.
The goal was to cover three broad categories including investing more in problem-solving courts, sentencing changes for non-violent felons and expanding programs.
On Wednesday, it failed during a cloture vote, falling four votes shy, essentially killing the bill. Supporters say a new prison won’t bring the number of prisoners down.
“We don’t have the most people incarcerated yet, but we’re getting there, we’re trying to get there. we don’t have a plan unless we do something pretty significant right here today.” State Sen. Wendy DeBoer said.
“To be pushed to do something that goes against a core value that I have is not gonna happen.” State Sen. Suzanne Geist said.
Nebraska prisons are currently designed to hold about 3,600 inmates, but the population is about 5,300. Some senators pointed to a proposed $236-million dollar new prison as the solution to overcrowding. The proposed prison would bring 1,500 beds to the state.
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Woodi Washington’s 2021 campaign was quickly derailed after suffering an injury two weeks into the season.
The injury kept the cornerback sidelined for seven of the team’s 13 games before he was able to return for the final four games. The season became further disruptive when several of the Sooners’ coaches departed the program, including his position coach Roy Manning.
But Washington’s commitment to the Sooners never wavered. He was one of the players on the field for the Sooners’ Alamo Bowl win over Oregon to end the season, finishing with seven tackles.
One thing that helped Washington was the hiring of Brent Venables as head coach, who he calls one of the ‘greatest defensive minds to ever coach.’ Another thing that excited him was the hiring of Jay Valai as the Sooners’ cornerbacks coach.
Valai landed at Oklahoma after spending a season as Alabama’s cornerbacks coach, helping lead the Crimson Tide to the 2021 national championship. He also spent a season as the cornerbacks coach at Texas, and he was a former All-Big Ten defensive back during his playing times.
It’s that experience that has stood out to Washington during the Sooners’ spring practices.
“It’s definitely different,” Washington said. “Last year, obviously Roy Manning was our cornerbacks coach and he played linebacker. He did a great job with what he did know. But a guy like Valai, he played in the [NFL]. He had a great college career and he’s coached in the NFL and he’s coached some guys in the NFL. For him to be our coach, it just pushes us to be the best we can be every day.”
Washington’s experience has stood out to Valai, too.
Despite his injury, the redshirt junior had big moments for the Sooners last season. He started all six games he played, finishing with 27 tackles and two interceptions, which both came against Oklahoma State to end the regular season.
During the offseason and spring practices, Valai has challenged Washington to grow as a leader.
“Woodi is a vet and he’s been part of the game,” Valai said. “He understands the game and he has a high level of ‘want-to.’ The biggest thing is working his details and understanding the craft and where he fits in this defense. He’s been busting his tail. He’s always asking questions, being intentional and being a good leader for the entire room.
“We think he’s noticing that and understanding that fit in Coach Venables’ culture from top down. That’s one thing we are pushing from him is wanting more. For everybody across the board, one thing we’re trying to destroy now is [lacking anything.] We don’t want guys who lack passion, lack tenacity, lack a ‘want-to’, lack being intentional. All those details have to be intentional, finite and to the point. We know if we do those things, we’ll be elite in everything we do.”
Washington’s been receptive to that message. He’s got his own goals — he wants to intercept more passes this season — but he also wants to be a team leader.
“[I’m] just letting coach Valai push me,” Washington said. “I’m probably the leader in the group. So I’m letting him push me and keep getting me better.”
His effort has been evident to teammates outside of his position group, including linebacker David Ugwoegbu.
"Woodi is a guy that comes in and competes every single day,” Ugwoegbu said. “Woodi is going to give it his all every single day. I can say for sure that Woodi pushes me because from snap No. 1 of practice to the end of practice. You don't see a change in Woodi. His intensity when it comes to practice is definitely something that drives the rest of the guys. It's easier for young guys to follow when the leader and the older guy in the group is easier. That just sets the standard and the tone for everybody else to fall in."
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Oklahoma just needed a win to get back on track.
The Sooners had suffered one of their toughest losses of the season against Texas on Sunday heading into Tuesday’s contest with Oral Roberts University. That game saw the Sooners lead 7-1 in the sixth inning before the Longhorns ended the game on an 11-1 run to win the game by four runs.
The win gave the Longhorns the series’ win. But for OU coach Skip Johnson, the focus for the team against ORU wasn’t about bouncing back from the loss.
“I think it was more of just trying to go out and play good baseball,” Johnson said. “Instead of worrying about winning or losing the game, just go play good baseball. We played really good this past weekend. Friday was a little bit of a let down, Saturday we played good, Sunday we played extremely well for six innings.”
If the message was simply playing good baseball, they accomplished that against ORU Tuesday, taking care of business with an 8-2 win at L. Dale Mitchell Field.
It was the Sooners’ solid offensive outing that kept them ahead, and it started with back-to-back RBIs from Blake Robertson and Tanner Tredaway that put the Sooners on the board in the first inning. In the second inning, Peyton Graham’s single to left field scored Wallace Clark that gave the team a three-run lead.
Clark, who was walked and stole two bases to advance to third before finding home, is earning the trust of the coaching staff.
“He’s really a smart player,” Johnson said. “He plays at an even-keel level. He really has quality at-bats every bat he has. That’s what you want. You can’t ask him to get a hit. You ask him to have a quality at-bat and you try to hit the ball hard and that’s what he’s bought into. and he’ll continue to grow in that area.”
The only lull for the Sooners offensively came in the third and fourth innings, where they hit just one run combined. But Braden Carmichael’s work on the mound kept ORU from finding momentum, as the Golden Eagles also didn’t register a hit in either inning.
Graham — who led the Sooners’ offensively all evening with three hits, three runs and two RBIs — hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to help the Sooners regain momentum offensively.
Jimmy Crooks followed that up with a triple to right field, which scored Tredaway to give the Sooners two runs in the inning.
“When we start getting it rolling, it becomes electric. It really does,” Johnson said.
The Sooners’ scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to push their lead. Other than ORU’s runs in the seventh and ninth innings, the Sooners kept control for most of the game.
Tredaway finished with three hits, two runs and two RBIs. Robertson added two hits and two runs. The Sooners finished with 10 hits.
Carmichael earned the win on the mound with two strikeouts while surrendering just one hit and no runs in four innings. ORU recorded six hits in 34 at-bats.
The Sooners will look to get back on track in conference play with a three-game series against Oklahoma State in Stillwater this weekend. The first game is set for 6 p.m. Friday.
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Oklahoma’s high-powered offense wasn’t as explosive as it normally is on a windy Wednesday evening at Marita Hynes Field.
The Sooners hit several balls hard, but each time it got caught up in a strong north wind and either ended up in foul territory or was caught short of the fence.
The conditions weren’t favorable for a team that uses the long ball as often as the Sooners do, but that didn’t stop them from running away with a 9-0 run-rule win over Tulsa in five innings.
With the wind blowing, the Sooners focused on stealing bases — they recorded five — and bunted often. Even Jocelyn Alo laid down a sacrifice bunt to score the Sooners’ fourth run in the bottom of the second inning.
OU head coach Patty Gasso said the NCAA’s career-leader in home runs didn’t hesitate when she brought up the idea of laying down a squeeze bunt.
“We work on it a lot in practice, and a lot of times I don’t get to use it in a game or it doesn’t fit,” OU head coach Patty Gasso said about the team's strategy. “When do I ask Jocelyn Alo to squeeze? But if they’re going to play five-feet behind the bag it makes since and with the wind and the way it’s working, it makes even more sense.”
Jayda Coleman finished 2-of-2 at the plate and had an RBI-single during a four-run third inning for the Sooners.
Coleman credited the team’s energy on Wednesday to the plays they were finally getting to implement in a game situation.
“Yeah I definitely felt it,” Coleman said. “You can just tell when we have that energy, we just play more free. When coach has the card and we’re executing the things we’ve practiced all season long, we just get excited for those types of things and play more free.”
Coleman led-off the second inning with a line-drive single into centerfield. On the very next pitch, she stole second and forced an error by the catcher. Two batters later, she scored on a sacrifice bunt by Jana Johns.
When the sophomore went back to the plate in the bottom of the third, she had two runners on and no outs. Coleman took a split grip and made a soft, swinging slap at the ball towards the shortstop.
Tulsa’s shortstop wasn’t able to make a good charge at the ball as it bounced towards her, and Coleman was able to beat the throw at first base for an RBI-single.
“I [usually plan on] low line-drives, ground balls up the middle, [but] she gave me a soft slap-and-run, so [I was] just executing whatever I can get,” Coleman said.
Sophomore pitcher Nicole May got her first start of the season against the Golden Hurricanes and pitched five scoreless innings. Tulsa was able to get a runner to third with two outs in the fifth, but May struck out the final batter to end the game.
May allowed just three hits and had six strikeouts with two walks.
“It feels good knowing I have a good defense behind me,” May said. “Like today, we had the whole infield making plays for (me), the outfield going all-out for balls and stuff so that feels great, definitely makes me feel better.”
The Sooners will now begin a long road stretch before returning to Marita Hynes Field against Iowa State on Friday, April 22. The Sooners will play a three-game weekend series at Texas Tech starting on Friday at 5 p.m.
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JOHNSON, Ark. — Exactly one week after an EF-3 tornado hit the City of Springdale.
5NEWS along with the First National Bank, American Red Cross, and iHeart Radio put out a call to action and you stepped up in a big way.
Many people gave online and in-person including young kids.
"Please give this to the people whose house blew away in the tornado," said a young child while donating.
"I wanted to help people,” said Holly Chamlee. “You know, I've been awfully blessed, and I just want to be able to help people."
For Chamlee, donating was personal after seeing the damage at her childhood home.
"I grew up on Fairway Circle,” said Chamlee. “My parents built that house over there when I was 13."
She says she also felt for those in the Woodridge neighborhood.
Rick Ulrich says he gave because of his own experience with tornadoes.
"I been in a tornado and it was at 4:00 in the morning too," Ulrich said.
Ulrich says he lost all that he had and to see people going through the same thing he went through, pulled on his heartstrings.
"You just can't imagine until it happens to you,” Ulrich said. “How shocking this thing is."
Deacons Frankie Fitch and Carl Johnson gave on behalf of Christ Light House Church in Huntsville. The church might be small, but its heart is big donating $1,000 to the event.
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2 men arrested with enough fentanyl to kill 4.7 million people, officials say
BUENA PARK, Calif. (Gray News) - Officials in Southern California report police have taken two men into custody with hundreds of pounds of drugs, which has resulted in the biggest bust in the last 16 years in Orange County.
According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, a lethal dose of fentanyl is as little as 2 milligrams, and authorities recovered nearly 21 pounds of fentanyl pills after Buena Park police pulled over a minivan leaving a house on March 17.
Police also said they found about 821 pounds of methamphetamine and 190 pounds of cocaine.
Edgar Alfonso Lamas, 36, and Carlos Raygozaparedes, 53, were the men arrested in the drug bust. The district attorney’s office reports the two face several felony charges, including possession of a controlled substance and the sale or transportation of a controlled substance.
Police said the alleged two drug dealers were also charged with felony enhancements that the controlled substances exceeded 80 and 20 kilograms by weight or 400 liters by liquid volume.
“Millions of unsuspecting people have the grim reaper looking over their shoulder. They have no idea how close they actually are to dying from taking a single pill,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “Fentanyl is cheap, it’s easy to get, and it is killing our children, our co-workers, and tens of thousands of innocent Americans who don’t have to die. Drug dealers don’t care about you or your loved ones – they only care about their bottom line and making as much money as possible.”
Lamas and Raygozaparedes face a maximum sentence of 37 years and four months in jail if convicted on all charges. According to the district attorney’s office, the two have pled not guilty and remain in custody on a $5 million bail.
According to court records, a preliminary hearing is scheduled for the two men on June 7 in Fullerton, California.
“With fentanyl in an estimated 40 percent of street drugs, it’s not a matter of if but when someone you know, and love dies from fentanyl. We have to continue to do everything we can to combat this deadly drug epidemic and save lives,” Spitzer said.
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How to keep a good credit score
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 9:54 PM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Financial experts say when debt is placed on your credit report it could make it harder to get access to credit or loans. Here are some tips to bring up your score.
- Pay down credit card debt
- Get added as an authorized user on a credit card from a family member or friend
- Put payments on auto-pay
To keep your credit score in check, check out this website: https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action
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John Marshall’s Phil Schroeder Steps Down
Schroeder: 166-82 in nine years at JM
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 10:05 PM CDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – John Marshall head coach Phil Schroeder has stepped down from the position. Schroeder spent nine seasons as head coach of the Rockets and picked up a 166-82 record over that span.
Schroeder is a long-time figure in the Rochester sports community. He was a former standout athlete at Mayo High School, RCTC, and Winona State.
Schroeder was a two-time Big 9 and Section 1AAAA coach of the year during his tenure at JM.
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Kasson-Mantorville’s Aby Shubert Commits to Xavier
The rising senior averaged 22 points (42% 3P), 5 rebounds, 2 steals, 2 assists per game last season
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 10:06 PM CDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
Kasson-Mantorville Guard Aby Shubert committed to play at Xavier on Wednesday.
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This past season, the rising senior averaged 22 points per game and shot 42% from beyond the arc. She also added 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 assists per game.
In addition, she was elite from the line -- shooting 88% from the charity stripe, which is good for 15th-best in Minnesota history.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Purdue Fort Wayne got contributions from every part of their lineup, as all nine starters reached base safely and the bullpen threw 7.1 scoreless innings, to help the Mastodons defeat the Michigan Wolverines 6-3 on Wednesday (April 6) evening.
The win over Michigan is the Mastodons’ second ever over the Wolverines and their first since 2012. It is the Mastodons’ first win over a Big Ten school since the ‘Dons took a pair from Purdue in 2016.
The ‘Dons took the lead just one out into the game when Jack Lang hit a solo home run to left center in the first inning.
While the Wolverines would knot it in the first and then take a 3-1 lead after two, the Purdue Fort Wayne pitching staff would put up zeros the rest of the way.
The big inning for the ‘Dons came in the fourth. A bases-loaded walk by Brian Erbe made it a 3-2 game and forced Michigan starter Walker Cleveland from the game. Jake Keaser entered to face Jarrett Bickel with two outs and the bases loaded. Bickel lined the first pitch Keaser threw to left field for a bases-clearing double. It put the ‘Dons up 5-3. A Luke Miles double in the sixth to score Alex Evenson, who also doubled, made the score 6-3.
Jacob Myer (1-4) got the win out of the bullpen for Purdue Fort Wayne. The left-hander went 1.1 shutout innings without giving up a hit or a walk and striking out one. Justin Miller closed the door, getting an old-fashioned three-inning save. He allowed two hits and two walks while striking out four. Michigan had a chance in the ninth, as their team leader in home runs Tito Flores came to the plate with two outs and a pair of runners on. But Miller earned a called strike three for the final out of the game.
Brendan Reid didn’t allow a run in 2.0 innings of work. Kevin Fee threw a scoreless sixth for the ‘Dons.
GAME NOTES» Miles added a single to his double for a pair of hits in the game.» Purdue Fort Wayne pitchers limited Michigan to just 1-for-12 (.083) with runners in scoring position.» Purdue Fort Wayne pitchers earned 14 fly balls in the game.» The Mastodons drew four walks from Michigan pitching.» The save for Miller was his first of the season.» Michigan was led offensively by Jack Van Remortel, who went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.» Walker (1-2) earned the loss for Michigan.» The ‘Dons improve to 5-22. Michigan falls to 14-14.
ON DECK» The ‘Dons return to Horizon League play this weekend with a trip to Milwaukee.
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ANDERSON, Ind. (WANE)–Like a scene straight out of a movie, parole agents and ISP detectives in Anderson were stuck in a four hour standoff with a fugitive on Wednesday, according to Indiana State Police.
On Wednesday afternoon, parole Agents and ISP detectives were tracking Barry J. Willis, a 47-year-old fugitive in the Anderson area who was wanted for a parole violation.
Police tracked Willis to a house at 1324 Menifee St, where upon arrival, Willis proceeded to flee into the residence.
For the next four hours, police and Willis were engaged in a standoff. Eventually, police requested assistance from the Indiana State Police SWAT team.
After numerous unsuccessful attempts by the ISP SWAT team to coax Willis out, the SWAT team resorted to using gas to remove Willis from the house.
Willis finally surrendered and was taken into custody at Madison County jail.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Veo Scooters and bikes are once again available for riders in Fort Wayne.
The alternative transportation provided by Veo since 2019 has returned. Most of its vehicles have been deployed already, but a few more will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
Eric Xayarath, VEO operations manager said the Veo warehouse that stores all of the vehicles spans 6,000 square feet, making it the largest Veo warehouse. He also went on to talk about their battery charging room, the first of its type in the nation.
He said they worked closely with inspectors and the fire department to install the room which features a new, high tech fire suppression.
However, the charging room isn’t the only new addition…
Xayarath showed off two new vehicles that could hit the streets by the end of the summer.
The new Veo bike features both pedals and an a throttle. The new scooter is the newest edition of their already existing model, the Astro VS4. It has working turn signals, and a system that allows Veo to give riders direct voice commands to let them know if they are getting close to the edge of the driving range.
The new vehicles have yet to get the go ahead from the city, but Xayarath said that they are working with the city to make sure the vehicles are safe for the community.
Already in place is a curfew that doesn’t permit riding between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., and an optional mode on the vehicles that reduces their top speed. In addition, all vehicles have numbers to contact customer support on them, and Xayarath said for each call, the response time was under two hours last year.
Whether they’re riding new models or not, expect to see Veo’s vehicles in use this summer.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – After a red-hot month of March, the Komets had cooled off since the calendar flipped to April. However, on Wednesday the K’s got back to their winning ways, defeating the rival Walleye 5-3 at War Memorial Coliseum.
The victory snapped a three-game losing streak for Fort Wayne.
Will Graber and Willie Corrin each scored a goal in the first period to give the Komets a 2-1 lead after one.
In the second period Zach Pochiro broke a 2-2 tie with a rebound goal just under 4 minutes into the frame, as his 16th goal of the season gave the Komets a 3-2 lead. Anthony Petruzzelli would score midway through the second period, with his 26th goal of the year upping Fort Wayne’s lead to 4-2.
Former Komet Brandon Hawkins found the net against his old team to cut Toledo’s deficit to 4-3 with just under three minutes left in the second period, but a third period goal from Adam Brubacher set the final at 5-3.
Sam Harvey stopped 26-of-29 shots in goal for the Komets.
The Komets are back in action on Friday when they host Toledo again at 8 p.m.
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The bird flu is spreading to additional poultry flocks in Minnesota, according to the state Board of Animal Health.
The latest outbreak of avian influenza has now affected 15 flocks in the state, up from seven last Friday.
The newly reported cases all are in commercial turkey flocks — two in Kandiyohi County and one each in Becker, Dodge, Le Sueur and Stearns counties, Minnesota Public Radio News reported.
Previously, the bird flu was found in commercial flocks in Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Morrison and Stearns counties, as well as backyard flocks in Mower and Stearns counties.
The affected flocks so far include more than 636,000 birds.
Birds in affected flocks are euthanized as part of efforts to keep the virus from spreading. The outbreak is s a serious threat to Minnesota’s turkey industry, with nearly 700 farms that raise about 40 million birds a year.
In 2015, 9 million birds in Minnesota were killed by the virus or euthanized to slow its spread.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the avian influenza strain is a low risk to the public. No human cases of avian influenza have been detected in the U.S.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture team is helping Minnesota agencies respond to the current outbreak, including quarantining infected flocks, disease surveillance and coordinating logistics and finances.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A major power outage hit Puerto Rico late Wednesday, plunging nearly 350,000 customers into darkness after a fire erupted at one of the largest power plants in the U.S. territory.
The outage was one of the biggest in recent months for the island's crumbling electrical grid, which has seen its periodic blackouts grow worse the last few years. The outage elicited a collective groan across the island of 3.2 million people, with many who depend on insulin or respiratory therapies once again worried about how long it would last.
“Apagón!” wrote many frustrated customers across social media, using the Spanish word for outage.
Luma, a private company that took over transmission and distribution of Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority last year, called it an island-wide power outage. However, the state power company's website said nearly 350,000 clients out of nearly 1.5 million were without lights.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said priority would be given to hospitals and other institutions as he tweeted: “I urge everyone to remain calm.”
Puerto Rico’s health secretary said generators at all hospitals and health centers were functioning and had enough fuel, adding that coronavirus vaccines remained properly stored at the correct temperature.
Transportation officials said crews evacuated passengers from the island's rapid transit system and took them to their destinations via buses. Meanwhile, long lines formed at some gas stations as those with generators sought to refill them.
Education officials said they would soon announce whether classes at public schools would be cancelled Thursday, frustrating many parents who worried they might not find out if their cellphones died and they were unable to charge them.
Luma said in a statement that power might not be restored until Thursday, “given the size and scope” of the outage.
“The power grid has suffered a massive island-wide blackout, potentially caused by a circuit breaker failure at the Costa Sur generation plant. We are not clear on the exact cause at this time,” the company said.
Costa Sur is one of the island's four main power plants.
Puerto Rico's fire department worked late into the night to put out the blaze as frustration and anger over yet another blackout continued to grow.
Carian Montull, 36, said she was at a clothing store in southern Puerto Rico when the lights went out. She said the store's generators failed to turn on, so she and about a dozen other customers were forced to leave their purchases behind and go home.
She said someone nearby cried out: “The lights seriously went out?! It can't be.”
Montull said she doesn't have a generator at home and hoped the power would come back soon so the food in her refrigerator wouldn't spoil.
Luma said it would release additional information once it had more details. When it took over transmission and distribution in June, the governor at the time said the company had pledged to reduce power interruptions by 30% and the length of outages by 40%. That same month, a large fire at a substation in the capital of San Juan left hundreds of thousands without power.
Another fire at a power plant in September 2016 sparked an island-wide blackout. A year later, Hurricane Maria hit, razing the island's frail electrical grid and leaving some customers without power for nearly a year. Emergency repairs have since been made, but reconstruction efforts have yet to start.
In addition, Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority is trying to emerge from bankruptcy and holds some $9 billion in public debt that it is trying to restructure. The utility has long struggled with mismanagement, corruption and aging infrastructure that has not been maintained.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina appeals court has temporarily blocked the enforcement of last week's ruling by trial judges that declared people convicted of felonies can vote while serving their probation or parole.
The Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued a stay of the ruling, which struck down a 1973 state law that lays out when voting rights are automatically restored to felony offenders.
Two of three judges ruling on a lawsuit filed by former offenders and civil rights groups concluded that the 49-year-old law violates the state constitution and is discriminatory against Black residents. The judges said such offenders should be registered to vote if they apply.
Republican legislative leaders, who are defendants in the lawsuit, say there's no evidence the law - which eased previous barriers to voting - was motivated by discriminatory intent, and that it treats all offenders the same.
They told the Court of Appeals the stay was needed while the case was argued before appeals judges because otherwise, it would create confusion during the May 17 primary. As of last summer, more than 56,000 people in North Carolina were prevented from registering under the challenged law.
The order from the Court of Appeals tells the State Board of Elections to not act on felon voter registration applications until further notice. The ruling largely aligns with the elections board's directive to county boards last week asking that they mark such registration applications as "incomplete" while legal arguments play out.
The appeals court order, first reported by the Carolina Journal, was signed by the Court of Appeals chief clerk. It names none of the appeals judges involved in the ruling.
It's possible Tuesday's order could be superseded by the state Supreme Court, which received a motion on Monday from the groups that filed the lawsuit asking that the state's highest court take over the case and hear the broader appeals from last week's ruling.
The plaintiffs' attorneys also want the appeals accelerated so that a decision can be reached in time to allow offenders to vote in the May primary.
The voter registration deadline is April 22 for people who want to vote by mail-in absentee ballot or on the primary election day. Others can register and vote during early in-person voting, which is scheduled from April 28 to May 14.
The 1973 law applies to people convicted of felonies regardless of whether they serve time as part of their punishment. The trial judges agreed with the evidence presented at trial that linked the law to Reconstruction-era efforts to prevent Black people from voting.
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SANFORD, N.C. (WTVD) -- David Aznaurov and his wife are in the difficult position of watching the war unfold from their Sanford home.
His wife, Olga, who is from Kyiv, waits on calls from her parents and other family members daily to ensure they are safe.
David Aznaurov wants to ensure people know there is still a war going on.
"My father-in-law is no longer going to the basement when they hear air raids because it's going on and off every half hour thankfully," he said. "Ukrainians are wishing for revenge as well as justice."
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David and Olga have a 4-year-old, and David said he cannot bear the thought of more than 150 children being killed in the last two months.
"I can't imagine this horror for the families," he said. "It's absolutely devastating. I just hope that the economic sanctions the United States and European Union impose on Russia will destroy their economy so they won't be able to continue the war."
David is from Georgia, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 only to be invaded by Russia in 2008.
"When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, it went smooth for them with no repercussions," he said. "Same when they invaded Ukraine in 2014 and they annexed Crimea, there were no repercussions as well."
He's hoping for those repercussions on the world stage as he worries about the future of the country.
"Obviously, Russians won't be able to take Ukraine anymore," David said. "The only concern now is that it's going to last long and that will have huge economic impact, especially on our family over there. We want peace but we want to hold everyone accountable for their crimes."
Ukrainian families in central NC continue to watch war unfold
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2 men arrested with enough fentanyl to kill 4.7 million people, officials say
BUENA PARK, Calif. (Gray News) - Officials in Southern California report police have taken two men into custody with hundreds of pounds of drugs, which has resulted in the biggest bust in the last 16 years in Orange County.
According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, a lethal dose of fentanyl is as little as 2 milligrams, and authorities recovered nearly 21 pounds of fentanyl pills after Buena Park police pulled over a minivan leaving a house on March 17.
Police also said they found about 821 pounds of methamphetamine and 190 pounds of cocaine.
Edgar Alfonso Lamas, 36, and Carlos Raygozaparedes, 53, were the men arrested in the drug bust. The district attorney’s office reports the two face several felony charges, including possession of a controlled substance and the sale or transportation of a controlled substance.
Police said the alleged two drug dealers were also charged with felony enhancements that the controlled substances exceeded 80 and 20 kilograms by weight or 400 liters by liquid volume.
“Millions of unsuspecting people have the grim reaper looking over their shoulder. They have no idea how close they actually are to dying from taking a single pill,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “Fentanyl is cheap, it’s easy to get, and it is killing our children, our co-workers, and tens of thousands of innocent Americans who don’t have to die. Drug dealers don’t care about you or your loved ones – they only care about their bottom line and making as much money as possible.”
Lamas and Raygozaparedes face a maximum sentence of 37 years and four months in jail if convicted on all charges. According to the district attorney’s office, the two have pled not guilty and remain in custody on a $5 million bail.
According to court records, a preliminary hearing is scheduled for the two men on June 7 in Fullerton, California.
“With fentanyl in an estimated 40 percent of street drugs, it’s not a matter of if but when someone you know, and love dies from fentanyl. We have to continue to do everything we can to combat this deadly drug epidemic and save lives,” Spitzer said.
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Coroner seeks help identifying man killed in hit-and-run in Richland Co.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Richland County Coroner is asking for the public’s help identifying a pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run.
Investigators were called to the scene on US HWY 321 near Sharpe Rd at around 3 a.m. on April 1.
The pedestrian was pronounced deceased at the scene in the northbound lanes. Coroner Naida Rutherford has asked for the public’s help identifying the man. He is described as a black male in his 30s or 40s. He is about 6′0″ to 6′3″ in height with a shaved head and a tattoo of the initials ‘BMS” on his right arm.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is currently investigating and looking for a vehicle reported to have left the scene.
If you have any information, call 803-576-1793.
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Columbia issues warning to drivers ahead of Tuesday storms
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Columbia issued a warning Tuesday morning for drivers ahead of potential storms. The city urged caution for drivers on streets that may flood. These intersections have been known to have high water during heavy rain:
Main and Whaley
Gervais and Laurens Blossom and Henderson Blossom and Saluda Harden and Santee Monroe and Maple
Two Notch and Read
Wheat and Amherst Adger and Devine Wheat and Sumter Wheat and Pickens Heyward and Ravenel
Pickens between Wheat and Green
Barnwell and Pendleton
Harden and Read
Harden and Calhoun
Franklin and Marion
Franklin and Sumter
Columbia College and N. Main
Bull and Laurel
Columbia said anyone who sees flooding should not try to drive through it. Dangers of flooded roads can include downed power lines or sharp objects below the water.
Blocked storm drains can be reported to the Public Works Street Division at 545-3780 during regular business hours and Customer Care at 545-3300 after 5 p.m. and on weekends. The alternate non-emergency number is 252-2911.
Downed trees can be reported to the the Forestry Division at 545-3860. After 5 p.m., call the Customer Care Center at 545-3300. Drivers that see emergency situations are urged to call 9-1-1.
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Man facing felony charges for masturbating on Southwest flight, FBI says
PHOENIX (AZFamily/Gray News) – A man is facing felony charges for masturbating on a Southwest Airlines flight from Seattle to Phoenix on Saturday, according to the FBI.
According to investigators, shortly after takeoff, the man pulled down his pants and exposed himself to the woman sitting next to him. He then touched himself four separate times during the flight.
When the man finally fell asleep, the woman sitting next to him got up and told the flight crew about what happened, federal documents say.
The FBI says when the flight landed in Phoenix, the man was interviewed by federal agents and admitted to what happened, but he said he “didn’t think what he was doing made the woman next to him uncomfortable.”
The man faces felony charges for violating obscenity laws. He faces up to 90 days in prison and a $500 fine.
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MORE Justice meets with local leaders at yearly action event
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gun violence, mental health and affordable housing were all topics of discussion at MORE Justice’s Nehemiah action meeting.
The faith-based non-profit taking their ideas on the issues directly to Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickenmann and other local leaders.
The diverse congregations brought their idea of a gun problem analysis from the national network for safe communities.
Mayor Rickenmann said he met with local law enforcement and city council-- and would commit to meeting with a third-party entity to look at the community’s gun violence reduction strategy but would not commit to choosing the entity suggested by more justice.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott and Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook have been skeptical on these types of ideas.
More Justice said Lott declined his invite to Monday’s meeting and Holbrook did not respond to his.
Richland County Councilmembers Paul Livingston and Allison Terracio attended the event and committed to supporting affordable housing trust funds in Richland County.
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New York launches ad campaign in Florida against ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
NEW YORK (CNN) – A Florida law is getting pushback in New York, and a new ad campaign is targeting residents in the Sunshine State.
The word “gay” is written in different colors on the ad with the message, “Come to the city where you can say whatever you want – New York City loves you,” in the middle.
This is part of the Big Apple’s ad campaign that kicked off Monday in five Florida cities, completely funded by donations.
It’s the city’s way of denouncing the law dubbed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans comments about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms with kids in kindergarten through third grade.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said this movement is an effort to show support and welcome those living in Florida to New York.
“It’s also standing up and aligning ourselves with the men and women of the LGBTQ+ community. And stating that we are in unison with you and your right to have self-identification, your right to live the lifestyle, the lives that you choose to live, without any form of harassment,” Adams said.
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Kevin Durant owns the Knicks, and he enjoys it.
The former MVP hasn’t lost to the Knicks in nine years, a stretch spanning three teams that continued with Wednesday’s 110-98 Nets’ victory at MSG.
Told of his impressive streak, Durant, a dedicated social media user, pumped both fists.
“I got something to talk about on Twitter now,” he said after dropping 32 points in 42 minutes.
Durant, of course, became the enemy of Knicks fans after spurning the team in 2019 free agency to join the crosstown rival. He has since read angry tweets about the decision, which has turned into a source of entertainment.
“We know how much Knicks fans don’t like us,” Durant said. “Especially now this era, with us not choosing the Knicks, me and Kyrie (Irving). It definitely adds something to the rivalry no matter who is on the team. You know, I think it will always be like that in the city. It’s good to be a part of this. It’s a fun rivalry. Hopefully it continues to build.
“If we get more and more animosity between the fan bases, it’s only good for the game.”
The Knicks dedicated two years to their pursuit of Durant, even trading former franchise face Kristaps Porzingis to clear enough cap space. When it became clear Durant was heading to Brooklyn instead, a report surfaced that owner James Dolan was hesitant to offer the max because of the former MVP’s torn Achilles.
Durant was asked about that for the first time Wednesday.
“I don’t know how true that is. You heard rumors. Sources. I don’t know where those come from,” he said. “So I take that with a grain of salt. I didn’t believe it.”
Since the decision, Durant is 7-0 against the Knicks. The Nets haven’t lost to their rival since before pandemic.
“I mean imagine the tweets I’ve been getting since I decided to come to the Nets,” Durant said. “Knicks fans are still pissed off. Little jabs here and there. Like I said, there’s always love in the streets when I see the Knicks fans. Always love at the games. It’s a good rivalry to be a part of.”
Irving, who scored 24 points Wednesday in his first game at MSG since signing with the Nets, said he’s purposefully vague when discussing his decision to choose the Nets over the Knicks — “I throw darts in the air and just wait for people to assume whatever they want,” he said — but acknowledged Dolan’s team had a shot.
“They had a good chance of getting us back in free agency, but we just felt like we wanted to build here and just make our mark on this franchise,” Irving said. “I don’t think we regret our decision. And we just want to live with really leaning on each other and making sure this is successful for us.”
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Kyrie Irving believes he was snubbed from the NBA’s 75th Anniversary list of the top-75 players in the league’s history.
Irving, who was recently named one of the 40 Greatest McDonald’s All-Americans of all time, said he will wait until the end of his career to make larger remarks about his omission on the league’s most illustrious list of players.
“I’m not tryna sit up here and spew out the reasons why I felt I deserved to be on the top-75,” Irving said after the Nets’ come-from-behind victory over the Knicks on Wednesday. “I think I’ll wait for that when my career is over and maybe on the 100th Anniversary, I’ll make that team. You don’t know unless they expand the group.”
Irving has a case. He is easily one of the most skilled ball-handlers in NBA history. He also hit the game-winning shot over Stephen Curry that delivered the Cleveland Cavaliers their 2016 NBA championship. And last year, he joined Kevin Durant and Steve Nash — two top-75 members — in the 50-40-90 club, shooting better than 50% from the field, 40% from three and 90% from downtown over the course of the 2020-21 season.
Irving also believes he was a late scratch from the top-75 list, but wouldn’t go into his reasoning.
“I think I’ll leave it to the conspiracy theorists,” he said. “I think I was on the list, but I guess I’m not, so hey, like I said, maybe I’ll just wait 10 years, 20 years from now, hopefully with a few championships under my belt and talking with you guys on the court after raising a few banners here in (Brooklyn).”
Irving pointed to how much he sacrificed over the course of his life to be a premier superstar guard in the best basketball league on the planet. His resume also includes seven All-Star appearances, 2012 Rookie of the Year, 2014 All-Star MVP and three All-NBA selections. He was also a member of the 2016 Team USA Olympic Men’s basketball team that won gold in Rio de Janeiro. And he was listed alongside NBA legends like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal on the 40 Greatest McDonald’s All Americans list.
“I’m grateful for everybody in our basketball culture recognizing some of the greatest players to play our game,” Irving said. “And If I’m up there with some of those guys, I don’t take it for granted. It was a lot of lonely nights in the gym, a lot of sacrifices of time, being away from my family, being away from friends, not having an ideal childhood that everybody else has had so to say, being a college dropout at Duke and just not being able to live what they say is a normal life: Get a 9-5 and pour into your passion.
“So this right here is a special game and it’s rewarded a lot of people, so if I can etch my name and be up there with some of the greats, I feel like I’m leaving the legacy I want to leave. It’s just a lot of hard work that goes into it so I’m grateful for it.”
Yet Irving knows the work is not done. He is a one-time NBA champion on a LeBron James-led team. He doesn’t have any scoring titles, has not won league MVP, has never been named First Team All-NBA and has had drama follow him since requesting a trade from Cleveland years ago. This season, he did not make his debut until Jan. 5 because of his decision not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Irving feels snubbed from the top-75 list, but 25 years from now, if there’s a top-100 list, he believes he’ll be a shoo-in — provided he sticks to his own plan of winning championships here in Brooklyn.
“It’s not necessarily about proving to somebody why I deserve to be on that list,” he said. “I know that I have a lot more work to do in this league, and I just want to leave it there, so just let my game speak for itself. I love being skilled, but by the time I leave and retire, I want to be known as a winner. A championship winner. (I) wanna have a few of those things and do it with a great group of guys and a great organization that believes in me, and the rest of it can be written by itself.”
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Montverde Academy junior Zyaire Nuriddin ran the nation’s fastest 400-meter dash time for the season, 45.78 seconds, in last weekend’s Florida Relays track and field festival at the University of Florida.
And two other Orlando area runners who were chasing him also set school records.
Boone junior football/track standout Aidan Mizell placed second with a time of 46.99. DeLand senior, the state leader in the 100, crossed the line at 47.82 for fourth.
Mizell’s time is sixth on the national list according to MileSplit.com.
“When you go against great competition you also play better,” said Mizell, who crushed his 2021 best of 48.55, which was good for a fifth-place finish in the Class 4A state meet.
Williams’ previous 400 best was 48.67 from a year ago.
Nuriddin, who was the Delaware track athlete of the year last season, ran the sixth fastest quarter mile in Florida high school history.
Hagerty’s distance duo of juniors Miguel Pantojas and Brayden Seymour shined again at UF.
Pantojas smashed his own school record with a winning 1:52.71 time.
Seymour ran a state-leading 1,600 time of 4:13.62 to win that event. He is flying with coach Jay Getty to California to run the mile in the prestigious Arcadia Invitational this weekend.
Jones senior Lorenzo Laurenzano (1:53.05) set a school record 1:53.05 and Apopka junior Noah Musselwhite ran 1:53.95 as both finished in the top six in the fast 800.
McPherson meet at Seminole
The inaugural Ernest McPherson Invitational will be contested at Seminole High School’s new rubberized track on Friday.
McPherson retired at the end of the 2020-21 school year after serving Sanford for over 50 years as a coach at Crooms and then Seminole. He was head football coach for Seminole in the 1990s, also coached basketball and baseball, and was an assistant to ‘Noles track and field coach Ken Brauman for more than 20 years.
The long-awaited installation of the new track gave Brauman’s tradition-rich program the opportunity to host meets for the first time in more than 15 years. Seminole will also host the Seminole Athletic Conference meet next Wednesday.
The McPherson meet starts with field events at 4 p.m., leading to the 4×800 races at 5 and running finals at 6:30.
DeLand’s Williams is expected to run the 200 and 400 in a field that includes Seminole speedster Amari Turner.
Winter Springs senior Caroline Wells, the state record holder in the 3,200 and 5K on the track and in cross country, is set to run the 800 and a 4×400 relay leg. Her 800 personal best is 2:13.55.
Here is a list of the top eight area performers in every event based on the FlRunners.com database and timing services. We include schools from Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake and west Volusia counties.
100 meters
10.47 Kevar Williams, DeLand
10.56 Matthew McDoom, West Orange
10.60 Amari Turner, Seminole
10.60 Valentino Rudolph, Lake Minneola
10.63 Micah Larry, Montverde
10.63 Zyaire Nuriddin, Montverde
10.64 Solomon Miller, Lake Highland Prep
10.70 Avian Edwards, DeLand
200 meters
20.88 Kevar Williams, DeLand
21.20 Zyaire Nuriddin, Montverde
21.41 Amari Turner, Seminole
21.76 Valentino Rudoph, Lake Minneola
21.80 Solomon Miller, Lake Highland Prep
21.81 Matthew McDoom, West Orange
21.84 Avian Edwards, DeLand
21.99 Donovan Horne, Apopka
400 meters
45.78 Zyaire Nuriddin, Montverde
46.99 Aidan Mizell, Boone
47.82 Kevar Williams, DeLand
48.39 Amari Turner, Seminole
49.13 Donovan Horne, Apopka
49.34 Allessandro Greco, West Orange
49.50 Tyrique Lewis, Seminole
49.56 Valentino Rudolph, Lake Minneola
800 meters
1:52.71 Miguel Pantojas, Hagerty {Florida Relays win; Jr
1:53.05 Lorenzo Laurenzano, Jones {senior; Florida Relays third
1:53.95 Noah Musselwhite, Apopka {junior; Florida Relays sixth
1:56.59 Jared Falchook, Celebration
1:57.74 Emmanuel Carrillo, Lake Minneola
1:57.91 Riley Novack, Montverde
1:58.17 Nick Carpenter, Trinity Prep
1:59.42 Zyaire Nuriddin, Montverde
1,600 meters
4:13.62 Brayden Seymour, Hagerty {junior; Florida Relays WIN
4:16.59 Miguel Pantojas, Hagerty {Florida Relays, sixth
4:17.87 Nick Carpenter, Trinity Prep
4:21.67 Noah Musselwhite, Apopka
4:29.17 Cooper James, Celebration
4:30.65 Jack DeJesus, Circle Christian
4:32.11 Jared Falchook, Celebration
4:33.74 Julian Drey Pomales, Tohopekaliga
3,200 meters
8:57.92 Nick Carpenter, Trinity Prep {senior; FSU win #1 Florida
8:59.72 Brayden Seymour, Hagerty {FSU #4 florida
9:31.58 Miguel Pantojas, Hagerty
9:32.25 Jared Falchook, Celebration
9:34.13 Jonathan Leon, Hagerty
9:37.73 Riley Novack, Montverde
9:39.80 Joel Jean, Harmony
9:43.74 Alejandro Berrio, Orlando University
110-meter high hurdles
14.99 James Turner, Winter Park
15.06 Zachary Tobe, Ocoee
15.38 Kaden Angulo, Eustis
15.38 Markel Jones, Lake Mary
15.38 Julian Elam, Windermere
15.39 Roderick Horton, Boone
15.66 Tyler Hunter, Ocoee
15.68 Syhion Washington, Dr. Phillips
300-meter intermediate hurdles
38.07 James Turner, Winter Park
38.75 Markel Jones, Lake Mary
39.75 Roderick Horton, Boone
39.94 Syhion Washington, Dr. Phillips
40.98 Cedric Johnson Jr., Lake Highland Prep
41.21 Alex Tuyo, Harmony
41.73 Zion Gunn, Winter Park
41.98 Carson McManus, Circle Christian
4×100 meter relay
41.13 Sanford Seminole {Florida Relays RU
41.94 West Orange
41.94 Wekiva
42.16 Lake Minneola
42.69 Kissimmee Osceola
42.70 Ocoee
42.77 Harmony
42.78 Edgewater
4×400 meter relay
3:17.11 Sanford Seminole
3:19.07 West Orange
3:19.98 Windermere
3:22.01 Lake Minneola
3:23.07 Apopka
3:25.59 DeLand
3:26.05 Montverde
3:26.77 Jones
4×800 meter relay
8:06.95 Hagerty
8:17.69 Lake Minneola
8:18.20 Windermere
8:22.55 University (Orlando)
8:24.40 Winter Park
8:25.39 Timber Creek
8:26.41 Celebration
8:27.07 Montverde
High jump
6-6¾ Keandre Brown, Apopka (2.0)
6-6¾ Tyshone Bolden, Lake Minneola (2.0)
6-5¾ Reggie Virgil, Mount Dora Christian (1.98)
6-3¾ Orlando Descartes, Tohopekaliga (1.3)
6-3½ Justin Wilson, Poinciana (1.92)
6-2¾ Renzo Calil, Windermere (1.9)
6-2¼ Zion Gunn, Winter Park (1.89)
6-1½ Christopher Ross, Lake Mary (1.87)
Long jump
23-7 Ryan Campbell, Timber Creek (7.19)
23-6½ Micah Larry, Montverde (7.18)
23-2¼ Michael Harris, Lake Brantley (7.07)
22-9½ Keandre Brown, Apopka (6.95)
22-8¼ Matthew McDoom, West Orange (6.92)
21-11¾ Kyeaure Magloire, Lake Minneola (6.7)
21-10½ David Dennis, Wekiva (6.67)
21-9¾ Daniel Demontagnac, Dr. Phillips (6.65)
Triple jump
47-4 Daniel Demontagnac, Dr. Phillips (14.43)
45-11½ Kyle Johnson, Montverde (14.01)
44-11¾ Kobe Diggs, Umatilla (13.71)
44-6½ Brandon Taylor, University (Orlando) (13.58)
43-11½ Keandre Brown, Apopka (13.4)
43-8 Isaiah Bryant, Mount Dora Christian (13.31)
43-3½ Jevon Andrew-Brown, Tohopekaliga (13.2)
43-2¾ Roderick Horton, Boone (13.18)
Pole vault
15-3 Alex Georgiev, Montverde (4.65)
12-9½ Luke Ellenback, Windermere (3.9)
12-7 Joseph Bongiorno, Edgewater (3.84)
12-7 Sebastian Silva, Boone (3.84)
12-5½ Paul Cota, Circle Christian (3.8)
11-11 Davy Bancey, Dr. Phillips (3.65)
11-9½ Mason Fabrizio, Harmony (3.6)
11-9½ Adam Karen, Montverde (3.6)
Shot put
54-0¾ Dylan Horne, Ocoee (16.48)
51-6 Jake Ramsey, Lake Mary (15-7)
49-7¾ Deandre Scott, Ocoee (15.13)
48-7¼ Darrius Watts, East Ridge (14.82)
47-2 Jahim Jones, Winter Park (14.38)
45-9 Chontree Weathersby, South Lake (13.95)
45-1¼ Nigel Williams, Jones (13.75)
44-3½ Casey Johnson, Cypress Creek (13.5)
Discus throw
157-0 Isaac Peters, Lake Mary (47.87)
152-7 Dylan Horne, Ocoee (46.51)
145-2 Ehigie Aliu-Otokiti, Olympia (44.27)
139-2 Jahim Jones, Winter Park (42.42)
136-11 Jayden Woodson, Master’s (41.75)
132-8 Alex Nunez, Winter Park (40.45)
131-9 Jaden Alexander, Boone (40.17)
131-0 Johnny Blastic, Boone (39.95)
Javelin throw
181-0 Noah Gammichia, Orangewood (55.17)
165-2 Eric Gilreath, Ocoee (50.36)
159-10 Sam Parker, Circle Christian (48.72)
158-4 Ahlston Ware, Ocoee (48.27)
154-3 Trevor Duncan, Lake Mary (47.02)
152-7 Orlando Descartes, Tohopekaliga (46.53)
147-10 J.J. Woodson, Master’s (45.08)
147-4 Parker Douglas, Master’s (44.92)
Girls top performers
100 meters
11.39 Micayah Holland, Montverde
12.03 Mia Dansby, Montverde
12.09 Nyla McFayden, Apopka
12.19 Miracle Johnson, Ocoee
12.22 Anaya Brown, Colonial
12.22 Alyia Green, Ocoee
12.23 Ja’Mese Heard, Jones
12.25 Javonya Valcourt, Montverde
200 meters
23.89 Micayah Holland, Montverde
24.18 Alyia Green, Ocoee
24.55 Javonya Valcourt, Montverde
24.68 Miracle Johnson, Ocoee
25.03 Nyla McFayden, Apopka
25.04 Mia Dansby, Montverde
25.21 Alivia Williams, Montverde
25.53 Treazu’re Sims, University (Orlando)
400 meters
54.30 Javonya Valcourt, Montverde
54.65 Alyia Green, Ocoee
56.42 Michelle Smith, Montverde
56.44 Alivia Williams, Montverde
57.00 Miracle Johnson, Ocoee
58.49 Abrianna Scott, Evans
58.53 Ayla Fisher, West Orange
58.8 Jasmynne Gibson, West Orange
800 meters
2:10.93 Michelle Smith, Montverde
2:13.93 Caroline Wells, Winter Springs
2:18.47 Catalina Edwards, Celebration
2:21.16 Taylor Moler, Bishop Moore
2:22.72 Jazlyn Dailey, Winter Park
2:22.98 Jasmine Little, Dr. Phillips
2:23.45 Ava Wyant, Master’s
2:23.53 Abby Misch, Olympia
1,600 meters
4:57.46 Caroline Wells, Winter Springs
5:00.94 Ava Wyant, Master’s Academy
5:04.33 Lily Henne, Lake Minneola
5:10.03 Amber Schulz, Timber Creek
5:11.57 Catalina Edwards, Celebration
5:11.79 Taylor Moler, Bishop Moore
5:11.93 Emily Knopfle, Olympia
5:18.17 Noelle Vu, Mount Dora
3,200 meters
10:10.81 Caroline Wells, Winter Springs
11:01.74 Amber Schulz, Timber Creek
11:10.55 Sarah Rudolph, Circle Christian
11:17.71 Emily Knopfle, Olympia
11:20.47 Hannah Foley, Boone
11:26.41 Morgan Cox, Trinity Prep
11:34.65 Catalina Edwards, Celebration
11:37.08 Ella Klyce, West Orange
100-meter high hurdles
14.64 Michelle Smith, Montverde
14.71 D’Asia Duncan, Geneva School
14.90 Arbriel Scott, Evans
15.05 Karis Reese, Lake Mary
15.20 Keyara Hillery, Seminole
15.27 Helena Huke, Celebration
15.45 Omaria Gordon, Wekiva
15.51 Maya Abraham, Olympia
300-meter intermediate hurdles
41.86 Michelle Smith, Montverde
44.68 Arbriel Scott, Evans
46.80 Maya Abraham, Olympia
47.03 Delicia Lawrence, Evans
47.36 Helena Huke, Celebration
48.16 Hailey Fowler, Apopka
48.30 Taylor Sapp, Lake Mary
48.32 Jamyhia Scott, Mount Dora
4×100 meter relay
46.75 Montverde
47.31 Ocoee
48.13 Seminole
48.60 Apopka
48.87 Evans
48.88 Kissimmee Osceola
49.26 West Orange
49.29 Jones
4×400 meter relay
3:52.12 Montverde
3:52.42 Ocoee
3:59.92 Evans
4:01.40 West Orange
4:04.82 Apopka
4:09.79 Osceola
4:10.24 Winter Park
4:12.26 Jones
4×800 meter relay
9:53.70 Winter Springs
9:54.16 Evans
10:05.23 West Orange
10:07.20 Circle Christian
10:15.86 Harmony
10:17.00 Mount Dora
10:22.47 Master’s Academy
10:22.87 Dr. Phillips
High jump
5-7 Amaya Bien-Aime, Edgewater (1.7)
5-3¾ Drea Thompson, Harmony (1.62)
5-3¾ Amarianna Lofton, Ocoee (1.62)
5-2¾ Hallie Vickers, Harmony (1.6)
5-1¾ Emma Harris, Windermere (1.57)
5-1¾ Sadie Davis, Mount Dora (1.57)
5-1¾ Zofie Rozankova, Master’s (1.57)
5-1 Karis Reese, Lake Mary (1.55)
5-1 Shaunece Miller, Montverde (1.55)
Long jump
18-6½ Omario Gordon, Wekiva (5.65)
17-9¾ Makala Davis, Ocoee (5.43)
17-6½ Sidney Allen, Seminole (5.35)
17-6 Treazu’re Sims, Orlando University (5.34)
17-2½ Shamia Allen, DeLand (5.25)
17-1½ Janyia Key, South Lake (5.22)
17-0¼ Victoria Hill, Trinity Prep (5.19)
17-0¼ Emma Harris, Windermere (5.19)
Triple jump
37-11 Makala Davis, Ocoee (11.56)
37-2¼ Taylor Sapp, Lake Mary (11.33)
36-3 Treazu’re Sims, Orlando University (11.05)
35-8¼ Jasmyne Wright, Ocoee (10.88)
35-4¼ Destiny Caldwell, Ocoee (10.78)
35-4 Victoria Hill, Trinity Prep (10.77)
35-4 Sidney Allen, Seminole (10.77)
35-0¾ Oluwadara Soremi, Seminole (10.69)
Pole vault
11-4½ Paris Bamberg, Winter Park (3.47)
11-0¼ Ashley Conklin, Montverde (3.36)
10-11¾ Elizabeth Hernstrom, Harmony (3.35)
10-5¾ Isabella Kirst, Montverde (3.2)
10-2¾ Paris Bamberg, Winter Park (3.12)
9-10 Bristol Smith, Lake Mary (3.0)
9-8 Cadence Sorensen, Lake Highland Prep (2.95)
9-0¼ Resa Akers, Boone (2.75)
Shot put
43-6 Leilany Laureano, Ocoee (13.26)
38-11½ Sarai Simpson, Seminole (11.88)
37-0¾ Zaire Williams, Lake Minneola (11.3)
35-11¾ Kiana Scott, Oviedo (10.97)
34-9½ Sarah Strange, Boone (10.61)
34-3½ U’nitee Brown, Winter Springs (10.45)
33-7¾ Maisey Anderson, Mount Dora Christian (10.26)
33-6¾ Fabiandra Foga, Apopka (10.23)
Discus throw
131-9 Leilany Laureano, Ocoee (40.17)
124-6 Sarah Strange, Boone (37.95)
98-5 Jaedyn Smith, Tavares (30.00)
98-1 Kiana Scott, Oviedo (29.92)
96-5 Emily Lamb, DeLand (29.39)
93-8 Paige Alise, Gateway (28.57)
93-6 Fabiandra Foga, Apopka (28.52)
93-4 Alex Rubin, Trinity Prep (28.45)
Javelin throw
117-7 Thora Gaston, Harmony (35.83)
112-7 Casey O’Neil, Timber Creek (34.34)
111-10 Olivia Giffing, Tavares (34.11)
111-6 Katelyn Pyka, Dr. Phillips (34.01)
107-9 Haiven Dryuden, Boone (32.85)
106-5 Emily Lamb, DeLand (32.44)
104-7 Carly Lamorte, Bishop Moore (31.88)
99-2 Haiven Dryden, Boone (30.23)
This report was first published at Orlandosentinel.com. Varsity Content Editor Buddy Collings can be reached by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.
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Movin' on up: Stonehill College celebrates 2022-23 upgrade to Division I athletics
EASTON – Stonehill College athletic director Dean O’Keefe believes that making the biggest jumps can produce the most enjoyment.
Well, the Skyhawks’ jump to NCAA Div. I athletics certainly made a splash.
More:Stonehill College moving up to NCAA Division I athletics; will join Northeast Conference
After Stonehill announced Tuesday it would step up a division starting in the 2022-23 academic year by accepting an invitation to join the Northeast Conference, the Skyhawks gathered their athletic programs together at Merkert Gymnasium on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate a move that came with much fanfare.
“It’s exciting for our student-athletes and it’s exciting for the whole school,” O’Keefe said. “It’s really a chance for Stonehill to shine on a bigger stage. Like we say, Stonehill’s a hidden gem and now some more people are going to know about it.”
For the last 41 years, a majority of Stonehill’s intercollegiate athletic teams participated in the Div. II Northeast-10 Conference and did so with a high rate of success. The Skyhawks placed in the top three for the NE-10 Presidents’ Cup – an annual award based on finishes in the league by all athletic programs – 15 times over the last 16 years.
More:From Stonehill and B-R to March Madness: Providence coach Ed Cooley has local roots
Even with the Skyhawks strongly embedded in the Div. II landscape, O’Keefe said the college had eyed this new opportunity for a long time.
“I was surprised,” said Stonehill women’s basketball coach Trisha Brown. “I didn’t think that we would be a school that would make this jump. I know others in our league and in the northeast have made it, but honestly it’s so exciting. When I got over that initial shock, I was really fired up.”
For Cameron Ward, a sophomore forward on the Stonehill women’s basketball team, becoming a Div. 1 athlete seemingly overnight still hasn't fully sunk in.
“It doesn’t feel real until probably next year when we’re competing at that level,” Ward said.
With Bryant University -- like Stonehill, a charter member of the NE-10 Conference -- recently moving to the America East Conference from the NEC, it opened up a spot for Stonehill.
Of the 23 varsity sports offered at Stonehill, all but three -- equestrian, men's hockey and women's hockey -- will compete in the NEC. The Stonehill women’s hockey team, which is preparing for its first season as a varsity program in 2022, will play in the Div. I New England Women’s Collegiate Hockey Alliance while the men’s hockey team will suit up as a Div. I independent.
More:COMEBACK COMPLETE: Kearns Jr. overcomes ACL injury to get back on the field for Stonehill
The Skyhawks are the 10th member of the NEC, joining Central Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson, Long Island University, Mount St. Mary’s, Sacred Heart, St. Francis-Brooklyn, St. Francis University, Wagner and Merrimack, which made the jump from the NE-10 to the NEC in 2019.
“There’s a blueprint for it and we’ve been able to gain a lot of information from those moves to see what it takes to do it right and what the benefits are. That’s certainly helpful,” O’Keefe said. “These are uncharted waters maybe for Stonehill, but not schools going from Div. II to Div. I.”
Stonehill baseball coach Pat Boen, who graduated from the college in 1989, said he beamed with pride when he learned about the monumental news. He knows playing at the Div. I level is something a lot of his ball players have dreamed about before.
More:For Stonehill College baseball coach Pat Boen, the wait for win No. 600 is over
“When you’re playing on your Little League team, you think you’re going to be a Div. I player,” Boen said. “It may be a label, but like Dean said during the ceremony, now you’re playing against the best and I think you want to challenge yourself. These kids come to Stonehill because the academics are top notch, so why not have the athletics be the same thing?”
While Stonehill will begin competing in the NEC this upcoming fall, the Skyhawks won’t become a full member of the conference until 2026-27 after satisfying the requirements of the four-year Div. I reclassification period. During that span, Stonehill will not be able to participate in NEC championship events.
But having the Div. I label attached to the school will bring immediate benefits, especially when it comes to recruiting.
“I think it helps tremendously because we have a great campus, we have a great community, we have outstanding academics and now you put the top-of-the-line athletics with it, so I think it’s just the icing on the complete package,” Boen said. “It’s everything together. Makes it a great opportunity for kids that are looking for all those attributes in a college.”
Trying to continue Stonehill’s traditional athletic success is now a tougher challenge for the Skyhawks, especially for the men’s and women’s basketball teams that headline the athletic program.
Stonehill’s men’s basketball team captured East Regional titles twice in the past decade, including making a national semifinal appearance in 2012, while the women’s basketball program secured its third regional title in 2018.
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The triumphs haven’t come on the hardwood alone as the Skyhawks won national championships in 2003 and 2005 in women’s lacrosse while also sending 51 teams to the NCAA Tournament over the last 10 years.
“I think that reputation is going to serve us well in terms of what we’re going to be able to do at the next level,” Brown said. “It really is that base that we have across all sports here, too. There’s always been a culture of success here that we’re just going to hopefully continue at the next level.”
It isn’t just all pure excitement for the pending move, though. There can be some trepidation felt as well in how exactly Stonehill will stack up to Div. 1 competition.
“You could see the smiles, you could see the excitement in their faces and the challenges ahead,” Boen said of his players' reaction to the move to Div. I. “I think there’s (also) some anxiety to it. Are we going to be good enough? Can we play with the big boys? I think that comes along with it, too, but that’s what you work for.”
Div. I athletic programs can take all different shapes and sizes and O’Keefe understands that even with this move, Stonehill won't be on the same level as the teams in the Power-5 conferences that dominate the Div. I landscape.
“Perhaps the first (Div. I) schools that come to mind are Ohio State or Florida, and we’ll be different Div. I than those institutions,” O’Keefe said, “but in our way I think we’ll really be able to compete within the Northeast Conference over time.”
And Stonehill looks to prove that as a Div. I program, it can handle those challenges that come in-between the lines sooner rather than later.
“We’re going to hit the ground running faster than people think we’re going to go,” Brown said.
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Huskers leave bases loaded, tempers flare following Nebraska’s 1-run loss to Omaha
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Colby Gomes hit a 3-run home run to pull Nebraska within 1 on a breezy night in Omaha. Gomes was back at the plate in the 9th inning with the Huskers trailing Omaha, 6-5. Gomes, however, struck out swinging on a full-count fastball by Harrison Kreiling.
Immediately after the strikeout, Omaha catcher Eduardo Rosario and Gomes exchanged words causing players from both teams to quickly run out of their dugouts. Umpires separated the teams and the situation swiftly cooled off at Tal Anderson Field. The 6-5 win gave the Mavericks a 2-1 series advantage over the Huskers this season. The in-state schools are scheduled to play again on April 27th in Lincoln.
Max Anderson went 2-for-3 for the Huskers with a pair of doubles and a walk. Anderson was at 3rd base and represented the tying run at the end of the game.
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US experts wrestle with how to update COVID-19 vaccines
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials are beginning to grapple with how to keep the vaccines updated to best protect Americans from the ever-changing coronavirus.
On Wednesday, a panel of vaccine advisers to the Food and Drug Administration spent hours debating key questions for revamping the shots and conducting future booster campaigns. They didn’t reach any firm conclusions.
The questions facing the experts included: How often to update the vaccines against new strains, how effective they should be to warrant approval and whether updates should be coordinated with global health authorities.
Last week, the FDA authorized a fourth dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines for anyone 50 or older and for some younger people with severely weakened immune systems. It’s an effort to get ahead of another possible surge.
But the FDA’s vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks acknowledged at the meeting “we simply can’t be boosting people as frequently as we are.” He called the latest booster update a “stopgap” measure to protect vulnerable Americans while regulators decide whether and how to tweak the current vaccines.
Marks cautioned that waning vaccine protection, new variants and colder weather in the fall could raise the risk of more surges.
“Our goal here is to stay ahead of future variants and outbreaks and ensure we do our best to reduce the toll of disease and death due to COVID-19,” said Marks, adding that he expects more meetings of the vaccine panel in coming months.
Some of the key questions the panel discussed:
HOW SHOULD THE U.S. DECIDE WHEN TO LAUNCH FUTURE ROUNDS OF BOOSTER SHOTS?
One area where experts appeared to agree is that vaccines should be judged on their ability to prevent severe disease that leads to hospitalization and death.
“We need to focus on the worst case, which is severe disease, and we need to change strains when we’re losing that battle,” said Dr. Mark Sawyer of the University of California, San Diego.
By that measure, the current vaccines have held up remarkably well.
During the last omicron-driven surge, two vaccine doses were nearly 80% effective against needing a breathing machine or death — and a booster pushed that protection to 94%, federal scientists recently reported.
But only about half of Americans eligible for a third shot have gotten one. And many experts said it was unsustainable to continue asking Americans to get boosted every few months.
A panelist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that the 80% protection from severe disease could become the standard for evaluating the vaccines.
“I think we may have to accept that level of protection and then use other alternative ways to protect individuals with therapeutics and other measures,” said Dr. Amanda Cohn, CDC’s chief medical officer.
Presentations at the meeting by government health officials and independent researchers underscored the challenges of predicting when the next major COVID-19 variant might appear.
Trevor Bedford, a disease modeler with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, said a major new strain like omicron could emerge anywhere from every 1.5 years to once a decade, based on currently available data. Given that unpredictability, researchers will need methods to quickly determine whether current vaccines work against emerging variants.
WHAT’S THE PROCESS FOR UPDATING VACCINES TO ADDRESS NEW VARIANTS?
All three COVID-19 vaccines now used in the U.S. are based on the original coronavirus version that emerged in late 2019. Updating the vaccines will be a complex task, likely requiring coordination between the FDA, manufacturers and global health authorities.
To speed the vaccines to market, the FDA relied on research shortcuts to judge effectiveness, mainly looking at their early impact on the immune system’s antibody levels. A number of panelists said Wednesday they wanted more rigorous data from studies that track patients over time to see who gets sick or dies.
But that approach would likely be too time consuming.
“We’re looking at a conundrum here in that it’s going to be hard to generate all the data we want in short order when a new variant emerges,” said Dr. Ofer Levy of Harvard Medical School.
A representative for the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority laid out the narrow window that manufacturers could face to reformulate, study and mass produce an updated vaccine by September.
“If you’re not on your way to a clinical trial by the beginning of May, I think it’s going to be very difficult to have enough product across manufacturers to meet demand,” said Robert Johnson, deputy assistant secretary of BARDA.
The process for updating annual flu vaccines offers one possible model, as laid out by a representative from the World Health Organization.
Twice a year, WHO experts recommend updates to flu vaccines to target emerging strains. The FDA then brings those recommendations to its own vaccine panel, which votes on whether they make sense for the U.S., setting the stage for manufacturers to tweak their shots and begin mass production.
But COVID-19 hasn’t yet fallen into a predictable pattern like the flu. And as the coronavirus evolves, different strains may become dominant in different regions of the world.
Several experts said they would need more meetings with more data and proposals from the FDA to decide on a strategy.
“We’ve never been here before. We’re all working together to do the best we can and it’s very complex,” said Oveta Fuller of the University of Michigan’s Medical School.
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HB 1255 is a chapter out of the authoritarian playbook
To the Editor: Recognize HB 1255 for what it really is — mind control! If we can shut down our young people learning the truth of our history, having open discussion of what that means for our future, “we” can control them. If this sounds like something out of a Russia playbook, it is.
If you think what is happening to the people of Ukraine is terrible, it’s knocking at our door from within — within the extremist wing of our own legislators and those around the country.
How dare these extremist elements handcuff and threaten our teachers for just doing their job. Requiring teachers to take a loyalty oath is hypocritical. Some of the same legislators who promote this gag rule on educators are the same who have turned against their own oaths of office by pressing for New Hampshire to secede from the United States.
Any legislators here or around the country who go against their own oath of office (loyalty oath) should immediately be removed from office. The 30 plus who signed a letter to that effect months ago, and the recent 13 who advocated for same, are still holding office and creating havoc. How are they abiding by their loyalty oath? Who is going to propose a bill to hold legislators accountable for turning against their oath?
We all need to wake up, recognize this movement for what it is and will do to our democracy, and vote this dangerous element out of office.
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THE EDUCATION BUDGET in Croydon was dramatically slashed at this year’s annual school district meeting, which I attended on March 12. I was one of the 14 voters who objected to the irresponsible cut, which ultimately passed, leaving our community unable to meet our obligation to offer a fully funded, adequate education to our children. The unethical decision made by only 20 Croydon residents has threatened some of our most precious and vulnerable citizens. I reached out to some of those students recently to gather their thoughts about education and what they stand to lose.
Taylor Fellows is a freshman at Newport Middle High School, but she attended Croydon Village School kindergarten through fourth grade. There, she appreciated “Miss Wendy…an assistant teacher and bus driver,” noting she “was always there for me with whatever I needed…Croydon Village School was a huge part in teaching me how to be social and…interact with the kids around you.”
Taylor worries that if the budget cut isn’t reversed at the special meeting scheduled for May 7, “I would be separated from my friends, teachers, and coaches that I now have strong bonds with.”
Taylor objects to the school board’s suggested “micro schools” alternative. “No kid wants to spend their time doing online schooling for the rest of their high school career and miss out on all the opportunities that a high school student would normally receive.”
Taylor’s twin brother, Aaron, is also a freshman at NMHS. He fondly recalls learning social studies at Croydon Village School, noting “Mr. Henderson taught us a lot.” Like his sister, Aaron worries about what the budget cut could mean for him. “We wouldn’t have opportunities to do tech classes…I hope we can get those votes,” he said.
My daughter, Chloe Leslie, is an eighth-grader at Sunapee Middle High School where, she says, “all of the students are really close and willing to help each other readily at basically any time.”
“Teachers at Sunapee really care about their students and go beyond expectations to make sure that students are really learning and comprehending the topics…If I were not able to go to Sunapee next year I would miss all my friends…and also the way that Sunapee teaches, fun, but also engaging,” she said.
Addy Pifer attends SMHS as well. She is in tenth grade but reflected on Croydon Village School. “At CVS I always enjoyed knowing that I was cared for and that my opinion mattered.” She added that CVS “helped shape me to be the person I am today. CVS was not only a school, it was like a second home where you were taught simple life lessons.”
Of her school, Addy shared, “my biology teacher has helped me in so many ways. She always wants what is best for me, answers any questions I have related to the class work… and she makes sure that every student knows that she is going to do whatever is needed to get to where we want to be in life.”
Colin Spiker, a fifth-grader in Newport, also weighed in. Reflecting on CVS, he shared, “my teachers were cool…and made learning fun. Richards School [in Newport] is bigger…having a gym for health class and phys ed is better… It’s cool that we got to change to the bigger school to learn new things after starting out small.”
Croydon residents have the opportunity to revisit and reverse this drastic cut, restoring the originally proposed budget and fully funding education for Croydon students. There will be a special budget meeting held at Camp Coniston on Saturday, May 7, at 9 a.m. Residents must attend in person to cast their ballots. Those outside of Croydon who are concerned by this move and the larger attack on education it represents must also stay vigilant and involved: attend meetings, run for open seats, research current issues and proposals, and reach out to those in power, both locally and at the state level.
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RENNY CUSHING died on March 7 after a long battle with prostate cancer. He ended his legislative career as leader of the House Democrats.
Cushing’s passing resulted in an outpouring of love from not just from New Hampshire but from around the country. He had obituaries in both the New York Times and the Washington Post — something never before achieved by a member of our 400-member House.
I have known Renny since the early 1970s and served with him for eight years in the House. He became a hero to me.
Renny will be remembered above all for his passionate and successful campaign to end the death penalty in New Hampshire. He embarked on this decades-long effort after his father was brutally murdered, in front of his mother, in Hampton in 1988. When many suggested to him that they hoped the killers would hang, Renny was motivated to take the other side, believing that another killing — one at the hands of the State — would only do more harm.
In the final victory, Renny had to shepherd the bill not only to strong majorities in both the House and the Senate, but also to manage an override of a gubernatorial veto. Since Governor Chris Sununu took office, he has issued more vetoes than any other governor, 89, but so far only the death penalty veto has been overridden.
Renny was much more than just a skilled opponent of the death penalty. He first achieved statewide recognition in 1976 as a founder of the Clamshell Alliance, leading marches against the proposed Seabrook reactors. With his fellow Clams, he helped build public opposition from an initial act of civil disobedience with 18 arrests, to one of 180, and ultimately to one of 1,414, all of whom served jail time in National Guard Armories. When Governor Meldrim Thomson insisted that the protestors actually serve time, he should have been careful what he wished for. Those 1,414 formed a bond that endures to this day. It was reflected in the singing, with gusto, of the Clams anthem, “Acres and Acres of Clams,” at Cushing’s memorial service.
Renny was anything but a gloomy Gus about his activism. He would dress in Revolutionary War garb, fire off a replica cannon loaded with a firecracker on the Seabrook common, and have a damn good time doing it. He was creative and imaginative. When he realized that the biggest vulnerability of the Seabrook project was its financial underpinning, and that the main builder, Public Service of New Hampshire, wanted to have its customers provide financing when Wall Street was slamming the financing window shut, he founded the Campaign for Ratepayers’ Rights, which was instrumental in ending the scheme to accomplish this, known as Construction Work in Progress. Indeed the fight to end “CWIP” helped elect New Hampshire’s first Democratic governor since the New Deal, Hugh Gallen, who campaigned on the promise to “WHIP CWIP.”
At one point, PSNH decided a new name might burnish the project’s image and announced that they planned to create a new subsidiary, to be called “New Hampshire Yankee” to take over the project. As soon as Renny heard this, he trotted down to the Secretary of State’s office and registered the name — a fact that the company at an awkward press conference had to admit made it unavailable to them.
But Renny’s saga of accomplishment and commitment go beyond these issues. He was very committed to seeing there was proper oversight and monitoring of the Coakley Land superfund site and opposed the transfer of Hampton’s municipal water supply to a private company.
He also lived a life of adventure and zest. He managed to travel across North America by train, without ever buying a ticket. He worked for the Atlanta sanitation department for a year on the back of a garbage truck, the only White person to do so. He mined gold in Ontario.
And he was a loving husband to his wife, and fellow Clam, Kristie Conrad and the father of three daughters, of whom he was very proud.
Renny was a proud graduate of Winnacunnet High School, but never obtained a higher level degree. This didn’t stop him from being highly educated, including learning Spanish and more New Hampshire history than almost anyone. He found out, for example, that it was a New Hampshire governor in the 1840’s, who was the first to oppose the death penalty.
Renny never stopped reaching out to people, never put anyone down or made his political opponents enemies. This meant he received accolades from many quarters, including the publisher of the Union Leader, who opposed almost all of his positions on issues.
Although I will miss him, I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to call him my friend for 50 years.
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