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Ex-officer testifies against mentor at Capitol riot trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Virginia police officer who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer testified on Thursday that he had hoped the mob could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that day.
Former Rocky Mount police officer Jacob Fracker, a key witness for federal prosecutors at the trial of former colleague Thomas Robertson, said he initially believed that he was merely trespassing when he entered the Capitol building.
However, Fracker ultimately pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he conspired with Robertson to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory on Jan. 6, 2021. Fracker agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in their case against Robertson, whose jury trial started Tuesday.
Under cross-examination by one of Robertson’s lawyers, Fracker said he didn’t have a “verbal agreement” with anybody to obstruct the joint session of Congress. Fracker said he believed everybody in the mob “pretty much had the same goal” and didn’t need for it to be “said out loud.”
Fracker said he and Robertson both believed the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from former President Donald Trump. One of Robertson’s attorneys, Mark Rollins, asked Fracker if he believes he did anything worse than trespassing on Jan. 6.
“Sitting here today, yes. At the time, no,” Fracker replied.
Robertson confirmed with U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper that he won’t be testifying at his trial.
Prosecutors rested their case on Thursday afternoon. Jurors are expected to hear attorneys’ closing arguments on Friday before they begin deliberating.
During the trial’s opening statements, defense attorney Camille Wagner told jurors that Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve Fracker, who entered the Capitol a few minutes before Robertson.
Wagner said Robertson, whom she called “T.J.,” knew that he had entered restricted areas of the Capitol where he wasn’t supposed to be on Jan. 6. But he isn’t accused of engaging in any violence or property destruction, she noted.
Fracker was scheduled to be tried alongside Robertson before he pleaded guilty last month. He described Robertson as his mentor and a father figure.
“I absolutely hate this,” Fracker testified on Wednesday. “I’ve always been on the other side of things, the good guys’ side so to speak.”
The town fired Robertson and Fracker after the riot. Prosecutors say Robertson paid Fracker more than $30,000 after they were arrested. Robertson first offered to give Fracker money on the day that they surrendered to authorities, according to a court filing accompanying Fracker’s guilty plea.
Fracker said Robertson also agreed to cover his legal fees, but he doesn’t believe Robertson was trying to “buy” his testimony with the $30,000 payment.
“He said it would cover a year’s salary for me,” Fracker said.
After the riot, Fracker bragged to friends on social media that he had urinated in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bathroom. That was a lie that he made “for cool points,” Fracker said.
Robertson used a large wooden stick to impede police officers who were trying to hold off the mob, according to prosecutors. Police body camera video captured his interaction with police.
When a prosecutor asked Fracker why he didn’t do more to help police officers who were trying to hold back the mob, he said he thought they should have been “on our side” and marching with the rioters.
“And you didn’t see T.J. help them, either?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower asked.
“Correct,” Fracker said.
Robertson is charged with six counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building while using a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Five of the counts relate to his actions on Jan. 6. The sixth stems from his alleged post-riot destruction of cellphones belonging to him and Fracker.
Robertson has been jailed since Cooper ruled in July that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms.
More than 770 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot. Over 240 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors.
Robertson is the second Capitol riot defendant to have a jury trial. The first ended last month with a jury convicting a Texas man, Guy Reffitt, of all charges.
Two other Capitol riot defendants elected to have their cases tried without a jury and decided by the same federal judge. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden acquitted a New Mexico man, Matthew Martin, of all four misdemeanor counts with which he was charged. Last month, McFadden convicted New Mexico elected official Couy Griffin of illegally entering restricted Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct.
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Morgan native setting world records in hydrofoil
MORGAN, Minn. (KEYC) - Breaking records, barriers and norms. Morgan native MJ Buckley, who now lives in Plymouth, holds multiple world records in hydrofoil.
“I hooked up with different people that I liked and could coach me and kept competing and then I was landing first wake front flip and tricks that women weren’t doing,” Buckley said.
Hydrofoil is a form of waterskiing in which the person who is skiing is seated. Since the late 90s, Buckley has been working to perfect her craft, earning her several accolades and is considered to be the best woman hydrofoiler.
“A surfboard and foil surfing have the same feeling, you are not on the water surface anymore. It just gets super quiet, you feel super light and you’re floating,” Buckley said.
On Oct. 21, Chain of Records hosted an event in Florida inviting skiers to take a shot at as many Guinness World Records as possible.
That day, Buckley broke three records, with another one pending. Those records include most inverted flips in three minutes (55), most inverted flips in one minute (23) and most hyrofoilers behind one boat (31).
Geno Yauchler has known Buckley for years and organized the record-breaking day.
“We were both competing against the record and, of course, the female record did not even exist, so she was setting it for the first time, so she is a pioneer in her sport,” Yauchler said.
Buckley spends time at her cabin with her husband, perfecting her craft and maintaining her status as the best in the world. But her eyes are set for more.
“Yes, of course, there is the Guinness Records, but there has got to be some other criteria and I do not know what it is, yet I want to be in the Water Ski Hall of Fame,” Buckley said.
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Officials: Middleton doctor died in a fall during a hike
Authorities say the missing Middleton surgeon found dead in northern Wisconsin over the weekend fell from an embankment while hiking alone
MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — The missing Middleton surgeon found dead in northern Wisconsin over the weekend fell from an embankment while hiking alone, according to authorities.
The body of Dr. Kelsey Musgrove was found Sunday partially buried in a steep clay bank on the edge of a river at Potato River Falls in Iron County. Officials said it appears Musgrove ventured off the hiking path and an embankment collapsed beneath her.
Iron County Sheriff Paul Samardich said in a statement that an autopsy shows the 30-year-old doctor died of traumatic injuries she suffered in her fall down the bank, the State Journal reported.
Musgrove’s last contact with people was on March 26 when she told them she had arrived at Potato River Falls. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office received word on March 30 that Musgrove had not returned home to Middleton and began an extensive search for her that included 25 agencies, the State Journal reported.
Musgrove did her surgical residency at the West Virginia University School of Medicine before starting the fellowship at UW Health last year.
UW Health in a statement said it was “deeply saddened” by Musgrove’s death. “She was recognized by her peers as a great surgeon, an outstanding mentor and an incredibly kind and positive spirit.”
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This company wants to pay you to watch 24 hours of true crime shows
(Gray News) – MagellanTV is looking for a true crime fanatic to take on a 24-hour True Crime marathon.
The streaming service company is willing to pay $100 an hour.
MagellanTV’s ideal candidate is someone who “can handle the most menacing serial killer, the goriest details, and (doesn’t) flinch at the chilling paranormal.”
They would also have to be willing to stream true crime shows nonstop for 24 hours while documenting their experience on social media.
The candidate will have to watch 32 True Crime shows, with 48 hours given to complete the job tasks.
The chosen winner will receive $2,400 if the job requirements are completed and a 1-year free membership to MagellanTV.
Runner-ups will also get a 1-year free membership to MagellanTV, a $60 value.
If this sounds like the perfect job for you, visit MagellanTV’s website to apply.
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UW delays free speech survey after interim chancellor quit
A University of Wisconsin-Stout professor has decided to delay sending a survey to UW System students about their thoughts on free speech until fall after an interim chancellor resigned over the questionnaire
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-Stout professor has decided to delay sending a survey to UW System undergraduates asking about their thoughts on free speech after an interim chancellor resigned over the project.
UW-Stout philosophy professor Timothy Shiell told Interim System President Michael Falbo in an email Wednesday that “given current circumstances,” he must delay sending out the survey until fall. He said the extra time will help answer an “avalanche” of questions about it.
Shiell runs the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation at Stout. The center began in 2017 with a donation from the conservative Charles Koch Foundation. It was renamed the Menard Center after the Menards family, which founded the Menards store chain, donated $2.26 million to the center in 2019. The family is a major Republican donor.
The GOP has been pushing campuses for several years to crack down on students and faculty whom they say punish and disrupt those who express conservative viewpoints.
The center planned to send the survey to undergraduates systemwide on Thursday. But UW-Whitewater Interim Chancellor Jim Henderson resigned on Monday, saying chancellors raised concerns about the survey. He said he was worried students were tired of questionnaires and that a free speech survey wasn’t needed at UW-Whitewater because students are exposed to a variety of voices.
Henderson said he was upset with Falbo because he initially wasn't going to allow the survey but Falbo changed his mind because he was worried that Republican legislators would accuse campus leaders of trying to stamp out conservative views.
Falbo told the Wisconsin State Journal his stance on the survey changed last week after Shiell told him that the chancellors’ concerns were based on incomplete information. Shiell said that the university board overseeing research involving humans had approved the survey and the workload for schools would be limited to sending out emails.
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Windy and cold with snow showers today and Friday; sunnier, more spring-like weather returns for the weekend
Wind chills will be in the teens and 20s for the next two days
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Cold winds and pesky snow showers will continue to make our weather feel more like late winter than early spring today. The same storm system that has been impacting the area for the past two days is still slowly wobbling eastward toward the Great Lakes today, producing thick clouds with snow and rain chances lingering in the region to go with gusty winds. Expect snow showers today with little if any accumulation expected, especially on grassy surfaces and rooftops. A little slush will be possible on some untreated roads and overpasses as well. Rain showers will mix in at times in the midday hours with temperatures climbing to the upper 30s. Wind chill values will only be in the 20s all day because of those harsh, gusty northwest winds that will reach 30 miles per hour at times.
The largest batch of snow on the backside of the storm system looks to rotate into the area during the evening commute through midnight and up to an inch of fresh snowfall will be possible, again primarily on grassy surfaces. Winds will remain gusty tonight, keeping wind chill indices in the teens and 20s.
A few light snow showers will be possible early Friday with just a minor coating of less than half an inch possible once again. Skies will be gray until early in the evening while raw, gusty northwest winds will reach 25 miles per hour throughout the day. High temperatures will be in the mid and upper 30s, so wind chill values will be in the 20s similar to those levels we’ve been experiencing for the past couple of days.
High pressure from the west will bring abundant sunshine and much lighter winds to the region on Saturday. After a cold start to the day, temperatures will warm quickly to the upper 40s in the afternoon. There will be a few more clouds on Sunday with a gusty south breeze, but high temperatures will be a bit warmer, mainly in the mid and upper 50s.
A couple of storm systems will move through the region early next week, the first will bring spotty rain showers late Sunday night and Monday with a second system bringing more widespread rain and even some thunder to the area from late Tuesday through Wednesday. High temperatures will be in the mid-50s through the middle of the week.
A few flurries or sprinkles will be possible next Thursday morning on the backside of the midweek storm system. Gusty winds will usher in cooler air for the latter part of the week and high temperatures Thursday and Friday will be in the 40s.
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Created: April 07, 2022 07:38 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The FBI is searching for a man who they say committed a robbery Wednesday afternoon at a Bank of America in northeast Albuquerque.
The alleged robbery occurred around 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Bank of America, near Alameda Boulevard and Corrales Road. The man was wearing a hat and makeup. He is accused of giving a note to the teller and getting away with the demanded cash.
If you have any information regarding this contact the FBI at tips.fbi.gov or call 505-889-1300.
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Updated: April 07, 2022 07:06 AM
Created: April 07, 2022 07:01 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For the past two years, we have covered how the pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals in New Mexico and forced New Mexicans in need to postpone their care and wait even longer to get the care they need.
These concerns have now brought conversations about healthcare to the forefront.
"During the pandemic, it became even more clear to New Mexicans that we are, as a community, only as healthy as sort of the least healthy person within your group," said Alex Williams, a health care policy advocate with the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty.
A nonpartisan survey conducted earlier this year found 72% of respondents supported some sort of public healthcare option that any New Mexican can buy into. Respondents across all parties were in favor of the option as 83% of Democrats, 72% of Independents and 57% of Republicans expressed support.
"Majorities of Republicans, Independents and Democrats – across the political divide – support opening up the exchanges to everyone, opening up Medicaid to everyone," Williams said, "and they expect and want the state to take action to make health care more affordable for everyone,"
The poll indicated that six out of 10 New Mexicans say they've had to sacrifice medical services or medicine in the past two years because of cost.
"They delay receiving care, it gets worse and worse and then they end up eventually resorting to an emergency room," Williams discussed. "Once it's become an emergency health situation, it's much more expensive. Hospitals lose money providing health care that way and patients harm their health and their finances by having to do that."
The state passed the Healthcare Affordability Fund. The fund made premiums more affordable, made it easier for small businesses to provide insurance and provided coverage for more people who might not have had access. However, advocates say the results of this poll show a majority of New Mexicans want more action from the state now.
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Created: April 07, 2022 07:01 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – We have seen dry, windy conditions over the last few days and, while the dry conditions will remain, winds will be calmer as we roll into the weekend.
A big warm-up is expected for Saturday and Sunday before the big gusts roll back in to start next week. Wind advisories and warnings will likely be posted for it.
Until then, enjoy the calmer conditions and warm sunshine that we discuss in our full forecast.
Click the video above to view Steve's full Monday morning forecast.
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Updated: April 07, 2022 11:00 AM
Created: April 07, 2022 09:17 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden.
Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic, her spokesman Drew Hammill said Thursday in a tweet. He said she had tested negative earlier in the week.
"The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided," Hammill said. Pelosi, he said, will "quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly."
The White House said Biden and Pelosi had only "brief interactions over the course of the last two days" and that the president was not considered a close contact of the speaker by CDC guidance - sustained unmasked contact within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes over a 24-hour period.
"Last night as a part of his regular testing cadence, the President tested negative," the White House said in a statement. "He will continue to be tested regularly. The President wishes Speaker Pelosi a speedy recovery."
The 82-year-old Democratic leader's announcement came ahead of her weekly press appearance on Capitol Hill, which was abruptly called off. The House is set to start a two week spring recess.
Pelosi also postponed a planned congressional delegation trip to Asia she was scheduled to lead.
Washington has experienced a rush of new COVID-19 cases as restrictions have lifted and more events and gatherings are happening across Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced positive tests. The officials were among more than a dozen attendees of the Saturday night Gridiron Club dinner to test positive for the virus. Pelosi did not attend the dinner, her spokesman said.
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also announced Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and would "work at home while following isolation protocols."
Several lawmakers have announced positive test results and are isolating.
The CDC says people vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 are much less likely to suffer adverse outcomes, including serious illness and death, from the virus compared to those who are unvaccinated.
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARK SHERMAN
Updated: April 07, 2022 12:26 PM
Created: April 06, 2022 10:17 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Jackson, a 51 year-old appeals court judge with nine years experience on the federal bench, was confirmed 53-47, mostly along party lines but with three Republican votes. Presiding was Vice President Kamala Harris, also the first Black woman to reach that high office.
Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court. She joined Biden at the White House to watch the vote, embracing as it came in.
During the four days of Senate hearings last month, Jackson spoke of her parents' struggles through racial segregation and said her "path was clearer" than theirs as a Black American after the enactment of civil rights laws. She attended Harvard University, served as a public defender, worked at a private law firm and was appointed as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
She told senators she would apply the law "without fear or favor," and pushed back on Republican attempts to portray her as too lenient on criminals she had sentenced.
Jackson will be just the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman. She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Amy Coney Barrett â?? meaning that four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history.
Her eventual elevation to the court will be a respite for Democrats who fought three bruising battles over former President Donald Trump's nominees and watched Republicans cement a conservative majority in the final days of Trump's term with the confirmation of Coney Barrett. While Jackson won't change the balance, she will secure a legacy on the court for Biden and fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to nominate the first Black female justice.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said ahead of the vote that Jackson's confirmation would be a "joyous day -- joyous for the Senate, joyous for the Supreme Court, joyous for America."
Despite the efforts to tarnish her record, Jackson eventually won three GOP votes. The final tally was far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and other justices in decades past, but it was still a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the 50-50 split Senate after GOP senators aggressively worked to paint Jackson as too liberal and soft on crime.
Statements from Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah all said the same thing - they might not always agree with Jackson, but they found her to be enormously well qualified for the job. Collins and Murkowski both decried increasingly partisan confirmation fights, which only worsened during the battles over Trump's three picks. Collins said the process was "broken" and Murkowski called it "corrosive" and "more detached from reality by the year."
Biden, a veteran of a more bipartisan Senate, said from the day of Breyer's retirement announcement in January that he wanted support from both parties for his history-making nominee, and he invited Republicans to the White House as he made his decision. It was an attempted reset from Trump's presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the three nominees, and from the end of President Barack Obama's, when Republicans blocked nominee Merrick Garland from getting a vote.
Once sworn in, Jackson will be the second youngest member of the court after Barrett, 50. She will join a court on which no one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years.
Jackson's first term will be marked by cases involving race, both in college admissions and voting rights. She has pledged to sit out the court's consideration of Harvard's admissions program since she is a member of its board of overseers. But the court could split off a second case involving a challenge to the University of North Carolina's admissions process, which might allow her to weigh in on the issue.
Republicans spent the confirmation hearings strongly questioning her sentencing record, including the sentences she handed down in child pornography cases, which they argued were too light. Jackson declared that "nothing could be further from the truth" and explained her reasoning in detail. Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions.
The GOP questioning in the Judiciary Committee showed the views of many Republicans, though, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said in a floor speech Wednesday that Jackson "never got tough once in this area."
Democrats criticized the Republicans' questioning.
"You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold," said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker at the committee's vote earlier this week. The panel deadlocked on the nomination 11-11, but the Senate voted to discharge it from committee and moved ahead with her confirmation.
In an impassioned moment during the hearings last month, Booker, who is Black, told Jackson that he felt emotional watching her testify. He said he saw "my ancestors and yours" in her image.
"But don't worry, my sister," Booker said. "Don't worry. God has got you. And how do I know that? Because you're here, and I know what it's taken for you to sit in that seat."
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2 New Jersey educators win prestigious Milken Award
Two New Jersey teachers have been named recipients of Milken Educator Awards and the $25,000 that comes with it.
The Milken Educator Awards likens themselves to the Oscars or Grammys for educators. There were a total of 60 winners nationwide. The awards target “early-to-mid career education professionals for their already impressive achievements and, more significantly, for the promise of what they will accomplish in the future.”
Taylor Matyas, an instructional coach at Laura Donovan Elementary School in Freehold, was one of the winners; she mentors and supports Donovan’s teachers through modeling, coaching and professional development. Focused on improving and accelerating student achievement through quality curriculum and instruction, she observes in classrooms, collaborates with staff on collecting and analyzing data, researches best practices and contributes to the curriculum.
Milken Educator Awards Senior Vice President Jane Foley said, “Her creativity in the classroom, collaboration with students and parents, and dedication to using data to bring best practices to life for her students are what make her our latest Milken Educator Award recipient. We are proud to celebrate her today!”
Donovan Principal Jennifer Benbrook told the Asbury Park Press that Matyas is “the model teacher who serves as that model for all of our staff.”
The other New Jersey winner was Sarah Mae Lagasca, a music teacher at Arts High School in Newark. According to the award, she has reimagined the school’s vocal arts program, increasing student proficiency in music theory, composition, sight-reading, vocal technique, music history, recording and production technology, marketing and branding, and personal artistic growth.
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Charlie Brown’s is back baby, with a new ‘fresh grill’ in NJ
When “Wicked” returned to Broadway after such a long pandemic hiatus Glenda’s first appearance took on special meaning in front of a standing crowd when she said, “It’s good to see me isn’t it?!”
Now if you’re more into prime rib than show tunes you may feel this same way about this news. Charlie Brown’s is coming back to life in Woodbury, New Jersey. I told you in December it was happening. If you miss the famous steakhouse chain put this address in your gps. 111 North Broad Street, Woodbury. That former location which sat empty will re-open as Charlie Brown’s Fresh Grill on Monday, April 18.
Rob Marquardt, president, said in a press release,
“This location has been a gathering place for members of the community for decades where guests and team members have created fond memories. We are thrilled to reopen this refreshed, historic location where the community can create new memories.”
The Farmer’s Market Salad Bar will be back with more than 60 items and will include Jersey Fresh produce. The only other Charlie Brown’s location in New Jersey will be the current one in Scotch Plains.
There’s always been a special connection between the restaurant and its fans. As their locations disappeared the nostalgia grew. In 1997 there were 22 locations throughout the Garden State. There was a bankruptcy filing in 2010. By the time the pandemic struck they were down to 14 in New Jersey. In the end, there was only Scotch Plains under the rebranding as Charlie Brown’s Fresh Grill.
Just now I made the mistake of looking at their menu. A mistake because the Woodbury location won’t be open until April 18 and man it made me hungry. I’m looking at you, mustard-crusted chicken. But that shallot butter-topped ribeye sounds amazing. As does the balsamic salmon.
They have a really nice selection of gluten-free options too, something I really notice since my son was diagnosed with celiac disease more than a year ago. If you have someone who avoids gluten this place will keep everyone very happy.
Oh, one last cool thing. The Woodbury location opening April 18 is in a building with a very rich history. It dates back to 1715. The Gloucester County Historical Society says it may have been part of the Underground Railroad with secret passages that helped free slaves.
Talk about some cool ambiance.
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Construction of NJ Transit’s new Portal Bridge can now begin
TRENTON – The Portal North Bridge project, which will ease disruptions caused by antiquated infrastructure on the Northeast Corridor rail line, has been issued a ‘notice to proceed,’ state and transportation officials announced Thursday.
The construction will eliminate a 110-year-old swing bridge that often messes with NJ Transit and Amtrak operations. It’s also a key part of the larger Gateway Program that will improve service and eventually double capacity between Newark and New York by adding another Hudson River rail tunnel.
“After years of crucial behind-the-scenes work, this notice to proceed means train customers will soon see tangible evidence of our commitment to modernizing the rail system,” Gov. Phil Murphy said.
“This notice to proceed means that soon construction will begin – improving reliability for the millions of customers who count on this critical rail link between New Jersey and New York every year, while creating jobs and spurring economic growth for our region,” said Kevin Corbett, president and chief executive officer of NJ Transit.
Amtrak board chairman Tony Coscia said the Portal North Bridge construction becomes the first of the Gateway projects to begin major construction. It is expected to take around five and a half years to complete, which would mean late 2027.
“The new bridge rising over the Hackensack River will be a visible reminder to Northeast Corridor passengers that a new day is dawning for rail travel in America – safer, faster and more reliable,” Coscia said.
The existing Portal Bridge will be replaced with a new modern two-track, high-level, fixed-span bridge that will improve service and capacity along this section of the Northeast Corridor. It will be 50 feet over the Hackensack River, allowing marine traffic to pass without interrupting rail traffic.
The Portal North Bridge project spans 2.44 miles of the Northeast Corridor line and includes the construction of retaining walls, deep foundations, concrete piers, structural steel bridge spans, rail systems and demolition of the existing bridge.
The state and federal governments are paying for the project, which will be supported by $766.5 million in Federal Transit Administration funds.
In October, NJ Transit approved a $1.56 billion construction contract for the project to Skanska/Traylor Bros PNB Joint Venture, the single largest construction award in NJ Transit history.
Michael Symons is the Statehouse bureau chief for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at michael.symons@townsquaremedia.com
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Don’t buy Clark Mayor Bonaccorso’s apology for racist slurs (Opinion)
Hey Mayor Sal Bonaccorso, if I buy the apology you’re trying to sell would you throw in the Driscoll Bridge, too? Sorry pal, I’m putting my wallet away.
In a story where absolutely nobody looks good, the mayor of Clark finally acknowledged what the rest of the world knew, that it was indeed him in the recordings using disgusting racist slurs like N-words, spooks and shines.
It was from what’s been called a whistleblower case and some Clark residents were outraged when it came to light that the city settled with the guy who made the recordings for $400,000 to keep him quiet about it — $400,000, of course, that came from taxpayers of the town just to protect the mayor’s political skin.
As things like this often do it all eventually came out. If you haven’t yet heard the many instances of when Bonaccorso used his charming slurs, here it is.
The Clark police chief and an internal affairs supervisor were also caught on the recording and are now on paid leave. The mayor is under increasing pressure to resign.
Instead of doing that, Bonaccorso decided to fix all this by publicly apologizing for the racist language. Which is hysterical considering part of the secretly recorded incidents has him talking to the other men about a time when he had to appear in front of black people to apologize for what appeared to be nooses hanging at the high school in Clark and you can tell his entire attitude was that it was just an insincere apology he was obligated to give.
Now he’s given another.
Look, if you want to decide the apology is real that’s your call. But how gullible does he think we are? Bonaccorso is not apologizing because he has seen the error of his racism. He’s apologizing hoping to save his political hide. And he’s pathetic.
His line about the true measure of a man being whether he can admit an error and learn from it is him just playing his own jury and exonerating himself. Sorry Sal, as my broadcast partner Bill Doyle said on our show, the true measure of a man is in not saying these ugly things in the first place.
Should he resign? Of course. Will he? We’ll see. But ultimately it is his decision. Should he want to remain in office he will eventually face an election and the residents whose tax money he used to keep his racism quiet can decide for themselves.
If they vote him back in office, then those votes will be the true measure of racists.
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Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice
The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Jackson, a 51 year-old appeals court judge with nine years experience on the federal bench, was confirmed 53-47, mostly along party lines but with three Republican votes. Presiding was Vice President Kamala Harris, also the first Black woman to reach that high office.
Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court. She joined Biden at the White House to watch the vote, embracing as it came in.
During the four days of Senate hearings last month, Jackson spoke of her parents’ struggles through racial segregation and said her “path was clearer” than theirs as a Black American after the enactment of civil rights laws. She attended Harvard University, served as a public defender, worked at a private law firm and was appointed as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
She told senators she would apply the law “without fear or favor,” and pushed back on Republican attempts to portray her as too lenient on criminals she had sentenced.
The third Black justice
Jackson will be just the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman. She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Amy Coney Barrett – meaning that four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history.
Her eventual elevation to the court will be a respite for Democrats who fought three bruising battles over former President Donald Trump’s nominees and watched Republicans cement a conservative majority in the final days of Trump's term with the confirmation of Coney Barrett. While Jackson won't change the balance, she will secure a legacy on the court for Biden and fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to nominate the first Black female justice.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said ahead of the vote that Jackson's confirmation would be a “joyous day -- joyous for the Senate, joyous for the Supreme Court, joyous for America.”
Three Republicans Support Jackson
Despite the efforts to tarnish her record, Jackson eventually won three GOP votes. The final tally was far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and other justices in decades past, but it was still a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the 50-50 split Senate after GOP senators aggressively worked to paint Jackson as too liberal and soft on crime.
Statements from Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah all said the same thing — they might not always agree with Jackson, but they found her to be enormously well qualified for the job. Collins and Murkowski both decried increasingly partisan confirmation fights, which only worsened during the battles over Trump’s three picks. Collins said the process was “broken” and Murkowski called it “corrosive” and “more detached from reality by the year.”
Biden, a veteran of a more bipartisan Senate, said from the day of Breyer's retirement announcement in January that he wanted support from both parties for his history-making nominee, and he invited Republicans to the White House as he made his decision. It was an attempted reset from Trump’s presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the three nominees, and from the end of President Barack Obama’s, when Republicans blocked nominee Merrick Garland from getting a vote.
Second youngest member of the court
Once sworn in, Jackson will be the second youngest member of the court after Barrett, 50. She will join a court on which no one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years.
Jackson’s first term will be marked by cases involving race, both in college admissions and voting rights. She has pledged to sit out the court’s consideration of Harvard’s admissions program since she is a member of its board of overseers. But the court could split off a second case involving a challenge to the University of North Carolina’s admissions process, which might allow her to weigh in on the issue.
Republicans spent the confirmation hearings strongly questioning her sentencing record, including the sentences she handed down in child pornography cases, which they argued were too light. Jackson declared that “nothing could be further from the truth” and explained her reasoning in detail. Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions.
The GOP questioning in the Judiciary Committee showed the views of many Republicans, though, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said in a floor speech Wednesday that Jackson “never got tough once in this area.”
Democrats criticized the Republicans’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker at the committee’s vote earlier this week. The panel deadlocked on the nomination 11-11, but the Senate voted to discharge it from committee and moved ahead with her confirmation.
In an impassioned moment during the hearings last month, Booker, who is Black, told Jackson that he felt emotional watching her testify. He said he saw “my ancestors and yours” in her image.
“But don’t worry, my sister,” Booker said. “Don’t worry. God has got you. And how do I know that? Because you’re here, and I know what it’s taken for you to sit in that seat.”
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Madison, NJ woman charged with vehicular homicide in crash that killed Chatham man
CHATHAM TOWNSHIP — A fatal motor vehicle crash in late March has resulted in a vehicular homicide charge for a Madison resident.
The Morris County Prosecutor's Office announced Thursday that Yulia Raynova, 45, faces one count of second-degree vehicular homicide and charges on other motor vehicle offenses.
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on March 28, Raynova was traveling west in a Nissan Rogue on Shunpike Road in Chatham Township when she struck a Jeep Wrangler at the intersection of Lafayette Avenue, officials say. The Wrangler hit a parked box truck, and the driver of the Wrangler, 52-year-old Chatham resident Michael Pacchia, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Raynova was charged on April 7. Authorities have not yet disclosed what information led them to file a vehicular homicide charge.
Anyone with information related to this incident is encouraged to call the Major Crimes Unit of the Morris County Prosecutor's Office at 973-285-6200, or the Chatham Township Police Department at 973-377-0100.
Dino Flammia is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dino.flammia@townsquaremedia.com
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While you were distracted by the lockdowns, mandates, and panic-peddling from the media, special interests were hard at work to change the school curriculum in New Jersey grade schools.
Many people are shocked to come out of the COVID-fog to find out that groups like Garden State Equality, the NJEA, and the ACLU all had a hand in a new curriculum that allows for grade school children to learn about sex, gender transition and pornography.
Here's the quote from a report on one state Senator's take on the new curriculum:
“For me the most outrageous part are teachers are instructed to promote a website Amaze and its YouTube channel to kids as young as 9 for them to get additional information on sex ed. One of the very first videos posted normalizes Porn as 'something everyone watches' and 'Hey it’s Free!'"
“I encourage all parents to take a look and decide if this is something they deem appropriate for kids this age,” the Bergen legislator continued.
Sen. Holly Schepisi joined me on the air this week to discuss the curriculum and the fight to stand up for parents. Part of the objection to the curriculum — beyond the outrageous and far-from-age-appropriate content is the fact that parents have largely been left out of the conversation.
One local Board of Education member, a mom who got elected in the surge of local candidates running in 2021, joined me to discuss the local effort to push back. Michelle Hurley, who was the top vote-getter in her recent election has been a steadfast proponent of parental rights and the fight against sexualizing grade school education.
You can read the policy HERE. that's to Senator Schepisi adding it online for parents to see firsthand what's happening in our schools.
As you know, I started an organization to fight for parents' rights and to protect kids from an aggressive sexual agenda coming from radical organizations and the publicly stated agenda of "woke" companies like Disney. Here's a pull quote from my earlier article:
"The lines of adulthood and parental rights are being erased by this new policy. Disney is going along fully with this agenda, eliminating the terms 'boys and girls' and saying that they are 'adding queerness' to their programming to push their "not-at-all-secret gay agenda." Those are the exact words of a Disney executive."
We've launched an effort to get the conversation started about protecting parental rights legally through a "Parental Bill of Rights".
There is a growing number of legislators who have stepped up to protect parents' rights including Assemblywoman Beth Sawyer, Christian Barranco, and others who are jumping in to sponsor the bill. On the Senate side, Senator Mike Testa and Joe Pennachio have stepped up for the fight. For the first time, parents are being invited to co-sponsor the legislation as "Citizen" signers.
When you sign up, the legislators get a note from you urging them to support this common-sense bill to involve parents in their Childs's education and stop the sexualizing of children. In the first two days of the roll-out more than 3,000, citizen signers sent strong notes to legislators urging them to support the bill. Add your voice and let Trenton know that we're done tolerating their nonsense.
The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Bill Spadea. Any opinions expressed are Bill's own. Bill Spadea is on the air weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m., talkin’ Jersey, taking your calls at 1-800-283-1015.
School aid for all New Jersey districts for 2022-23
The state Department of Education announced district-level school aid figures for the 2022-23 school year on Thursday, March 10, 2022. They're listed below, alphabetically by county. For additional details from the NJDOE, including specific categories of aid, click here.
2021 NJ property taxes: See how your town compares
Find your municipality in this alphabetical list to see how its average property tax bill for 2021 compares to others. You can also see how much the average bill changed from 2020. For an interactive map version, click here. And for the full analysis by New Jersey 101.5, read this story.
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NJ mall gives pet photo opps with Easter Bunny
Are people with money even crazier when it comes to their dogs than folks of lesser means? After all there was Paris Hilton who walked around with Tinkerbell the Chihuahua which she treated like a Louis Vuitton accessory. Then there’s this thing that just happened at The Mall at Short Hills.
Monday the high-end mall held for the first time ever a photo session with Easter Bunny just for pets. It’s called Bunny Paws and it raised money for St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in Madison.
Of course, pet owners ate it up like a Rottweiler eating up a cow hoof. Why?
Because people are crazy when it comes to their dogs. Take for example a recent survey of dog owners by OnePoll for PuppySpot. It found a lot of silly things. Such as 30% of dog owners have a stroller in which they take their pooch for a ride. 72% say bringing their dog home was one of the happiest days of their lives.
And 69% said they considered their dog to be their best friend.
So this got us talking on the Deminski & Doyle Show. Just how nutty were owners about their dogs? We asked five questions to find out.
One, would that best friend thing hold up in a hardened northeastern state like New Jersey?
50% said yes, their dog was literally their best friend. Good luck having your dog bail you out of lockup at 3 a.m..
Do people take their dogs with them on errands even if not necessarily into the store? A staggering 100% said yes.
How about letting the dog sleep in their bed with them? 66% do that.
Another 66% celebrate the dog’s birthday every year.
Finally, we asked, and were nauseated by some of the descriptive stories, do you let your dog lick your face? 83% allow it.
I’d write more, but I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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NJ police video shows Ian Smith hesitate during field sobriety test
CINNAMINSON — Video footage of congressional candidate and gym owner Ian Smith's traffic stop before his recent drunk driving arrest seems to contradict his claim that he passed a roadside sobriety test.
Cinnaminson police released several files of body cam and dashcam footage on Thursday of the stop around midnight on March 27. The footage shows Smith's black pickup truck driving on Route 130 and not staying completely in its lane.
Scroll to the end of the story to see the video files.
Smith is a candidate in the 3rd Congressional district Republican primary. He gained notoriety during the pandemic for defying Gov. Phil Murphy's mandates that prohibited gyms from opening their indoor facilities. His Atilis Gym in Bellmawr racked up thousands of dollars in fines and the loss of the businesses' mercantile license.
Smith was charged in 2007 with causing the death of Atlantic County College student Kevin Ade and was sentenced in 2008 to five years and six months in prison.
What the video shows
The video shows Smith's black pickup truck being pulled over into the parking lot of the Pandora Diner. Officers then conduct a sobriety test, which includes Smith following the light of a flashlight.
Smith exits his pickup and hesitates during the next test of walking in a straight line while putting one foot in front of the other after the officer demonstrates the test.
At Smith's request, the group of three officers walks across the parking lot to continue the test where all the spaces are empty and he can walk on the white line. Smith continues to be unsure of his steps and is told that they are going back to the police station for another test.
"Ho-ho-ho-ho-hold on. Why are you taking me into custody?" Smith asks.
Police tell him it's because he was driving while intoxicated. Smith bristles when told to take a breathalyzer test.
"You're taking me into custody. I didn't fail anything," Smith said as he is handcuffed with his hands behind his back.
The officer explains that per state law based on an officer's observation, a breathalyzer test is administered at the police station to determine a blood alcohol level.
"What observation," Smith asks. "You're standing out here on a windy road, you're submitting me to balance tests, which I did not too well at?"
"You did not pass," the officer says, explaining he almost ran another car off the road.
Smith is hesitant to get in the patrol vehicle.
He is then walked across the parking lot and placed in the back of a patrol car and questions why his pickup is going to be impounded under the terms of John's Law.
John's Law allows police to hold a vehicle involved in a DWI arrest for 12 hours to impede the driver from getting behind the wheel again.
Smith and the officers who responded all maintained their cool and no one raised their voice.
Conversation on the way to the police station
Smith continues to question the allegations as he is driven to the Cinnaminson police station.
"Why did I fail that test?" Smith asks.
"Based off my observations, you did not pass," the officer tells Smith.
"You haven't specified anything," Smith says.
"It will be indicated in my report. Also it's more than my observations of your test, your driving, OK. It's all in my dashcam how poor your driving was, how poor your tests were. All that gets indicated in the report," the officer says.
"Do you get paid for doing this right now?" Smith asks.
“I’m doing my job, I don’t know what you mean. Get paid to do what?” the officer says.
As they drive through Cinnaminson police headquarters, Smith tells the officer he is a candidate for Congress. The officer does not initially react to Smith as he is speaking on the police radio.
"Just do your job. I don't want to talk anymore. I'm going to say something ... I got respect for you guys," Smith says.
"I understand that. I think I've been nothing but respectful with you," the officer says.
"I haven't done anything wrong and you're telling me I'm under arrest and you essentially put me in handcuffs against my will," Smith said as the dashcam video ends.
Smith said he passed the field test
Cinnaminson Police Chief Richard A. Calabrese told New Jersey 101.5 that Smith was stopped around 12:25 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Pandora Diner on Route 130. He was taken to police headquarters and also charged with reckless driving, careless driving and refusing to consent to a breathalyzer test among other offenses.
“Ian Smith was not driving drunk," his campaign consultant Steve Kush said in a statement. "Ian Smith is innocent. Bodycam footage will show Ian passed a field sobriety test. The Cinnaminson police department should immediately release the body cam footage to every news outlet immediately."
According to the police report obtained by Politico's Matt Friedman, the officer saw Smith's pickup "failing to maintain its lane" and almost ran another vehicle off the road.
The officer said he could immediately smell alcohol when he first spoke to Smith whose eyes he described as "bloodshot and watery." Smith refused to not only take a breathalyzer but would not move his head so a booking photo could not be taken.
Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dan.alexander@townsquaremedia.com
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Sourland Mountain Festival returns for 2022
After taking a year off due to the pandemic, the 17th Sourland Mountain Festival will be held on Saturday, July 23 from 3 to 8:30 p.m. at Unionville Vineyards, 9 Rocktown Road, Ringoes.
The festival celebrates music, local food and drink, and family fun all with a spectacular view. There will also be craft vendors and services.
According to the festival website:
The Sourland Mountain Festival is hosted by the Sourland Conservancy, a non-profit organization that works to protect the Sourland Mountain region. The 90-square-mile Sourland region is home to the largest contiguous forest in Central New Jersey. The sparsely populated area includes parts of Somerset, Hunterdon and Mercer counties, and encompasses a complex ecosystem of forest, wetlands and grasslands.
New Jersey musical artists featured at this year's festival include The Outcrops, Rainbow Fresh and James Popik and Supernova.
There will be a “Cool Critters” area; according to Patch.com, some of the featured animals include alpacas, bees, turtles, and snakes.
There is also a VIP experience available for $125:
The iconic, Zagat-rated Ryland Inn will once again be providing our VIP Service at the 2022 Sourland Mountain Festival. Local craft beers, wine and light snacks will be available throughout the day with a wonderful full buffet meal provided during the evening, using locally-sourced and responsibly grown products.
The rest of the admission pricings is: $30 for adult (online- $40 at the door); $10 for ages 12-18 ($15 at the door), and under 12- free.
The event will be held rain or shine.
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Michael Kiwanuka | photo by Koof Ibi Umoren for WXPN
Michael Kiwanuka makes the old new and the fresh familiar at Union Transfer
Michael Kiwanuka took the Union Transfer stage and seemed all too comfortable in front another sold out crowd on his U.S. tour. “Piano Joint” started the show with a gentle plea that grew into grieving love song which, as emotionally confusing as that sounds, seems oddly familiar. Flipping back and forth between songs from 2016’s Love & Hate and 2019’s Kiwanuka, they familiarized old fans with newer material and vice versa.
Kiwanuka’s live band was adept at capturing the sound of the album, and his voice pristinely conveyed the nostalgic, gravely sound of an old record, complete with a few minor scratches that only endeared me to him more, being a bass in a tenor’s world. Background singers Simone Daley Richards and Emily Holligan Richards stood out as powerhouse vocalists, the latter of which was given room to shine on the song “Rule The World.” As usual at venues this size or larger, songs that start with participatory clapping, “Black Man in a White World,” tend to devolve due to audience adrenaline until the drummer comes in. The irony of the incongruity of clapping was not lost on me.
There was no Michael Kiwanuka merchandise for sale that night, but the crowd definitely got their money’s worth, although one very excited audience member near the back bar had to wait too long for his favorite song and was almost disappointed. “If he doesn’t play ‘Cold Little Heart,’ I’m not going to work tomorrow.” I’m really glad that guy made it to work.
Utah based Sammy Brue opened the show performing songs from their upcoming album Crash Test Kid. Accompanied by Kip Congo on bass and stomp box, the duo’s sound straddled the lines between 2020 Americana and heartfelt indie-blues, evoking Nirvana and a wealth of old country / folk artists that he should be too young to know about.
Songs like “Paint it Blue” and “Fishfoot” (written in a more “psychedelic” time in his life) sound great as a duo, but leave you wanting to hear the produced track. The album’s singles — the aptly named “Teenage Mayhem,” and the sweetly melodic “Crash Test Kid” — were great choices to front the set, appealing to both the manic and depressive in us all.
Piano Joint
One More Night
You Ain’t the Problem
Rolling
Black Man in a White World
Rule the World
Hero
Tell me a Tale
Light
Living In Denial
Final Days
Solid Ground
Encore:
Hard to Say
Home Again
Cold Little Heart
Love and Hate
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(NEXSTAR) – Did you crack open a cold one last year? There’s a decent chance that, if you did, it was one from a small, independent craft brewer.
Last year alone, those craft brewers produced nearly 25 million barrels of beer, according to a new report from the Brewers Association, the trade association that represents small and independent craft brewers in the U.S.
“Craft brewer sales rebounded in 2021, lifted by the return of draught and at-the-brewery traffic,” said Bart Watson, chief economist, Brewers Association. “However, the mixed performance across business models and geographies — as well as production levels that still lag 2019 — suggest that many breweries remain in recovery mode. Add in continuing supply chain and pricing challenges, and 2022 will be a critical year for many brewers.”
Last year also saw a record number of craft breweries operating at 9,118.
The Brewers Association released a list of the 50 craft breweries, as well as the overall brewing companies in the U.S., that recorded the greatest beer sales volume.
D. G. Yuengling and Son Inc., based in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, landed in the top spot for the best-selling craft breweries. The company, the oldest operating in the U.S., is well-known for its Yuengling Lager and even offers a Hershey’s Chocolate Porter in the fall.
Coming in second was the Boston Beer Co. with locations in Boston and Milton, Delaware. If you’re a beer drinker, you’ve likely heard of their brands Samuel Adams and Dogfish Head. The company is also responsible for Truly Hard Seltzer and Angry Orchard Hard Cider.
Breweries with locations in California occupied the majority of the top ten most popular breweries, including Sierra Nevada Brewing, Duvel Moortgat, Gambrinus, and Stone Brewing.
Three Floyds Brewing Co. of Munster, Indiana, made the top 50. It’s the sole Indiana brewery on the list.
The craft brewer is perhaps best known for its popular Zombie Dust, an “intensely hopped and gushing undead Pale Ale [that] will be one’s only respite after the zombie apocalypse.” Another favorite is Gumballhead, an “American wheat ale brewed with white wheat and dry hopped with hand-selected hops from the Yakima Valley.”
Alpha King is also a signature beer and fans look forward to the special annual release of its Dark Lord Imperial Stout.
Three Floyds has been ranked among the best breweries in the world in multiple years, according to RateBeer. It placed sixth worldwide in the 2020 rankings.
Here are the top 10 craft breweries of 2021:
- D.G. Yuengling and Son Inc. (Pottsville, PA)
- Boston Beer Co., Boston (Boston and Milton, DE)
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (Chico, CA)
- Duvel Moortgat USA (Paso Robles, CA; Kansas City, MO; Cooperstown, NY)
- Gambrinus (Berkeley, CA and Shiner, TX)
- Bell’s Brewery, Inc. (Comstock, MI)
- CANarchy (Longmont, CO; Tampa, FL; Salt Lake City; Dallas)
- Artisanal Brewing Ventures (Downington, PA; Lakewood, NY; Brooklyn)
- Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA)
- SweetWater Brewing Co. (Atlanta)
With 10 craft breweries on the list, California had the greatest presence of any state on the top 50 list. New York was closest behind with four. Multiple other states – Colorado, Georgia, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin – each had three.
Below are the other top-selling craft breweries, courtesy of the Brewers Association:
While larger brewing companies like Anheuser-Busch, Molson Coors, and Heineken reported the most sales in 2021, three of the top craft brewers ranked among the top 10 overall. D.G. Yuengling and Son, ranked 7th overall, edging out FIFCO USA, the parent company of Labatt Blue, Genesee Brewing Company, Seagram’s Escapes, and other brands.
In total, 40 craft breweries were among the top 50 selling companies of 2021.
A full list of the top overall brewing companies of 2021 can be found here.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Easter is almost here. If you are looking for something to do, we got you covered.
We took a look at easter events happening around Central Indiana. This includes egg hunts for children, adults, and even pets.
While many of the events are free, some require payment and others require you to sign up in advance. You can find a map of the events below.
Did we miss an event? You can let us know by filling out the form below.
Harper Robinson and Joe Schroeder contributed to this report.
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(NEXSTAR) – The United States Postal Service announced its intention to raise the price of postage this summer.
In a bulletin published Wednesday, the USPS said it filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission, seeking approval to raise the price of stamps starting July 10.
The price of a Forever stamp would rise to 60 cents.
If approved by the regulatory commission, the following increases would kick in:
The USPS recently raised prices in August, according to CBS News, when the cost of a Forever stamp went from 55 cents to 58 cents.
A Forever stamp, like its name suggests, can be used to mail a letter regardless of when it was purchased. That means if you bought a book of Forever stamps 10 years ago, when the price was 45 cents each, you can still use them to mail letters now, even though prices have climbed.
Even though they come soon after a recent price hike, the Postal Service said the latest proposal doesn’t even keep up with rising inflation. The proposed price hikes represent a 6.5% jump, but the annual inflation rate was 7.9% at the end of February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“With the new prices, the Postal Service will continue to provide the lowest letter-mail postage rates in the industrialized world and offer a great value in shipping,” the USPS statement reads.
President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday to save the post office’s six-days-a-week delivery service. The legislation cleared Congress last month after years of discussion and comes amid widespread complaints about mail service slowdowns.
Officials had repeatedly warned that without congressional action, the Postal Service would run out of cash by 2024. The final bill achieved rare, bipartisan support by scrapping some of the more controversial proposals to settle on core ways to save the service.
Delivering the mail is among the most popular things the government does, with 91% of Americans having a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in 2020.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – While no one could confirm nor deny that Jordan Spieth had to be carted off after eating too much at the Masters Champions Dinner on Tuesday night, Jack Nicklaus did offer his take on the evening’s events.
“I thought that we probably had the best dinner that we've ever had,” Nicklaus said, “and not so much from the standpoint of food … I think the food was probably the best we ever had, too. But it wasn't from that standpoint, it was the standpoint that it got us talking.”
With all but three possible past champions (Jackie Burke, Angel Cabrera and Phil Mickelson) in attendance, Nicklaus was pressed during the dinner by Tom Watson to share his personal experiences playing the second nine during Nicklaus’ historic Masters victory in 1986.
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
“Fifteen minutes later, shot by shot,” Watson chimed in. “Actually, he said, ‘Do you want me to go shot by shot?’ I said, ‘Hell yes, I want you to go shot by shot.’”
Added Nicklaus: “Shot by shot, yard by yard.”
“I was looking around the table,” Watson continued. “The guys at the table were just – they wanted to hear because everybody at that table had been in that position before, winning the tournament, and you could understand they wanted to hear the inside, what Jack was thinking inside as he played the last nine holes.”
Though Nicklaus had his fellow champions captivated, the star of the night was arguably the defending champ himself, Hideki Matsuyama, who impressed all by giving a three-minute speech, all in English and without using notes.
“I was watching him before sitting in the middle between Ben Crenshaw and Chairman [Fred] Ridley, and he was sitting there with his eyes like this and his hands were moving, and I could tell he was very nervous,” Watson said. “He made the speech. He didn't miss a beat. He didn't miss a word. After the speech was over, he goes, ‘Whew,’ like that. Simultaneously, everybody got up to give him a standing ovation … because we really appreciated the effort that he put in to go three minutes in English when he had a hard time doing it.”
And then, Nicklaus added, “Gary [Player] responded in Japanese, and I thought that was terrific. I have no idea what Gary said, but that's all right.”
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican police have arrested three men who allegedly packed 73 migrants inside two pickups and were driving them to the U.S. border.
The arrests took place late Tuesday in Villa Ahumada, a town 70 miles south of Juarez; the migrants were citizens of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador.
The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office identified the alleged smugglers as Jose M.A., Pablo O.G., and Manuel M.S. – all of them residents of Chiapas, a state that borders Guatemala, where hundreds of migrants from all over the world cross into Mexico daily.
Chihuahua state police seized a Ford F-350 and a Ford FX, one with a cargo box and one with a camper shell, from the alleged smugglers. The men were handed over to federal authorities for prosecution. The migrants – 45 men, 16 women and 11 minors – were taken to a government shelter in Juarez.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Paul Casey withdrew from the Masters before he teed off for the opening round at Augusta National Golf Club with ongoing back issues.
“The back issues are persistent and thus preventing me from being able to compete,” Casey said on social media. “I shall now focus on my treatment and recovery so I can return to competitive form as soon as possible.”
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
Casey struggled with back issues in his last start at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. He conceded his first match in pool play at Austin Country Club after just two holes and never teed off for his second- and third-day matches.
This would have been the Englishman’s 16th start at the Masters, where he’s posted five top-10 finishes. There is no alternate list at the Masters and Casey’s withdrawal leaves the field with 90 players.
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PLAINWELL, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan man says he’s alive thanks to the five organs he received from a single donor through a rare transplant procedure.
Dominick Anastasia, a 40-year-old from Plainwell, had a multivisceral transplant in August 2020, and he says he’s grateful for his donor every day.
“Her name was Lindsey and she was 29,” he said.
Anastasia was diagnosed with Pancreatitis in 2016 after having complications during a procedure on his intestines.
“I woke up in just the worst pain I had ever felt in my lifetime, and I knew instantly something wasn’t right,” Anastasia said.
He saw a series of doctors at multiple hospitals before being sent to Indiana University in Indianapolis, the closest hospital that could perform the procedure to replace five of his organs. He was put on the organ waiting list in July 2020 and received the organ donations a month later.
“It’s a simultaneous transplant where they do your liver, your pancreas, the stomach, and then the small and large intestines,” Anastasia said.
He has been in touch with his donor’s mother, who said Lindsey saved five lives.
“When I did communicate with her family. I had expressed to them how thankful and how grateful I am for their daughter’s gift,” Anastasia said. “I wouldn’t be here without her.”
Anastasia said while he has had complications to overcome, the transplant has given him a new life.
“I got my health back. I’ve been able to do the things that I couldn’t do with my children prior to surgery. My sons like to go out and throw the ball around. They like to play basketball, and I just didn’t have the strength to do these things,” Anastasia said.
April is National Donate Life Month, and Anastasia wants others to consider giving the gift of life. He hopes others decide to become organ donors knowing the impact the decision can have.
“There’s so many people that die every day waiting for an organ transplant. I would recommend to anybody: Sign up please, become an organ donor because it makes a difference,” Anastasia said.
Only about 200 multivisceral transplants are performed globally each year.
To learn how to donate, visit the Gift of Life Michigan website.
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After four consecutive pars to start his Masters Tournament, Tiger Woods thought he had birdied the par-4 fifth hole. His 15-foot putt looked great and Woods started to walk it in, but it lipped out hard on the right edge. Five holes, five pars, but a great start in his first official event since the final round of the 2020 Masters, 508 days ago.
Woods, however, wouldn't have to wait much longer for that first birdie. At the 186-yard, par-3 sixth, Woods hit his tee shot to 2 feet.
The tap-in birdie moved Woods to 1 under par, one off the lead at the time.
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(NEXSTAR) – In their outlook for the 2022 hurricane season, meteorologists at Colorado State University predict a busier-than-average storm season with more named hurricanes than usual.
The university’s forecast, released Thursday, calls for 19 named storms this year.
Strong tropical storms get names to reduce confusion and help meteorologists communicate each storm’s danger to the public, according to the National Hurricane Center. Between 1991 and 2020, there were 14 named storms per year on average, according to CSU.
A tropical storm gets a name when its wind speeds surpass 39 mph. When winds top 74 mph, the storm becomes a hurricane but retains its name.
Of the 19 named storms predicted this year, the CSU outlook expects nine to strengthen into hurricanes. Of those nine hurricanes, four are expected to be “major hurricanes.”
“As is the case with all hurricane seasons, coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an active season for them,” the forecast reads. “They should prepare the same for every season, regardless of how much activity is predicted.”
An average year has 27 hurricane days and 69.4 named storm days, the CSU meteorologists said. In 2022, they expect there to be 35 hurricane days and 90 named storm days.
The reason the team expects a more active storm season than usual has to do with the current La Niña conditions, which are lasting longer than expected. La Niña is expected to transition to an “ENSO-neutral” pattern (meaning neither La Niña nor El Niño conditions) sometime in the fall, but it seems unlikely that we’ll switch to an El Niño pattern in time for hurricane season.
“El Niño typically reduces Atlantic hurricane activity through increases in vertical wind shear,” explained CSU researchers Philip Klotzbach and Michael Bell in their report, but that seems unlikely in 2022.
Hurricane season in the Atlantic starts June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30. The meteorologists at CSU are set to update their hurricane forecast as we get closer, with the next outlook coming on June 2.
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MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – Nearly 40 years after the murder of 10-year-old Danny O’Donnell in Lake County, Ohio, his killer sent an apology letter to the boy’s family.
Jeffrey Deel, 53, is serving a life sentence and has been denied parole eight times. His next hearing is on April 20 and it’s his first time in front of the full Ohio Parole Board.
Deel was 16 years old when he passed the O’Donnells’ home in Madison Township and invited Danny to the nearby Bennett Road Beach on Oct. 23, 1984. A short time later, the fifth grader was found face down in Lake Erie.
“I beat, strangled and drug his innocent, lifeless body into the lake and abandoned him there. Then lied and denied everything,” Deel wrote in a August 2021 letter to the O’Donnells.
“When I talk about all the people that I have made victims of when I brutally killed your son Danny, in a fight that I should not have even started, I must also think about friendships that I ruined. You were friends with my parents. I took this away from you, too. My little brother Brian was Danny’s best friend. I took this friendship away from them, too.”
In the letter, which the O’Donnell family shared with WJW, Deel apologizes for the murder and includes a poem he wrote called “The Dash.”
“I know that if you are reading this letter, you are probably saying many things. Such as: I am still alive and Danny is not, or I got to enjoy life in prison and Danny is still gone, or you may have this or that and Danny has nothing– you took that away from us. I wish I could bring Danny back. I wish I could give you your son back.”
With the recent passing of Ohio Senate Bill 256, which retroactively bars life sentences without parole, the O’Donnells said they are nervous he could be released this time around.
“It’s kind of emotional to think of what we want to say,” said Kelly O’Donnell, Danny’s mother. “This letter doesn’t mean anything to me. At this point it’s just no, I’m not — Danny didn’t get the second chance, Danny’s not here because of what you did.”
The family is asking for people to write letters to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and sign an online petition. Those signatures need to be in by Sunday night.
“He said if he ever got out, he’d kill us,” said Charles O’Donnell, Danny’s father.
They also keep people updated on the case on the Justice For Danny Facebook page.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected Girl Scouts’ claims that the Boy Scouts created marketplace confusion and damaged their recruitment efforts by using words like “scouts” and “scouting” in recruitment drives.
Manhattan Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled that the Boy Scouts of America can describe their activities as “scouting” without referring to gender and that the matter does not need to be put to a jury.
Hellerstein said his written decision caps a “serious, contentious and expensive” litigation and necessitates dismissal of the lawsuit brought by the Girls Scouts of the United States of America.
The lawsuit was filed in late 2018, a year after the Boy Scouts announced that boy scouting and cub scouting would be open to girls, leading the organizations to compete for members after social trends and a rise in sports league participation drove down membership for decades. The pattern worsened when the pandemic hit.
“The Boy Scouts adopted the Scout Terms to describe accurately the co-ed nature of programming, not to confuse or exploit Girl Scouts’ reputation,” Hellerstein wrote. “Such branding is consistent with the scout-formative branding Boy Scouts has used for a century, including in its co-ed programs that have existed since the 1970s.”
The term “scout” is descriptive of both the Boy Scouts’ and Girl Scouts’ programming, the judge wrote.
“The Boy Scouts’ decision to become co-ed, even if it affects Girl Scouts’ operations, does not demonstrate bad faith,” the judge added.
Hellerstein’s decision comes while the Boy Scouts are in bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware that began in February 2020. The Irving, Texas-based organization sought bankruptcy protection after it was named in hundreds of lawsuits brought by individuals claiming they were molested by scout leaders as minors.
Messages seeking comment left with lawyers in the case were not immediately returned.
In his decision, Hellerstein wrote that he was siding with the Boy Scouts in part because the Girls Scouts cannot prove that a likelihood of confusion was caused by the Boy Scouts’ use of the term “scout.”
He said the Girl Scouts had cited instances of parents confusing the two organizations. But he added that the choice to join one organization or the other is made after several interactions with the organization, by children’s desires to join a group siblings or friends have joined, or other factors unrelated to trademarks and branding.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Jackson, a 51 year-old appeals court judge with nine years experience on the federal bench, was confirmed 53-47, mostly along party lines but with three Republican votes. Presiding was Vice President Kamala Harris, also the first Black woman to reach that high office.
“This is a wonderful day, a joyous day, an inspiring day — for the Senate, for the Supreme Court and for the United States of America,” exulted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. When Harris called the final tally, the chamber erupted in cheers that echoed beyond its doors. The Senate’s upper galleries were almost full for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago.
Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court. She joined Biden at the White House to watch the vote, embracing as it came in.
During the four days of Senate hearings last month, Jackson spoke of her parents’ struggles through racial segregation and said her “path was clearer” than theirs as a Black American after the enactment of civil rights laws. She attended Harvard University, served as a public defender, worked at a private law firm and was appointed as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
She told senators she would apply the law “without fear or favor,” and pushed back on Republican attempts to portray her as too lenient on criminals she had sentenced.
Jackson will be just the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman. She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Amy Coney Barrett – meaning that four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history.
Her eventual elevation to the court will be a respite for Democrats who fought three bruising battles over former President Donald Trump’s nominees and watched Republicans cement a conservative majority in the final days of Trump’s term with the confirmation of Coney Barrett. While Jackson won’t change the balance, she will secure a legacy on the court for Biden and fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to nominate the first Black female justice.
Despite the efforts to tarnish her record, Jackson eventually won three GOP votes. The final tally was far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and other justices in decades past, but it was still a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the 50-50 split Senate after GOP senators aggressively worked to paint Jackson as too liberal and soft on crime.
Statements from Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah all said the same thing — they might not always agree with Jackson, but they found her to be enormously well qualified for the job. Collins and Murkowski both decried increasingly partisan confirmation fights, which only worsened during the battles over Trump’s three picks. Collins said the process was “broken” and Murkowski called it “corrosive” and “more detached from reality by the year.”
Biden, a veteran of a more bipartisan Senate, said from the day of Breyer’s retirement announcement in January that he wanted support from both parties for his history-making nominee, and he invited Republicans to the White House as he made his decision. It was an attempted reset from Trump’s presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the three nominees, and from the end of President Barack Obama’s, when Republicans blocked nominee Merrick Garland from getting a vote.
Once sworn in, Jackson will be the second youngest member of the court after Barrett, 50. She will join a court on which no one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years.
Jackson’s first term will be marked by cases involving race, both in college admissions and voting rights. She has pledged to sit out the court’s consideration of Harvard’s admissions program since she is a member of its board of overseers. But the court could split off a second case involving a challenge to the University of North Carolina’s admissions process, which might allow her to weigh in on the issue.
Republicans spent the confirmation hearings strongly questioning her sentencing record, including the sentences she handed down in child pornography cases, which they argued were too light. Jackson declared that “nothing could be further from the truth” and explained her reasoning in detail. Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions.
The GOP questioning in the Judiciary Committee showed the views of many Republicans, though, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said in a floor speech Wednesday that Jackson “never got tough once in this area.”
Democrats criticized the Republicans’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker at the committee’s vote earlier this week. The panel deadlocked on the nomination 11-11, but the Senate voted to discharge it from committee and moved ahead with her confirmation.
In an impassioned moment during the hearings last month, Booker, who is Black, told Jackson that he felt emotional watching her testify. He said he saw “my ancestors and yours” in her image.
“But don’t worry, my sister,” Booker said. “Don’t worry. God has got you. And how do I know that? Because you’re here, and I know what it’s taken for you to sit in that seat.”
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(The Hill) — New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Thursday asked a state judge to hold former President Donald Trump in civil contempt over his failure to comply with a court order requiring him to hand over documents as part of an ongoing civil investigation by James’s office.
James, in a 21-page filing, also requested that Judge Arthur Engoron fine the former president $10,000 for each day he fails to produce the documents amid James’s ongoing probe of whether the Trump Organization unlawfully falsified the value of assets for financial gain.
The latest development comes after Engoron gave Trump a March 31 deadline to comply with the New York attorney general’s subpoena for records and ordered the former president and his two eldest children to comply with subpoenas for their testimony.
Trump is appealing the order granting the attorney general’s request for testimony. But in James’s filing on Thursday, she argued Trump has failed to appeal or otherwise properly contest the order for document production.
“Mr. Trump should now be held in civil contempt and fined in an amount sufficient to coerce his compliance with the Court’s order and compensate (Office of Attorney General) for its fees and costs associated with this motion,” James’s motion reads.
The former president and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
James’s office in January said it had uncovered “significant” evidence that the Trump Organization has for years been falsifying the value of its assets for financial gain, including to win tax breaks and attract investors.
That revelation came as Trump fought to block her efforts in both state and federal court while painting the investigation as a political witch hunt in the media.
Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars, said in a letter sent to the former president’s company in February that it could no longer vouch for the business’s financial statements for the past decade given the revelations from the attorney general’s investigation.
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Two women who were drugged and left outside separate hospitals after a night out in Los Angeles last year were the victims of homicides, county coroner records indicate.
Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola were apparently drugged during a night out together in Nov. 2021. At some point during their evening, the women became incapacitated and were left at separate hospitals more than 12 hours after anyone had heard from them.
Masked men in a black Toyota Prius with no plates dropped off Giles’ body outside a hospital in Culver City on Nov. 13.
Two hours later, Cabrales was left unconscious and in critical condition at a different hospital in West Los Angeles. She died later that month after being declared brain-dead.
Giles, a model, died just one week after her 24th birthday. Her cause of death was listed as multiple drug intoxication. Cocaine, fentanyl, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB — a sedative — and ketamine were found in her system, records show.
Cabrales-Arzola, a 26-year-old interior designer visiting from Mexico, died on Nov. 29, just days before her birthday. Her official cause of death was listed as organ failure, but a secondary cause was also multiple drug intoxication. Cocaine and MDMA were found in her system, records show.
LAPD said the women overdosed at a home in the 8600 block of Olympic Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
Three men were arrested in connection with the deaths in December: 37-year-old David Pearce, 47-year-old Michael Ansbach and 42-year-old Brandt Osborn.
Pearce previously faced a manslaughter charge and was being held on $1 million bail. The other two men were booked on suspicion of being an accessory to manslaughter and were each being held on $100,000 bail, according to LAPD.
At the time of the arrest, authorities believed more people may have been drugged by one or more of the suspects.
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(NEXSTAR) – The professional golfers who win the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club are rewarded with a slew of prizes and keepsakes, including a trophy, a gold medal and a sweet green jacket.
Oh, right. There’s also lots and lots of money.
The total purse for the 2022 Masters Tournament has yet to be announced, though it’s expected to exceed the $11.5 million awarded to players in recent years. A little over $2 million of that purse has gone straight to the winner since 2019.
After taking the green jacket in 2021, Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama won $2,070,000 in prize money, making him the third champion to earn that figure after Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson won the Masters in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
The runner-up prizes aren’t too shabby either, with $1,242,000 going to the second-place finisher and $782,000 going to the third. The rest of the competitors receive smaller (although still relatively large) payouts depending on their scores. In recent years, $28,980 of the total purse has even been earmarked for the golfer who finishes 50th.
In the case of a tie, the golfers who finish with the same score receive the average of the cash sums for their ranking. For instance, if two golfers tie for second, they would split the total prize awarded for second and third place ($1,242,000 and $782,000, in 2021), which would have averaged out to $1,012,000 apiece.
Such large sums, meanwhile, might make past champions green with envy. The very first winner of Masters Tournament took home only $1,500 in 1934, and the top prize didn’t exceed 100,000 until 50 years later 1984, according to Golf Monthly. Even adjusted for inflation, neither of those prizes come anywhere close to the current winner’s share.
Then again, there’s more to the Masters than just the cash prizes. Did we mention the runner-up also gets a silver serving tray?
The 2022 Masters Tournament, taking place at Augusta National Golf Club in August, Georgia, runs from April 7 through April 10.
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WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed Thursday by the Senate to serve as the next associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first Black woman to do so.
But the 51-year-old won't be joining any of the court's cases for a few more months. That's because the seat Jackson is set to take over won't open until June or July.
When Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement, he said he will officially step done at the end of the court's current term, which usually closes in late June or early July. It is only then that Jackson will officially be sworn in by another member of the court.
So, it could be about three months between Jackson's confirmation and her swearing. But once Breyer officially retires, the gap before she joins the court should be relatively short and normal. While lengthy court vacancies have become more rare over the last few decades, Republicans famously refused to give Barack Obama's nominee a hearing in 2016.
For instance, the turnaround time between the death of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the swearing in of Amy Coney Barrett, the most recent justice to be appointed, was only 39 days. Republicans were eager to appoint former President Donald Trump's nominee given that the 2020 presidential election was just weeks away, and the White House organized a swearing-in ceremony the same day of her confirmation on Oct. 27, 2020.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh was also sworn-in on the same day he was confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 6, 2018. That meant there was a vacancy on the court for just 67 days after former Justice Anthony Kennedy retired on July 31, 2018.
But Republicans are also responsible for the most recent long-term SCOTUS vacancy. After the sudden death of the late Antonin Scalia in Feb. 2016, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to hold confirmation hearings for Obama's nominee, current Attorney General Merrick Garland.
It was only after Trump became president and nominated Neil Gorsuch that the vacancy ended, 422 days after Scalia's death.
The longest vacancy on the Supreme Court lasted between 1844 and 1866, during which time three nominees were rejected by the Senate.
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(NEXSTAR) – A traveler passing through Boston’s Logan Airport was forced to hand over a prohibited item during a security screening — a prohibited item he allegedly didn’t even know he had.
The passenger, a resident of Massachusetts, was passing through a TSA checkpoint at Logan Airport at noon on April 5 ahead of a trip to New York City, according to the TSA. During an x-ray screening of his belongings, an officer with the TSA identified a “possible sword” inside his walking cane.
“When questioned, the passenger … stated that he bought the cane not knowing it had a sword inside,” the TSA wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar.
The Massachusetts State Police responded to the checkpoint area moments later, and the passenger allowed the officers to confiscate the prohibited item.
The man was re-screened and cleared to continue to JFK airport, the TSA confirmed.
A representative for the TSA told Nexstar that such items — i.e., items concealing blades or knives in the handle portion — are “not uncommon” finds at TSA checkpoints. This week, for instance, a hairbrush concealing a dagger was also detected at an airport in Ithaca, New York.
“In [that] instance, as in most other instances, the traveler voluntarily surrendered the item to a TSA officer and was then able to complete screening and catch their flight,” the representative told Nexstar.
The TSA advises that passengers wishing to travel with items knives, blades or other sharp objects pack them safely within their checked baggage.
More information on what travelers can bring in their carry-on bags — and what they can’t — is available at TSA.gov.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — No one heard gunshots during a worship service at New Covenant Worship Center Wednesday night as a 21-year-old man was gunned down in the church parking lot.
Around 7:45p.m. Luke Matthew Borror, of Fort Wayne, was found down by Fort Wayne police, his body outside a dumpster. The Allen County Coroner said Borror died from a gunshot wound and is the fourth homicide this year in Allen County.
Mick Baker, executive director of the Impact Center, part of the worship center in the 3400 block of Paulding Road on the city’s southeast side, said about 50 to 100 worshippers were inside the church for a 7 p.m. service when police alerted them to the shooting and asked them to stay inside.
“From what we understand, an altercation happened and an individual was shot,” Baker said Thursday morning outside the worship center. “We haven’t had anything like that happen in the nine years the church has been here and again, we are trying to make a difference on this side and this is the kind of thing we want to help to not happen in the future by helping our community and by bringing help and hope.”
The church has an array of surveillance cameras, one of which takes in the southeast corner of the parking lot where the shooting occurred. “We did catch some of this on our surveillance cameras,” Baker said, including people running from the scene.
Sgt. Matt Wilson, head of Fort Wayne’s homicide unit, told WANE 15 that police are “aggressively pursuing all leads. Detectives are out re-canvassing and pulling video evidence.”
Police have put out a ring doorbell request for the area and ask anyone with information to call the FWPD Detective Bureau at 427-1201 or contact Crime Stoppers, particularly the P3 app where tips are anonymous.
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MOUNT HOOD — Search and Rescue operations resumed the morning of Thursday, April 7 for missing snowboarder Ryan Mather, 30, of Aloha., according to a HRCSO press release.
Mather was reported overdue by his girlfriend around 9:30 p.m. on April 5. Mather had been snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows during the day and had failed to return to his residence.
Mather’s vehicle was located at Mt. Hood Meadows, prompting personnel from the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office, Hood River Crag Rats and Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Patrol to initiate an immediate search for Mather.
Rescue crews will continue to search the technical black diamond and double black diamond rated areas in and around Heather Canyon and the Private Reserve today, April 7. Those areas are closed to the public due to the high avalanche risk from the terrain above. Personnel continue to focus on the areas accessed from the Mt. Hood Meadows Shooting Star chair lift, the last location Mather’s ski pass was scanned late Tuesday morning.
Weather overnight on the mountain was warmer, with the higher elevations at Mt. Hood Meadows seeing temperatures around 40 degrees, creating less than ideal snow conditions for ground teams, according to a HRCSO press release. In addition to the snow conditions, searchers are expected to face avalanche risks in much of the search area today.
Assisting the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office with search operations on April 7 are the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, Hood River Crag Rats, Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue, Portland Mountain Rescue, Corvallis Mountain Rescue, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Patrol, Mt. Hood Meadows Public Safety, and Oregon Emergency Management.
Assisting April 6 were Hood River Crag Rats, Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue, Mt. Hood Meadows, Portland Mountain Rescue, Corvallis Mountain Rescue, Lane County Sheriff’s Office, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon Air National Guard.
Hood River County Sheriff Matt English said additional information will be reported as it becomes available.
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405 Brewing Co. will join the lineup of locally owned restaurants, shops and taprooms in downtown Norman following approval of a rezoning request at last week’s city council meeting.
Adair & Associates Realty President James L. Adair requested special use rezoning for a bar, lounge or tavern and a renewal of a special use for a mixed-use building for a property previously zoned as commercial at 205 E. Main St.
The motion carried unanimously.
His plan is to renovate the space to have a brewery downstairs and a loft and offices upstairs.
Adair first apologized to council for not carrying out his plans for loft apartments when he received approval for a request “a couple years back.” He said he made design decisions too slowly, and COVID-19 only complicated the process.
However, Adair said he now better understands how to design the entrance to the loft apartments and what business will operate downstairs. Adair believes they would have made at least one mistake if he had renovated during the last special use period.
“To do the loft apartments upstairs, we would have had to do a new dedicated entrance from the sidewalk to the stairway going upstairs, and obviously, an entrance going into whatever the use would have been downstairs and probably would have just done a straight storefront with two doors,” Adair said.
Adair said he has a lease agreement with 405 Brewing Co., Norman’s first brewery, to occupy the space.
“Working through their design process, we don’t want a straight storefront across the front. We’re going to recess it back probably 12 or 14 feet for a front patio,” Adair said.
Adair intends to move his personal offices to Main Street and said he is confident 405 brewing fits into the downtown dynamic. He said downtown Norman doesn’t have a “true retail” presence.
Adair suggested the dynamic of downtown fuses offices and restaurants, particularly for lunch, pointing to the courthouse, the banks, government offices, accountants, architects and lawyers downtown.
“We have so many people that work downtown, and that has really kept downtown healthy in my opinion,” Adair said.
Adair said the intention is to further extend that synergy into the latter part of the day with a third brewery in a three block area while retaining the local vibe.
The structure was built around 1900 and is believed to be the original pharmacy in Norman. The previous remodel on the building predates the Americans with Disabilities act.
Another challenge in the planning process was how to update it into compliance. Adair said the patio and recessed front will help facilitate that objective in a purposeful way.
Adair plans to keep around 70% of the original tin ceiling and hopes to fill in the remainder with reproduction pieces. He also looks to re-sand the original wood floor upstairs.
Adair plans to keep around 70% of the original tin ceiling and hopes to fill in the remainder with reproduction pieces.
“It’s got really, really good bones,” Adair said.
Ward 4 Councilor Lee Hall said she backs Adair’s downtown projects like these because they respect the integrity and history of the structure.
Hall said this project gives the city another opportunity to support local businesses that have struggled during the pandemic.
“I think [the brewery community] is a very collaborative group. I think you all support one another, and I’m excited to add another local brewery to downtown Norman,” Hall said.
Councilmember Stephen Holman echoed Hall’s sentiment. He said in his experience, Adair’s projects downtown represent the council’s vision for the area.
“We’ve done our part downtown replacing the sidewalks, lights, bike racks and all that stuff, but that only goes so far. It takes property owners that care about the property and want to maintain that history and put it to further use so it’s good for another 100 years,” Holman said.
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A district tasked to oversee Lake Thunderbird has requested Oklahoma Turnpike Authority cooperate as it plans to build a toll road next to Norman’s primary water source.
OTA announced in February a proposed route for an extension of the Kickapoo Turnpike, which will run south from Interstate 40 in east Norman, west of the lake and watershed.
The Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District (COMCD) will vote on a resolution to submit a letter to the OTA to request its cooperation.
The board will vote on the resolution during its Thursday meeting at 6:30 p.m. at 12500 Alameda Drive.
The district, created to provide water to Norman, Midwest City and Del City, operates and maintains water supply through a contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It’s responsible for operation and maintenance of the dam and flood releases “as ordered by the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers,” the letter to the OTA reads.
The District’s letter stressed the importance of the lake and the potential impacts of the project on the lake.
“...to ensure the District can fulfill its obligation to provide quality drinking water in sufficient quantities to our member cities, we take very seriously any development or project within the watershed that may affect our ability to do so,” the letter reads. “The Board believes this project is of a magnitude that warrants our full attention.”
The letter puts the OTA on notice that “we intend and expect to be actively engaged partners in the process moving forward and exercise our rights and jurisdiction to the extent allowed by law to ensure that our interests are protected.”
It also said the District believes the OTA would welcome the collaboration and a shared interest in protecting the state’s lakes.
OTA spokesman James Poling said it would cooperate with the district. Guests of the meeting who wish to speak during public comment must sign up before the meeting.
Concerned citizens heard by Bureau of Reclamation
The meeting packet includes a letter from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation to the OTA that told the authority its plans come into contact with “Norman Project Lands” –- a federally owned water resource project — the letter states.
Jeff Thompkins, the bureau’s resource management division superviso, said in the letter that his department learned of the plan through “media and concerned citizens.”
“Any request to utilize Federally owned lands associated with Lake Thunderbird would be subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA], as amended, as well as all associated Federal environmental policies and regulations regarding protection of archeological resources, parks, wetlands, impaired water bodies, endangered species, etc.,” it states.
Thompkins said OTA would be required to disclose “and evaluate the impacts” of the project.
“If the proposed turnpike project is determined to significantly affect the water quality of the human and/or natural environment, then an Environmental Impact Statement could be required,” the letter reads. “Proposed project sponsors would generally be responsible for most costs incurred for NEPA compliance.”
The letter included geographical information system data for the federal boundary “flowage easement parcels, Lake Thunderbird surcharge and flood poll elevations, and the alignments for the pipelines which convey water.”
OTA responds
Darian L. Butler, OTA director of engineering, responded to the bureau’s letter March 23 and assured Thompkins the Turnpike Authority is aware it would be subject to federal regulations and that it was still in the early planning phases of the project.
“The OTA would provide the needed studies and documentation to support NEPA and would rely on the USBR [bureau of reclamation] as the lead federal agency in this circumstance,” Butler’s letter reads.
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Whether Tuesday’s election results were to your liking or not, we’re hopeful our newly-elected officials will work for all of us toward the betterment of Norman.
In reflecting on Tuesday’s runoff outcomes, we want to first say thank you to Mayor Breea Clark, Ward 4 Councilor Lee Hall and the NPS Board of Education’s Dan Snell. While Clark and Snell were beaten by their opponents in Tuesday’s runoff, and Hall chose not to run again, each has done admirable public service in their work for Norman residents over the last few years.
Clark dealt with a mayoral term marked by both the COVID-19 pandemic and a complex discussion about policing and law enforcement funding in Norman. We appreciate her steady leadership and how she made tough decisions, especially during the pandemic, that kept residents safe.
Since September 2019, Hall has served Ward 4 residents with excellence tackling complicated subjects like homelessness, a significant topic of discussion in her ward specifically. We appreciate her always-informed approach to difficult issues.
Snell leaves his position after 25 years on the board — he’s walked NPS through multiple superintendents’ administrations and bond projects and prioritized professional development for faculty and staff and alternative education at Dimensions Academy. We appreciate his decades-long dedication to serving the faculty, staff and families of NPS and the institutional knowledge he carries.
We also want to congratulate our newly-elected officials: Mayor-elect Larry Heikkila, Ward 4 Councilor-elect Helen Grant and Board of Education member-elect Alex Ruggiers.
We hope to see a commitment to transparency and accountability, public service over self, collaboration and humility and genuine care for their community from each of them.
We hope to see them elevate city over party or political prerogative — in nonpartisan positions like mayor or councilor, it’s imperative that our officials focus on the good of Norman and the safety and ensure residents, housed and unhoused, prosper.
None of their jobs will be easy, but we hope each is rewarding and productive both for these officials and for all the constituents they serve.
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STARKVILLE – The stream of light off the projector shined over the Mississippi State backdrop just above Chris Lemonis’ head. MSU was fresh off Tuesday’s win against UT Martin, but the aspirations Lemonis has for his team stem much further than an April midweek win.
The projector, left on by accident, proved exactly that.
Leftover was the iconic “One Shining Moment” video aired at the conclusion of March Madness. It depicts the journey teams endure in the premiere college basketball tournament, from the opening tip to when Caleb Love’s missed 3-pointer clinched a title for Kansas.
Lemonis showed his team the three-minute clip before facing the Skyhawks, and it wasn’t just because of his ties to Indiana — the self-proclaimed state of basketball.
North Carolina started its season poorly and sat on the bubble well into February. The Tar Heels were fortunate a late-season run ignited them to an 8-seed in the NCAA tournament, but their exterior expectations were low.
As March Madness goes, UNC instead made a run to the national championship game. Though the Tar Hells fell to the Jayhawks, Lemonis felt his Bulldog squad — a team fighting to find momentum this season — could learn from Hubert Davis’ group.
“We’ve had our struggles, but we have talent and we can play,” Lemonis said. “They’re starting to play a little bit better every day.”
Chris Lemonis played “One Shining Moment” for his team before the game.
— Stefan Krajisnik (@skrajisnik3) April 6, 2022
Mentioned UNC’s slow start before making a run — something MSU baseball is hoping to do this year. pic.twitter.com/LTrHnIe9Iu
Lemonis hopes the run toward MSU’s second-consecutive shining moment starts this weekend with No. 19 LSU in Starkville.
The Tigers and Bulldogs are among the five SEC West teams sitting at 4-5 in conference play. Along with Auburn at 5-4, the entire division is chasing No. 2 Arkansas (22-5, 7-2 SEC).
It has been far from pretty for MSU in its title defense, but Lemonis hopes his experienced roster understands the grind that comes with playing in college baseball’s toughest conference.
Among those core leaders is Luke Hancock, whose scorching bat matches a plethora of knowledge regarding SEC play. Hancock saw the lows MSU had last season. With that, he saw how those were overcome.
“The ups and down make you stronger, make you tougher, make you more resilient whenever you’re out there on the field,” Hancock said.
Mississippi State hasn’t won a home series against LSU since 2003. Looking to snap that skid, the Bulldogs are rolling with their typical weekend rotation.
Preston Johnson and Parker Stinnett have been shaky to open weekend series in SEC play while Cade Smith has been solid on Sundays. Smith’s status doesn’t appear to be a concern after he took a chopper off the face Sunday at Arkansas.
With the early lead MSU built against UT Martin, it allowed Lemonis to save his top arms for the weekend.
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OXFORD – Above all else, it was defense that disappointed Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco.
The No. 9 Rebels traveled to Pearl Tuesday and fell to No. 18 Southern Miss 10-7. Ole Miss (19-9, 4-5 SEC) trailed by three heading to the bottom of the seventh, took a one-run lead and then ultimately surrendered it in the eighth.
Ole Miss pitching was far from perfect — nine of the 10 Golden Eagles runs were earned — but a combined trio of errors in the third and fourth innings and overall less-than-stellar defense was as much to blame as anything happening on the mound, Bianco said.
“We’re still learning on the mound,” Bianco said. “We had a couple walks tonight on just four-straight balls, and at the bottom of the lineup where you’re just giving them too many opportunities. And so obviously, that was a factor. But I’m more disappointed in the defense.”
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The Rebels host Alabama (18-12, 4-5) in a three-game series at Swayze Field starting Friday. First pitch Friday is 6:30 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on SEC Network-plus. Ole Miss is 13-4 at home this season.
The Crimson Tide has won three games in a row and took last weekend’s series against Texas A&M. Alabama’s pitching staff ranks 37th nationally with a 3.84 ERA. Expected Friday night starter Garrett McMillan has a 3.05 ERA and 44 strikeouts in just over 41 innings pitched.
Help might be on the way sooner than later for the Rebels, as senior outfielder Kevin Graham took batting practice earlier in the week. He has been out for a month after suffering a fractured wrist. Graham was hitting .308 with four home runs and 17 RBIs prior to the injury.
Bianco also said he thought redshirt sophomore outfielder T.J. McCants “(will) be fine for the weekend” after suffering an ankle injury last weekend. McCants did not play against Southern Miss.
MICHAEL KATZ is the Ole Miss athletics reporter for the Daily Journal. Contact him at michael.katz@djournal.com.
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It was Chris Greer’s first day as Myrtle’s middle school girls basketball coach in 1998, and he wanted his players to run sprints.
“One sprinted so fast and got back – it was Armintie Price,” Greer said. “I went to the principal and said, ‘Is there any way we can start a track team?’”
Price went on to become a star on that track and field team, helping Myrtle win three state championships. She was an even bigger star on the basketball court, eventually playing for Ole Miss and then in the WNBA.
Price was the first of many Myrtle athletes to excel under Greer, who announced earlier this week that he is retiring from coaching. He’s been at Myrtle, his alma mater, for 24 years. Prior to that, he was at Lafayette for one year and Potts Camp for four.
“It came to a point where I just decided to retire. I prayed, and some things happened, and I just decided it was time,” Greer said.
The 50-year-old was girls basketball coach at Myrtle for 12 years total, including the last eight. He also coached the boys this past season. During his career, Greer has a record of 366-220, and he led the Lady Hawks to the Class 1A state final in 2010.
He was even more successful as cross country and track coach. He started both programs and has won a total of 23 state championships between the two.
“He really brought out every talent in me that I did not know I had,” said Price, who now goes by Herrington. “I started basketball with him as well. I was a baby deer, and he really helped develop me and helped me see what I had inside of me. … I owe coach Greer a lot, because I didn’t know I could run, jump or shoot at the time.”
There will be a retirement ceremony for Greer on May 1 at the Myrtle gym. He plans to stay busy after retiring, and he’s not ruling out a return to coaching someday.
“Five or 10 years down the road, I might coach again,” Greer said. “But right now, I’m taking a break.”
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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- You're invited to join Spectacular Magazine in celebrating North Carolina's largest black history month celebration.
The 19th Annual NC MLK Black History Month Block Party is happening this Saturday, April 9 in Durham.
It's free entertainment for the entire family. More information here.
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St. Petersburg, Florida -- A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse had good taste in art.
They had really good taste - and really good timing.
On March 21, 1943, the Ohio couple purchased their first Salvador Dalí painting, "Daddy Longlegs of the Evening, Hope!" Then they bought another, and one after that. They would became important patrons of Dalí and would quickly befriend the Spanish Surrealist master, who was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.
In time, their home became a de facto Dalí museum. When they wanted to share their collection with the world, they opened a small museum in their office complex in Beachwood, Ohio. But so many people found it that they outgrew the space.
In the 1970s, after offering to donate their collection to ensure it would stay together in perpetuity, the city of St. Petersburg, Florida campaigned to house it, and The Dalí Museum was born in 1982.
Today, the museum is in its second home there, a stunning Surrealist-inspired complex that complements the art it houses.
"The Dalí Museum has over 2,000 watercolors and drawings, hundreds and hundreds of graphics and sculptures. But the main part of our collection is the astounding oil paintings. There's a couple that we have here that are the most important pieces of his career that helped to really tell his story," said Peter Tush, the museums senior curator for education.
Among the paintings is "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory," which with its melting clocks references one of Dalí's most famous works, 1931's "The Persistence of Memory."
"Twenty years later, he takes his original painting and he reconstructs it as a metaphor for the Atomic universe. It's one of our visitors' favorite features. And it's a great way to think about Dalí as an artist who's constantly in transition," Tush said.
The museum owns eight of Dalí's "masterworks," a term coined by A. Reynolds Morse for Dalí's very large paintings, and the museum has developed an augmented reality (AR) experience to allow visitors to enjoy them in an immersive manner using their smartphones. The feature calls up a 30-second video that animates the painting and recounts key aspects of Dalí's story.
Another AR experience lets you "walk inside" one of his paintings.
"It's absolutely amazing. It's a way that we keep developing our collection using technology to see in different ways," Tush said.
Dalí's work is housed in a museum that itself is a work of art. Designed by noted architect Yann Weymouth of HOK, the museum features a geodesic structure that's asymmetrical and would be right at home in Dalí's fantasy world.
"It seems to ooze out of the building very much like Dalí's paintings. Inside there is a very unique spiral staircase that was actually made in place, almost a sculpture. And it's a reference to Dalí's obsession with spirals," said Tush, who said Dalí was one of the first artists to be inspired by the structure of the DNA molecule.
"So there's a lot of spirals that show up in his paintings. And we've been able to pay tribute to that with the spiral staircase holding the whole building together, uniting it and bringing our guests up to the third floor where the collection is," Tush said.
The museum aims to create an experience that leaves visitors feeling rejuvenated, thinking about themselves and the world in a fresh way.
"Dalí definitely has that magic," Tush said.
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That policy is part of what has created confusion and a bottleneck of cases in Mexico, according to immigrant rights organizations like Al Otro Lado.
"We've been in communication with the Biden administration, along with our partners on the ground, regarding the impact of Title 42 and the lack of information that the migrant community has about Title 42," said Al Otro Lado's border rights project director, Nicole Elizabeth Ramos, adding that the lack of information makes migrants more vulnerable to organized crime.
According to Customs and Border Protection data, between March 2020 and February 2022, 60% of encounters at the southwest border were "expelled" under Title 42.
"Now we're seeing that the administration is going to lift Title 42. But they have no plan in place of how they're going to process the backlog of people," Ramos said.
The CDC confirmed Title 42 will be lifted on May 23. But many key questions remain, including whose cases will be heard first.
After perilous journey to Tijuana, Haitian family awaits end to Title 42
Prior to the pandemic, U.S. and Mexican governments operated a waitlist, said Ramos, adding that migrant communities they've heard from want that waitlist to be honored.
"The migrants have expressed that while they believe that a first-come, first-serve, respecting the original list is in order, that there needs to be additional ways for people to enter who are subject to really extreme circumstances," Ramos said.
"We have put in place a comprehensive, whole-of-government strategy to manage any potential increase in the number of migrants encountered at our border," said secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Among other steps, Mayorkas said DHS is increasing its capacity to evaluate asylum requests and "quickly remove those who do not qualify for protection," increasing its personnel and resources, redeployed more than 600 law enforcement officers to the border, and are putting in place additional COVID-19 protocols.
However, Title 42 is one of two major policies playing out at the southern border. The other, known as "Remain in Mexico" or MPP, is still in effect.
While there are some exceptions, it allows border officers to return non-Mexican asylum seekers from Western Hemisphere countries to Mexico while their claims are processed.
In the meantime, Al Otro Lado is assisting refugees from different parts of the world to seek exemptions to Title 42 while it remains in place.
Ramos and others said the granting of those exemptions is disparate.
"We're letting many people from Ukraine in, understandably because there is a war right now," she said. "We're seeing CBP processing hundreds of Ukrainian migrants each day while Black and brown migrants who have been waiting in some cases more than three years have to sit on the sidelines and not have their cases heard."
To meet the demand of cases, the organization is seeking remote and in-person volunteers with a particular need for those who speak Spanish, Haitian Creole, Ukrainian or Russian.
"Many people accuse asylum seekers of wanting to jump the line, that they need to do things the legal way. Seeking asylum at a U.S. port of entry at the border is the legal way to begin this process to seek international protection," said Ramos. "They're not exploiting a loophole. It is laid out very clear in our law, which replicates international human rights law that we agreed to after the Holocaust."
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Doctors: Homeless man competent to stand trial in teen's death
A Palm Beach County judge announced Wednesday afternoon that two doctors have found that a homeless drifter is competent to stand trial in the killing of a Palm Beach Gardens teenager last year.
A quick hearing for Semmie Williams Jr. was held in Palm Beach County courtroom just after 1 p.m.
Williams, 39, faces a charge of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Ryan Rogers, a 14-year-old William T. Dwyer Community High School freshman.
The teen was an avid soccer enthusiast who was found dead Nov. 16 near the Central Boulevard sidewalk at the Interstate 95 overpass, less than 24 hours after his mother reported him missing, police said.
Another hearing in the case is set for April 20.
Judge Charles E. Burton will still have to make a final ruling on Williams' competency.
Prosecutors said in January they will seek the death penalty if he is convicted.
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Forecasters predict above-average hurricane season
(CNN) - Experts are warning to be prepared for an above-average hurricane season this year.
The Tropical Meteorology Project team at Colorado State University released its Atlantic basin hurricane forecast Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting 19 named storms this season, which is five more than normal, and nine are expected to become major hurricanes.
According to CSU, four of those hurricanes are predicted to reach category three or higher.
Scientists say the increased activity is largely due to the natural phenomenon known as La Niña.
It creates colder than average ocean temperatures at the equator, which inhibits winds that prevent hurricanes from forming, making them more likely to develop.
Forecasters also say advances in satellite technology have enabled them to detect weaker storms they previously wouldn’t have known about – one reason we see more storms being named.
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High school football coach charged after molesting student more than 50 times, sheriff says
VALRICO, Fla. (Gray News) - A football coach in Florida was arrested Wednesday after a juvenile victim came forward saying the coach molested him more than 50 times.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Matthew Hike, 33, is accused of molesting the student while coaching his football team at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico (15 miles east of Tampa) beginning in 2017. Hike worked as a coach but was not employed as a teacher at the high school.
Just weeks ago, on March 23, Hike was previously arrested when another juvenile victim at Livingston Academy in Seffner reported Hike for showing him pornographic images and touching him inappropriately on five occasions.
For the first arrest, Hike was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation and selling or distributing obscene material to a minor. For Wednesday’s arrest, Hike was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation and authority figure soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct with a student.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said he will do everything in his power to make sure Hike is held accountable for the actions he is accused of committing.
“Children should be able to trust their teachers and coaches. Individuals who break that trust and abuse their power must be rooted out and brought to justice,” Chronister said in a Facebook post. “Our investigators revealed that this suspect broke the trust of his victims and our community on more than one occasion.”
Detectives are encouraging anyone else who may have been a victim of Hike to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at 813-247-8200.
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How are people make money from Bitcoin, Ethereum?
Cryptocurrency is taking center stage in Miami this week.
It's being dubbed the biggest Bitcoin event in the world as companies and cryptocurrency enthusiasts gather to share ideas.
The crypto craze continues to grow with celebrities hawking it and sporting arenas being named after crypto exchange companies.
Then, there are people like Eddie Lynch Jr., 24, who are mining crypto.
"I dove into mining, figuring out what it is, how I can benefit from it," said Lynch, who lives in Palm Beach County.
At his crypto mining business, fans run for hours a day to cool off specialized computers named "Money Maker 1" and "Money Maker 2."
"It was around $10,000 for these two setups, and we made the money back within six to seven months," said Lynch about computer systems known as "mining rigs."
It's hardware connected to a motherboard and graphics cards, 24 of them in total that run programs to find certain types of cryptocurrencies on the internet.
"We're mining Ethereum just because it's the most profitable," Lynch said.
Ethereum is only one type of cryptocurrency. One coin is going for more than $3,000.
Bitcoin is another type of cryptocurrency, the most valuable now going for more than $40,000 a coin.
"These coins are essentially, they’re algorithms, that are being mined throughout the world by different individuals, different companies," said Eric Cornell, a private wealth adviser and branch owner at Helius Wealth Management.
There are no banks involved in cryptocurrency, but it works much like the stock market. There are various global exchanges for different digital coins.
People can invest in cryptocurrencies like they do in stocks. You take money from your bank account and transfer it to a virtual wallet to invest on that exchange.
Another form of investment is buying infrastructure, like Lynch did, to mine crypto and generate a profit each day.
"We're making about $50 to $60 dollars a day right now, which we were making about $100 to $150 a day when the rates were OK," Lynch said.
What these supercomputers do is find pieces of crypto on databases called blockchains.
"These are algorithms. People are using these gigantic servers and a lot of power to be able to go out and try to essentially extract her algorithms out of the virtual finance world," Cornell said.
There is the downside.
The U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair says crypto mining for Ethereum and Bitcoin last year emitted 78 million tons of carbon, the same as 15 million cars on the road.
"We have to do it efficiently," Lynch said.
That's one of the reasons why Lynch was at the Miami Bitcoin Conference this week, to brainstorm ways to make crypto mining cleaner.
"We put this into a system that we engineered with immersion cooling, so it's just a better way to use less electricity and keep the hardware intact," he said.
Is cryptocurrency the future?
"Unfortunately, the swings are fairly wild," Cornell said.
Cornell admits there are high rewards in day trading.
"And they could lose cash just as quickly," he said.
For Lynch, there's no 9 a.m. to 5 p.m job, and he's not tied to work Monday through Friday. His company runs itself.
"The client is ourselves and our workers are these hardware," he added.
But crypto has a way to go to be widely accepted.
"It's already down 3.4 percent," Cornell said. "And that's where we find an issue with crypto, that there is no store of value at this point."
Cornell points out companies can't present profits using it at such a volatile rate.
Only a few U.S. stores accept cryptocurrency.
He expects more will in the future, but with miners like Lynch finding more coins every day, there is more circulation of skepticism among some in the finance world.
"[Some have] called it the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time, you know, tomorrow it could be worth nothing," said Cornell about what he’s heard some financial partners comment about crypto.
Others wonder about how safe cryptocurrency is.
There are risks to your digital wallet being hacked, but Cornell said, overall, crypto transactions are secure.
The reason is that each coin has a ledger that records every transaction, and there are millions of these ledgers out there that all match, making it difficult to counterfeit a cryptocurrency or duplicate transactions.
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DeSantis bestows medal of freedom to Nuremberg trials prosecutor
Published: Apr. 7, 2022 at 1:36 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Gov. Ron DeSantis was Boca Raton on Thursday afternoon where he spoke at Florida Atlantic University.
DeSantis awarded the governor's medal of freedom to Benjamin Ferencz, who was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and a prosecutor during the Nuremberg trials.
The governor's medal of freedom is the highest award that the state can bestow on an individual.
DeSantis was in Palm Beach County last week where he announced for the second-straight year that first responders throughout the state of Florida will receive a $1,000 bonus.
Stay with WPTV.com and NewsChannel 5 for updates.
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Manhattan DA: Trump criminal investigation is continuing
NEW YORK (AP) — Refuting suggestions that he’s lost interest in going after Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday a criminal investigation into the former president and his business practices is continuing “without fear or favor” despite a recent shakeup in the probe’s leadership.
In a rare public statement, Bragg denied that the three-year investigation was winding down or that a grand jury term expiring this month would impede his office’s ability to bring charges.
Citing secrecy rules, the district attorney said he couldn’t discuss details of the probe but pledged to publicly disclose findings when it’s over.
“In recent weeks, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has been repeatedly asked whether our investigation concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, and its leadership is continuing,” Bragg wrote. “It is.”
The Democrat’s affirmation of the investigation was part of a double dose of bad legal news for Trump on Thursday.
It came shortly after the New York attorney general’s office asked a judge to hold Trump in contempt and fine him $10,000 per day for not meeting a March 31 deadline to turn over documents in a parallel civil investigation. Trump is appealing a subpoena for his testimony in that investigation, but not one requiring him to provide documents.
“The judge’s order was crystal clear: Donald J. Trump must comply with our subpoena and turn over relevant documents to my office,” Attorney General Letitia James said. “Instead of obeying a court order, Mr. Trump is trying to evade it. We are seeking the court’s immediate intervention because no one is above the law.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, called James’ request for sanctions “frivolous and baseless,” and said the former president has “consistently complied with the many discovery requests” from her office over the years.
Bragg’s statement marked the district attorney’s first public comment on the Trump investigation since the two men who had been leading it, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned Feb. 23 in a dispute over the direction of the case.
Pomerantz, a former mafia prosecutor, wrote in a resignation letter that he believed Trump is “guilty of numerous felony violations” but that Bragg, who inherited the probe when he took office in January, had decided not to pursue charges.
Pomerantz said in the letter, published last month by The New York Times, that there was “evidence sufficient to establish Mr. Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” of allegations he falsified financial statements to secure loans and burnish his image as a wealthy businessman.
“I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” Pomerantz wrote.
Bragg’s silence after the resignations and the March 23 publication of Pomerantz’s letter gave rise to a narrative that the investigation was effectively dead.
After Pomerantz and Dunne left, Trump lawyer Robert Fischetti told the Associated Press: “I’m a very happy man. In my opinion, this investigation is over.”
Pomerantz and Dunne started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
Pomerantz wrote that Vance had directed them to seek an indictment of Trump and other defendants “as soon as reasonably possible,” but that Bragg reached a different conclusion after reviewing the evidence.
Vance and Bragg are Democrats. No former president has ever been charged with a crime.
In his statement Thursday, Bragg tried to wrest back the narrative, putting Trump on notice that he isn’t done while reassuring supporters who backed him in part because he pledged to continue investigating the former president, a Republican.
Bragg said that a team of “dedicated, experienced career prosecutors” is working on the investigation, led by the chief of his Investigation Division, Susan Hoffinger, and that they are “going through documents, interviewing witnesses, and exploring evidence not previously explored.”
“In the long and proud tradition of white-collar prosecutions at the Manhattan D.A.’s Office, we are investigating thoroughly and following the facts without fear or favor,” Bragg said.
Trump has called the investigation a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
So far, the three-year investigation has resulted only in tax fraud charges against Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg relating to lucrative fringe benefits such as rent, car payments and school tuition. They have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg’s lawyers filed court papers in February asking a judge to throw out his case, arguing that prosecutors targeted him as punishment because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.
Trump has cited potential peril from the criminal case as he appeals a ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath in James’ civil investigation.
Trump’s lawyers contend James, who assigned two lawyers to work on the criminal case, is using the guise of a civil deposition to get around a state law barring prosecutors from calling someone to testify before a criminal grand jury without giving them immunity.
James, a Democrat, has said her investigation has uncovered evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers on his financial statements for more than a decade.
Bragg said his career and perspective have been shaped by “high-profile, complex investigations,” including a lawsuit he oversaw while a top deputy in the attorney general’s office that led to the closure of Trump’s charity over allegations he used it to further his political and business interests.
“Prosecutors fulfilling their duties cannot and do not bring only cases that are ‘slam dunks,’” Bragg wrote. “To the contrary, every case must be brought for the right reason — namely that justice demands it. That’s what I’ve done throughout my career, regardless of how easy or tough a case might be.”
A grand jury convened in the Trump investigation last fall hasn’t met regularly for several months and its term is expected to run out soon, but Bragg said there are grand juries sitting in Manhattan all the time and “there is no magic at all to any previously reported dates.”
“In the meantime, we will not be discussing our investigative steps. Nor will we be discussing grand jury matters.” Bragg wrote. “In short, as we have previously said, the investigation continues.”
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Nations to release millions of barrels of oil amid war in Ukraine
PARIS (AP) — The International Energy Agency said Thursday that its member countries are releasing 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves on top of previous U.S. pledges to take aim at energy prices that have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Paris-based organization says the new commitments made by its 31 member nations, which include the United States and much of Europe, amount to a total of 120 million barrels over six months, the largest release in the group’s history.
Half of that will come from the U.S. as part of the larger release from its strategic petroleum reserve that President Joe Biden announced last week.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content.
The IEA agreed last Friday to add to the amount of oil hitting the global market. It comes on top of the 62.7 million barrels that the agency’s members said they would release last month to ease shortages.
The releases show “the determination of member countries to protect the global economy from the social and economic impacts of an oil shock following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. “Events in Ukraine are becoming more distressing by the day, and action by the IEA at this time is needed to relieve some of the strains in energy markets.”
Energy markets have been squeezed by surging demand as the global economy rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic, outpacing supply and driving up prices. High energy prices have fueled inflation worldwide, and the war in Ukraine exacerbated the problem amid uncertainties about oil and natural gas supplies from Russia and Western sanctions on Moscow.
Russia is the world’s third-largest oil producer, with about 60% of exports going to Europe and 20% going to China.
The U.S. has banned all Russian energy supplies, while the United Kingdom says it will phase out Russian oil and coal by year’s end and halt natural gas imports “as soon as possible.”
The European Union on Thursday approved a ban on Russian coal, its first move against the Russian energy supplies it depends on to generate electricity, power industry and fill up diesel-powered vehicles and equipment.
IEA member countries hold 1.5 billion barrels in public reserves.
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Police: ‘No foul play’ after Indiana couple goes missing in Nevada, husband found dead
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5/Gray News) - Authorities say there was no foul play in the disappearance of an Indiana couple visiting Nevada after the husband was found dead and the woman was taken to the hospital.
Officials with the Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office along with police from Nye County and Mineral County assisted in the search for Ronnie, 72, and Beverly Barker, 69. The pair took off on a West Coast road trip in late March and their family had not heard from them since March 27.
On April 5, authorities located the Barkers’ motorhome in a remote mountain area near Silver Peak, Nevada, just before noon, KVVU reported. Authorities said it took several hours to reach the motorhome due to its location.
Once they reached the motorhome, the Kia SUV that the couple also traveled with was not there, and authorities said the motorhome appeared to be stuck. Police said after a search of the motorhome, they determined foul play was not involved.
Beverly Barker is now out of the hospital, according to their family. She was well enough to recount what had happened to her family. She gave her nephew, Travis Peters, the blessing to share the story on Facebook.
Beverly Barker said their GPS navigator took them in the wrong direction and towards Red Mountain. It’s not far from Silver Peak, which is about three and a half hours from Las Vegas. After their motorhome got stuck in the mud they decided to take their Kia SUV to seek help but got lost again.
The couple spent over a week in the cold. Beverly Barker said dehydration was their number one challenge. She uses a walker and managed the strength to collect snow so they could drink. According to their nephew’s Facebook post, Ronnie Barker passed away on Monday, April 4, likely from dehydration.
Police followed tire tracks and located the Kia approximately two miles away about 21 hours after Ronnie had died. Authorities said Beverly was alive “and in good spirits considering what took place.” Beverly was taken via aircraft to Renown Medical Center in Reno for treatment.
“Everyone involved would like to give condolences to the family of Ronnie and Beverly Barker,” police said in a release. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during these trying times.”
Despite the loss of his uncle, Peters expressed gratitude for his aunt’s survival.
“A miracle took place on Red Mountain. There’s no physical way that Bev would have been able to make it to get snow time after time without the Lord carrying her up to that ridge,” Peters wrote.
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‘She knew she was going to die young’: Woman killed in crash after surviving liver transplant
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ind. (WXIX/Gray News) – A 20-year-old woman in Indiana was killed in a car crash on the way to an appointment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in connection to a liver transplant she had two years ago.
Makenzie Howell was the passenger in a truck that crossed the centerline of the highway, hitting another truck and then sliding sideways into the path of a semi-truck that hit the passenger side of the vehicle she was in.
“She knew she was going to die young,” Danielle Howell, Makenzie’s mother, told WXIX. “My heart never wanted to believe that.”
Danielle explained her daughter had a rare genetic condition that caused growths on her liver.
“They would just get bigger and bigger and fill up to the point that her liver was three times the size it was supposed to be,” Danielle said. “It was intense and scary.”
Danielle is heartbroken because they thought Makenzie was in the clear after her transplant, adding she was the happiest she’d ever seen her daughter.
Two other people involved in the crash were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.
The crash investigation is ongoing.
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USDA predicts food prices will continue to soar
Published: Apr. 7, 2022 at 3:45 PM EDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
(CNN) - If you think you’re paying too much at the grocery store now, just wait.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said consumers can expect the price of food to continue skyrocketing.
Prices are already up 9% on average for the year, and the USDA said they’ll go up 4.5%-5% more.
Restaurant prices are forecast to rise even faster, up to 6.5%.
Particularly impacted will be beef and veal, which are expected to increase up to 7%.
Avian flu is also causing chicken prices to go up to about the same amount.
Fresh vegetables are expected to see the smallest change to their current prices.
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Forecasters predict above-average hurricane season
(CNN) - Experts are warning to be prepared for an above-average hurricane season this year.
The Tropical Meteorology Project team at Colorado State University released its Atlantic basin hurricane forecast Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting 19 named storms this season, which is five more than normal, and nine are expected to become major hurricanes.
According to CSU, four of those hurricanes are predicted to reach category three or higher.
Scientists say the increased activity is largely due to the natural phenomenon known as La Niña.
It creates colder than average ocean temperatures at the equator, which inhibits winds that prevent hurricanes from forming, making them more likely to develop.
Forecasters also say advances in satellite technology have enabled them to detect weaker storms they previously wouldn’t have known about – one reason we see more storms being named.
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High school football coach charged after molesting student more than 50 times, sheriff says
VALRICO, Fla. (Gray News) - A football coach in Florida was arrested Wednesday after a juvenile victim came forward saying the coach molested him more than 50 times.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Matthew Hike, 33, is accused of molesting the student while coaching his football team at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico (15 miles east of Tampa) beginning in 2017. Hike worked as a coach but was not employed as a teacher at the high school.
Just weeks ago, on March 23, Hike was previously arrested when another juvenile victim at Livingston Academy in Seffner reported Hike for showing him pornographic images and touching him inappropriately on five occasions.
For the first arrest, Hike was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation and selling or distributing obscene material to a minor. For Wednesday’s arrest, Hike was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation and authority figure soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct with a student.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said he will do everything in his power to make sure Hike is held accountable for the actions he is accused of committing.
“Children should be able to trust their teachers and coaches. Individuals who break that trust and abuse their power must be rooted out and brought to justice,” Chronister said in a Facebook post. “Our investigators revealed that this suspect broke the trust of his victims and our community on more than one occasion.”
Detectives are encouraging anyone else who may have been a victim of Hike to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at 813-247-8200.
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Manhattan DA: Trump criminal investigation is continuing
NEW YORK (AP) — Refuting suggestions that he’s lost interest in going after Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday a criminal investigation into the former president and his business practices is continuing “without fear or favor” despite a recent shakeup in the probe’s leadership.
In a rare public statement, Bragg denied that the three-year investigation was winding down or that a grand jury term expiring this month would impede his office’s ability to bring charges.
Citing secrecy rules, the district attorney said he couldn’t discuss details of the probe but pledged to publicly disclose findings when it’s over.
“In recent weeks, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has been repeatedly asked whether our investigation concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, and its leadership is continuing,” Bragg wrote. “It is.”
The Democrat’s affirmation of the investigation was part of a double dose of bad legal news for Trump on Thursday.
It came shortly after the New York attorney general’s office asked a judge to hold Trump in contempt and fine him $10,000 per day for not meeting a March 31 deadline to turn over documents in a parallel civil investigation. Trump is appealing a subpoena for his testimony in that investigation, but not one requiring him to provide documents.
“The judge’s order was crystal clear: Donald J. Trump must comply with our subpoena and turn over relevant documents to my office,” Attorney General Letitia James said. “Instead of obeying a court order, Mr. Trump is trying to evade it. We are seeking the court’s immediate intervention because no one is above the law.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, called James’ request for sanctions “frivolous and baseless,” and said the former president has “consistently complied with the many discovery requests” from her office over the years.
Bragg’s statement marked the district attorney’s first public comment on the Trump investigation since the two men who had been leading it, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned Feb. 23 in a dispute over the direction of the case.
Pomerantz, a former mafia prosecutor, wrote in a resignation letter that he believed Trump is “guilty of numerous felony violations” but that Bragg, who inherited the probe when he took office in January, had decided not to pursue charges.
Pomerantz said in the letter, published last month by The New York Times, that there was “evidence sufficient to establish Mr. Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” of allegations he falsified financial statements to secure loans and burnish his image as a wealthy businessman.
“I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” Pomerantz wrote.
Bragg’s silence after the resignations and the March 23 publication of Pomerantz’s letter gave rise to a narrative that the investigation was effectively dead.
After Pomerantz and Dunne left, Trump lawyer Robert Fischetti told the Associated Press: “I’m a very happy man. In my opinion, this investigation is over.”
Pomerantz and Dunne started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
Pomerantz wrote that Vance had directed them to seek an indictment of Trump and other defendants “as soon as reasonably possible,” but that Bragg reached a different conclusion after reviewing the evidence.
Vance and Bragg are Democrats. No former president has ever been charged with a crime.
In his statement Thursday, Bragg tried to wrest back the narrative, putting Trump on notice that he isn’t done while reassuring supporters who backed him in part because he pledged to continue investigating the former president, a Republican.
Bragg said that a team of “dedicated, experienced career prosecutors” is working on the investigation, led by the chief of his Investigation Division, Susan Hoffinger, and that they are “going through documents, interviewing witnesses, and exploring evidence not previously explored.”
“In the long and proud tradition of white-collar prosecutions at the Manhattan D.A.’s Office, we are investigating thoroughly and following the facts without fear or favor,” Bragg said.
Trump has called the investigation a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
So far, the three-year investigation has resulted only in tax fraud charges against Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg relating to lucrative fringe benefits such as rent, car payments and school tuition. They have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg’s lawyers filed court papers in February asking a judge to throw out his case, arguing that prosecutors targeted him as punishment because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.
Trump has cited potential peril from the criminal case as he appeals a ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath in James’ civil investigation.
Trump’s lawyers contend James, who assigned two lawyers to work on the criminal case, is using the guise of a civil deposition to get around a state law barring prosecutors from calling someone to testify before a criminal grand jury without giving them immunity.
James, a Democrat, has said her investigation has uncovered evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers on his financial statements for more than a decade.
Bragg said his career and perspective have been shaped by “high-profile, complex investigations,” including a lawsuit he oversaw while a top deputy in the attorney general’s office that led to the closure of Trump’s charity over allegations he used it to further his political and business interests.
“Prosecutors fulfilling their duties cannot and do not bring only cases that are ‘slam dunks,’” Bragg wrote. “To the contrary, every case must be brought for the right reason — namely that justice demands it. That’s what I’ve done throughout my career, regardless of how easy or tough a case might be.”
A grand jury convened in the Trump investigation last fall hasn’t met regularly for several months and its term is expected to run out soon, but Bragg said there are grand juries sitting in Manhattan all the time and “there is no magic at all to any previously reported dates.”
“In the meantime, we will not be discussing our investigative steps. Nor will we be discussing grand jury matters.” Bragg wrote. “In short, as we have previously said, the investigation continues.”
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Nations to release millions of barrels of oil amid war in Ukraine
PARIS (AP) — The International Energy Agency said Thursday that its member countries are releasing 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves on top of previous U.S. pledges to take aim at energy prices that have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Paris-based organization says the new commitments made by its 31 member nations, which include the United States and much of Europe, amount to a total of 120 million barrels over six months, the largest release in the group’s history.
Half of that will come from the U.S. as part of the larger release from its strategic petroleum reserve that President Joe Biden announced last week.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content.
The IEA agreed last Friday to add to the amount of oil hitting the global market. It comes on top of the 62.7 million barrels that the agency’s members said they would release last month to ease shortages.
The releases show “the determination of member countries to protect the global economy from the social and economic impacts of an oil shock following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. “Events in Ukraine are becoming more distressing by the day, and action by the IEA at this time is needed to relieve some of the strains in energy markets.”
Energy markets have been squeezed by surging demand as the global economy rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic, outpacing supply and driving up prices. High energy prices have fueled inflation worldwide, and the war in Ukraine exacerbated the problem amid uncertainties about oil and natural gas supplies from Russia and Western sanctions on Moscow.
Russia is the world’s third-largest oil producer, with about 60% of exports going to Europe and 20% going to China.
The U.S. has banned all Russian energy supplies, while the United Kingdom says it will phase out Russian oil and coal by year’s end and halt natural gas imports “as soon as possible.”
The European Union on Thursday approved a ban on Russian coal, its first move against the Russian energy supplies it depends on to generate electricity, power industry and fill up diesel-powered vehicles and equipment.
IEA member countries hold 1.5 billion barrels in public reserves.
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Police: ‘No foul play’ after Indiana couple goes missing in Nevada, husband found dead
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5/Gray News) - Authorities say there was no foul play in the disappearance of an Indiana couple visiting Nevada after the husband was found dead and the woman was taken to the hospital.
Officials with the Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office along with police from Nye County and Mineral County assisted in the search for Ronnie, 72, and Beverly Barker, 69. The pair took off on a West Coast road trip in late March and their family had not heard from them since March 27.
On April 5, authorities located the Barkers’ motorhome in a remote mountain area near Silver Peak, Nevada, just before noon, KVVU reported. Authorities said it took several hours to reach the motorhome due to its location.
Once they reached the motorhome, the Kia SUV that the couple also traveled with was not there, and authorities said the motorhome appeared to be stuck. Police said after a search of the motorhome, they determined foul play was not involved.
Beverly Barker is now out of the hospital, according to their family. She was well enough to recount what had happened to her family. She gave her nephew, Travis Peters, the blessing to share the story on Facebook.
Beverly Barker said their GPS navigator took them in the wrong direction and towards Red Mountain. It’s not far from Silver Peak, which is about three and a half hours from Las Vegas. After their motorhome got stuck in the mud they decided to take their Kia SUV to seek help but got lost again.
The couple spent over a week in the cold. Beverly Barker said dehydration was their number one challenge. She uses a walker and managed the strength to collect snow so they could drink. According to their nephew’s Facebook post, Ronnie Barker passed away on Monday, April 4, likely from dehydration.
Police followed tire tracks and located the Kia approximately two miles away about 21 hours after Ronnie had died. Authorities said Beverly was alive “and in good spirits considering what took place.” Beverly was taken via aircraft to Renown Medical Center in Reno for treatment.
“Everyone involved would like to give condolences to the family of Ronnie and Beverly Barker,” police said in a release. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during these trying times.”
Despite the loss of his uncle, Peters expressed gratitude for his aunt’s survival.
“A miracle took place on Red Mountain. There’s no physical way that Bev would have been able to make it to get snow time after time without the Lord carrying her up to that ridge,” Peters wrote.
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‘She knew she was going to die young’: Woman killed in crash after surviving liver transplant
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ind. (WXIX/Gray News) – A 20-year-old woman in Indiana was killed in a car crash on the way to an appointment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in connection to a liver transplant she had two years ago.
Makenzie Howell was the passenger in a truck that crossed the centerline of the highway, hitting another truck and then sliding sideways into the path of a semi-truck that hit the passenger side of the vehicle she was in.
“She knew she was going to die young,” Danielle Howell, Makenzie’s mother, told WXIX. “My heart never wanted to believe that.”
Danielle explained her daughter had a rare genetic condition that caused growths on her liver.
“They would just get bigger and bigger and fill up to the point that her liver was three times the size it was supposed to be,” Danielle said. “It was intense and scary.”
Danielle is heartbroken because they thought Makenzie was in the clear after her transplant, adding she was the happiest she’d ever seen her daughter.
Two other people involved in the crash were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.
The crash investigation is ongoing.
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USDA predicts food prices will continue to soar
Published: Apr. 7, 2022 at 2:45 PM CDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
(CNN) - If you think you’re paying too much at the grocery store now, just wait.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said consumers can expect the price of food to continue skyrocketing.
Prices are already up 9% on average for the year, and the USDA said they’ll go up 4.5%-5% more.
Restaurant prices are forecast to rise even faster, up to 6.5%.
Particularly impacted will be beef and veal, which are expected to increase up to 7%.
Avian flu is also causing chicken prices to go up to about the same amount.
Fresh vegetables are expected to see the smallest change to their current prices.
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Annual Harris Music Contest featured, celebrated young musicians
Published 1:06 pm Thursday, April 7, 2022
On March, 5, area young musicians competed in the annual Harris Music Contest, part of the music programming within the mission of the Hormel Historic Home.
The competition began in 2012 as a way for the historic house museum to further music appreciation and education for area youth.
Harris Music Contest is named after MarySue Hormel Harris, who donates to the Hormel Historic Home to fund music programming at the HHH for our community. MarySue is the granddaughter of Ben F. Hormel, George A. Hormel’s youngest brother.
Following the contest, the community was invited to a free performance at the Historic Paramount Theatre, where the top two performers in each age and instrument category performed. Awards were presented to all who placed following the concert.
Piano Honorees
Ages 6-8
Honorable Mention: Aveda Galle/ Penelope Frank
Runner Up: Simon Phillips
The Hunters by David Carr Glover
Champion: Xinzhu Xiang
Fuego de la Pasión by Wynn-Anne Rossi
Ages 9-11
Honorable Mention: Yuhan Wang/ Chit Su
Runner Up: Sophia Frank
German Dance by Joseph Haydn
Champion: George Yang
Rondo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ages 12-14
Honorable Mention: Clair Pepper / Leon Ma
Runner Up: Maria Kim Vu
Album for the Young Op. 68, No. 30 by Robert Schumann
Champion: Abraham Phillips
Prelude from Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy
Ages 15-18
Honorable Mention: Rory Pollock / Alayna Kennedy
Runner Up: Abigail Brand
Allegretto by Franz Schubert
Champion: Blake Zimmerli
Gai Printemps by Mel Bonis
Melodic Instrument Honorees
Ages 6-11
Honorable Mention: Callie McRae (strings) / Julia Niethammer (strings)
Runner Up: Ellie Nelson, Violin
Long Long Ago with Variation by T.H. Bayly
Champion: Jude Krusemark, violin
Humoresque by A. Dvorak
Ages 12-14
Honorable Mention: Ella Diaz (marimba) / Leon Ma (flute)
Runner Up: Eleanor Harthan, woodwind
Siciliana & Giga by GF Handel
Champion: Emma Stanley, Flute
Andalouse by Emile Pessard
Ages 15-18
Honorable Mention: Shepard Goossen (string) / Mikayla Berg (Mallet Percussion)
Runner Up: Blake Zimmerli (marimba)
A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun by Blake Tyson
Champion: Medea Joetten (violin)
Scène de Ballet by Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Special thanks to area music teachers who encouraged their students to study, practice, and participate:
William Arnold, Cheryl Berglund, Kathryn Bisanti, Aimee Chalmers,
Holly Dalager, Joyce Edland, Erin Grush, Linda Hoeppner, Lynee Larson, Sonia Larson, Soojin Lee, Rebecca Merblum, Madison Nelson, Nikki Phillips, Sue Radloff, Peggy Reich, Gene Schott and Lorene Strobel.
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Eleanor A. Harms
Published 12:57 pm Thursday, April 7, 2022
Eleanor Almira (Karsjens) Harms went to her heavenly home on Monday, April 4, 2022 just seven weeks short of her 102nd birthday.
Eleanor was born May 28, 1920 to Reint and Mary (Eckhoff) Karsjens in Bradford, Iowa. Her education was at the Bell Country School in Freeborn County. She worked at the Hemp Mill in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and as a dietary assistant at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, Minnesota.
Eleanor was married to Doede Harms for 73 years. They were united in marriage on April 12, 1941 by Pastor Sandgren at the Baptist Church in Austin. They made their first home in Blooming Prairie where they lived for over 70 years and raised their four children. They were members of the First Baptist Church in Blooming Prairie for 30 years and Grace Baptist Church in Austin for over 40 years. She was also a member of the Christian Women’s Club and Steele County Extension.
Eleanor was an all-around homemaker who enjoyed cooking, baking, canning, sewing, gardening and growing beautiful flowers. As a family, camping and fishing were enjoyed regularly. In retirement, they traveled across the United States which included Alaska and spent several winters in Arizona. Most of all, she loved and treasured her family and prayed for them regularly. She trusted in God’s promise of salvation and looked forward to going home to her heavenly Father. She was happy to share her faith and love wherever she went.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Doede in 2014; son, Dean Harms in 2021; great grandson, Magnus Ingvaldson in 2015; brothers, Orval, Edward and Walter Karsjens; sisters, Leonora Miller, Matilda Waalkens, and Inez Waalkens.
Eleanor remains loved and cherished by her family: son, Daniel (Barbara) Harms, Deer River, Minnesota, daughters, Juanita (Dennis) Ingvaldson, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Darla (Kenneth) Hjelmen, Lillian, Alabama; daughter-in-law, Beverly Harms, West St. Paul, Minnesota; nine grandchildren, Jay (Laura) Harms, Justin (Kisha) Harms, Barrett (Sara) Ingvaldson, Troy (Michelle) Hjelmen, Derek (Corrine) Hjelmen, Lance (Melissa) Hjelmen, Tanya (Dennis) Mooney, Tara Harms, Thad (Andrea) Harms; great grandchildren, Zachary and Zoe Harms, Milianna and Helen Harms, Eleanor and Ulysses Ingvaldson, Julia Phillips, Carson, Emily and Claire Hjelmen, Ryland, Sawyer and Chandler Hjelmen, Tanner Ruiz, Riley Moen, Kaidence, Ava and Jacob Harms; brothers, Dwight (Delores) Karsjens, Delbert (Judy) Karsjens; sister, Lauretta (Bill) Barnett; brother-in-law, Bill Lockett, sisters-in-law, Eva Karsjens, Bonnie (Andy) Bowles and Violet Pohlman; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, April 16th at Grace Baptist Church in Austin with Pastor Dan Mielke officiating. Visitation will be at the church one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at Blooming Prairie Cemetery.
Clasen-Jordan Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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Mayo commits to $15M investment to Albert Lea campus
Published 1:27 pm Thursday, April 7, 2022
By Alex Guerrero
Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea leaders on Thursday announced a $15 million investment to the Albert Lea campus to enhance and modernize several departments.
The project will come about in three phases, and Dr. Sumit Bhagra, the site lead physician for Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin, estimated the upgrades to take 18 to 24 months for completion, with renovations and relocations starting in September. The construction project will not expand the boundaries of the hospital.
“We started this journey of modernizing our facilities many years ago,” Bhagra said. “While we had hoped to plan for this project a year or two ago, COVID happened.
“We obviously provided excellent care to our communities during that, but our attention was obviously diverted towards taking the best care of the COVID pandemic.”
The first phase involves the relocation of outpatient, behavioral health and Fountain Centers (the chemical dependency practice). They will be moved to the currently vacated space on the second floor of the hospital building.
“This will bring them closer to other clinical services,” Bhagra said.
By his estimates, it will also allow for further expansion down the road.
The move will allow for a larger clinical team and new services in psychiatry.
“Behavioral health is a No. 1 area in any community health-needs assessment,” he said.
Phase two will move ambulatory surgery (same-day surgery) and infusion therapy to the former behavioral health space.
“They are larger rooms by about 30%,” he said “Each room is 130 square feet, compared to about 90 to 100 square feet today.”
Procedural rooms will also be co-located with the operating room suites and located toward the front of the building.
“There’s a higher volume of patients coming in and leaving after surgery,” he said. “The less they have to be transported to get to the main doors so that their loved ones can pick them up, I think it’s a patient convenience factor. Plus a larger facility.”
Phase three, scheduled to be finished by August 2024, will include the redesign of the emergency department and installation of a reflection space.
“The new emergency department contains 16 beds, 10 general care rooms, three safe rooms … [and] three observation or flex rooms available,” he said.
Currently there are seven regular rooms and one behavioral room.
The waiting areas in the emergency department will also be updated, remodeled and “made to look very good,” Bhangra said.
There will also be appropriately-sized workstations for staff, who are currently crowded with staff having to work through multiple computers. It will provide a better line-of-sight to patients, and they’ll be able to visualize patient exam rooms from their work space.
Increased security for patients and staff, as well as telemedicine, are also included in phase three.
“Teleneurology is a very common one,” he said. “When patients come in with a stroke, we immediately connect with a specialist in Rochester who appears on video and is able to walk our emergency department physicians to make sure that the highest level of care is provided right through our emergency department, and outcomes for stroke and heart attack patients are improved by that process.”
He stressed the renovation and redesign projects were made with the patient in mind, will provide a better working environment for staff and allow room for future expansion.
“It’s gaining enhancement through better design,” he said.
He didn’t anticipate a reduction in parking availability during the project, and said none of the departments involved in the modernization will be impacted.
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William “Bill” Spahn
Published 12:56 pm Thursday, April 7, 2022
WINDSOR – Bill Spahn passed away suddenly on March 26, 2022 in Thornton, Colorado while participating in master’s swimming meet. Husband, father, grandfather, friend, teacher, coach, mentor, and teller of dorky jokes, Bill influenced many lives during his 47 years as a swimming coach.
William Henry Spahn (Bill) was born June 8, 1942 to Harry and Elsa (Peterson) Spahn in Austin, Minnesota. Austin is the home of Hormel and Spam and like most people from there, he loved Spam. He graduated from Austin High School in 1960 where he was class president for three years and lettered in swimming, football and track for four years. He was so honored when he was inducted into the Austin High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016. Bill attended Texas Tech University on a swimming scholarship and was two-time captain of the Red Raider’s swim team. He graduated from Texas Tech in 1964 with a degree in Physical Education.
After graduation, Bill moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a teaching job and during his first year there started the Heights YMCA Swim Club. During his eight years in Albuquerque, the HYAC were state champions for seven years. In 1972 Bill decided to coach swimming full time and moved to Wichita, Kansas to coach the Wichita Swim Club. During his six years in Wichita, the team was state champions, Region 8 championships, and had five junior national champion swimmers.
In 1977 in order to spend more time with his family, he moved to collegiate coaching and became the head men’s coach for the University of Kansas swimming program. He was there only four years but led the Jayhawk’s to two Big Eight Conference Championships in 1978 and 1979. Bill always loved the southwest and when he was offered the head men’s and women’s coaching job at the University of New Mexico he jumped at the chance. He coached at UNM for 24 years until he retired, leading the men’s team to a WAC Conference
Championship in 1986, had 12 All-Americans, and named WAC Coach of the Year four times.
Bill’s retirement was short-lived as he loved coaching age-group swimmers and when offered the opportunity he accepted the head coaching position at FAST – Fort Collins Area Swim Team. Bill was also a volunteer coach alongside his son Joe at University of Notre Dame in 2014-2015 and an assistant coach for the Fossil Ridge girl’s swim team for 2018-19 season.
While Bill had a successful coaching career including coaching two Olympic swimmers, his relationships with his family, friends and swimmers gave him such joy. He touched so many young people and he enjoyed hearing about their lives and families once they finished their swimming years.
Bill loved his family dearly and is missed by his wife of 40 years, Leslie, and three sons; Brent in Arvada, CO; Bob and his wife Felicia in San Diego, CA; and Joe and his wife Mary Kate in San Diego, CA. Also surviving him is his granddaughter, Reagan Nohea, and his step-grandchildren, Sarah, Marshall, and Erin.
A Celebration of Life open house will be held on June 4, 2022 from 2:00-5:00 pm on the New Belgium Porch at Canvas Stadium on the campus of Colorado State University. All are welcomed to share stories and memories of a life well lived. In lieu of flowers, a donation to RamStrength Lubick foundation is welcomed. Bill had a strong belief in their mission and dedicated many volunteer hours to RamStrength including a 54 mile walk in 24 hours to raise awareness and donations. Information can be found at sites.google.com/view/billspahncelebration.
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Forecasters predict above-average hurricane season
(CNN) - Experts are warning to be prepared for an above-average hurricane season this year.
The Tropical Meteorology Project team at Colorado State University released its Atlantic basin hurricane forecast Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting 19 named storms this season, which is five more than normal, and nine are expected to become major hurricanes.
According to CSU, four of those hurricanes are predicted to reach category three or higher.
Scientists say the increased activity is largely due to the natural phenomenon known as La Niña.
It creates colder than average ocean temperatures at the equator, which inhibits winds that prevent hurricanes from forming, making them more likely to develop.
Forecasters also say advances in satellite technology have enabled them to detect weaker storms they previously wouldn’t have known about – one reason we see more storms being named.
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High school football coach charged after molesting student more than 50 times, sheriff says
VALRICO, Fla. (Gray News) - A football coach in Florida was arrested Wednesday after a juvenile victim came forward saying the coach molested him more than 50 times.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Matthew Hike, 33, is accused of molesting the student while coaching his football team at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico (15 miles east of Tampa) beginning in 2017. Hike worked as a coach but was not employed as a teacher at the high school.
Just weeks ago, on March 23, Hike was previously arrested when another juvenile victim at Livingston Academy in Seffner reported Hike for showing him pornographic images and touching him inappropriately on five occasions.
For the first arrest, Hike was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation and selling or distributing obscene material to a minor. For Wednesday’s arrest, Hike was charged with lewd or lascivious molestation and authority figure soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct with a student.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said he will do everything in his power to make sure Hike is held accountable for the actions he is accused of committing.
“Children should be able to trust their teachers and coaches. Individuals who break that trust and abuse their power must be rooted out and brought to justice,” Chronister said in a Facebook post. “Our investigators revealed that this suspect broke the trust of his victims and our community on more than one occasion.”
Detectives are encouraging anyone else who may have been a victim of Hike to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at 813-247-8200.
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Manhattan DA: Trump criminal investigation is continuing
NEW YORK (AP) — Refuting suggestions that he’s lost interest in going after Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday a criminal investigation into the former president and his business practices is continuing “without fear or favor” despite a recent shakeup in the probe’s leadership.
In a rare public statement, Bragg denied that the three-year investigation was winding down or that a grand jury term expiring this month would impede his office’s ability to bring charges.
Citing secrecy rules, the district attorney said he couldn’t discuss details of the probe but pledged to publicly disclose findings when it’s over.
“In recent weeks, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has been repeatedly asked whether our investigation concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, and its leadership is continuing,” Bragg wrote. “It is.”
The Democrat’s affirmation of the investigation was part of a double dose of bad legal news for Trump on Thursday.
It came shortly after the New York attorney general’s office asked a judge to hold Trump in contempt and fine him $10,000 per day for not meeting a March 31 deadline to turn over documents in a parallel civil investigation. Trump is appealing a subpoena for his testimony in that investigation, but not one requiring him to provide documents.
“The judge’s order was crystal clear: Donald J. Trump must comply with our subpoena and turn over relevant documents to my office,” Attorney General Letitia James said. “Instead of obeying a court order, Mr. Trump is trying to evade it. We are seeking the court’s immediate intervention because no one is above the law.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, called James’ request for sanctions “frivolous and baseless,” and said the former president has “consistently complied with the many discovery requests” from her office over the years.
Bragg’s statement marked the district attorney’s first public comment on the Trump investigation since the two men who had been leading it, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned Feb. 23 in a dispute over the direction of the case.
Pomerantz, a former mafia prosecutor, wrote in a resignation letter that he believed Trump is “guilty of numerous felony violations” but that Bragg, who inherited the probe when he took office in January, had decided not to pursue charges.
Pomerantz said in the letter, published last month by The New York Times, that there was “evidence sufficient to establish Mr. Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” of allegations he falsified financial statements to secure loans and burnish his image as a wealthy businessman.
“I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” Pomerantz wrote.
Bragg’s silence after the resignations and the March 23 publication of Pomerantz’s letter gave rise to a narrative that the investigation was effectively dead.
After Pomerantz and Dunne left, Trump lawyer Robert Fischetti told the Associated Press: “I’m a very happy man. In my opinion, this investigation is over.”
Pomerantz and Dunne started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
Pomerantz wrote that Vance had directed them to seek an indictment of Trump and other defendants “as soon as reasonably possible,” but that Bragg reached a different conclusion after reviewing the evidence.
Vance and Bragg are Democrats. No former president has ever been charged with a crime.
In his statement Thursday, Bragg tried to wrest back the narrative, putting Trump on notice that he isn’t done while reassuring supporters who backed him in part because he pledged to continue investigating the former president, a Republican.
Bragg said that a team of “dedicated, experienced career prosecutors” is working on the investigation, led by the chief of his Investigation Division, Susan Hoffinger, and that they are “going through documents, interviewing witnesses, and exploring evidence not previously explored.”
“In the long and proud tradition of white-collar prosecutions at the Manhattan D.A.’s Office, we are investigating thoroughly and following the facts without fear or favor,” Bragg said.
Trump has called the investigation a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
So far, the three-year investigation has resulted only in tax fraud charges against Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg relating to lucrative fringe benefits such as rent, car payments and school tuition. They have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg’s lawyers filed court papers in February asking a judge to throw out his case, arguing that prosecutors targeted him as punishment because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.
Trump has cited potential peril from the criminal case as he appeals a ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath in James’ civil investigation.
Trump’s lawyers contend James, who assigned two lawyers to work on the criminal case, is using the guise of a civil deposition to get around a state law barring prosecutors from calling someone to testify before a criminal grand jury without giving them immunity.
James, a Democrat, has said her investigation has uncovered evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers on his financial statements for more than a decade.
Bragg said his career and perspective have been shaped by “high-profile, complex investigations,” including a lawsuit he oversaw while a top deputy in the attorney general’s office that led to the closure of Trump’s charity over allegations he used it to further his political and business interests.
“Prosecutors fulfilling their duties cannot and do not bring only cases that are ‘slam dunks,’” Bragg wrote. “To the contrary, every case must be brought for the right reason — namely that justice demands it. That’s what I’ve done throughout my career, regardless of how easy or tough a case might be.”
A grand jury convened in the Trump investigation last fall hasn’t met regularly for several months and its term is expected to run out soon, but Bragg said there are grand juries sitting in Manhattan all the time and “there is no magic at all to any previously reported dates.”
“In the meantime, we will not be discussing our investigative steps. Nor will we be discussing grand jury matters.” Bragg wrote. “In short, as we have previously said, the investigation continues.”
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Nations to release millions of barrels of oil amid war in Ukraine
PARIS (AP) — The International Energy Agency said Thursday that its member countries are releasing 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves on top of previous U.S. pledges to take aim at energy prices that have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Paris-based organization says the new commitments made by its 31 member nations, which include the United States and much of Europe, amount to a total of 120 million barrels over six months, the largest release in the group’s history.
Half of that will come from the U.S. as part of the larger release from its strategic petroleum reserve that President Joe Biden announced last week.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content.
The IEA agreed last Friday to add to the amount of oil hitting the global market. It comes on top of the 62.7 million barrels that the agency’s members said they would release last month to ease shortages.
The releases show “the determination of member countries to protect the global economy from the social and economic impacts of an oil shock following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. “Events in Ukraine are becoming more distressing by the day, and action by the IEA at this time is needed to relieve some of the strains in energy markets.”
Energy markets have been squeezed by surging demand as the global economy rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic, outpacing supply and driving up prices. High energy prices have fueled inflation worldwide, and the war in Ukraine exacerbated the problem amid uncertainties about oil and natural gas supplies from Russia and Western sanctions on Moscow.
Russia is the world’s third-largest oil producer, with about 60% of exports going to Europe and 20% going to China.
The U.S. has banned all Russian energy supplies, while the United Kingdom says it will phase out Russian oil and coal by year’s end and halt natural gas imports “as soon as possible.”
The European Union on Thursday approved a ban on Russian coal, its first move against the Russian energy supplies it depends on to generate electricity, power industry and fill up diesel-powered vehicles and equipment.
IEA member countries hold 1.5 billion barrels in public reserves.
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Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office warns of scam calls
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of scam calls reporting to be a member of the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office Civil Warrants Division.
According to Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, it has received numerous reports from the public about being contacted from the number 507-320-366.
The person is informing people that they have a warrant out for their arrest and must either pay to not be arrested or meet up to make a payment to avoid arrest.
The Sheriff’s Office says this is very similar to previous scams using the same tactics, but it should be known that this is a scam.
Do not pay, agree to pay, or make arrangements to meet up with anyone to make a payment to avoid arrest. If you receive these types of calls, hang up and block the number if possible.
It should be noted that these scams have been coming from the number identified, but it is possible that they could come from other numbers.
The Sheriff’s Office says at no point will it ever make these types of calls or demands for payment.
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Police: ‘No foul play’ after Indiana couple goes missing in Nevada, husband found dead
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5/Gray News) - Authorities say there was no foul play in the disappearance of an Indiana couple visiting Nevada after the husband was found dead and the woman was taken to the hospital.
Officials with the Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office along with police from Nye County and Mineral County assisted in the search for Ronnie, 72, and Beverly Barker, 69. The pair took off on a West Coast road trip in late March and their family had not heard from them since March 27.
On April 5, authorities located the Barkers’ motorhome in a remote mountain area near Silver Peak, Nevada, just before noon, KVVU reported. Authorities said it took several hours to reach the motorhome due to its location.
Once they reached the motorhome, the Kia SUV that the couple also traveled with was not there, and authorities said the motorhome appeared to be stuck. Police said after a search of the motorhome, they determined foul play was not involved.
Beverly Barker is now out of the hospital, according to their family. She was well enough to recount what had happened to her family. She gave her nephew, Travis Peters, the blessing to share the story on Facebook.
Beverly Barker said their GPS navigator took them in the wrong direction and towards Red Mountain. It’s not far from Silver Peak, which is about three and a half hours from Las Vegas. After their motorhome got stuck in the mud they decided to take their Kia SUV to seek help but got lost again.
The couple spent over a week in the cold. Beverly Barker said dehydration was their number one challenge. She uses a walker and managed the strength to collect snow so they could drink. According to their nephew’s Facebook post, Ronnie Barker passed away on Monday, April 4, likely from dehydration.
Police followed tire tracks and located the Kia approximately two miles away about 21 hours after Ronnie had died. Authorities said Beverly was alive “and in good spirits considering what took place.” Beverly was taken via aircraft to Renown Medical Center in Reno for treatment.
“Everyone involved would like to give condolences to the family of Ronnie and Beverly Barker,” police said in a release. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during these trying times.”
Despite the loss of his uncle, Peters expressed gratitude for his aunt’s survival.
“A miracle took place on Red Mountain. There’s no physical way that Bev would have been able to make it to get snow time after time without the Lord carrying her up to that ridge,” Peters wrote.
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‘She knew she was going to die young’: Woman killed in crash after surviving liver transplant
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ind. (WXIX/Gray News) – A 20-year-old woman in Indiana was killed in a car crash on the way to an appointment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in connection to a liver transplant she had two years ago.
Makenzie Howell was the passenger in a truck that crossed the centerline of the highway, hitting another truck and then sliding sideways into the path of a semi-truck that hit the passenger side of the vehicle she was in.
“She knew she was going to die young,” Danielle Howell, Makenzie’s mother, told WXIX. “My heart never wanted to believe that.”
Danielle explained her daughter had a rare genetic condition that caused growths on her liver.
“They would just get bigger and bigger and fill up to the point that her liver was three times the size it was supposed to be,” Danielle said. “It was intense and scary.”
Danielle is heartbroken because they thought Makenzie was in the clear after her transplant, adding she was the happiest she’d ever seen her daughter.
Two other people involved in the crash were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.
The crash investigation is ongoing.
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USDA predicts food prices will continue to soar
Published: Apr. 7, 2022 at 2:45 PM CDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
(CNN) - If you think you’re paying too much at the grocery store now, just wait.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said consumers can expect the price of food to continue skyrocketing.
Prices are already up 9% on average for the year, and the USDA said they’ll go up 4.5%-5% more.
Restaurant prices are forecast to rise even faster, up to 6.5%.
Particularly impacted will be beef and veal, which are expected to increase up to 7%.
Avian flu is also causing chicken prices to go up to about the same amount.
Fresh vegetables are expected to see the smallest change to their current prices.
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Rufus Wainwright will premiere his Unmaking Unfollow the Rules documentary via World Cafe this week
This coming July, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright will release Unfollow the Rules, the artist’s first album of original music since 2012’s Out of the Game. Wainwright has teamed up with NPR and World Cafe for a special look behind the scenes of the project in advance of the album’s release.
On Friday, May 29 at 1 p.m. ET, NPR Live Sessions will be streaming Wainwright’s new documentary, Unmaking Unfollow the Rules, a film that gives listeners a look into how the album was made. The event will begin with a Q&A session with World Cafe host Raina Douris, followed by the live premiere screening of the film.
Last October, Wainwright released “Trouble in Paradise,” the lead single for Unfollow the Rules. The album, whose release date was postponed due to the ongoing pandemic, is mostly a return to pop form for the artist, but as he told XPN last month, opera is “the secret ingredient emotionally, artistically, and spiritually” to his work.
The documentary premiere will be available to stream here on May 29, and Unfollow the Rules is available for pre-order here. In the meantime, listen to “Trouble in Paradise” below.
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Column: Bloomington Transit's Uber/Lyft plan is shortsighted
I am nearly 28 years old, and in those 28 years I have never driven an automobile for medical reasons. As a result, I often depend on Bloomington Transit to get from Point A to Point B in Bloomington, while using Uber or Lyft to fill in the gaps. However, the proposal by Bloomington Transit to substitute late night services with an Uber/Lyft discount is shortsighted and will undoubtedly harm some aspects of the rider experience.
In order to address a shortage of drivers and “declining ridership in the evening,” Bloomington Transit has proposed that, between 9 PM and 12 AM, riders will be able to hail an Uber or Lyft using a Bloomington Transit discount code. The rider would pay the first $1, while Bloomington Transit would cover the next $15 of the ride. Riders without a smartphone would be able to hail a Lyft/Uber by calling dispatch at Bloomington Transit.
During extreme surges, such as during bad weather or during large community events, Ubers and Lyfts can easily cost $30 or more. This would mean the rider could pay $15 total or even more for their ride, as opposed to a $1 bus ticket. This negatively impacts lower-income riders, which make up a decent proportion of Bloomington Transit’s user base.
For those, like me, who must use public transit, for reasons ranging from disability to cost of private automobile ownership, these changes may very well prove harmful. Forcing late night riders to use Uber or Lyft — potentially at their own cost — unfairly puts their safety, their convenience, and their ability to travel around town on the backs of at-will Uber drivers. Late at night, especially during weekdays, it is hard to get an Uber around town — are we going to force late night employees, for example, to pay through the nose during late night surge pricing?
What happens if there are simply no Uber drivers at night, which has happened to me on numerous occasions in Bloomington? Are we dooming Bloomington Transit users to be stranded across town from their home, forced to either walk across town in the dark or stay put overnight?
Additionally, while I do not condemn Uber drivers nor the company itself, there are safety concerns that accompany an Uber that do not necessarily accompany public transit. Bloomington Transit buses are equipped with constantly rolling surveillance — not all Uber drivers have surveillance in their vehicle. What will happen the first time an Uber driver assaults a passenger on a Bloomington Transit-sponsored ride?
In terms of cost, I can see several scenarios where this would end up costing Bloomington Transit a substantial amount of money, potentially more than they spend on running night routes. For example, what is to stop Indiana University students from using the discount code to get home from the bars every night, just because they can and it’s “free money”? Ironically, a policy such as this could result in a free rider problem that costs infinitely more than $1 bus rides.
I understand that Bloomington Transit must change as usage, traffic, and major destinations change. Bloomington Transit must be a reflection of the community that uses it, first and foremost, however, and I believe their current proposals fall short of that goal. Rather than sacrificing convenience, safety, and a reliable cost for the fancy allure of Uber, we should be looking to invest more in our public transit system. Join me in voicing your concerns to Bloomington Transit before their survey closes on May 1, 2022. We must do better in servicing our residents who need buses the most.
Andrew Guenther is former chair of the Bloomington Environmental Commission and a graduate student at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
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It has been nearly three decades since mortgage rates spiked this quickly. And there's no indication they are going to slow down anytime soon.
According to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average rose for the fifth week in a row to 4.72% with an average 0.8 point. (A point is a fee paid to a lender equal to 1% of the loan amount. It is in addition to the interest rate.) It was 4.67% a week ago and 3.13% a year ago. Sam Khater, Freddie Mac's chief economist, said the 1.5 percentage point increase over the past three months is the fastest three-month rise since May 1994.
Freddie Mac, the federally chartered mortgage investor, aggregates rates from about 80 lenders across the country to come up with weekly national averages. The survey is based on home purchase mortgages. Rates for refinances may be different. It uses rates for high-quality borrowers with strong credit scores and large down payments. Because of the criteria, these rates are not available to every borrower.
The 15-year fixed-rate average climbed to 3.91% with an average 0.8 point. It was 3.83% a week ago and 2.42% a year ago. The five-year adjustable rate average grew to 3.56% with an average 0.3 point. It was 3.5% a week ago and 2.92% a year ago.
"The upward movement in mortgage rates got a turbo boost this week when Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard indicated that the central bank plans to quickly raise interest rates to control inflation," said Holden Lewis, home and mortgage expert at NerdWallet. "She noted that mortgage rates have jumped a full percentage point in just a few months and made it clear that the Fed plans to continue raising interest rates this year."
The Federal Reserve released the minutes from its March meeting this week, which showed officials discussed ways to pare the central bank's balance sheet. The Fed holds about $9 trillion in bonds, of which $2.7 trillion are mortgage-backed securities.
The consensus, according to the minutes, was that the Fed would shed a maximum of $60 billion in Treasurys and $35 billion in mortgage-backed securities over three months probably starting in May. That pace would be about twice as fast as the last time the Fed allowed its holdings to roll off from 2017 to 2019.
The Fed doesn't intend to sell bonds from its portfolio. Its plan is to allow the bonds to mature without reinvesting the principal, which it did in 2017. However, because of rising mortgage rates, which have diminished refinances, the demand for mortgage-backed securities has softened, and the Fed may be forced to sell its mortgage-backed securities' holdings "after balance sheet runoff was well under way," according to the minutes. Officials have indicated the central bank would prefer to hold only Treasurys.
Brainard said in a speech this week that bringing inflation down will require a combination of steady interest rate hikes plus aggressive balance sheet reduction.
"Like Einstein's theory of relativity, when the Fed wants rapid reductions in balance sheet holdings, the market rate of interest to consumers will have an equal and opposite reaction and rise just as rapidly," said Derek Egeberg, certified mortgage planning specialist at Academy Mortgage.
Rising rates are having an effect on the spring home-buying season. Fannie Mae, which conducts a monthly survey of sentiment toward buying a home, found consumers are pessimistic. Asked whether now was a good or bad time to buy a home, 73% said it is a bad time to buy, a survey low.
"The sharp jump in mortgage rates over the past quarter indicates a decisive turning point," George Ratiu, manager of economic research at Realtor.com, said. "We entered 2022 on strong footing, with rising job numbers and wage growth driving demand for homes. The shortage of inventory pushed prices to record highs even before the spring season got underway. At current rates, buyers of a median-priced home are looking at monthly mortgage payments which are almost $500 higher than a year ago, a 40% increase from April 2021."
It is not only rising rates that are making home loans more expensive. As of April 1, the Federal Housing Finance Agency implemented a fee increase for some Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac home loans. Mortgages that FHFA considers "high balance" or mortgages for a second home are now more expensive.
High-balance loans are mortgages above the conforming national baseline limit ($647,200). Fees for high-balance loans increased between 0.25% and 0.75%, tiered by loan-to-value ratio. Fees for second home loans increased between 1.125% and 3.875%, tiered by loan-to-value ratio.
Bankrate.com, which puts out a weekly mortgage rate trend index, found more than three-quarters of the experts it surveyed expect rates to go up in the coming week.
"Mortgage rates are likely to continue their unprecedented rise this week," Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist at Kukun, said. "Expect them to dampen -- but not bury -- this spring's home-buying season."
Meanwhile, mortgage applications continued to decline last week. The market composite index -- a measure of total loan application volume - decreased 6.3% from a week earlier, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data.
The refinance index fell 10% and was down 62% from a year ago. Refinance application volume dropped to its lowest level since spring 2019. The purchase index slid 3%. The refinance share of mortgage activity accounted for 38.8% of applications.
"The surge in mortgage rates -- now 1.5 percentage points higher than a year ago -- continues to dampen refinance activity and is pressuring home-buyer affordability," Bob Broeksmit, MBA's president and chief executive, said. "Refinance applications decreased to the lowest level in three years, and their overall share of activity fell from 50% in April 2021 to 39% last week. While mortgage lenders across the country are reporting sustained home-buyer demand from the red-hot job market and stronger wage growth, extremely low inventory and increasing home prices are keeping activity at bay. Purchase applications declined again last week and were 9% lower than a year ago."
The MBA also released its mortgage credit availability index (MCAI) that showed credit availability decreased in March. The MCAI slid 0.7% to 125.1 last month. A decrease in the MCAI indicates lending standards are tightening, while an increase signals they are loosening.
"Credit availability has gradually trended higher since mid-2021 but remains around 30% tighter than it was in early 2020," Joel Kan, an MBA economist, said in a statement. "There were also mixed trends for the various loan categories, as conventional loan credit availability increased for the second month in a row, while government credit supply decreased to its tightest level since February 2014. Additionally, jumbo credit expanded for the tenth time in the past 12 months but remained almost 40% lower than the pre-pandemic level."
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Prosecutors have offered a plea deal for the stepmother of missing Harmony Montgomery who was charged with claiming welfare-related benefits for months without the girl in the home.
Details of the deal were not released.
Kayla Montgomery, who is not Harmony’s biological mother, was indicted with a Class A felony charge of theft by deception. She is charged with receiving state welfare-related benefits for Harmony over a seven month period ending in June 2021. Authorities said Harmony was not a member of the household at the time.
“Discovery is, I have to say, for the most part complete just because of the nature of the ongoing investigation,” said Assistant Attorney General Jesse O’Neill during a brief hearing Thursday morning.
O’Neill said the investigation involves 3,500 pages and 70 to 80 “media disks.”
Police continue to search for the whereabouts of Harmony, who was last seen two years ago when she was 5.
Montgomery’s lawyer, Paul Garrity, said he’s having ongoing discussion with the state on the deal.
“I’ve discussed it with Ms. Montgomery,” he said.
Garrity asked for 60 days to review the deal with Montgomery and O’Neill agreed.
“It is a lot of discovery to go through,” he said.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison.
Judge Amy Messer set a status conference for June 9.
Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, 32, has been charged with striking Harmony in the face sometime in July 2019, as well as other charges.
Kayla Montgomery had three children with Adam Montgomery but was not living with him in late December, when Manchester police began a search for Harmony.
Harmony’s disappearance has raised questions with how thorough the state Division for Children, Youth and Families handled the case.
The reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Harmony stands at $150,000. A dedicated tip line — 603-203-6060 — remains open.
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Affordable housing for families. A multicultural youth center. Housing for seniors.
Those are just some of the many ideas discussed at a community forum Wednesday night to solicit thoughts on the future of the vacant Hallsville School.
Last month, aldermen tabled a proposal to convert the vacant building into a mixed-use facility, citing concerns over a lack of communication with neighbors and a key piece of the plan — the gifting of the building to organizers at no cost.
The proposal, brought forward by Southern New Hampshire Services and Granite State Children’s Alliance, would turn the school into a facility serving everyone from children to seniors, if the city hands off the building and associated parcels — appraised at $4.4 million in 2017 — to organizers at no cost.
In tabling the proposal, aldermen said they wanted the city to host a forum for the Hallsville neighborhood to solicit input on the future of the facility.
The meeting was held in the gymnasium at Hallsville School, with Mayor Joyce Craig, Alderman Mary Heath, Alderman Pat Long and several other officials in attendance.
“This is your evening to share with us your thoughts and your hopes of what we can do with this school,” Craig said to open the forum.
An estimated 70 people attended.
Several forum attendees offered ideas anonymously, saying they would like to see affordable housing for families. Others suggested housing for seniors, but wanted to know how many units would be involved and the impact on plumbing and other utilities, as well as the neighborhood itself.
“I’m hearing great ideas in here, seeing great ideas online as well,” said Nick Lavallee. “I’m concerned about potentially giving this property away. There’s a lot of needs in this city, this is a multi-million dollar property. We shouldn’t be giving away property.”
No timetable has been given to settle on plans for the future of the building.
Southern New Hampshire Services Executive Director and former Nashua Mayor Donnalee Lozeau says her group’s proposal for the site includes the Child Advocacy Center and Granite State Children’s Alliance, 20 units of elderly housing, an early child development classroom and/or a Head Start classroom. Lozeau said organizers plan to keep the existing gymnasium available for public use, along with a small playground.
The Granite State Children’s Alliance operates the Child Advocacy Center (CAC) in Manchester, serving approximately 300 children and caregivers each year, 67% of whom are Manchester residents, according to Joy Barrett, the nonprofit’s executive director.
The CAC is designed to be a child- and family-friendly, victim-centric setting for joint investigations and forensic interviews of child victims of crime. Barrett told aldermen the organization’s current space at 960 Auburn St. is no longer suitable, because of the high volume of cases referred to CAC annually.
The proposal calls for the CAC to occupy a 2,000-square-foot outbuilding in the rear of the Hallsville School building, where a modular classroom was once located. The space would include two forensic interview suites, onsite mental/behavioral health suite and specialized medical office, CAC staff offices and workspaces for law enforcement partners
Lozeau said they are asking the city to donate the site due to the “unprecedented cost of construction and materials that we are faced with.”
Current estimates for the project come in at $8 million minimum.
Lozeau said organizers are open to the idea of a possible lease or condo association-like agreement with the city.
The final bell rang at Hallsville last June, 130 years after it opened. Former Superintendent of Schools John Goldhardt recommended the school be closed as part of his Fiscal Year 2022 budget.
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CONCORD – The lead lawyer for nearly 500 victims of alleged sexual and physical abuse at the Youth Development Center said he would recommend his clients refuse to bring their claims to an independent administrator rather than sue for damages unless lawmakers make significant changes to a House-passed bill.
David Vicinanzo told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that a proposed $100 million compensation fund in HB 1677 was not “victim friendly.”
“I also respectfully disagree that we have come far enough with this legislation,” Vicinanzo said. “I do not believe it is a trauma-informed or victim-friendly bill.”
The three changes the attorney lobbied for were:
• Removing the requirement that victims give up their right to later sue in court before entering into mediation proceedings before the administrator.
• Adding emotional abuse damages to damages that could be awarded, limited now to sexual abuse and physical abuse.
• Raising the cap of $1.5 million per claim to at least three times that. Vicinanzo also was critical of a $150,000 proposed cap for physical abuse, significantly less than a damages cap that already exists in current law for other claims against the state.
Vicinanzo choked up while speaking of a new client who said he was severely beaten 25 times a year from the time he entered YDC at 11 until he got out at 18.
“That’s not a $150,000 case, and there is no way I would recommend to him that he enter this process when the state is trying to low-ball and devalue his claim,” Vicinanzo said. “It’s another form of dehumanization. Those caps have to be raised.”
House rejected higher caps
Now called the Sununu Youth Services Center, the YDC has been the target of a criminal investigation since 2019. The victims have brought allegations involving 150 staffers from 1960 to 2018.
Ten former workers at the YDC and one from a pre-trial facility in Concord were charged either with sexual assault or acting as accomplices in attacks on more than a dozen teenagers from 1994 to 2007.
While the cases go back as far as 1963, Vicinanzo said most of them took place during the 1990s.
“I apologize for the emotion, but I have a hard time separating myself from the suffering that I am witnessing every day,” said Vicinanzo, a former federal prosecutor.
Last month, the House endorsed this bill on a voice vote after it narrowly rejected raising these damages caps and adding emotional abuse to the list of eligible claims.
Attorney General John Formella told the panel he remains open to further changes, but the bill as written is still "historic."
“We will make every effort to design a process in a way that is fair….to bring some compensation to the victims of these crimes while balancing our need to be good stewards of public dollars,” he said.
Formella said the House-passed version would permit the vast majority of the 446 individuals who brought civil lawsuit claims to seek some recovery for damages.
“I really do believe that passing this bill in some form is the right thing to do. It’s the right thing for the victims. It’s the right thing for the state,” he said.
Bid to expand definition
The New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence sought another change -- an expansion of the definition of sexual abuse to include incidents in which there was no sexual contact or penetration.
“We heard from victims who were subjected to acts of sexual harassment, human trafficking, lewdness and indecent exposure,” said Amanda Grady Sexton, the director of public affairs for NHCADSV, in a letter to the committee.
“Victims shared with us that employees of YDC/Sununu Center would expose their genitals in front of them and threaten sexual abuse.”
Grady Sexton said other victims told staff they were often forced to shower with other children for the sexual gratification of a YDC employee who was watching.
Marissa Chase with the New Hampshire Association for Justice praised the AG’s office for improving the bill.
As first proposed, the administrator was housed within the AG’s office. That person will instead work within the state Administrative Office of the Courts.
If the AG and lawyers for the victims can’t agree on a choice of administrator, the Supreme Court would make the pick from a list of qualified candidates.
The amended bill also doubled to two years the window for filing these claims, which would end Dec. 31, 2024.
Chase said this would be the first settlement system for a specific group of victims started with a state law. All others across the country have sprung up from court rulings.
“There is a lot of responsibility riding on the state of New Hampshire to get it right,” Chase said.
Chase also urged the Senate to ensure that the victims aren’t taxed on their awards.
Former rep: Not state's fault
Daniel McGuire with Granite State Taxpayers “reluctantly” supported the bill but argued abhorrent individuals, not the state, were at fault for the atrocities.
“It occurred at the hands of dozen or so criminal pedophiles or sadists who were trusted by the state to do a difficult job but abused that trust,” said McGuire, a former House member.
“This bill creates another 1.4 million victims, and that is the residents of the state who are forced to cough up $100 million to pay for the damages caused by these criminals.”
Many speakers disagreed with McGuire’s view, concluding the state was ultimately responsible for what took place.
“The state of New Hampshire cannot erase the horrendous abuse that occurred at their facilities, but the creation of a trauma-informed settlement process is an important step towards acknowledging the extraordinary harm inflicted on youth under the state’s care,” Grady Sexton said.
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Q: I bought a refurbished Dell laptop last June and have had problems with it ever since. The PC will get a blue screen and the error message includes the words “stop code” and “memory management.” Then the PC will reboot.I’ve also had problems getting the PC to wake up from “hibernate mode.” I worked with the PC seller for several months without solving the problem and now he no longer returns my calls and e-mails. What can I do?
—Lyn Crosby, West St. Paul, Minn.
A: One of the issues with refurbished computers is whether all the new replacement parts work with an older PC. In your case, it sounds as if the PC’s RAM (computer chip) memory was upgraded, but the new RAM conflicts with something already on the PC.
Where’s the problem? Most likely, the PC’s new RAM conflicts with the PC’s outdated BIOS (basic input/output system) software that helps load the Windows operating system when the PC is turned on. The conflict can cause your PC to display a blue screen and the message “Stop Code: Memory Management,” then automatically reboot.
An outdated BIOS can also interfere with the PC awakening from hibernate mode, an energy-saving setting used when the PC is idle. (Hibernate problems can also be caused by other PC issues – see tinyurl.com/pdc3s7rx).
If I’m correct, the solution is to update your PC’s BIOS with a new copy that won’t conflict with the RAM memory. You can do that for free through a Dell website.
However, before you go to the trouble of replacing the BIOS, check to see if that update will solve your problem. Go to tinyurl.com/2p824mvb and in the search box type in the name of your Dell computer model. If you’re not sure what model you have, download the Dell “SupportAssist” software from the same website and it will identify your PC model.
Once you enter the PC model name on the website, you’ll see a list of updates available for your computer. Click on the BIOS update, then click “view full driver details,” then look under “enhancements” for the phrase “Improved memory compatibility for DDR4 2666Mhz memory DIMMS.” If you find that phrase, downloading the updated BIOS should solve your problem. (For more details on doing a BIOS update, see https://bit.ly/370uHSg.)
But before downloading the BIOS, do these things first:
—Back up your PC’s data to an external storage device, then disconnect all external devices such as disk drives, flash drives or printers.
—If you run your laptop on its battery, make sure you have at least 10% power remaining.
—If you use Windows BitLocker encryption software, turn it off. If you don’t, you may not be able to access the PC’s data after the new BIOS is installed.
To turn off BitLocker, follow the directions for enabling the software (see tinyurl.com/2vcf6ytf) but turn it off instead. Allow 20 minutes to a couple of hours for the PC data to be decrypted.
Then follow the directions under “How to update the BIOS on a Dell computer” (see tinyurl.com/2rv493jk).
If installing a new BIOS doesn’t solve your PC problem, use the diagnostic capabilities of SupportAssist to identify other computer problems or take the PC to a different repair shop.
If that doesn’t help, check to see if you have any warranty coverage. Unlike new PCs, refurbished ones don’t necessarily come with a warranty. But for those that do, the warranty length may vary from 90 days (usually free) or longer (at additional cost.) If you still have warranty coverage, contact your original PC dealer or Dell.
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